Ubisoft revealed Beyond Good & Evil 2 around 4 years ago and then the game dropped off the face of the planet like Captain Jack Sparrow and since then, we’ve been told every now and again that the game is still in development and most recently we were told that the game has not been scrapped but was just put on the backburner for a bit. Reassuring stuff, really.

We might finally get to have a look at the game if these leaked videos are in fact legit. There’s not much in it and it’s spurious at best but at least it’s something, right? Unseen64 claims that this is prototype footage of the game’s environments. It looks pretty detailed and interesting to be just a hoax.

Is a Beyond Good & Evil sequel even still on your mind after all these years or have you just put it behind you? By the way, there’s some really sad Indian music playing in the video above, try not to cry. Below is a video of a police helicopter revolving and it too has been linked with BG&E 2.

News has been scarce on Resistance: Burning Skies but we know enough to set you up for this here trailer. It’s a Vita title that takes a slightly different path by putting players in the boots of fireman Tom Riley on the first day of the Chimeran invasion of the USA and of course, the game will be set in NYC.

What makes this game special is that the Vita’s capabilities and dual analogues allow Burning Skies to be the first fully-fledged handheld shooter so it is certainly a leap forward for the genre in handheld terms.

The game is out on May 30 and if you’re so inclined, do check out the Trophies list here.

It’s an action-adventure title from Capcom and it has dragons in it, what more would you want to know about Dragon’s Dogma? Okay, a lot more actually so here’s our preview of it. Today, we’ve got the launch trailer for the game. It’s filled with plenty of action, giants, an ‘evil-eye’ and a giant flying chicken!

It also showcases a bit of the Ur-Dragon, an “asynchronous, ongoing online encounter” in which players take on the dragon and their combined efforts work towards the worldwide goal of slaying the beast.

Dragon’s Dogma is out for PS3 and Xbox 360 on may 25.

Valve’s free DLC for Portal 2 titled Perpetual Testing Initiative is now available for PC and Mac. For those who don’t know, the DLC is basically Portal 2′s own level creator and will allow players to “easily create, share, and play Portal 2 puzzles.” Is it not simply awesome?

In other news, Portal 2 has just reached 4 million in sales figures which isn’t breaking any records but does show that what is one of the best games of 2011 and certainly amongst the best of all time is actually selling in volumes somewhat worthy of its status.

By the way, I’ve added the video from when the DLC was announced, as narrated by the one and only Cave Johnson.

We’ve seen plenty of screenshots and we’ve seen a cinematic or two but what everyone has desperately been waiting for to pass judgement on Assassin’s Creed III is a good look at some gameplay. Ubisoft has promised a lot but then so do presidential candidates and it definitely didn’t help Mr Sarkozy at all. No, we need to see the game in action to decide whether this one has a chance of succeeding or will just drown in the series’ own stagnant pool of redundancy.

What you see above is merely a brief teaser to the actual gameplay video which Ubisoft wants you to work for, the pigs. Basically, someone didn’t show the entire Ubisoft staff enough love and now they feel neglected so it’s up to you to go here and make them feel important or at the very least validated by liking the page and then sharing, posting or tweeting about it.

Do it now, for those morbidly depressed souls at Ubisoft, every share and tweet makes them feel more human! Once the grand total number of tweets, shares and posts hits 1,776,000 not only will the Ubisoft team be all sunshine and rainbows but you’ll even get the full AC III gameplay trailer as a reward.

Do what you must for the greater good.

A few days ago, Ubisoft revealed some early concept art for the original Assassin’s Creed and while a lot of it showed stylised versions of what we’d already seen, some of it showed things that were ultimately scrapped from the game like wielding two daggers or female assassins (playing as them, not wielding them).

Now we’ve got a concept video which takes it all a step further. It’s pretty cool and you can see that the general style that Altair has in his movement and combat was there from the beginning. Pay close attention to Prince of Persia: Assassins and you’ll see a bit of the link between the two franchises.

Watch it, you’ll like it. I promise. Warning: the beginning is a tad arbitrary but stick through and enjoy the narration from Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness. What you’re looking for is at around the 1:30 mark and the rest all just flotsom really.

Talk is cheap but not so much really when you’ve got really awesome looking gameplay clips to go with it. United Front Games has released a video in which they discuss the level editor in LittleBigPlanet Karting as well as the driving mechanics. There’s also a little bit said about bridging the gap between traditional LBP and a karting game and how that actually allowed the game to have elements and gameplay that you’d never expect to see in a racer.

