Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead is now an iPhone and iPad shooter game. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the game will “bring the gore and campy humor of the cult classic film into the digital age.”

Ghost House Pictures has partnered with Trigger Apps, to create The Evil Dead in iOS form, and it will be available for $2.99 for the iPhone and $4.99 for the iPad. The app is an action-heavy 3D shooter game that allows players to take control of Bruce Campbell’s character, Ash, to lead his group of friends to safety while fighting off evil zombies.

The Bitmap Brothers’ classic 1996 real-time strategy game Z has been revived and remade. Digital publisher Kavcom has licensed the game and plans to launch the 2011 version, Z: The Game, for the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, PC, Mac, Android and Blackberry Tab later this year. Z: The Game was developed by original creators The Bitmap Brothers in conjunction with Kavcom and programming legend Peter Harrap, who made the 1980s platform game Wanted: Monty Mole for Gremlin Graphics.

A year after Slick Entertainment released the vehicular combat racing game on XBLA, Scrap Metal is now available at the App Store with a Universal Binary release, Retina display support, Game Center leaderboards and achievements. While there is no lengthy campaign to be found, the app incorporates directional steering touch controls and automatic firing throughout its four game modes (Race, Derby, Survival, and Time Trial). The app is available now for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and while there is no firm availability date, an Android version has been confirmed for a near future release.

According to 1Up, a court in Quebec has granted Ubisoft an injunction that prevents THQ from violating the non-solicit clauses of Ubisoft Montreal’s employees. This development comes after a number of employees at the Assassin’s Creed studio departed from the company under suspicious circumstances.

After leaving Ubisoft Montreal last year, it was announced that Assassin’s Creed creative director, Patrice Desilets, would be heading up a new Montreal-based studio for THQ. Since then, several other Ubisoft Montreal staffers have departed the company for various reasons that have raised some eyebrows.

After being planned for launch in April, 1Up reports that the PlayStation Rewards Program has been postponed.

“Based on what we learned, we have decided the program is not ready to roll out to the public in April as originally planned. But rest assured, we will continue to thank loyal and devoted customers like you with innovative offerings.”

The free program was to have different tiers users could reach depending on how much they played and participated. It would hand out freebies to members like PSN avatars, themes, and sweepstakes entries, to reward loyalty.

Another OmegaBob alert. Why am I not surprised?

GameStop just announced the acquisition of streaming tech outfit Spawn Labs and their digital distribution portal, Impulse. Impulse will offer three specific components. First is the client, dubbed Impulse:Client here, which users can use to download games. Next is Impulse:Reactor, which provides content publishers customer friendly DRM and copy protection tools. It also allows developers to enable achievements, account management, friend lists, chat, multiplayer lobbies, and cloud storage within their games. Last is Impulse:Publisher which provides publishers real-time reporting and management tools.

And it looks like GameStop may just have their heads in the clouds. Once the Spawn Labs integration and testing on a new consumer interface is complete, users will have immediate access to a wide selection of high-definition video games on demand on any Internet-enabled device.

1Up reports that Microsoft is looking for “multiple thousands” of testers for an Xbox 360 system update preview program. This one involves discs being sent to participants, as it’s intended to help Microsoft prepare for an updated Xbox 360 disc format. While precise details are few at this time, the program will be kicking off in the next two weeks, so those who apply should receive notification by email fairly soon if they’ve been accepted. You must be an Xbox Live member located in the United States in order to participate, and Xbox Live Gold members will have a better chance of getting in. Those who are accepted will receive a copy of Halo: Reach “along with other possible rewards.”

Thanks go out to OmegaBob for bringing this to our attention.

GameSpot reports that Atari is taking another crack at the classic arcade title, Warlords. The publisher has enlisted Griptonite Games to develop the game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with a summer release in mind.

The downloadable revamp is being billed as a “whimsical reinvention” of the arcade classic, which saw players slide Breakout-like paddles around castle walls, attempting to deflect a fireball away from their own keep and into the heart of their opponents’ strongholds. The Griptonite remake will attempt to maintain its predecessor’s multiplayer focus with online and offline cooperative and competitive modes. It will also add a new layer of strategy where players will now need to marshal soldiers to capture control points.

