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Remedy has announced that Alan Wake is FINALLY coming to PC, and revealed a February 16th release date for the title. Announced as a PC and Xbox 360 game way back in 2005, but later launched as a console exclusive, the title was re-announced for PC in December. It’ll include DLC add-ons The Signal and …

EA is set to release a Syndicate multiplayer demo on Xbox Live and US PSN today. As promised, the co-op trial will support up to four players and feature one of the nine levels due in the final game. ‘Western Europe’ sees you and your leather-clad chums infiltrate Cayman Global to assassinate Colonel Enrico Gabron …

Deep Silver has released a trailer showing off Dead Island’s upcoming story DLC. Announced earlier this month and set for release next week, the Ryder White DLC stars the main title’s antagonist as a newly playable character. The publisher says it’ll offer a single player campaign “with several hours of story content with twists and …

Ubisoft has released the Mediterranean Traveller map pack for Assassin’s Creed Revelations on Xbox 360, PC, and PS3 in the US (the DLC will hit Sony’s console in Europe tomorrow). First outed by retailer GameStop last month, it introduces six multiplayer maps, featuring a mixture of brand new ones and “favourite Italian Renaissance maps from …

Diablo 3 fans expecting a similar experience from the final game compared to the well-polished beta may be surprised, as game director Jay Wilson confirms some fairly major changes still going to the game. This means the expected February release has possibly gone out the window, as Wilson admits it’s “not quite there yet” but …

Naughty Dog has released the first DLC map pack for Uncharted 3 in the US, and will release it in Europe tomorrow. As previously teased, the ‘Flashback’ map pack includes maps revived from Uncharted 2. The previously revealed Cave and Fort are joined by Lost City and Sanctuary, all with new lighting, textures and weather …

Publisher Deep Silver has announced the upcoming release of campaign DLC for Dead Island, entitled the ‘Ryder White’ DLC. The update will offer a new perspective into the incidents in Dead Island’s story, with players taking on the role of Ryder White, the main game’s antagonist, who’ll be shown to be both a military man …

Micah Whipple, the Diablo III community manager, has set the record straight saying rumours that the game will suddenly release on Feb. 1st are actually false. “Diablo III does not have a release date, Whipple said via Twitter earlier. “Any store or person claiming otherwise is guessing.” This follows a number of retailers, most notably …

Okay, so it’s not a confirmation per se, but Timothy Williams, a composer that has created music for the recent Conan the Barbarian film, Rise of the Argonauts, and Valve’s DOTA 2 has listed God of War 4 as one of the project he’s worked on, providing another indication that Sony is working on a …

Rocksteady has said it will be releasing a free new character skin as a way to thank fans for supporting Batman: Arkham City. The gratis skin will kit up the Dark Knight in his Batman Incorporated outfit, which is very much in line with his classic costume and features a more pronounced bat symbol on …

Blizzard has shown off the Diablo III opening cinematic and it’s looking sensational. They had this to say: “Evil has returned! Witness the opening moments of Blizzard’s third chapter to the epic Diablo series” Okay, we will. Incoming search terms: diablo 3 open beta diablo 3 trailer live

A patch fixing numerous issues in the Pc version of Batman: Arkham City has been released on Steam. The development team said: “We have just released a patch for Batman: Arkham City PC that provides fixes [for] a variety of DX 11 issues, as well as fixes for a few other non-DX 11 related issues,” …

Bethesda have released The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Japanese trailer and it’s atmospheric and looks soo pretty! Let’s just hope they don’t play it on the PS3, which, despite last week’s patch still suffers from crippling lag issues. Earlier this week it was revealed that Bethesda’s RPG has become the first Western game to receive …

Ubisoft have announced that the PC version of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Revelations will be getting patched on day one. The patch won’t include anything too big, but will be essential for anyone wanting to play the game using Nvidia’s 3D vision. The majority of the update’s features relate to visual and UI tweaks. Here are …

Noone is really surprised by this news, and neither is developer Techland, but Dead Island has been banned in Germany. “This isn’t unexpected,” the developer told Eurogamer. “Germany has its unique regulations regarding video games and violence and the industry can only comply. “Both Deep Silver and Techland were aware of such a possibility from …