Bungie has rolled out the Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack, making available to everybody three new multiplayer maps (Assembly, Orbital and Sandbox) that were previously part of the Halo Wars Limited Collector's Edition.

In Spore: Galactic Adventures fans will experience deeper Space stage gameplay as for the first time space faring creatures will be able to beam down from their spaceships to explore new planets and earn rewards for completing challenging missions.

Good Old Games is launching a new promotion before the Easter weekend. You can grab seven bundles of great classics with a 25% discount, including Giants: Citizen Kabuto + Sacrifice ($8.98), TOCA Race Driver 3 + Screamer ($11.98), Arx Fatalis + Stonekeep ($8.98), Painkiller Black Edition + Redneck Rampage ($11.98), Second Sight + Messiah ($11.98), Freespace + Freespace 2 ($8.98), and Perimeter + Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising ($11.98). If you already own one of the games from a bundle, you can still grab the other one at a 25% discount.

EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis puts the racket in the palm of your hand and offers the deepest tennis experience ever. As the home to all four Grand Slams, and exclusive to Wimbledon, you can take your customized created player on a quest to win the four slams in Grand Slam career mode.

1C Company's King's Bounty: Armored Princess, developed by Katauri Interactive, will be an add-on to its RPG King's Bounty: The Legend. Players will take on the role of Princess Amelie who travels around the world of Teana and searches for the renowned knight, and her tutor, Bill Gilbert.

Need for Speed World Online takes the race into the largest open world in the franchise's history. This Play 4 Free action racing game will give fans access to licensed cars, parts, multiple game modes, sophisticated online matchmaking features and fully customizable profile and rides.

More brash and aggressive than his Delta Force squadmate Nomad, you'll experience Psycho’s parallel story during the events of the original, finding that life on the other side of the island is even more intense and explosive than you could have imagined. Crysis Warhead's multiplayer component Crysis Wars, will be available to play from today until Friday, April 17, 2009.

X-Blades, previously known as Oniblade, is a third-person, anime-style action/adventure. Your heroine wields two magical blades that can be used as swords or guns, and has magical abilities, all of which are upgradeable.

Cyanide and Focus Home Interactive announced Dungeon Raiders, a new fun and crazy action/adventure game in which you control a team of unlikely heroes with suspicious biography to undertake the maddest quest ever!

The next expansion for Kerberos Productions' 4X space strategy game Sword of the Stars: A Murder of Crows, adds never-before-seen weapons, ships and tactics, but also introducing a new race, The Morrigi.

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:

• Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor (PC)
• Elven Legacy (PC) - Europe Only
• Reel Deal Slots Adventure (PC)
• Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus (PSP/PS2)
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The non-linear plot of Officers preserves the established facts of the origins of WWII and allows gamers to lead any of three sides to victory: USSR, Germany and Allies (GB and USA). The game recreates the real structures of all participants' armies, using the real arsenal, equipment and military techniques.

The online games market grew more than 63% to reach $2.8 billion in 2008. A new study by Pearl Research forecasts the online games market in China will exceed $5.5 billion in 2012.

Hearts of Iron III will follow the series' tradition of most detailed and complete strategic game on WW2 while focusing on satisfying veteran players through a multitude of new features and systems, including a huge map with more than 10,000 provinces.

Digital distribution outlet GamersGate announced their weekly deals for the week of April 6-12, 2009, selling such titles as Dark Horizon and Tarr Chronicles at 85% off, Company of Heroes Gold Edition and Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor for only $39.95, and several others...

Inspired by the film and Mario Puzo's Corleone family drama, The Godfather II game goes beyond the film's story by setting players in the world of organized crime in 1960s Florida, Cuba and New York.

Hell's Kitchen allow players to experience the show's high-pressure kitchen and dining room challenges to find out if they have what it takes to be a "Five-Star" chef. as a faithfully rendered 3-D Chef Ramsay watches their every move.

World War One: La Grande Guerre is a historical turn based grand strategy game, offering you to play the full conflict, leading the destiny of the seven main fighting nations. The v1.06d update includes many crash fixes and scenario tweaks, some balance changes, and improvements to the rules for rail systems.

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:

• Black Prophecy - Gameplay Trailer
• Roogoo Twisted Towers [Wii] - Trailer
• Theatre of War 2 - Trailer (7)
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inFamous is an open-ended, free-roaming game puts you in the shoes of Cole, an everyday guy and urban explorer, in the aftermath of a huge disaster that destroys his hometown of Empire City. As Cole, you must first learn to use new found powers and then decide how you will use them.

In Boom Blox Bash Party the destructive fun reaches new heights with richer multiplayer action and more than 400 new levels that will have players of all ages gaming together and solving action-packed puzzles under water, in zero gravity, and beyond!

Mass Effect invites you to take the role of Commander Shepard as you set out on an adventure to save the galaxy from imminent destruction. Wrought with treachery, heroism, difficult decisions and a universe filled with unique and colorful species, Mass Effect delivers a truly compelling storyline. Earlier this year Bioware revealed a patch was "coming soon," and now a few months later, we're told that a beta "might" be coming in a few weeks. No rush right ?

In Furry Legends, a casual action and platform game, players take control of unique characters who are best described as a furry ball, each with its unique powers, allowing the player to roll, jump, bounce, attack and perform other various moves with their spherical character.

Gore Verbinski has long expressed his interest in doing the Bioshock movie, revealed a while back, but apparently he believes so much in the project that the Pirates of the Caribbean director has turned down Walt Disney Pictures to work on the 4th installment in the series. The film adaptation of 2K's action game will begin production in 2010, and Universal Pictures has tasked John Logan (The Aviator, Star Trek: Nemesis) to write the screenplay, while BioShock creator Ken Levine is consulting.

Vogster Interactive's CrimeCraft, powered by the Unreal Engine 3, is an MMO that combines the action of a tactical shooter with the strategy of an RPG. Set in a modern world you take part in the political, economical and social life of a big city. Fans interested in participating can now sign up for the upcoming closed beta test.