Fly through treacherous 3-D environments with Omega Five, a graphically explosive next-generation shooter firing its way onto Xbox Live Arcade. Also this week, Disney Interactive Studios and Backbone Entertainment bring back an arcade classic, “Tron.” Both games will be available this Wednesday, January 9 at 9:00 a.m. GMT (2:00 a.m. PST).

2KGames has released a new patch for Firefly's 3D castle-sim and siege-warfare RTS Stronghold 2. This patch brings your US/Euro retail game to v1.4.1 and fixes various multiplayer issues.

In City of Metronome, a third-person adventure, you explore the city in search of proof of the Corporation's secret agenda, while listening for sounds to record, using them to fight enemies, solve problems and confuse citizens. The game was put on hold earlier this year due to lack of funds, but Team Tarsier received an $80,000 investment from the Nordic Game Program to continue development.

The 2008 International CES (Las Vegas, January 7-10) will feature gaming hardware and software, one central location 65% larger than previous years, including advancements in online and PC gaming in conjunction with the entire range of consumer electronics products at its Gaming Showcase.

EA will be showing off several of its upcoming holiday titles at the E for All Expo in Los Angeles, California, (Oct. 18-22) including Rock Band, Warhammer Online, and The Simpsons Game.

EA announced the acquisition of Atlanta-based software tools and gaming client applications provider Super Computer International (SCI), not to be confused with Eidos parent company SCi, which will be integrated into EA's Online Technology Group, headed by SCI CEO Jesper Jensen.

2KGames has released a new patch for Firefly's 3D castle-sim and siege-warfare RTS Stronghold 2. This patch brings your US/Euro retail game to v1.4 and fixes various bugs, crashes, and tweaks the ballistae, while adding real-time shadows, bloom, anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing.

Simutronics announced that it is integrating new technology into its MMO specific HeroEngine. StreamBase Systems' high-performance Complex Event Processing, and SL Corporation' real-time monitoring, analytics, and visualization solutions.

Electronic Arts revealed the games it will showcase at the E3 in Santa Monica underscoring the company's focused on driving gameplay innovation core franchises, innovating in new categories and mainstream casual games across all platforms.

Transformers: The Game lets gamers control the outcome in the battle for Earth as they choose to protect it as Autobots or destroy it as Decepticons. EBGames will be selling a Xbox 360 only Transformers: The Game, Cybertron Edition with added footage, unlockable levels, comic book, special packaging and more ...

In honor of the 25th anniversary of Tron, Disney Interactive Studios today announced the classic arcade games Tron and Discs of Tron will be re-released this summer through Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360.

Metronome is a third-person adventure game where sound is your weapon. Explore the city of Metronome in search of proof of the Corporation's secret agenda, while listening for sounds to record, and use them to fight enemies, solve problems and confuse citizens. Team Tarsier revealed that it has put Metronome on ice, and moved on to other projects for the time being.

Stronghold Legends builds on the Stronghold heritage with beautifully crafted visuals and the epic legends of the middle ages, featuring three unique castle styles to build, three landscapes to fight across, spectacular magic themes, fearsome monsters to overcome, a new strategic conquest style of play, and a range of new multiplayer modes.

Electronic Arts has entered into a joint venture with Nettwerk One Music to form the new full-service music company, Artwerk, bringing together Nettwerk's management, publishing and digital delivery expertise with EA's global marketing reach.

Tronji involves two co-existing ‘worlds’: the Tronji world and the real world, engaging and captivate pre-teens as they immerse themselves in the problem solving and detecting activities of the Tronji world, whilst watching real children solve the comical dilemmas presented in each episode.

Stronghold Legends builds on the Stronghold heritage with beautifully crafted visuals and the epic legends of the middle ages. This patch brings your retail game to v1.2 and adds plenty of new features and fixes tons of bugs (thanks Blues).

As with Ubisoft yesterday, SCi/Eidos' first half of its fiscal year was quite positive with revenue topping £70 million (40% increase) mainly due to strong sales of action game Just Cause, and super hero title Justice League Heroes, while the original Lego Star Wars has sold 5.4 million copies across all platforms since its April 2005 release. SCi plans to release 4 Wii titles (Bionicle Heroes, for one), further next-gen installments for Tomb Raider, Hitman, Championship Manager, and confirmed that Just Cause 2 is in development.

Meridian4 announced that it has signed Big Blue Bubble's fast-paced, addictive ‘match 3’ puzzle concept game Pop-A-Tronic to retail and online markets in North America and Worldwide.

Stronghold 2 will bring the the castle-sim and siege-warfare RTS series to life in glorious 3D. After two years Take 2 has finally released an English language demo allowing you to try out a tutorial and three missions from the single-player campaign. Two new bonus maps, Edinburgh and Tower of London, are also available ...

According to NPD Group's October sales numbers, Scarface was the #1 selling game in America on any platform. Scarface is a third person action shooter set in a complex world filled with excess and greed, where you take the role of Tony Montana, one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film.

Stronghold Legends builds on the Stronghold heritage with beautifully crafted visuals and the epic legends of the middle ages. This patch brings your retail game to v1.11 and mostly addresses multiplayer issues such as improving stability, transfer system, set max amount of players, added LAN filter to the lobby and more ...

Stronghold Legends builds on the fantastic Stronghold heritage with beautifully crafted visuals and the epic legends of the middle ages. This patch brings any retail version to v1.1 and addresses various bugs, crashes and optimizes the game.

Stronghold Legends features a range of new innovations including, three unique castle styles to build, three landscapes to fight across, spectacular magic themes, fearsome monsters to overcome, a completely new strategic conquest style of play, and a range of exciting new multiplayer modes.

Electronic Arts today announced the acquisition of Battlefield developer Digital Illusions is finally complete and effective immediately. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, DICE becomes a fully integrated EA studio dedicated to growing the Battlefield franchise and developing new products for the PC, next generation consoles and other new platforms.

Check out the following new screens from Electronic Arts' X06 2006 lineup:

• FIFA 07 (ALL) - 3 New Screens
• Half-Life 2: Episode Two (ALL) - 8 New Screens
• Need for Speed Carbon (ALL) - 6 New Screens
• Portal (ALL) - 3 New Screens
• Tiger Woods: PGA Tour 07 (ALL) - 3 New Screens