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On June 14, Electronic and Spicy Horse will release the highly-anticipated Alice: Madness Returns a dark and deranged action-adventure videogame that fans have been anticipating for over a decade. Gamers who don't want to be late for a very important date can pre-order at any retail outlet nationwid...

I believe we’ve only been wandering the dark realms of pre-rendered and weakman footage for USA McWow’s belated sequel to olden wierdo-actioner Alice until now, so ’tis a fine thing to finally present proper in-game videos of Madness Returns. It is it wonderland or ponderousland? Oof, that didn’t work at all.

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According to an online image doing the rounds, Alice: Madness Returns will be out on July 21 and rated "Cero Z", Japan's "Adults Only" equivalent. It's not uncommon for violent games to get Cero Z. Xbox 360's Gears of War and Wii's MadWorld both snagged Cero Z ratings. [はちま起稿] More »

As we started setting up for this interview, another major earthquake hit offshore Japan a 7.4 on the Richter scale. American McGee streamed the report on his phone and just kind of sat there, affected, quietly adding "End of the world." It was a weird moment. Of course, Alice: Madness Retur...

Jump down the rabbit hole! Fans may think they're seeing double, but it's not Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum; it's a double dose of Alice from American McGee. EA announced today that Alice: Madness Returns, shipping on June 14, will include a one-time-use Online Pass registration code (for Playstation ...

Electronic Arts today confirmed reports that new copies of Alice: Madness Returns on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 will contain a one-time use download code for a copy of the original American McGee's Alice, originally released on PC in 2000...

#downloadablemadness Confirming reports earlier this week from the man himself, American McGee's Alice brings its insanity to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, with code for a free download packed inside every copy of its sequel, Alice: Madness Returns. More »

"I should very much like to tell you of Project Ten Dollar," pleaded Alice.

"Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense," replied The Mock Turtle.

EA has confirmed that the original American McGee's Alice will be bundled as a downloadable bonus with Alice: Madness Returns when it's released on June 14. The catch is that the download will be tied to an "Online Pass," EA's special name for access to its games' online components, which are unlocked with registration codes included in new copies of the games. Additionally, players will be required to have the Madness Returns disc in the tray to access Alice 1. If you purchase Madness Returns used (and without an unused Online Pass code), you'd have to pay $10 for the downloadable bonus.

This marks the first time that the original Alice will be available on consoles. It will not be available on XBLA or PSN as a separate purchase -- at least, not immediately.

"I should very much like to tell you of Project Ten Dollar," pleaded Alice.

"Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense," replied The Mock Turtle.

EA has confirmed that the original American McGee's Alice will be bundled as a downloadable bonus with Alice: Madness Returns when it's released on June 14. The catch is that the download will be tied to an "Online Pass," EA's special name for access to its games' online components, which are unlocked with registration codes included in new copies of the games. Additionally, players will be required to have the Madness Returns disc in the tray to access Alice 1. If you purchase Madness Returns used (and without an unused Online Pass code), you'd have to pay $10 for the downloadable bonus.

This marks the first time that the original Alice will be available on consoles. It will not be (immediately) available on XBLA or PSN as a separate purchase.

Alice: Madness Returns will include the original Alice, according to Spicy Horse head American McGee. Speaking to CVG, McGee said, "A person who's purchased Madness Returns gets a download code and is able to bring Alice 1 onto their console and play through the entire original game alongside playing Madness Returns."

Additionally, McGee teased that the Alice sequel would see plenty of DLC ... dresses, which "come with special abilities and enhance how you play through the game."

Curiouser and curiouser, an EA representative told Joystiq, "Unfortunately, we do not have information in regards to Alice: Madness Returns including the original Alice game." Either way, Alice: Madness Returns is slated for June 14 ... unless it's not. Madness, right?

#alicemadnessreturns Perhaps you're interested in playing the new fantasy adventure Alice: Madness Returns, but have never enjoyed the 11-year-old PC original. Worry not, for it appears that the first game, American McGee's Alice is coming to consoles as a downloadable game as well. More »

#spicyhorse Spicy Horse's long-in-the-waiting sequel to 2000's American McGee's Alice looks lovelier than ever in a quintet of new images released by Electronic Arts today. See the intricate detail of Alice's vorpal blade and pepper mill-on-evil teapot action in the gallery above. More »

I’ll just do a little checklist here. We’ve got enormous teapots pouring out molten metal, a glutinous tar baby, Alice poking around a Victorian imagining of the Orient with a unicorn on a stick, and a Chesire cat who’s stayed largely unchanged from how he appeared in the first American McGee’s Alice even though he was killed in that game. Spoiler!

