Continuing the recent retro revivals, classic-oriented digital distribution outfit Good Old Games now carries some old Rebellion-published games as part of its catalog.

Massive Entertainment's Ground Control and Elixir Studios' Evil Genius represent the initial offerings, with the strategy games respectively selling for $4.99 and $9.99.

More titles are due in the coming weeks, including Stainless Steel's Empire Earth: Gold Edition ($5.99), Impression's Lords of Magic ($5.99) and unspecified others.

While the fate of Star Wars Battlefront III remains unclear, publisher LucasArts today announced a new entry in the third-person shooter series for Nintendo DS and PSP.

Dubbed Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron, the game is due out this fall. Rebellion (SW Battlefront II PSP, SW Battlefront Renegade Squadron PSP) is handling the PSP edition, while n-Space (Call of Duty: World at War DS, SW: The Force Unleashed DS) has been tasked with the first Star Wars Battlefront title to hit Nintendo DS.

Alongside a "deep and engrossing single player campaign" centered around the rivalry between Force-sensitive clones X1 and X2, players will duke it out... Read more

During its press event in London last week, Bethesda not only cleared up the status of its long in-development project Rogue Warrior, but also announced it would be publishing A2M's action shooter WET and licensing a series of Elder Scrolls novels.

Rogue Warrior, a shooter based on the exploits of Navy SEAL Richard Marcinko, was originally announced in 2006 as a Zombie Studios project. The game has since been scrapped, and the core project turned over to Alien vs. Predator developer Rebellion.

"Suffice it to say, we were not happy with what the direction of that project was," said Bethesda marketing VP Pete Hines during the event.

Zombie's ambitious multiplayer plans for Rogue Warrior have been scaled back to deathmatch and team DM, while the singleplayer component is now a one-man affair that focuses more on Marcinko's unique personality. This focus is marked... Read more

A new Aliens vs. Predator game will arrive in early 2010, publisher Sega has announced, with the company noting that AvP will hit before its other two Aliens games.

That means Gearbox's shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines (PC, PS3, 360) and Obsidian's Aliens RPG won't debut until 2010, at the very earliest. Colonial Marines was originally expected last year, and was recently listed as a Q1 2009 release by Sega Europe.

Rumors that Aliens: Colonial Marines was put on hold emerged amidst layoffs, but Gearbox president Randy Pitchford quickly clarified that it wasn't cancelled. Meanwhile, Sega has remained rather quiet about the Aliens RPG since it was revealed in 2006.

The new Aliens vs. Predator title will be developed by Rebellion, which handled the 1999 PC shooter Aliens versus Predator, but had no involvement in Monolith's 2001 sequel.

No further details or platforms for Aliens vs. Predator were provided, apart from a promise it will be "innovative," with Sega vowing that more details are due "very soon."

Independent developer Rebellion is shifting gears from PSP development and focusing more on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, CEO Jason Kingsley revealed to GamesIndustry.biz.

Recent titles from Rebellion include the PSP editions of The Simpsons Game, Star Wars Battlefield: Renegade Squadron, Gun: Showdown, and Dead to Rights: Reckoning.

Among the studio's new efforts is a PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 sequel to Eidos' Shellshock property. The first entry in the series, Shellshock: Nam '67 (PC, PS2, Xbox), was developed by Guerrilla Games and released in 2004.

"It's very much a mature product, it's a bit like Jacob's Ladder or Apocalypse Now in movie terms," explained Kingsley. "It's troubling--deliberately so--it's meant... Read more