A brand new Painkiller title, dubbed Resurrection, has come to light on IGN this Easter weekend; the new set to be a offering to be released later in 2009. An version may or may not also make it to shelves, by the sound of things.

In the new game's premise, players will assume the role of Wild Bill Sherman, a CIA backed assassin working for the government. In Resurrection's plot he'll be taking on gun runners and drug barons, we're told.

More ambiguously, Sherman will also be charged with killing his bosses political rivals; and we assume this is where the story will begin to thicken.

Homegrown are developing this new FPS, with JoWood set to publish.

By Luke Guttridge