There were already a few signs hinting that Atari was having some trouble holding on to the Dragon Ball franchise. A couple of years ago, the publisher clashed with FUNimation over the game license. Namco Bandai announced last month that it had secured publishing rights to three new entries in the franchise. Today, Namco Bandai has announced that it's finishing what it started.

After being confirmed for a 2009 release back in March, we've now narrowed down the waiting period for Sega's "Modern Day Spy-RPG", Alpha Protocol (Xbox 360, PS3, and PC). The release date: October 6th 2009 for North America.

Heads up, skate fans. The largest-pursed event in the history of pro skating is coming soon to Skate 2 (Xbox 360, PS3) as downloadable content. Adding online and offline gameplay modes to the game, the Maloof Money Cup DLC is gonna bring the high-profile competition straight to your consoles.

After the earlier helping of Tekken 6 screenshots, here's some more good news from Namco Bandai. They've finally given out official release dates for the game's PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions along with details on some pre-order goodies.

2K Games has finally set your date with Big Daddy, but just like a real date juggler, the Big Daddies of BioShock 2 won't be ringing doorbells on the same night. The announcement was made during the publisher's conference call to discuss second quarter financial results, and it was Take Two CEO Ben Feder who made the confirmation. Hit the full article for the dates.

Square Enix has some making up to do to Star Ocean fans in Europe. Since Star Ocean: The Last Hope is getting released in the territory months after its February launch in Japan and North America, they've cooked something up to sweeten the deal a little.

Total recall for Terminator Salvation on PC as Evolved Games received numerous complaints of error messages when installing the game. The publisher has now pulled out all retail copies of the game to fix the defect that "occurred during replication".

This one's a limited offer right here! Kramez of Capcom Unity has revealed that they are giving a price drop to Bionic Commando: Rearmed for the PSN and XBL, in anticipation of Nathan "Radd" Spencer's first 3D adventure, Bionic Commando on Xbox 360 and PS3 .

Finally. The Potter gang is back (this time with more raging hormones and some erstwhile snogging behind curtains in between classes). After the whole ordeal with the "Harry Potter and the delayed video game" scenario, we get a street date notched in stone. The game was delayed due to the rescheduling of the movie, but now that mid-2009 is here, we can expect the game to finally roll in. What's more is that the game is coming out a few weeks ahead of the movie too!

Just because we're getting Marvel vs Capcom 2 on PSN and XBLA doesn't mean we're also gonna be seeing Marvel vs Capcom 3 on those online services any time soon. This was revealed by Capcom's Seth Killian, who clarified that the MvC2 licensing deal doesn't cover MvC3. Killian also revealed that licensing problems are standing in the way of a US release of Tatsunoko vs Capcom.