Sierra Entertainment has announced that A2M is developing a new action game called WET. This game will come out next year for Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360. The main character in this game is Rubi, a brave female who’s a mix of Uma Thurman and Angelina Jolie. Sometimes she has to steal stuff, sometimes she kills someone, sometimes she protects a VIP. That’s a nice job with a whole lot of variety in it! But there’s more, the style she uses in her actions is completely in Tarantino style with Mexico and Hong Kong flavor. Sounds like a spicy woman, we’d love to see more of her, and hear more of her as well off course!

Kazuhito Miyaki, the director of Eye of Judgement, says that the EyeToy of Sony’s PlayStation 3 has more potential than Nintendo’s WiiRemote. He says that the technology used with the EyeToy camera is better than the high tech stuff in the WiiRemote, this is what he had to say:

With other games it’ll be about creating a whole different dynamic so, in a way, you could say there is much more potential and ability in our technology.

Source: CVG

2K Games has officially announced Mafia 2 and gave five screenshots of the game along with the announcement. The story sets in the early fifties, the late fourties and the whole setting should give the player a Hollywood feeling. Illusion Softworks is developing the game, the same studio that developed the first Mafia game. 2K Games will be showing more of Mafia 2 during the Leipzig Games Convention. (more…)

Yesterday we reported that EA’s SKATE demo would be hitting the Xbox Live Marketplace today and Electronic Arts kept her promise and has placed the demo online. The thirty minutes of SKATE fun will teach you the controls of the game and will let you explore the community center skate park level. The PlayStation 3 demo is almost ready for hitting the PlayStation Network.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that they are planning to launch a new PlayStation 3 Starter Pack in Europe on September 19th for 599 euro. This new PS3 bundle will contain two controllers, Formula One Championship Edition and Heavenly Sword. Sony will announce this new PS3 bundle at the Leipzig Games Convention. The first Starter Pack will disappear when this new second one appears.

2K Games lets us know what they have in their luggage to show off at this year’s Leipzig Games Convention. We’ll be seeing a lot of Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution from Firaxis Games and Top Spin 3 will be at their booth as well.

- Borderlands (Gearbox Software) - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3. Release: 2008
- Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution (Firaxis Games) - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS. Release: Lente 2008 (Wii version: Q3 2008)
- Top Spin 3 (PAM Development) - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3. Release: Lente 2008
- NBA 2k8 (Visual Concepts) - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2. Release: Herfst 2007
- NHL 2k8 (Visual Concepts / Kush Games) - Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3. Release: September 2007

The co-president of Naughty Dog Evan Wells gave us a hint for a new PS3 game of Jak and Daxter in the latest Insomniac: Full Moon podcast. He says that he would like to make a Jak & Daxter game for Sony’s PlayStation 3, but they wanted something fresh after all the Jak and Daxter stuff so that’s why they started developing Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. The Jak & Daxter franchise is very strong so it would be stupid of Insomniac Games to not use it in times of next-gen gaming.

Source: Insomniac Games

Southpeak Games has announced that Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia that’s already available for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and PC will also appear on Sony’s PlayStation 3. The PS3 version is named Monster Madness Ex and will contain a few improvements and extras. You’ll be able to play the game online with up to four players and there will be a brand new mode. In 2008 Southpeak Games will put extra downloadable packs in the PlayStation Store.

Eidos has announced that from September 6 the first downloadable content for Ninja Gaiden Sigma will be available in the PlayStation Store. The pack is title Survival Mode and in this new mode you’ll have to compete enemies constantly coming at you. The downloadable content consists of three different downloads, one of them is World Ranking that allows you to show your skills to other PS3 gamers.

Capcom has announced that Devil May Cry 4, which is coming out for Sony’s PlayStation 3, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and PC will be playable at this year’s Leipzig Games Convention. Too bad for the public the game will only be playable for the press. The game is set to come out early 2008.