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This week is a busy one for releases, with some big titles hitting just about every platform including TNA iMPACT for the Wii, Star Wars The Force Unleashed across multiple platforms, Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition and Dragon Quest IV for DS, Rock Band 2 for Xbox 360, Armored Core: For Answer, Yggdra Union and B-Boy for PSP, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, The Settlers VI Gold, Warhammer Online and Crysis: Warhead for PC. Of course some of these games will prove to be crap, but isn’t discovering which ones aren’t the most fun one can have in this life? Big List after the jump.

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Activision Publishing announced this morning that it has acquired UK-based FreeStyleGames. The Lemington Spa-based team previously worked on the music dance game B-Boy. Freestyle Games will become an internal team supporting localized downloadable content for the Guitar Hero franchise. Activision did not disclose how much this acquisition costs the company, but did say that FreeStyleGames executive team have signed long-term employment contracts with the company.

Game releases for the week of August 4 - 8 in the United States are a reviewer’s nightmare fulfilled. With the exception of Braid and FATE: Undiscovered Realms, I would rather eat my own eyeballs than play most of these titles, but perhaps you come from braver stock than I, dear reader:

Xbox 360:

• Crash Time - August 5
• Braid - August 6

PS3:

• Monster Madness: Grave Danger - August 5

Wii:

• Summer Athletics - August 4
• Little League World Series 2008- August 4
• King of Clubs- August 5

PS2:

• B-Boy- August 5
• Hannah Montana: Spotlight World Tour - August 5

DS:

• Puzzler Collection - August 5
• Little League World Series 2008 - August 5
• Quick Yoga Training - August 5
• The Cheetah Girls: Passport to Stardom - August 5

PC:

• Beijing 2008 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games - August 5
• Ford Racing: Off Road - August 5
• Baseball Mogul 2009 - August 5
• Fate: Undiscovered Realms - August 8