Team17's Creative and UK Studio Director Martyn 'Spadge' Brown announced that they are in the final stages of development, and are currently hunting down the last few bugs. The lucky few people with a debug unit can already test Worms HD on Microsoft's Xbox Live developer system Partner Net. Spadge expects a formal announcement to be made early January, at the CES in Vegas. Team17 managed to get the full game into the 50mb XBLA limit, and is currently working on additional downloadable content.

New Rally-X, the sequel to Rally-X, is Namco Bandai's racing game released in 1981, featuring new courses and adjustments to the enemy cars, improving the overall game balance, as well as new graphics and BGM!

In Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007, challenge the world's top golfers in all-new PGA Tour Mode, featuring training sessions, practice, and The FedEx Cup. Hone your skills in the all-new Shooting Gallery, then play as or against 11 players, including John Daly, on 12 championship courses.

Microsoft announced that it will change the X360 warranty from 90 days to 1 year from the date of purchase in the US and Canada, on par with the standard 1-year X360 warranty that is available throughout most of the world. This also applies to those who already have an X360 and are still within their first year of ownership.

Crackdown pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with the introduction of the first-ever truly 3-dimensional persistent playground, highly innovative co-op gameplay and an extensive prop interaction system. Microsoft will release a singleplayer demo, with co-op enabled, on Xbox Live Marketplace January 18.

SEGA announced that its previously PS3 exclusive Virtua Fighter 5 is now also coming to X360. Raising the bar for console fighting games VF5 includes all the features fans know and love plus enhanced gameplay mechanics, additional characters and new fighting styles, as well as newly redesigned 3D environments.

Since its release on Nov. 19, more than 2 million Burger King Xbox games have been sold in just four weeks, joining the ranks of other top-selling titles such as Call of Duty 3 and Saint's Row, making it the best-selling collection of games published for the Xbox/Xbox 360 platforms this holiday season.

Splinter Cell Double Agent reinvents the spy action genre by introducing a double agent concept and a new breed of game play that adds an exciting new dimension to the gaming experience. Ubisoft has issued a patch for the Xbox 360 version, available through Xbox Live, further fixing various multiplayer problems, such as lag, freeze issues, and the usual bug and crash fixes ..

Once a multiplatform title, Carmageddon developer Stainless Games' 3-D smash-’em-up vehicle combat racing game NovaDrome will be available for download on Xbox Live Arcade beginning Wednesday, 20th December at 9.00 a.m. GMT

Lost Planet is a sci-fi action shooter set within the merciless frozen tundra of a hostile planet, humans struggle for survival as conflicts arise between man, the surrounding indigenous creatures and the monstrous beings that have invaded. Capcom announced that the single-player and multiplayer demos have been downloaded over one million times by the global Xbox community.

Ghost Rider offers a unique combination of high impact combat and motorcycle action. Johnny Blaze is Ghost Rider, destined to haunt America’s highways, visiting his righteous wrath upon the souls of the wicked and the damned.

With the revolutionary Chant Creator, the enhanced Coach Mode, and the even more realistic college game atmosphere, College Hoops 2K7 fans will be caught up in the excitement and pageantry of collegiate basketball like never before.

After a false start earlier this week, Microsoft has released the December backwards compatibility update, with a few extra additions. This free update currently adds 37 original Xbox games that you will be able to play on your X360, although some are region restricted. Titles of note are recent games such as Scarface, Splinter Cell Double Agent, MK: Armageddon, and favorites such as Psychonauts...

Shortly after the PC patch, the Xbox 360 version of Ubisoft's tactical shooter Rainbow Six Vegas gets patched up, automatically available when you log on to Xbox Live, addressing various multiplayer issues and fixing bugs ...

EA has released a new patch for the 17th installment in its long running football franchise, Madden NFL 2007. The new update corrects lag issues that gamers were experiencing when playing the game against an opponent across a large geographical distance. Players were incorrectly aging in certain Create-A-Player/Train-A-Player situations. This has been fixed as well.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is an Online Action RPG, mixing a deep, story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game brings forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan. Funcom announces that its MMO Age of Conan has received the green light from Microsoft, and can officially start development of an Xbox 360 version.

Destroy All Humans! 2 comes out a little over a year after its predecessor and it's loaded for bear. Expect more blistering humor, massive destruction, flying saucers, evil Russians, smelly hippies, and jokes about Crypto's nether-regions than you can shake a, er, stick at.

Microsoft announced that registration is now open for the first two events in the highly anticipated Xbox Live Arcade Challenge. Competitors in each event have the opportunity to win prizes ranging from a high definition plasma TV to Xbox hardware and Microsoft Points tokens.

Non-stop vehicular combat action at its best is coming to Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday, December 13, after 0800 GMT (12:00 a.m. PST) with Assault Heroes, an innovative action combat game from Wanako Studios and published by Sierra Online.

In Small Arms, up to four players can join in the battles across many dynamic and richly detailed levels. Gamers can choose from a cast of outrageous fighters like the cyborg tabby cat, assassin truffle pig and mutant chimney sweep. While jumping from platform to platform shooting with 360° aim, gamers of all skill levels will be able to pick up and play this innovative side-scrolling action title.

All the favorite DOA girls are back and ready to battle it out in the tropical waters of Zach's Island on their high-performance personal watercraft, compete in assorted and alluring activities, sunbathe on white sand beaches, and go all-in at Zach's Casino.

According to sales data from the NPD Group, Nintendo sold 55 percent of all video game systems in November, more than PS3 and Xbox 360 combined, led by the launch of the Wii and the continuing success of the NDS.

Phantasy Star Universe offers two complete RPG experiences – a single-player action adventure spanning multiple planets, and a robust online multiplayer component...

In Superman Returns: The Video Game, you explore and protect the truly living city of Metropolis, one that is not only expansive (with 80 sq miles and over 9,000 buildings), but also changes dynamically with you as you affect gameplay.

If you need a break from the multiplayer mayhem, Ubisoft has now also released the Splinter Cell Double Agent singleplayer demo, while Take Two has issued a demo (only for North America) for its recently released basketball game College Hoops 2K7 (North Carolina V.S. Florida). Both demos are now available on Xbox Live, but for the time being only Gold members will have access to download them, silver membership holders will have to wait until next week, to shoot some hoops.