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PAX Prime 2010 is set to kick off tomorrow, so we asked our Twitter followers which games they're most looking forward to trying out and learning about. Read on to find out the fan-approved top titles of PAX.

Sega's planning a Gold Edition for its 2009 turn-based strategy game Empire: Total War that bundles the game with its sequel, Napoleon: Total War. The Gold Edition debuts October 19 for $49.95.

Thatgamecompany Creative Director and Cofounder Jenova Chen isn't your normal video-game developer, and his company's next game, Journey, is leaps and bounds away from a "normal" adventure title. Filled with shifting desert dunes, colorful pieces of cloth with mystical properties, and an ominous mountain always on the horizon, Journey is Thatgamecompany's most ambitious title to date.

EA's official Madden NFL 11 simulation of the upcoming NFL season has the Green Bay Packers and the Baltimore Ravens building on their successes of a year ago.

Check out gameplay footage of Call of Duty: Black Ops newest multiplayer features where you can gamble and earn COD currency by excelling in the art of modern warfare.

GameStop stores on base at Army & Air Force Exchange Service installations across the world will no longer advertise and will not stock copies of the upcoming first-person shooter Medal of Honor, which includes a multiplayer mode that allows players to take on U.S. soldiers as members of the Taliban.

Eeven the publishers of Red Dead Redemption were surprised by the game's success as Take 2 has reported sales of almost 7 million units since the game's May launch. Red Dead and the recently-released Mafia II will have to keep 2K-loving action gamers satiated for the rest of the year, as L.A. Noire has been pushed into next year.

Harmonix announces that the Rock Band 3 Avatar Store is now open, and its first special offer will get you in the mood for the 27th annual MTV Video Music Awards.

PlayStation Plus subscribers will get early access to the God of War: Ghost of Sparta PSP demo September 7..

The Crackdown 2 Toy Box downloadable content is now available on Xbox Live, offering some free goodies and some additional content that you can purchase on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Activision announced this morning that rapper and Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA is a playable character in DJ Hero 2.

Gaijin Games has revealed its next WiiWare game, and -- surprise -- it's not a Bit.Trip game. The company's first game outside of the franchise -- and the first to be self-published instead of put out by Nintendo -- will be a port of the indie-developed iPhone darling lilt line.

We explore the past, present and future of real-time strategy following the genre's biggest release in a decade, StarCraft 2.

Apple's new gaming reveals and the potential addition of multiplayer to the Batman Arkham franchise dominated our thoughts on this news day, but a few weirder stories still got some notice from us. Check them out in this morning's daily stale bread.

Cloud-based on-demand gaming service OnLive today announced the highly anticipated introduction of Wi-Fi support, a half-off Labor Day sale, and an extension of its Founding Members Program.

Treyarch's upcoming FPS brings the Call of Duty franchise to Vietnam and beyond, and the team is hard at work to ensure that the title's multiplayer is just as fresh as the single-player campaign's new setting. Here are our impressions of Black Ops' multiplayer offering.

A slew of leaked screenshots for Batman: Arkham City have caused speculation about the addition on multiplayer to the formerly single-player-only Arkham franchise. Inspired by that potential addition, we asked our Twitter followers to name the franchises they want to expand beyond one player.

Path of Exile deviates from the standard action-RPG path by doing away with skill trees in a free-to-play online title coming in early 2011.

Perusing the schedule for PAX Prime in Seattle reveals a startling number of panels populated by and dedicated to community managers. We count six (technically five) panels alone on the subject and numerous panels with a community manager on board to explain some aspect of the video games industry.

If you want to take in everything you can related to Fallout: New Vegas before its late October release, then you might want to check out a free preview.

Cryptic Studios and Atari are celebrating the one-year anniversary of superhero/villain MMO Champions Online's launch by offering a free trail beginning today.

Shoot-em-up legends Treasure return with a new entry in their Bangai-O series, which offers some unique twists on the visceral "bullet hell" gameplay they're known for.

Apple revealed new models of almost all of its major products and upcoming software updates at its annual September press conference. Some of the event's highlights include the first public showing of Game Center, Epic's first iPhone game Project Sword, and the first iPod model to include a camera.

TellTale Games' upcoming adventure game set in the Back to the Future universe will include input from two artists well-known to fans of the films. Christopher Lloyd, who played Doc Brown throughout the trilogy, will lend his voice to the game, while Bob Gale -- co-writer for the original film -- will help craft the plot of the game.

Reports this morning say there's a 30 percent staff reduction at LucasArts going into effect today. We got confirmation from LucasArts with the following statement:

Square Enix announced via its official site this morning that the Final Fantasy XIV beta planned for launch later today is postponed.

Patch 1.2 for real-time strategy game, Supreme Commander 2, is a doosey. There are over 100 items fixed, updated, or brand-new in features.

A new Xbox 360 controller was revealed yesterday alongside release dates for a variety of DLC packs to use said accessory on. A few other links came across our browsers that didn't fit into the aforementioned criteria, but we've luckily found a home for them in this morning's daily stale bread.

The PlayStation Move is on its way, and the GamePro editors have rallied together to offer our initial thoughts on the new motion-sensing tech from Sony. What's in store for the future of the Move is anyone's guess, but we hope to offer our own educated guess at what the future holds for Sony's latest piece of PS3 technology.

Microsoft's reveal of a new design for its Xbox 360 controller presented a perfect opportunity for us to ask if any other controllers could use a tweak or two... or a dozen, if your tweets were any indication.