Midway Newcastle may be on the verge of closing its doors, but that hasn’t stopped it from announcing its development on its newest IP, Necessary Force. However, its announcement isn’t a lost cause, the studio hopes that it can end its seek for a buyer with it.

Develop even had the chance of meeting up with studio head Craig Duncan to talk about the game, which after three months of work is playable, and says the team is not giving up just yet.

“The idea of a detective who sets his own rules is the sort of story that’s been around in movies for a while, but we don’t think anyone’s managed to capture the essence of those choices and consequences in games,” said Duncan. “That unprecedented level of open world influence and troubled morality is something we’re really keen to explore.”

“It’s really important that people know that this is a team that wants to stick together – sometimes when you look at buying a studio you can worry that the real talent, the people, will just flee the ship, leaving you with some IP, kit and an empty building; the pieces of the puzzle that aren’t really worth anything,” he added.

“But everyone here as worked together for at least two years, with the original core team still together after about ten years. We’ve been through the ups and downs and all want to stay working together.”

“Despite all that’s been going on, we’ve only had three people leave this year – it just goes to show that everyone wants to stay together, how galvanized they are as a team. They don’t know if they’re going to have a job in a month’s time, but they’re still putting in a huge amount of effort now; staying until nine in the evening working on this – and that’s because they’re all so motivated by the great project we’re working on.”

Updated: Beside the reports that it was shown on 360, we have learned that it was show on the PC.

Original: The PlayStation 3 has some of the most beautiful games on its system, one of these just happen to be Killzone 2. Now, when this game was announced, back at E3 ’05, it was one of the most hyped, and most discussed titles because of its visual representation.

Four years later, over 2 million copies sold, Killzone 2 has lived up to its hype, to add, its visuals were dead on to what was shown at E3 ’05. But, during this years E3, Bethesda Software’s Brink was shown behind closed door and everyone that witness it was blown away by the way it looked. Most importantly, because it was running on 360. Why? Because it had the same graphical quality as Killzone 2.

Anyway, Bethesda Software is a very incredible company with some very unique development tricks up its sleeve. One trick they used to achieve this level of quality, was the way they used their textures.

[Bethesda Software Brings Killzone 2 Quality For Xbox360 With Brink. via HipHopGamerShow]

Editors Note: This is just an investigation in the the ‘Killzone 2 Sales Stay Strong’ article.

“I don’t know!?!?” That’s the answer I got when I asked my Best Buy retailer, where’s the Killzone 2 units? So, I’m going to take this question under investigation, and you won’t believe what I found out about the Killzone 2 sales being ‘strong’ statement.

Okay, the other day I went to my local Best Buy to buy a AV cord for my camera and the first thing I saw when I entered the store was a retail shelve for Killzone 2, which I took a picture of. And in the picture you’ll notice that there’s no Killzone 2 titles on the shelve, so that lead me to ask the question, where’s Killzone 2?

And because Sony isn’t candid about revealing the games sales actual scores, I took it into investigation. And I found out that they’re all out of the product, they aren’t hiding them. So it looks like the games sales really are ‘strong’, all over.

I know, just because it all sold out in one store doesn’t mean it the same with all store. Yes, we know that it just that, but soon the same will be happening at your store.

Announced in 2005, we are still to receive an official release date for WarDevil, but what does its developers over at Digi-Guys have to planned for the title this year. After all, throughout last year there have been many tid bits on the game, including the recently announced in-game add-on WarDevil Chronicles.

Even many said website proclaimed that it was ‘one of the most anticipated games’ on the PlayStation 3, so what are they planning for this year?

Anway, when being interviewed by GameCyte, UTV, who owns Digi-Guys (the developer), revealed that we might finally see WarDevil in ’09. The site follows it up with word from Digi-Guys themselves, stating that they will release new material this year, though a specific release date was eluded.

However, the studio has launched a mini-site for the game, offering new teaser content. You will have to make do with that until more information on the game shows up. But, hopefully, we will see this game in the household of PlayStation fanboys/owners by the end of the year.

[Digi-Guys: PS3’s Long-Awaited WarDevil ‘Progressing to Plan’ — This Year, Parent Company UTV Suggests Same via GameCyte]

A very interesting listing has popped up on the official Entertainment Software Rating Board website. According to the listing, Rachet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty will be rated E10+, the game was an open secret which was revealed by PS3Fanboy . There was many signs which pointed to the game of being a PSN download, but yet it’s still unclear whether this will just an add-on to Ratchet & Clank Future or if it’s a game by it’s self.

