This week we take at look a racing game that may have been left in the oven a little too long. Or maybe it was taken out at the right time, but didn’t get on the table until five years later. I believe it was the Sugar Hill Gang who said “… and then you look at your plate and your chickens slowly rottin’ into something that looks like cheese.” That’s what Cobra 11: Crash Time looks like at least, maybe they can prove us wrong when we get our hands on it at E3, maybe.

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We’re not going to lie to you folks — we here at QP have a little bit of a love thing going for N+, Metanet Software’s once free flash game that blossomed into something we’ve spent hours tearing our hair out over. As if the game didn’t already come with enough (like, 400 levels or something ridiculous like that), there’s about to be a hell of a lot more. According to the Metanet Software blog, they’ve just submitted three map packs to Microsoft for downloadable content…and one of those packs is entirely free. Their words in full, after the break.

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This Sunday, July the 6th, Philly Gamers will be holding their first event of the summer — “Earn Your Independence.” The event will consist of their standard summer lineup. Gear up for 2v2 Halo 3, Guitar Hero III, and Smash Bros. Brawl. More after the break.

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The floodgates have at least partially opened if today’s deluge of screenshots from Microsoft, Epic and Cliffy “Young Clifford” B are any indication of things to come. The game? You guessed it, Horsez for Nintendo DS. No no, we’re just kidding — it’s totally a fresh gallery of not so fresh looking enemies and surprisingly bright skylines from the upcoming Gears of War sequel…after the break.

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Soul Calibur (Namco, 1999; 800 MS Points/$10): Developers have a knack for capitalizing on the buzz for a new product in unique ways. Namco, taking advantage of the excitement for the fifth installment in the Soul Calibur series, is getting back to their roots with the release of 1999’s Soul Calibur.

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There were some mumblings in the gaming world earlier about a Nintendo DS port of the phenomenally popular and much-loved Super NES RPG Chrono Trigger, and now Square Enix has made it official. The game will be released in time for the holidays this year, with some new features designed for the DS, such as an extra dungeon, wireless play and, not surprisingly, use of the DS’s touch-screen. A “countdown site” has been launched, and the full press release is up at Kotaku.

As something of an obsessive fan of the Chrono series, this pretty much made my day week year.

No, we’re not going to talk about some of the bad press the Resident Evil 5 trailers received this past year. (Sorry Mr. Croal, we respect you, but if you can’t explain your point without saying ’sort of’ a dozen times, then you should rethink your argument.) Aside from the fact that mass murdering is the only solution to a zombie infection, Capcom’s latest endeavor looks like it’s doing the right thing by keeping the gameplay familiar and pumping up the zombie factor by about 10%. Hit the break for our thoughts on Resident Evil 5 trailers and screens.

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Never ones to turn down an opportunity to profit where the first-party console makers haven’t, Nyko Techonologies today announced plans for a USB-powered Playstation 3 hub that will add the two missing USB slots to the 40GB model and a media card reader that supports both SD cards and Memory Sticks (read as “Sony Pro-Duo Memory Sticks” — the PSP ones.)

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The makers of Guitar Hero III are offering up a free download of the theme to the critically acclaimed scientology documentary, Top Gun, as a 4th of July present to All-American gamers. The song will be available through Xbox Live and the Playstation Store on July 3rd. You undoubtedly know the song, but in case you don’t, here’s a description from Activision’s press release:

“The instrumental, guitar-heavy theme was immortalized in the hit film that inspired a generation of young men to awkwardly serenade women at bars, perform perfectly-timed “flipside” high fives and threaten to “buzz the tower.”

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So we know a few things about the upcoming James Bond tie-in game being developed by Treyarch, Quantum of Solace: the game’s undoubtedly releasing this November alongside its movie namesake, there’s a team at Treyarch devoted to development of QoS using the Call of Duty 4 engine, and the screens look like there’s clearly some road still ahead. We have a full gallery for you after the break, though no other shots are as daring as the one you see above.

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