Update 3: More comparisons surfaced overnight, revealing that Limbo of the Lost apparently contains background elements of Gray Matter's Return to Castle Wolfenstein, World of Warcraft artwork, and a shocking number of Unreal Tournament 2004 maps. Left, Limbo of the Lost. Right, Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

"This is not an old game that has been dressed up," director Steve Bovis once told QuandaryLand. It is also worth noting that developer Majestic was planning a sequel to Limbo of the Lost and was seeking a new background artist for the project.

Left, Limbo of the Lost. Right, Unreal Tournament 2004.

Given the sheer number of similarities from so many different games, it is extremely unlikely that all of the duplicate assets are a result of a common texture pack, as was the case with S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s apparent use of Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 elements.

Update 2: Along with Oblivion and Thief: Deadly Shadows, it seems the three-man Majestic team stole assets from People Can Fly's Painkiller (PC)... Read more

FiringSquad has a Black And White 2: Battle Of The Gods Q&A up this morning, asking Philip Robinson about this upcoming expansion pack. Among other things, Robinson mentions that the expansion will be available in stores as well as the EA Downloader program.

Over at FileShack you can now grab a Battle of The Gods movie, showing the first footage from the upcoming Black & White 2 expansion pack.

Sup game announcements. Lionhead has announced that it is developing a Black & White 2 expansion pack called Battle of the Gods. Lionhead promises the expansion will feature a "much darker, more sinister game world", and will add a new creature, two new lands, six new challenges and four additional miracles. Enemy AI has also been reworked. Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods will be released by EA some time this year.

Want to know if Black & White 2 is your kind of game? A demo is finally available.

Mod tools for Black & White 2 are now available for download. The tool set includes LionheadUnstuffer to extract the everything.stuff file, a landscape editor, a script compiler and script language documentation.

Computer & Video Games has a Black & White 2 postmortem q&A, asking Lionhead's Ron Millar to look back at the development of this stratey game sequel.

Lionhead has released the Black & White 2 patch, updating the game to v1.1 and fixing several game and balancing issues. The patch unfortunately isn't save-game compatible with the original 1.0 release.

Lionhead's Black & White 2 page has been updated with the news that a patch for the game will be released October 6, a day before the release of the game. The patch will allow you to skip the tutorial and also allows you to switch back to the old control system. Also mentioned is that October 7 is just the US, UK and Irish release date now; the rest of Europe will receive the game October 14 - "Curse our publisher for that one!".

Xfire recently had the Black & White 2 development team on for a chat about Black & White 2; the transcript of that can now be found at their site.

Computer & Video Games has a brief Black & White 2 preview, offering impressions and a few new screenshots. The game is due out this week.

Lionhead has released a new Black & White 2 movie, this time showing a creature fight between a gorilla and a lion. Thanks 3D Gamers.

Boomtown has a new Black & White 2 preview, going hands-on with Lionhead's strategy game / god sim sequel. Look for the game in stores early next month.

Total Video Games is the latest site with a Black & White 2 preview, going hands-on with Lionhead's strategy game sequel. According to the article, the US release has been pushed back a week; the US and European versions of the game will now both ship October 7.

GameSpot has the latest Black & White 2 preview, going hands-on with the game. There are also three new gameplay movies and a ton of new screenshots. GameSpy also has a new preview.

IGN has the latest Black & White 2 preview, offering a three page overview of the game with impressions as well as screenshots. A video preview is available too.

Five new Black & White 2 screenshots are now available, showing off a city in Lionhead's strategy game / god sim sequel. Black & White 2 is due out September 30.

The fifth Black & White 2 Making Of video is now available, showing six more minutes of interview and gameplay footage. Thanks GameSpot.

A news update on the official Black & White 2 reveals the release dates for this strategy game sequel, as "We are almost finished." Look for the game to be stores September 30th in the US, October 7th in Europe.

The fourth Black & White 2 making of video is now available, this time focusing on the game's miracles. As always there's interview and gameplay footage.

The third Black & White 2 making of video, offering more interview and gameplay footage from Lionhead's strategy game sequel. Thanks GameSpot.