We've got a big week to close out February. All the trailer-ogling and screen-scrutinizing is finally gonna pay off. For starters, the wait is soon to be over for the highly-anticipated Killzone 2. As if that's not big enough, Star Ocean: The Last Hope will also be hitting stores. Need I say more? Err...yes I do! Catch all the details on this week's edition of On Shelves This Week.

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick explains why they decided not to retain all of Vivendi's games when the two companies merged. The reason? The games just weren't "exploitable" enough. More in the full article.

Eight games were left rolling with the tumbleweeds after Activision Blizzard dropped them to make way for its merger.

Now we can all heave a collective sigh of relief for at least two of them. Atari has picked up the publishing rights to Ghostbusters and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

It seems the murder of a taxi cab driver in Thailand has taken an even stranger turn, besides the whole "It's linked to Grand Theft Auto" business. It seems the Thai government has released a list of games that have been deemed as violent games to avoid.

The only thing about it? It seems to have been taken from a list made in Detroit. More after the jump.

After revealing 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand (Xbox 360, PS3) for its May issue, Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine's upcoming June issue is revealing the next-gen resurrection of Splatterhouse. Splatterhouse and its sequels are considered to be the arcade games which paved the way for survival-horror titles. Head over the full article to see what else is there for the June EGM issue.

The cover of Electronic Gaming Monthly's (EGM) May issue got our attention. Apparently, Vivendi's 50 Cent: Bulletproof G Unit Edition has a sequel. Yes, you read that sentence right. 50 Cent II is currently in the works. Curious to know more? Then head on over to the full article.

Worried about the possibility of video game violence tainting the minds of children, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy came up with a "do not buy" list of violent video games.

Contrary to what most might expect, Rockstar Games' controversial Manhunt 2 (Wii, Sony PlayStation Portable) isn't the number one violent video game, but Grand Theft Auto is. Check out the Top Ten list in the full article.