News: Want a shot at the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta? All you have to do is fill out a survey. Last week, Valve Software started a closed beta for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive . The most active 7,000 players of CS:S and CS 1.6 were given a key and are now pwning one another. Now the next batch of keys will go [...]

News: BioWare has issued a statement of support for Jennifer Hepler, a writer on Star Wars: The Old Republic and the Dragon Age games who was the victim of an intensive Internet hate campaign. When the whole of the Internet comes together to stand up for a cause, it can be quite the thing. When SOPA threatened [...]

News: IO Interactive have started an animated video series detailing the cast of Hitman: Absolution, with the first entry profiling Diana Burnwood, Agent 47′s long-time handler. The upcoming Hitman: Absolution looks set to feature a host of characters, all entangled in a vast conspiracy. IO Interactive have started an animated video series which offers profiles on the major [...]

News: Gearbox have released a new trailer for the upcoming Borderlands 2 – and it reveals the game’s release date… Borderlands 2 has just received a brand spanking new trailer – which also happens to reveal the game’s release date. Gearbox Software will be unleashing the follow-up to their popular 2009 co-op shooter on September 18th 2012 – [...]

News: The ‘Take Earth Back’ CGI trailer for Mass Effect 3 has received an extended cut, adding a whole minute of footage. Imagine you’ve spent countless hours painstakingly modelling the perfect ladybug. You’ve closely scrutinised the real thing just so you could animate its wings to perfection. And then they go and cut it out of [...]

News: The full ‘Take Earth Back’ CGI trailer for Mass Effect 3 has been made available by BioWare. Look at Shepard’s face. I mean, look at it. That’s pure, seething rage right there. The Reapers laying waste to Earth’s cities Michael Bay-style is all well and good, but kill one kid and that’s what you get. [...]

In the first of the ‘Inside Recon’ video series, Ubisoft detail the cover system and animations in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Two weeks ago, we got the first singleplayer trailer for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier . Looks like plenty more footage will be made available in the foreseeable time, as Ubisoft have started the Inside Recon video series, which detail [...]

A new video shows a good six minutes of Far Cry 3 in action. Okay, it’s only five and a half minutes. During a recent press trip, Ubisoft showed off a good slice of gameplay footage from the upcoming Far Cry 3 . As can be expected, it shows lots of dudes getting shot. Interestingly enough, there’s also a [...]

Naughty Dog have compared their intentions with The Last of Us to how they approached the Uncharted games, stating that they’re going for ‘less is more’. The Uncharted games are renowned for their grand set pieces, each trying to outdo the last. Planes breaking in half mid-flight, a capsizing ocean liner, it’s all in a day’s work for [...]

The next piece of Modern Warfare 3 DLC coming to Call of Duty Elite subscribers on February 21st has been explained by Rob Riggle. Yes, Rob Riggle is back! He kicked off the Modern Warfare 3 content season with a loud breakdown of Liberation and Piazza , and now he’s here to give you the skinny on the next map [...]

Ubisoft have released a set of Far Cry 3 screenshots, showing off the game’s lush jungle setting. Yesterday Ubisoft provided us with a neat trailer of the upcoming Far Cry 3 . Today, we get some screenshots to boot. They feature protagonist Jason Brody in all kinds of scrapes, from being in a gunfight with an AK-47 to being in [...]

A new Max Payne 3 trailer from Rockstar details more of the game’s story and characters. Don’t worry, things blow up too. As he himself would put it, Max’ troubles always begin with a woman. Max Payne 3 looks to be no different, as the eponymous hero fails to protect Fabiana, the trophy wife of a rich [...]

Ubisoft have officially confirmed Assassin’s Creed III for a October 30th release date. Quick, everyone act surprised! Assassin’s Creed III is set to be made available on October 30th, ahead of the series’ usual November release schedule. Ubisoft have revealed the date in a call with investors. Smiling investors, surely, as there’s really no end in sight for the [...]

A launch trailer for the Syndicate reboot has been launched ahead of the game’s launch on February 21st. Launch. No game launch without a launch trailer. So it goes that Syndicate, which is to be released on February 21st, gets one too. It’s the usual affair of snippets of footage shown wholly out of context and interspersed [...]

Ubisoft have put out the promised Far Cry 3 trailer a day early. It promises a release date on September 7th of this year. As teased by both a teaser image and a teaser teaser , Ubisoft have released a new trailer for Far Cry 3 . They did so a day earlier too, since a German version was apparently leaked on Youtube [...]

A teaser for an upcoming Mass Effect 3 ad entitled ‘Take Earth Back’ features a little girl witnessing the Reapers’ arrival. Child + videogame = drama. That seems to be the trope these days. Modern Warfare 3 had that vacationing kid being annihilated by a bomb-laden truck and Mass Effect 3 solidifies Shepard’s resolve by having a Reaper [...]

The upcoming trailer for Far Cry 3 has been teased with a bit of enigmatic footage. And also dubstep. On Sunday, Ubisoft put out an image that announced a new trailer for Far Cry 3 coming on February 16th. “Not enough teasing,” they thought, so now they’ve released a tiny bit of footage from the trailer as well. “Not [...]

Ubisoft have announced a new trailer for Far Cry 3, to be released on February 16th. It makes sense. Trailer to announce game, so image to announce trailer . Soon we will have a single sentence to announce the image of the trailer of the game. Ubisoft have put out a teaser for an upcoming Far Cry 3 trailer, set [...]

The official Max Payne 3 website has been updated with a selection of new screenshots. Last week, the official Max Payne 3 website was launched . It promises lots of new information, trailers and screenshots and the like to be released in the coming weeks. All of it seems geared towards showing Max shooting things, something Rockstar Games is eager to [...]