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Microsoft announced today that a new DLC add-on for Halo Wars will be released on 21st July called Historic Battles. It contains four new maps and four new achievements for 800 MS points.

505 Games announced today that Guilty Gear 2: Overture will be released exclusively for the Xbox 360 on 4th September 2009. Guilty Gear 2 will take fans in a bold new direction, borrowing elements from genres outside of the traditional one-on-one fighting action for which Guilty Gear has become famed.

Guilty Gear 2: Overture developer Arc System Works has blended action and real time strategy for their latest instalment, and for the first time have introduced 3D graphics the series. As well as taking control of their chosen character, players will command legions of loyal followers to crush all in their path. Battles are won and lost by destruction of opponents' strongholds, known as "Masterghosts" and by successfully defending one's own from enemy attack.

Just to confirm that Xbox Live is now down, and should remain so for up to 24 hours.

This is the planned scheduled maintenance that we mentioned last week.

Microsoft announced today that Halo Wars has reached more than one million sales worldwide, making it the most sucessful real-time strategy game on any current generation console.

Full press release inside.

Take-Two revealed a list of games that will be released in 2009 during its first-quarter financial release last night.

Highlights from the list includes BioShock 2 for 2009, along with Grand Theft Auto IV's second DLC.

In an interview with Haemimont Games, Strategy Informer learned that the company is looking at the possibility of porting its upcoming Grand Ages: ROME to consoles, although it suggested that the Xbox 360 would be best suited for this style of game.

"We will look at the possibility, as the demographic and installed base increases on console it becomes more of an opportunity for us, if anything Xbox 360 is best suited for this style of game." said Boyan Ivanov, game designer at Haemimont Games.

One customized Halo Wars Xbox 360 console and 10 copies of the Halo Wars Limited Edition are up for grabs. These are fantastic prizes for any gamer and we would like to thank Microsoft for helping us with this competition. This Xbox 360 console isn't available at retail... And one of you will own it!

Capcom revealed today that on Monday, February 23rd, a brand new trailer for an unannounced title will be available on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

In order to download the new title announcement trailer, an Xbox 360 console and network connection to Xbox Live is required.

Microsoft has posted the promised Halo Wars Demo on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

The demo is 1GB in size, and can be added to your download queue here.

In an interview with Kotaku, Microsoft's Director of Product Management Aaron Greenberg said that the Xbox 360 has gained enough ground to cause a lead over PlayStation 3 third-party support, suggesting that companies will no longer feel the need to support the PlayStation.

"I think what we'll see is, as a result of how 2008 shaped up - the fact that we had our biggest year in history and we're now expanding our lead over the PS3 in a global basis - we went into 2008 with a solid lead over PS3 in North America, but Europe was a much closer race. Now, we're really expanding our lead there," he said. "We've become, by far, the lead global platform for third parties. I think you'll see us getting some benefits from that."