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Dracula – Undead Awakening is an addictive top-down shooter. Players control a grizzled Hunter of the Undead who chooses weapons and abilities, and then battles legions of undead foes including zombies, ghouls, werewolves and more. An arsenal of jaw-dropping powerful weaponry can be unlocked including such as Machine Guns, Buzz-Saws and Flamethrowers. Players can even earn upgrades for their weaponry and unique new perks for their character, all while their gruesome enemies increase in number and ferocity.

Dracula – Undead Awakening is available now. The WiiWare version costs just 1,000 Nintendo Wii points, while the DSiWare version is priced at 500 Nintendo DSi points.

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

Sony has officially announced its “secret sequel,” and as it turns out, it’s a proper follow-up to the beloved SOCOM series: SOCOM 4. The game is being developed by Zipper Interactive, and it’s due out this fall. Many assumed MAG was the developer’s next step in military action, but apparently they plan to keep the two running concurrently. The blog promises to continue to support MAG after SOCOM 4 launches.

The plot revolves around a military coup in a South Asian country. Players take control of a five-man squad to stop him in the single-player campaign. IGN reports that the 12-hour mission features motion-captured characters in the directorial style of Uncharted 2. All weapons and supplies will be either given at the start of the game, or found inside the missions, to replicate the feeling of searching for supplies in a combat scenario. Of course, multiplayer is back as well, promising 32-person multiplayer with new Special Forces units. Other than that, details are sparse, but we’re sure to see more in the coming months.

Death By Cube, Premium Agency/Square-Enix’s dual-joystick shooter, is heading over to the Xbox Live Arcade today! Priced at 800 Microsoft Points, this omnidirectional shooter will have you killing…erm, sorry…destroying cube shaped robots with a whole arsenal of different weapons that you can level up and heaps of wacky power-ups. It’s dirty, it’s greasy, it’s oily…it’s Death By Cube. Complete with up to eight player online battles and an amazingly fun single-player experience, Death By Cube is sure to bring fun to your Xbox 360.

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

With Halo 3, Bungie has been about on par with the past two Call of Dutys in terms of online activity, and is well aware that the keys to a successful multiplayer are well-crafted maps, a set of weapons that work much like a game of rock-paper-scissors, and constant community support.

Bungie certainly know how to build a game oozing with quality that has an undeniably solid net code and potentially hours of replayability for gamers to sink their teeth into, but they seem to either completely misunderstand what draws players to games like Modern Warfare 2, or they see it as a style of multiplayer they aren’t interested in emulating.

Norwegian newspaper DagBladet is reporting DLC will likely be available day one or soon thereafter for Mass Effect 2. DagBladet says the usual items like armor and weapons will be available, but also other things, such as an unlockable planet and even a new ally by the name of Zaeed Messani, the grizzled bounty hunter pictured above. The piece also mentions an in-game store for unlocking DLC called "Cerberus Network," which sounds a lot like Dragon Age: Origins’ DLC platform.

In the new (we assume dual-stick) shooter, 0 Day Attack On Earth, players assume the heavy responsibility of a unique challenge: Saving Earth. Ok, not so unique in the scheme of things, but whatevs. Also? Kind of a basic name, right?

Anyway, Players avoid enemy bullets, shoot said enemies with their own weapons, and do it over what the developers are claiming to be very accurate re-creations of New York, Paris and Tokyo. What more does this bring to the table besides that and Square Enix’s reputation for high end graphics and smooth gameplay mechanics? We’re not sure, but we’ll be sure to let you know if and when we get our mitts on this bad boy. It’s currently at 1200 Points on the XBox Live Arcade.

If the core of a first-person shooter comes down to how fun it is to shoot, then Killzone 2 was already a shoo-in for this category. While the original Killzone’s weapons were limp and unsatisfying, Killzone 2’s are weighty, effective, and an absolute blast to shoot. Yet the improvements go far beyond the enhanced arsenal. Killzone’s artificial intelligence was remarkably inept, but Killzone 2 exhibits some of the year’s finest AI, another reason the action is so much more satisfying. And while its predecessor suffered from a variety of technical issues that marred its otherwise strong presentation, Killzone 2 is a technical marvel, stunning to both look at and listen to.

When you first dive into Killzone 2’s competitive warzone, you don’t have much in the way of options. Limited weapons, ammo, and grenades make you feel like a new recruit, and the battlefield can be a deadly place. Gloomy lighting, thick smoke, and harsh industrial environments create an oppressive atmosphere, and the sound of battle often grows to a cacophony that few other shooters can match.

NowGamer: The action MMO’s designers have participated in a Q&A session on the latest APB vodcast

"We don’t have any abstract statistics or skills or attributes in APB,"lead game designer Knapp said of the character upgrade mechanic. "Your character’s your character and you play with skill. However, you do have some items available in game that enable you to upgrade your weapons, vehicles and equipment as you play the game…"

Killzone 2 isn’t just a shooter – it’s an experience. From your crash landing in the game’s opening moments to the thrill of blasting Helghast with lightning and smoke filling the air to the jaw-dropping ending, you’re seeing an entirely new and gritty world from behind the sights of many cool weapons