You’ll see basically just how amazing this game looks while also getting an inside look into how United Front worked to make this a truly unique karting experience. You’ll also glimpse rocket-powered boxing gloves as vehicles at some point. Does it get any better than rocket-powered boxing gloves?

LittleBigPlanet Karting is out in October for PS3 and may eventually find its way onto Vita. Strong with this one the force is.

So Mortal Kombat is now out for the PS Vita  or at least it is in the US, we only get it on Friday, and in its honour we’ve got a launch trailer. It’s got suprsingly little gore and not nearly enough brutal finishers but it does show off all those little extras that the Vita version gets like the mini-games. There’s also a brief cameo from Kratos if I saw right.

Enjoy, responsibly. Not for sale to persons under the age of 18. Hey that might actually be true, what about that?

It’s not long now until Ghost Recon: Future Soldier releases and some of you will surely be enjoying the beta but for those of you that aren’t, we have a preview that’ll make you feel better (probably not). Ubisoft has released a new trailer for the online shooter, this one detailing the Specialist class.

The Specialist is described as “a master in electronic warfare equipped with Blackout, an energy boost which renders the enemy useless and disoriented as well as A.E.G.I.S which creates an impenetrable shield upon yourself and your surrounding teammates. His job? To tilt the tides of battle.”

Don’t you just wanna be a Specialist so bad right now?

We recently told you about the “Perpetual Testing” DLC for Portal 2 which would not only allow players to craft their own puzzling levels but would also be available completely gratis. It gets on Steam on May 8 with a console version hopefully to follow.

Valve has released an awesome Cave Johnson trailer for it and it is as expertly humorous as the actual game.

The latest weapons trailer for Max Payne 3 shows off the 1911 semi-automatic pistol, and just like the previous trailers it’s really short. But I guess all you really need to see, as the game draws closer to its May 18 release date, is some old school action. And Mr Payne sure does love his pistols.

Check it out above.

It’s only a surprise the first few times but when we’re getting Black Ops 2 rumours weekly, we may as well be doing weekly news for a game that has been announced. So, while the game is apparently due to be announced soon, we have a new rumour in circulation that suggests the next CoD will take place 10-15 years after Black Ops. That’s what Activision seems to want us to believe according to this viral video.

The video, from FPS Russia’s YouTube channel, was linked to via the Call of Duty website and shows a “prototype quadrotor with machine gun” which is basically a cool way to gun people down from low altitudes.

The tags for the video include: “black ops”, “zombie poker party”, “tacitus”, “t shirt” and “Tacitus t shirt”. That means largely nothing since you can add pretty much any tag. I could add porn or hentai to the tags for this article but that doesn’t mean it contains any of that or that eGamer is branching out into a porn site (sorry, kluch).

What gives it some modicum of plausibility is a bit of sleuthing that falls somewhere between the level of Holmes and finding ‘x’ in a maths test by circling it. Mostly the latter. that one tag ‘tacitus’ was actually a Roman senator and historian who mentions in one his works a lunar eclipse  and that “the soldiers who were ignorant of the cause took this for an omen referring to their present adventures.”

Well, there’s a military reference and this was shortly after the death of Augustus Caesar so we’ll see how all that ties into the new game but it certainly still sounds like a strong Cold War story if you ask me.

Yet another rumour suggests a May 2 announcement for Black Ops 2 so we’ll just wait and see I guess.

Pro Evolution games of the past 2 or 3 years were pretty Messi-centric with PES 2011 just going crazy and slapping his face and likeness everywhere they could. Much like EA Sports just did with FIFA Street. Anyway, Cristiano Ronaldo is now the face of PES and so now all trailers and screenshots are so obsessed with him that you’d swear the developers were a bunch of swooning girls who’d be willing to rock up at a Real Madrid match holding a sign for him that says: “We have good ball skills too.” I swear to God that happened in real life, cross my heart, hope Azhar dies (hehe).

Anyway, here’s the latest CR7 oggle-fest complete with screenshots to oggle even more.

At this juncture I would like to kindly request that all Barca fans suck it while also leaving you with this fun fact: Alessandro has the same fishing rod as Cristiano Ronaldo seeing as how all Portuguese fish. Fun fact #2: Alessandro and Ronaldo hail from the same town which is to Portugal what Ventersdorp is to South Africa.

