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Those looking forward to gameplay footage for American McGee's new game - Alice: Madness Returns - will love and hate this new trailer. The love is due to the fact that it contains plenty of unique gameplay footage, and the hate is due to it looking very, very similar to the previous game in the franchise. Still, the dark tone and extreme action aesthetic to the combat makes it intriguing and definitely worth watching. Just don't expect anything revolutionary.

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Alice: Madness Returns is a game that's been more or less under the radar since it was first announced over two years ago at DICE 2009. Not anymore, though. Computer and Video Games, reporting from a Electronic Arts press event, reveals that the sequel to 2000's American McGee's Alice now has a firm June 14 release date for the PC and other platforms.

As with the original the sequel takes Lewis Carroll's characters and Wonderland setting into dark places under the supervision of former id Software designer American McGee. The new third person action game, using Unreal Engine 3, is being developed by McGee's China-based developer Spice Horse.

While the previous teaser trailers have not done much to show off Alice: Madness Returns, this one reveals a little more about the game's new direction. It includes the redesigns of characters such as the Mad Hatter and the Caterpillar, and ends the same way as all the other trailers: with a quiet voice whispering "Alice, what have you done?" It's interesting from an aesthetic point of view - especially the caterpillar and the phoenixes which destroy the land - but we do wish that some proper gameplay trailers would get released.

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Battlefield fans can now go ahead and mark "March 1" on their calendars. That's the date that publisher Electronic Arts plans to finally reveal the first concrete details on Battlefield 3, the next game in the popular first person shooter franchise, according to an article on IGN. The game from developer Digital Illusions has been in development for some time and the PC version will require a DirectX 10-based rig to run.

The reveal will be part of an EA press event at GDC 2011 in San Fransisco which will also feature new hands-on previews of Alice Madness Returns, Crysis 2, and Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning. EA is also expected to reveal more new games at the event.

On Sunday we began our multi-part feature on Big Download's most anticipated PC games due (at least at the moment) for release in 2011 with the first person shooter genre. Today we continue our series with all of the action games we are excited to get our hands on the next year that don't have the first person perspective as its main viewpoint.

This next 12 months will see quite a few pure action games on the horizon including a reboot of one of the biggest game series of all time, a return appearance by a certain Dark Knight detective and a game where all of the action is happening inside your comatose mind. Really. Here's our action game list for 2011, in order of the games' expected release.

There hasn't been much news lately on the status of Alice: Madness Returns, the upcoming sequel to the 2000 action game American McGee's Alice. However this week comic book publisher Dark Horse Comics announced plans to release a hardcover book that shows off the art designs for the sequel.

The book, The Art of Alice: Madness Returns, will be a 184 page tome that will be filled with the behind-the-scenes production art that will serve as the basis for the look of the still unreleased game. The $34.99 book is now available for pre-order and is scheduled to ship from Dark Horse on May 11, 2011. There is still no specific release date for the game which is being developed by McGee's studio Spicy Horse.

While other game developers are cutting its work force or even shutting down entirely, China-based Spicy Horse is announcing its plans to expand. In a new chat at the Bloomberg web site its revealed that the developer behind the upcoming Electronic Arts sequel Alice: Madness Returns currently has about 80 workers at its Shanghai-based offices but will add team members over the next 18 months that will increase the work force to between 160 and 200 members.

Formed by former id Software designed American McGee, Spicy Horse is currently nearing completion of Alice: Madness Returns, according to the article. It's also making an MMO for the Chinese market that's currently unannounced.

[Via VG247.com]

When American McGee is involved, Alice becomes far removed from being a children story character. Alice: Madness Returns takes place 10 years after the conclusion of the previous game, and Alice is still struggling to overcome the trauma of losing her family in a fire. In an effort to overcome her nightmarish hallucinations, she must travel from London to a corrupted Wonderland, where she'll fight battles, interact with a cast of crazy characters, and uncover the truth behind her past.

This trailer is the first in four, and begins a new journey down the rabbit hole. The game is expected to release in the early half of 2011.

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Over a year ago Electronic Arts announced plans to work with designer American McGee again on a new installment of his reinterpretation of Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland. Today EA announced that the game has an official title, Alice Madness Begins.

The game is still set for release sometime in 2011 the third person action game from McGee's development studio Spicy Horse takes place 10 years after the events of the original American McGee's Alice. Alice has been put in an insane asylum following the death of her family in a fire. But what really did kill her family? That's what Alice has to find out as she journeys yet again in a warped version of Wonderland.