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Thursday is upon us, and that means it’s time for G4′s Casey Schreiner to school PC gamers about what’s going on with your favorite MMOs. This week they’ve got a new trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic showing off the progression a Jedi goes through in the game, details on Rift’s first post-launch update …

Lionhead have finally released the recommended and required system specs for Fable III on PC, out for PC on May 17th in US, and on May 20th in Europe, New Zealand and Australia. The PC version of the RPG’s set to feature a completely reworked control scheme – including first-person mode – plus a brand …

Rockstar has released a new L.A Noire trailer showcasing a new case exclusively for those who pre-order from Play.com. The new case is called Slip Of The Tongue and, as you can see from the trailer, revolves around the classic “Who said anything about a first name?” trap. Incoming search terms: la noire bonus missions …

Warner Brothers has just released a new Mortal Kombat gameplay trailer – and it’s as gory as we’ve come to expect. And then some. One of the highlights – and we use the word cautiously – is Meleena getting a pole between the legs as an X-Ray move. Yeah, it doesn’t hold back. With a …

Valve has revealed more details of Portal 2′s co-op mode including the fact that the co-op version will happen after the single-player story has finished – and they also dropped a subtle hint that Portal 3 is almost a certainty. In a wide ranging interview with Funambulism.com, Portal 2 chief writers Erik Wolpaw and Chet …

While we wait for our own Q&A to take place, we stumbled across this great Q&A with with Steve Hessel (Community Relations Manager) from Splash Damage, from the guys over at BrinkAddict.   If you don’t know anything about the title yet, have a read of the Q&A and check them out. Q1. Starting off …

Here’s another new video of EA’s awesome-looking Shift 2: Unleashed, showing two professional race drivers competing to set the fastest time around UK course, Brands Hatch. Who do you think will win between a drifter and a Le Mans racer? You might be surprised.

Rare has only taken advantage of “10 to 15 per cent” of Kinect’s technical potential so far – and the studio is going great guns to fully explore the “virtually limitless” possibilites afforded by the device. That was the message from Rare incubation software director Nick Burton tonight at London’s Institute for Contemporary Arts. Still …

Codemasters has released a new DiRT 3 trailer, showing off some of the title’s Group B rally cars. And while this type of game caters for a very much niche market, there’s no denying it looks fantastic.  Enjoy! <iframe title=”YouTube video player” width=”560″ height=”349″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/_2gwGg1Oblw?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

THQ and Kaos Studios’ recently-released FPS Homefront is set to receive its first PC patch later this week. According to the official Homefront website the patch will update the client to version 1.0.3 and introduce a ‘Demo URL’ feature, which will allow players to ‘grab demos of games they starred in’ and allow ‘anti-cheat authorities …

The campaign of 2011 FPS Battlefield 3 will be 12 hours long. That’s according to a new interview with Karl Magnus Troedsson, in which the DICE general manager says that BF3′s tone will be less “humorous and slapstick” than Battlefield: Bad Company 2. When a journalist from Gameon.net asked Troedesson why DICE included a “lengthy, …

EA’s on the lookout for a “web ninja” for a new, unannounced MMO. That’s according to a job listing for an MMO web architect over on Gamasutra. “We are currently looking for MMO expertise for an unannounced game at our Electronic Arts headquarters location in Redwood City, CA,” it reads. “Let’s be clear. We’re not …

EA has released a new Battlefield 3 gameplay video, and the title looks better each time you see it. Dubbed ‘Faultline Episode III: Get That Wire Cut’, it’s the third in a series of impressive trailers for DICE’s amazing looking shooter.

Activision signing a ten-year publishing deal with Bungie for the studio’s next franchise was one of the biggest news stories of last year. Having wrestled its independence back from Microsoft, some thought the Halo creator was perhaps heading into dangerous territory by getting into bed long-term with the Call of Duty publisher, which has received …

The first snippet of Modern Warfare 3 gameplay may be with us next month, according to respected UK PlayStation magazine PSM3. According to the publication’s latest issue, insider rumours say “the next in Activision’s megaton FPS series will be announced in mid-April”. No specific date is given. The prediction would fit snugly with Activision’s CoD: …