The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to create unique Sims and immerse them in your own living neighborhood of endless possibility!

Fans of the FIA World Rally Championship will soon be able to get closer to the action as Black Bean Game announced today that its internal development studio Milestone is working on a new official WRC video game.

Split/Second is an intense action racing game set within the world of a hyper-competitive reality television show. Competitors vie to be the first across the finish line in a made-for-TV city built for destruction, with the ultimate goal of becoming the season champion.

Fallout: New Vegas, the follow-up to 2008's Game of the Year Fallout 3, brings this beloved 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.

Grand Chase is an MMORPG that follows the lives of different heroes from the Bermesiah continent fighting alongside each other in several different game modes to defeat the evil Queen of Darkness.

Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga includes the original game, and Flames of Vengeance, the new adventure that continues the epic story and adds dozens of hours of additional gameplay. Divinity II: Ego Draconis appears here as an entirely new and re-mastered edition with improved graphics and content.

Fenimore Fillmore: The Westerner is a classic graphic adventures with the freedom and playability of an RPG.

Mafia II immerses players in the mob underworld of a fictitious late 1940s-early 1950s scenario by fusing high-octane gunplay with white-knuckle driving and an engaging narrative. Players will easily become engaged in the game's cinematic Hollywood movie experience with strong, believable characters in a living, breathing city.

Headup Games is happy to announce an exclusive publishing agreement with Collective Mindz to expand its retail network into North America, starting with GearGrinder, Greed: Black Border, Future Wars, Grotesque Tactics, as well as the upcoming first tactical Zombie survival game, Trapped Dead.

Witch's Curse is a puzzle adventure game where players must step into Princess Isabella’s shoes, who has just returned from a trip to discover that a curse has been put upon her castle, and battle against an evil witch to lift the curse.

Pinball FX 2 takes the pinball genre to another level with the most advanced ball physics and social features to date, along with a new collection of beautifully designed tables.

K.O.S.: Secret Operations is a free-to-play multiplayer online first person shooter. With its Global Ranking System for bragging rights and an Online Clan System it allows friends from across the world to unite against their enemies.

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:

• Metroid: Other M (Wii)
• Ace Combat Joint Assault (PSP)
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - Ultimate Edition (PS3/X360)
• BioShock 2: Minerva's Den (PS3/X360)
• Camp Rock: The Final Jam (NDS)
• Dead Rising 2: Case Zero (X360)
• Disney Guilty Party (Wii)
• Valkyria Chronicles II (PSP)

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

Blood Bowl is a "game" of American football played by the insane warriors of the fantasy Warhammer universe, allowing you to create and manage teams that will take part in epic battles where fair play is for sissies. The Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition adds 12 new playable races, new and more impressive stadiums, a new Story mode, as well as many additions and updates.

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.

In Adrenalin Misfits, gamers become crossboard-riding monsters that compete with enemy monsters in seven different lands from all around the world including snowy mountains, triple cascades, stormy deserts, limestone caves, glacier lands, hollow caves and volcanoes.

3D game engine provider Trinigy has integrated its Vision Engine 8 with two Allegorithmic products: Substance Air and Substance Redux, allowing developers of MMOs and browser-based games to access lightweight, dynamic textures created with the Substance products directly from within Vision Engine’s scene editor, vForge.

Knights in the Nightmare requires players to throw out everything they know about RPG and strategy games and embrace something altogether new and fresh. Frantic, energetic action mixes with thought-provoking tactical gameplay, all within a beautifully-rendered fantasy setting and presented through a captivating, emotional narrative.

Vanquish is a futuristic action game. It looks like New York is under attack by a laser beam from space, and you play a mech soldier who's been sent in to pick up the pieces.

Today, Ubisoft announces its video game lineup for PAX (Seattle from Sept. 3–5, 2010) where it will have three booths at the show showing off titles such as H.A.W.X 2 multiplayer, Child of Eden, Your Shape: Fitness, Evolved, MotionSports, and Outland.

World Supremacy is a Windows beer-and-pretzels strategy game of contemporary conflict for one to eight players. In World Supremacy players have but one goal: total global control through utter annihilation of all who oppose.

TikGames and Creat Studios announced their “End of Summer Sale Spectacular”, featuring all nine of their PSN titles at 40% off standard retail price, in addition to all downloadable content Packs being on sale for 99¢.

My hearing is slowly coming back, and everything is almost back to normal. We just realized that yesterday's Slash concert was the kickoff to the North American leg of his world tour, which made the gig somewhat special. There was a live recording being offered after the show, but we passed on it — something we probably shouldn't have done in light of this information.

PAX is upon us. We'll have somebody on site to check out some new titles, so keep your eyes peeled for some coverage. Prior to that, we have a trip to LA to check out Call of Duty: Black Ops and then off to Seattle to pay Microsoft a visit.

Not much TV time today. We only watched some Rescue Me, but tomorrow, Covert Affairs should be available via On Demand.

This is an unofficial patch for Pandemic's Battlezone II: Combat Commander, bringing your retail game to v1.3 beta 5.1 and adds an update DX 9.0c graphics engine, and the usual bug & crash fixes (thanks Blues).

Featuring an 83-song setlist and access to far more music than any other music game, as well as innovative new gameplay modes and instruments, Rock Band 3 will change the way fans think about and play music games. This next iteration in the Rock Band platform has something new for everyone and also supports traditional Rock Band gameplay with players' existing instruments.