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Skyrim Creation Kit Out Tuesday with "Special Surprise" By Josh Harmon
Skyrim's long awaited suite of modding tools, dubbed the "Creation Kit," will be released on Steam next Tuesday alongside a mysterious surprise, Bethesda has announced.
The company's VP in charge of public relations, Pete Hines, confirmed the release date via Twitter.
"For our Skyrim PC fans, the Creation Kit is on track for release on Tuesday. And, we also have a special surprise with it. #whatcoulditbe!?"
The Creation Kit will provide Skyrim modders with access to... More »
Meet the Pyro, "Something Brand New" Coming to TF2 in 2012 By Josh Harmon
Valve has quite the year planned for Team Fortress 2, their popular class-based, free-to-play shooter. They've outlined some of the planned updates in a new post on the game's official blog.
The biggest news by far? The long awaited conclusion to the "Meet the Team" series of promotional shorts, featuring the voiceless, genderless enigma that is the Pyro. Will we finally get to see what's beneath that lumpy asbestos suit? Will we finally learn if he/she/it is a boy/girl/robot? Probably not,... More »
Rock 'Em Sock' Em Mincraft Blocks By Lyle Smith
Hey guys, it's Friday! Got anything on the go this weekend? I don't mean to brag, but I'm going to see Jerry Seinfeld this weekend. How can I possibly top that, at this very moment? Well, what about Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots in Minecraft!? OK, maybe it doesn't top that, but what a better way to celebrate the end of a work day!
Master Builder, Sethbling, has recreated the classic two-player robot, face punching, battle-fest in Minecraft using a pressure plate mechanic to simulate the battles of... More »
Memorial Service: Remembering Alan Wake
By Seb Wuepper 
Gaming has long since moved into the space of releases where, just like with movies, classics (well and those titles that wish they were) are being re-released on different, new platforms some years after their initial releases with some tweaks and updates. God of War came first, being re-released in HD for the PlayStation 3, as did a number of Ubisoft games.
Now there's another title coming up for a PC release, a game that spent quite a while in development hell before being released for the Xbox360 exclusively... More »
Mass Effect 4? Don't Throw Away Your Mass Effect 3 Saves, Bioware Has Further Plans By Ian Miles Cheong
Both Mass Effect 1 and 2 have save games to be carried over to the next game. Each of these saves contains various flags—such as "Wrex is alive" and "Council was saved" to be read by the proceeding game which determine the events that happened in Shepard's past. The events of past games are reflected in the new game, where they alter the course of the story.
Speaking to GamerZines, Bioware associate producer Mike Gamble said "it wouldn't be a bad idea to keep your Mass Effect 3... More »
GTA 5 "Most Important Franchise" to Take-Two By Ian Miles Cheong
Speaking at an investor call, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick boasted that the company has "never been in better shape" and referring to the likes of Grand Theft Auto V, that it "never had more important franchises."
Zelnick stressed that the company was ready for next-gen development, but cautioned that it had to be thoughtful about how it managed its portfolio with new platforms due to the low install base.
He compared the birth of new platforms to the process of natural... More »
Blizzard Invites 100,000 New Participants Into Diablo 3 Beta By Ian Miles Cheong
Blizzard has just announced via its Diablo 3 blog that it has invited 100,000 new participants to experience the beta. Participants were chosen from those who selected to opt-in through their Battle.net accounts.
Blizzard warns that sending out such a large invite may spur phishing attempts from unscrupulous individuals attempting to steal accounts, so they ask gamers to be wary should they receive an invite. According to Blizzard, an easy way to check to see if the invite is legitimate is to simply log into the... More »
THQ has 6 Unannounced Games, 2013-2014 Release Schedule By Ian Miles Cheong
Speaking at an investor call, THQ chief Brian Farrell said that the company has at least half a dozen games planned for release in 2013 and 2014.
In spite of reports that the company had somehow canceled its entire 2014 line-up, THQ's CEO Brian Farrell said that games like Dark Millennium Online (the Warhammer 40K MMO) were still on scheduled for launch in "fiscal 2014 and beyond," along with Guillermo del Toro's inSane, Homefront 2, and a new FPS from Turtle Rock, the developers of Left 4 Dead.... More »
Is Populous due for a Revival? By Mat Growcott
One of the most influential games of the late eighties, early nineties may be getting a revival, at least if a leaked listing on an internal EA wiki is anything to go by. Discovered by French site HardGamers, the internal wiki also reveals an unannounced game from former Resistance developer Insomniac Games called Outernauts.
Populous, the God-sim that put Fable lead Peter Molyneux on the map, was the beginning of the golden age of Bullfrog strategy games and would evolve into Theme... More »
Official Max Payne 3 Site Relaunched, Now Packing Heat By Josh Harmon
Rockstar has announced a snazzy redesign for the official Max Payne 3 website, complete with new gameplay footage, screenshots, and details on the game's backstory.
To celebrate the launch, Rockstar has kicked of a new series of in-depth interactive features. The first highlights the game's massively powerful 608 Bull revolver. You can watch a brief (but oh so flashy) clip of the gun in action and explore a 360-degree render of the gun, both assembled and broken down into its individually modeled... More »
Mass Effect 3 Weapons and Upgrades List By Josh Harmon
A user on the BioWare forums has posted an allegedly complete list of weapons and upgrades from Mass Effect 3. Though unofficial, the list appears genuine and is accompanied by a leaked screenshot of the game's loadout screen.
As you can, the screen is divided up into five slots, two on Commander Shepard's back and three on his belt. Each weapon you add to your loadout will increase the weight meter, which in turn increases the recharge time on your biotic abilities. That means that biotic-heavy builds will be... More »
EA Games Signs on 7 New Publishers to Origin By Ian Miles Cheong
EA Games is aggressively expanding its Origin digital distribution platform. The company announced today that it has signed on 7 more publishers to offer their games for sale and download through the service.
The service is host to over 9.3 million registered users and, as of today, carries 21 different publishers in addition to EA Games. The seven publishers added today are led by Remedy Entertainment, which plans on bringing Alan Wake to Origin. Other publishers include Focus Home Interactive, Iceberg Interactive,... More »
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Boxart Revealed By Ian Miles Cheong
The floodgates are open and Ubisoft is releasing a lot of new information about Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. A new video detailing the game's first ever gameplay footage has been revealed.
Additionally, we now know what the game will look like on shelves once it hits the stores on May 22 this year. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will be released on the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. You can see the box art below the fold.
First revealed at E3 in 2010, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a third person shooter set in the... More »
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Gets Real With Real Gameplay Footage By Ian Miles Cheong
Ubisoft has released a new trailer for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, giving us a first look at the game itself with some proper gameplay footage.
First revealed at E3 in 2010, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a third person shooter set in the near future in locations like Norway, Asia, and the Middle East.
As a futuristic take on the Ghost Recon series, the Ghosts will be fighting an ultra-nationalist group of Russians who've taken over Russia and are invading neighboring countries. The missions take place... More »