It’ll be swell if this game is good, both because we’ll be able to have fun poking through these wonderful environments, and I’ll be able to use “Carroll Singing” as a headline. Screens after the jump.(more…)

What is Alice: Madness Returns? It's been over a decade, but American McGee is finally giving us a follow up to Alice, the critically acclaimed third-person action game based on Alice in Wonderland. Madness Returns takes place 10 years after the original, dropping Alice back into Wonderland on a quest to defeat her madness and figure out who murdered her family...

More than ten years after overseeing Alice with now-defunct developer Rogue Entertainment, American McGee is wrapping up a sequel with his Shanghai-based company, Spicy Horse. "This will be the first ever console triple-A game that's been developed from beginning to end in China, for the Western market," McGee told Joystiq during an EA event last Tuesday. "There's been a lot of stuff that's been outsourced, or various pieces of it have been made there, but in terms of production process we had to invent a lot of what we were doing to get this game made there."

Spicy Horse was restructured to handle development of Alice: Madness Returns, and will restructure again once it launches the action game in June. "Well, we don't see that the future for us is in triple-A console games," McGee said. "We actually are trying to make games that are online, free-to-play, 3D advanced casual games, so as we finish this we're going to transition the company back to where we were intending to be when we finished Grimm."

Spicy Horse was on track to follow up Grimm -- its fantasy-themed episodic series for games portal Gametap -- with more casual fare, but was temporarily derailed by an irresistible offer from EA instead. "So, we restructured for two years, we built the game, we did a great job, we're gonna ship it on time, on schedule, we never had a crunch and it's been really awesome. But now, it's back to what our belief is in terms of where things are going, so it's going to be all about free-to-play, 3D games for Asia."

McGee claims that half of the development team has already completed work on Alice: Madness Returns, with ten to fifteen people doing "last-minute cleanup" -- of a project that has gone almost suspiciously (in this industry) according to plan. "I mean, we never had a freakout moment, we never had a crunch, we never had to work on a weekend and, in fact, we were always running ahead of milestones, so we would even give extra days off when the sky was blue, or something like that," he said. "So, it was a really pleasant development experience."

Since Spicy Horse is set on transforming its production process once again, it's currently unsure about what would happen if EA asked for another Alice sequel. "That's a question to ask them. But it might take them another ten years to figure it out," McGee joked.

#preview A decade on from American McGee's Alice, a stylishly gothic and twisted interpretation of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, gamers are given the opportunity to return to this twisted world with Alice: Madness Returns. It's not crazy to delight in that not much has changed over the past decade for Alice, is it? More »

Discover the additions to Alice's second tragic adventure in this interview from GDC 2011 with American McGee, Sr Creative Director of Spicy Horse.

Alice takes her new weapons for a spin in this segment of gameplay from GDC 2011.

The puzzle-solving and platforming mechanics shine in this gameplay from the floor of GDC 2011!

We brought home the madness of Alice's second trip to Wonderland from GDC 2011!

Alice brings out the whoopin' stick in this new gameplay footage from GDC 2011!

Nothing says "Hey, it's Monday!" like murderous teapots and bloodthirsty playing cards. It's fortunate, then, that this first gameplay trailer for Alice: Madness Returns has them -- and more! -- in droves. Watch it, then learn more about the game tomorrow morning in our new preview.

Welcome back to Wonderland. Please enjoy your stay!

#gameplay After seeing countless teaser trailers and bits of concept art of American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns, how does the gameplay footage stack up? It's even better. More »

Video of Spicy Horse's twisted sequel.

#alicemadnessreturns We won't be able to get our hands on Alice: Madness returns the game until June 14. Luckily Dark Horse's gorgeous 184 page hardcover art book for the game will be here in May to tide us over. More »

The man with the coolest name in video games, American McGee, put a date on Alice: Madness Returns at GDC today. The dark world of Wonderland will return on June 14 when Spicy Horse's sequel comes to PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. More »

Lewis Carroll's seminal Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is certainly packed with metaphors, but we think none so explicit as this Alice: Madness Returns clip that has the heroine cutting up the Mad Hatter's one-eyed monster.

Alice returns to Wonderland to find it in more dire state than her fractured mind in this teaser for Madness Returns.