Pioneering: Explore the Early American West is a first person RPG/Adventure game set during the early American Revolution. Utilizing open world campaigns and multiple routes to completion, Pioneering immerses players in the world of the wildest of wests, bringing to life one of the most dynamic and complex periods in American history.

Pearl Harbor Trilogy is an episodic air combat action game series in development for Wii. Pearl Harbor Trilogy is a re-interpretation of Legendo's PC title "Attack on Pearl Harbor" – with the first episode, Red Sun Rising, planned for a winter 2009 release on WiiWare.

Beyond the Horizon will integrate a significant geographical expansion of the historical explorer and sailor world. Adding a completely new continent (South America), six new port cities ranging across the western coasts of South and North America, and for the first time ocean adventurers will have the opportunity to sail right around the whole world using the Cape Horn route.

Theatre of War 2 is a 3D RTS that covers events of 1943, the operations in Tunisia. Players will have the option to lead the German Afrika Korps of Rommel, supported by Italian military contingent, in their last full-scale attack or be at the head of the opposing English and American armies.

L4D2 promises to set a new benchmark for co-operative action games, adding melee combat to enable deeper co-operative gameplay, with items such as a chainsaw, frying pan, axe, baseball bat, and more. The Australian Classification Board strikes again, refusing to give L4D2 a rating, banning it from being sold in retail stores. Reason for the NC is a new body deformation technology, gibs & gore, that Valve implemented, something that was not in the original.

Flying Lab Software, creators of the MMORPG title Pirates of the Burning Sea, is hiring due in part to its work on Power & Prestige, the first major expansion to PotBS, while continuing the tradition of releasing monthly bug-fix and feature patches.

SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 3 lets you join forces with like-minded players to tackle an adventure of realistic military action, tactics and teamwork wherever and whenever you want.

Poised to feature the most authentic, entertaining and compelling simulation of WWE programming to date across multiple videogame platforms, WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 will introduce inspiring creative and online freedom, significant franchise improvements and a comprehensive roster of today’s most prominent WWE Superstars and Divas.

Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga is an action RPG that expands the series by introducing a co-op feature allowing two players to adventure through the land of Eldar with no random encounters while updating the real-time battle system to now include battles taking place on the world map instead of a separate battle screen for a seamless experience.

Free Realms is a free whimsical fantasy massively multiplayer RPG from Sony Online offering lighthearted adventuring, aimed primarily at casual female gamers, and optional bonus content via micro transactions. During his keynote speech at GDC Austin, SOE president John Smedley revealed that Free Realms now has 5 million subscribers, and that the PS3 version is tentatively scheduled for mid 2010, and that the developers are looking into implementing EyeToy support.

A fast, frantic and mega-bloodbath first-person shooter, Dreamkiller takes gamers inside the dark and twisted nightmares of tortured souls possessed by unknown forces.

Last week LucasArts revealed that it would be re-releasing its classic Jedi Knight titles as digital downloads, and today both Steam and Direct2Drive are offering bundles. Over at Steam you can get Mysteries of the Sith, Dark Forces, Dark Forces II, Jedi Academy, and Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast separately, or bundled for $19.99 total. Direct2Drive is offering Dark Forces, Jedi Academy and Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast for $14.95 total.

Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition combines the original Star Wars The Force Unleashed videogame with three new levels set in iconic Star Wars locales and a host of new costumes and character models. This special edition of the game will show players the deepest, darkest side of the Force in a story that puts them on a collision course with Luke Skywalker himself.

SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 3 lets you join forces with like-minded players to tackle an adventure of realistic military action, tactics and teamwork wherever and whenever you want.

In celebration of UT's 10th anniversary, Epic Games invites everyone to check out Unreal Tournament 3 Black on Steam, completely free of charge starting tomorrow. 

Science fiction and fantasy meld in this continuation of tri-Ace Inc.'s RPG franchise. The refined gameplay features team-oriented combat, while improving upon the innovative real-time battle system that has become a trademark of the Star Ocean franchise. We already hinted at it a few months back, and earlier this week, but today Square Enix officially confirmed that SO4 is coming to the PS3, with added goodies.

League of Legends is a session-based online multiplayer game that combines elements of RPG and RTS genres with addictive battle action where rival teams compete against one another for victory on highly stylized battlefields and landscapes.

CustomPlay Golf 2010 adds to the golfing experience with a game packed with features that takes the player to a whole new level of both realism and game play. All new graphical effects including enhanced lighting and shadow systems for objects and terrain, normal map, detail map, mega-texture and more!

Spore Creature Creator 2-D is a new Flash application where players experience an all new take on the variety and creative fun offered by the original 3-D Spore Creature Creator. Now available for free, players can create a creature from scratch or import a creature from the Sporepedia.

Halo 3: ODST is a new game in the Halo saga that lets people experience events leading up to the epic story told in Halo 3 through the eyes of an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, as they search for clues leading to the whereabouts of their scattered squad and the motivations behind the Covenant's invasion of New Mombasa.

Having created the Lara Croft character in 1996, Toby Gard left then-developer Core Design a year later to go his own way and released Galleon: Islands of Mystery in 2004. After that, he came to Crystal Dynamics as one of the senior designers on the Tomb Raider team, where he would complement the existing team and create Tomb Raider: Legend. Earlier this year, Gard became lead designer on an unannounced Tomb Raider project, and while he refused to comment as to the real reason, Gard insists the split was amicable. Gard is currently a freelance consultant, with a focus on animation, story and cinematic design, character design, game design and balancing.

PES 2010 will benefit from the most exhaustive raft of new features in the series’ history, with every aspect of the game benefiting from key improvements and major gameplay additions. With the FIFA 10 demo coming later this week, Konami has now also revealed the system requirements ...

As summer draws to a close, the air begins to chill and people begin to turn their thoughts to holiday gift lists. Whether the people on your list have been playing since the 1980s or only since last week, Nintendo has you covered. The Wii, NDS and NDSi systems have a huge selection of games for everyone on your list, including many that you won’t find anywhere else.

Star Wars Galaxies immerses players in the rich Star Wars universe featuring dynamic adventures across multiple planets in the classic Star Wars timeframe and offering a unique combination of combat, exploration, social interaction, specialized missions, and daring quests.

Romanian-based AMC Pixel Factory, developer of graphic content and interactive entertainment software and technology, has opened a new office in Los Angeles, CA, to expand its development capabilities and give clients enhanced services. The new office is headed by former Electronic Arts Development Director Rick Viscariello, who adds vital developer experience to an already talented and accomplished team.