Do not adjust your TV set, although you probably should because this is a website. You’re not experiencing lag or bad connection, this Max Payne 3 TV ad is just in love with bullet time. In fact the whole thing is just in slow-mo so if you sped it up, it would look normal.

Anyway, this is supposed to get you amped for the game and inspire you to go out and get it or pre-order it so y’know get excited or just do something, anything. Max Payne 3 is out on May 15 except for PC which only gets the game in June 1.

The PS3 and Xbox 360 multiplayer beta for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier released yesterday and having seen it in action already on PC, it looks pretty good but what good is it releasing something without accompanying trailers, right?

There are two trailers, the first walks you through the equipment you’ll use in-game and the two opposing factions. The second (below) details the two maps available in the beta as well as the various modes on offer.

The beta will run until May 2 with the game releasing for consoles on May 25 and June 15 for PC.

I meant it. Namco Bandai Partners released a new trailer for Dragon Ball Z For Kinect, and it doesn’t look anything like your childhood fantasy come true. In fact, it’s scary.

What do you think? So bad it’s good, or just painful to watch and not at all as you imagined it to be?

Dragon Ball Z For Kinect is a first-person fighting game. It will be releasing this October.

Watch at your own risk, because the famous word “Saiyan” is actually mispronounced at the end.

That’s how bad it is. No lies.

Fez finally released on Friday after some years in development and you’ll hear soon enough how much Alessandro wishes he could have a threesome with it and Rayman Origins but everyone else hasn’t exactly had a great experience with the game. There have been reports of gamebreaking glitches and some cases where the game simply won’t run.

It’s a poor showing from developer Polytron who worked on this game for so many years and got people so excited to finally play the game. Luckily a patch is in the works but there’s no word on when it will land.

In the interim, anyone having technical difficulties should e-mail  support@fezgame.com with details. Above is a video showing the first few minutes of gameplay in case you haven’t seen Fez yet or don’t know what all the fuss is about.

Prototype 2 is nearly upon us, April 24th to be exact, and Radical is reminding us of it with a live action TV commercial. It features an angry black man who is supposed to pass for protagonist James Heller and fills us in on a bit of his backstory while also showing the cause for his need to seek vengeance against Alex Mercer, our ‘hero’ from the first game.

The end is quite cheesy and more than a bit cheap but you won’t really notice once you take a look at Alex Mercer’s paedophile/rapist eyes. The rest of the trailer is pretty good though and there’s even a good Johnny Cash cover of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails to go with it. Why do so many trailers have NIN attached to them in some way these days? There’s this, that one Avengers trailer, The Darkness II launch trailer and even The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trailer.

By the way, PC gamers will have to wait until July 30 to play Prototype 2. Art thou enraged, good fellow?

We all love Valve, as a company they produce games we adore and they generally don’t treat us like walking wallets the way most developers do. We can even forgive them for the prolonged Half-Life 3 trolling they’ve been conducting. That’s how nice Valve is as a company.

It should therefore be no surprise that the company’s apparent humanity and good-heartedness filters through to its employees and the way the place is run. Valve researcher Michael Abrash recently posted a blog about what he’s working and while that in itself is pretty darn interesting, his description of how the place is run is even more phenomenal.

According to Abrash, Valve operates with no strict hierarchical management so while there may be people with more seniority etc than you, there isn’t such a thing as a ‘boss’ breathing down your neck and barking at you to have that module or report or whatever done by 2pm. Basically, Valve employees work on what they think is most worthy of their time. I assume there’s a very deeply-ingrained honour-system going on there and it certainly seems to work. I wish the eGamer office ran a bit more like that. It does in a way except we have no free will and our hopes, dreams and ambition are crushed by the iron fist of Mein Fuhrer, Herr Oberholzer (some of you know him as Dean).

He even talks a bit about his pet project.

“By ‘wearable computing’ I mean mobile computing where both computer-generated graphics and the real world are seamlessly overlaid in your view; there is no separate display that you hold in your hands (think Terminator vision).”

Abrash believes that this sort of technology is about 3 to 5 years away from being a viable reality. It’s definitely not hard to believe if you’ve already seen Google’s Project Glass HUD glasses in action (see video above).

Amidst all of this, you have to wonder whether Valve is looking at incorporating this sort of technology into the console which they are alleged to be creating.

It’s great to hear about company’s operating in this sort of relaxed, unoppressive environment and making it work in a world where the bottom line always comes first with employees merely serving as a means to an end, even if the products churned out are still great. We’ve even heard of developers practically slave-driving their employees as in the case with L.A. Noire developer Team Bondi.

