Age of Wonders developer Triumph Studios signed on with Codemasters for a new action-adventure game, set in a seriously warped and twisted fantasy world, littered with dark humour (think Dungeon Keeper). The name of the game is Overlord, and its key innovation is the introduction of an array of impish creatures - the Minions. (...)

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Full Auto 2: Battlelines - A PS3 Exclusive From SEGA

SEGA's next stop on its road to E3 is the announcement of Full Auto 2: Battlelines exclusively for the PlayStation 3. Sequel to Pseudo Interactive's destructive racing game that launched earlier this year on the Xbox 360, Full Auto 2 puts high-speed vehicles outfitted with weapons and armor into fully realized and fully destructible (...)

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Also from Ubisoft today comes the announcement of the official title for the fourth installment in Michel Ancel's most popular Rayman series (you didn't actually think they'd call it Rayman 4, did you?). Now also planned for release on the Nintendo Wii'volution, along with all other current- and next-gen versions (...)

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Assassin's Creed - Ubisoft's New Action-Adventure Franchise

Ubisoft's goal "to introduce three new brands into the marketplace every two years" is well underway, now that Assassin's Creed has been brought to light by the French publisher. This new video game franchise is once again being developed by their almighty Montreal studio, which makes perfect sense (...)

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Electronic Arts is re-inventing the wheel with the announcement of Army of Two - an action title they say was kept "top secret" for the past year, deep inside their Montreal studio. The brilliant idea behind the game isn't much of a novelty (at least if we're to think about the co-op multiplayer from Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, (...)

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The recently formed group Namco Bandai, from the merger of the two Japanese companies famous for their entertainment products (games, toys, animes and such), announced its E3 2006 line-up of next-gen titles. As seen below, they embraced both Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 for their future projects. (...)

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The devs from Action Forms are seemingly sick and tired of working on Vivisector (sort of a Ukranian Duke Numkem Forever) for over four years now and still not finish it, so they did what every sane developer does every once in a while: they started a new project. Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason is the working title for what they say will be a first person horror / action game (and you can blame Monolith's F.E.A.R. and Condemned for making the genre so popular once again). (...)

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After a bit of a confusion regarding the integrity of the archive supplied by Microsoft, we can now safely announce a new demo version for Big Huge Game's Rise of Legends strategy title. Unlike the one that was released a month ago (based on a pre-beta version of the game), this one promises to bring drastic performance improvements (...)

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