News: Gearbox Software have apparently demoed Borderlands 2 on a Tegra 3-powered Android device, suggesting a tablet port is in the works. According to a report by Android And Me , visitors to Portland’s PDXLAN were given a Borderlands 2 -shaped surprise. Gearbox Software were said to be in attendance, showing off the gun-crazed sequel running on an Android tablet equipped with [...]

News: Naughty Dog have teased an incoming ‘Co-Op Shade Survival’ mode for Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, to be delivered as DLC in March. Naughty Dog used a blog post detailing today’s release of the Uncharted 3 Flashback Map Pack #2 to announce a new co-op mode, due to be added in March. Little information was given about Co-Op Shade [...]

News: An ARG by Frictional Games has revealed their next game – related somehow to Amnesia: The Dark Descent – will be called A Machine For Pigs, and hints that Dear Esther developers thechineseroom may be lending a hand… Ooh, now this is exciting. What was formerly a mere teaser site for what looked like a sequel [...]

News: Assassin’s Creed: Revelations will get a new DLC pack, titled Lost Archive, on February 28th. Via professional Microsoft PR personality Major Nelso n comes news of an expansion to Assassin’s Creed: Revelations . Lost Archive will be released on Xbox on February 28th, and will cost 800 of your finest Microsoft points. Other than that, solid details are pretty scarce. Last [...]

Tactical Intervention, the new game from Counter-Strike creator Minh Le, has been picked up in North America and will enter closed beta in March. OGPlanet will be publishing Tactical Intervention , a free-to-play team shooter by Counter-Strike creator Minh ‘Gooseman’ Le , in the US. Like CS, Tactical Invention is set to be a modern spec ops vs. terrorists affair, albeit free-to-play. [...]

Epic Games have announced and detailed the latest map pack for Gears of War 3, titled Forces of Nature. The fifth DLC package for Gears of War 3 has been detailed on GameTrailers . Forces of Nature features five maps that are, fittingly, in various states of weather-related disrepair. Two of these are remakes from previous games – Gears of War [...]

An updated version of Men of War: Assault Squad has been teased with a public demo, including several DLC missions. Remember Men of War: Assault Squad ? Digitalmindsoft‘s devilishly unforgiving but immensely detailed WW2 RTS, released early last year, will be getting a GOTY re-release, including the base game and all the updates and DLC packs. A taste of [...]

The multiplayer portion of Modern Warfare 3 will be free-to-play on Steam from now until Sunday. They’ll be no shortage of gruff men with guns in the world of online gaming this weekend, as the multiplayer mode of Modern Warfare 3 has gone temporarily free-to-play on Steam. You’ve got until 1pm PST/9pm GMT on Sunday to download and [...]

PS3 players in PAL territories will have to wait an extra day to get their hands on the Mass Effect 3 demo, Bioware has announced. European PS3 owners will be cruelly forced to spend the rest of today with loved ones, as the EU PS3 version of the Mass Effect 3 demo – which is already out on [...]

Bethesda have released some statistics on Skyrim’s Steam Workshop integration, claiming over 2,000,000 user-made mods have been downloaded. In a press release , Bethesda have finally confirmed rumours that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is quite popular. Focusing on the release of the Skyrim Creation Kit mod tools and subsequent teaming-up with Valve to showcase mods on the Steam Workshop , the document [...]

Daniel Kaplan, Business Developer at Mojang, has said he is “bored” by Minecraft clones – but isn’t interested in suing copycats. FortressCraft is quite the thing. It’s the best-selling indie game on the Xbox Live Marketplace and has grossed millions of dollars from hundreds of thousands of sales in less than a year since release. It is [...]

Sony has announced Resistance: Burning Skies, the first PS Vita installment of the series, will be released on May 30th. One big PlayStation franchise will be missing the PS Vita ‘s North American and Europe release on February 22nd, as Nihilistic Software’s Resistance: Burning Skies has been confirmed to launch on May 30th. Sony broke the news and revealed [...]

Mark Karch, CEO of Halo: Anniversary developers Saber Interactive, has argued publishers should reduce used game sales by making new games cheaper rather than rendering second-hand games unplayable. Rumours that the next Xbox would include measures to combat the used game market may have been music the ears of certain developers and publishers, such as Volition‘s Jameson Durall , but [...]

Blizzard have released a video discussing the finer points of higer difficulties in Diablo III, including instant deaths, gold shortages and plenty of kicked asses. At BlizzCon 2011, Diablo III dev team members Kevin K. Griffith, Nate Bowden, Nick Eberle and Richie Marella appeared in a video explaining just how hard their game’s three most punishing difficulty levels – [...]

A patch for the PC version of Modern Warfare 3 has added five new Prestige ranks, and files within the game suggest another five will be added in the future. Since Call of Duty 4 , that which was known as ‘Tenth Prestige’ was effectively COD’s level cap – a mythical realm reserved only for those with enough [...]

Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has shed some light on The Last Guardian’s development troubles, but says the project is progressing. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to be a little worried about The Last Guardian , the latest project from ICO creator Fumito Ueda . After years of development with only extremely sporadic glimpses of content being made available, the smell [...]

The Humble Bundle for Android has expanded, with Toki Tori now available as part of the DRM-free, cross-platform Pay-What-You-Want deal. Don’t be fooled: The Humble Bundle for Android is actually the Humble Bundle for Android, Windows, Mac and Linux, so you don’t need a ‘droid phone to take advantage of the fact that puzzle platformer Toki Tori has [...]

Valve have updated Team Fortress 2 once again, giving the Scout a back-mounted boombox and making it easier for sound-based items to be submitted through Steam Workshop. As if TF2‘s Scout wasn’t enough of an over-extroverted jerk already, Valve‘s latest addition to the free-to-play shooter gives him a boombox – The Boston Boom-Bringer – that plays one of four sick [...]

It has been revealed Blizzard formally opposed Valve’s attempts to trademark the DOTA name, claiming it will damage both the company and “legions of fans”, and have been quietly disputing the matter since November. Oh dear. NeoGAF user Drkirby has discovered that in November of last year, Blizzard filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to legally [...]

Sony have announced that 275 PSP titles and PlayStation Minis will be available to download onto the PS Vita upon its North America/Europe release, with even more on the way. In a post on the US PlayStation blog , Sony‘s Senior Social Media Manager Jeff Rubenstein has revealed a stonking 275 games – both PSP titles and PlayStation Minis – will [...]