Prince of Persia footage released (Prince of Persia (next-gen))

Here is the first trailer for the new-age Prince of Persia, bringing a new-look ninja prince to PC, 360 and PS3.

The movie-esque trailer doesn’t show any in-game gameplay, but it does give you a glimpse of the Prince’s mystery female apprentice as she kicks snot out of some evil creature dudes in a hellish open environment. Yeah!

It’s all very epic, as illustrated below:

New details on 360 MMO Huxley revealed (Huxley)

Huxley developer Webzen has unveiled new details about its online shooter Huxley, confirming the single player will be free to play and that the Xbox 360 version will include extra content.

According to OXM UK, Producer Kijong “KJ” Kang told its US counterparts that the Xbox-exclusive campaigns and PVP battles will “reveal more secrets about world that you will never find in the PC version.”

Kang also confirmed that the game will first launch for PC later on this year and then appear on 360 a few months later. Players can expect to pay a standard subscription model to access the MMO segment of the game, but can also play offline for free.

New StarCraft II shots (StarCraft II)

Blizzard’s gone and released some new pics of its colourful and lovely RTS sequel, StarCraft II. They look brilliant – but don’t listen to us. See for yourself.

Recently the required system specs for the future Korean GOTY leaked, revealing that – shock horror – it won’t run on a Casio calculator. But Blizzard told us the “leaked” specs are nothing more than “speculation”. We’ll see…

Have a read of this recent hands-on preview when you’re done with the screens.

Beyond Good & Evil 2 trailer (Beyond Good & Evil 2)

I’d name the first Beyond Good and Evil a winner of the Psychonauts Underappreciated Genius Award, except that BGE was released in 2003 and Psychonauts came out in 2005, so I guess it’s really the other way around.

Either way, you’re a crazy nutball if you missed these two games, but your chance to redeem yourself is at hand: Behold, the Beyond Good & Evil 2 trailer!

First official Far Cry 2 trailer (Far Cry 2)

The first official trailer for Far Cry 2 has hit the internet, ahead of Ubisoft’s press conference tonight, which we hope will shed new light on the shooter.

The trailer is good. And by ‘good,’ we mean it would be prompting us to re-evaluate our finances and buy a new PC (if it wasn’t coming to PS3 and 360).

Red Alert 3: Far East side revealed (Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3)

Electronic Arts has released a full deployment of Red Alert 3 screenshots which, frankly, looks like RTS sex for our mouse and keyboards.

The latest batch of screens introduces the third Far East faction, which were apparently brought into the mix after some Soviet time travelling mixed up the balance of the world’s superpowers.

As you can see they’re designed in the typical, wicked Red Alert fashion, lobbing any sort of realism out the window and going for big rising suns and Gundam mechs instead. Oh, and there are ninjas with laser swords. This is going to be bloody brilliant.

New(ish) LEGO Batman screens (LEGO Batman: The Videogame)

If LEGO games had voiceovers, we’d be too afraid of hearing Schwarzenegger’s brutally awful dialogue to actually play LEGO Batman after seeing these new screens.

And if it were any other game, we’d be complaining about the lack of real-time lighting and bump-mapped textures, but the LEGO games are so charming that it doesn’t matter.

LEGO Indiana Jones is the game everyone’s talking about at the moment because it’s hitting the shelves on June 3 (June 6 in the UK). LEGO Batman is a little further off (no official date yet), but Travellers Tales looks to be working the same comical flair into the Batman universe, so it’ll be worth the wait.

Stunning Pure screens – PS3 only, alas (Pure)

Here are 23 Pure screenshots that weighed in at 231.7MB. Excessive? Yes, but the game does look bloody nice.

The environments look so good it’s the sort of game that should be seen in screens that are nine-bazillion pixels wide, but we shrunk them down to a sensible size so as not to snap the internet, and so you can actually see them today.

It’s not just a pretty face – it plays pretty well too. You can read a preview here.

FIFA 09: First details emerge (FIFA 09)

The first details have started to trickle in on EA Sports’ FIFA 09.

US mag GamePro reports ”considerable gameplay improvements,” the most significant of which sounds like “increased responsiveness” from passing, dribbling and the physical pushing and shoving that occurs in a game.

Apparently thanks to some excellent and refined animation work, FIFA 09 feels “much faster and more realistic” than previous iterations, and this has “a huge positive impact” on the quality of play.

Proper Prince of Persia screens (Prince of Persia (next-gen))

Actual proper screenshots from the new Prince of Persia game that aren’t scans of magazines have hit the web, revealing the new PoP game in all its cel-shaded glory.

The eight pictures suggest that the game will return to the light tones that graced the first game and jettison the awful morbid vibe of the second. Or at least Ubisoft is doing a good job of hiding such sections from official screen shot releases.

Looking at the images, we’re still not one hundred percent sold on the cel-shading yet. Particularly as the character models and the backgrounds seem stylistically different. But those in the know have told us it works well in motion.