Here’s the latest trailer for Dragon’s Dogma and it takes the form of a moving comic which fills us in a bit on the story. It’s the first in a series and doesn’t look too bad.  Dragon’s Dogma itself is looking pretty good, just read our preview of the game if you don’t believe me. It’s an open-world action-RPG and again if you don’t know much about this game, it’s probably because Capcom hasn’t been marketing it the way it normally does but reading said preview will help.

Dragon’s Dogma is out on May 25 for PS3 and Xbox 360.

Fez is an indie game that’s been coming on for a long time now and it’s finally been released to the world. To go with this,we have  seven and a half minutes of gameplay from the intro to the game for your viewing pleasure.

As you’ll see it’s a pretty standard 2D sidescrolling platformer with a very colourful, fun, playful tone and atmosphere. Also the protagonist looks like a creampuff. The difference is that you can change perspective to see different dimenions of the world and that’s pretty much what makes this game awesome. It might not sound great in wiritng but trsut me, it is just great to watch.

Unfortunately the game is only avaiable for Xbox 360 right now but let’s hope that, like Limbo, it spreads very soon.

Max Payne has always had a party-piece in its slow-mo bullet-time mechanic and it has always allowed the game to look very cool with Max jumping around in cool ways. That’s just what the latest in a series of trailers about the design and technology of Max Payne 3 covers. It focuses on how the series’ trademark feature plays a part in the new game.

It looks cool enough but slowing things down really makes it clear how poor these baddies’ aim is or just that Max should’ve died 10 bullets to the arm ago. It’s also remarkable that Rockstar didn’t include some jiggle physics for Max’s boep so that it wobbles when he moves and goes crazy when you enter bullet-time.

Max Payne 3 is out on May 18 for PS3 and Xbox 360 while PC gamers have to wait until June 1.

Bethesda is considering trademarking the phrase “Fus Ro Dah”, made famous as a shout in Skyrim and the subject of many hilarious YouTube videos. The reasons are unclear, but Bethesda’s parent company, ZeniMax Media has thus far submitted six different applications to the United States Patent and Trademark Office which together cover a range of products such as clothes, ringtones etc. You might still have a shot at calling your terrorist group or laxative formula Fus Ro Dah, but Bethesda does love to sue people over the names of things.

Chances are that ZeniMax is in the process of creating some Skyrim merchandise with Fus Ro Dah branding. Obviously, this will be the tag phrase to go with everything Skyrim. By the way, above is one of the funnier Fus Ro Dah videos, mostly just because of the bit at the end.

Ninja Theory’s DmC reboot of Devil May Cry just keeps looking better and better and honestly it looks like a pretty darn good game at present. Capcom has released a new trailer for the game that at first gives us an indication of how the world perceives Dante before quickly realising that this is a hack ‘n slash title and consequently slipping back into that over the top action we’ve come to expect from DmC.

Dante literally faces his demons in this trailer while also trying to get his pants on since he starts the trailer off lying naked in a trailer. Enjoy. Also, this is a game that is currently still in development in case the trailer doesn’t make that clear enough.

Community is probably the single best comedy show around right now and part of that is the layered humour reminiscent of Arrested Development (best comedy show ever). Some like to call the show ‘meta’. Anyway Community star Joel McHale aka Jeff Winger (aka the guy that our Caveshen has been compared to) is now part of the 3DS marketing campaign and in line with his proficiency in all things meta, this ad for the 3DS dissects what it takes to make a viral video advertising the 3DS.

He also kicks a guy in the balls and there’s even an appearance from Mario and Luigi. There are even at least 8 boobs, promise.

Sleeping Dogs is True Crime: Hong Kong reincarnated and if you saw the last trailer then you’ll know how awesome this game looks. To put it bluntly, this game is where GTA should’ve gone when it came to the current gen. It looks all kinds of crazy awesome.

The latest trailer shows some action of various kinds and has easily the best voice-over work ever done anywhere for anything, ever.

Enjoy.

Every four years the US gets a new figurehead but worse than that, the gaming world gets a rather crappy licensed game for the UEFA Euro 2012. It’s like the world cup but only for Europe for those of you who don’t follow cricket.

