A trailer of the upcoming Need for Speed game (for Wii and DS) developped by EA Montreal.

It doesn’t seem to be in-game footage though, just a cinematic.

Update: Here’s an interview with Joe Booth the Senior Producer, touching the design and controls of the game:

First person brawlers are few and far between—only a handful, like Condemned, Breakdown and Zeno Clash, have found some degree of success with their attempts—but that’s not going to stop EA from letting you rain blows on the professional athlete of your choosing. The new addition is just one of "more than 200 gameplay refinements" shipping with the next iteration, according to EA, including the arrival of "towel-waving fans." Jeez, finally.

Of course, EA has slightly more worthwhile gameplay improvement planned for NHL 10, including bobble passes, scrums, and the option to one-time loose pucks, three things that illustrate how out of touch I am with the sport of hockey. Other additions include an all-new board physics engine, 360° precision passing mechanic and the ability to shoot while kneeling.

The game is scheduled to arrive on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 later this year, skipping the PC and PlayStation 2.

Ubisoft has a new teaser for Splinter Cell: Conviction online. It seems that our guy Sam Fisher is in some trouble.

At the game’s main site, there’s nothing save a "Third Echelon" emblem and the message, "Site Currently Under Investigation." Below that, "If you have any information on Sam Fisher, please report it here." The link connects to Splinter Cell’s official forums.

Check it out for yourself here. Maybe you can figure out what "vomacoifinnocnt" means.

Eidos-Montreal are in the early development stages for Thief 4, the developer confirmed this morning.

Last week we heard that an announcement was coming, but there’s not much grist in the news that hit today.

Eidos-Montreal, which is currently producing Deus Ex 3, has recruited the "very best core team" for Thief 4, we’re told.

"We’re in the early development stages for Thief 4, but this is an incredibly ambitious and exciting project for Eidos," said Stéphane D’Astous, General Manager at Eidos-Montréal. "While it’s too early for us to offer any specific game details, right now we are focused on recruiting the very best talent to join the core team at the studio and help us make what we believe will be one of the most exciting games on the market."

Ubisoft announced a partnership with Gold’s Gym to market the new Wii exercise game Gold’s Gym: Cardio Workout, due out March 31. The Balance Board-compatible game includes "cardio boxing, running, sit-ups and other activities" as well as calorie and weight tracking. The new game will include a coupon for one week at Gold’s Gym, and in turn, Gold’s locations will feature advertising for the game.

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Here is a trailer for the upcoming Prince of Persia downloable content, which should be available on February 26.

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White, who’s a mainstream brand thanks to his exploits in both skateboarding and snowboarding in the X-Games, has spent the past two years working with Ubisoft’s acclaimed Montreal development studio on his new snowboarding game.

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John Taylor, videogame analyst, Arcadia Research, said "Shaun White Snowboarding" sold 259,000 copies in the U.S. in November and generated $13.6 million for Ubisoft with 40 percent of those sales for the Wii console.

With the success of the first game, White said he’s already started working on the sequel.

"Now that I have the knowledge and I can speak to programmers better and I understand a lot more about what’s possible and what’s not possible, this will all help with the next game," said White.

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French company Gameloft has been going for just under 10 years now, and has developed on a fair few systems in that time; PC, Nintendo DS, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii and, more recently, the iPod Touch/iPhone OS. Given the current craze for the iPhone, the affordability of the games offered on it and the fact that I simply can’t be bothered to carry a dedicated portable games console around with me any more, I’ve decided to have a crack at falling back in love with mobile gaming again on Apple’s platform. Gameloft has kindly supplied me with the necessary titles to have a play with so let’s have a look and see if they provide bang for buck, or whether I’d be better off reading a book…

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