Rising Star Games is pleased to announce its expansion into North America with the opening of its US headquarters, leveraging their decades of European publishing experience and bring exciting new experiences to US consumers.

Wargame: European Escalation is built around depth and reflection, the key elements of classic wargames, featuring intense real-time battles, stunning graphics, and the amazing IRISZOOM system, which allows a continuous zoom from a global view of the map to the heart of the action.

Alan Wake, the game's protagonist, is a bestselling horror writer, who writes a novel about his darkest nightmares. In the game, those nightmares come true.

In an apocalyptic world where there is no reason to exist, a man crosses the American west coast. Surviving is much more than a daily routine in this original cinematic puzzle platformer.

Blizzard Entertainment announce the 2012 Battle.net World Championship, a major global eSports event featuring some of the best pro-gaming competition in the world, while also revealing that fans will have to wait until next year for BlizzCon.

Our Australian Open rooting has come to a screeching halt, as Kim Clijsters lost her semi-final match against squealer deluxe, Victoria Azarenka (they really ought to limit that annoying shrieking). At times playing brilliant tennis, Clijsters lost the first set with some flimsy tennis, pulverized Azarenka in the second set, but crumbled in the latter half of the third, handing the victory to her competition on a silver platter. Disappointing ...

The Walking Dead returns for the second half of season 2 on Feb. 12, so let's hope the writers learned some lessons and made the new content more similar to the early episodes. A third season is already confirmed, so let's hope they are packing it with good material and not like the first half of season 2, which dragged on for way too long.

We also rolled out the Most Anticipated Games of 2012 feature, so be sure to check it out!

Carrier Command: Gaea Mission is based on the original Carrier Command released in 1988, fully licensed and endorsed by its creators,  and strives to deliver innovative and intense gameplay in a truly next-gen rendition.

NeverDead will feature third-person action gameplay set in a fantasy and horror-influenced universe where supernatural battles between humans and extraordinary creatures blanket a vast city landscape.

StarCraft II features the return of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg races. It's overhauled and re-imagined with Blizzard's approach to game balance, and it's designed to be the ultimate competitive RTS game.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is an all new breath-taking action title wherein the player guides Raiden through a series of beautifully realized stages. Raiden is armed with a High Frequency katana blade which he uses to cut through anything that stands in his way.

Beginning Feb. 15, Xbox Live will deliver four more of the best downloadable games, nearly doubling the Xbox Live Arcade House Party collection.

While Guild Wars 2 adds a persistent world, it retains the unique characteristics of the original game, including a strong narrative, extensive instanced game play, an anti-grind design philosophy, and strong support for competitive play.

Alan Wake, the game's protagonist, is a bestselling horror writer, who writes a novel about his darkest nightmares. In the game, those nightmares come true.

Puddle is a physics-based mixture of puzzle and platform elements, with the player steering a puddle of liquid to an exit point by manipulating the game environment.

Featuring an 83-song set list and access to far more music than ever before, as well as innovative new gameplay modes and instruments, Rock Band 3 will change the way fans think about and play music games.

Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2 is a sequel to the RPG Hyperdimension Neptunia, which allows you to take control of a humanoid version of fantasy game consoles. For NeptuniaMk2 you will once again become a console goddess to protect the land of Gamindustri.

I Heart Geeks is the ultimate combination of humor and physics-based puzzles, featuring a tongue-in-cheek story and hip art style where the brainy geek overcomes the brawny (and bullying) jocks, winning the heart of the beautiful cheerleader.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD is a digital download title that takes the best elements of the classic THPS games and gives them a fresh update to create an all new skateboarding experience.

Pit makes his return in Kid Icarus: Uprising. The world is 3-D, and combat is split between land and air.

Blending action and survival horror, Resident Evil 6 is the most ambitious, immersive and feature rich title of the series to date and promises to be the dramatic horror experience of the year.

In an apocalyptic world where there is no reason to exist, a man crosses the American west coast. Surviving is much more than a daily routine in this original cinematic puzzle platformer.

Combat Arms is a free-to-play online FPS that deploys players into a dangerous war zone teaming with soldiers of fortune looking to make a mark.

Based on the 2003 Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, this multiplatform game is being developed in close collaboration with the license holder Sahamongkol Film International in order to achieve a much deeper story involvement for all Ong-Bak fans.

Shank 2 returns with a story of redemption as Shank, a former mob hitman with a dark and vengeful past, is thrust back into action when the lives of those close to him are endangered.