We continue to march up Hell's Highway with the latest Brothers in Arms trailer. This one emphasizes the role of teamwork to survive battle and highlights the command system players will use to issue orders to teammates.Download the Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway "Teamwork" HD Trailer (99 MB)...

Those cool folks at Valve along with developer Gearbox Software and publisher Ubisoft are offering up a nice little pre-order offer if you purchase Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway via Valve's Steam service. Purchasing the WWII tactical shooter in advance of its mid-September release date will give you the first game in the series, Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, absolutely free via Steam.If you don't feel like getting the game via Steam you can still get some extra stuff if you purchase the retail Limited Edition of Hell's Highway from Ubisoft. Either way Gearbox seems determined to give players some extra value no matter what version of the game they purchase....

The developers of Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway go into detail the different characters and how the game will draw players in emotionally. Download the HD Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway "Emotions" Video...

If you have been waiting to pre-order the upcoming Gearbox Software-Ubisoft WWII tactical shooter Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway but were waiting to see if they would come out with one of those special edition dealies, then you don't have to wait any longer. Gamestop is showing a new Limited Edition of the game on sale for $59.99, $10 more than the regular PC version.What do you get for that extra 10 bucks? You get a 6 inch Sgt. Matt Baker action figure with 13 accessories along with the first issue of the Dynamite Entertainment Brothers in Arms comic book and a map of the actual Operation Market Garden (the real WWII battle that is the setting for the game). If you pre-order the Limited Edition, Gamestop will even include two models (the German Commander and the American Assault model). It's unclear if these last two are in-game models or actual action figures. The game itself ships on Sept.23....

Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway is an interesting game for a few reasons -- primarily its setting. While people are quick to knock World War II games, the latest Brothers In Arms focus on a battle that was historically unkind to the ally strategy is enough to forget we've seen it all before. The latest trailer for Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway also reminds us of another factor we forget all too often when playing games -- this happened. The characters themselves are based on the real men who fought for survival during Operation Market Garden and looks to pay homage to them and brave heroes who lost their lives during the epic encounter. Make sure to check out the latest footage for Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway by downloading the E3 2008 trailer, which clocks in at 111MB, today.Download the Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway E3 2008 trailer now!...

Have you ever played a shooter and thought, "this game would be infinitely more awesome with about 3 million weapons." Good news, Borderlands from Gearbox Software has you covered ... well, kind of. Touting the largest array of weaponry of any first-person shooter before it, Borderlands kind of cheats when deciding what is considered a new weapon. Those different scopes added to a sub-machine gun? Those all count as different weapons. Different ammo capacity? Totally counts as a new weapon. Different colors? Count it. So, while Borderlands doesn't have a million different weapons it does offer some highly customizable weaponry. You'll need it all to survive this one which is a cross between Mad Max and Stargate. Looking for more? Check out the E3 2008 trailer available for download today.Download the Borderlands E3 2008 trailer now!...

2K Games and Gearbox Software's Borderlands (trailer embedded above) aims to be a marriage of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and Diablo -- a Mad Max-inspired open world shooter with RPG elements such as character classes, level progression, and system-generated loot.Those features were put on display during a live gameplay demonstration at E3 this week, the video of which we've embedded on the other side of the jump. It's tough to see what's going on in too much detail because of the quality of the video, so the developer commentary is the real meat. The commentator spends rather a lot of time bragging about the random weapon generation, but there's some good stuff in there about the setting and character advancement. And hey; it's first-time live gameplay footage. That's something, at least....

Gearbox Software released several details on their upcoming post-apocalyptic shooter Borderlands during the Take-Two Interactive E3 press conference earlier today, reports Shacknews. Gearbox president Randy Pitchford touted the game as a cooperative shooter with randomized elements such as items and level-based progression.Set on the planet Pandora, Pitchford showed a cavernous mine filled with "trives of humanoid enemies to destroy," according to Shacknews. The game will contain over half a million weapons, all of which are supposed to be procedurally generated. "A revolver sniper rifle was spawned during the demo that even surprised Pitchford," says Shacknews. Many of the weapons contain wild explosive effects, prompting Pitchford to promise significant gore and limb loss.Before the demonstration concluded, vehicles were shown via a dune buggie that was driven by two players working in tandem. Two classes, the Hunter and the Solider, were revealed....

If you really want a long detailed trailer showing off a lot of gameplay from Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway, then you have hit the jackpot today. Developer Gearbox Software and publisher Ubisoft have released a new gameplay trailer that has many. many minutes of filmed gameplay from the WWII tactical shooter.As we have reported previously, the game is due for release in August for the PC and other platforms and follows a US Army group in the Operation Market Garden battle near the end of the war. We hope to see the game at Ubisoft's booth at E3 this week.Download the new Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway gameplay trailer from Big Download now....

