Voting is now open for the 27th Annual Golden Joystick Awards and your votes will make all the difference for the world’s favourite gaming awards show.

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:

• X-Men Origins: Wolverine (NDS/PSP/PS2/Wii/PS3/X360/PC)
• Women’s Murder Club: Death in Scarlet (PC) - Europe Only
• Case Closed: One Truth Prevails (Wii) - Europe Only
• Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches (PC)
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Rock Band 2 builds upon the original to introduce co-op band gameplay, multiple instruments, online multiplayer, unparalleled downloadable content and raises the bar by delivering an entirely new level of depth, connectivity, authenticity and features.

SingStar Queen features 25 chart-topping tracks from the iconic pop-rock group including, Another One Bites the Dust, We Are The Champions, Bohemian Rhapsody, Under Pressure etc., marking the franchise’s second foray into artist specific content.

Section 8 is a futuristic FPS that brings strategy and tactics to the genre in a game where players can modify the battlefield on the fly. You are part of an elite infantry squad with a penchant for taking on suicide missions that no one else will tackle. Fans interested in participating in the beta test this summer can now sign up.

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.

Lips is a music and singing game that includes 30 songs, 2 wireless interactive microphones (with motion sensors that allow you to dance, move or swing to score points), the ability to use and sing your own music or download songs from an online service.

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.

Bionic Commando, Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5 will all be coming to the PC, beginning in July with SFIV and Bionic Commando, while Resident Evil 5 comes later in the year. All three games will be optimized for the PC and will have new platform specific features added.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey is based around the large-scale aerial combat and ground military operations of WWII. Players can participate in some of the most famous battles piloting fighters, battle planes and heavy bombers across a range of 50+ missions.

Based on the 20th Century Fox feature film of the same name, Dragonball: Evolution promises to be the perfect companion for the movie by incorporating all of the characters, bone jarring fights and spectacular special abilities that fans have come to expect.

Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, this third-person, open-world action-shooter will return to Mars and once again redefine the limits of destruction-based gameplay.

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:

• Batman: Arkham Asylum [ALL] - Combat Trailer
• Prototype [PS3/X360/PC] - Mission Variety Module Trailer
• R.U.S.E. [ALL] - Gameplay Trailer #2
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Gratuitous Space Battles is a strategy / management / simulation game that does away with all the base building and delays and gets straight to the meat and potatoes of science-fiction games: The big space battles fought by huge spaceships with tons of laser beams and things going 'zap!', 'ka-boom!' and 'ka-pow!'.

Parabellum is a free-to-play MMO-FPS that combines the best elements of FPS and MMO games to create an fully customizable gaming experience. It also introduces the first interactive non-linear multiplayer campaigns in addition to an advanced character & weapon development system.

Big League Sports: Summer focuses on classic sunshine pastimes like tennis, beach volleyball, golf, soccer, baseball and football. Customize your characters and play through a variety of exciting games in single player, and 4 people multiplayer mode.

In Overlord II, the new Overlord and a more powerful Minions horde take on the Glorious Empire, an advanced Romanesque nation, in a truly epic yet familiarly warped adventure.

League of Legends is a session-based online multiplayer game that combines elements of RPG and RTS genres with addictive battle action where rival teams compete against one another for victory on highly stylized battlefields and landscapes.

Sony has rolled out new PlayStation Store content, starting with Marvel vs. Capcom 2 demo, DLCs for Killzone 2 Steel & Titanium Pack ($5.99), LittleBigPlanet Egyptian Mini Pack ($2.99), Burnout Paradise Cops and Robbers ($9.99), Disgaea 3, Need for Speed Undercover: Boss Car Bundle ($4.99) and Challenge Series Expansion (free), song packs for Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band, as well as the usual game/movie trailers and PS3 themes.

A few years back, Valve sued Sierra/Vivendi in a copyright infringement case where it claimed that Valve was the only authorized party to license its games to cybercafes. In 2005, the two parties finally settled, and Sierra/Vivendi was ordered to pay $2,391,932, a debt Activision inherited with the merger, but which it now contests is too much, hence Valve's new lawsuit for not paying the court-ordered amount in full.

Creating the ultimate competitive go-anywhere racing experience, Fuel will have players competing across wildly different terrain and executing spectacular death-defying stunts as they race dozens of varied two and four-wheeled rides and explore this epic world on an unprecedented scale.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, the 3rd stand-alone game in the series, unfolds shortly after the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. Having discovered about the open path to the Zone center, the government decides to hold a large-scale military "Fairway" operation aimed to take the CNPP under control.

Trainz Simulator 2009: World Builder Edition contains everything you need to build/operate your own railroad and includes dozens of routes and hundreds of locomotives from around the world. Originally planned for April, now scheduled for release in June.

Virtua Tennis 2009 will again allow you to take on the world's top tennis players in some of the most realistic courts to be found on gaming consoles. Take on the likes of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, or play as Maria Sharapova against Venus Williams to recreate some classic court battles.

COD: World at War changes the rules of engagement by redefining WWII gaming and thrusting players into the final tension-filled, unforgiving battles against a new ferocious enemy in the most dangerous and suspenseful action ever seen. Map Pack 2 will feature three multiplayer maps, one new Zombie map, and new achievements/Trophies.