Jim Reilly

Microsoft announced the Halo 4 original soundtrack is available in a
number of formats starting on October 22. The soundtrack features 15
tracks and over 75 minutes of music.

Microsoft said today it's dropping the price of Kinect to $109.99 in
North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific regions. On October 4,
Kinect will receive a price cut in Australia and New Zealand.

Need more evidence that Final Fantasy XIII-3 is being announced? Square Enix said its September 1 presentation will show a new direction for the saga of Lightning, the main protagonist for Final Fantasy XIII.

UPDATE: Microsoft said today there's a second open call for Xbox Live subscribers to sign up and test out the beta program for the 2012 update. They said they're accepting far more beta testers this time around.
 

The makers of Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle and other hit titles let go 50
employees from its North American office in Seattle, Wash.

The upcoming zombie survival game from developer Undead Labs has been
revealed. State of Decay is a new, open-world game in development for Xbox
360 and PC.

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Rodeo Games announced Warhammer Quest, a new dungeon crawler for iPhone
and iPad that's based on the original 1995 table top game from Games
Workshop.

The free cooperative multiplayer game mode for Spec Ops: The Line is now available to download, 2K Games announced.

Capcom published gameplay videos of Devil May Cry, Remember Me, Resident Evil 6 and Lost Planet 3 from Gamescom. The videos come courtesy of the publisher's live stream.

IDW is releasing a four-part Borderlands comic series called
Borderlands: Origins. It's written by Mikey Neumann, the writer of the
first video game.

Sony's bizarre, post-apocalyptic animal game Tokyo Jungle is available
September 25 on PlayStation Network. It features over 50 different
animals to control, from Pomeranians to Lions. Sound awesome?

Despite being acquired by a newly formed company, Onlive says its customers won't notice any change with the service going forward.

We're back with Kongregate's top five picks for the month of August.

Sony says worldwide sales of PlayStation Vita has reached 2.2 million through June 30.