Here’s the launch trailer for Section 8: Prejudice, available April 20, a sci-fi shooter featuring online team-based multiplayer.

The trailer offers the first glimpse into the stylized world and jaw-dropping combat visuals designed by graphic-novel titan, Todd McFarlane, which players will experience as they embark on their journey to define their fate in Reckoning.

This making-of video features new gameplay footage and key insights from the development team tasked with creating the most polished, balanced, and action-packed “Gears of War” multiplayer experience to date.

Capcom spin-off reprises horror action game with Frank West in the starring role; Xbox 360, PS3, and PC title to feature new enemies, missions, combo weapons.

Capcom’s crossover fighters have shown it is no stranger to the Marvel Universe, but now the publisher is taking a page from the comic company’s “What If?” series. Capcom today announced Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, a stand-alone spin-off that answers the question, “What if Frank West had been present at the Fortune City outbreak?”

Set for release this fall on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, Off the Record offers an alternate storyline to last year’s horror action game, with photojournalist West–the star of the original Dead Rising–getting the scoop on a zombie outbreak in the Las Vegas-like Fortune City. In addition to the combo weapon feature introduced in Dead Rising 2, Off the Record will bring back the original game’s photography feature, where players gain experience for snapping pics that are judged for their horror, drama, brutality, and erotic content.

As for new features, Off the Record includes new missions, enemies, combo weapons, environments, items, and vehicles. The game will also feature technical improvements like reduced load times and better network performance for online play. Capcom is also promising “enhancements” to the save system and co-op modes.

Meet John, he is a man with a mission who refuses to die!

Sony launches a very clever viral campaign about Little Big Planet 2 focusing on the actual people responsible for building & developing the game.

“What would be your dream job? How about designing video games that are exploring new creative possibilities and pushing the medium to its limits?

No other medium has the creative possibilities and imaginative potential of video games – right now we’re seeing new generations of game designers ripping up the rule book and using their energies and imaginations to stretch the platform’s capabilities and explore uncharted ground.

Gamers who honed their craft as hobbyists and invest their creations with great passion, wit and wonder. And who doesn’t want to play games like that?”

June 23, 2011, will mark the 20th anniversary of the release of the first ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ for the Genesis, and Sega will mark the occasion with a new title for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Sega’s teaser trailer begins with a rendered Sonic being shown running around a 3D recreation of one of his typical landscapes — almost ‘Sonic Adventures’-ish — before he is joined by a version of his less-detailed older self, complete with the origianl black eyes.

What does the presence of a second Sonic mean? Multiplayer? Alternate universes a la ‘Spider-man: Shattered Dimensions’? Sega hasn’t said anything, not even the actual name of the game.

Certain people you just can’t please. And by “certain people,” we mean Sonic fans. In the hedgehog’s two decades on this earth he’s garnered an incredibly broad fan base from 16-bit platforms, 3D games, comics and TV shows. Meaning poor Sonic has to cater to several different sects of conflicting expectations, that’ll ultimately leave someone unreasonably dissatisfied. But that’s not gonna stop Sega from trying!

Dead Island is a first-person shooter that pits you on an island full of zombies.

The Witcher 2 is the sequel to developer CD Projekt’s mature-themed fantasy role-playing game based on the works of author Andrzej Sapkowski.

Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters is an action adventure that will be available in conjunction with Warner Bros. Pictures’ superhero feature film, Green Lantern – Rise of the Manhunters takes flight on June 7.

Game and book publishers teaming up to create transmedia properties across “multiple mediums,” plan to translate more offerings from game library into novels.

THQ is a big fan of transmedia. The game publisher is currently helping with a SyFy channel miniseries that will bridge the story between Red Faction Guerilla and the upcoming Armageddon. It also recently backed Homefront: Voice of Freedom, the novelization of its already-platinum shooter Homefront.

Now THQ is taking another step forward in its transmedia efforts. Today, the company announced that it has inked a deal with book publishing giant Random House Publishing Group to develop all-new intellectual properties. The agreement will see a creative team assembled from representatives of both companies that will create “a rich IP universe” that will manifest itself in “a collection of games and books.”

One aspect of the collaboration will be the creation of “world bibles” for THQ game series through the Random House Publishing Group’s IP creation and development group, Random House Worlds. No further details were given other than THQ would continue to try and bring its current IP library to “all existing book formats” with Random House’s assistance. Whether or not that means a WWE: Smackdown vs. Raw novel is in the works remains to be seen.