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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 »
PlayStation 3 Modern Warfare 3 Elite Subscribers to Get New Maps This Month By Ian Miles Cheong
Infinity Ward has just confirmed via twitter that Modern Warfare 3 players on Playstation with Elite subscriptions will receive the new maps Liberation and Piazza on February 28th. (You can watch videos of the new maps here.)
Confirmed: Modern Warfare 3 players on @Playstation with Elite Premium will receive the new maps Liberation & Piazza on Feb 28th. #MW3
— Robert Bowling (@fourzerotwo) February 2, 2012
The DLC is the first of many mods Activision plans to release for Modern Warfare 3. It... 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 »
Battlefield 3 DLC Reveal Coming Next Week By Josh Harmon
The next batch of Battlefield 3 DLC could be revealed as soon as next week.
During a Q&A session following EA's conference call to investors last night, VP of investor relations Peter Ausnit touched on the company's DLC strategy with major titles, indicating that a significant Battlefield announcement was on the way.
"We've got plans for all of our major franchises to turn them into more of as we're seeing with FIFA and with Battlefield more as games for service that have... More »
Valve Concept Art for Possibly Scrapped Project Revealed By Ian Miles Cheong
Peter König, a Valve artist, has been responsible for producing concept art, models, and textures for many major Valve games including Left 4 Dead 2 and DOTA2. His personal website has a number of L4D2 concepts and a space shuttle with "SOB 49" stenciled on the hull.
According to HalfLife2.net, which spotted the news, last year's DOTA2 leak contained previously unreleased information about an IP in development at Valve codenamed "SOB", which suggested that the game was set in space. The... More »
Syndicate Won't Have Online Pass By Josh Harmon
Starbreeze's upcoming Syndicate reboot will not be shipping with an Online Pass, an EA rep has confirmed.
Traditionally, EA ships all its games with an one-use Online Pass code that unlocks some portion of the game's content, most frequently online multiplayer. Those who buy the game used are required to pay $10 if they want to access the linked content.
However, EA Partners executive producer Jeff Gamon has explained that Syndicate would not feature any sort of Online Pass, as the publisher... More »
Final Fantasy XIII-2 Amazon Bonus Extended By Lyle Smith
Amazon has graciously extended their $20 credit on all orders for Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Xbox 360/PS3). Initially, it was supposed to be a launch-day-only deal. Here's what Amazon had to say:
$20 Credit and Order Bonus
Order the standard edition of Final Fantasy XIII-2 and get a $20 promotional credit toward the purchase of items shipped and sold by Amazon.com (certain exclusions apply, including but not limited to Kindle books, Gift Cards, and Amazon Appstore for Android apps) as well as a digital... More »
In Defense of Heavy Rain
By Seb Wuepper 
This is not one of my usual “How I stopped worrying...” pieces. I never had to stop worrying. I am someone who genuinely loved Heavy Rain from the get go. For me, despite the slightly awkward control scheme, it was a game that did so many things so very right that so many other games don’t even come close to. It’s a mature crime thriller with no (well, just a little) bullshit to it. It was straightforward, hugely enjoyable, and tackled a lot of different difficult themes and motifs successfully. Well, at... More »
The Best Gaming Podcast Ever: Episode 23
By Ian Miles Cheong 
Welcome to another fine episode of The Best Gaming Podcast Ever. In this episode, we cover Irrational Games' announcement of the 1999 mode, and the complex topic of religion in games.
In this week's episode, we're joined by special guest Zack Finfrock.
This week's music has been contributed by Bafana, with his excellent tune Tekno Rocker, which indeed rocks.
We're a week late in uploading this one, but we hope you enjoy the podcast as much as we did. Personally, I can't... More »
Sony's New CEO Sets His Aim on the Games Market By Lyle Smith
Kaz Hirai won’t be Sony's new CEO until April 1 of this year, but that didn’t stop him from already being in the spotlight.
According to Mantanweb, during Sony's quarterly earnings briefing, Hirai stated that Sony's intention is to claim the “number one position in digital imaging and games.”
Hirai listed digital imaging, games, and mobile as the areas that Sony hopes to improve as core businesses. As CEO, he plans to use profits from PS3, PSP, and PS Vita sales as... More »
Bioware: Xbox Live Gold Needed for Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Demo By Ian Miles Cheong
The 'beta' for Mass Effect 3 was leaked months ago, giving a few lucky players a taste of the upcoming RPG. The good news for everyone who hasn't yet had a chance to play the game and isn't sure if they want to buy it is that Bioware has plans to release a demo for Mass Effect 3 in the near future.
Intent on playing the demo, fans asked Bioware on the game's official forum as to whether they will require a Gold membership of Xbox Live to get their hands on the demo.
Speaking for the developer, Chris Priestly... More »
