The veteran of the interactive entertainment industry, France Tantiado, announced the start of a new social gaming company, Brandyl Inc, focused on developing entertaining and engaging games for the online social gaming communities, like Facebook and mobile platforms. Brandyl is currently looking for talented teams of engineers, game designers and graphic artists. If you are interested visit brandyl.com/hire.html.

CEO and founder of Brandyl, France Tantiado, stated that with her years of experience in the gaming industry, she decided that it was time to start her own company

Turtle Rock Studios today announced the launch of a small games division named “Turtle Rock Garage”, which will be focused only on casual and experimental games, like those on the iPhone, Facebook and Xbox LIVE.

The Art Director at Turtle Rock Studios, Phil Robb, said that the team at Turtle Rock Studios is constantly coming up with fantastic little game ideas, and that these are games that they would love to see realized just as much as their larger scope projects. Phil Robb also stated that it would be a shame to throw these ideas out just because they are not a part of a big project.

Cold Beam Games are very pleased to announce the release of a major downloadable update for its rhythm-based game entitled “Beat Hazard” on Valve’s Steam Platform.

The major update will add a local two player cooperative mode plus a “Head-to-Head” game mode. Players are now able to “beat hazard” with friends and pals. Suicide difficulty level is featured for players who want something completely insane.

In addition to all that, Cold Beam Games also announced that its Beat Hazard game now support iTunes and m4a file types thanks to the cheap $1 Downloadable Content they released.

The award winning video game “Shifters” has now been released by Thumbstar Games for all players who have an Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Touch or an Apple iPad.

The game consists of the funny shifters that you will be holding in your hands, jumping smiling and pushing each other. But beware, because if the same shifters collide into each other, they will explode.

Shifters for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, features four game modes, including the score mode, the color hunter, the combo master, and the logic mode plus eight types of shifters with extra-bonuses.

Rockstar Games is very excited to announce that their Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Lite is released for free on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

In Chinatown Wars Lite, the player takes the perspective of Huang Lee, who has to help his Uncle Wu “Kenny” Lee in his quest for revenge and control of the Triad Gangs in Liberty City. The game will be your introduction to the criminal underground in Liberty City. Journey through the first three missions of the full game, and get ready for some reckless driving afterwards.

Radiangames is proud to announce its first game, which is entitled Radiangames JoyJoy, and is now available for download through the Xbox Live Indie Games on the Xbox 360. JoyJoy was the number one ranked game in the United States and number six worldwide, in the 2010 Dream.Build.Play challenge.

“I’m thrilled to be releasing my first solo game. Working as a team for a dozen years was fantastic, but the joys and fears of independent development are amazing. JoyJoy is just the beginning of a number of small, highly-focused games that I’ve wanted to make for years. I’m both proud to release JoyJoy and ecstatic to turn around and use the lessons learned on another game so quickly,” said Luke Schneider of Radiangames.

Many years ago, thousands of chess armies scattered the barren lands. Constant battle ensued. Armies learned to fight in teams to survive.

After much bloodshed & troop shortage, leaders offered meaty bores & ale to entice captured units to join.

It worked! Captives were trained by allies & sprung back into battle, forever changing the landscape of the chess wars.

Team Chess is a spin on the traditional chess game. It’s played in Teams (2v2), either locally or on XBOX Live.

The Scribbles are protected by a powerful Scribble Meister who is using powerful towers to dispatch those who try to present danger on them, while they live a dark and lonely life.

Protect your Scribbles by manipulating your enemies with towers that can destroy and debuff them too. The Scribble Meister has enough power to influence the predestined path that the enemies are taking.

The game, Scribble Defense, will soon be released on the Xbox LIVE Indie Games for the Xbox 360 video game console.

X2 Games announced today that the second title in their X2 Football franchise, X2 Football 2010, will release today for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the Apple App Store.

The game excels the ante for football gaming on the platform with a variety of new features and optimizations.

X2 Football 2010 launches with an all-new Dream Team mode, where players start with a low-ability team and though progressive multiplayer and ‘quick match’ games, earn tokens to spend on team improvements, including scouting for professional players, to build the ultimate world-beating squad.

The Amazing Brain Train! Is a unique “brain training” video game for the Nintendo Wii. The player is taken on a brain-training, memory-boosting journey around Professor Fizzwizzle’s cartoon world, while going through fifteen different mini-games and three different game modes.

The co-founder of Grubby Games Ryan Clark stated that The Amazing Brain Train! Is no ordinary brain training game, since it features elements never before seen in this genre. He also said that “You can forget about goal-less game play” with the packed quests, trophies and high scores that add the “unique” to the game-play.

NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe announced today that they have signed a partnership with a Sports Wear Company – GLOBE Internation Limited to produce a limited exclusive Splatterhouse Sneakers based on GLOBE’s premium Superfly model.

The Shoes were designed to the testament of Splatterhouse, feautaring the Splatterhouse logo sprayed across the siding of the Sneakers in blood red, along with some “Splattered” blood detail all over and a Skull icon on top, designed to tie in the game’s Intense and horror-like tone.