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.

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.

Team 17 announced the release of a new downloadable content package entitled the Worms 2: Armageddon Battle Pack for the Xbox 360 on the Xbox LIVE Arcade.

This feature-packed DLC will come with new weapons, new utilities, and a new single-player campaign with tons of crazy new customization features. The DLC will also come with new achievements and an all-new game mode.

The new Body Count Mode puts the player as a single worm to fight against an army of enemies that never ends with the objective to amass the largest number of kills before being killed. The high-scores will be tracked on an all-new Leaderboard.

Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising, and SEGA of America, announced today that the new and second downloadable map package for the Aliens vs Predator first-person shooter will be released on the 7th of July, 2010, for the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game console, The Sony PlayStation Store for the Sony PlayStation 3 video gaming console, and Valve’s Steam platform for Windows-Based PCs.

The Bughunt Map Pack is the first newly developed downloadable map package that will include four brand new maps and weather types for the game.

The Electronic Arts Studio named DICE, announced today the very first Multiplayer Expansion Pack for the hit military first-person shooter entitled Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Gamers will be able to experience an all-new war environment, Vietnam. They will be able to take the perspective of either a U.S. Marine or North Vietnamese Army Soldier (NVA) on the hostile combat environment of the Vietnamese jungles.

The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam digital expansion pack will deliver non-stop action in sandbox environment with punishing jungles, powerful air invasions and guerilla tactics of an unpredictable enemy.

One of the leading video game publishers worldwide, Activision Publishing, and Microsoft, announced today that all Call of Duty game add-ons and downloadable content packages will be first released on the Xbox LIVE Online Entertainment Network exclusively, courtesy of the multi-year agreement between the two companies.

The agreement officially began in 2009, and now extends for all downloadable content packages for the mega-blockbuster Call of Duty Franchise throughout the year 2012, which includes Call of Duty: Black Ops.

The explosive Black Market “Boom” Package is available to download as of today. The package contains three game-changing prototype weapons for agents who want taste destruction.

This package is the perfect tool for players who are craving for combat and destruction. The package contains three experimental and highly volatile prototype weapons.

Just Cause 2 Black Market “Boom” Pack features the Quad Rocket Launcher, which is a half rocket launcher, half shotgun; The Cluster Bomb Launcher, which is the natural successor of the grenade launcher

Your gerbil friends are back, more foolhardy than ever. Developed by Pencel Games for the Xbox 360 video game console, Gerbil Physics 2 is a casual platformer with puzzles driven by physics. The game is available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for only 80 MS Points.

The players needs to help his gerbil friends learn the impact of the ropes, slingshots, bombs, disintegrators and machine guns on their furry forms. Gerbil Physics 2 features some exciting new levels, mini-games, puzzles and much, much more.

From the Spanish Developer named Rendercode Games, the first indie racing game that will put avatars behind the wheel, has just been released on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for only 80 Microsoft Points.

The game which is titled “Avatar Racedrome” features: sixteen reversible racetracks, adaptive Artificial Intelligence competitors, championships, online multiplayer modes, optional autobrakes for an easy learning curve, and the ability to rewind in the race.

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.