The Sherlock Holmes series is known as one of the best franchises in PC adventure games, thus far captivating more than a million of players around the world. The famous detective Sherlock Holmes will be back for probably the most dangerous investigation of his entire career.

In World of Tanks 30-player teams are fighting action-packed PvP battles. The game features more than 150 armored fighting vehicles from the pre-WW2 era up to the Korean War: light, medium, heavy and super heavy tanks, tank destroyers, self-propelled howitzers and rocket artillery. The game includes American, German and Soviet tanks.

This weekend will be slim pickings at the movies. We definitely do NOT want to see Zookeeper, but maybe Horrible Bosses will tide us over until Captain America and The Smurfs!

Kind of a slow day yesterday. Maybe everybody left on summer vacation, so we had a chance to watch Ip Man 2 (the story of Bruce Lee's master), the latest episode of Weeds and Restrepo.

I wasn't interested in any games that shipped this week, and since I finished Red Faction: Armageddon (loved it) I have plenty of time to level up in APB: Reloaded.

Sony has rolled out new PlayStation Store content, starting with Qore Ep. 38, PlayStation Move Ape Escape, DLCs for Cars 2, Dirt 3, Record of Agarest War Zero, Ghostbusters: Sanctum Of Slime, Super Street Fighter IV, Tales From Space: About A Blob, WWE All-Stars, Mortal Kombat, MotorStorm Apocalypse, LittleBigPlanet 2, Yoostar 2,  song pack for Rock Band 3, the usual game/movie trailers, and PS3 themes, and downloadable PSP/PS0ne games.

In Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2 players will step into the shoes of Harry Potter as he and his friends embark on a dangerous, and urgent, quest to locate and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, and with them, Voldemort.

Cloud-based, game streaming service Gaikai Inc. signed an agreement with developer and publisher Capcom Entertainment delivering high end gaming experiences to players in the U.S. wherever and whenever they demand it.

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

• Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon (PS3/X360)
• The Chosen (PC)
• Mortal Kombat Kenshi DLC (PS3/X360)

We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

Fallout: New Vegas brings this franchise to a location only Fallout could do justice: Vegas. Fallout: New Vegas takes all the action, humor, and post-apocalyptic grime and grit of this legendary series, and raises the stakes.

 Ubisoft announced the creation of UbiCollectibles, a collection of premium, limited-edition merchandise for fans of the company’s popular brands, including Assassin’s Creed, Might & Magic, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon and more.

Rise of Immortals is an online, free-to-play PC game that expands on the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) genre with new innovative features designed to appeal to both core and casual players.

Rugby World Cup 2011 will challenge players to pick from the 20 Rugby World Cup 2011 participating countries, and attempt to lead their team through the pool phase progress to the Final and the opportunity to lift the prestigious Webb Ellis Cup.

Hellbreed is a free-to-play browser action role-playing game where the player boldly faces the creatures of his opponent Darken and tries to unite the world Manjuri again, which has been smashed by the Gods.

War Rock is a tactical, modern Free2Play multiplayer FPS with intense, fast-paced combat. K2 Network's free content update adds a new map called Skill Pointer and three new vehicles.

Set in a huge open world, Dragon's Dogma offers an exhilarating and fulfilling action combat game with the freedom to explore and interact in a rich, living and breathing world. Alongside your party of three, you set out to track down and destroy a mysterious dragon.

Set in the Resident Evil universe, Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D will deliver relentless action with players competing against the clock to defeat as many enemies as possible in a fixed time.

The long weekend is over, and boy, did we eat a lot of ribs! We stopped stuffing ourselves hours ago, and I'm still topped off. Ended the feast with chocolate brownies and some raspberry cheesecake bars. Tasty!

While we were too full to move, we watched the season finale of The Amazing Race and the latest episode of Falling Skies, but earlier in the day, I had finished up The Next Three Days, which was surprisingly better than I'd anticipated.

Off to eat some Rainier cherries ....

Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax is a complete hypersonic RPG adventure: start your quest, meet people who need your help, fight through dark dungeons, earn money, upgrade equipment, level up, level up, level up, and take down the final boss ... all in just half a minute!

In Captain America: Super Soldier players will become Captain America as he faces the Red Skull and his army in an epic third- person action adventure set in the darkest days of World War II.

A New Beginning is a cinematic, interactive eco-thriller. In the classic adventure game an impending global climate cataclysm threatens the world, in a story ripped from today’s headlines, dealing with the defining issue of our time. At locations all around the globe, players will have to try and stem the tide – with the whole world hanging in the balance.

We're lucky to have somewhat of an extended weekend, as the U.S. is celebrating 4th of July today. BBQ ribs and lots of fireworks are what it's all about.

The weather has been amazing for the past couple of days. It's warm but not sweltering, with a little breeze now and then to cool things off. We went for a hike on Saturday, and while it was equal in distance to last week's warmup, this one felt 10 times tougher.

On Friday night, we went to see The Green Lantern and while it certainly isn't "movie of the year" material, it was quite good.

Trenched has you fight as part of the Mobile Trench Brigade and it is your job to fend off an invasion by Monovision, an alien race hell bent on colonizing earth, using a variety of highly customizable mechs.

Players are introduced to Takezou Nishimura, a ninja-samurai who is rejected by both sides of his parents' heritage, along with his spunky sidekicks who each play an integral role in his journey of discovery.

InMomentum is a minimalistic / sci-fi platform racing game that challenges the players to think in both horizontal and vertical perspectives while racing each other or against the clock in a puzzle-like environment.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon allows players to fight through the battles on Earth that will shape the events of the upcoming film. Armed with a brand-new gameplay mechanic, fans will harness the power of Stealth Force to instantly convert to a third, hybrid state that combines the weapons and firepower of robot mode with the agility and maneuverability of vehicle mode.