The Ritual Entertainment website has been updated with the company's fifth podcast. Audio director Zak Belica talks about creating ambient and weapon sounds for SiN Episodes: Emergence.

New at FiringSquad this afternoon is a SiN Episodes: Emergence Q&A. Ritual's Levelord is asked about the Emergence episode, the Arena mode, the planned multiplayer update, plans to put Wages of SiN on Steam and the SiN: Source port.

It's taken a while but the SiN Episodes: Emergence SDK is now available on Steam. The kit allows you to create singleplayer and Arena Mode maps for the game.

For all you game stats loving people, Ritual has updated the SiN Episodes site with some Emergence playing stats. There's one page specifically for the singleplayer campaign, while another page has Arena Mode stats.

This week is today as the promised SiN Episodes: Emergence patch is now available through Steam. The patch offers more fixes and adjustements, and three new Arena Mode maps have been added as well.

According to the official SiN Episodes website, a new update for Emergence will be released this week. There will be more fixes and adjustements, and three new Arena Mode maps will be added as well.

The SiN Episodes website notes that that promised Arena Mode for SiN Episodes: Emergence is now available. In Arena Mode, you fight on onslaught of SinTEK foes. The longer you last, the higher your score. The update comes with 4 maps for the Arena Mode, and also fixes several Emergence issues.

There is a lengthy new blog update on the official SiN Episodes, covering various topics related to the game. Mentioned first is the upcoming patch for the Emergence episode, which will add the Arena Mode. The blog also touches on SDK plans, Episode 2 and a belated look back at E3.

Fan site Ritualistic has been updated with a new SiN Episodes Q&A. Ritual's Ken Harward and Levelord are asked about the response to the Emergence episode, the decision that had Blade pretty much silent in the episode, the stats system, and plans for an SDK and the Arena Mode.

The Ritual Entertainment website has been updated with a new podcast. In this one, audio director Zak Belica talks about the creation of the main theme for SiN Episodes: Emergence.

The SiN Episodes website has been updated with a new blog entry, talking about various items. There's information about the German release, plans for free multiplayer for Emergence owners, adjusting the storyline, and plans to have Blade talk more in the second episode.

Ritual has released a new trailer for SiN Episodes: Emergence, offering about a minute and a half of in-game footage from this Source Engine powered shooter.

Ritual has been updating the SiN Episodes website daily with new Emergence screenshots, so I figured we'd update our gallery for the game and add the most recent snaps. In related news a new blog is up at the official site, announcing plans for an Arena Mode and the upcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo. In the Arena Mode, to be released some time after Emergence becomes available, you get spawned into an arena and get charged by an endless supply of foes (with the difficulty dynamically tuned based on how you are doing). The longer you last, the higher your score. As for E3, Ritual will have Emergence running at three partner booths, and booth babes have been hired as well. Some photos of these fine ladies are included with the blog update. Lastly, fan site Ritualistic has a Q&A with the game's voice cast.

SiN Episodes: Emergence will be in stores and on Steam next week.

Game Overdrive is the latest site with a SiN Episodes preview, checking out the Emergence episode which is being released next week.

The second Ritual podcast is up, this one being in video form. The video shows a behind the scenes look at the Ritual employees celebrating Sin Episodes: Emergence going gold.

The Ritual Entertainment website has been updated with the first Ritual Podcast. This first installment features audio director Zak Belica talking about the creation of one of the music tracks for SiN Episodes Emergence. In other Emergence news the blog on the SiN Eps website has been updated to announce the gold status of the first installment, though this is hardly surprising news with the game's release date as being set for May 10 a while back.

New at Ritualistic today is this new SiN Episodes audio Q&A. Ritual's audio director Zak Belica talks about the music and sound you'll hear in Emergence and beyond. The SiN Episodes: Emergence soundtrack will be available through iTunes, Rhapsody and other online services.

With the release of Emergence impending, the SiN Episodes website has been updated with two new screenshots and a Steam skin. There is also a new blog update, detailing the work that has gone into Episode 2 so far.

The latest Valve news update is now available upon restarting Steam (or well.. clicking that link). The post offers two new screenshots from SiN Episodes: Emergence, and also mentions that Half-Life 2: Episode One will feature about an hour of developer commentary. This commentary system, which Valve first used in Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, are spread out over a hundred "nodes" in the game.