Team17's Creative and UK Studio Director Martyn 'Spadge' Brown announced that they are in the final stages of development, and are currently hunting down the last few bugs. The lucky few people with a debug unit can already test Worms HD on Microsoft's Xbox Live developer system Partner Net. Spadge expects a formal announcement to be made early January, at the CES in Vegas. Team17 managed to get the full game into the 50mb XBLA limit, and is currently working on additional downloadable content.

In Tomb Raider: Legend, Lara comes alive with intricately animated expressions, moves and abilities. An arsenal of modern equipment, such as a magnetic grappling device, binoculars, frag grenades, personal lighting device and communications equipment.

Adds layers of strategy to your gaming experience by building mobile bases, wielding the power of terrifying Ion Storms on the battlefield, or customising your armies by combining units. Battle it out online with native voice-over IP, integrated clan support, and new spectator modes that let you play RTS games like a sport.

Revealed earlier this year at E3 2006, Akella has released a Russian demo for Quazar Studios' 3D space combat game.

Slope Shaiming is a young SCN soldier. Where the WRF survives slope the attack of the Syndicate soldiers, who want to take over control of the area tried in the east of Asia to break in. It decides to create a group, which oppose to the aggressors: the Resistance. Frogster has released the first patch addressing some script issues, 40% frame rate increase, etc..

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.

SSX Blur, developed exclusively for Wii, is the newest version of the critically acclaimed snowboarding franchise. The huge air, blurring speed and insane tricks that SSX is known for return and the fun-factor is amplified by the unique capability of the Wiimote...

Just what the Xbox 360 needs, more Japanese RPG titles to boost its popularity in Asia. Absolute Blazing Infinity is a Tactical-RPG from Idea Factory, previously known for Neverlands. Based on the PS2 title Blazing Souls, Absolute Blazing Infinity is currently scheduled release in Japan on March 29, 2007, no specific release date for Europe or North America are available yet.

SEGA announced that it has signed a license agreement with the Sanrio group in Japan, effectively giving SEGA the right to various of its franchises, including Hello Kitty. Further details as to what platforms Hello Kitty will make an appearance on is not specified at this point. An official announcement should follow shortly ...

Frontline: Fields of Thunder is a new RTS series where players are taken to the frontline, where the gameplay is going back to its RTS roots - inspired by games like Blitzkrieg. With state of the art graphics and an overhauled interface, players will find themselves challenged in many different environments and settings.

New Rally-X, the sequel to Rally-X, is Namco Bandai's racing game released in 1981, featuring new courses and adjustments to the enemy cars, improving the overall game balance, as well as new graphics and BGM!

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy will set 15 of the popular television show's characters against each other in a fighting/adventure game.

According the online sources Vivendi is working on bringing Battlestar Galactica, based on the TV show, to the online masses. Currently scheduled for October 2007, Battlestar Galactica Online is only listed as being in development for Xbox 360, but lets hope there will be a PC edition as well. Hopefully the new title will be better than Vivendi's last, failed, attempt at making a Battlestar Galactica game. More details surely to come after the holidays ...

RIP 3: The Last Hero is an arcade shooter you can play with your friends thanks to hot seat feature. The game also features 100 levels, 6 peculiar characters, each bringing a different approach to the game, 25 types of power-ups, 9 types of military vehicles and 12 unique bosses.

Europa Universalis III delves deeply into the areas of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy and is an epic strategy game where players take control of a nation and guide it through the ages to become a great global empire.

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:

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Virtua Tennis 3 gives gamers the opportunity to experience new levels of realism never thought possible on a home console system with enhanced photo-realistic graphics and advanced player animations that perfectly match the behaviour and mannerisms of individual professional players.

EA announced that Madden NFL 07 has sold more than five million copies on a total of ten game platforms. Based on internal data as well as industry sources, that across all game platforms, Madden NFL 07 will finish as North America's most popular game of 2006.

After two years of development Climax's Warhammer Online was cancelled after which Games Workshop granted its license to Mythic Entertainment. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is an MMO game for PC and console set in the fantasy world of Warhammer.

Resistance: Fall Of Man is a gripping first-person action game set in a frightening, alternate 20th century reality, delivering a thoroughly believable world that blends epic military action and unnerving horror. Insomniac Games has released a first patch addressing some bugs, voice chat issues, but mainly fixing various multiplayer problems ...

Lost Planet is a sci-fi action shooter set within the merciless frozen tundra of a hostile planet, humans struggle for survival as conflicts arise between man, the surrounding indigenous creatures and the monstrous beings that have invaded.

According to an unidentified MGM insider source, plans for a possible resurrection of the ill-fated Stargate SG 1: The Alliance singleplayer game from JoWood/Perception have been canned alltogether and MGM, as license holder, has shifted its focus and resources to Stargate Worlds, the MMORPG under development at Cheyenne Mountain.

Cartoon Network Racing pits your favorite characters from Cartoon Network's original shows in a Kart Racing tournament against each other. Race with characters from The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Cow and Chicken, I.M. Weasel, and Johnny Bravo.

In Crysis, shooter fans will face a new kind of gameplay challenge requiring adaptive tactics and customization of weapons and armor in dynamic, hostile environments as mankind struggles to survive in the face of a horrific alien invasion.

Blizzard announced that recent hardware upgrades and retrofits might allow them to begin testing the ability to go longer than a week between maintenance periods. Instead regular maintenance tasks will run during off-peak with realms live, starting Dec. 26. Off-peak rolling restarts might be needed if necessary; however the downtime for each realm would be less than 10 minutes if it was required.