The video shows a whole lot of teams whose kits aren’t readily recognisable while the screens give us a look at some of the top teams and Italy. The game’s in development at EA Canada (FIFA Street) and the great blessing is that this isn’t a full release but will rather be available for download on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC for R200.00, 1800 MS Points and 2500 FIFA Points respectively.

What I could never understand is why these games were never any good when all they really are is a lite version of the current FIFA title. Someone please explain.

Some time ago we showed you Deadlight, a post-apocalyptic survival platformer title from the all-star team of Spanish developer Tequila Works. Well here’s your first look at some proper gameplay and it must be said that the visual style is refreshingly unique while the platforming looks quite solid too.

Watch and behold. Deadlight is due out on XBLA soon. There’s a bit of Limbo to this game and that will never be a bad thing.

I am a huge Coldplay fan, so much so that I went to see them live in concert last year and one of my favourites from their set (although there really isn’t such a thing as a bad Coldplay track) was Viva la Vida. Incidentally, it seems to also be a preferred tune of singer TryHardNinja who decided to reimagine the track with Minecraft in mind.

What you’re about to experience is a pretty good reworking of Viva la Vida by Coldplay accompanied by a breathtakingly astounding Minecraft map created especially for this.

I’m not sure if this truly qualifies as a ‘LOL post’ but it is definitely amazing to behold.

With all this talk about Assassin’s Creed and even another professional killer, as seen in Dishonored, Square Enix felt the need to remind us who the Original Assassin is. At least, that’s what they like to call him. Agent 47 is back in another trailer, one with a really wicked ending. I just used the word ‘wicked’, it’s one I haven’t used in a while in that context and thus felt the need to dwell on that fact. Also, I like variety.

This new trailer focuses on 47 going to find a girl in an orphanage and subsequently taking out a group of thugs, who are there for the same reason, in the process. It’s not bad and gives us a little glimpse of what may become an important sequence if that girl turns out to be a significant character.

Hitman Absolution has yet to receive a concrete release date but should be out by late 2012 for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

Unfortunately all we have at present is a trailer for said fan-made flick, but the fact that there’s a trailer shows you just how big this is going to be. It’s called Aperture: Lab Ratt and from what the trailer shows, it is looking like a very high quality job.

I’d even wager that it might have an indie movie feel to it rather than that home-made vibe. The lighting, costumes, soundtrack and camera work looks spot on, so this should be something to behold when it lands.

Besides that, the film will follow a slightly alternate story by focusing on the character of Doug Rattman, and the whole lab rat idea. Doug also happens to look a lot like Charlie Day which might not be such a good thing, if the movie is going for seriousness.

CD Projekt RED has released a new trailer for The Witcher 2 to further hype the Xbox 360 version of the game, which will release on April 17 this year.

The trailer explains what it means to be a Witcher. So like, if you’re planning on becoming one, then check it out. Maybe it can give you some pointers. Or encourage you to buy the game perhaps.

Sleeping Dogs is a game that gave us quite a scare some time ago when we thought it was the title for a third Kan & Lynch game, the thought still gives me shudders. What it actually is though, is a rebranded, reworked version of True Crime: Hong Kong which got cancelled a while ago.

The game is in development by ModNation studio United Front Games in conjunction with Square Enix London who also had a hand in Batman: Arkham Asylum and Just Cause 2.

Anyway, the game is a GTA/Yakuza-style crime title with a sandbox environment and part of that will of course be vehicles. You know, getting from point A to point B? Well, it’s more than that in Sleeping Dogs, a lot more.

You don’t just get to drive cars and bikes but boats as well and the Just Cause 2 connection is evident in the stunts and craziness that driving around in this game seems to be filled with. There’s even high speed shootouts, street racing, and car jacking like you’ve never seen it before. There also seems to be stuff exploding around every 10 seconds.

The publisher says: “Take high performance driving to the limit as over 65 vehicles become your tools to take-on the streets and waterways of Hong Kong.

“Participate in illegal street races where money, girls and status are the high-stakes rewards, taking on your challengers with expert driving and precision-placed ramming, sending any and all rivals into a well-timed spin.

“Let no criminal escape your relentless pursuit with high-speed action hijacks, leaping from vehicle to vehicle, or intense high-speed gun battles direct from the driver’s seat. In Sleeping Dogs, the streets are yours to take… how you get there is up to you.”

The game is looking pretty damn cool, even if it the visuals were a bit underwhelming in this trailer.

A week ago we reported that Final Fantasy XIII-2 would be getting Mass Effect armour as downloadable content, and now Square Enix has unveiled a trailer to show it off in action.

