WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 will unleash a new tag team experience, allowing players to build momentum and attributes, eliminate opponents with high impact double teams and finishers, as well as get the “hot tag” for the win.

Logitech announced the Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller, Premiere Edition for the PS3 and PS2, compatible with all Guitar Hero games, including the upcoming Guitar Hero World Tour, featuring an authentic wood neck, a rosewood fingerboard and metal frets, for gamers who truly want to flex their Star Power.

Be a powerful mayor -- create, enjoy and destroy your ultimate city. Start by zoning your city, constructing homes, businesses, factories, skyscrapers, freeways, railroads, and much more. You’ll discover many ways to customize your city, including 13 city styles to explore, such as American, European and Asian themes.

NBA 2K9 provides unmatched attention to detail this season with even more signature style animations, deeper franchise mode, adaptive AI for smarter gameplay, and innovative online features including Team Up for true online 5-on-5 matches, and Living Rosters for the most up-to-date player ratings and tendencies to bring the game to life like never before.

Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein brings together the classic top-down tactical gameplay from the original series and plenty of new features, expansions, and improvements, giving newcomers and veterans to the series alike a vastly improved and expanded version of the original experience.

In Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Mermaids, examples of enhanced interactivity include using the stylus for cleaning garbage off the beach and counting seashells, while the microphone is used to call dolphins to assist Dora.

Crystal Dynamics has made Tomb Raider Underworld more realistic with fluid movements due to motion capturing. Set a few years after the last game, it also features persistent destruction and lush locales across the globe. Lara gets muddy in the game, but with the weather system, rain will wash it away.

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:

• Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams [ALL] - Teaser Trailer
• Moon [NDS] - Quanta Rifle Trailer
• Castlevania Judgment [Wii] - Trailer #2
• MotoGP 08 [ALL] - Launch Trailer
• Dragon Quest IX: Defender Of The Stars [NDS] - TGS 08 Trailer
• NCAA Basketball 09 [ALL] - Blue Ribbon Trailer
• Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce [PSP] - Trailer
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Combat Arms is a free-to-play online FPS that deploys players into a dangerous war zone teaming with soldiers of fortune looking to make a mark. Since its open beta in July, Combat Arms surpassed one million registered users, and has yet to launch in Europe.

Spectromancer is a new turn-based online fantasy card game, where gamers can play as one of six powerful types of wizards and take on the corrupt council of magic and its innumerable minions.

One of the most heralded action RPG franchises of all time, Legacy of Ys: Books I & II delivers the first two epic adventures of the famed saga on one cartridge, presented with a series of never-before-seen enhancements.

Former Ubisoft and Gameloft developers who worked on titles such as Far Cry 2, Prince of Persia, Ghost Recon, Brothers in Arms decided to take matters into their own hands and form a new studio, trapdoor. Located in downtown Montreal, the studio is currently working on a multiplatform (X360/PS3/PC) original IP, but no further details are available at this point.

cdv USA has signed a multi-year third-party distribution agreement with Atari for its key console, handheld and multi-platform video games, including the upcoming action-oriented deep fantasy RPG Sacred 2, currently scheduled for Nov. 11, 2008.

XIII Century is a 3D RTS that combines Risk-style strategy with real-time tactical action, immersing you in a medieval world of noble knights, ruthless nomads, courageous deeds and internal wars. The standalone expansion will cover the little known Russian medieval history, featuring improved visuals, larger battlefields, up to 32,000 troops, upgradable troops, and improved gameplay/multiplayer.

Fallout 3 places a player in the role of a Vault-dweller, who ventures from his secluded, underground survival Vault into a post-apocalyptic world of mutants, radiation, gangs and violence. Without giving much of an explanation, apart from citing cultural sensitivities, Microsoft has decided to not release Fallout 3 in India.

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.

The ESA announced that the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) will take place from June 2-4, 2009, at the Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC), allowing more media, developers, retailers and business partners to attend than the past few years.

Rock Band 2 builds upon the first music game 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. The Presidents of the United States revealed that three of its songs (Ladybug, Dune Buggy, Feather Pluck'n) will be available for download through the RB Store on Nov. 4, 2008, Election Day.

Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness will be a comic adventure game, each chapter of the planned episodic series will feature characters from Penny Arcade, including the well-known Gabe and Tycho.

PixelJunk Monsters takes the simple RTS concept of building, researching and having base defenses and wrap it all in a completely different style and mode of gameplay

The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria expands the online world of Middle-earth to let players explore the ancient underground cities of the dwarves, battle epic characters in the depths, face off with the Watcher, be a part of the fateful release of Durin’s Bane and more!

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:

• Monopoly (PS2/Wii/PS3/X360)
• The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon (NDS/PS2/Wii/PS3/X360)
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Sins of a Solar Empire will feature several micro-expansions over the next year, starting with Entrenchment which promises to bring fans a Starbase defense platform, turret upgrades to make them more powerful, mine fields and a Subspace Inhibitor platform that will slow enemy ships within its range. European publisher Kalypso Media revealed Entrenchment will be followed by 3 more expansions.

Bounty Bay Online takes players into a 15th century historical setting where adventurers can start an online career as merchant, buccaneer, fisherman or one of many other professions. Fight on land and water, complete enthralling quests and start guilds with other players. With the second free addon players will be able to establish entire colonies everywhere in the maritime world with adjoining cities and harbors.

During a Brothers in Arms launch event in Romania theGameCast interviewed Ubisoft Romania's PR who revealed that after completing Tom Clany's H.A.W.X. the studio is going to work on "the fifth part of a very popular Ubisoft series, a simulators one." Ubisoft Romania has previously worked on Silent Hunter 3 and 4, and being only simulator in their portfolio it is safe to assume a fifth installment in the submarine simulation franchise is coming.