Just Cause

A recent job listing from Avalanche Studios may reveal the developer to be working on a downloadable instalment to the Just Cause franchise.

Joystiq: Eric Eisner's L+E Productions has optioned the rights to a Just Cause movie script written by Michael Ross, reports Variety. Producer Adrian Askarieh is helping the production company flesh out the project before shopping it to the studios. L+E Productions' first project, Hamlet 2, was picked up by Focus Features for a reported $10 million in 2008, giving some hope to the possibility of Just Cause actually appearing in theaters at some point in the future. Askarieh also helped to get the Hitman film out the door, to which a sequel is currently in production.

Ve3tro writes: Square Enix has announced two new DLC packs for Just Cause 2. Available from April 29th is the Black Market Aerial Pack is the ultimate accessory for airborne agents.

EIDOS Interactive has take a step into the feature of user creation with Just Cause 2, and their doing this by adding video capture to the title, they have also have create a game that is poised to easily trump its predecessor. To show off what users can expect to do, EIDOS released this new trailer titled Vlog's, or Video logs. This is the first trailer in the series, and has community director Mike Holgman demoing the Playstation 3, exclusive feature - Video Capture.

In the next issue of Edge Magazine, Just Cause developer Avalanche shows off its latest open world game, AionGuard, CVG is reporting. The game has been in development for two years and Avalanche is yet to find a publisher. According to the dev team, the AionGuard are a mix of WWI dogfighter pilots, Samurai and medieval knights, who are out to recapture the world after the near-destruction of their civilization. However it appears more info will be winging its way to the web soon as the official Avalanche site teases a big news update is due soon. Last year the developer was looking for an effects artist to work on a high-profile project for Xbox 360 and PS3. Coincidence surely.

Eidos is viewing the success of its naval combat game Battlestations: Midway as reason to warrant a sequel, it's emerged. It was also reaffirmed in the report that a Just Cause sequel is in development. Eidos was unavailable for comment on either sequel at the time of writing, however the producer on Battlestations: Midway, Klaude Thomas, did hint at potential content for a follow-up when we talked to him at the end of last year. It's likely that the sequel will be returning us to WWII,

SCI has reveled that work on a new Battlestations: Midway game is already underway, due to the recent success of the first release for this series. The original title entered the UK charts at No1 for both the PC and Xbox 360 and has been receiving some great review scores.

The funny thing about inventing a genre of videogames is that, until it becomes completely played out, every game that emulates your formula is going to be attached to your name. Games that feature a wide-open, freely explorable world, for example, will have a hard time avoiding the label of "Grand Theft Auto clone," especially if their worlds are littered with vehicles to steal and drive. In the six years since Grand Theft Auto III, a slew of games have tried to become "the next GTA," but so

Eidos has revealed that development on a number of sequels from the firm's biggest franchises is underway. Our future next generation console titles include new versions of Tomb Raider, Hitman and Championship Manager plus new IPs including Kane & Lynch and Crossfire, the company said in a financial release.

A nice juicy rumor in this months edition of the Electronic Gaming Monthly; it is said that, after Rare, Microsoft has plans to take over Capcom as well to get more feet on the ground in Japan! It would make sense after Lost Planet and Dead Rising that were both Xbox 360 exclusive. More about this rumour and some other nice rumours (Just Cause 2 has green light from Eidos and Konami pushing to get MGS to Xbox 360) by clicking the link below.