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Our GDC 2010 report.

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The inside scoop on 2010's most epic games.
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Oscar Winners on Board for Ghost Recon Short Film

By Mike Sharkey | News | Mar 26, 2010 1:44 PM | Comment

Ubisoft was just getting started with its live-action Assassin's Creed promos. According to Variety, the developer is now working with a pair of Oscar winners to create a 30-minute Ghost Recon: Future Soldier short film. Aaand action! Read More »

Ubisoft Making Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Short Film

Capcom Finds Breathing Room for Lost Planet 2

By Mike Sharkey | Xbox 360 News | Mar 26, 2010 12:53 PM | Comment

Your return flight to E.D.N. III is arriving early. Capcom announced today Lost Planet 2 will ship one week prior to its previously announced release date and hit stores on Tuesday, May 11 for the Xbox 360 and PS3. And if that's not soon enough, fire up a vital suit for the final public demo, opening on April 21 on Live and PSN. Read More »

New Demo, Release Date for Lost Planet 2

Microsoft Confirms USB Storage

By Mike Sharkey | Xbox 360 News | Mar 26, 2010 11:14 AM | Comment

Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb confirmed today what the rumor mill has been reporting for a week: USB storage is coming to the Xbox 360 on April 6. Details after the jump. Read More »

Microsoft Confirms USB Storage

Online and Off, Bungie Wants to Reward Players in Halo: Reach

By Mike Sharkey | Xbox 360 News | Mar 26, 2010 9:49 AM | Comment

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare brought addictive, RPG-like leveling and upgrades to multiplayer shooters. Bungie aims to do much the same in Halo: Reach, but the developer is creating a system that rewards players no matter how they invest their time in the game. Read More »

The Return on Investment in Halo: Reach

Breach Declassified: Multiplayer Madness on XBLA this Summer

By Mike Sharkey | Xbox 360 News | Mar 26, 2010 8:34 AM | Comment

Six Days in Fallujah developer Atomic Games provided scant details on its new game, Breach, in a faux classified document released on Monday. Today, however, the company has upped our clearance: Breach will bring a few new tricks to the military FPS genre this summer on Xbox Live Arcade. Set up a shooter's hole and line up your target after the jump. Read More »

Atomic Games Declassifies Breach

Gamer Sues GameStop Over Project $10

By Mike Sharkey | News | Mar 26, 2010 7:02 AM | Comment

GameStop CEO Dan DeMatteo recently told investors Electronic Arts' strategy to entice gamers to choose new over used with DLC, Project $10, is not "compelling to a used game buyer." Based on a lawsuit filed against the retailer this week, DeMatteo couldn't be more wrong. Read More »

GameStop Sued Over DLC

Love that Dirty Water: PAX East Begins

By Mike Sharkey | News | Mar 26, 2010 6:10 AM | Comment

Boston's Hynes Convention Center opened in 1988 and has seen countless festivals, meetings, and gatherings in its 22 years. But the 193,000-square-foot facility has never seen anything like PAX East. Read More »

PAX East Taking Boston by Storm

League of Legends Postmortem

By Ryan Scott & Anthony Gallegos | PC Articles | Mar 25, 2010 9:00 PM | Comment

Inspired by the insanely popular Warcraft III scenario Defense of the Ancients, Riot Games' League of Legends has quickly made a name for itself in the competitive strategy-gaming scene since its late-2009 launch. It's free to play (with a revenue stream that revolves around microtransactions), it's insanely popular (just ask all the readers who voted it GameSpy's Reader's Choice PC Game of the Year!), and it's got a development team dedicated to making sure it stays as competitive as possible. We recently sat down with design director Tom "Zileas" Cadwell to talk about where LoL's been, where it's going, and what kinds of hurdles one must overcome when crafting a well-balanced competitive game. Read More »

League of Legends Postmortem

Microsoft to Get the Jump on E3 with Natal "Experience"

By Mike Sharkey | Xbox 360 News | Mar 25, 2010 1:35 PM | Comment

It appears Microsoft doesn't want to share the E3 spotlight with its competitors. Via a media invite sent out today, Microsoft announced it will be holding a Project Natal "Experience" event on Sunday, June 13, two days before the Electronic Entertainment Expo officially begins. Read More »

Microsoft's Project Natal World Premier on June 13

Ubisoft: Sorry About That, Here's a Free Game

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Mar 25, 2010 12:59 PM | Comment

The bad news is Ubisoft isn't changing its DRM strategy that shackles gamers to the Internet. The good news is the company is making peace offerings to PC gamers impacted by the recent server outages that made playing Assassin's Creed 2 near impossible. Read More »

Ubisoft Extends Olive Branch to PC Gamers

Study: Gamers More Social, Hygenic, All-Around Awesome than Non-Gamers

By Mike Sharkey | News | Mar 25, 2010 11:58 AM | Comment

There's another study out today that provides statistical evidence gamers, by and large, are not acne-riddled shut-ins hiding from society in polygon worlds. According to the Giant Realm Gamer Lifestyle Study, it's just the opposite: gamers are more likely to go out on dates, hit the gym, and use personal care products than non-gamers. Read More »

Study Confronts Gamer Myths

BlizzCon 2010 Announced, Endless Line Immediately Forms

By Mike Sharkey | News | Mar 25, 2010 10:31 AM | Comment

Get ready to queue up. Blizzard announced today its fifth BlizzCon gaming convention will kick off on Friday, October 22 in Anaheim, California. WoW, StarCraft, and Diablo fans interested in attending should get on their toes: ticket availability and pricing has yet to be announced, but last year's show sold out in just eight minutes. Read More »

Blizzard Announces BlizzCon 2010

Ezio Finds a New Home on PSN

By Mike Sharkey | PlayStation 3 News | Mar 25, 2010 9:40 AM | Comment

The final missing chapter in Ezio's saga, The Bonfire of the Vanities, was added in February. But PS3 gamers interested in further exploring the Assassin's Creed universe will soon get their chance. Ubisoft announced today Assassin's Creed will soon have its own Game Space on PlayStation Home. Read More »

Assassin's Creed Gets PlayStation Home Treatment

Hendrix Coming to Rock Band, Burning Plastic Guitars Discouraged

By Mike Sharkey | Xbox 360 News | Mar 25, 2010 8:52 AM | Comment

Next week, plastic guitar rockers will finally get what they've been clamoring for: Jimi Hendrix is coming to Rock Band. Bend the jump to hit the high note and get all the details on the DLC. Read More »

Rock Band: Jimi Hendrix DLC Next Week

Bungie Talks Past, Present, Future of Halo

By Mike Sharkey | Xbox 360 News | Mar 25, 2010 7:53 AM | Comment

In a wide-ranging interview with Industry Gamers, Bungie's Community Manager Brian Jarrard waxes poetic on such diverse topics as motion controllers and Facebook. But he also makes one thing abundantly clear: Bungie is throwing everything it has into Halo: Reach. Read More »

Bungie Sending Halo Out with a Bang

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Citing recent defilement of his iconic text, the rotting, angry corpse of the deceased Italian poet created a hauntingly rhythmic couplet of a new kind in the form of a furious button-mashing death rattle from beyond the afterlife. Can you hear that, EA?

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