Ubi, THQ Announce New Games Ahead of E3

We're here, less than a week before E3, and most game companies have gone into quiet mode as they stealthily prepare for the show. It's actually kind of nice to see, because the general lack of hard info out there means that this year's show will actually have meaningful announcements, whereas the last couple of years have been a bit dry. But that doesn't mean that we're entirely without news this week. This morning, we woke up to a pair of new game announcements for stuff that'll be shown at E3 next week.

Ubisoft has confirmed that there will be another game in the Shaun White series, and this one will be coming exclusively to the Wii. Called Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage (or SWSWS!), the game will follow up on the original with bigger stuff to board on, like a half-pipe in the middle of Times Square. SWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWS will be out in Q4.

THQ also announced a little something-something for the show next week. Kaos Studios is hard at work on a new first-person shooter called Homefront. The game will predict a pretty dark near-future. It's set in the year 2027, and you'll be a part of the American Civilian Resistance as you fight to reclaim American soil from North Koreans. It's being written by John Milius, who worked on the movie Red Dawn, so... that could be cool? It's due on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. Kaos Studios, in case you have forgotten, is the team that did Frontlines: Fuel of War.

What more can we expect to see before the big show kicks off next week? Probably not too much more. I have to imagine anyone that could be writing up a press release about a new game is probably sitting in all-day meetings for the rest of the week, going over exactly how they want next week to go down.