"Today, 31st December 2008, is the seventh day of Christmas; which means Electronic Theatre now presents to you the seventh instalment of The Twelve Games of Christmas! A new feature series aiming to highlight some of the greatest achievers of 2008, The Twelve Games of Christmas takes one month worth of disc-based releases each day, from the corresponding month of the year, and delivers the best titles for you to snap-up in those January sales!"

Courtesy of blog Wii @ Everyday comes the scans from the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu for this week, with new game announcements and more images of those known upcoming games.

Games featured:

• [NDS] Phantasy Star Zero
  • Publisher: Sega
  • Winter 2008 Release
  • Character Designer : Toshiyuki Kubooka (Lunar, Idolm@ster)
  • Scenario : Tooru Shiwasu, Teru Arai
  • New in the PSO series
  • Multi play over Nintendo WiFi connection
  • Chat system supports sending of stylus sketches
• [NDS] Item Getter
  • Publisher: 5p...

"Today, the once-mighty Midway Games reported another lackluster quarter. The Chicago-based publisher suffered a $34.8 million loss, or $0.38 cents per share, on net revenues of $23.4 million. The shortfall was more than twice the $14.3 million, or $0.16 per share, Midway lost on revenues of $31.8 million during the same quarter last year.

In an after-earnings report conference call, interim CFO Ryan O'Desky blamed the shortfall on increased development costs. He told analysts that Midway u..."

"Unreal Tournament 3. Wow. If I wasn’t busy having my brain blown out through the back of my head right now, I’d be able to explain how good this all is.

Let me try. Unreal Tournament 3 is an unbelievably fast, unrelenting shooter that... Oh crap, I’ve just been attacked by a be-tentacled walker, it’s a War of the Worlds death ray slicing my body in twain."

From baseball bat killing sprees in Team Fortress 2 to railgun domination in Quake III: Arena, WeGame counts down the top ten best frag filled videos from some of the most skilled gamers around the world. I wouldn't hit the respawn button while these guys are about!