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Runic’s long-awaited action-RPG sequel could launch by the end of summer.

The next version of Bohemia Interactive's realistic military game features stunning graphics and deep gameplay.

The first major expansion to Rift will include a huge amount of new explorable content.

After the immense success of World of Tanks developer Wargaming.net is taking us to the skies.

Planetside 2's take on day / night combat and a persistent world make it a shooter to watch.

The new SimCity seems to be built with multiplayer in mind, giving you the ability to participate in asynchronous multiplayer with your friends.

When I try to talk to people about turn-based strategy games they tend to roll their eyes, fake a yawn or change the subject. But XCOM: Enemy Unknown is the type of game that can change their opinion on the genre.

Do I care that most the characters you’ll spot in the lovely trailer for Wreck-It Ralph are from consoles and arcades? No I do not. Because I’m super-happy after watching a trailer for a movie not based on a game, but based on the concept of games. It looks, incredibly, like there might be a game-themed film that doesn’t make me want to pull out my own arms. And from Disney, no less. The game: try to see how many licensed game characters you can spot in each scene.

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With all the press conferences over, and the action switching to the show floor, it’s time to ask that all-important question: Who won E3? Because saying what games are coming out is a game. One you can win. And we decide who that was.

Let’s begin with the rules: Firstly, naturally, no slaps. Secondly, don’t forget the Hotpants Bonus! And of course most importantly, dubstep.

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Changes to item drop rates and the difficulty curve in Diablo III’s most challenging mode.

The BFG stands for "Better F***in' Graphics"

The trouble with the 7 Day FPS Challenge is that its name is just so damned cryptic. I’m going to have to spend hundreds of words explaining what it means to you before I can even begin to say anything useful about it.(more…)

It is with good reason that RPS has been paying close attention to the development of zombie RPG, Dead State. Created by Obsidian veterans, Brian Mitsoda and Annie Carlson, the survivalist role-player is bursting with potential. And now, as you might expect for such an ambitious indie project, it has a Kickstarter. And a trailer. We spoke to both developers (on their anniversary, no less), to get an absolutely enormous wealth of information about the game.

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Dead State, the zombie RPG from former Obsidian developers Brian Mitsoda and Annie Carlson, has launched a Kickstarter. And along with this comes a brand new trailer for the potentially very interesting game. We’ll have a massive exclusive interview with the developers in a few moments, but to build up to that, check out the trailer below.

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BioWare outlines where its Star Wars MMO is headed next, teases a new space combat mode.

Adhesive Games’ visually stunning, super-fast mech combat game.

From what’s been shown so far it seems like Zenimax Online isn’t taking any big risks with The Elder Scrolls Online’s gameplay.

A symmetrical mouse for pro gamers and lefties alike.

The 16th Century... a time of science, alchemy, and brutal combat! Get your beta keys for the historical, action-packed FPS Renaissance Heroes.

Smart Glass, Halo 4 and Gears -- Microsoft's President of Interactive Entertainment Business discusses the highlights of their E# press conference.

Deep Silver's surprise hit zombie title will rise again! Dead Island Riptide is officially in the works.

As ArenaNet gets ready to launch the next beta weekend for Guild Wars 2, it has revealed some new features that will be included.

Turbine’s next expansion to Lord of the Rings Online to launch this September.

After alternately watching live feeds of the press conferences last night, and watching colleagues’ reactions to them on Twitter, I awake with a heavy cynicism for the entire industry. While a couple of new IPs were announced, and they were perhaps even interesting, the overwhelming message of the LA evening was one of partisanship, stagnation, and a disturbing lack of awareness of what is most problematic in the gaming world. Which can pretty much be summed up in the frighteningly repeated phrase, “With exclusive DLC for our console.”

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Back in the old days, when only 12 people read RPS, each and every one of them hated me to the core because I said I didn’t think the original Painkiller was a very good videogame. I wonder what happens when I say that now? I think we can all agree that these long years of expansion packs and exandydandelions haven’t exactly done great favours for ‘the brand’, though. Looks like this may be about to change, as the Nordic Games-published/funded Painkiller: Hell & Damnation has the auspices of a high-budget reboot. Polish (and thus not Nordic, confusingly) devs The Farm 51 perhaps don’t have too much known heritage behind them – Necrovision primarily, although apparently collaborated on The Witcher and Two Worlds II. They’re getting to play with the Unreal 3 engine for this, and if these screenies are legit rather than the shot of the bull this could be a bit of a treat for those who crave high-speed, high-gloss demon-slaying.

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Phil Spencer talks Halo 4 and Xbox Smart Glass moments after the Microsoft press conference.

Maxis' Lucy Bradshaw showed off two versions of its upcoming city-building game at EA's E3 2012's press conference.

SmartGlass will launch worldwide this fall, Microsoft announced during its pre-E3 conference. It showed off some SmartGlass functionalities during its pre-E3 conference, demonstrating the app sharing content between mobile devices and the Xbox 360. Smart Glass started playing Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows on a tablet and pushed it to Xbox, to finish watching it. The tablet provided additional information about the movie as it continued playing on the large screen.

The Madden NFL franchise will support SmartGlass, allowing players to make plays on a tablet and run them on the TV.

Head of Microsoft Studios give you a sneak peak at what they have in store for E3 2012!

Peter Molyneux has introduced a game called Curiosity from his 22 Cans studio, coming to PC and iOS in about six weeks. Appearing on Spike TV this morning, Molyneux showed off screens of the game on an iPad, and said it would be the first of his experimental games out of the brand new studio he started after leaving Lionhead.

Six weeks isn't long to wait, so we'll see more about this one soon.