Ubisoft today announced the release of a fully playable demo for Haze, the new first-person shooter set in a harsh future where war is never quite what it seems. This playable demo gives PS3 owners a taste of not only the single-player campaign in Haze, but also allows for up to four-player, drop-in drop-out co-op play online, via LAN or 2 player split-screen.

Haze is scheduled for release exclusively for the PS3 on May 20th 2008 in the U.S. Haze is rated "M” for Mature by the ESRB.

Rockstar Games has released a GTA IV patch for Playstation 3 today that prevents Gamespy’s servers from being overloaded and therefore reduces the impact on those servers that were causing the game to stutter and lock up.

Let's see if this is the fix PS3 players have been waiting for.

What's It All About
From the first time you see Amaterasu the white wolf shoot across a green mountainside, with colorful flowers bursting up from her footsteps, you know "Okami" is not your usual video game. This revelation will repeat itself many more times as you travel through an ancient Japan and marvel at the incredibly beautiful landscape in this amazingly designed game.

Originally built in 1996 for the PS2, "Okami" garnered fantastic reviews, if only for its cel-shaded look, which mimics the style of old Japanese art, like sumi-e. The innovative play though instantly made gamers crave a port to the Wii, an iconoclastic system that shares a creative mindset with "Okami." Two years after arriving on the PS2, and failing miserably sales-wise...

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2 new games have been added to the Wii Shop Channel and 1 new game will be added to XBLA this Wednesday.

Wii:

Pokémon Puzzle League (Nintendo 64, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone, 1,000 Wii Points): Get ready for a new kind of Pokémon battle where the power and speed of your brain are just as important as the strength of your Pokémon. Join Ash, Brock, Misty and many more characters from the Pokémon animated series as they gather in Puzzle Village to compete for the title of Pokémon Puzzle Master.

Renegade (NES, 1-2 players, Rated E10+ for Everyone 10 and Older – Mild Violence, 500 Wii Points): Renegade follows the story of a vigilante who fights his way through countless gangs in order to bring peace back to his city. Battle your way through subways, parks, alleyways and parking lots. For added fun, there’s a wild motorcycle ride to challenge you. Use your arsenal of kicks, punches (including the infamous sit-on punch) and jump kicks, as well as a variety of throws to knock your opponents into submission.

Xbox Live Arcade:

Wits & Wagers is the trivia party game where you don’t need to know the right answers to win. You can win by making educated guesses, playing the odds or just knowing the interests of other players, whether they are local or online. The game supports 1-4 players offline and 2-6 players in online multiplayer mode. Wits & Wagers will be available in the U.S., U.K and Canada for 800 Microsoft Points and is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB.

Every time Electronic Arts attempts to launch a NFL hybrid, I always cringe. They have proven time and time again that Madden is a successful, flourishing franchise, but still feel the need to capture some portion of the market that’s into alternative versions of the game. Early on NFL Street was a poor man’s NFL Blitz, but it did form into an above average title before EA strangely pulled the plug. With the release of NFL Tour, EA attempts to capture the essence of Blitz with the brand name NFL players. Unfortunately, the developers completely sucked any entertainment value out of the game when it was being created.

Gameplay
Typical to other EA franchises, the presentation is laid on thick in the opening and quickly launches into the main menu. Sadly...

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