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Microsoft has let us know about some misinformation shared at the CES event, which claimed that the Halo Wars release date had changed, although this doesn't appear to be the case.

Here are the correct release dates straight from Microsoft:

Japan and Asia Pacific: Feb. 26
EMEA: Feb. 27
Americas (US, Canada, Mexico and South America): March 3

Electronic Arts announced today that the Godfather II videogame is set for release in the UK on March 6th, 2009. The Godfather II allows players to both act like a mobster and think like a Don, by immersing them in a 1960’s organized crime world. As a Don, players can build a crew and grow their family in an effort to become the most powerful mob syndicate in America. Players will be able to choose how and when to use their Made men, either by commanding them directly in battle as part of their crew, or by sending them to do a job in another part of the world - bombing rival family rackets, attacking their businesses, or defending your own.

Capcom today revealed its line-up for the first half of 2009 with releases such as Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter IV and Flock!

Zavvi has reduced the price of the Xbox 360 Arcade SKU to £99.99, making it the lowest price point for the console since the system was launched.

The Premium 360 pack has also been reduced in price to £149.99, while the Elite gets cut to £199.99. These cuts are expected to last until Christmas Day.

Microsoft confirmed today that Halo Wars, the action-based strategy game set in the iconic Halo Universe and created exclusively for Xbox 360, will be available in Europe on 27th February, whilst the US will get it slightly later on 3rd March.

The Xbox Live Marketplace has been updated with a demo for Red Alert 3 that allows you to play the game's cinematic opening, 1 campaign mission from both the Soviet and Allied campaigns, and an interactive tutorial.

The demo is 1.50GB.

In a recent interview with Strategy Informer, to be published later today, Tom Soderlund, producer at Paradox Interactive, said that the company is considering porting the exclusive PC Turn-based strategy, Elven Legacy, to consoles via the Xbox Live Arcade or PlayStation Network.

"We are considering it. The console audience is becoming more and more important, but we feel that the target group for Elven Legacy are still predominantly PC users." said Tom Soderlund.

A demo is now available for the upcoming Tom Clancy's EndWar on the Microsoft Xbox Live marketplace. EndWar is an action based real time strategy game that features a voice recognition feature to help make an RTS style game more playable on a console system.

Ubisoft has announced that the release date for EndWar is November 7th, 2008 so be sure to check out the demo now.

In wake of the upcoming release of Red Alert 3, EA have announced that the title has gone gold for the PC. EA state: "The return to the over-the-top, time-altered universe of Red Alert-where parachuting armoured bears, George Takei, war dolphins and psionic Japanese school girls can co-exist without question-is almost here!"

Needless to say, they're excited, we're excited, and the US PC release on Ocotober 28th has Red Alert fans nervously shaking with anticipation. Xbox 360 owners must wait until November 11th however, with European gamers awaiting release on both the PC and 360 on October 31st and November 14th respectively.

Ok it's time for a new competition! We've managed to get approval for 5 free games from GamersGate for this competition. Hence, the winner of this competition will get to pick any game from GamersGate of his/her choice. They got a lot of great up to date games over there so be sure to check them out.