Developer Gearbox Software and publisher Ubisoft have released a new trailer for Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, offering a look at the tanks -- and the wanton amounts of carnage they'll offer -- in the game. Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway will be available for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 later this August.Download the HD Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway tanks trailer from Big Download....

It's become something of a trend to dismiss the revamped and invite only Electronic Entertainment Expo as no longer relevant. The truth, however, is that there is still no one event in the United States that brings together more game developers and publishers than E3 even in its smaller version (as the E3 Media and Business Summit). We are now just one week away from the start of E3 2008 which after last year's detour in several Santa Monica, CA hotels will once again take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center). Despite what other articles might tell you the PC game industry will be represented very well at the expo this year with a number of highly anticipated game titles due to be shown to the invited press (and there may very well be a few surprise announcements in store for E3 that we don't know about yet). So what PC games are we most looking forward to seeing at E3 2008 next week? We've compiled a list of our top 25 picks and we will reveal our list over the next week (with an article on honorable mentions and wild card picks on Saturday). We wanted to make this list heavy on PC game exclusives or games that will have the PC as the lead or major platform if it also appears on game consoles....

Some people might not be excited about Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway from developer Gearbox Software but it seems that every time new info or screens of the game drop we get a little excited. Continuing its tradition of a first-person shooter with a light, tactical strategy overlay, Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway is based on the historic WWII battle, Operation Market Garden. Other than the squad-based mechanics, BIA:HH is unique for its focus on a battle that famously failed due to strong opposition. As the brave men of the 101st Airborne Division dropped into the German-occupied Netherlands expecting little resistance, they were ambushed by one of the fiercest battalions of German soldiers the war had seen. Known as the final victory for the Germans in the last Great War, Hell's Highway promises to retell the intense battle when it releases this August. We've added 12 images (which include a handful of new shots) to our existing gallery for the Ubisoft published shooter....

Gearbox Software's hotly anticipated Borderlands will be among the games presented by publisher 2K Games at this year's E3 conference. The game, which was first revealed late last year in Game Informer magazine, is an (apparently) open-world first-person-shooter with cooperative multiplayer, randomly generated levels ala Diablo, and some RPG elements. It's set in a Mad Max-esque post-apocalyptic wasteland. Gearbox and 2K have high expectations for the game; they hope it will birth a franchise. It's scheduled to release sometime in 2009.2K will also be showing Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization at the show. If you haven't been keeping up, just know that it's a remake of Sid Meier's original Colonization, which was released back in 1994. It uses the same basic technology as Civilization IV, but it's a stand-alone game with decidedly different gameplay. Oh, and it's a PC exclusive, so hurray for that! For more on that one, check out our hands-on impressions.[Via videogaming247]...

Sometimes people forget at a press event that they are being recorded. This seemed to have happened at a recent media gathering for the upcoming Treyarch-Activision WWII shooter Call of Duty: World at War. Eurogamer.net has a video interview where an Activision rep was asked about comparing their game to Gearbox Software's upcoming Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway. His response? "We don't want to look at someone who's just making a crappy war game. I watched the trailer and I'm like 'these guys aren't even in the same league."Ouch. That's pretty brutal, especiallly since Gearbox's previous Brothers in Arms games have gotten far better reviews than Treyarch's previous Call of Duty titles. Thankfully Treyarch's community manager made a post on the Xbox.com forums apolgizing for the statements made by the Activision rep, saying, "We want to let everyone know that we found those remarks offensive, and they do not in any way represent the feelings of any developer at this studio or at Activision. We hold all of our peers in the development community in the highest regard. We have nothing but respect for the guys and gals at Gearbox."...

It's been a comparatively slow week at Big Download. Most of the huge new files will coincide with E3 and other conferences in the next few weeks. We still have a few items of interest for you to check out this weekend, though. The most obvious choice is the Call of Duty: World at War (or Call of Duty 4.5, if you prefer) trailer. Treyarch is trying to take a different approach to World War II; download it and judge for yourself whether or not it has succeeded. We also have a lengthy preview for Gearbox Software's Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway. If that intrigues you, be sure to also check out our recent interview with Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford. Call of Duty: World at War TrailerCall of Duty is returning to World War II in Call of Duty: World at War. This time the focus is on the Pacific theater of the war. WALL-E DemoThis Pixar animated movie-based game has garnered some positive feedback from some of our readers. At only 219 MB, you don't have much of an excuse not to try it, do you? Stronghold Crusader Extreme DemoWe hear that this historical real-time-strategy game from Firefly Studios is extreme in some way. Look at the title! Download the demo and judge its extremeness for yourself. SAGA Game ClientSaga is a massively multiplayer real-time strategy game that borows gameplay elements from collectible card games. Consider this free client a starter deck. Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway Behind the Scenes TrailerThis five minute-long video explains the rich historical basis for Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, as well as the narrative implications of telling a darker, less hopeful version of the World War II story. ...