Coffee Stain Studios announces the release of Sanctum 2 for Windows PC and Xbox 360, offering a sequel to their tower-defense/first-person shooter hybrid (the game is coming to the PlayStation Network "in the coming weeks." The launch trailer shows off a little over a minute of gameplay. "We built Sanctum 2 from the ground up, creating stunning visuals while keeping everything that players loved from the original," said Anton Westberg, CEO of Coffee Stain Studios. "We then added more characters, more enemies, more bosses, more levels, more weapons and more towers to make Sanctum 2 bigger, better and badder than we ever imagined." Here's a description of the game:

In Sanctum 2 players take on the role of an elite soldier whose mission is to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence. Utilizing key elements of both tower-defense and first-person shooter genres, players set up defensive towers to take out the waves of attacking enemies and then jump head-on into the fray, either alone or as part of a squad in four-player co-op multiplayer.