Super Stickman Golf 2, the sequel to Noodlecake Studios' physics-based golf game, will be available this month, the company announced alongside the release of the game's first trailer yesterday. Noodlecake announced Super Stickman Golf 2 last July and originally planned to launch it in 2012. The sequel will feature 16 new courses and 4 redone versions of courses from the original game — Noodlecake says it built Super Stickman Golf 2 from the ground up to support dynamic objects like the windmill in the trailer. The studio also revamped the existing Race Mode to support eight players in local multiplayer; the first game's Race Mode, which works with two to four players, can be played online. As previously announced, a new asynchronous online multiplayer mode is the major addition to...

Revamped cameras, overhauled audio, the evolution of the Road To The Show mode and customizable batting animations are some of the features highlighted in the latest MLB 13 The Show developer diary. MLB 13 The Show designer Kirby St. John explains some of the notable camera overhauls and says that when the ball is hit up into the air the camera will move in on the player and look up at the ball as it flies through the air. In addition, the new Flyball Assist Indicator feature will help players get into position. It will point players towards an optimal catch position, similar in the way a first person shooter indicates which direction a player is taking damage from. The display will change from red to yellow to green as the catcher gets closer to the catch region. The indicator will...

Deadfall Adventures, the next game from former Polish game studio The Farm 51, promises to marry "the ethos of the Saturday morning matinee with the Summer blockbuster," combining first-person shooting with exploration and puzzle-solving. The Unreal Engine 3 game will send players to Aztec tombs, deep into the Arctic and into ancient Egyptian pyramids in search of artifacts and adventure. As protagonist James Lee Quatermain, players will face more than just deadly traps and puzzles, they'll also contend with supernatural enemies and Nazi soldiers with a taste for the occult. The Farm 51 doesn't shy away from Indiana Jones comparisons in its announcement of the Xbox 360 and PC game, though there's no mention of first-person whipping in Deadfall Adventures. "We're putting everything...

A trailer for Battlefield 3's upcoming End Game expansion takes viewers on a flyby tour of the DLC's four new maps. You can ride along with the camera in the trailer above as it swoops past the mountainous terrain in Operation Riverside, the sparse desert in the Nebandan Flats, the tracks in Kaisar Railroad and the snowy tundra in Sabalan Pipeline. You'll also catch a glimpse of the new dirtbikes coming with End Game, which will be available this March.

Naughty Dog developers discuss in detail the inspiration and characteristics of The Last of Us' Infected in the first installment of the game's developer diaries, titled "Hush." Neil Druckman creative director said that inspiration for the Infected came from a BBC Planet Earth documentary that featured Cordyceps fungus. "As soon as we saw it we were intrigued by the idea of what if it jumped to humans? What interesting ways would it take over a human," he says. Phillip Kovats audio lead pointed out: "A very big directive from the very beginning was they're not zombies." Extended cuts of The Last of Us Development video series will be available on the game disc. The Last of Us set for a June 14 release on PlayStation 3.