Boulder Dash XL Trailer Announced

A new video for Boulder Dash XL has today been announced, and everyone’s favourite little miner is back to grab more gems and smashing ameobas. This little game originally made it’s debut in the early 1980s and continues to have a huge fanbase worldwide today. XL will feature HD look and feel with 720p graphics, 4 new game modes 25 retro modes, four varied worlds and a ton of new features.

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Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Announced!

Hothead studios have announced a new game based on the insanely popular book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Details are very sparse at this time, however a website has been launched that details a game is coming for all major “primitive digital devices”. There is no word as of yet what these digital devices are, however Hothead are known for games such as Deathspank, Swarm and Precipice of Darkness – The game based on the Penny Arcade universe, all of which have seen releases on Xbox live and PlayStation Network.

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Skydrift Announced for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network

Digital Reality today announced today that they will be developing a new, fast paced and actioned packed game to celebrate their 20th anniversary. This new game is called Skydrift and is a high-speed arcade racing game with combat elements. With 6 different types of powerups and the ability to survive the infinite variety of extreme maneuvers which are normally very close to the ground.

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Star Raiders Makes a Return on the Xbox 360

Atari Europe today announced the release of Star Raiders on the Xbox 360 for the Xbox Live. The return of Star Raiders combines aerial assaults and dogfights with a new storyline and visual style that will allow gamers who remember the 1979 classic to feel absorbed but also as if they are playing a new game.

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Hitman Absolution Announced

IO Interactive, a part of the Square Enix Europe team today announced a new game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 – Hitman Absolution. Hitman Absolution follows Agent 47, who’s a cold blooded and stoney hearted assassin, on his most dangerous contract to date. Hunted by the police and betrayed by those he once trusted he finds himself in the centre of a dark conspiracy in which he must journey through dark personal times and through the corrupt and twisted world in search of the truth.

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Backbreaker: Vengeance Announced

505 Games today announced that Backbreaker: Vengeance, the next game in the Backbreaker franchise will be released on the Xbox Live Arcade in the summer.

According to 505 Games Backbreaker: Vengeance combines the AAA nature of the original game, with the pick-up-and-play nature of the iPhone title to create this new game. Vengeance will feature arcade action, bone crunching tackles and tons of swagger.

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Dead Island Screenshots

The zombie slasher, Dead Island, today released 5 new screenshots showing off some of the more exotic locations for this new game, which is for the PS3 and the Xbox 360 and due out in the coming months.

Set in an open world tropical island, hordes of different festering zombies await players around every corner while they embark on a variety of thrilling missions through the holiday resort. With firearms and ammunition being scarce the player must rely on utilising found items as weapons for self-defence and fight off zombie hordes in intense melee combat. A diverse range of items can be collected and will later serve to transform the player’s ordinary makeshift weapons into serious instruments of destruction. Read On

SEGA to Announce New Sonic Trailer Tomorrow – Update

The lovely folks at SEGA are keeping the world waiting to find out what the latest news is in regards to Sonic. SEGA have updated their Sonic page on Facebook, the blogs and Twitter accounts with subtle hints about what it could be.

Today it was announced that we’ll find out tomorrow what’s going on, in the form of a trailer on the Sonic Facebook page. What’s the trailer for, is it Sonic 4 Part 2 as VGN hope, or is it for another much rumoured game?

A lovely Twitter spy noticed a few days ago that SEGA have registered a new domain name – Sonic Generations. Currently the site is nothing but a blank screen, not a 404, but a blank screen. So there’s a fairly strong chance that we’ll be seeing an entirely new game coming from SEGA and the Sonic Team tomorrow.

As it’s Sonic’s 20th birthday this year, it’s only fitting for either a brand new title to come out that echoes back to the heyday of the franchise. That, or it’s going to be a compilation title like the Sonic Collection on the DS; but only with all of the Sonic titles from the Dreamcast back.

We’ll keep you updated as soon as we know!

Update 6th April – 22.55

SEGA updated us all on their Twitter page today that we’ll be able to see this trailer at 4pm tomorrow in the UK.

Source: Twitter

New Sequence video

Iridium studios has released a “how to” video on how their brand new Xbox live game, Sequence, is played. This game manages to mash together a rhythm based RPG. An interesting first title from an independent game developer that has only been in existence since 2009!

The game itself is a rhythm-RPG which players use either the Xbox controller, Dance Mat or Guitar Hero guitar where they have to switch between 3 screens to either cast magic using Mana, defend against enemies or regenerate lost Mana.

As the video explains there are over 12 hours of gameplay, 90 minutes of recorded dialogue, and 28 tracks from Ronald Jenkees and Michael Wade Hamilton. The game will be released on Xbox Live in the US this month, however look for it in Europe soon.

The “How To Play” video can be viewed by clicking http://bit.ly/fiXhyf.

NEW! Renegade Ops Coming Soon

Avalanche Studios (Just Cause) have joined with SEGA to create a completely new game – Renegade Ops, coming summer 2011 to the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace.