Dead Rising 2 executive producer Keiji Inafune has now officially canceled his E3 appearance. With the top guy not attending, Dead Rising 2 will also not be making an appearance at the event.

It looks like Lara finally has a daddy to come home to. Warner Bros Home Entertainment recently subscribed up to £15 million (US$ 30 million) new shares in the company and announced a new strategic partnership with the house behind the Tomb Raider series. For more details regarding this, read our full article after the jump.

If you want to know all about the top game development studios in the industry today, you can read all about them in the recently published Develop 100 by Sheridan and amBX. The book takes a look at the top 100 gaming studios as well as additional information on their respective revenues throughout the year. For more information regarding this, you can read our full article after the jump.

If you prefer to get your games through Steam, then here's some good news for you: Ubisoft just jumped into the Steam bandwagon, bringing with it some awesome selection of games such as Assassin's Creed (PC, PS3, Xbox 360), Tom Clancy series, and many other Ubisoft franchises. Hit the full article for more info.

Game Developers Magazine is starting a new trend, and it's to list out the Top 50 videogame developers of the year - just to give back to the groups that made our lives a bit more exciting through their realized (and digitized) works of art. Want to know if your favorite game developer made the list? Hit the full article to find out!

With the latest numbers from NPD finally in for the month of October, the console race is once again in full swing as it gets ready for its holiday storm of releases. Overall, last month was a very productive month for game publishers as revenues hit an astounding US$ 1.1 billion.

Check out the breakdown of the numbers right after the jump!

Canada-based interactive entertainment company Ludia Inc. announced today that it will be making a video game adaptation of the famous TV show Hell's Kitchen. For our readers not familiar with it, Hell's Kitchen is a cooking reality show from Granada America that features the quite profane but excellent chef Gordon Ramsey.

You can think of them as Nintendo's Cooking Mama but with a lot of attitude. Anyway, Ludia didn't specify exactly on what platform it will be releasing the new title. However, the press release sent to us did say that it will be released "across all major platforms including PC, console and mobile."

"We are thrilled that Granada is entrusting us with the Hell's Kitchen property. The show has millions of viewers, and the game will bring the fun of the kitchen boot camp experience from the TVs to the PCs and consoles of this rapidly growing audience," commented Ludia founder and CEO Alex Thabet.

Concrete details has yet to be announced but the video game Hell's Kitchen will also be providing Ramsey's favorite food concoctions for players to print, try out, and share, Ludia added. The title has a wide release date schedule of 2008.

Word has gone around that Electronic Arts is packing a hefty line-up of games to feature in downtown Los Angeles next week for IDG World Expo's E For All 2007 (EforAll as the organizers say), and its nothing short of a figurative big bang. Tailing behind EforAll's primary exhibitor and the world's superstar publisher is The Simpsons Game (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP, DS) and Rock Band (Xbox 360, PS3). The line-up also includes the following games:

• Warhammer Online (EA Mythic - MMO on PC)
• Smarty Pants (EA LA, Planet Moon Studios - Wii)
• Team Fortress 2 (Valve Software - 360, PC, PS3)
• Medal of Honor Airborne (EA LA - 360, PC, PS3)
• Medal of Honor Heroes 2 (EA Canada - Wii, PSP)
• NFL Tour (EA Tiburon - 360, PS3)

News on whether Crytek's Crysis and EA Black Box's Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars - Kane's Wrath will be featured at the consumer event has yet to surface, so keep your eyes glued to this space for more developments.

Publisher Lighthouse Interactive seems very happy with the relative commercial success of PC title Ship Simulator when it announced its new partnership with developer VSTEP. This deal will bring Ship Simulator 2008 to Canada and the rest of United States during Q1 of 2008.

The franchise Ship Simulator gives players the chance to control some of the most varied and detailed ships available today. The latest iteration in the series has already been released in Europe by Lighthouse Interactive earlier this year. New improvements and features include the following:

• Dynamic ocean waves with realistic ship motions
• Long distance travels with open sea voyages between ports
• Advanced damage system showing holes in the ships after severe collisions with other ships and even icebergs
• 50 new challenging missions for both single player and multiplayer modes
• Extensive day, night and weather systems
• Eight new ships, an oil rig and 3 new locations: San Francisco, Southampton and Marseille
• Walkthrough functionality and interactive bridge controls on all ships
• Controllable container crane
• Advanced vector graphic sea chart with full-screen display option, transparency setting and high level-of-detail on text and depth readings
• Free-roam mode where players can choose a ship, an environment, weather conditions, time of day, and time parameters

See the full list of features and other screenshots after the jump!

It takes a certain amount of class for a big development team to admit that they came up short for a game. In this trailer, EA Canada didn't hold back anything and admitted that NBA Live 07 didn't live up to expectations. The good thing about their acknowledgement is that they've set out on a motivated effort to make up for it by revolutionizing the franchise with EA Sports' NBA Live 08.

To prove this, they even sat down with the best NBA Live players online and got their feedback on last year's and this year's offerings. You'll see what happened to the chat in the video below.

As you will see, the new features and the older, but improved ones will be discussed. The graphics were also tackled and the commentary got some....well, comments. In any case, check this clip out and tell us what you think. NBA Live 08 is set for the Sony PlayStation 3, PSP, PS2, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and decent Windows gaming PCs.