From 9 a.m. GMT on Tuesday 8th January, an exclusive demo for the exciting new shooter, The Club™ will be available via download across Europe and Australia on the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

Developed by industry revered development studio, Bizarre Creations, The Club™ mixes cutting edge high definition visuals with hyper-addictive score based challenges to deliver the most intriguing and innovative shooter of early 2008.

The demo features:

- The Prison environment; a disused crumbling, tomb-like Federal Penitentiary, lying in a remote region of one of the less glamorous Rustbelt states.

- One playable character exclusive to the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace version of the demo (Renwick, a tough, no nonsense, NYPD Detective whose investigations brought him too close to The Club™).

- Single player modes ‘Sprint’ and ‘Time Attack’.

- Multiplayer splitscreen.

As one of eight misfit gladiators players must fight in a shadowy underground blood-sport run by a secret group of sick millionaires. Each character has their own reasons for being in The Club™ – some are there against their will, others to experience the ultimate high. Whatever their reasons what unites them is the need to kill quickly and skilfully – a challenge those who download this demo will experience first hand.

UK Official Xbox 360 Magazine - “The rules of The Club are simple: you cannot break your stride. You cannot stop. You must be the perfect killing machine. This is Space Invaders for the Quentin Tarantino generation. Welcome to heaven”

The Club™ will be released across Europe on February 8th 2008 for the Xbox 360™, PLAYSTATION®3 and PC. For more information on The Club™ please visit www.theclubgame.com.

The Guinness Book of Records have launched a sneak peak of their 2008 Gamer’s edition which rather nattily (and unsurprisingly frankly) contains many SEGA related records.

The 24 page preview of the book contains various sections devoted to individual game series, platforms and types. Unfortunately they seemed to miss “most obscure ninja” for Martin, but we now know the following SEGA related records:

• 1999’s arcade version of Virtua Tennis was the first tennis game to use 3D graphics.
• Virtua Tennis 3 has more playable real life players than any other tennis game.
• The highest score achieved on the Dreamcast’s Virtua Tennis in exhibition mode is 44,000 by Jan Erik-Spangberg of Sweden.
• Sonic 2 is the best selling game on any SEGA console.
• Sonic Mega Collection is the world’s best selling retro games collection.
• The highest recorded total scored on Sonic 2 is 433,640 by a Heather Corocan of Arizona (under Twin Galaxies rules).
• Sonic is officially the fasted video game character in the world.
• Sonic Heroes featured more playable characters in a platform game (12) than any other game.
• Sonic The Comic is the longest running comic on a video game character, clocking in at over 14 years!

You can check out the preview here.