Bungie’s final Halo game, Halo: Reach, hits stores worldwide this Tuesday, September 14. If for some odd reason you’re not a Halo fan, there’s still plenty to be excited about this week in new game releases.

Ubisoft has released the second Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood dev diary, detailing more of the game’s story and new features.

Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia, has said that Call of Duty: Black Ops online multiplayer will always be free and believes you don’t need an Online Pass to compete with used games sales.

Bungie designers Lars Bakken, Josh Hamrick and Sage Merrill are featured in a new gameplay video for Halo: Reach, discussing and showing off the new Firefight mode.

EA Sports Vancouver has confirmed today that there will be no online multiplayer for NBA Jam on Wii, not even through Nintendo’s Wi-Fi connection.

Xbox 360 gamers have downloaded over 300,000 copies of the Dead Rising 2 prequel Case Zero, according to GamerBytes.

With the approaching Halo: Reach launch next week, Microsoft has detailed the festivities that will be going on including midnight launches across the country and “Invasion Week” activities over Xbox Live.

Gears of War 3 developers Cliff Bleszinski and Rod Fergusson report that the “Fate of Carmine” charity has raised $150,000 for Child’s Play Charity.

Lots of games coming out this week including Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, NHL 11, R.U.S.E., Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 and some big time handheld games with Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (PSP) and Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (DS). The summer video game drought is officially over!

Gearbox Software has officially announced the “Game of the Year Edition” of Borderlands via Twitter, confirming the re-release for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on October 12.

Another slow week in new game releases, however, there are still a few big games hitting stores including Metroid: Other M for the Wii, Dead Rising: Case Zero for the Xbox 360 and Valkyria Chronicles 2 for the PSP. Hit the jump for the full list of new games coming out this week.

The 3rd Birthday, a new game starring Parasite Eve protagonist Aya Brea, is slated for release this winter and producer Yoshinori Kitase’s has said that a PSN release of the original Parasite Eve 1 and 2 is currently being looked at.

According to producer Hiromichi Tanaka, the main reason for the delay of Final Fantasy XIV on the PlayStation 3 is memory-related.

Monday Night Combat has a “Live System Update” which allows the game to update without having to download a full patch. And the first MNC Live System Update has gone, well, live.

This has to be one of the best weeks in new games this summer as we get Mafia II (360, PS3, PC), Worms Reloaded (PC), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (360) and Shank (360, PS3), just to name a few. Hit the jump for the full list of new games this week.