Ar Tonelico II continues the original's approach to the RPG genre by seamlessly combining simulation with role-playing. Gamers can not only customize weapons and items, but now design their character’s personalities, skills, and appearance through virtual interaction.

In UT3 you assume the role of a futuristic warrior engaged in contests of intense shooting battles against skilled opponents, controlled either by human contestants online or by A.I. These contests are fought with the most powerful sci-fi weapons and vehicles.

Sega's Universe at War: Earth Assault, developed by Petroglyph, is a combat-intensive RTS game enlisting players in an epic struggle to prevent total alien domination of planet Earth.

ET: QW pits the armies of Earth against the invading alien Strogg in this team-based online strategic shooter. In retail stores since yesterday, coming to Valve's digital download service Steam starting October 5th (outside North America) and Oct 9th (North America), for $49.95.

Guitar Hero fans will channel their inner rock god using Gibson Guitar's Les Paul and Kramer models, experience new features and explosive content including a new multiplayer action-inspired battle mode, grueling boss battles, a bevy of exclusive unlockable content and authentic rock venues.

Empire of Sports is an MMORPG built entirely around sport, designed to allow players around the world to simultaneously exist in an online universe, where their alter egos socially interact, train, compete, attend events and acquire the goods and services they need to build a parallel sporting existence.

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:

• Spider-Man: Friend or Foe (NDS/PSP/PS2/Wii/X360/PC)
• Cabela's Trophy Bucks (PS2/X360)
• The Chosen: Well of Souls (PC)
• Da Vinci's Secret (PC)
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UK publisher Oxygen Interactive Software announced that it has established Oxygen Games USA in Northern California, where it will lead sales and manage first party and developer relations for all Oxygen Interactive Software operations in North America.

Buckle up and prepare to unleash automotive anarchy in the ultimate burner’s paradise. Burnout 5 gives players license to wreak havoc in Paradise City, the ultimate seamless racing battleground, with a massive infrastructure of traffic-heavy roads to abuse.

CCP Games, known for their MMORPG Eve Online, announced the expansion of its US operations by opening a North American headquarters in Stone Mountain, GA., with the grand opening party at its new office on Friday, October 12, 2007.

Medal of Honor Airborne, next-gen debut of the series, is set to redefine the series by introducing players to an entirely new way of experiencing a WWII FPS – namely the fully interactive Airborne experience.

FIFA Manager 08 allows you once again to control is everything in the world of football management, providing all the tools you need to make it to the big time, featuring 52 leagues with original players from 20 different countries, each player evaluated on 42 separate ability values.

Death Track: Resurrection is a combat racing title that plunges players into the not too distant future when the world is in chaos. The population is tired of traditional sports. Replaced by far more aggressive, violent and thrilling types of entertainment the public screams for more.

Set in an international college environment where you can transfer from one country to the the next, Campus is an adventure and action based lifestyle simulation that will captivate everyone from the novice to the most avid gamers.

End All Wars is an Unreal Engine 3 powered FPS set in the war-torn trenches of World War I Europe, delivering unrivaled atmosphere and realism, bringing the mud strewn horror of this most desperate of conflicts into your home. UK based publisher Ghostlight is looking to form new alliances for the release in North America.

WarDevil: Unleash the Beast Within is an innovative next-gen 3D title with graphical style & visual look unlike any other current game. Drawing upon strong filmic narrative, a complex story unfolds, immersing the player into a vivid and complex world, far beyond that from conventional video games.

LucasArts' theme park sim Thrillville will open its gates for a whole new season in Off the Rails, featuring some of the most outlandish roller-coaster concepts ever imagined, as well as new ways to talk to park guests and a wider array of carnival games. Replacing the earlier French version, LucasArts has released the English demo (thanks Blues).

While Level 5 are still working on bringing the newest Dragon Quest IX title the the NDS, several of its prequels, DQ IV, V and VI to be precise, are also getting converted to the NDS, with full 3D graphics. Scheduled for release this winter in Japan, no word whether Square Enix will be bringing it to Europe and/or North America.

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, bringing their download/retail version (not the Battlefront edition) to v1.04 improve performance (multi core support), overall AI, better framerates, key areas like pathfinding, spotting, improved terrain textures and better visual representation of elevations and distant objects.

A boxing game with realistic boxing action and intuitive controls, Victorious Boxers: Revolution takes full advantage of the unique capabilities of the Wiimote and Nunchuk to give players an authentic, real-life boxing experience.

Become Mario as he traverses a galaxy of gravities, traveling in and out of gravitational fields by blasting from planet to planet. Players experience dizzying perspective shifts as they run upside down through wild alien worlds that need to be seen to be believed.

Blizzard has released yet another update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v2.2.2 patch adds a number of new graveyards across the world and two new holiday events.

Empire Earth III allows players to build and rule an empire from the ancient world to the distant future, battling it out across the globe through the eons in a bid for worldwide control, offering continuous free-form gameplay that will allow players to keep units from one battle to the next.

Midway reduced its Q3 2007 expected revenue from $50M to $39M, mainly because of pushing Stranglehold (PS3) into Q4, the delay of UT 3 (PS3) until Q1 2008 and lackluster sales of BlackSite: Area 51 due to the split shipment between the X360 and PS3 versions. Their expected annual revenue has been lowered from $225M to $170M. However new installments in the Mortal Kombat and Blitz franchises were revealed.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare will feature an original score by Stephen Barton, with the main theme and music production provided by award-winning composer Harry Gregson-Williams, whose work has been featured in numerous TV series, video games and films, such as "Enemy of the State," "Man on Fire" and "Spy Game." The CoD4: Modern Warfare soundtrack was performed and recorded by a full orchestra, largely at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, England.