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Report: Respawn Entertainment's First Game in 2013

While early reports suggested that the first title from Respawn Entertainment might not come until 2015, it now looks like we'll have a chance to play it much sooner. A marketing calendar from EA Partners leaked by French site Hardgamers lists the first major title from Respawn as coming in March 20...

The Big Players of Race Relations in ME3

The Mass Effect universe is one filled with a balance of subtle nuance and epic grandeur. Over the past two games, the team at BioWare has crafted a universe filled with rich cultures and some fantastic storytelling to drive forward the narrative. Each of the various races presented in Mass Effect b...

Developing Resident Evil 6

Capcom has only started to pull back the curtain on Resident Evil 6. Though the publisher released a massive debut trailer packed with details, it doesn't intend to reveal everything about its next survival horror epic - yet. That leaves many unanswered questions about how the publisher will approac...

Wizard101 Exclusive Mount Giveaway

As part of its "Pack-A-Palooza" celebration, Wizard101 has teamed up with IGN to give away 20 mythical Kirin Mounts from the game's new "Kirin's Hoard" game card pack...

Hawken Goes Free-to-Play, Launch Date Set

Adhesive Games announced that its mech combat game Hawken will be made available for free on December 12, 2012. If you're interested in checking it out, which you probably should be, you can sign up to participate in beta testing now...

Microsoft Flight Launching Soon

Microsoft's reworked version of its Flight series will be available to download for free worldwide on February 29. The Hawaiian Adventure Pack that includes another plane, additional missions and territory, will also be available that day for download, though it'll cost 1600 Microsoft Points...

Today's Free Game: Grand Theft Auto

The Game: Grand Theft Auto Genre: Top-Down Open-World Action Platform: PC The Scoop: The original GTA is nearly fifteen years old! Pretty crazy, right? Even crazier is that the good folks at Rockstar have made the game available completely free of charge no catch. Gamers used to more modern...

Why the Tera Beta is Awesome

Between the recent launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic, and the upcoming Guild Wars 2 and The Secret World, there's not a lot of breathing room for MMO fans this year. But people should keep their eyes out for Tera, the action-MMO coming from Bluehole Studios on May 1st, because it sets itself apart through responsive, reactive, challenging and incredibly fun combat...

Shank 2 Review

Sequels are a funny thing. When a game is good-but-not-quite-great, we see the smallest solutions to itty bitty flaws, a few things that could have been spectacular given just a little more spit-shined development time. Yet those few tiny tweaks typically aren't enough to regenerate interest, never ...

Spec Ops: True Survival Horror

If I were to tally up all the people I've shot throughout the host of single player first-person shooter campaigns I've played I'd be shocked. Outside of the games where the antagonists are super natural or not of this world, most of the humans were foreigners, people who already feel alien to me an...

Half-Life 3 Protest on Steam

10,000 fans of the Half-Life series logged on to play Half-Life 2 over the weekend in an attempt to force Valve into revealing more information on the Half-Life series, whether that be Episode 3 or Half-Life 3...

First Look: Family Guy Online

This is almost like the time they made a Facebook game out of a popular TV show. Except it isn't. Family Guy Online isn't your standard social grind. It's not even a Facebook game. It's a graphically convincing free-to-play browser-based RPG with plenty of character, TV-showness and gameplay challenges...

Seven Ways to Expand Skyrim

Many are still busy plowing through the insane amount of content included in Skyrim. Maybe you're not one of them. Maybe you've unlocked and spent every perk point, cleared every dungeon and punched every NPC in the nose. Maybe you've tried out every mod and are looking for more. Bethesda will relea...

'Special Surprise' Incoming for Skyrim PC Players

Bethesda's Creation Kit for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be made available on February 7, according to a Twitter update by VP of PR and Marketing Pete Hines...

Guild Wars 2 Beta Coverage on the Way

Good news, we just received an invite to play in an upcoming round of beta testing in ArenaNet's highly anticipated Guild Wars 2. Unfortunately we can't share, but you can expect plenty of coverage to hit on Monday, February 20 at 6 AM Pacific...

Valve Working on Team Fortress 2 Secret Project

An update posted to the Team Fortress 2 blog teases "something brand new" for Valve's free-to-play online shooter. No word yet on what it is, but Valve did say it wasn't a hat, and it wasn't a new map. Could it be a new class? A new layer to its microtransaction system? Gordon Freeman? Err, sorry about that last guess, I just really miss Half-Life...

The First 90 Minutes of Mass Effect 3

When I first started playing Mass Effect, I set out to behave like a stony-hearted space-bitch. I was going to take the universe for everything it had: credits, loot, fame, blue ladies, the lot. It didn't last long. By the beginning of Mass Effect 2, my red-headed Shepard whom I'd designed to loo...

The Evolution of Counter-Strike's de_dust

Valve's ever-popular competitive shooter Counter-Strike has been around for over a decade. The latest iteration of the franchise, Global Offensive, is currently in closed beta testing on PC. Though not all features are currently built into the beta, the classic de_dust and de_dust2 maps are...

Game of Thrones RPG Launches in May

Publisher Atlus announced that Game of Thrones, a new role-playing game from Cyanide Studios based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy fiction, will launch on May 15 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC...

Spec Ops: The Line's Breakdown of a Soldier

"Walker, at the beginning of the game, is specifically meant to invoke other military shooters," says Walt Williams, the lead writer on 2K Games' Spec Ops: The Line. "We want the player to feel that they're walking into a situation that they know what it's going to be. Like, 'I know this guy, I know...