SouthPeak Games announced this afternoon that it will be releasing X-Blades, a third-person hack-and-slash action title for Next-gen consoles and PC, in Late 2008. In the game, players control an enchanting anime-style heroine that destroys anything in her path using guns, blades, magic, and a healthy dose of cinematic flair.

We're sure you've heard about Connect '08, if not then it's a special event where Codemasters will be showcasing several upcoming titles as well as announcements about Lord of the Rings Online and over important information from Codemasters library of titles.

Not that long ago gaming on the PC was looking bleak from the tower of the studio big wigs with portents of doom.

Wait, there's doings afoot! Now when MTV Multiplayer asked Cliff 'CliffyB' Bleszinski a lead designer at Epic Games, "PC gaming is back?" we get a resounding “Abso-frigging-lutely".

As part of SCi's plan to restructure they're setting their employee count to 800 and the board has decided to axe 14 projects, citing they wouldn't get an adequate return on their investment or achieve a sufficient quality.

Instead they'll focus on their core franchises, Tomb Raider, Hitman, Championship Manager and Deus Ex.

Eidos Interactive today confirmed that Battlestations: Pacific, the sequel to Battlestations: Midway, will be released on the Xbox 360 and PC, although no release date was announced for it.

JanaLee Stocks played Saga from Swedish developer SagaGames. This massively multiplayer online game puts a slight twist in the genre by incorporating some real-time strategy elements, like unit building. So how does this merger of two genres pan out? The author shares her opinion.

Read the Saga review.

Your weekly look at all the games that will be available to buy for money this week.

Staff of Strategy Informer recently enjoyed playing Geometry Wars: Galaxies on the Nintendo DS, and also gave it a whopping 8.2/10 in our Wii review, so to celebrate our love for all things Geomentry Wars, we've decided to run a little competition to allow our European visitors the chance to win a copy of either the DS or Wii version.

UPDATE: The Competition has now closed, winners are announced inside!

At "Lunch with the Luminaries" Chris Taylor, creator of Supreme Commander, declared that PC gaming as we know it today is dead. He cited online piracy as contributing factor saying many games titles now look to consoles as means of securing themselves against illegal downloading, secure gaming is the future he says.

But Internet scaly-wags aside, ex-Sony executive Phil Harrison claims there’s already a generation of kids globally that will never buy physical media. He believes business models will have to evolve and stop physical disc media as the primary means of delivery.

The Discovery Channel has unveiled a game unlike any other, where you'll battle waves that reach 40-feet, ferocious life threatening storms and merciless ice. Yes I'm sure by now you've guessed it, what other possible occupation is there to think about? Crab fishing!

Destined for a port-of-call on PC and the Xbox360, with no PS3 release, Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm is said to give gamers the chance of experiencing this deadly trade out in the Bering Sea. Crabs and peril - what more could the industry ask for?