Max Payne developer Remedy Entertainment, currently working on Alan Wake, has licensed Umbra Software's 3D rendering optimization middleware for their new title.

Roary the Racing Car, based on the animated children's TV show on PBS, combines arcade, music, puzzle, number games, allows the player to have fun and at the same time test his reflexes and his logic.

Digital distribution outlet GamersGate announced a Father's Day special, selling EA's Godfather 2 at $24.99 (50% off), while this weekend you can get Flock! and WH40k Dawn of War Soulstorm both at 50% off, and Dark Sector goes half off until June 28, 2009.

You dive off a skyscraper, relying on quick reflexes to negotiate the intricate tangle of girders that make up the City. You perform aerial stunts at terminal velocity before parachuting into the arms of your cheering fans. People who pre-order get will get a 30-level pre-release, exclusive content as it's developed, and the full 80-level game when it's released.

Space Invaders Extreme captures all of the action and excitement of the classic and takes it to the next level with new design features maximizing performance and play on XBL. Tomorrow SIE is getting DLC adding three new stages, new enemies, and new bosses, as well as two emulators of the original black-and-white Space Invaders and 8-bit color Space Invaders 2!

Melbourne-based Big Ant Studios, known for Spyro: The Eternal Night (PS2) and Hellboy: The Science of Evil (PSP), revealed that it is bringing AFL to the current-gen system and is currently developing it for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, scheduled for 2010. AFL will take advantage of the online capabilities of Xbox/Windows Live and PSN. The game will support four-player local co-op/competitive play or two-player co-op/competitive play online.

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

• East India Company - Trailer
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen [Wii] - Trailer
• Nostalgia [NDS] - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

On-field authenticity and emotion is taken to another level in Madden NFL 10. With more control over the outcome of the play than ever before, players can drag defenders towards the first down marker, fight for a fumble at the bottom of the pile, and avoid the rush by stepping up into the pocket. Fans who pre-order at GameStop get a playable demo featuring four, 5-minute quarters in a rematch between the Cardinals and Steelers.

While Midway is selling off most of its assets, Midway NewCastle (known for Wheelman) is working on an all-new IP. Powered by the Unreal Engine 3, Necessary Force is an open world action game where you play a Dirty Harry style cop who does whatever it takes to get the job done.

NHL 10 begins a new era with gameplay innovations that deliver a new standard of toughness, the emotion of playoff hockey on the ice and in the arena, and over 200 gameplay refinements that replicate the skill and finesse that every fan sees throughout the NHL playoffs.