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Mass Effect 3: Earth is an upcoming DLC pack for Mass Effect 3. It will be released on July 17, 2012 on Xbox 360 and PC worldwide. For Playstation 3, it will be released on July 17, 2012 in North America, and on July 18, 2012 in Europe. The Earth pack will be available at no additional cost.


Whats in it?
Three maps:
Firebase Rio
Firebase Vancouver
Firebase London

Six multiplayer characters:
Destroyer Soldier
Paladin Sentinel
Demolisher Engineer
Slayer Vanguard
Shadow Infiltrator
Fury Adept

Three weapons:
Piranha Assault Shotgun
Acolyte Pistol
Typhoon Assault Rifle

Twelve weapon upgrades
Eleven gear upgrades

One match objective:
Teams must protect and escort a targeted agent to a designated extraction zone. This objective randomly occurs during waves 3, 6, and 10.

One new difficulty setting:
Platinum


Source: http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_3:_Earth

Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods & Kings is an upcoming and first official expansion pack for the turn-based strategy video game Civilization V. It is currently expected to release on June 19 in North America and June 22 internationally. It will add both religion and espionage mechanics to the game as well as rework the combat and diplomacy features.

Gods and Kings is set to include 27 new units, 13 new buildings, 9 new wonders, and 9 new playable civilizations. A new religion mechanic featuring a "faith" resource will allow players to found their own religion which they can grow to a "world-spanning fully customized religion." Diplomacy has been reworked to include espionage, foreign embassies, and new types of city-states (religious and mercantile). City-states will also feature a new quest system and strategic importance. Additionally, the combat system has been re-worked to include smarter AI, an expanded early modern era, and enhanced naval combat featuring Great Admiral and melee naval units. Gods & Kings will add an additional fifty-two Steam achievements to Civilization V.
Three new scenarios will be included in the expansion: "Fall of Rome", focusing on the decline of the Roman Empire; "Into the Renaissance", focusing on religion in the Middle Ages into the Renaissance era; and "Empires of the Smoky Skies", a Victorian steampunk scenario.

Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends (or Ferrari Legends) is a racing video game in development by Slightly Mad Studios and to be published by Atari. It is the eleventh game in the series. It will be released on July 3rd, 2012 in North America, and April 20, 2012 in Europe.
The game is a departure from the Unlimited open world sandbox-gaming style and returns to the arcade racing, just as left in Test Drive 6 and also resembling Le Mans 24 Hours, a Test Drive spin-off.
Ferrari Legends will focus on Ferrari's history across almost all of the racing disciplines, including Formula One, rally racing, and GT. There will be over 50 different Ferrari vehicles to drive, and each will show off full realistic interior and exterior models, as well as damage effects.
The game is set to be released in celebration of the 65th anniversary of the first Ferrari ever built, the Ferrari 125 S of 1947.

Gameplay

The gameplay in Ferrari Legends is planned to be alike past Test Drive games like Test Drive 2 through Test Drive 6, but with racing taking place in closed circuits and inspired by others Slightly Mad Studios' developed games like the Need for Speed: Shift series, from which the game will base its dynamic models and damage effects.
Also, the single-player mode, also known as the campaign mode, will guide the player through the history of Ferrari cars, just as Electronic Arts did with the Porsche brand in the fifth installment in the Need for Speed racing games, Porsche Unleashed.
Rather than concentrate solely on Ferrari’s road cars, the game will cover several race series too, including Formula One, rally and GT racing. There will be 36 circuits in total including Spa and Monza along with other Grand Prix tracks and test circuits.
On the multi-player side, the game will feature up to 8-player online interactions, as well as the mentioned single-player mode. Although, it is not mentioned if the single-player challenges will also be played in co-op mode or completely online.

Release date: July 3, 2012

Hitman: Absolution is an upcoming third person shooter being developed by IO Interactive and published by Square Enix. It is the upcoming fifth entry in the Hitman game series, and will run on IO Interactive's proprietary Glacier 2 game engine. The developers have confrimed that Absolution will feature different gameplay than previous installments, with a greater focus on action and gunplay.

Hitman: Blood Money ended with Diana helping Agent 47 fake his death, in order for him to escape The Franchise. 47 killed their leader, former FBI director Alexander Leland Cayne, though he was part of a larger secret society called Alpha Zerox. Diana and the rest of ICA do not know 47's whereabouts, nor does the player for certain - though the last scene shows 47 entering an Asian establishment, asking suspiciously what they have to offer, "preferably in the back". The first in-depth trailer for the game shows Agent 47 storming a safehouse, and confronting Diana while she is showering. 47 is "betrayed by those he once trusted and now hunted by the police, he suddenly finds himself at the center of a dark conspiracy and must embark on a personal journey through a corrupt and twisted world, in his search for the truth". At least one portion of the game will be set in Chicago, but it has been confirmed that the rest of the game will take place within the US. Hitman: Absolution is not set in a specific Hitman timeline. Confirmed plot details include series protagonist Agent 47 assassinating his former International Contract Agency handler Diana Burnwood early in the game and the antagonist identified as Blake Dexter, a new character to the series. The character will be voiced by Keith Carradine. There will be a significant amount of blood and gore in Hitman: Absolution.
Release date: November 20, 2012.

Source: http://hitman.com

Here are some new features of Diablo III enjoy!
Release Date: May 15, 2012

SKILL RUNES
In Diablo III, runes give you unprecedented control over your skills and powers, changing elemental damage types, accuracy, and area of effect; adding new debilitating effects like slows and stuns; and even altering the nature and appearance of your abilities.


FOLLOWERS
Sometimes a hero needs a helping hand. Followers, champions brave enough to join you in battle against the Burning Hells, are similar to Henchmen from Diablo II in that they can be outfitted with relevant arms and armor, but they're upgradable with their own skills, allowing you to customize how they fight and what passive benefits they convey. They're also fleshed-out personalities in their own right.


CRAFTING & ARTISANS
As you meet and assist people during your journey through Sanctuary, some of the world's most talented craftsmen will sign on to travel with you. These artisans are capable of putting the materials you'll find in the wilderness or salvage from unneeded items to good use, hammering out customized suits of armor or combining gems to unlock their powers.
Invest time and money into an artisan's training, fill their shop with worthy materials, and they'll keep improving the quality of items they can produce, augment or combine for you.


SEAMLESS INTERACTION
To push Diablo's blistering fast pace even harder, we've made some changes to Diablo III's character and inventory 'management' systems, so you'll spend more time using new powers to slay your enemies and get loot. Rather than hoarding skill points and holding off on improving your abilities while you wait levels for an ideal build, Diablo III lets you "respec" your skills readily to experiment with interesting choices. You can also share items between all of your characters just by placing them in your stash, and you can identify unknown items and teleport back to town without needing to collect scrolls and tomes to do so.



COMBAT: FASTER, SMARTER, DEEPER
Combat in Diablo III follows the established model of clicking on your squealing, snarling enemies and watching the carnage – but it's deeper and richer. Scads of defensive abilities for each class mean more tactical possibilities; cooldowns on potions guarantee that choosing your targets carefully and controlling the battlefield is as important as what you bring with you to a fight, and the presence of health globes ensures that mobility can mean the difference between life and death.


IMPROVED CONTROLS
Diablo III adds new control options to the classic Diablo II hotbar, including full customization of all shortcut and mouse buttons, to make using your skills during combat quicker than it's ever been.

Source: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/