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The first Crysis 3 details have appeared online via a Russian website, which claims the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC threequel will release in spring 2013. The new instalment is said to take place in a heavily destroyed New York which has become “almost a jungle”, thus combining the settings of the first and second …

Another Modern Warfare 3 video has surfaced, with some quite in depth gameplay action. For many, this will show everything that’s made the series so popular and get your heart beating with excitement, since it essentially looks like little more than a copy/paste job from MW2. For the rest of us, I think it really …

Battlefield 3 developer DICE has confirmed that PC players who buy the upcoming FPS through retailers will be required to download EA’s digital distribution platform Origin to play the game. In response to questions on the matter from fans on Twitter, DICE community manager Daniel Martos said: “Yes those ‘rumours’ are true .” Battlefield 3 …

The Batman Gotham City Impostors beta sign-up sheet is now online should you be curious enough to scribble your name down. The game’s official website brings full details of the beta as well as a start date of September: “You’ve been waiting patiently to get some delicious hands-on time with Gotham City Impostors, and we’re …

A new seven minute video has emerged showing off all the leaked Battlefield 3 gameplay fragments together for one good long look at DICE’s FPS. Quick, watch it while it’s still up!

It appears that EA may have launched the latest attack on FPS rival Activision, by picking up a Modern Warfare 3 URL and redirecting it to its own Battlefield website. ‘ModernWarfare3.com’ is a domain you would have thought publishing giant Activision would have secured years ago, but COD fans will be bamboozled this morning when …

Eidos has released another trailer for upcoming FPS RPG Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and it’s looking great. Publisher Square Enix has given the game an August 26th European release date, so it’s not long now until you can get your grubby hands on it.

The console versions of Battlefield 3 will support 720p resolution and run at 30 frames per second, “just as 99% of all games for those platforms”, Johan Andersson, a rendering architect at DICE working on the Frostbite engine, today revealed. Fielding questions on Twitter, he said the developer is prioritising level sizes, player numbers, destruction, …

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick wanted to play Battlefield 3 at E3 2011 yesterday and got the door slammed firmly in his face. According to reports, a female assistant of Kotick’s hopped to the front of the EA queue on Wednesday morning. The DICE-developed FPS is only being shown behind closed doors in Los Angeles – …

EA has released a new Battlefield 3 behind the scenes movie filmed at developer DICE’s studio in Sweden, which in addition to showing exclusive new footage from the upcoming FPS, there are interviews with key team members including the game’s creative director, lead weapons designer and audio director, plus a look back over the history of …

Frank Gibeau, president of Electronic Arts’ EA Games label, believes Battlefield 3 is a “flat out superior” product to blockbuster FPS Call of Duty. Speaking on an earnings call last night (via Seeking Alpha), he said of the DICE shooter: “The game is built on our brand-new Frostbite 2 Engine. It takes the battle to …

EA has released a great new trailer for its gorgeous looking FPS Battlefield 3. Blending cinematic in-game footage with actual gameplay, the ‘My Life’ video is basically a mixture of stuff we’ve already seen, but that’s no reason not to watch it in all its glory again. DICE also has a 12-minute Battlefield 3 trailer, …

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, …

We get asked often what we’re looking forward to in the coming year, especially in the first person shooter genre. And what many of you don’t realise is that we’re actually spoiled for choice this year, and I haven’t even mentioned console exclusive shooters, or the likes of Portal 2, Doom 4 or a few …

THQ has talked up promising FPS Homefront, claiming the shooter can compete “with the very best” in the genre, and offered up a trailer or two to prove the point. Speaking alongside news that the game’s gone gold at NYC dev Kaos Studios, THQ core games boss Danny Bilson said Homefront’s set to be one …