Last week’s installment of video game news was trailer-heavy in the wake of Gamescom; this week is the calm before the storm of PAX Prime.  We’ve still got some interesting content to share with you, including a behind-the-scenes look at the dark bounty hunter game, Star Wars 1313, which the developers call “Star Wars Hell.” (Definitely at the other end of the spectrum from the recently announced Star Wars: Detours.)  XBox Live users might be happy to hear that the free-to-play game Happy Wars will be available this fall with a preview ready by PAX Prime.  Also, check out Nintendo’s world record plans to celebrate Kirby’s 20th birthday!  Hit the jump for all that and more.

While we posted a bunch of news and trailers from Gamescom this past week, the new release schedule is looking a little light.  The biggest release this week will be Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, which will be available on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC starting August 21^st.  But with a game this big, what else do you need?  Transformers: Fall of Cybertron puts you in the middle of the war between the Autobots and Decepticons on their home planet of Cybertron before they brought the battle to our planet.  We’ve also got a look at the gorgeous RPG Horn from Zynga, now available for your mobile device.  Hit the jump to check them out.

Last week’s installment of The Arcade was a bit light on new releases, but this week makes up for it with Darksiders II, Sleeping Dogs and New Super Mario Bros. 2 among others.  Darksiders II is a follow-up to the 2010 original action-adventure RPG from Vigil Games and THQ that lets players control the horseman Death rather than his brother, War.  Sleeping Dogs, an open world crime drama, centers on an undercover operation to infiltrate the Triads.  The phenomenal voice cast includes Tom Wilkinson, Lucy Liu, Emma Stone and Kelly Hu.  The family-friendly New Super Mario Bros. 2 is also coming out this week for the Nintendo 3DS.  Hit the jump for trailers and release dates for these titles and more!

It’s been a busy week in the world of video game news.  On the disappointing side of things, it looks like Nintendo’s new console, the Wii U is going to have a delayed release in Europe due to some manufacturing difficulties (though it should still land stateside before Thanksgiving).  On the bright side: we have new looks at the weapons of Halo 4, a multiplayer trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops II and some in-game combat action for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed III.  Hit the jump for all that and more!

Welcome to The Arcade, Collider’s weekly wrap-up of news, trailers and release dates from the video game world.  We don’t just sit around watching movies and TV shows all day, we also play the latest and greatest video games just so we can share them all with you! (It really is a tough life.) Since this is the first installment, we’re keeping it pretty basic but hope to bring you more content in future weeks.  This time around, we’ve got a bit of news on the World of Warcraft film adaptation, a trailer for the indie puzzler Unmechanical and a look at the visually and thematically engrossing Deponia. Let us know what you like, what you don’t like and what you’d like to see more of.  Hit the jump to check out The Arcade!

With director Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers opening October 21, Summit Entertainment held a big press junket in London and I got the chance to head across the pond to interview the cast.  Based on Alexandre Dumas’ classic story, The Three Musketeers stars Logan Lerman, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson, Milla Jovovich, Orlando Bloom, Christoph Waltz, Matthew Macfayden and Mads Mikkelsen.  In the reboot, “the hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (MacFadyen, Evans and Stevenson). They must stop the evil Richlieu (Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Jovovich).”  And unlike many films that have been post converted for a 3D release, the Musketeers was shot in 3D and it looks great.  For more on the film, here’s eight clips.

During my interview with Jovovich, we talked about the amazing real world locations they used in Musketeers, filming in 3D, karaoke and the last video game she played.  In addition, she talked about Resident Evil: Retribution (Resident Evil 5) and revealed more details on the Rolls Royce action scene and what locations are being used.  Hit the jump to watch.

Telltale Games wants gamers to know that it’s time to get back on the hoverboard and start evading velociraptors.  According to the AP, the video game developers who made the new episodic Sam & Max Games, are creating a new episodic series of games based on Back to the Future and Jurassic Park.  Dan Connors, CEO of Telltale, says that the games will expand the BTTF and JP universe but won’t be sequels per se.  The AP also says that Connors, ” teased that the ‘Back to the Future’ games may include a DeLorean ride back to the 1970s while the ‘Jurassic Park’ games would be intense and add new backstories to the series’ man-versus-dinosaur mythology.”  I can see spinning off the Jurassic Park games but I don’t understand how you can do a Back to the Future game without somehow incorporating a character or characters from the trilogy.  Even if you just took Doc Brown’s kids Jules and Verne, that would still technically be a sequel.

Hit the jump for more info on these games plus my thoughts on the project.