The PlayStation.Blog has extended their service to Latin America. Over the past few years, PlayStation has increased its presence in Central and South America, and as of yesterday the’ve added PlayStation.Blog en Espanol. Content will be similar to what’s already in the site, to those in Canada and the US that might be more familiar with Spanish language content are invited to check it out. Your existing login will grant access.

Sony Online Entertainment’s online virtual world, Free Worlds, had made its way to the PlayStation Network, and you can all play it for FREE. It’s the first casual, free-to-play MMO ever to be offered on the PlayStation Network. Players can become ninjas, warriors, or wizards, while participating in a variety of activities such as adventuring for treasure, playing a soccer game, decorating their player house, or even entering a demolition derby. You can also participate in mini-games and quests that include constructing a maze or exploring the terrain on the back of a cool T-Rex Ride. The PS3 version adopts the console’s interactive capabilities that enable voice chat to communicate with your friends and the abilities to earn Trophies in combat instances or for completing collections.

1Up reports that while Fatal Frame, Tecmo’s Japan-styled horror adventure series hasn’t been seen in America for half a decade, it might be making a comeback.

“I can’t discuss exact details yet, but we are working hard on something right now,” said series producer Keisuke Kikuchi. “I think we’ll be able to make an announcement soon, so I hope people look forward to it.”

First released on the Xbox and PlayStation 2 in 2002, the Fatal Frame series features survival-horror action that focuses on Japanese occult themes. The most recent title, Fatal Frame IV: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, was launched for the Wii in 2008, but failed to receive an official overseas release. Nintendo showed media from a new Fatal Frame title back at September 2010 conference in Japan, but no further information has come out on the series since then.

PlayStation has announced that Dungeon Hunter: Alliance will be an action-RPG title that strives to craft a unique multiplayer experience, both locally and online. Players will be able to face the world of Gothicus and its horde of creatures either alone or with up to four other heroes as they push evil back to the depths of hell and stop the destructive ambitions of a tyrannical Queen. The campaign spans over 30 levels of dungeons, villages and forests to explore, including areas that are randomly generated. You’ll also be able to choose your class, and optimize your hero’s development by assigning experience points.

Dungeon Hunter: Alliance is set to release in April, but you can check out the trailer while you’re waiting.

PlayStation has included, in today’s system software update (v3.60) for the PS3, PlayStation Network’s new online storage for game saves. This new feature gives PlayStation Plus subscribers the capability to back up game save data to the cloud.

The new online storage allows gamers to store up to 150MB of game save data and a maximum of 1000 data files per PSN account. Users also have the ability to back-up copy-prohibited save data, and all previously saved data may be restored once per 24 hour period. When the new feature launches, most PS3 titles will be compatible with online storage for game saves, and moving forward, all new titles will have the capability to offer the storage option.

According to Joystiq, Sony Pictures’ upcoming Battle: Los Angeles movie is pretty much a video game. Like a lot of sci-fi shooters, aliens attack L.A. and the American military swoops in to defend it. As for the actual game, a downloadable tie-in will mirror the story of the film, as you assume the role of a Marine whose job it is to end the aliens.

I am looking forward to the movie, but if the picture shown is anything to go by, the game…not so much.

“Unlike the other examples you’ve heard tonight, this game shipped. It’s at the store right now. At Wal-Mart. Yeah.”

Joystiq reports that that ominous statement was slipped into the middle of Brad Wardell’s “Failure Workshop” speech last week, where the Stardock head discussed a project he now considers a complete failure, Elemental: War of Magic. He used it as a starting point for what would not happen this time around with Elemental: Fallen Enchantress.

“If someone had an idea, we’d say Oh sure, go ahead! Throw that in!” Wardell explained, describing the disorganized nature of Elemental‘s development. “That works okay if you have seven guys. It doesn’t work so well when you have 18 guys.”