After the well received Darksiders had hit shelves Play was given the chance to chat exclusively with the game's creator and developer's founding father, Joe Madureira. As a legendary comic book artist with credits on such publications as Uncanny X-Men and The Ultimates we were very excited to have the chance to grill Joe Mad, who was candid in his assessment of the Darksiders development process and his place in the industry.

How would you feel about a video showing you some nice ins and outs of the upcoming Darksiders? You'd feel good, yes? Click through and prepare to feel good then.

As is the common vogue to boost those all important first week sales THQ is offering a whole bunch of pre-order incentives for Darksiders in order to get you that little bit more excited. You won't get to see our review of Darksiders until the new year, but the outlook is positive. Anyway, here's a rundown of what you could be walking away with from various UK retailers and websites.

Either the voiceover actor on this new trailer of Vigil Games’ epic chop-‘em-up has one of those nasty colds that’s been going ‘round lately, or he’s supposed to sound like a demon. We think it’s actually probably the latter, although he does sound uncannily like the way Play news editor Jon did on the phone last week when he called in sick. Watch the trailer for yourself and see what you think.