Last year we reported that Lionsgate had acquired the movie rights to Eidos' action game Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, with potential actors candidates Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton in the running to play death row escapees, "flawed mercenary" Kane and "medicated psychopath" Lynch, respectively. While there is no news on Billy Bob Thornton, Variety is confirming that Bruce Willis Bruce Willis is negotiating to star as Adam "Kane" Marcus. Simon Crane, who is currently working with Willis as the stunt coordinator on the Touchstone Pictures' The Surrogates.

Saints Row 2, using Volition's open-world engine, offers vastly expanded customization options, a totally transformed and expanded city of Stilwater, new vehicles, sandbox tools and toys as well as both online co-op and competitive multiplayer. Late April we revealed Amazon had added a Saints Row 2 PC listing which THQ confirmed today without giving further details.

Cryptic Studios announced that John Needham, previously Senior Vice President of Business Development and Operations over at Sony Online Entertainment, has joined the company as its Chief Executive Officer.

Trion World Network announced its first title, a fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game, led by Might and Magic and Heroes creator Jon Van Caneghem.

NHN USA announced that it has secured the rights to publish Huxley in North America and Western Europe. Huxley is an MMOFPS utilizing the Unreal engine 3 that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Humans 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.

While there has yet to be an official announcement, Capcom is working on a third installment in the Mega Man Star Force series for the NDS. No details were revealed, but Capcom launched a teaser site, which unfortunately does not tell us anything either, as it only has a few desktop/wallpapers. Hopefully, we'll get more details at Capcom Gamers Day in Vegas.

Publisher Playlogic and publisher/distributor Virgin PLAY announced their joint venture PlayV Ltd., a sales, marketing and distribution business that will bring PC, console and handheld products from both parties to the UK market

Atlus USA has obtained the North American rights for Spectral Force 3, the first of the series to land in the Western hemisphere, delivering challenging strategy RPG gameplay, a classic fantasy story, and tons of character and item customization options.

Combat Mission Shock Force: Marines is the first of several planned expansions of the Combat Mission contemporary warfare setting, adding a significant number of new formations, units, weapons, equipment and vehicles for both the US and Syrian sides, as well as brand new missions, maps and a campaign.

Street Fighter IV features a mix of returning favorites such as Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Guile along with new characters created for this game, such as Crimson Viper, Abel, El Fuerte, and Rufus. Characters and environments are rendered in stylized 3D, while the game is played in the classic Street Fighter 2D perspective with additional 3D camera flourishes.

David Warhol, president of Realtime Associates, and Vincent Bitetti, former CEO of TDK Mediactive, announced the formation of Music Video Games (MvG), a music-based game company focused on delivering interactive entertainment experiences for both casual gamers and music fans.

A year after signing its original agreement, SEGA of America announced that it has extended its relationship with Epic Games by signing a new Unreal Engine 3 licensing deal for a yet unannounced, cross-platform game.

Afrika is a faithful replications of much of Africa's flora and fauna. SCEA showed the first glimpse of it at E3 2006, but hasn't been heard of since. Over the weekend we revealed a possible release date, and since SCEJ launched a teaser website, albeit quite empty with just a "coming soon" logo, and Sony Europe made the odd statement that it will NOT be publishing Afrika.

Peripherals and accessories provider The Ant Commandos announced its V Shaped Double Range Guitar is the first on the market to feature 100% compatibility with all Guitar Hero and Rock Band games for both PS2/PS3.

SS3: Arms For Victory is the 3rd installment in the RTS franchise, adding interface innovations, huge troop numbers and enormous map designs demonstrating that size does matter. Fireglow Games is working on SuddenStrikeNet, a new multiplayer interface for its RTS and new options for multiplayer game creation interface.

Previously set to expire over the weekend, EA today that it has extended its tender offer for all of the currently outstanding shares of common stock of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. to Monday, June 16, 2008, unless further extended.

Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed into law the 2008 Entertainment Industry Investment Act (HB 1100), new legislation designed to encourage entertainment industry productions such as qualified films, TV series, commercials, music videos, and video game productions, in Georgia.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy. LucasArts PR rep Adam Khan revealed in a recent interview that the X360/PS3 versions of the game will have no multiplayer, "there isn't multiplayer and that's kind of how it is..." The Wii, PSP, and DS editions do have some sort of multiplayer capabilities.

WoW: Wrath of the Lich King will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend with new levels of power, new dungeons and encounters, a new character profession, and the game’s first hero class are just some of the new features awaiting players in Wrath of the Lich King. Vivendi's latest financial results, the games division's revenue dropped 24% compared to last year when The Burning Crusade launched, reveals that Wrath of the Lich King is scheduled for second half of 2008.

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is a story-driven series with a comic spin based on Matt and Mike Chapman's online animated series. The player uncovers each episode's comedic plot through character interaction, dialogue-based puzzles, and the use/abuse of inventory items.

On the heels of a successful first quarter in which revenue exceeded an aggressive sales forecast, casual games developer MumboJumbo plans to release Little Farm (a farm-fresh matching game), Discovery (a seek-and-find, travel game show), Elf Bowling Hawaiian Vacation, and Little Home on the Hill.

Major League Gaming announced the launch of the MLG PC Circuit played on HP Blackbird 002, to be held alongside MLG's Pro Circuit event in San Diego June 13-15 and will feature World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade and over $20,000 in prizes.

Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy.

At the Give It A Name Festival in London two gamers took to the main stage to play Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock in front of over 9,600 fans. The previous record was set at the Download Festival, Donington, in 2007, when the game was played in front of 3,000 people.

Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy. In a recent interview, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed producer Cameron Suey confirmed there will be a X360/PS3 demo.