There was a lot of debate recently if EA would drop the Tiger Woods moniker from its Tiger Woods PGA Tour series of games. What with Tiger's compulsive need for stroke play. Fear not, just as Elin found out, there is plenty of Tiger Woods for everyone. Tiger will be returning to the tile, mind you in a diminished form. Since the game will features less Tiger, the devs have opted to actually improve the game by including the Ryder Cup and team play to the series. The game will also make use of the WiiMotion Plus controller and the yet unnamed (but codenamed Gem) PS3 motion controller. No word on any Project Natal support. Read on for more information.

Tired of playing guitar games that features plastic instruments with buttons. Then "Power Gig: Rise of the SixString" is the game for you. What makes the game different from Guitar Hero or Rock Band is the fact that the game controller is a fully functional six-string electric guitar. The developers at Seven45 Studios (sister company of musical instrument maker First Act) promise the game will be as easy to learn and play as all other musical games, but that you can drop the game, plug the guitar into an amp and jam away. Read on for more information.

Final Fantasy XIII was released today in North America. The months leading up to the release was focused on which version of the game would look better. This is after all Sony's chance to outshine the Xbox 360 and prove that Blu-Ray is indeed essential to gaming. Not trusting the opinion of any site that generates advertising $$$, I set out to find out for myself if any particular version displayed a significant advantage over another. Please note that I do not have any fancy screen capture utility, just my camera. All images where taken under identical conditions.

PS/ To make things fair, I will never disclose which screenshots are from which version of the game. Read on for more information.

Turtle Beach, makers of the fine Xbox 360 and PC headsets, has just announced a new line of value priced headsets for the Xbox 360 console. The Ear Force X11 is being marketed as "the perfect headset" for XBOX gamers who want immersive game sound and XBOX Live communication at a great price. With wired headset will match the recently released Ear Force X31 and X41 in appearance and will retails for $59.99 US once it is release. Read on for more information.

A demo for the motorbike racing game MotoGP 09/10 has been promised to be released this Thursday on the Xbox 360 Marketplace. This will no doubt please all those that have been craving some fine motorbike racing on the Xbox 360, but could not bring themselves to play a game with 06, 07 or 08 in the title. Read on for more information.

Gamers have become skeptical about so called exclusive content often promised in collector's or limited edition of games. And for good reason as the track record of the content remaining exclusive for long has not been great. Case in point is the posting on the Xbox Live Marketplace of the "VIP Membership Car Pack", the "Sidewinder Proving Grounds Track Pack", the "Benchmark High Speed Ring Track Pack" and the "Motorsport Legends Car Pack" for Forza 3. All packs were previously "collector's edition" exclusives not made available to everyone. But before you head out to tar & feather the fine folks at Turn 10, know that the development studio pledges to donate $10 from the sale of each VIP pack (up to $100,000 to the "Save the Children" of Haiti fund. Read on for more information.

Human Soft, a developer best known for its Nintendo GBA and DS games, has announced HardGrip. The game will be the world's first rock climbing game that promised to capture all the thrills and adrenaline of climbing rock walls. The game is set to take advance of the new motion based systems and as such has officially been announced for the Nintendo Wii console and "other upcoming motion-based game systems". Read on for more information.

Nothing sells games as well as a good promotion. Following the success of the Summer of Arcade '09 (and the previous Summer of Arcade), Microsoft introduces a new promotion that does not contain the reference to summer. Wednesday kicks off the Xbox Live Block Party promotion and the event shall be marked by the release of Toy Soldier.

Toy Soldier is an action/strategy title in which the player will control one toy army in an effort to eliminate the other army. The gameplay features a mix of first-person, third-person style of action combined with tower-defence elements and 50 different units that can be controlled and you have a formula that equals nothing but win. Toy Soldier will launch at 1200MS points. Read on for more information.

Spring is in the air. Sure it is still winter for everyone in Canada other than Vancouver, but spring is fast approaching. With spring comes the baseball's "spring training" training season and the latest yearly iteration of 2KSports' Major League Baseball 2K10. The prospect of grass does excite many Canadians, but nothing makes a snow storm pass faster than shooting friends virtually. Battlefield Bad Company 2 has set aside the humour and is gearing up for some intense online battles that promises to leave us all wondering what is so modern about broken bug ridden warfare. Winter will not last forever and when spring finally does break through some of you may feel like signing. Practice up those vocals chords with Lips: Party Classics. This new entry to the Lips franchise adds 40 new party friendly songs. Read on for more information.