Having left his position as President of Sony's Worldwide Studios last week it was already rumored Phil Harrison would resurface in a new position this week. Infogrames announces the appointment of Phil Harrison as President and Directeur Général Délégué of Infogrames Entertainment, reporting to David Gardner.

MGS4: Guns of the Patriots is set in a war-torn future where huge conglomerates, including those in the Middle East and South America, fight for supremacy using armies of hand-picked mercenaries. In the latest Kojima Productions podcast, producer Ryan Payton revealed that the English voiceovers did not fit on the Japanese Blu-ray disc and that some material had to be compressed in order to fit on the 50GB disc. This was later confirmed in a Famitsu interview with Hideo Kojima.

Ford Racing Off Road takes the franchise away from the tracks and urban streets of its predecessors to rugged and tough terrain for the very first time, introducing the prestigious Land Rover brand, which, like Ford, has a long heritage of producing pioneering off road vehicles.

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.

The search for the best virtual soccer player in North America will take place this week as the only live qualifying event of the FIFA Interactive World Cup 2008, showcasing 128 of the best interactive soccer players competing for one of 32 berths in the FIWC Grand Final in Berlin.

38 Studios has entered into an agreement with BigWorld to license its BigWorld Technology Suite, providing 38 Studios with the tools and technologies to support an unparalleled Online Entertainment Experience for its upcoming MMO game.

After industry rumors of Viacom planning to buy Take-Two for $1.5 billion, Electronic Arts has opened up its coffers and made a $2 billion cash offer for the company, which is best known for its Grand Theft Auto series. The Take-Two board turned down the deal as "unsolicited proposal as inadequate," so EA made the announcement in an attempt to sway Take-Two's shareholders.

UPDATE: We have included the conversational letters between Take Two's Strauss Zelnick and EA's CEO John Riccitiello.

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.

Combat Mission: Shock Force is a tactical military simulation depicting a hypothetical near future conflict between NATO and Syrian forces in Syria.

Ford Racing Off Road takes the franchise away from the tracks and urban streets of its predecessors to rugged and tough terrain for the very first time. Ford Racing Off Road also marks the introduction of the prestigious Land Rover brand, which, like Ford, has a long heritage of producing pioneering off road vehicles.

While continuing in the popular vein the original Sudden Strike is so famous for, Sudden Strike 3: Arms For Victory will push the boundaries of the RTS genre with some notable interface innovations, huge troop numbers and enormous map designs that will demonstrate that size does matter.

Combat Mission: Shock Force is a tactical military simulation depicting a hypothetical near future conflict between NATO and Syrian forces in Syria. A new v1.07 patch, for all versions of the game, and adds a bunch of improvements, 32 new Quick Battle Maps, tweaks to unit pathfinding, combat behavior, area fire, and the usual bug fixes.

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.

EA has teamed up with Starbreeze Studios, known for The Darkness and The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, to reinvent one of EA's most acclaimed classic franchises, currently only known as Project RedLime. Need for Speed, Road Rash?

WorldGaming.com allows users to meet and compete on all of today’s top consoles (PS2, PS3, Xbox, and X360), offering one-on-one challenges and multiplayer tournaments in a variety of games across multiple genres, from first-person shooters like Halo 3 and Resistance: Fall of Man, to sports titles, including Madden ’08, NBA Live, FIFA Soccer and new titles will be added regularly.

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.

Sudden Strike 3: Arms For Victory will push the boundaries of the RTS genre with some notable interface innovations, huge troop numbers and enormous map designs that will demonstrate that size does matter.

Spitfire Heroes: Tales of the Royal Air Force is an air combat shooter brings the heroic actions of the RAF to NDS with intuitive flight mechanics, devious enemy pilots, and wireless support for up to four players. Players fly for the Royal Air Force through missions based on real events that shaped the outcome of the war.

Telltale announced that industry veterans Mike Stemmle (known for Monkey Island and Sam & Max Hit the Road/Freelance Police), Justin Chin (known for EA's The Simpsons Game), and Brett Tosti (know for Rogue Squadron, Lair) have joined the company as part of a sustained wave of growth that has nearly doubled the studio's size since this time last year.

On the opening day of the Game Developer’s Conference, former MicroProse industry veterans J.W. “Bill” Stealey, Fred Schmidt and Jim Bull, announced the formation of Thriller Publishing, and revealed it has contracted several New York Times best-selling authors to create and develop popular new characters and storylines for multiplatform titles.

Simutronics announced today that Russian developer IT Territory has licensed its HeroEngine platform to develop a yet to be announced new MMO title.

Scaleform announced that user interface production tool for hardware-accelerated scalable vector graphics Scaleform GFx, is now integrated with Epic's Unreal Engine 3, making it available to publishers or developers licensing UE3.

Hosted by Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, American Dad), Jesper Kyd's original score for Assassin's Creed was awarded Best Original Musical Score in a Video Game at the 2nd Annual Elan Awards, the Canadian Awards for the Electronic and the Animated Arts, last weekend.

GenCon has filed for Chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the State of Washington, as a result of significant unforeseen expenses associated with externally licensed events. Gen Con is currently being sued by LucasArts in regard to its Star Wars Celebration IV event held in May 2007.

Kuju Entertainment announced the appointment of former EA executive Bradley Crooks as Studio Head of the London Studio, know for developing Nintendo's recent Wii exclusive Battalion Wars game, and currently working on several unannounced projects.