“FIFA Street 3 creates a hyper-real world that merges the game’s biggest stars with environments that pulsate to the music in exotic locales around the world. Featuring over 250 of the world’s best players representing 18 of the top international teams, each player has been rendered into a stylized caricature with heroic qualities. Decked out in authentic training kits, every player boasts their own, distinctive style of play with unique abilities to match. Choose from Tricksters, Enforcers, Playmakers and Finishers to give you different options on the ball and make your mark on the street.”

Check out the latest FIFA Street 3 trailer here or head over to IGN.com for more hands on previews, media and more.

“Speed is an essential quality in driving games. Without it, you might as well be taking a Sunday drive in the family Yugo. However, with the Burnout series, developer Criterion Games has added another ingredient that has become just as important as eye-bleeding speed: crashes. The Burnout series has set new standards for snarling, metal-bending, explosive crashes over the years, and the upcoming Burnout Paradise is no exception to that rule. In fact, apart from its open-world nature and seamless online experience, Paradise will be aiming to bring crashes to the next level thanks to the new crash-anywhere, -anytime “showtime” mode.”

Continue reading this hands on preview at GameSpot.com or click here to watch the latest Burnout Paradise trailer.

“Anyone who owned an Xbox 360 in November of 2006 picked up one of two games — or, if you’re lucky enough, you bought both — Rainbox Six Vegas or Epic’s Gears of War. While Gears was certainly the more hyped of the two titles, Rainbox Six Vegas rose to the forefront of many gamers’ minds as a contender for Game of the Year. While it did concede the honors in the end, the series clearly made the jump to high-definition gaming much easier than others. Some say it was the first fully realized Xbox 360 game to come on the market. Period. We would agree.

Now Ubisoft is preparing to unleash the sequel to the masses in Spring 2008. In the first part of our interview we touched on the new character customization options and overall design of the single-player portion of Vegas 2. Now we’re back with Jean-Pascal Cambiotti to go over what we can expect to see from the multiplayer side (both cooperative and adversarial play) of Rainbow Six Vegas 2.” Continue reading at IGN.com.

Click here to watch trailer 3 titled “Move Up, Ladies”, or head over to the official Grand Theft Auto IV website for the first two trailers, game play screen shots, downloads and more to tease you just a bit more.

“It took awhile, but Infinity Ward finally got the message that World War II is played out. With modern times and international affairs becoming more and more, shall we say, interesting in recent years, the 1940s just don’t carry as much weight as they used to. Perhaps that’s why Call of Duty 4 has a new subtitle, Modern Warfare. By bringing things into a fictionalized story that still seems fairly plausible, the developer has made a much heavier game. But COD 4 is more than just an updated setting. It’s also an amazing multiplayer first-person shooter and a great but brief single-player campaign with the visual chops to make it a standout shooter in an era filled with seemingly dozens of standout shooters.” Click here to continue reading the Gamespot.com review of COD 4 “Modern Warfare” or check out the full length trailer here.

FOSTER CITY, Calif., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) today announced plans to introduce a new 40GB model of its PLAYSTATION(R)3 (PS3(TM)) computer entertainment system.

Beginning November 2nd, to further enhance the HD entertainment experience, the new 40GB PS3 model will come bundled with the blockbuster movie Spider-Man(TM) 3 Blu-ray Disc(TM) (BD) from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, and will be available in North America for a suggested retail price of $399 (USD/CND). The company also announced that effective immediately, the current 80GB PS3 model will be available in North America for $499 (USD/CND), $100 below the original launch price.

“We’re pleased to offer the consumer a lower price point without sacrificing the core technology components that make PS3 the most advanced high-definition entertainment system available. Every PS3 comes with a Blu-ray drive, HDMI output, an integrated Wi-Fi connection, Cell Broadband
Engine and a built-in hard-drive,” said Jack Tretton, President and CEO, SCEA.

“This holiday season we’ll be able to offer attractive retail pricing with a broad portfolio of outstanding games including Ratchet & Clank(R) Future: Tools of Destruction(TM), THE EYE OF JUDGMENT(TM), Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune(TM), Heavenly Sword(TM), Call of Duty(R) 4: Modern Warfare, Assassin’s
Creed(TM), Haze(TM) and RockBand(TM).”

The new 40GB PS3 will no longer play PlayStation(R)2 titles, reflecting the availability of a more extensive line-up of PS3 specific titles. Consumers looking for backwards compatibility can take advantage of the limited PlayStation 2 backwards compatibility of the 80GB PS3.

But other than some new scenery and a few new tricks, etc. this is pretty much the same old Tony Hawk game it always has been which can get a little old depending on what you are looking for. Good thing is that you have some decent options now including Skate released under EA Games. But if you have always had fun playing classic Tony Hawk, then Proving Ground (available this week) will definitely not disappoint. Check out the Proving Ground game trailer here.

Sony has had some hit and miss products in its day, but the PSP was a huge “hit” from day one. Now a few years later, the PSP gets a little thinner, a little more colorful and just a little better all around. The PSP 2000, or PSP slim, was announced earlier this summer and sales are now better than ever. But today is special day for the PSP and Star Wars fans all around because the new special edition Darth Vader PSP just hit shelves. At $199 for the bundle, you get a slim PSP with Vader’s head plastered on the back and the new Star Wars Battlefront game to boot. So go get yours today and be just slightly more geeky than you were yesterday.