AgeTec has announced that it will release Raw Danger, a watery survival game, for the PS2 this February.

Raw Danger requires players to fend for themselves in a city surrounded by mountains, ocean, and rivers that is experiencing torrential rains. All order has collapsed and there is no choice but to escape. The dangers are endless - washed away bridges, collapsing buildings, and flash floods all stand in the way of safety.

Players must think on their feet and utilize creative survival skills to have any hope of seeing their family again. Body temperature and health decrease when players are wet or in cold weather too long - they must find places to warm themselves and scrap together meals from whatever they can find. In the end, players must run, climb, jump, and crawl their way out of this devastated city, while constantly trying to piece together information from emergency broadcasts and other victims of the disaster.

Untold Legends, SOE’s launch title for the North American PS3 launch, has been picked up for release in Europe by EA. As per the company’s announcement, Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom will also be a launch title for the European PS3 launch this coming March.

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Having recently announced their Aliens deal, Sega disclosed its first game based on the franchise: an action-RPG for Wii and PSP dubbed Alien Syndrome. Being developed by Totally Games, the game will offer both single and multi-player campaigns, as well as a co-op multiplayer mode supporting up to four players.

Alien Syndrome puts players in control of the strong and enigmatic heroine - Earth Command Trooper Aileen Harding - as she battles through a wide variety of environments including onboard infested spaceships and bizarre alien planets, taking on a mixture of fearsome aliens and colossal bosses. Players can choose from a wide selection of character specialties and skills to hone their character before embarking upon their sci-fi adventure. As they progress through the engrossing campaign, protected by different types of armour and using a variety of melee and ranged weaponry, players can improve their heroine’s statistics and discover powerful new abilities.

Alien Syndrome offers 20 different weapons to use, ranging from flamethrowers, quad-barrelled lasers, nanobot swarms that dissolve enemies and incendiary grenades that unleash fire geysers from the ground. Each weapon offers different advantages and disadvantages, dependent upon how it is used and which speciality the player has chosen to adopt. With the sheer variety of weapons and abilities available to players, any number of combat strategies can be used to defeat hordes of more than 100 different alien enemies.

Alien Syndrome on the Wii will utilise the Wii Remote’s unique gyroscopic feature by enabling players a full range of motion when slashing through enemies, unloading devastation on bosses, or running and gunning through hallways. Players will also be able to access various new game modes and mechanisms. These extra features include using the Wii controllers to craft new items, to enhance existing items and character abilities and to hack into computer systems.

For gamers on the go, Alien Syndrome on the PSP is wi-fi enabled so that up to four players can embark upon playing cooperatively through the alien infested levels in various multiplayer modes.

Alien Syndrome is set for release during Summer 2007. Here are the first screenshots:

Ubisoft has officially announced the development of CSI: Hard Evidence, the newest game based on the popular television show. The game, being worked on by Telltale Games, will have the CSI: Las Vegas cast solve crimes using realistic techniques and lab equipment. It will feature forensic reconstructions and crime scenes taken directly from the television show, including an all-new garage lab for analyzing large evidence such as cars and boats, improved evidence gathering, various mini-games and more.

CSI: Hard Evidence is due for release in Spring 2007.

dtp Entertainment and Collision Studios jointly announced Red Ocean, a first-person shooter that takes place in an abandoned Soviet research facility, deep below sea level. The game has players stepping into the shoes of Jack Hard (is this a joke?!), who gets caught up in the doings of a terrorist group that has taken control of a Cold War-era Russian research facility.

On his way around the flooded corridors of the old station, the player is soon faced with roaming groups of armed guards. The hunt for the intruder is on: equipped with conventional weapons the terrorists attack from all angles, blinding the player with flashbangs and blasting their way through doors.

With the help of an extensive selection of weapons, the player advance further into the station, crossing rail tracks, jumping trains, traversing gigantic laboratories and bullet-proof underwater passageways. Soon the player is also faced with new enemies: armoured troopers open fire with powerful energy weapons. Only with the clever use of grenades and explosive barrels can he easily dispose of groups of enemies, thanks to spectacular explosions and the integrated physics engine.

Whole sections of the levels are flooded completely, when an underwater tunnel is shattered by the devastating force of the sea and the player finds himself in a deadly harpoon battle with enemy scuba divers…

The game is in development for release in March 2007. Below are the first screenshots:

Milking the cash cow that is “The Sims”, EA has announced yet another expansion pack for the game, which people just don’t seem to get enough of. Dubbed ‘Seasons‘, the expansion will allow players to ruin run the lives of their Sims, all the while enjoying “spring, summer, autumn and winter”.

The expansion will let Sims wear seasonal clothes, but that’s only the beginning: each season will offer unique benefits, impacting the Sims relationships, mood, skills, careers and more. There will also be seasonal activities such as building snowmen, going snow-skating, taking a dip in the pool, etc. Besides the seasonal changes, the expansion will also add to the Sims’ wardrobe, add new talents and six new careers, along with enhanced visual effects and more.

The Sims 2: Seasons will be out in March 2007 and will require a copy of the base game to run.