Andy Wood

Supreme Commander
Spiritual successor of Total Annihilation(one of very best, if not THE best RTS games ever)..done by TA creators.

World in Conflict
Alternative reality cold-war based wargame from Massive Entertaiment( their Ground Control
and it’s sequel got both 8.5 from GS)

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Finally, one of THE biggest RTS franchises is back

SPORE
Will Wright is a genius( he created games like Sim City and SIMS)..and this one it’s the most ambitious game in development right now.

Europa Universalis 3
Third entry in legendary strategy series

COMBAT MISSION: ShockForce
Combat Mission is by far the best and most realistic series of wargames ever created(CM and CM2 both got AAAs at gamespot). Now Battlefront is moving the series into modern setting and to brand new engine(first one since 2001)

Battle for Atlantis
SF RTS with strong focus on water(breaking dams, flooding terrain, creating and using tsunamis etc) From makers of Sparta: Ancient Wars

Mythic Wars
A turn-based fantasy strategy game, inspired by Master of Magic

Disciples III: Renaissance
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy was one of best turn-based fantasy strategy games of last few years.
It was released in 2002, around the same time such “monsters” of this subgenre like Heroes4,
Age of Wonders 2 and Etherlords were released. And yet it stood proudly next to them and secured
it’s place as one of premier franchises of this type. Now it’s back in full 3D and done by Akella.

Inhabited Island
Turn-based wargame set in the world of Strugatsky brothers’ bestseller “Inhabitated Island”.
The game is developed as a joint effort between Akella(Age of Sail2: Privateer’s Bounty)
and Wargaming.net(makers of Massive Assault)

Heart of Empire: Rome
A city-building game by DeepRed(makers of MonopolyTycoon, also a city-builder which scored 8.5 at GS)

Petroglyph/SEGA RTS
Petroglyph(basically leads from Westwood) are making near-future RTS for SEGA,
can you say “Command and Conquer spiritual sequel”?

Combat Mission3
New entry in this ground breaking wargame series( CM 1 and 2 were both AAAs on Gamespot)

Codename Panzers: Cold War
this time published by 10Tacle, Pazers: Phase One and Two both got solid AA scored from GS

Celtic Kings2
Finally in 3D, previous games in the series wer both AAs at Gamespot

Dragon Age
Bioware next epic

Witcher
Amazing graphics, ambitious gameplay, incredible book license and Bioware’s backing

Drakensang: the Dark Eye
After 10 long years the “Dark Eye”(the pen and paper RPG setting, seen in the great Realms of Arkania
series of PC RPGs) returns to PCgaming.

Battle Lord
Fantasy tactical RPG. Player will walk around big world map, do quests, subquests ,upgrade his character, etc. Simply typical RPG stuff, but the combat will resemble a strategy game. It will be turn-based ,you will gather big parties etc. THe game is developed by the team that made Space Rangers 2(8.1 at Gamespot)

Hard to be God
Isometric RPG set in world created by Strugacki’s brothers. Co-developed by Akella

Afterfall
Indie roleplaying game following the good old school principles of the genre: non-linearity, turn-based combat, lots of roleplaying and decisions having real effect on the game world

Sacred 2
Sequel hack and slash RPG that was propably the best DIablo2-like game(aside from Diablo itself ) ever released. This time Ascaron is making the game in in full 3D

The Broken Hourglass
An old-school Baldurs Gate 2-like RPG, done by Planewalker Games-indie team consisting of cRPG modders, lead by Jason Compton (the best BG2 modder, he did wonders to NPC and party members dynamic interaction). The game is set in Tolmira (sword-and-sorcery setting, which PlaneWalker licensed) has isometric perspective, unlimited party, complex party-to-party interactions, lots of good old-school roleplaying and real-time with pause combat system

StarTrek Online

Warhammer Online
by Mythic, makers of Dark Age of Camelot(the only MMO besides WoW to ever get AAA from GS)

Fury
Online action-rpg, concentrating on spectacular PvP combat,while throwing away all the grinding. THe game is in development at Auran(makers or Dark Reign(9.1), Trainz(8.7) and Trains 2004(7.9

