Valve sure knows how to get maximum publicity and attention for its updates of Team Fortress 2. The second day of the “War” update has been released today, offering a glimpse at the status of the war between Soliders and Demomen. Check out the update here.

Polyphony Digital has pretty much wrapped up the development of Gran Turismo 5, and has secured a March 2010 release date for Japan. However, Sony is the one who decides the release date outside of Japan, and they’ve finally commented on a worldwide release, citing that they aim for a “Summer 2010″ release, which means it’ll still be at least a month later than the Japanese release. But at least we got a date. Sort of.

The struggling developer/publisher Atari has seen three different CEOs in the last three years, and now that count has increased to four, as the company today appointed COO Jeff Lapin to the post of CEO, while the previous CEO, David Gardner, has been relegated to the board of directors.

Atari is betting a lot of money and effort on the upcoming Star Trek online, an MMO based on the popular Star Trek brand, a game which will be our early next year.

NPD’s latest sales charts are out, this time for the month of November, which shows that people’s love for Mario isn’t dying out any time soon, as New Super Mario Bros. had sold 1.5 million copies for the month. Nintendo has now revealed that the sales for North America have surpassed 2 million copies as of December 10.

While Nintendo didn’t provide global sales numbers for the game, it has sold over 1 million since its launch in Japan, and most likely just as many copies have been bought in Europe as well. You can check out our New Super Mario Bros. review here.

EA and EA Montreal have released the intro trailer for the upcoming Army of Two: The 40th Day co-op shooter, which will be released early next year.

The Tony Hawk series of have dominated the skateboarding game scene for most of this decade, however, more competition lately from the likes of EA’s Skate, and less innovation from Tony Hawk, has meant that the once powerful franchise has taken a few steps back. Activision has tried something new with Tony Hawk Ride, this time including a skateboard peripheral with the game, bringing the total price of the package to $120 — quite a lot to ask for a game. Is it worth it? Read on to find out.

The main attraction of Tony Hawk Ride is the (almost) full sized skateboard, built with durable plastic and featuring motion sensing, which means that what you do on the skateboard (you play the game standing on the board, just in case you weren’t sure), is translated on the screen. Which it does, to a point. You see, the biggest risk by having something like a motion sensing skateboard, is that the slightest lag can mean ruined gameplay. And that’s exactly what happens with Tony Hawk Ride. The motion sensing inputs are not only lagging, but they’re also imprecise most of the time, rendering gameplay an almost complete disappointment. It feels very gimmicky, and coupled with unbalanced difficulty levels, neither fits — nor will satisfy — the hardcore nor the casual gamers. Read the rest of the review

Have you ever wanted to add a bit of water to your LittleBigPlanet creations? Well you will soon have the chance as Sony has recently let us know that an add-on that will add the ability to add water should be released before the end of this year.

The add-on was first discovered when a list of Trophies were added that hinted as levels containing water which had CVG question Sony above it’s arrival to which they replied:

“We’re expecting it to launch just before Xmas.”

In addition to water, you will be getting a bunch of Pirates of the Caribbean content.

Yesterday we let you know that Ubisoft would be releasing a Splinter Cell: Conviction demo next month and now a new trailer from the game has emerged. While this trailer is a decent display of the game’s graphical capabilities, its real purpose is to give the viewer and insight into the plot line behind the title.

The plot sounds pretty interesting but I’m sure I’ll understand it better once I get a chance to dive into it when Splinter Cell: Conviction hits store shelves for the Xbox 360 and PC on February 23rd, 2010.

Well, javelin glitch abusers, your days of terror have come to an end as Infinity Ward community manager has recently announced, via twitter, that the Modern Warfare 2 1.06 update has been released on Xbox Live.

This is the patch that will fix the javelin glitch, unlimited care package and the ability to exploit geographical locations.

Just pop in your disc, turn on your console and once the game is booted the update will auto start, but you already knew that.

TIME Magazine, known for its top ten lists it features at the end of every year, has a top ten games of 2009, according to them. The list:

1. Modern Warfare 2
2. Batman Arkham Asylum
3. DJ Hero
4. Borderlands
5. New Super Mario Bros. Wii
6. Geo defense Swarm
7. Scribblenauts
8. Halo 3: ODST
9. Assassin’s Creed 2
10. Undcharted 2.

There you have it. Yes, we’re a bit confused that DJ Hero ranks higher than Borderlands, and that Uncharted 2 ranks as 10. But then again, TIME isn’t known for their editorial integrity when it comes to videogames.