Zoo Tycoon developers Blue Fang Games announced that award winning game designer Steve Meretzky, known for creating The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is joining its team as Senior Designer.

gEasy is not only working on Soldner 2, but it is still supporting the original Soldner: Secret Wars (and its Marine Corps expansion). This v33675 patch adds a new game mode (frontline), optimizes old maps while adding 4 new ones, as well as several balance vehicle & weapons tweaks.

Tabula Rasa is an MMO action game that takes you into the heat of battle at the frontlines of an epic war between a xenophobic alien race bent on galactic conquest and the coalition of rebel soldiers who’ve traveled across the galaxy to stop them. Destination Games and NCsoft are looking for a few good testers – and now is the time to enlist for the early rounds of Tabula Rasa beta testing.

Equip your alien rider and drop him at the highest peaks of tremendous mountains. Explore a never seen before terrain inspired by Alaska's impressive summits or match online with your friends and players from around the globe. This updated demo fixes some bugs and improves the overall experience.

Silverline has released the first patch for Mayhem Studios' fantasy RPG Neverend, bringing your North American retail game to v1.1 and addressing a few bug and crashes as well as some enemy AI issues.

Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios announced two new ways for gamers to receive an invitation to participate in the Halo 3 multiplayer beta program coming this spring through Xbox Live Marketplace.

Rockstar Games announced the immediate appointment of Gary Dale as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Dale was the European Managing Director for Capcom since 2003, prior to which he was President of BMG's interactive media before it was acquired by Take Two in 1998.

Super Swing Golf is a wholly rebuilt version of a golf game that's super-popular over in Japan and Korea. It promises to make use of the Nintendo Wii's new controller in order to make playing this golf game an experience in your very own living room.

Farlan Entertainment announced that in order to allow even more players to experience the uniquely immersive world of Dark and Light gaming, all Dark and Light forum members can now access the game for free.

Making History: The Calm & the Storm puts players in control of global conflict, combining a highly sophisticated AI with rich historical detail. This updated demo has been pulled due to an installation bug, a proper version is expected shortly...

The Settlers II: The Next Generation is the remake of BlueByt's 2D classic Settlers 2, making the jump to 3D. This demo features the same content as before, tutorial and one map, but is updated with the latest v9801 patch code (thanks Tiscali).

In Final Fantasy XI, players embark on numerous adventures through vast environments in Vana'diel: a persistent world with over a hundred areas to explore, including mountains, forests, glaciers, deserts, oceans, rivers, castles, and dungeons. This December update adds new features, job adjustments, salvage, besieged updates, warping to Sky, and more!

Space Renegades The Series is a casual top-down 2D space shooter, combining ‘Space Renegades 1’ and ‘Space Renegades 2: Ultimatum,' offering hours of gameplay with 4 levels of difficulty along with tons upgradeable weapons, shields, and much more!

Exteel is an MMO featuring stylized action in a universe filled with robots on a far off world where the exiled survivors of a lost war struggle against each other for control of the planet's resources. Exteel features easy-to-access gameplay and a unique merging of strategic combat and high-speed action. If you are interested is joining the beta, NCSoft is now accepting signups.

As an aspiring Underworld figure, spread corruption throughout the galaxy using new strategic gameplay elements to influence other factions, steal their funds, slow their production, spy on them and more. LucasArts has released a map editor, giving you the ability to create land and space skirmish maps.

Gas Powered Games' 3D RTS Supreme Commander is set to become the first RTS game to receive the amBX ‘ambient experiences’ treatment, allowing the delivery amazing light, wind, explosion and rumble effects across the huge gameplay landscape and vast array of vehicles, vessels and aircraft.

After a false start earlier this week, Microsoft has released the December backwards compatibility update, with a few extra additions. This free update currently adds 37 original Xbox games that you will be able to play on your X360, although some are region restricted. Titles of note are recent games such as Scarface, Splinter Cell Double Agent, MK: Armageddon, and favorites such as Psychonauts...

As an aspiring Underworld figure, spread corruption throughout the galaxy using new strategic gameplay elements to influence other factions, steal their funds, slow their production, spy on them and more. As promised, the v1.1 patch adds a slew of balance tweaks, AI improvements, map changes and plenty more ..

GODS: Lands of Infinity is a role-playing game set in fantasy background, creating a perfect blend of trade strategy and casual adventuring. This is an updated demo, bringing it on par with the latest retail patch, where you play as a female character Vivien, starting out in the city of Slavingrad, your first quest is to find person called Darovit in Petrovce village.

As with the PSP, Sony seems to be releasing new PS3 firmware revisions in rapid succession. In its mere 3 weeks of existence, the PS3 has now received its fourth update, addressing an issue with PS2 titles requiring access to the HD (Final Fantasy XI for instance), as well as updating various PSOne and PS2 backwards compatibility titles. If you read Japanese, here's the full fix list...

While not officially announced yet, Microsoft is working on a new backwards compatibility update. This free update currently adds 28 original Xbox games that you will be able to play on your X360, but is work in progress. Titles of note are recent games such as Scarface, Splinter Cell Double Agent, MK: Armageddon, and favorites such as Psychonauts...

BoB II: Wings of Victory recreates the fierce and famous air battles southern England in 1940, allowing the player to act as the supreme commander of either side, or simply fly and let your generals manage the war below. This update brings your retail game to v2.05 and improves load times, stability, and also adds multiskin support, advanced flight modeling etc..

Step up as the lead blocker to create a hole, and then take control of the tailback and smash through, overpower, or slash away from would-be tacklers as you fight for every yard. Innovative rushing controls give you a game-breaking ground attack featuring all-new jukes, cutbacks, and the distinct running styles of your favorite backs.

SEGA announced that it has added new missions, new weapons, new classes and increased the level cap to the Phantasy Star Universe server on Xbox 360, PC, and PS2 platforms. SEGA also announced that from now on it will add content every week, instead of every month.

As an aspiring Underworld figure, spread corruption throughout the galaxy using new strategic gameplay elements to influence other factions, steal their funds, slow their production, spy on them and more, all en route to becoming the most notorious criminal leader since Jabba the Hutt. This new v1.1 patch adds a slew of balance tweaks, AI improvements, map changes and plenty more ..