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Rockstar has unexpectedly confirmed the coming of yet more Red Dead Redemption DLC, pleasing the masses on the cattle trail. The open-world spaghetti-western was released last year and seemed neatly wrapped up by its fourth DLC pack Undead Nightmare. Not quite as wrapped up as we thought though, since Rockstar’s Tweeted, “Look for a release …

Call of Duty fans may need to re-plan their killstreak strategies when Infinity Ward drops Modern Warfare 3 later this year. Of the many big changes reported for the game’s multiplayer mode, Infinity Ward’s community man Robert Bowling has told fans to expect a revamped killstreak system. Replying to rabid, trigger-happy fans via Twitter, Bowling …

In a move that hardly maximises games to event timing, Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games will hit UK shelves on Wii this November, Nintendo have announced. Sega confirmed the latest party game will be out in time for Christmas, while a 3DS version will be released in February 2012. In addition …

EA announced today that former Arsenal and England striker Alan Smith will take over commentary duties in FIFA 12. Smith replaces the slightly disgraced Andy Gray, who was caught in something of a sexism scandal earlier this year whilst employed at Sky Sports, and joins FIFA’ long-time word garbler Martin Tyler in the digital commentary …

EA Games label boss Frank Gibeau has yet again hinted that no expense is being spared in bringing the Star Wars based MMO to the market. The executive told GamesIndustry.biz that the “gigantic game” will offer 100s of hours of gameplay for each of the six classes available. “What I try and concentrate on is, …

EA is so confident of Wii U’s success that it has been working on games for the console for some time and has pledged to have titles ready for it from “day one”. Discussing the importance of launch-day support for consoles, EA Games label boss Frank Gibeau said, “It served us well on PlayStation 2 …

Mass Effect 3 wraps up a story that began back in 2007 and will either end with the Reaper threat crushed, or all life in the universe extinguished. Last month Xbox World 360 ventured into the snowy Canadian wilderness, fighting bears, moose, and Mounties, for a look inside BioWare’s studios. Here for the first time …

Ubisoft has sent word that a new Driver: San Francisco developer diary has rolled in. In it, the team at Reflections gives us a bit of background on each of the game’s main characters including Tanner, his partner Jones and villain Jericho.

Blizzard has announced a new trial account system that removes the time limitations of the current free trial accounts. New players considering allowing Blizzard’s MMO to suck up their lives will be able to play unrestricted up to level 20 before the game starts asking for cash. After that you can choose to ditch your …

Warner has released a new Mortal Kombat trailer showing off Kenshi, the next downloadable fighter that will be available on July 5th. Kenshi’s shtick is that he was tricked into using a powerful sword that makes its user blind by Shang Tsung. He spends a number of years tuning his other senses to become a …

BioWare co-founders Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka have been talking up the future of the franchise, and discussed the “very, very broad” possibilities for the title. In fact, the studio is already hammering out the details for continuing the franchise, the pair told Forbes. “Certainly the setting has really resonated with people, the type of …

Valve has sent word that the winners of its Summer Mapping Initiative competition have been decided, and made the contest winning maps available for download. Over 280 maps were entered into the contest for the 13 judges to play through. The first and second place Grand Prize winners were ‘Patent Pending’ by ebola with a …

Treyarch have released a new trailer showing off the new zombie to be included in the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation download pack. Set to debut on Xbox Live tomorrow (June 28th), Annihilation will feature four new competitive multiplayer maps and a new Zombies level. Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia said: “With Annihilation, …

Naughty Dog has release everything you need to know before the Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta kicks off tomorrow including FIVE videos.   The beta starts on June 28th for PS Plus subscribers, and July 4th for everyone else. It ends on July 13th. The game types and maps available will change week-on-week, with everything from …

Crytek has announced that they have released update version 1.9 and the new DX11 support patch for Crysis 2. The company stated: “The Crysis 2 Ultra Upgrade delivers higher quality visuals and features including tessellation, water rendering improvements, high quality HDR motion blur, and many other special effects and higher quality texture formats with the …