Check it out above if you’re into weird things.

Rockstar has released part 1 of a new series of videos which will focus on the multiplayer component for Max Payne 3. This first vid deals with the “core features of Max Payne 3 multiplayer” which aims to integrate signature elements such as Bullet Time into the modes, namely Gang Wars and Payne Killer.

Gang Wars is the main mode and sees players participating in story-based matches using warring factions from the main campaign. Branching storylines in the mode will be dynamic and objectives will be determined by the outcome of each round.

While the other mode, Payne Killer, sounds very much like one of the most enjoyable games I’ve ever played on my PC, it is instead an opportunity for players to go co-operative with  Max Payne and his compadre Raul Passos. It’s supposed to be a “blend of co-operative and competitive play.” Players will need a mix of teamwork, Bullet Time, signature weapons and Panado to survive. Apparently.

Max Payne 3 lands on May 29 for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

Okay, that header may be a tad ambiguous and more than a little disturbing from some angles but hey, it’s your sick mind, not mine that understood it that way. Anyway, it’s always annoying when you’re playing online and there’s some douche who just keeps ruining the fun for you but then again, you might just be a worthless noob so there’s that too.

Anyway, shit gets pretty messed up when you’re getting pawned by a toddler and you know you’ve entered the zone, where normal things happen very often, when they start trash-talking. Yeah, it’s just weird all-round.

That brings us to this video which is pretty much all about what I just said. Why should you care? Well, it’s worth a few laughs and enables to brag about the fact that I have a 3-year-old brother whom I have now been inspired to develop and mold into the ultimate being, troll and gamer all rolled into one. His power will be maximum!

As if details about the Collector’s Edition and a new developer diary wasn’t enough Assassin’s Creed III news for the day, there’s also a very short teaser trailer out there that shows off Connor’s weapons. In case you don’t know yet, he’s the protagonist of the upcoming game.

It’s only about 40 seconds so you might as well check it out.

Actually, no it isn’t. But I had you going there for a second, right? What it actually is, is so bad you’ll wish you had a lightsaber just to melt your eyes out of your face.

The trailer shows various elements of the game such as pod racing, Rancor destruction sequences and co-op lightsaber battles and that’s all fine. What really messes with you is how much fun these people appear to be having and/or how intent they are on saving the galaxy. At some point you’ll see the dad’s game face and you’ll just know that shit is going down.

Question: Do you think playing Kinect Star Wars would cause an uncontrollable attraction to your sister? Because that could be a pretty nasty side-effect; definitely the kind of warning you need to put on the front of the box.

A group of enthusiastic Grand Theft Auto fans have gotten together to do something awesome with GTA 3, recreating it using GTA IV’s Rage engine.

Titled Grand Theft Auto 3 Rage, the game strings together various other mods such as GTA III HD Cars, GTA SA: Liberty City, Project Oblivion and GTA III HD in order to rebuild Liberty City like it was back in the good old PlayStation 2 days.

There’s no word on release date just yet, but you can expect that it will be a long time from now.

Well the news is certainly starting to pour in for AC III and while the all-important gameplay video that will define whether this game has a hope in hell or will fail spectacularly is still some ways off, we can at least become familiar with the game on paper.

In fact, if you aren’t up to date yet on this game, do so now. Ready? Cool, cool cool cool.

We’ve got two videos for you today and both are interviews with two key members of the AC III dev team courtesy of CVG. The first sees creative director Alex Hutchinson talking about Connor’s arsenal of things to kill people with which includes dual pistols and a tomahawk with a rather corny Assassin’s crest shaped head. he also delves into a very skeletal brief on the part Desmond will play in the new game as well as the way the Templars have changed since we last saw them in Turkey.

The second, below, has senior producer Francois Pelland also saying things about the game but there really isn’t much new to behold although Pelland makes mention of an upgrade to the chase-breaking mechanic whereby Connor can enter buildings to hide which implies that players will be able to enter more than just a handful of buildings in this game.

I’ll be the first to admit that a lot more effort and time seems to have gone into this game than was initially believed but I’m still more than sceptical about whether the final product can deliver the goods.

There have been some insistent rumours about there being a LittleBigPlanet Karting title in the works and there was even a poster for it a short while ago and Sony has finally confirmed its existence with a barrage of details and a trailer to boot.

The trouble is that when we all heard the rumours, we thought, “Sure, it’ll probably be good but won’t it just be ModNation all over again?”

