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Sony has released a new slate of downloadable games for the PlayStation 3 and PSP:

I-play, part of Oberon Media, has released Dream Day Wedding: Bella Italia as a download for the PC. The game has players planning the perfect wedding in a variety of locations in the Italian countryside.

GameStop reported certain financial results pertaining to its fiscal fourth quarter and full financial year ended January 30, 2010:

Square Enix, together with Gas Powered Games, has made its game Supreme Commander 2 available in stores for the Xbox 360. This real-time strategy game in which players participate in a three-sided galactic war previously shipped for the PC.

The classic shooter Perfect Dark is now available as a download through Xbox Live Arcade for 800 points ($10). 4J Studios has converted the game so that this shooter is presented in full 1080p HD when Joanna Dark faces galactic conspiracies in the year 2023.

Disney's game Sonny With a Chance for the DS is now in stores in North America. The game features mini-games inspired by the "So Random" cast on the Disney Channel.

Sega's game Infinite Space for the DS is now in stores in North America. This is an epic role-playing game that has players hunting pirates with a fleet of spaceships while investigating a galactic mystery.

Ignition Entertainment's game Spectral Force Genesis for the DS is now in stores in North America. This role-playing game introduces players to the Spectral Force role-playing game universe on the DS.

Sega's game Resonance of Fate for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 is now available in stores in North America. This role-playing game has players working as private military contractors exploring an Earth that is a burned-out, nearly lifeless shell.

Electronic Arts' game Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight for the PC is now available in stores. This game is the final real-time strategy installment in the Tiberium Saga set in the Command & Conquer franchise, and (once again) has the Global Defense Initiative battling the Brotherhood of Nod for control over Tiberium.

Majesco reported the results of its first fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2010:

Sony Online Entertainment, together with LucasArts, has released the latest expansion for its online collectible card game, the Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game, called "Threat of the Conqueror." The expansion adds around 200 playable cards and 30 loot cards to the game, the art on some of which comes from player-taken screenshots.

Electronic Arts has shipped Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening to stores for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The content will also be released as a download on Thursday, March 19. The expansion adds the Amaranthine area of the world and has players investigating the secrets of the darkspawn following the defeat of the Archdemon and ending the blight in the original game. The expansion increases the game's level cap and adds five new party members.

Xseed Games has shipped Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon for the Wii to stores in North America. Developed by Namco Bandai and tri-Crescendo, this role-playing game has players exploring an abandoned world populated only by ghosts.

Konami's game GTI Club Supermini Festa! for the Wii is now in stores. This version of Konami's arcade racing game was previously released for the PSP.

Sony's game God of War III for the PlayStation 3 is now in stores. This latest God of War game has Kratos descending to Hades and climbing Mt. Olympus to take revenge upon the gods who have manipulated him in the previous games.

Majesco has shipped Let's Draw! for the DS to stores in North America. The software is based on the line of Japanese drawing books and teaches people to draw using a series of steps and mini-games.

THQ has shipped Metro 2033 for the Xbox 360 and PC to stores in North America. The game is based on a novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky set in the Moscow Metro after apocalyptic events and is a first-person shooter that has players venturing out of the subway into a devastated world.

Matrix Games, together with Slitherine Strategies, has released Field of Glory: Rise of Rome as a download for the PC. This is an expansion that requires the original Field of Glory, itself based on the tabletop wargaming system of the same name. Rise of Rome adds battles from Rome's expansion as well as the Persian wars and Punic wars.

Nintendo has released a new slate of downloadable games for the Wii and DS to celebrate the arrival of another Monday. The new games include:

Nintendo's Pokemon HeartGold Version and Pokemon SoulSilver Version, both for the DS, are now in stores. These latest Pokemon games are set in the same Johto region introduced in Pokemon Gold Version and Pokemon Silver Version a decade ago. In addition to the usual Pokemon experience that has players training and battling monsters, these games come with the "Pokewalker" accessory that serves as a pedometer that grants experience to the walker's Pokemon.

Wargaming.net has released Order of War: Challenge! as a download for the PC. This is a stand-alone title related to the Order of War game published by Square Enix, but providing limited real-time strategy battles between players online, set during World War II.

Sony has released a new slate of downloadable games through the PlayStation Store for the PlayStation 3 and PSP:

THQ's game Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising is now available in stores. This is a stand-alone expansion to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II from THQ's Relic Entertainment studio, and introduces the Chaos Space Marines to this real-time strategy game based on the classic Games Workshop tabletop game.

Atari, together with Telltale Games, has released Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space for the Wii and PC. This is the second season of Sam & Max's adventures, a compilation that takes the Freelance Police everywhere from the North Pole to the Underworld.

This week's downloadable game for Xbox Live Arcade comes from Slick Entertainment and is called Scrap Metal. Available for 1,200 points ($15), the game is a top-down combat racing game in which players blast enemies as they race.

Hudson Entertainment's game Calling for the Wii is now available in North America. This Japanese-style horror game has four characters simultaneously exploring the truth behind the "Black Page."

Sega's game Yakuza 3 for the PlayStation 3 has shipped to stores in North America. This latest Yakuza game once again has players exploring Japanese organized crime through an extensive story, plenty of combat and mini-games.

Ubisoft's game Racquet Sports for the Wii is now in stores in North America. The game includes casual racquet sports ranging from ping-pong to beach tennis.

Ubisoft has finally released the PC version of Assassin's Creed II. Now PC owners can relive the memories of Ezio Auditore da Firenze as he battles a corrupt conspiracy in Renaissance Italy. Console versions of the game shipped last year to this sequel to Assassin's Creed.