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Codemasters has released a new gameplay trailer for Operation Flashpoint: Red River.

The trailer is narrated by an American soldier and shows off the game’s setting Tajikistan, which happens to be crawling with relentless rebels.

Check out the trailer below:

Operation Flashpoint: Red River will be out on PS3, 360 and PC on April 21 in UK and April 26 in US.

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Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has been nominated for seven GAME British Academy Video Game Awards.

Along with Call of Duty: Black Ops, Brotherhood is up for Action, Artistic Achievement, Multiplayer, Technical Innovation and Use of Audio awards. Assasin’s Creed is also nominated for Best Game and Gameplay, with Black Ops also in the Story category.

That puts Black Ops at six nominations, the same as Sony’s Heavy Rain, which is eligible for Artistic Achievement, Best Game, Gameplay, Original Music, Story and Technical Innovation. continue to read »

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Here’s a new gameplay trailer for the new, bright and cheerful Mario Sports Mix.

The traditional Mario gang are joined by the Slimes from Square Enix’ Dragon Quest games for rounds of various ball sports in wacky arenas.

Although the trailer doesn’t fit with Nintendo’s usual high quality, it still gives us a little buzz of excitement about the upcoming game.

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Capcom’s controversial PlayStation Network DRM has returned.

In the new PSN description for recent release of Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 it reads: “You must log-in to the PlayStation Network each time to play the game.” While this isn’t as bad as always-on DRM found on PC – the game only checks for a PSN connection when it boots and won’t kick you out – it’s still bound to frustrate PS3 players who aren’t always online.

Capcom apologised last year for not making clear that similar DRM was present in Final Fight: Double Impact, which featured online two-player co-op.

The peculiar thing about Bionic Commando’s DRM however is that it’s an offline game, suggesting that Capcom may be concerned about piracy.

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Sony formally revealed the heavily-rumored PSP2 in Japan today. The device has been codenamed NGP for “next generation portable.” It is set for release by the end of 2011. Pricing information was not provided.

Details

NGP will use a new game medium, a small flash memory based card, dedicated for NGP software titles. The cards will store full game titles and add-on game content or save data. Sony notes that they’ll be able to provide higher capacity cards in the future to allow developers to store more game data. The device also supports PlayStation Network Trophies.

The NGP contains a touch screen on top and a touch pad on the bottom. This will allow players to interact with games through “touch, grab, trace, push and pull” moves of the fingers.

Release Dates

Sadly, the release date and price were not revealed. However, Sony did say that the NGP would be out for the 2011 holiday season.

Games

The NGP’s debut party saw Uncharted, Metal Gear Solid 4, LittleBigPlanet and Call of Duty take the stage, but most were just tech demos. So far, more than 10 third-parties are listed a supporting the NGP.

Interface

NGP, the successor to the PlayStation Portable, is getting an all-new interface. Dubbed LiveArea, the program acts as a hub page for games, and like the XMB before it, LiveArea allows users to hop between the different parts of the PlayStation space.