Midnight Club: Los Angeles provides a seamless environment for everyone who loves to compete, with no load times, no tracks, and no rules, allowing players to race who they want, when they want, and where they want in a recreation of LA.

Netflix signed an agreement with movie service provider Starz Entertainment to make approximately 2,500 movies, TV shows and concerts available to be streamed instantly, including the Xbox 360 when the new firmware update rolls out later this year.

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.

TV Show King Party lets players test their smarts in an entertaining TV show game atmosphere, delivering innovative fun for players of all ages and families by featuring thousands of trivia questions in eight categories ranging from Music and Movies to History, Sports and Science.

Packed with new features, for the first time ever SingStar lets you personalize your play lists by downloading the songs of your choice – so you can sing along to what you want, when you want it. Tomorrow a series of special themed SingStar SongPacks (£4.49) launch on SingStore, each featuring five hit tracks from legendary rock band Queen.

The Technology Strategy Board has awarded Emote Games almost 600k pounds of funding towards a 1.3 million pound artificial intelligence project, to help support the development of vastly improved AI controlled social agents that exist within social networks.

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. If you have purchased RB2 (later this month for PS3, next month for Wii) then you can register your game to receive a 20 song free DLC, to be released later this year.

Hudson announced their lineup for the 2008 Tokyo Game Show taking place in Japan from October 9-12, 2008. The Hudson lineup includes newly announced Kororinpa 2 for Wii, Bomberman Ultra for PSN and Fishing Master World Tour for Wii.

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.

THQ's Saints Row 2, using Volition's open-world engine, offers vastly expanded customization options, a totally transformed and expanded city of Stilwater, new vehicles, sandbox tools and toys as well as both online co-op and competitive multiplayer. At a recent press event, we sat down with multiplayer lead producer Roje Smith.

Reshape the battlefield - and the fate - of a broken nation in Fracture, Pacifica and the Atlantic Alliance, boast soldiers with powers beyond those of ordinary men. The differing states of superhumanity result in balanced yet stylistically different combat tactics that have never been seen before.

Guitar Rock Tour is a fun-filled, music simulation game that lets players experience the blood-pumping exhilaration of stardom by playing guitar and drum instruments, to world famous tunes.

Pure takes quad racing to a new level, featuring massive jumps and spectacular airborne tricks in memorable, photo-realistic settings all over the globe. This PC demo features a tutorial and lets you race 3 laps on the Italian Mount Garda track.

In the bold and often-bloody Dead Space, gamers will step into a third-person sci-fi survival horror experience that promises to deliver the ultimate in psychological thrills and gruesome action.

Based on the upcoming movie, Days of Wrath tells the story of gangs in North America, the media who exploits them, and the consequences of both. Your job is to control one of four different gangs, taking control of the gangs’ leaders as you expand your empire to become the most powerful gang leader in the country!

In Activision's Little League World Series players will have the ability to bat, pitch and field using intuitive controls, making it the perfect game to play with your friends and family.

Namco Bandai has revealed its lineup of title for next week's Tokyo Game Show 2008, with over two dozen playable titles on the show floor, as well as the first footage from Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi's new project Nobi Nobi Boy.

Set in the deceptively idyllic town of Bright Falls, Washington, Alan Wake places gamers in the role of the best-selling suspense author, Alan Wake. He escapes to this small town to recover from the mysterious disappearance of his fiancée and comes face to face with his darkest nightmares. A trailer with new footage is set to be released at the Max Payne premiere on Oct. 15, 2008.

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:

• Silent Hill: Homecoming (PS3/X360/PC)
• The Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft (PC)
• POP CUTIE! Street Fashion Simulation (NDS)
• Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (NDS)
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Sporting plenty of improvements to the AI and modeling system, Larry Bond’s Harpoon: Commanders Edition takes the success of the original Harpoon series and adds plenty improvements and tweaks! The major new update brings many new features and plenty of gameplay improvements.

Singstar ABBA is a collaboration to bring the band’s best loved tracks to SingStar, allowing PS2/PS3 owners to sing along with some of the most iconic pop tracks of all time including ‘Mamma Mia’, ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’, ‘Waterloo’ and ‘Dancing Queen’.

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:

• Metal Slug 7 [NDS] - Trailer #3
• Spider-Man: Web of Shadows [ALL] - Gameplay Trailer
• Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods - Trailer
• Tom Clancy's EndWar [PS3/X360/PC] - Command Points Briefing
• Shaun White Snowboarding [ALL] - Developer Diary Trailer #1
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Moon is a sci-fi, action-adventure title, placing gamers on the cold lunar surface in the year 2058. Researchers are shocked to find a sealed, alien hatch during construction of a new lunar base, but it's a shock that soon pales in comparison to what they find beyond the hatch.

Ensuring that the fun never ends even if it’s cold, rainy, or dark outside, THQ announced Neighborhood Games, featuring 24 twists on popular neighborhood games that are fun for all ages and encourage both competitive and cooperative play.

Master of the Monster Lair is a dungeon-designing, monster-hunting RPG adventure. In order to trap the freeloading monsters of South Arc, you must become the architect of a vast labyrinth, crafting intricate levels designed to lure and capture all manner of beasts.