It is no secret that Asia loves online games, and while tiles like FreeStyle Street Basketball might be a hit over there, not so much in Europe/North America. That hasn't stopped EA from signing various agreements with companies like Neowiz for FIFA Online, its upcoming sequel, Battlefield Online, and most recently NBA Street Online.

After yesterday's sad news about CastAway Entertainment there is more bad news as Pseudo Interactive, Canadian studio behind the Full Auto titles, is forced to shut down when Eidos/SCi canceled an in-development title. According to 1UP, all 50 employees were let go after last minute attempts failed to bare any results.

Huxley is an MMOFPS utilizing the Unreal engine 3 that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Human beings have mutated and are divided into two opposing races, Sapiens and Alternative, who are forced to battle against one another to gain control of the world and its resources.

2K Games' Mafia 2 features a deep mobster-driven narrative packed with both behind-the-wheel and on-foot action, developed by the original creators Illusion Softworks.

Alone in the Dark returns with a heart-stopping survival experience realized through combining the use of real-time physics and environmental interaction to deliver an exhilarating action-orientated experience within a highly detailed, open environment.

Over the years various Blizzard developers left to seek fortune on their own. After the closure of Blizzard North Michael Scandizzo set up Castaway Entertainment, and recruited studio lead Rick Seis. Credited with titles such as Diablo, Diablo II and Diablo II: Lords of Destruction expansion, Castaway signed with EA for an action-RPG it was working on. Like several other projects things went sideways along the way, and since it was founded in 2003 only managed to ship one title, Yaris for Xbox Live Arcade. All this misfortune is taking its toll as Scandizzo confirmed the studio has laid off 20 people and if no new projects surface, only has a few weeks left until it will shut down.

Check out the following new screens and trailers from THQ's Gamers Day 2008 lineup:

• 'Baja' (PS3/X360) - 4 New Screens & Trailer
• 'Big Beach Sports' (Wii) - 12 New Screens & Trailer
• 'Construction Combat: Lock's Quest' (NDS) - Screens
• 'Battle of the Bands' (Wii) - 8 New Screens & Trailer
• 'Darksiders: Wrath of War' (PS3/X360) - 18 New Screens & Trailer
• 'de Blob' (NDS/Wii) - 8 New Screens & Trailer
• 'Deadly Creatures' (Wii) - 12 New Screens
• 'Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon' (PS3/X360) - 8 New Screens & Trailer
• 'Red Faction: Guerrilla' (ALL) - 9 New Screens
• 'Saints Row 2' (PS3/X360) - 10 New Screens & Trailer
• 'WALL-E' (ALL) - 27 New Screens
• 'WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009' (ALL) - 20 New Screens & Trailer

With the help of the community and its partners EA has located and shut down a number of modified servers which were being used for sending inflated scores to the Battlefield 2 stats leaderboards. During this crackdown process over 1000 players has their stats wiped to best protect the leaderboard integrity.

Powered by an enhanced version of Relic’s proprietary Essence Engine 2.0, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II will take players to the brutal frontlines of war where they’ll experience intense action and visceral combat through a non-linear single player experience and a fully co-operative multiplayer campaign.

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:

• Race Driver: GRID [NDS/PS3/X360/PC] - Trailer (2)
• The Bourne Conspiracy [ALL] - Takedown Trailer
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed [ALL] - Multiplatform Features
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