In Atlus' RPG Persona 3: FES, you lead a group of high school students with a dangerous extra curricular activity: exploring the mysterious tower Tartarus and fighting the sinister Shadows during the Dark Hour, a frozen span of time imperceptible to all but a select few. The standalone expansion adds 30 hours of gameplay!

Microids has signed an agreement with Kheops Studio to develop Dracula 3, an adventure game inspired by the world of Bram Stoker, and sequel to 1999's Dracula: The Resurrection, followed by Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary in 2000.

Slitherine announces the extension of its hex-based strategy game Commander franchise to a new and even more challenging historical setting with Commander: Napoleon at War.

Starters Orders 3 is the latest game in the highly acclaimed ‘Starters Orders’ horse racing management games series. Featuring realistic renditions of world wide famous races and a highly realistic racing season spanning the UK, US and Australia.

Valkyria Chronicles, known in Japan as Valkyria of the Battlefield, is set in a fictitious continent reminiscent of 1930s Europe - divided in two and ruled by the Empire and the Federation. The game follows a hero named Welkin and his fellow soldiers of the Federation’s 7th Platoon as they engage in a series of epic battles.

In Namco's latest RPG, Tales Of Rebirth, a port from the previously released 2004 PS2 version, you will play as a swordsman in a world called Callegeia, featuring 2D sprites, skits and cooking.

After industry rumors of Viacom planning to buy Take-Two for $1.5 billion, Electronic Arts has opened up its coffers and made a $2 billion cash offer for the company, which is best known for its Grand Theft Auto series. The Take-Two board turned down the deal as "unsolicited proposal as inadequate," so EA made the announcement in an attempt to sway Take-Two's shareholders.

UPDATE: We have included the conversational letters between Take Two's Strauss Zelnick and EA's CEO John Riccitiello.

The C&C series continues to thrive with Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath. As the expansion pack to C&C 3 Tiberium Wars, this RTS game returns to the Tiberium universe with Kane at the center of an epic new single player campaign.

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.

The first ever collection of The King Of Fighters on the Wii, the most extensive KOF collection ever containing 5 complete games, consisting of KOF 94, 95, 96, 97, 98. Includes the Orochi Saga trilogy (95-97), Unlockable bonus content materials, while the PSP edition includes Ad-hoc mode.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will bring Games Workshop's fantasy world to life in a way that will allow players to create characters destined for great deeds and glory on the field of battle. At Wondercon comic book studio Boom Studios revealed that the first Warhammer: Condemned by Fire issue (due in april) will offer fans a one in five chance to enter the EA Mythic's Warhammer Online beta (thanks FiringSquad).

Cooking Mama 2 promises more culinary fun and even tastier gameplay as Mama cooks up a spicy storm with new recipes, twice as many mini-games and an all-new multiplayer mode to challenge other players to a "cook off," Mama style.

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

• FIFA Street 3 [ALL] - Ronaldinho Trailer
• God of War: Chains of Olympus [PSP] - Gameplay Trailer
• Street Fighter IV [ALL] - AOU 2008 Trailer
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 [ALL] - Weapons Trailer
• Turning Point: Fall of Liberty [PS3/X360/PC] - Star Spangled Banner Trailer
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The next standalone chapter in Relic's RTS franchise, WH 40K: Dawn of War - Soulstorm features an extensive interplanetary campaign spanning an entire star system in the WK40K universe, as well as introducing two all-new factions for an unprecedented total of nine playable races.

wipEout HD features a selection of the best tracks taken from previous versions of the Wipeout franchise, offering meticulously crafted and fully reworked tracks.

COR Entertainment announced Alien Arena 2008, a complete overhaul and update of the core game. Every player model has been replaced, nearly every weapon model, and nearly one half of the arenas. Sixteen new maps in total to be exact!

Arcade Moon invites you to water world of speed boats and crazy races in Aquadelic GT! Join the Aquadelic league and race for glory and cold, hard cash across Russian canals, Greek port towns and Caribbean islands!

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. This patch fixes the "Insert Original CD Error" msg.

SEGA's Condemned 2: Bloodshot is a first-person action thriller immersing players in a world of psychological terror, featuring all-new fighting mechanics and online multiplayer functionality.

Since Troika is no longer amongst the living this patch is not official, so use at your own discretion. This update brings Activision's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines retail game to v4.8 (requires v1.2 patch installed) and addresses a number of known issues, gameplay tweaks, bug fixes and so forth.

Stranger combines epic RPG with some of the best elements of RTS. The never-before-seen spell and item enchantment system allows a never-before-seen flexibility as players simply have to swap the amounts of used crystals to adapt to their enemies' strategies. This patch addresses a NVidia 8800 card issue, some other fixes and adds the demo exclusive Rivers of Kront multiplayer map.

EU: Rome will cover the time period from the first Punic War to the start of the true Empire. Players will have thousand of gameplay choices ranging from country, culture, provincial and character options etc... Paradox's Head of development Johan Andersson tells us more about the game.

Treasure Island is an 3D adventure game based on the classic bestseller novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, situated 4 years after its conclusion. The game combines traditional Point & Click controls and gameplay with breathtaking realtime 3D graphics and SFX.

At a private developer reception at GDC 08 Microsoft celebrated the success of its Xbox Live Arcade platform with the inaugural Xbox LIVE Arcade Awards. More than 26,000 people voted for their favorite Xbox Live Arcade games...

While continuing in the popular vein the original Sudden Strike is so famous for, Sudden Strike 3: Arms For Victory will push the boundaries of the RTS genre with some notable interface innovations, huge troop numbers and enormous map designs that will demonstrate that size does matter.