THQ announced Saints Row 2, which uses Volition's proprietary open-world engine. Saints Row 2 will offer vastly expanded customization options, a totally transformed and expanded city of Stilwater, all new vehicles, sandbox tools and toys as well as both online co-op and competitive multiplayer.

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:

• Bratz: The Movie (GBA/PS2/Wii)
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Experience the new high-def., next-gen sights and sounds of Beautiful Katamari as the Prince takes on a new high-rolling adventure, with his famous cousins in tow, to save the Katamari universe once again after the King of All Cosmos has a very un-royal and unfortunate accident.

Sports management developer Sports Interactive and German-based OOTP Developments have announced that they are to go their separate ways, with immediate effect.

Carnival Games is designed for up to four players and features over 25 of the most popular games seen in midways and boardwalks throughout the world, including Clown Splash, Milk Can Toss, Nerves of Steel, Lucky Cups, Hoops, Day at the Races and the crowd-favorite Dunk Tank.

GameStop is offering a Collector's Edition for Epic's sci-fi FPS Unreal Tournament 3, which comes packaged in a tin box, includes an art book and a bonus DVD with Unreal Engine 3 Toolkit Video Tutorials, History Of and Behind the Scenes of UT3 footage. As a bonus, GameStop is throwing in a free female IronGuard in-game character.

The Operational Art Of War series allows you to play and create any battle from the entire 20th Century of warfare and up to the modern day, with reasonable accuracy back as far as the 1850s. This patch brings dozens of changes and improvements.

The epic saga continues with Halo 3, the third chapter of the Halo trilogy, Master Chief returns to finish the fight, bringing the epic conflict between the Covenant, the Flood, and the entire human race to a dramatic, pulse-pounding climax.

ClockStone Software's action RPG, Avencast: Rise of the Mage, mixes the dynamics of an action game with strong adventure elements creating an enthralling and unique gaming experience.

Ubisoft revealed its holiday lineup of titles, ranging from Haze, Nitrobike, to Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 and Beowulf. While Assassin's Creed is still in the lineup for PS3 and Xbox 360, it seems the PC version has been pushed until early 2008.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts and discovers that much of the wizarding community is in denial about the teenager's recent encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort, preferring to turn a blind eye to the news that Voldemort has returned.

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.

While there has no official announcement yet, THQ confirmed that the next title in the Saints Row franchise is in development at Volition. The Saints Row PS3 port has been canceled in favor of a simultaneous release on both platforms of the sequel. The game will utilize Volition’s proprietary open-world engine and deliver an all-new, cross platform gaming experience.

In PES8, player detail has been taken to incredible levels with full facial animation and high-def to show full movement and subtle details to the various kits during the course of a match. All "next-gen" versions will also benefit from an extensive Edit mode, allowing gamers to customize their PES experience. Konami confirmed the PC edition of the demo is due early next week.

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, the 3rd entry in the series, once again has you reprise the heroic role of Sergeant Matt Baker, a soldier of the 101st Airborne Division, during Operation Market Garden in the late stages of World War II. It's been delayed until 2008, but here are some new screens ...

Pandemic has constructed a whole new "playground of destruction" from the ground up, fully stocked with the hottest vehicles and weapons. Set in a new and exotic hotspot, you can be your own boss in a wide-open world where there's only one rule: everybody pays. We revealed earlier this month, and Pandemic has now confirmed that Mercenaries 2 has been delayed until 2008, to polish the title.

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:

• Warmonger - Operation: Downtown Destruction - Trailer
• Halo 3 [X360] - Enemy Weapon TV Advert
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Feel what it's like to be a field general making key personnel decisions on both sides of the ball during the game's biggest moments in Madden NFL 08. Play to your team's strengths by reading your opponent's schemes and reacting to the action as soon as the ball is snapped.

The gang from Mystery Inc. are the stars of a hit reality TV show about ghost hunting. However, when rival show team GSI (Ghost Scene Investigators) question Mystery Inc.'s unscientific methods of ghost detection, the challenge is on to see who can debunk the most ghosts!

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:

• Halo 3 [X360] - Cinema Paradiso Trailer
• A Vampyre Story - Trailer
• Thrillville: Off the Rails [ALL] - Trailer #2
• Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights [ALL] - Customization Trailer
• Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction [PS3] - TGS 07 Trailer
• Tomb Raider Anniversary [Wii] - Trailer
• The Simpsons Game [ALL] - Big Super Happy Fun Fun Trailer
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Shattered Suns is a new science-fiction, real-time strategy game with unique features such as three-dimensional battles, a moving battlefield, player-designed units, unique economic challenges and an interactive campaign. Clear Crown Studios designer Tom White tells us more about overall game design of the game.

Unveiled at the Tokyo Game Show, Marvelous' Rainy Woods is a new adventure horror game reminiscent of the classic tv series Twin Peaks. Currently only scheduled for release in Japan somewhere in 2008.

Guitar Hero fans will channel their inner rock god using Gibson Guitar's Les Paul and Kramer models, experience new features and content including a new multiplayer battle mode, boss battles, exclusive unlockable content and authentic rock venues. Interscope is releasing a GH III soundtrack CD, for $14.99, which includes an unlock code for AFI's unreleased Carcinogen Crush, Flyleaf's Tina, and a Nick Zinner/Yeah Yeah Yeahs remake of Marilyn Manson's Putting Holes in Happiness.

Cooking Mama 2 promises more culinary fun and even tastier gameplay as Mama cooks up a spicy storm with new recipes, twice as many mini-games and an all-new multiplayer mode to challenge other players to a ‘cook off’, Mama style.

In Crysis shooter fans will face a new kind of challenge requiring adaptive tactics and customization of weapons and armor in dynamic, hostile environments as mankind struggles to survive in the face of an alien invasion. Previously scheduled for Sept. 25, EA just let us know the demo has been delayed a month, but to make up for it, Crytek will be throwing in the sandbox editor.