Flashback will see several improvements to the original game with updated graphics, a new skill system which allows you to customize your character and even new story additions in the form of extra dialogue and voice acting. You’ll also be able to aim a full 360 degrees this time around. The game also features the original 1992 game available for play so you can compare and contrast the two versions.

Despite arriving significantly latter than the Xbox 360 version, the PC and Mac versions won’t have any new features. Check out our official review of the Xbox 360 version here.

‘What is Flashback,’ you ask? Excellent question.

Why are they remaking it? Just listen:

Flashback is a 1992 sci-fi platformer, originally released for the Animaga system, with it’s huge success leading to release across a wide myriad of platforms, MS-DOS, Acorn Archimedes, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo to name a few. Flashback’s game play was similar to that of Prince of Persia, with non-scrolling screens, but the main differences were in the highly detailed character movement animation and the inclusion of modern weapons, such as a pistol. The story was lovingly crafted as a tribute based on sci-fi thrillers such as Total Recall and Tron.

Today a semi-in depth preview of the Flashback 2013 remake was released by IGN, and boy does it look sleek. Paul Cuisset, who was the lead developer of the original Flashback, is heading the remake effort. With Cuisset sitting in the captain’s chair and Ubisoft behind him, what we are expecting is a supped up, game play and graphic enhance mechanic that holds true to the beloved sci-fi plotline of the original.

Some other additions we can look forward to are an expanded plot with new characters, voice acting, and a brand new skill system which reportedly will throw a bit of character customization into the mix.

Flashback releases in August 2013 on both X Box Live and the Playstation Network.

VectorCell has released a new trailer of their stealth horror game, Amy. The game’s probably already the worst game of the year, but… well, let’s leave the decision to play the game to you.

You can watch the trailer above.

Here’s some info on the game as given by the devs:

Global warming has taken effect, causing widespread disease and an upsurge in natural disasters around the globe. The small town of Silver City (Midwest, USA) is directly affected – mostly by a comet that has crashed into town. As Lana, one of Silver’s stricken citizens, regains consciousness – she witnesses the onset of a new kind of mayhem. Violent outbursts, fury, rage, wreckage and death: the world she knew seems to have gone to hell.

Amy is a survival horror game that comes from a new developer called VectorCell.  In this developer diary for the game the emphasis on Lara and Amy’s relationship together is explained, as well as how they can work together through out the game. The game will release later this fall but still does not seem to officially have a publisher at this point.

The game is set to be released for the Xbox 360 Arcade (XBLA), Playstation 3 Network (PSN) and PC. The game takes place in 2034 in the small town of Silver City that has been nearly destroyed formed natural disasters.  You are also contaminated in the the game and can slowly turn you into a Zombie, which does not actual kill you.  Above you can see the ‘Contamination’ trailer.