If this wereJerry MaguireI would have told Capcom to shut up, because they had me atzombies, but thankfully it’s not and they went on to createZombie Wonderland, a simple flash game that lets you win Capcom prizes. In the game you play as Santa and one of three reindeer (Rudolph, Dasher, or the evidently cross dressing Dancer) while trying to escape the North Pole because it’s been over run by zombies....

Activision is pulling itsApachefranchise out of the vaults, announcing that a new title,Apache: Air Assault,will ship for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 later this year. Developed by Gaijin Entertainment, the game will focus on helicopter combat, with players controlling Apache attack choppers to prevent terrorist attacks. The game will feature 16 missions, including air and combat ops spanning the globe from Africa to the Middle East, created using high resolution satellite data....

For once anAlan Wakestory has arisen without months of silence prefacing it. Last week Remedy announced that they were going to show aspecial trailer at the Max Payne premierin Finland. Today1UPput up an interview with Sam Lake, lead writer behindAlan Wake. Among a smattering of topics, one key thing can be gleaned.Alan Wakeappears to be nearing completion. From the interview: With the first Max Payne, we were only a couple of months from the release when the bullet-time found its final form....

Watch outRanch RushandRisk II— there’s a few new games available on the Amazon“Game Downloads” channel. Telltale Games recently announced that all five chapters of theTales of Monkey Islandseries are coming to Amazon’s digital download service. The first two chapters —“Launch of the Screaming Narwhal”and“The Siege of Spinner Cay”— can be purchased right now, separately, for the first time since the series was announced. Both chapters are priced at $8.95, which is a decent chunk of change for the first title if you’ve been wondering what you’ve been missing....

The massive underwater city of Rapture may have began in the imaginations ofBioShock’sdevelopers 2K, but a similar city could become a reality in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. World Architecture Newssays that a $14.4 billion plan was just unveiled this week to expand Amsterdam. This port city is centuries old, and they ran out of development space a long time ago, so now they’re looking to build down rather than out....

Anonymous,apparently unhappywith Sony and Geohot’s out-of-court settlement, pledged to spread disruption around the world, protesting at Sony stores and unleashing the “biggest attack” Sony ever witnessed. Unfortunately for Anonymous, that appears to have not happened. The group’splanning page on Facebookreports that attendance at Sony Center gatherings were low. Although a few UK stores allegedly closed on the 16th to avoid Anonymous’ wrath, it’s said that few, if any, Anonymous protesters ever showed up to cause trouble....

Why watch chunks of Ubisoft’s short film,Assassin’s Creed: Lineage, on the Internet? Get up from the keyboard and go sit on your couch! Ubisoft and Spike TV have announced that the completelyAssassin’s Creed: Lineageshort will air in its entirety on Spike TV, next Wednesday, November 11 at midnight. The short provides backstory for the forthcoming sequel, which follows Ezio’s father, Giovanni Auditore da Firenze, and presumably helps sets up the events you’ll be playing when the game hits shelves on November 17....

We’re all excited about the upcomingGhostbustersgame, and were devastated when we heard that it lost its original publisher, Sierra. When Atari picked it up, we had a party. We think this is great for a few reasons. One:Ghostbustersisn’t canceled and is coming out in June … yay! Two: Atari PR has forced the folks at Terminal Reality to write a “developer diary,” which I’ve pasted (word for word) after the jump....

[When we’re looking for blogs on a specific topic, we’ll put out a Bloggers Wanted call. Check out the blog prompt, write your own response in the Community Blogs and tag it with the “Bloggers Wanted Essay Response” tag, and you may see your blog promoted to the front page.— JRo] Last week saw another high profile gaming release —Gears of War 3. I’m sure you all heard about it....

Borderlands— that shooter from Gearbox thatwent from 0 to 100 on the hype scalein the span of a day — has had its dramatic art style explained in detail for those who still liken it to cel-shading. Gearbox iskeen to point outthat this is a new graphical technique, and considering how beautiful the character models now look, they have every right to differentiate. “The new technique uses hand-drawn textures,” explains Gearbox, “scanned in and colored in Photoshop, combined with software that draws graphic novel-style outlines around characters and objects, sharpens shadows to look more like something an artist might create, and even draws lines on hills and inclines....

Just what I needed, another RPG remake for the PSP. I’m not even being sarcastic, I actually like RPG remakes on my PSP, and Falcom is pulling out all the stops for the return ofBrandish. The overhead RPG, originally launched on the SNES, has been given a full 3D makeover, a’la theFinal FantasyDS games. Brandish: The Dark Revenantis basically an update to the original game, with Ares the swordsman falling into holes and dungeons just like before....

Having generic enemies that all look the same is a fatal flaw in game design, and one that can take you out of the immersion.Bulletstormdeveloper People Can Fly is avoiding this issue in a rather clever way — by making all of its enemies out of one little bald chap. Bulletstormuses a single character model for its generic enemies, but piles on various attachments and accessories to create hundreds of different looking opponents, similar to your average character creation mode....

Developer doublesix has announced thatBurn Zombie Burn, the developers first PlayStation Network title, has sold 70,000 units. Is that good or bad, you say? According to doublesix, that’s great, as it was the developers initial benchmark for success. It also points out that “digitally distributed titles tend to have a longer life cycle,” and that it expects it wlil “reach a significantly higher lifetime figure.” Why come out and say anything at all?...