The answer, my friends is a definitive “hell no!”

The accompanying trailer is filled with such an intensity of awesomeness that you need to wear those special solar eclipse glasses to protect your eyes from melting straight out of your face.

LBP Karting is being developed by ModNation Racers studio, United Front Games. Why ModNation has been abandoned is beyond me but it certainly looks to be a trade-up.

Details have surfaced by means of an impromptu Q & A that happened on the PlayStation Blog where LBP developer Media Molecule wrote a post to introduce the game and commenters asked some inevitable questions and UFG Senior Producer James Grieve was more than obliged to respond.

One user asked if there will be a Vita version of LittleBigPlanet Karting, to which Grieve replied, “currently, there are no plans to release a Vita version of this game.” Another user brings up ModNation Racers’ notoriously-long load times, to which Grieve notes that he “think[s] you’ll be pleasantly surprised.”

An interesting question was whether UFG would allow users to carry over what they’d created in ModNation into LBP Karting just as Mm did with LBP 2 and LittleBigPlanet. Sadly, Grieve came back with a no. “We’ve crammed so much new functionality into LBPK that bringing creations forward from MNR unfortunately won’t be possible. We can’t wait to see what the community will create with all the new tools available!”

Like ModNation Racers, LittleBigPlanet Karting “will be a full-scale on-disc title,” according to Grieve, and will be 3D-enabled and will support “online competitive multiplayer, with up to 8 players competing online at once in Races, Battles and other events!” Four player split-screen will also be available if you want to play with friends locally.

Beside this, the game seems to have a distinctly more apparent LBP feel to it with that trademark cuteness and unique feel. It also seems to have a side-scrolling platforming campaign which should be intriguing from behind the wheel of a kart in addition to all the racing and what-not that you’d expect from this title. there also seems to be a demolition derby arena-based deathmatch sort of mode which should be good fun.

In essence, this game looks to be this gen’s real successor to games such as Crash Team Racing. I want this game in my PS3, now! Watch the trailer and you’ll see what I mean.

Everyone likes Gabe Newell, Valve CEO, alround nice guy and ultimate troll for never releasing Half-Life 3. We can agree on that I’m sure, but some affectionately refer to him as Gaben. And those that do this are hardcore fans who have gone as far as to write love letters and make Gabe posters/collages. And then, some of those hardcore fans decided to take it to the next level with the freakiest, most disturbing video I’ve watched — in awhile.

It’s almost too appropriate that Gaben is pronounced as ‘gay ben’ in here.

If you haven’t puked your guts out or been shocked into a vegetative state by the end of this video, then you have a surprisingly strong mind or you’re just gay — whichever seems more appropriate and/or plausible. I’ll have you know that my watching lasted less than one minute. Now, I decided to share my pain with all of you because it’s Saturday, and I’m a sadist.

Feel free to file a complaint or sue us for causing permanent damage to you either psychologically or physically. Also, just know that The Dean made me do it. May God have mercy on my soul for what I have unleashed on unsuspecting readers. Actually, I regret nothing.

Czech developer Vatra Games has tried something a little different with Silent Hill: Downpour and the reception has been mixed at best with most saying that the game has changed things up a bit too much and not for the better.

I’m curious to see what the game has to offer, regardless and CVG has graciously obliged with a video showing the first 10min of gameplay. Of course, you cant judge a game by a fractional snippet but it’s good enough to give you a small taste.

Silent Hill: Downpour is out March 29 for PS3 and Xbox 360.

It’s common knowledge that far Cry 3 promises crazy on a whole other level with unstable island inhabitants, binge-drinking and more but what party’s complete without some ‘shrooms to go around?

Meet Dr Earnhardt, the psychotic local pharmacist who insists that a healthy dose of ‘shrooms is an essential part of a balanced diet and will subsequently make players take lots and lots of the hallucinogen. He may also be accused of sampling a bit too much of his own product.

There’s lots to see in the trailer besides trippy hallucinations and did I mention this game has dragons, of the komodo variety that is. You also get a glimpse of some pretty interesting characters that our hero will encounter.

This all goes rather hand-in-hand with the notion of always being enabled in Far Cry 3. The game’s out September 7 for PS3, PC and Xbox 360.

Not really but you’ll see what I did there in a minute. 2K has released a new trailer for BioShock: Infinite detailing a new type of Heavy Hitter known as the Boys of Silence. If you don’t know, Heavy Hitters are effectively mini-bosses akin to Big Daddies in the original BioShock.

