Activision announced that it had record net revenues of $1.48 billion and net income of $272.2 million for fiscal Q3, respective increases of 80% and 90% over the same period last year, far exceeding their expected revenue of $1.23 billion. This success was driven by strong sales of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero III, Shrek The Third, Spider-Man 3 and Transformers: The Game. Activision has increased its fiscal outlook to net revenues of $350 million for Q4 and $2.65 billion for the 2008 fiscal year.

Video game publisher Mastiff announced today that it has acquired the Major League Eating (MLE) license. Major League Eating: The Game features the world's greatest gurgitory athletes competing across 12 different food types, and it will be built much like a fighting game.

While there has yet to be an official announcement, or any details whatsoever for that matter, Spellforce developer Phenomic has been rather quiet since it was acquired by EA last year. However that does not mean the German studio has been sleeping on the job as a new project "Battleforge" has been revealed. So far only a "coming soon" teaser page is made available so further details are expected shortly. Speculating on the type of logo/art work, it looks like another title in the RTS/RPG hybrid genre.

Opoona is a "lifestyle RPG," where you, as Opoona, descendant of brave warriors, known as Cosmo Guards, must adapt to a new environment, meet new people, get a job, all while becoming aware of the precious world and people surrounding him. Already revealed in Nintendo's Q1 2008 release schedule, KOEI confirms Opoona's is coming March 25, 2008.

Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy. During a studio visit Vanity Fair witnessed Darth Vader being playable in a prologue mission to the Wookiee home planet Kashyyyk, to hunt down a recalcitrant Jedi.

Revolutionizing your control of the five tools in baseball are brand new pitching, fielding and base-running controls and completely overhauled batting interface. Featuring a totally unique trading card mode, robust Minor League system, all-new Signature Style animations for 2008 and more, MLB 2K8 brings a new level of fun to the virtual baseball world.

Late January at the Marché international de l'édition musicale trade fair, Activision selected 20 tracks, out of 200 submissions, to be featured on Guitar Hero IV. Music label Albert Productions' UK boss James Cassidy was so excited he issued a press release spilling the beans that British band The Answer's 'Never Too Late' was selected as one of the titles for the next Guitar Hero installment, "This is a tremendous honour and privilege for both The Answer and the Alberts label. With a new album due later this year we look forward to taking the band to a whole new level of international success."

Take the future of an empire into your hands in Haemimont's Imperium Romanum, a historical strategy that puts the player in the role of a governor of a province, where he or she must strive to build a well organized, prosperous and commanding settlement.

Wild Earth: African Safari is a spectacular safari adventure set in Africa's Serengeti National Park where players can take award-winning photos of the continent's exotic wild life.

Street Fighter IV promises to deliver an extraordinary experience that will re-introduce the world to the time-honored art of virtual martial arts. So far only Ken, Ryu and Crimson Viper have been confirmed, but Japanese magazine Famitsu has revealed, ahead of Friday's official announcement, that the additional characters are: Blanka, Chun-Li, Dhalsim, Eddie, Guile and Honda.

THQ announced results for fiscal Q3 2008, with net sales of $509.6 million, compared to last year's $475.7 million, driven by Cars: Mater-National, MX vs. ATV Untamed and SmackDown vs. Raw 2008. In the subsequent investors conference call, THQ CEO Brian Farrell revealed that Red Faction III is being developed by Volition for PS3, X360 and PC. Scheduled for fiscal 2009 (Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2009), RF3 will focus on interactive environments and destruction. First details on THQ's UFC-licensed title are expected during a pay-per-view event on Memorial Day weekend.

Golden Axe: Beast Rider, developed by Secret Level, delivers action-RPG thrills as a small band of Riders embark on an epic adventure to recruit allies, expose the enemy and prevent the annihilation of their breed.

Konami confirmed that Metal Gear Solid: the Essential Collection is currently planned for the PS2, which includes the original Metal Gear Solid, the director's cut of MGS2 and MGS 3 in a commemorative package with artwork by renowned artist Yoji Shinkawa.

Guitar Rising is a music video game where the player plays a real guitar as cued by the game’s visuals. Following rock music sequences and streaming notes, players play guitar melodies and rhythms. Beginner difficulty levels are designed for non-guitar players and hard difficulties will challenge experienced guitarists. Scheduled for released in late 2008, we will be checking out Guitar Rising at GDC in a few weeks...

Pendulo Studios is working on a follow-up to last year's hit title Runaway: A Road Adventure, an adventure game with 3D characters with a cartoon look and high-impact visual features that include 2D and 3D in an unmatchable style. Soon making its debut on the NDS, it seems South Peak Interactive is bringing Pendulo's adventure game to the Wii.

Belief & Betrayal is an adventure game where you investigate a murder and get involved in a dangerous church conspiracy, which has its roots through the centuries in the time when Judas got 30 silver coins for his betrayal of Jesus Christ. The title was delayed late last year, but Lighthouse has announced the new North American release date.

Midway's Surreal studio, known for The Suffering and Drakan, has been working on This is Vegas, originally called Only in Vegas which resulted in a Las Vegas lawsuit, since 2005. The game is an open ended world/sandbox type game where you must stop a businessman from "sanitizing" Las Vegas. You must create your own powerful empire to stop his takeover. Start your career promoting ultrahip dance clubs, gamble at high-end casinos, race the underground street circuit or get your hands dirty working the underbelly. The right choices will give you control of Las Vegas and put the sin back in Sin City. Coming fall 2008...

Set in a violent Middle Ages based scenery, you must journey into this magical world with hundreds of other adventurers and explore perilous dungeons and fantastical cities in the world of Trieste. GameHi's free to play fusion-fantasy 3D MMORPG game Dekaron, known in North America as 2Moons, will launch the European closed Beta on Feb. 22nd!

You may’ve heard that new achievements, maps, and unlockable items are on the way. The first map, Goldrush, introduces a new game mode. The BLU team must escort a high-tech mining cart through a series of checkpoints to the RED base within a time limit. The more BLU players near the cart, the faster the cart moves. The cart stops if any RED team member is in the vicinity. Valve is currently the map; look for it within the month.

Set 20 years after the events of its predecessor, Star Ocean 2 also receives the full remake treatment aboard the PSP system. The title takes the next step with fully animated movies, all-new character designs, extra playable characters, fully voiced dialogue, and more.

Based on the second season of the Avatar animated series, players will join Aang and his friends as they master their skills and fight their way to defend the greatest Earth Kingdom city against a deadly Fire Nation invasion.

While the X360 version of AQ Interactive's Blue Dragon is an RPG in which young adventurers battle evil with their blue shadow monsters, the NDS edition is a real time strategy title, similar to Revenant Wings, featuring the same five characters,

In Pirates of the Caribbean Online, become the Caribbean's most legendary pirate, all while forging alliances, hunting for buried treasure, battling evil undead forces and facing off against enemies from the movie franchise. Disney Online will release a content update with new avatar customized options, emotes, revamped Lookout System, and an enhanced Quest tracking system.

EU: Rome will cover the time period from the first Punic War to the start of the true Empire, offering a thousand of gameplay choices ranging from country, culture, provincial and character options etc., making each and every game infinitely customizable and unique. While the game sports 50 playable nations, 5 are more likely to succeed than others ...

While the PSP and PC versions of the original have yet to be released, Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors will meet again in an unforgettable crossover event, as a sequel is already in the works. Adding a Versus mode, characters from both franchises must team up to wage war against a new, powerful force in Warriors Orochi 2.