Thanks to Dead Space: Extraction hitting the streets in Australia a whole week earlier than here in the US, we've got nothing better to do than watch an Australian gamer play through the first fifteen minutes.

I know it's an on rails shooter a "guided first person experience" and I usually hate being told what to do — but based on this footage, I'm pleased with how Extraction turned out. We'll see how the whole game goes when I buy it next week.

Video: Dead Space Extraction - The first 15 minutes [Vooks]

The first video shows how a typical battle will play out - fairly standard Square-style stat shuffling with combos, breakers and whatnot. I always find these confusing to watch but this seems particularly frenetic. You can see a couple of characters using the game's new Quick Time Event system to execute special attacks with timed button presses.

Nice rawk soundtrack too. Assuming that is actually from the game.

The next video is altogether less stressful - but no less confusing.

Protagonist Rush Sykes runs around a marshland, splashing through pools of water and reeds and weaving in and out of what looks like a herd of giant levitating pink shrimp.

It looks pretty. The shrimp notice him. Fade to black.

Ok then!

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Gametrailers TV just secured themselves the first in-game footage from the game. The bad news? It won't be airing until May 9 at 1 a.m. The good news? The footage, which features Marcus Fenix, includes a special introduction by bunny-loving Epic game designer Cliff Bleszinski.

Based on the 1,040 responses to the DGD2 survey, I have ranked the top 10 emotions with their average score out of 5 to get a rough-and-ready estimate of the popularity of various emotions. This isn't a strict scientific measure, as such, but the highest scoring emotions are those for which the majority of people not only recognised having that emotion while playing games, but recognised it enhanced their enjoyment.

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GameTrailers has exclusive new footage of some new levels of the upcoming Ratchet and Clank for the PS3. Being a self professed fan of the series and a PS3 owner hungry for some decent games on the system, I'm quite looking forward to this game's release. All the clips I've seen of it have looked great and they just keep getting better. As an added Saturday bonus, I've included a second clip after the jump of another new area, the Arena Challenge .

Hot of the presses at GameTrailers comes this "Massive Montage" of new Assassin's Creed footage. Every time I watch gameplay from this I am always impressed by the free running. It's like Prince of Persia on crack. Needless to say, I can't wait for this game.

The folks at 1Up get a first look at Silent Hill 5 and man does it look great. From what I can see in the clips of the game shown throughout this piece, it's everything you are going to want from Silent Hill on a next gen platform. The scenes of Silent Hill changing to evil Silent Hill are delivered as promised, in real time while you are actually playing the game and draws directly from the method used in the Silent Hill movie. While it may have had it's faults, the film version did have a lot of interesting ways of treating the environment which translates quite nicely into the video game format. It's also nice to see that they are going back to the elements that made SH 2 the best in the series and steering away from the sometimes clunky mechanics of SH 4. If you are a Silent Hill fan, you're going to love this clip. What are you waiting for? Press play!

The Halo 3 Beta is nearly upon us and for those of you not lucky enough to get invited or unwilling to buy the awesome Crackdown for an invite, a slew of new videos have landed so you can see what you're missing.

All shall see Master Chief and fall to their knees. The mighty Halo shall rule the world. You will go out and purchase Halo 3 when it finally reaches the stores. You are getting very sleepy.... Flynn De Marco

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Here we have #9 in a series of FF XII Revenant Wings gameplay trailers. The game looks like it will fall right in line with all the other excellent FF titles we've had thus far. Being new to the whole Final Fantasy milieu, I'm finding that I enjoy the handheld titles better than their console counterparts. Especially Final Fantasy X2. God, I hated that game... Flynn De Marco

Finally, some gameplay from Umbrella Chronicles. It's great to see the old tried and true mansion making a comeback, although it seems to be much more zombie infested than the last visit. The "light gun" aspect of the game actually intrigues me, although I know some people would rather see it go the way of Duck Hunt. I've always been a fan of rail shooters like House of the Dead and I'm also a terrible aim with a regular controller, so the ability to actually point and aim is much more my speed. Besides, I'm always up for a trip down a zombie infested memory lane. Flynn De Marco

Wow, this looks fun, though I'm not sure yet if I'm going to like it less or more than Supreme Commander. Why do they have to bunch these amazing RTSes together? Brian Crecente