A steam-ship period tactical naval simulator focusing on fleet-scale battles in real time. Manage financial and strategic aspects while planning your squadron's structure. Scramble your fleet to gain sea supremacy.

With the last year's New Xbox Experience, Xbox 360 fans have been able to customize their avatars with various features and attributes. Major Nelson revealed in his latest podcast that Microsoft is preparing a new update, scheduled for later this year, that will make the dashboard faster, enhance performance, and overall make it better with a lot of very cool new features.

WW2: Time of Wrath is a turn-based grand strategy title, the highly improved and expanded sequel to WW2: Road to Victory, that puts the player in charge of the political, economic and military decisions of one or more Axis or Allied nations, including minor nations.

In Scribblenauts the player uses the NDS touch-screen to help his character, Maxwell, acquire the starite in each level by solving a series of puzzles. In order complete each puzzle, players will use the stylus and notepad to write down the word for any object that comes to mind in order to reach the goal.

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.

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. Eagle eyes spotted a L4D 2 game listing on EA's PS3 section (in two separate places) including a mock up box covers, before it was taken down. It's not a secret Valve isn't a fan of PS3 development, so maybe EA is outsourcing the project like it did with the Orange Box.

When Ascaron filed for Chapter 11 a few months back, it revealed that an add-on for its recently released Sacred 2 was in development, as well as a 3rd installment in the franchise. When Kalypso acquired most brands, intangible assets and exploitation rights, it wasn't quite sure whether that included Sacred or not, but according to community manager Anca Adelina Finta, Ascaron still has the license for Sacred 2, and one of its subsidiary studios will continue working on the add-on.

Runic Games, former Flagship Studios developers responsible for Mythos, announced Torchlight, an adventure-themed action-MMORPG which emphasizes a simple and intuitive interface, fast and furious action, and a colorful and compelling game world.

Not only did Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have E3 briefings, but to make up for its missing UbiDays, the publisher/developer decided give us a brief look at their upcoming titles, and what to expect from E3 itself. James Cameron was on hand to talk about Avatar, Pelé was introducing a new soccer game for kids, and plenty more looks at the 2009, and beyond, lineup.

ArmA II is set in the near future, year 2009, in a fictional post soviet country called Chernarus. Players will be sent as members of a US Marine Corps Force Recon squad to this country to prevent further civilian casualties and ensure ongoing stability there.

Exod Intervention is an FPS with tight controls, analog snap shooting, and arcade style action with light RPG elements.

Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing saga with an unprecedented level of action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.

Original War, developed by Altar Interactive in 2001, is an RTS where the player can choose to play as one of three ‘tribes’: Americans, Russians or Arabs in an exciting plot that has the player making a one-way trip back in time to attempt to gain control of a rare mineral called Siberium.

Light of Altair is a sci-fi colony building game with a deep plot. Grow colonies from landing pod to metropolis, while sending off new spaceships to expand your territory to other worlds. You are not alone in space, 8 factions from different parts of the world are all following their own agendas in the solar system; diplomacy and orbital-combat are essential to learn.

While 'Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe' was not exactly a bad game, many fans were miffed over the fact that the franchise's trademark fatalities were severely toned down to fit with the DC license. However, the game sold rather well, and while it was already revealed quite a while ago that a new MK title is in development, its future is somewhat uncertain because of Midway's state of affairs. Nonetheless, creator Ed Boon revealed that work on Mortal Kombat 9 is proceeding and that a recent motion capture session promises to bring the series back to its M-rated roots with "sick" fatalities.

A witch with powers beyond the comprehension of mere mortals, Bayonetta faces off against countless angelic enemies, many reaching epic proportions. With magnificent over-the-top action and outlandish finishing moves that are performed with balletic grace, Bayonetta brings to life some fast-paced, dynamic climax combat.

Empire: Total War will maintain the series 3D battles, grand turn based campaign map and rich historical flavor while for the first time introducing 3D naval combat into the series. With the v1.3 patch due on Monday (which will improve performance, add balance tweaks, and no less than 14 new units) now is the change to pick up the game on the cheap as Valve is slashing the price in half, now only $25.

Fat Princess pits two hordes of players against each other in comic medieval battle royale. Your goal is to rescue your beloved princess from the enemy dungeon. There's a catch though: your adversary has been stuffing her with food to fatten her up and it's going to take most of your army working together to carry her back across the battlefield. Without giving a specific reason, Sony revealed that the game will not be released this month as previously announced, but rather sometime this summer.

Brütal Legend is a 3rd person Action/Adventure game 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.

Rockstar's open-ended crime series returns to New York situated around the Eastern European protagonist Nikolai. The PC edition features a replay editor with Rockstar Social Club integration, expanded multiplayer, higher resolution, and match filtering.

With an extensive range of features Runes of Magic prepares to redefine the standard of free-to-play MMO games. Even at the beginning Runes of Magic conveys its absorbing story in over 1,000 quests embedded in an atmospheric world.

Superstars V8 Racing is a car racing game based on the license of the Italian Championship. Powered by some of the most important car manufacturers in the whole world, such as BMW, Audi and Jaguar, and sporting top class production cars it delivers a breathtaking driving experience.

Fallout 3: Point Lookout opens up a massive new area of the Wasteland – a, dark, murky swampland along the coast of Maryland. So hop on the ferry to the seaside town of Point Lookout, for the most mysterious and open-ended Fallout 3 DLC adventure yet.

MTV Games and The Beatles license holder Apple Corps are developing a new video game that will be an experiential progression through and celebration of the music and artistry of The Beatles spanning the UK band's entire discography.

Half-Minute Hero is a bold new concept of having the player save the world, 30 seconds at a time. The player must fight, shoot, summon, and protect in four distinct modes, each containing a different perspective and unique gameplay style, across a total of 120 varied stages. The 8-bit graphics and story elements provide a unique style and humor, while the hard-rocking soundtrack keeps pace with the breakneck speed of gameplay.