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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Rockstar Games announced the formation of Rockstar New England through the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Andover, MA-based Mad Doc Software, best known for the Vivendi's Empire Earth RTS series.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is an Online Action RPG, mixing a deep, story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game brings forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan.

Set in New York, Rockstar is bringing its open-ended crime series to the next-gen consoles with Grand Theft Auto IV, situated around mysterious protagonist Nikolai. While GTA IV passed the UK BBFC certification board with flying colors (getting a 18+ rating) it did not fare so well in Australia. While it did get the countries highest MA15+ rating, the Sydney Morning Herald claims it only got approved after making certain alterations (just like the previous GTA installments)

Bionic Commando features Nathan Spencer (voiced by Faith No More's Mike Patton), a government operative who represents the ultimate fusion of man and machine. After distinguishing himself in a fierce conflict against the Imperials, Spencer is betrayed and falsely imprisoned by the very people he unquestioningly served.