Today Floating Point Studios is proud to announce their formation as a new independent games development company in Swansea, Wales (UK). Floating Point Studios' focus is to develop new IP and is currently working on two titles codenamed Flight and The Elder, which will both be available through Valve's Steam digital download service at the end of 2008 and spring of 2009, respectively.

3D gesture recognition software developer Softkinetic is collaborating with EA at WIRED NextFest to show off a new gesture-based gaming experience that allows users to simulate shooting a basket against a professional basketball player.

Back in 2007 Interplay sold the Fallout license to Bethesda while retaining an exclusive license, under certain conditions, to use the IP for developing a Fallout MMO. While not officially announced yet, its Project V13 MMO project reeks of Fallout only reinforced by the recruiting of original Fallout game designer Chris Taylor who will be Lead System Designer on the aforementioned project together with other former Fallout devs.

Ever since Valve released The Orange Box, the PC edition has received numerous updates, especially the Team Fortress 2 portion, and a cumulative update is planned for the X360 version. In a recent interview, Valve's Gabe Newell revealed that it has no plans to issue these updates for the PS3 version since it was not done internally, and EA is not working on anything. Newell also reiterated that there is no PS3 version of its zombie shooter L4D in the works simply because "We don't have the bandwidth," which means they do not have the manpower for it.

Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy. LucasArts announced that The Force Unleashed has sold more than 1.5 million copies, making it both the fastest-selling Star Wars game and LucasArts game ever.

Xbox Live is having a scheduled downtime on Monday, Sep. 29 starting at 12:01am Pacific Time. It will be down for 24 hours as Microsoft prepares for the new stuff coming in the new Xbox experience. Xbox LIVE will be down as will those sections on Xbox.com that rely on the service such as "My Xbox", and while the forums will be viewable. you won't be able to post in them.

Rockstar is bringing its open-ended crime series to the PC with GTA IV, returning the franchise to New York situated around the Eastern European protagonist Nikolai. The PC edition comes with a replay editor with Rockstar Social Club integration, expanded multiplayer, higher resolution, and match filtering.

The non-nonsense, alien punisher is back and ready for action! Gear-up and save the Earth, and its babes, in the updated version of the classic game that helped jump start the FPS genre, featuring 8-player online co-op, a rewind function in single-player to relive (or redo) those climactic firefights, and the ability to capture multiplayer battles and share with other XBL users.

Set in the north-west region of Central America, Delta Force: Angel Falls takes the player to the rural, sparsely populated, jungle areas of this exotic locale. Avoiding the over-exposed Middle Eastern settings; the South American environment provides a premise which is naturally beautiful and full of new millennium conflicts.

L.A. Noire is an interactive detective story set in the 1947 classic noir period situated in an exact recreation of mid century L.A. drawing players into an open-ended challenge to solve a series of gruesome murders, but also side missions based on real events from that period. While a previous job listing said the game's in the final production phase, Tantalus' Tom Crago claims the game is still a year out, while also confirming an earlier Lead Animator job listing claiming the game went multiplatform.

Need for Speed Undercover is an intense action racing title taking the franchise back to its roots and re-introduces breakneck cop chases, the world's hottest cars and spectacular highway battles. According to Need for Speed: Undercover producer John Doyle there are no demo plans, Black Box wants to focus on the game instead.

Daring stunts, spectacular crashes, thrilling criminal cases: All fans of the racing genre will easily fall in love with the newest game originating from the original RTL TV-Show "Alarm for Cobra 11." While the previous installment has yet to be released in North America, Europe is already gearing up to burn more rubber.

Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy.

All Games Network is bringing together championship gamers from the past, present, and future to participate in a one-of-a-kind classic video game event at the E for All in L.A. from Oct. 3-5, 2008.

Sony has released a new v2.43 PS3 firmware update, but is specific to the Japan region, and only PS3 users there will be required to install the update. PS3 users in all other regions will not be prompted to download v2.43. However, if you manually initiate a firmware update by clicking on “System Update” under the XMB’s Settings icon, the v2.43 update will be available, regardless of where you are located, and will it will not cause any issues with your system or add any new functionality.

Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy.

EA Black Box's Need for Speed Undercover is an intense action racing title taking the franchise back to its roots and re-introduces breakneck cop chases, the world's hottest cars and spectacular highway battles.

Three of the principal developers of the acclaimed Metroid Prime series have formed Armature Studio, and have signed a long-term, exclusive publishing deal with EA.

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is a story-driven series with a comic spin based on Matt and Mike Chapman's online animated series. The player uncovers each episode's comedic plot through character interaction, dialogue-based puzzles, and the use/abuse of inventory items.

Bully: Scholarship Edition tells the story of 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he experiences the highs and lows of adjusting to a new school. Rockstar UK confirms the Games Convention rumors that Bully is coming to the PC, in Europe on Oct 24 and North America Oct. 21, 2008.

Technology company Allegorithmic is expanding its customer base into Asia and announced that Chinese game company The9 has added ProFX to its game development pipeline for an upcoming Free2Play MMO.

The updated Duke Nukem 3D will not only have enhanced gfx, four-player online co-op, but will also allow you to capture multiplayer battles and share with other XBL users, as well as a rewind function in singleplayer to relive (or redo) those climactic firefights. 3DRealms revealed that Duke Nukem 3D will be available on XBLA Sept. 24, 2008, although no price has been set yet.

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is a story-driven series with a comic spin based on Matt and Mike Chapman's online animated series. The player uncovers each episode's comedic plot through character interaction, dialogue-based puzzles, and the use/abuse of inventory items.

Combat Mission Shock Force: Marines is the first of several planned expansions of the Combat Mission contemporary warfare setting, adding a significant number of new formations, units, weapons, equipment and vehicles for both the US and Syrian sides, as well as brand new missions, maps and a campaign.

ZeniMax Online, the sister company of Bethesda Softworks, is currently working on the next big MMOG, and are looking for talented developers to add to the team led by Matt Firor (former Mythic). Zenimax will be attending Austin GDC, so if you are experienced in Art, Programming, Design, Server Technology, Customer Support, QA and Marketing, look them up.