The list of 2008-2009 games to be highlighted this year include:

Dead Space (Xbox 360, PS3), FaceBreaker (Wii, Xbox 360, PS3), HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT (Wii, PS2), LITTLEST PET SHOP (Wii, DS, PC), Madden NFL 09 (every system under the sun), Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (Xbox 360, PS3), Mirror’s Edge (Xbox 360, PS3), The Sims 2 Apartment Pets (Nintendo DS), Zubo (Nintendo DS), MySims (PC), MySims Kingdom (Wii, Nintendo DS), Spore (PC),  Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PSP), Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning (PC), Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 (PC), Crysis Warhead (PC), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Wii, PS3, 360, PS2, PSP, DS, PC, Mac), The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (multi), SimCity Creator for (Wii), NBA LIVE 09 (Xbox 360, PS3), NCAA FOOTBALL 09 (multi), Skate It (Wii, DS), Rock Band 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii), Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360, PS3),

Cabal Philippines launched  commercial barely two weeks ago but hardcore cabal gamers reached the maximum level of 100 few days after level cap was increased to LVL 100. E-games then announced for another level cap increase to LVL 120 and it was completed yesterday along with some changes to their Premium Items and supposed fix for Cabal Game Bot. The patch to Game bot has not been confirmed as of this entry.

The newest online game Level Up brought to the Philippines is called “Crazy Kart”. Its a casual racing online game from China-based interactive entertainment media company Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd., Closed Beta was launched yesterday at 12pm.

The video games industry grew 37% last month on strong sales of the Grand Theft Auto IV game. However Microsoft(MSFT - Cramer’s Take - Stockpickr) saw sales of its Xbox 360 console lag rival Sony’s(SNE - Cramer’s Take - Stockpickr) PlayStation 3. Meanwhile Nintendo/s Wii console and its handheld DS system bagged the top two spots in terms of overall hardware sales for the fourth consecutive month and continued to outsell rivals, said industry research firm The NPD Group in its monthly report on video games sales. Take-Two Interactive’s(TTWO - Cramer’s Take - Stockpickr) Grand Theft Auto continued to burn the charts bagging the top spot for the second month. The title, which was released on April 29, sold about 1.3 million copies across the Xbox 360 and PS3 systems last month. Take-Two is currently battling a $2 billion hostile bid from its larger rival Electronic Arts (ERTS - Cramer’s Take - Stockpickr). EA has a tender offer open for Take-Two shares at $25.74. Shares of Take-Two closed down 19 cents to $26.56 Thursday.

A recent study in Nature, the weekly scientific journal, suggests that playing video games can be good for one’s vision. Researchers at the University of Rochester say that action game players react to fast-moving objects more efficiently and can track 30% more objects than non-gamers. Video and computer games, it seems, can actually help players train their visual attention. According to one German neurobiologist, the nerve cells may shift shape from playing these games and this helps the nerve cells communicate more effectively with each other. However, only the shoot-em up games helped improve vision. The more sedate games like Chess, Scrabble, and Tetris, even when played electronically made no visual improvements.

Microsoft corporation gave banjo-kazooie a massive upgrade, a more powerful, adventurous, thrilling, and high graphic game. This game was originally from Nintendo. This game will surely clicks who has supported the game back when it was from Nintendo.

The country’s most anticipated new-age action game will open its door as Closed Beta Testing will start on May 15, 2008. Since the announcement of E-games that they will bring Cabal to the Philippines, many hardcore gamers had been waiting for it. One of the most noticeable features of Cabal Online is its unique COMBO SYSTEM animation yet maintaining low PC requirements.

If you have a closed beta account make sure you download the CBT cabal installer before the fifteen of May to avoid the rush.

The much anticipated Grand Theft Auto 4 sold about 4 millions copies of the game on its first day of launching. Total copies sold in the first 5 day of opening went up to 6 million, grossing the gaming company Rockstar some $500 million on the first week.

The game generated an estimated revenue of $390 million on day 1, exceeding Halo 3´s $280 million launch week. Worldwide sales split 4:3 in favor of the Xbox 360 while Sony’ Playstation 3 version saw a higher attach rate.

Grand Theft Auto IV is considered the most expensive game of all time, with estimated development costs of $100 million. The game is likely to hit the 10 million units sales mark during the next months.

Diablo first came out in 1997 which became very popular to PC gamers. Came 2000, the fans saw the released of Diablo II. The game was awarded several accolades including the prestigious Computer Game of the Year. A year after Diablo® II: Lord of Destruction was released and became the fastest selling expansion set in PC game history.

With the news of Blizzard purchasing diablo3.com domain from the guy over at diablofans.com, a community of PC gamers of Diablo, it was mentioned on the site that acquiring the domain should not be considered that Blizzard is really developing Diablo III. The fans has high hopes on this matter and who knows they will be seeing it soon.