Vicious Cycle Software today announced that the new version of its game development engine, Vicious Engine 2 (Ve2), will be used for the first time in Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard for the Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3. Eat Lead is a third-person shooter with a sense of humor featuring all of the next-generation improvements to Ve2’s rendering and animation systems, including overhauled lighting and shader technology, advanced audio and AI and enhanced physics and path finding. The engine will be widely available to developers in 2008, but the company is also currently looking for early adopters who are interested in evaluating Ve2. Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is set to be released on March 30th.