Creative director Ken Levine says: “Their purpose in the world is, think of the cameras in BioShock 1, but think of them walking around looking for you.”

Lead artist Shawn Robertson adds: “The way they work is they’re blind, they can’t see you but they can hear you. In the levels that you see them in you have to make a decision on whether you’re going to try to sneak around them or engage them directly, but if you anger them they can call in backup.”

A key purpose of these Heavy Hitters is to add some diversity to the combat which they certainly look capable of doing.

Not long ago, we were shown another Heavy Hitter, the Motorised Patriot and if this one doesn’t interest you, that one certainly will. Of course you could give the Handyman a ring.

There’s a little something called Bit of War and what it is, is a rather interesting if not rather out of sorts 8-bit platforming de-make of God of War.

It’s been in development at Holmade Games as a little project for a good five years now but this year everyone on the team “made a New Year’s resolution to put everything else aside and give it the love it deserved and complete it.”

Get a look at it above, what you’ll see is only a few seconds of gameplay but somehow Kratos can’t convey that same anger when he’s just an obscure pixel cluster. That said, the game is available here for PC at the low, low cost of a few minutes download time. That’s right it’s free so you’ve got nothing to lose really. No love for Mac users though.

So, a new trailer has been released for the Vita version of Mortal Kombat and it is quite simply looking great. The video also shows how NetherRealm stuck to its word of making full non-gimmicky use of the the Vita’s touch functionality and boy have they. Besides the rather annoying mechanic of having to wipe blood off the screen, there’s also a lot of moves that can be executed by swiping your finger across the screen. There even seems to be a few touch-based mini-games with one resembling a bloodier version of Fruit Ninja.

The game’s out in April.

So is there anybody in this country with a Vita besides Alessandro or did he just steal all of them for his horse friend?

If there’s one thing that Americans love more than NASCAR, country ‘n western, guns, dead terrorists, McDonald’s, their siblings and belittling the rest of the world it’s demolition derby’s – yeah this turned out to not be as high up on the list as I initially thought. While I don’t care much for the actual ‘motorsport’ or whatever you wanna call it, a game based around it is the stuff of an enjoyable gaming session. Enter: DiRT Showdown.

Basically, think of Gymkhana in DiRT 3 fused with Motorstorm’s madness, throw in some explosions and you’re pretty much there. It’s arena-based insanity chock full of explosions and ramps and crashes.

The game’ is being helmed by Codemasters who are reputed for their racing titles according to Dean, I’d have to concur there, and will be out in May. Watch the really cool trailer up top and look out for the Mystery Machine.

The Spider-Man game that you deserve and the one that you need right now. Wait, hold up… wrong comic book hero and did someone mention an iguana? For those who don’t know, the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man movie, which looks frickin’ awesome, has The Lizard cast as the main baddy. So who’s this Iguana fellow then?

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that technically an iguana is a lizard, although how engineering and physics would help you with biology is beyond me. The Iguana is actually a lesser known villain who appeared briefly in the comics and is basically a beta version of Lizard although if you wanna go with names that broad then technically Iguana is also Lizard but let’s have some respect for the misnomers of the elderly gentleman who penned all this.

Anyway, that’s that but the real news is that this game will be free-roam with a Spider-Man 2-esque sandbox environment. If you played that game a few years back, you’ll know how excited you should be. The game was little more than average but the way it let players roam freely around a sprawling NYC with some of the best web-swinging mechanics was just magical.

In The Amazing Spider-Man, the city will be living and breathing with a likely limited number of NPC’s, some of whom will be hoodlums that Spidey must stop. There will also be plenty of side-missions including having to take photos for the Daily Bugle.

The game will also make good on the movie’s acknowledgement of Spider-Man as her witty wisecrack full of one-liners and quips. Despite all this, I’m a little bit bummed by the rather poor visuals or at least inconsistent at best.

So, to summarise. We’ve got a re-incarnation of the rather enjoyable Spider-Man 2 which draws from the amazing looking (see what I did there, I wish you hadn’t) upcoming movie. Are you not excited? It’s a licensed game but this one’ll be different (they promised it would be).

2K Games has let out a new trailer for BioShock: Infinite, which features one of the game’s Heavy Hitter bosses, the Handyman. You know what to do if you’re interested.

The game will be out on PC, PS3 and Xbox360 on October 19, 2012.