Aion
MMORPG developed in newly formed NCSoft Seul Studios

Stargate worlds
MMORPG based on Stargate:SG1 and Stargate:Atlantis series

Starfall
open ended space-based RPG(exploring whole galaxies with different planets, etc) from ex Blizzard guys

Castaway’s first game
another RPG from ex-Blizzard guys

RED5 MMORPG
Ex-Blizzard guys are making this MMO, it’s running on Project Offset Engine and will be published by Webzen

Cassius Pearl
Classic point and click adventure game. THe team was formed by developers working for big French developing companies like Ubisoft, Eden Studios, Arkane Studios, Stormfront, and Pam Developement

Jack Keane
Humoristic adventure game from Deck13 (makers of Anhk)

Overclocked
An adventure game described as “present-day thriller game about the psychological dimensions of violence.”", from House of Tales, makers of “Moment of Silence” (AdventureGamers-4/5, JustAdventure-A-)

Experience123
From makers of Missing: Since January. You play as observer, it is from this detached position that you’ll need to assert your influence in order to guide Ai-controler woman through the challenges, using only the various controls at your disposal, none of which allow you to communicate verbally with her, though you can hear her speaking to you. By doing so, you will also uncover clues about the woman’s identity, your relationship to her, and the mysterious circumstances in which you find yourselves.

Aquartica
A game by Benoit Sokal(Amerzone, Syberia 1-2, Paradise)

Bohemia Interactive’s ‘GAME 2″
OPF is still unbeatable I’m sure OPF2 will raise the bar even higher

Project Offset
A fantasy FPS from makers of Savage(which won Indie GOTY 2003)

STALKER
Extremely ambitious game with graphics to die for

Alliance
FPS that spans across the whole XX th century, using all important military conflicts as it’s setting. It’s developed by Windwark technologies, company who specialises in professional simulation software for military.

White Gold: War in Paradise
FPS/RPG hybrid that’s a successor to Boiling Point. The game changes setting and characters, but keeps the core gameplay concept intact. So we can expect huge dynamic terrain to explore , incredible freedom, tons of stuff to do and developer’s ambition that would make most other companies explode

Chrome2
Original Chrome was good(7.2) FPS shooter that had lots of unrealised potential. Since then Techland has been consistently improving and their last title:XPandRally has 85% average at GameRankings we can propably expect good things from this game

VoodooNights

Ascenion
Freeware spiritual successor to Tribes, created by the team that made the Renegade mod for Tribes, Tribes2 and Tribes:Vengeance

Ritual’s DX10 game

new Warren Spector’s game
based on Source and released through STEAM

Precursors
An open ended action/rpg game which takes action in space and on planets(think STALKER mixed with Privateer), from makers of BoilingPoint

Frontlines: Fuel of War
A modern FPS with heavy vehicle action from Kaos Studios( which is composed of whole Trauma Studios team, creators of legendary Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942)

b]Heavy Rain[/b]
New adventure game from the makers of Indigo Prophecy(one of the best and most unique adventure games of last couple years, Gamespot gave 8,4 and Adventure GOTY in 2005)

Shadowrun
Team-based FPS based in legendary pen and paper setting

Overlord
An innovative RPG that turns the fantasy cliche by 180 degrees. In Overlord YOU are the big bad guy, who’s goal is to dominate the peaceful land, destroy all that is good and to become ” the nastiest bastard around”. The game is developed by Triumph Studios(creators of Age of Wonders series, all AoW games have been high AAs at Gamespot)

Medal of Honor: Airborne Assault

Brothers in Arms 3

HAZE
FPS from Free Radical(makers of Timesplitters series)

Alan Wake
A psychological thriller from makers of Max Payne series

Sam Suede™: in Undercover Exposure®
Perverted action-comedy game. Yes..perverted game that has intelligent humor. There is only one person in the world who could pull this off: Al Lowe, the creator of unforgetTable Leisure Larry series and he’s working on Sam Suede

Alone in the Dark 5

Elveon
Unreal Engine 3.0 based RPG from 10Tacle

Interstellar Marines
FPS using Unreal Engine 3.0

Halo2