7 Wonders II offers Match 3 gameplay, one of the most popular game genres today that requires players to match or swap items into groups of 3 or more for fast and fun puzzle gaming.

Forza Motorsport 3 unites the racing game genre, making it possible for everyone to experience the thrill of the world’s most exotic and exquisite cars. Live the most realistic racing experience ever as you take the wheel of more than 400 of the most-beloved cars on over 100 renowned real-world tracks and exotic road courses from around the globe.

In a vast open world environment, Assassin's Creed II invites players to incarnate Ezio, a privileged young noble in Renaissance Italy who's been betrayed by the rival ruling families of Italy, and seeking vengeance. Ubisoft announced that it is delaying the PC version of AC2 until Q1 2010 to further optimize the game.

Infront Motor Sports, Black Bean Games and Milestone have been tirelessly working together to inspect every corner of SBK09 to extract the best and to insert everything our players wanted for 2010 in order to deliver the best motorbike racing game ever made.

In Fairytale Fights players choose one favorite fairytale character with whom they will try and save a fantasy world from certain doom. Luckily many different weapons lay around in this fairytale world, which players can use to shoot and carve up enemies… and this is where the fun begins!

Dragon Age: Origins represents BioWare’s return to its roots, delivering a fusion of elements from existing fantasy works with emotionally-driven narrative, heart-pounding combat, powerful magic abilities and credible digital actors.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising will see the most realistic modelling of conflict scenarios in a new contemporary theatre of war. By offering a multitude of military disciplines, gameplay will deliver warfare more realistic and intense then ever before, while an extensive multiplayer component will create battles on an incredible scale.

Colin McRae: DiRT 2 benefits from tuned-up car-handling physics system, a new damage engine effects, a new level of visual fidelity, with cars and tracks twice as detailed as those seen in the original, as well as a roster of off-road events, taking players to the most diverse and challenging real-world environments.

Nordic Games' We Sing is the first singing game to utilize four microphones, allowing four players to sing at the same time.

Polyphony Digital revealed that GT5 will more than double Forza 3's number of cars, promising 1000 vehicles, 20 tracks in 60 different layouts, custom soundtrack support, and while there is a damage model, it will be limited to certain car manufacturers. While there was no Euro/North American date mentioned, it is safe to say that it will not be before the Japanese release.

Brütal Legend is a 3rd person action/adventure starring Jack Black in the role of roadie Eddie Riggs, who sets on an epic quest to build an army of rockers with only a broad axe, a big block V8 and his faithful guitar in hand.

Halo 3: ODST is a new game in the Halo saga that lets people experience events leading up to the epic story told in Halo 3 through the eyes of an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, as they search for clues leading to the whereabouts of their scattered squad and the motivations behind the Covenant's invasion of New Mombasa. A widget on Bungie's website tracks how many people have played Halo 3 ODST, so on the first day it tracked roughly 950k players, people who obviously just bought the game.

L4D2 promises to set a new benchmark for co-operative action games, adding melee combat to enable deeper co-operative gameplay, with items such as a chainsaw, frying pan, axe, baseball bat, and more.

Capcom announced that two titles on display at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show will be coming to North America and Europe in 2010. New Capcom titles Sengoku BASARA Samurai Heroes and Ghost Trick (working title), displayed to the Japanese gaming public for the first time in Tokyo, will be making the transition to western gamers next year.

Over the next few days, we'll have some Tokyo Game Show coverage on the site, as you may have noticed from the Sony and Microsoft articles posted last night.

If our local correspondent comes through, we may even get some on-location coverage, but we'll see what comes in.

Watched the latest episode of "Sons of Anarchy," and it was good stuff. It seems something nasty is brewing between the cigar guru, the local cops and the MC. Henry Rollins looks scary as ever, so that was a good casting choice!

Over the weekend, we'll probably roll out some updates on the site, although they are mainly back-end tweaks, little adjustments we're making as we are learning the ins and outs of the new CMS. Soon, we will work on getting the comments working again, so that should be a nice addition for all you chatterboxes out there ....

Sony announced that it will release a new Motion Controller for the PS3 in Spring 2010, which is equipped with high-precision, highly accurate motion sensors, can deliver a whole new entertainment experience when combined together with the PlayStation Eye camera.

Earth is under attack by massive creatures from outer space. Now you can save Earth with a huge arsenal of heavy-power artillery at your disposal. Climb into your fighter jet and wage fierce battles against these gruesome aggressors, giving you full range of motion and attack while you engage in air strikes over real world cities such as Tokyo, New York and Paris.

Joy Ride is a free-to-play racing game that puts players’ Avatars behind the wheel, offers rich customization options through micro-transactions to suit every personality, and is fun for people of all skill levels to jump in and share.

Toy Soldiers is a an action-packed strategy-based game in which players are cast into a fantastic, miniature world where antique toy soldiers fight for survival using an extensive arsenal of tanks, fighter planes and flame throwers in vintage WWI dioramas.

Join the beloved pooch, Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this fun, action-packed aerial combat game.

The classic shooting game “RayStorm” returns with newly-updated graphics, and the original gameplay. Now you can control R-GRAY a fighter plane equipped with a lock-on laser system and battle your way through eight adrenaline filled stages. Available now with a variety of game modes, including Arcade Mode and Extra Mode, and four selectable planes!

Crackdown 2 will take multiplayer gaming to unprecedented levels for the ultimate cooperative and competitive multiplayer experience, providing you and your friends with the complete freedom to explore, destroy and play as you return to restore justice and peace to Pacific City — by any means necessary.

Check out the following new screens and trailers from Microsoft's Tokyo Game Show 2009 lineup:

• Alan Wake [X360] - Screens
• Crackdown 2 [X360] - Screens & Trailer
• 0 Day Attack on Earth (X360) - New Screens
  
• Joy Ride (X360) - New Screens
  
• Toy Soldiers (X360) - New Screens & Trailer
  
• Snoopy Flying Ace (X360) - New Screens
  
• RayStorm HD (X360) - New Screens
  

At the Tokyo Game Show Microsoft revealed that developers around the globe have embraced its controller-free technology and have begun work on titles to support the Project Natal which was unveiled at this year's E3.

An investigation into his daughter's death unwittingly leads former agent Sam Fisher to discover he's been betrayed by his prior agency, the Third Echelon. Now a renegade, Fisher finds himself in a race against time to thwart a deadly terrorist plot that threatens millions.