To many gamers Code Monkeys is known as the first show to represent the gaming as a whole. Unless your a self-closed person who has not watched G4, devoted to the world of video games and the video game lifestyle, you haven’t been exposed to Code Monkeys which is bad. This South Park and 8-bit Mario style show is pure gaming genius.

For those who never seen the show, June 1′s second-season premiere can’t come with perfect timing Code Monkeys takes place at GameaVision, an ’80s company that makes Atari 2600-type games with 8-bit point-and-click design.

The humor in Code Monkeys is mostly grounded in toilet humor and black comedy, but some of the show’s jokes stem from its numerous references to 1980s video games, including Castlevania , Mega Man , Contra , Ikari Warriors , Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! , Super Mario Bros. and others. With blood, puke, drug use and more sexual innuendo than you can shake at.

The main plot of this of this episode takes place when the company loses they insurance by there provider  and each character must submit a psychiatric evaluation. Which allowed every employee to show there inner-self to a very cool evaluator with all this going on Todd a Flavor flav horned helmet wearing 33-year old nerd is giving the chance to create is own game with the others see this they turn is game into something but hilarious. Which i am not going to mention.

The second season of Code Monkeys premieres at 7 p.m. ET/PT June 1 on G4.

In the crazy out of control of 2048, a young Mantel soldier finds himself between what is right and what is wrong……

First, I will like to say what was Free Radical thinking when they where making this game, I mean Free Radical had a nice idea going for them here but, the game just cannot cut it. As you may already know the game takes place in the Boa Region of South America and the worlds biggest PMC, Mantel, has an army of enhanced specialized warriors who use a specialized supplement called, Nectar. And they are sent out to take out the dangerous group of rebels called The Promise Hand. In the game you happen to play as a young Mantel soldier named, Shane Carpenter, and and you soon find out that your mission is not what it appears to be, that’s where the game takes an unexpected turn. Now, Carpenter is now one of the rebels and he finds himself against some of his friends has he try’s to take out Mantel.

As I have said before "The game has a lot of promise" but, I quote from the people at IGN, "hackneyed and feeble amalgamation of concepts that the true impact or commentary that could’ve been presented in the title is immediately lost." I picked this because it’s a true, in the game UbiSoft pictures the Mantel soldiers as over hyped blood lust killers who kill because they have the lust of killing. This can be a problem because it’s hard to make a link between a blood lusted killers who are always jack up over the hype of killing. Lucky for you our friend Shane has a heart and these emotions of blood lust makes it much easier for you to make a connection with him as a person. But, sometimes you feel that he is a punk because he always talking like if he’s scared of something that’s where the game start to fall.

In every video game there somethings that makes it stand out, unfortunate for you the AI isn’t it. When playing the game we face some very serious issues with the AI, like if you are in the middle of battle (Only when you are on the side of the Promise Hand) you find yourself reviving your troops more then you should or you die because our troop decide they want to shoot you. Sometimes I think luck is never on your side in this because like your partners the enemies aren’t much smarter turning this game into a task to beat.

Great things come out of every game lucky for you the games co-op play with a mix of online play and offline play is it. This provides a smooth and relatively enjoyable experience for you and the players around. We aren’t saying that the games co-op mode doesn’t have any problems, like respawning system in the game no-one notices your wounded icon when your wounded unless someone tells you there wounded, other then that it a good co-op player.

The games visuals may look strong but, they are one of the weakest elements in the game for a Next-Gen game this game has some fair looking character models but, other then that the backgrounds can use some work. Mainly because they are bland and lacking or needing more. This is what kind of scares me because one more thing we noted was the flames in the game they are very poor, as if they didn’t spend time on this game at all.

Closing Statement:

I wish there was alot more I can say about this game but, I don’t think there alot of things featured in this game to make up for all it’s mistakes. If the game had a stronger Single player and Multi player this would be one of the best games on the Playstation 3. I’m giving this game a 5 out of 10, sorry guys hope you don’t hate me for this. Free Radical could of done much better with this game instead of pushing the PlayStation 3 they hit it breaking it and breaking my heart.

2K Games has revealed a new screenshot for there upcoming game Mafia II. The screenshot takes place in "DELUCA’S RESTAURANT" where Vito is hiding out in a warehouse trying to take his unsuspecting enemies. Mafia II is being developed by 2K Czech for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 set from a release on October 31, 2009.