Team Fortress 2 is a class-based, multiplayer team warfare game, delivering new game types, a signature art style, persistent player statistics, etc... Tomorrow Valve will release a free update that includes global network optimizations, updated graphics and player statistics, improvements to Source TV for tournament viewing, enhanced performance and gameplay for three existing maps, as well as a new Badlands map.

Korean based Devroot Studio, known for MMORPG Shaiya: Light and Darkness, announced that it has licensed Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 from for an unannounced title, codenamed BK Project.

Canadian government agency Ontario Media Development Corporation is allocating $1 million to two Canadian based game developers to fund prototypes for upcoming titles. Silicon Knights, currently working on Too Human, plans a third-person action/psychological thriller for 2010, while Digital Extremes, currently working on Dark Sector, will use their part for a "third-person action game with an old school horror theme" on the PS3/X360/PC (thanks Firingsquad).

Need for Speed ProStreet drives the series in a new direction, a ground-breaking Need for Speed experience where you’re thrust to compete head to head against the best street racers in a multitude of racing showdowns. This new demo features 2 Porsche cars (GT2 / GT3RS) drivable on Porsche's Leipzig testing track.

Executive Producer Hardy LeBel (credited on titles such as Halo, Halo 2, Oni, SOCOM_ and Lead Designer, Anders Hejdenberg (Battlefield 2142, Battlefield Modern Combat) have teamed up and formed TYRANT Studios, with its first title, ESP, currently in development.

We all knew Novalogic was working on a new title, rumored to be The Unit: Operation Acid Gambit, based on the TV series, but that seems to have been abandoned by now. Last we heard Novalogic bought a motion capture unit from PhaseSpace for its game development. While details are currently non-existant, a teaser image does reveal a first clue as to its possible setting, the background shows an faint outline of South America. There should be more details soon, as DF: BO is scheduled for 2008.

UPDATE: Seems Novalogic is either keeping us guessing or has changed the name to Delta Force: Angel Falls, possibly due to a conflict with a pre-existing Black Ops mod. Angel Falls is a brand of Venezuelan coffee, fits with the South America setting.

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance continues the story following the Infinite War, featuring an all-new single-player campaign, a new faction and a myriad of innovative multiplayer features. More than one hundred new units will give players access to cutting-edge strategic options, including fully realized navies, orbital weaponry and advanced counter intelligence technologies.

Code Lyoko, based on the fourth season of the popular animated high-tech action-adventure series, is an intuitive and innovative blend of adventure, combat, platform and racing type of game play .

Left Behind: Eternal Forces will put players in command of the apocalyptic battles raging in the streets of New York City between the angelic Tribulation Forces and the demonic Global Community Peacekeepers during the End of Days. Left Behind Games has launched its One Million Game FREE Giveaway marketing program, giving a free copy (however you have to pay shipping and "processing fee") to the first million responders.

Splash Damage, known for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, plans to double the size of its London-based studio, and is currently seeking to fill key positions for its next project – an unannounced multiplatform title - with vacancies in core roles such as art, programming, and design.

While there has yet to be an official announcement, or any details whatsoever for that matter, Spellforce developer Phenomic has been rather quiet since it was acquired by EA last year. However that does not mean the German studio has been sleeping on the job as a new project "Battleforge" has been revealed. So far only a "coming soon" teaser page is made available so further details are expected shortly. Speculating on the type of logo/art work, it looks like another title in the RTS/RPG hybrid genre.

Spark Unlimited's FPS Legendary: The Box presents a world suddenly thrust into chaos and turmoil when ancient creatures of myth are unleashed into modern day society, and it is up to you, as the cause of it all, to stop it all. Previously only announced for PC and next-gen consoles, Gamecock confirmed the game is coming to PS3/X360.

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. During a studio visit Vanity Fair witnessed Darth Vader being playable in a prologue mission to the Wookiee home planet Kashyyyk, to hunt down a recalcitrant Jedi.

SEGA's Viking: Battle For Asgard, developed by The Creative Assembly, is a hack'n slasher where you, as Skarin, a new iconic gaming hero, get to experience the violent yet spectacular world of the Vikings and their gods.

German based artificial intelligence developer xaitment announced that it will begin work with Factor 5, known for the recent PS3 exclusive Lair, for the implementation of its AI system in the developer's yet-to-be-announced multi-platform title.

Code Lyoko, based on the fourth season of the popular animated high-tech action-adventure series, is an intuitive and innovative blend of adventure, combat, platform and racing type of game play utilizing the features of the Wii controller.

You may’ve heard that new achievements, maps, and unlockable items are on the way. The first map, Goldrush, introduces a new game mode. The BLU team must escort a high-tech mining cart through a series of checkpoints to the RED base within a time limit. The more BLU players near the cart, the faster the cart moves. The cart stops if any RED team member is in the vicinity. Valve is currently the map; look for it within the month.

Combat Mission: Shock Force is a tactical military simulation depicting a hypothetical near future conflict between NATO and Syrian forces in Syria. Paradox has released a new patch, for all versions of the game, to v1.06 which includes new features and gameplay improvements.

In a first-of-its-kind imaging study, the Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have shown that the part of the brain that generates rewarding feelings is more activated in men than women during video-game play.

Control the fate of the galaxy in the classic-styled turn-based strategy game that invites you to explore & conquer an entirely new space, featuring several distinct forms of game play, including resource gathering, role-playing, and strategy.

SEGA's Viking: Battle For Asgard, developed by The Creative Assembly, is a hack'n slasher where you, as Skarin, a new iconic gaming hero, get to experience the violent yet spectacular world of the Vikings and their gods.

Looks like Bill Gates might want to go out with a bang as Microsoft announced that it has offered to acquire Yahoo for $31 per share, 62 % above the current trading price on Wall Street, making for a total of $44.6 billion in cash and stock.

Spring 1940. German forces occupy Europe and prepare to invade England. Britain’s survival depends on the courage of a handful of men: the pilots of the Royal Air Force. Join the squadron and scramble your Spitfire on thrilling missions to shift the balance of power in WWII.

The US Army has released a new version for America's Army: Special Forces (Overmatch). This upgrade brings their team-based multiplayer game to v2.8.3, improves performance, reduces installer size, adds instant action mode, and tweaks/bug fixes.

Infogrames announces that during its meeting on Jan. 30, 2008, the Board accepted the resignation of its Chairman and CEO Patrick Leleu, who will be replaced by former EA executive David Gardner, effective immediately.