You will have the opportunity to expand your Live Arcade library this Wednesday at 2:oo Am Pacific reports our friends at Gamerscore.

Catan, the arcade version of Settlers of Catan, a huge huge German board game, where settlers land on a deserted island and must control their newly found home. Think Lost mixed with Monopoly. Some features:

• Learn As You Play tutorial, making the game instantly accessible even to players who have never played “Settlers of Catan” before
• All New 3D “Living World” Board
• Play against any combination of 13 historical personalities such as Alexander, Cleopatra and Tokugawa, which provide a range of play styles and difficulty levels that will test players’ wits and strategy
• Fans of the board game will enjoy the inclusion of popular house rules like Friendly Robber and Friendly Resources
• Multiplayer gameplay over Xbox LIVE for up to 4 players
• The ability to taunt opponents with engaging animations and use emotes to compliment (or belittle!) the opposition over Xbox LIVE
• Voice Chat enabled
• Earn up to 12 Achievements and 200 Gamerscore points

This game is rated E and will be 800 microsoft points.

The next is a combo pack. You get both Millipede and Centipede. These are direct ports straight from the arcade. Not much else. The lone feature:

• Earn up to 12 Achievements and 200 Gamerscore points

This game is rated E and will cost 400 points.

Here is a newly released video from Capcom where Nero (Dante’s brother) is fighting through a level that looks like Lost Planet. Excited yet?

You can’t make this stuff up. A London news site, Thislondon.co.ukreported that Sony threw an “Orgy” party to promote their release of God of War II for the PS2 in Europe. Topless girls serving grapes? I have no problem with that; what hetero male would? A half naked armor clad man posing asKratos handing out necklaces, fine. Having a real Goat, cut open, still bleeding on the table that guests could eat?! Wow. There is shock factor but this is crazy. Personally, I was not bothered. I love meat, hell I obey the rule of the jungle; I eat cow, cow eats grass.Unfortunately, many people did not share the same sentiment. A spokesman for the International Fund for Animal Welfare Fund said, “”We are always opposed to any senseless killing of an animal and this sounds like a gruesome death. We condemn Sony’s actions. It is stupid and completely unjustified.” I agree that Europe is more lax than America or Japan, but someone should get fired for this.

We here at Loot Ninja try to bring our readers a variety of gaming news as well as other ideas we think you may like. Well, one of our many new features is something called The Vault. The Vault contains archived gaming media that is too good to stay hidden away. Today we bring you maybe the biggest viral video of them all. Our mythical hero, Leeroy Jenkins.

Earlier we brought you news of Burnout Paradise being officially announced and given it’s name. Now, we have a trailer from the game.

Who didn’t love playing Cowboys and Indians growing up? (in the US that is). It was almost a national past-time. Ubisoft’s Call of Juarez for the Xbox 360 brings you back to those days. This looks like it could be fun, if they get the mechanics of it right.

EA dropped a press release today to officially name the next game in the Burnout series.

Burnout Paradise will see the light of day on the Xbox 360 and PS3 this winter. The game will feature a huge free roaming city where you drive around looking for races and crash zones.

From the press release:

Burnout Paradise proves that crashing is awesome! Next generation technology has enabled an unprecedented level of crash deformation allowing you to experience the most explosive pile-ups in the series’ history. Now the development team can realise their original vision for the Burnout franchise: an open world environment where you can do anything, anywhere, anytime!

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We’ve had numerous reports coming in of users getting 3 red lights on their brand new Elite consoles this morning. While this is a daily occurrence with 360 Premium and Core systems, we thought Microsoft would have had a better handle on the situation with the Elite.

We’ve all seen the pictures of the motherboard changes. I assumed that these would protect the console better from heat and such to make sure less consoles would die. But alas, no. Microsoft has introduced another new product that is failing at a higher than normal rate.

To top it all off, the disc scratching issue is back. Seriously Microsoft, what the hell? Did you completely get rid of your QA department?

I’ve recently had a lot of questions come my way with people saying “Why do I care if a game runs at 60fps?” Well, you should. This is a video comparison of 24fps vs. 60fps. Many games run close to 30fps, so this will give you a good basis of comparison with that and a 60fps game. The video was produced by Kimpix.

This game just keeps looking better and better. It’s going to set the standard for next-gen rally racing games.