It was revealed in the latest GameTrailers.TV episode but today Disney Interactive officially announced their plans for Split/Second (that's how they are handling the title) the new arcade racing game from developer Black Rock StudioThe game will be released for the PC and other platforms in early 2010.

As we speculated when Gametrailers.TV showed the teaser trailer, the game lets you race and collide with other cars and lets the drivers trigger environmental events and traps that can also take out their opponents and create new paths to take in the raceThe race itself is being filmed for a "hyper-competitive reality television show"The big question: Can Split/Second compete with the speed and destruction of Criterion's Burnout series?