Things are certainly looking up for EA's Battlefield: Bad Company (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3). It's about to hit retail stores in a few hours, and so far, it looks like the reception of the people are good. This is if you look at the number of downloads the demo has gotten since its release. Read up after the jump.

It looks like everyone's dishing out there own version of "Gamer's Day." Sega's own rendition, however, may be the one to stand out from the rest, since its multi-genre, multi-platform, and multi-franchise collection is studded with highly-anticipated hopefuls. So aside from Iron Man and upcoming game adaptation of The Incredible Hulk, Sega laid out teasers for fans of Aliens, Total War and the stealthy action title, Alpha Protocol.

Remember the rumor about the Xbox 360 Blu-ray console that's set to ship this year? If you do, don't  buy into it anymore. Recently, Microsoft has spoken words that have dispelled this particular hearsay circulating. Find out what the company said in the full article.

Rumors of Microsoft adopting Blu-ray after the fall of HD-DVD may now have some merit, as Sony Electronics U.S. president Stan Glasgow just revealed that there are discussions between the two giant companies about Microsoft having Blu-ray drives on the Xbox 360. Whether we're going to see a Blu-ray add-on or Blu-ray-equipped Xbox 360 SKUs is still in the air, but we at least know that MS is looking at the high-capacity format. More details await at the full article.

Following the success of Turbine's The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar MMORPG, Tolkien Enterprises has decided to extend the license to create games based on The Lord of the Rings series until 2014. If you want to know more, be sure to head on over to the full article by clicking on the "read more" link below.

Among the revelations at CES 2008, Microsoft announced partnerships with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and Disney-ABC Television Group to diversify the content offering offering on Xbox Live. In other words, blockbuster movies and your favorite TV shows will soon be available for download from the Video Store.

More details await at the full article.

Mass Effect seems to be a massive hit, with more than a million copies sold in less than three weeks since its release. Its success adds to what Jeff Bell, Xbox 360 Corporate VP of Global Marketing, calls "the best holiday lineup in video game history", adding to Microsoft's previous statement that 2007 is the "best release year ever." More in the full article.

Outspoken movie director Michael Bay, who is behind the blockbuster movie Transformers, recently related his theory that Microsoft wants both the HD DVD and Blu-ray formats to fail, saying the war is just a diversion to create confusion. Now he adds in his site that he doesn't care about the war at all (since he can play both formats in his screening room anyway) but that the Blu-ray format suits his films better. This comment also got a reply from Amir, a "retired HD DVD insider." Read more in the full article.

Super Mario Galaxy may have sold 500,000 copies in its first week but research analyst Michael Comeau believes that this amount doesn't live up to expectations. Despite describing the game as the "biggest Wii release ever", Comeau says the game's number are disappointing, a "borderline failure" when compared to the likes of other big releases this year. He compares the game directly to the success of Halo 3. Read more in the full article.

 Team Ninja's leading man, the guy with a few smiles and a thousand words, behind the Tecmo-published Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive series deserves his own QuickJump Quicklist, so here's something dedicated to Tomonobu Itagaki and all his greatness. We've collected some lines from Itagaki that are either very amusing, or so badass fanboys would rather follow him around and wipe his sunglasses clean for a living.

Find all that at the full article!