Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced today the launch of The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest, a third-person action adventure video game offering a family-friendly gameplay experience based on The Lord of the Rings, for PlayStation 3 with PlayStation Move motion controller support, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS hand-held, PlayStation 2  and PSP (PlayStation Portable) system.

The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest empowers parents and families to become the legendary Aragorn and embark upon his most valiant battles from The Lord of the Rings literary trilogy and films.

Criterion Games, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. today announced a demo for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. The demo will give gamers early access to this holiday’s hottest action racing title.

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit ships on November 19th, 2010 and is already earning accolades from critics worldwide for pioneering a new innovation within the racing category. “Need for Speed Hot Pursuit could redefine online racing forever,” stated GamesRadar in their summer preview of the game. In Europe, Eurogamer noted that, “Friends, data and photos continuously stream into view, all offering new gameplay opportunities and challenges.”

Square Enix London Studios today announced that the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham Asylum, licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on behalf of DC Entertainment, will be available in the United Kingdom from 22nd October, 2010, on the PlayStation®3 Platinum range from Sony and the Xbox 360 Classics range from Microsoft.

Batman: Arkham Asylum offers players diverse game play that pushes the envelope for all action, adventure and superhero games and exposes players to a unique, dark and atmospheric adventure.

Electronic Arts is very happy to announce their new MicroBot Arcade Shooter, which will deliver unique gameplay experience to players, while taking them inside the human body.

This new arcade-style Shooter will be available in the winter, next year, on the Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360 Console and PlayStation Network for the Sony PlayStation 3 Console. The objective of the game is to destroy the biotechnological infestation in the human body, by controlling the microscopic ship entitled MicroBot.

Borderlands – Game of the Year Edition is now available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows-Based PCs for the price of 29GBP. The Game of the Year editions come with the stand-alone game, accompanied by all the downloadable add-ons ever released for the game.

Gamers who purchase this edition will also get a certificate for Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club, which grants you exclusive benefits and early access to the playable demo, before it is even publicly released.

The Electronic Arts studio, Visceral Games, announced today that the prologue to Dead Space 2, entitled Deadp Space Ignition, will be available for free on the 13th of October for those users who pre-order the Dead SPace 2 video game at GAME or GameStation in the United Kingdom.

Dead Space Ignition will reveail the exact events that lead up to next installment of Dead Space, Dead Space 2. Players will be rewarded with unlocks like an exclusive Hacker suit.

Dead Space 2 prologue can also be purchased for those who are not planning to preorder the game at the moment, for the price of 4.99 GBP

Lace Mamba Global confirmed today that the release of Jane Jensen’s Gray Matter is going to be delayed until the 25th of February 2011, for both Xbox 360 and Windows-Based PC versions of the video game.

The development team has worked really hard to be able to finish the game for an October release, but unfortunately, due to the time frames, they had no alternative but to delay the release.

According to Jason Codd of Lace Mamba Global, the development team understands that this can be quite frustrating for those users who have already pre-ordered the game

According to Gfk-Chart-Track, Electronic Art’s FIFA 2011 is on the top of the sales chart in the United Kingdom, prior to the end of the week on the 2nd of October.

This means that F1 2010 by Codemasters scores second, while Capcom’s Dead Rising 2 stays in third place.

The Xbox 360 exclusive first-person shooter entitled Halo: Reach is fourth in the TOP 5 UK Chart, while Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock by Activision Blizzard is on the fifth place.

Konami rolled out its first downloadable content for Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, which features a new map called “Pyramid of Ruins” on the Xbox LIVE Arcade for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video gaming console.

Castlevania players will be able to explore an all-new ancient pyramid, while they try to fight new enemies like the Beauty, Desire and Situation Dire. Pyramid of Ruins sends the players to a world of psychedelic art within the ruins of the Egyptian Pyramids.

Treyarch announced today that the loved by the World at War community “Cooperative Zombie” game mode will return in Call of Duty: Black Ops. The game will be released around the world on the 9th of November by Activision Publishing.

The Zombie game modes were introduced in the Call of Duty: World at War game which enabled up to four player cooperative game play and, while it became an instant hit.

Treyarch Studio Head Mark Lamia said that zombies have been such a hit with their community that they are committed to bringing the brand new zombie experience to Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Dead Rising 2 was released to North American major retailers today. The game represents the second installment of the zombie action series by Capcom, where players will be introduced to a new character and new combo weapon mechanics with hundreds of thousands of zombies that wait to eat your flesh.

Developed by Blue Castle Games in collaboration with Capcom, Dead Rising 2 will introduce you to a new hero named Chuck Greene whose tragic past has brought him into Fortune City, where he will compete in the Terror is Reality game show, where contestants have to survive environments filled with flesh-eating zombies.

A single player downloadable content pack, entitled Minerva’s Den, has been announced today by 2K Games for BioShock 2. This Single-Player DLC will expand the story-line of BioShock 2, while introducing new characters, locations and mystery to the rich world of Rapture.

Minerva’s Den is in development for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles, as well as Windows-Based PCs. The player will take the perspective of an all-new character, which has joined forces with Brigid Tenenbaum in order to unravel “a dictator’s stranglehold on a key district in the distinctive city under the sea“