If you’re looking for a place to showcase the hot beats you’ve been dropping using Rockstar’sBeaterator, this one’s for you. Beginning on October 16, Rockstar will be hosting Beaterator music parties in Sony’s Listen@Home space inside PlayStation Home. This means you may have to install Home, folks. Here’s how it works — you create a song usingBeateratorand you upload it to the Rockstar Social Club. Then, Rockstar will pick their favorites and broadcast them live in Home during the each of the events....

The blood isn’t even dry onGears of War 2and we’re already hearing about Cliff Bleszinski’s next game. Quarterman of EGM has already heard that Cliffy’s next game is a survival horror, says1UP. All we know so far is that this new game will mix the bloody visceral elements of theGears of Wargames with psychological terror. Better yet, it may be multiplatform. Are survival horror games the new hotness? Do you think this one has been in the works for awhile?...

Recently, Square Enix may have debuted the new box art for its upcoming Xbox 360 role playing game,Infinite Undiscovery. The screen comes from aSquare Enix blogmember, with no word on the finality of the art. Everything about it seems to indicate this is what consumers will have on their store shelves come this September, but one can never be too sure. While we struggle for confirmation, hit the gallery below to check out the sexy mountain and chains displayed on the cover....

What if you took the creature editing power of Spore and worked it into a platformer for the Wii? That’s whatSpore Herois in a nutshell. We had the opportunity to get a peek at the title at a pre-Comic-con EA event last night. Players will still have the full functionality of the Spore Creature Creator from the PC version, modified to work with the Wii Remote. You’ll have some 250 to fiddle with to make your creations....

If you understand Japanese, get ready to know more than you probably wanted to know aboutThe Last Story‘s battle system. Like the“gathering” tutorial that Jimposted a few days ago, this video is very thorough. There may be more to the game’s battle system than this, but if so, then… that’s one hell of a deep battle system. My Japanese is too poor to make out most of it, but I still enjoy just watching the way this game plays....

From today through April 25th Sega will offer some of their most popular iOS titles on the App Store at a discounted price. Consider it an Easter gift, or at least 60 percent off an Easter gift that you’re buying yourself. I’d rather have 60 percent off one of those huge Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs. No offense, Sega.

Here is video of the special version ofSettlers of Catanbuilt for Microsoft Surface systems. Brilliant user interface stuff at work here and, while not the same as playing on a real board (and nothing likemy awesome set), not having to set up and tear down actual board games is the thing that draws me towards digital versions of my favorite tabletop past-times. Then I think about how impractical it would be to own a Surface....

Mommy’s Best Games? Who? Oh, you know. The developer behind such Xbox 360 indie games asWeapon of ChoiceandGrapple Buggy. The newest game to come from the mind of Nathan Fouts is calledShoot 1UP. It’s got a few neat tricks, such as its lives system. Whenever you pick up a 1UP, another ship will become controllable. This can go on until you build up 30 ships, and with co-op, you’re able to have 60 total ships blasting away at once....

As Nick said way back in August of last yearwhen he playedCity Rain, mashing the two distinct concepts together is “ridiculous enough that it actually works.” The 2009 Independent Games Festival Student Finalist is finally playable for the rest of us lowly peons; the demo and full $9.95 downloadcan be found here. Since the screenshot above doesn’t particularly explain theSim City/Tetriscomparison, here’s howCity Rainworks in a nutshell. Falling blocks (buildings) can be placed anywhere on the tile-based map....

The new PS3Sirengame looks pants-crapping good, and this is one of the rare instances where I’ll refer to loss of bowel control as a compliment. For those of you hopefuls waiting to hear that this game will come to the US, your prayers have been recognized, if not yet answered — the game was confirmed for European release at Sony’s recent PlayStation day, and UK gamers can now download the trailer from their version of the PlayStation Store....

Entertainment Weeklyhas obtained some juicy details regarding what downloadable content is in store forRock Band 2. There are six more full albums in the pipeline, all of which should be out by the year’s end. Without further ado, here are the albums: Foo Fighters’ “The Colour and the Shape,” Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Blood Sugar Sex Magik,” Jane’s Addiction’s “Nothing’s Shocking,” Megadeth’s “Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying,” Stevie Ray Vaughn’s “Texas Flood,” and a “Best of” No Doubt collection....

Microsoft Studios is publishing Haunted Temple Studios’Skulls of the Shogunand bringing it to Xbox Live Arcade later this year, Gamasutra reports. The lovable and charming turn-based strategy game with undead samurai has been in development for a while, and back in March Haunted Temple couldn’t officially comment on what platforms it would end up on. Now we know of one, and hopefully it will come to the PC as well. I wouldn’t hold my breath for a PSN release though....

Thanks to aninterviewthat AusGamers did withThe Secret WorldCreative Director, Ragnar Tørnquist, we have some more information about the unique MMO, including factions and hope for an Australian server. Unlike most games,The Secret Worldwill have three factions instead of two: Templars, Illuminati and Dragons, and picking a faction will be a big deal. According to Ragnar, once you’ve picked a side that’s it, no bouncing between groups. There was also talk about an Australian server, which Ragnar said is something they want to do....