2K Games announced that XCOM,the re-imagining of one of gaming’s most storied and beloved franchises,is currently in development at 2K Marin, the studio behind the multi-million unit selling BioShock 2. Currently in development exclusively for the Xbox 360 and Windows PC, XCOM combines the strategic core of the groundbreaking franchise with a suspense-filled narrative and distills it into a tense and unique first-person shooter experience.

Legacy Recordings will release BioShock 2, the digital album of music from the latest installment of 2K Games' award-winning videogame franchise, on Tuesday, February 9, along with the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game. BioShock 2 is the eagerly awaited sequel to BioShock, an enormously popular video game franchise that has won more than 50 Game of the Year Awards and shipped over three million units worldwide.

2K Games announced its nationwide Return to Rapture with midnight openings celebrating the launch of BioShock  2, the sequel to the 2007 Game of the Year.  On February 9, more than 2,500 GameStop and Best Buy stores will open their doors when the clock strikes midnight to the hordes of Big Daddy fans hungry to get their hands on and devour BioShock 2. Additionally, those who pre-ordered the game through GameStop will receive two bonus characters - Blanche the Actress and Zigo the Fisherman - to use in the game's multiplayer mode. The road to the launch of BioShock 2 kicks off tonight, with the debut of a 3 minute 15 second trailer during the first commercial break of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

Sid Meier, the director of creative development and co-founder of Firaxis Games, will bring to bear over 25 years of experience in game design in the opening keynote address at the 2010 Game Developers Conference (GDC).  Best known for his work designing the genre-defining Civilization strategy game franchise, Sid Meier will present a keynote entitled "The Psychology of Game Design (Everything You Know Is Wrong)."  

While Nintendo continues to sell its motion-sensor controlled Wiis, it’s taken four years but Sony and Microsoft will enter the mainstream competition. This fall Sony’s PlayStation 3 Motion Controller will go head-to-head with Microsoft’s Project Natal for Xbox 360 in an attempt to attract a more casual gaming audience.

We are coming to you live from SpikeTV's Video Game Awards 2009 in Los Angeles with host Jo Garcia, Playboy's 2008 Cybergirl of the Year. She's hot and our coverage will be hot so stay tuned here as we beam to you live video reports from the VGAs as we interview the top developers and, of course, celebrities on the Red Carpet, Backstage and in the Green Room. It all starts at 8pm Eastern Time.