Strategy Informer  

NCSoft announced that the Dungeon Runners team are currently working on a new content update that includes snowmen, a new dungeon, new items and improvements to the waypoint system.

SouthPeak Games announced this afternoon that it will be releasing X-Blades, a third-person hack-and-slash action title for Next-gen consoles and PC, in Late 2008. In the game, players control an enchanting anime-style heroine that destroys anything in her path using guns, blades, magic, and a healthy dose of cinematic flair.

If what reports suggest are true, then European gamers are in for a real treat when 25 cult classic PlayStation One games are released onto the PlayStation store. Apparently they'll be unleashed soon.

Codemasters has confirmed to CVG that the Overlord series, a management adventure strategy that reminded us of Dungeon Keeper, is to be released on the PlayStation 3 this Summer.

It's entitled Overlord: Raising Hell and will feature the full game of Overlord along with the content that was recently released for the Xbox 360.

Joe Bennet played Lost Odyssey by Hironobu Sakaguchi (producer) of Final Fantasy fame working with award-winning Japanese novelist, Kiyoshi Shigematsu handling the story. That pair instills confidence right off the bat. Is that confidence ill-founded? Well one has to play the game to know for sure, but the author can share his opinion. Perhaps that will help.

Read the Lost Odyssey review.

Matt Keller played Art of Fighting Anthology. This combines the Art of Fighting trilogy, originally borne out of the "Street Fighter craze" in the early 1990's, into one package. If you remember those days then this title may bring back memories, but if you never played any of the games in the trilogy what can you expect? Hopefully our review will help to answer that question.

Read the Art of Fighting Anthology review.

The television series Jackass may have been canceled but it's popularity doesn't seem to have suffered too much, as evident by the continual release of films and now a video game. Indifference doesn't seem to be a popular opinion with regard to the series; most people like it or dislike it. So what of the game? Mike Jennings shares his objective evaluation.

Read the Jackass: The Game review.

JanaLee Stocks played the newest Sam and Max game - Episode 203: Night of the Raving Dead. Adapted from a comic, this series has been around since the early 1990's, and they've always proven to be popular. Does this latest entry into the franchise maintain the positive momentum? Read the review to see what the author thinks.

Read the Sam & Max Episode 203: Night of the Raving Dead review.

Lighthouse Interactive announced today that its thriller adventure game, Overclocked: A History of Violence will be released in North America on March 31st 2008.

Overclocked explores an archetypical, yet actual condition of mankind: violence. Players will become engrossed in a world where memories and illusions; dreams and reality; perpetrators and victims… collide.

Devil May Cry 4, which we recently reviewed, also happens to have certain wide appeal. On Xbox Live, over a million people have downloaded the demo, which is currently the most of the year. Sure, the year just started, but that's a high point to set so early.

Not only that, but Capcom let us know that according to Microsoft, it's also the fastest downloaded demo on XBL, reaching its numbers faster than anyone else. Guess everyone wanted to see if the game was a hit or miss. Good thing the demo delivered.

No word on how well it's doing on PSN though. Mike Bowden downloaded both and if you still haven't decided which version to go for, maybe you should read our preview and see if that sways you?