The House of the Dead Overkill Extended Cut Announced

Sega Europe today announced that the B movie classic, turned videogame, The House of the Dead is going to be making it’s first leap into high definition with Sega’s The House of the Dead: OVERKILL – Extended Cut. This revised edition of the game will be made available on the PlayStation Move only.

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Twisted Metal – New Trailer

Twisted Metal, the longest running game series since PlayStation was released. Now the multi-million selling game is now back, exclusively for the PS3. The dark humor, fast-action gameplay and a world of cars, guns and destruction is back in sytle.

Calypso sits in his high rise watching over his contest of vehicle combat known as Twisted Metal. He returns to host the ultimate contest of skill and destruction. Contestants have been chosen to compete and, should they emerge victorious, win whatever prize their heart desires.  Read On

The Fancy Pants Adventures Available Tomorrow

Electronic Arts today announced that Fancy Pants Adventures will be available on the PlayStation Network and the Xbox Live Arcade on the 21 April 2011. Fancy Pants was originally a flash game that has now been played over 100 million times is a sidescrolling game with a distinctive hand drawn feel.

With all new levels and never seen before modes of play, the console version of the game is very different to that available online. Read On

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

Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters Dated for June

Warner Brothers today confirmed various details about their up and coming title, Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters. Pulling inspiration from the feature film due out later in the year, the game will roughly follow the film’s plot with an arsenal of ring constructs to perform. Players will use the Power Ring to build a wide range of weapons from green energy to destroy all of the Manhunters. A group of evil androids bent on destroying the Green Lantern Corps.

This title will be available on all of the major consoles, with the following developers Xbox 360 and PS3: Double Helix Games; Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS: Griptonite Games. The 3DS version of the title will be designed specifically to use the stereoscopic 3D powers of the 3DS into account, with the other platforms playing to their strengths as well.

Warner Brother’s have also confirmed that all of the titles will be out on the 10th June 2011 with a PEGI rating of 12+.

Rush’N Attack: Ex-Patriot Announced PSN and XBL by Konami

Konami have today confirmed that their latest downloadable title, Rush’N Attack: Ex-Patriot will be available on both the Playstation Network and on the XBox live Arcade very shortly.

A modern take on the classic “run’n’gun” arcade game, by becoming a CIA operative code-named Wolf Spider through a heavily guarded Russian Prisoner Camp as he attempts to rescue an agent who’s been abandoned at the end of the Cold War. Sneaking in and out of cells, stealthily taking out guards and using a series of weapons to kill and protect, the title is a real throw back to the old arcade style games.

Rush’n Attack: Ex-Patriot is out on the 30th March 2011 on the Xbox Live Arcade for 800 Microsoft Points and on the Playstation Network on an unconfirmed date in April 2011 for £9.99.