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#disneyinfinity Disney Infinity sounds like it's going to be the biggest thing Disney has ever done with games, and it's coming out this June. More »

Games move so quickly. Today’s AAA title, with a huge marketing spend and adverts, is tomorrow’s experimental sales fodder. There’s a new Tomb Raider coming out in March this year, so Square Enix have lobbed Tomb Raider: Underworld up on their streaming game service Core. That’s the (*counts on fingers*) eighth? Yeah, eighth Tomb Raider game, for fans of chronology. It’s “free” up there, which means you need to watch some ads and install a thing, and even then you might not get to play all of it right away.(more…)

#review The slow summer is over! Today, we've got three reviews of three major video games. Two of them, you may have heard of. The third is a pleasant surprise. More »

#riseofthetriad Apogee Software's mid-'90s cult-classic first-person shooter Rise of the Triad is coming back, with the help of the Danish studio that remade Duke Nukem 3D. The new Rise of the Triad will be developed by Interceptor Entertainment and Apogee and will be out as PC download through Steam later this year. More »

#medalofhonor "The name's Preacher. I fight wars. I'm a Warfighter." And then he leaps through the title screen dual-wielding machine guns. Sadly this does not happen in the single-player story trailer for Medal of Honor: Warfighter. More »

#thewalkingdead Telltale's masterful (so far) episodic Walking Dead game will be coming to Apple devices this Thursday, according to a post on the company's blog. More »

#dustanelysiantail Earlier this year a visit to Epic Games in North Carolina inspired me to forever etch a combat-ready green rabbit on my person. The art I used as reference for the vibrant tattoo was created by independent animator turned game developer Don Dodrill, the man behind the unbelievable 2009 XNA Dream Build Play competition winner Dust: An Elysian Tail. More »

#left4dead Despite some vague implications from Valve that this wasn't the case, IGN has grabbed a video from the Payday: The Heist YouTube channel indicating that developers Overkill are working with Valve on a game called No Mercy that will explore the origins of the zombie virus from Left 4 Dead. More »

#planetside The original massively multiplayer online FPS, PlanetSide, promised competitive first-person shooting on a massive scale. It got the scale right, but tech limitations made for gameplay that was a pale shadow of its more traditional shooter counterparts. With PlanetSide 2 technology has finally caught up to Sony Online Entertainment's ambition. More »

#dust514 Fans eager to touch start fighting free battles for their EVE Online masters get their chance during the June 29 DUST 514 premiere weekend event. The beta details drop along with new info on the DUST 514: Neocom Vita application and some PlayStation Home crap. More »

#callofduty In the futuristic 2025 setting of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the United States has become locked in a second Cold War with China due largely to a shortage of rare earth elements, which are vital in the creation of a lot of the technology and advanced military hardware we use today. More »

#playthis What are you going to do while waiting for Max Payne 3's release on May 15? Well, there's a new Max Payne game out today, but it's for the iOS platform. So if you have an iPhone, iPad, iTouch, iWhatever, you're in luck for some of that bullet time, graphic novel-esque experience on the go. More »

#syndicate The year is 2069. The government as we know it is obsolete. In its place are various syndicates, all racing to develop the most advanced bio-digital implants that allow their host to connect to the dataverse, and even control it. Syndicate is a telling of that story, originally written by Bullfrog Productions in 1993, and rebooted into the first-person shooter by Starbreeze Studios that hits stores today. You play as an agent of Eurocorp, Miles Kilo, tasked with infiltrating and investigating competing syndicates. More »

A portion of a CheatCC review… Even with gameplay, story, and presentation that are all highly derivative, C.O.R.E. might have still been a solid pick for a handheld FPS title if it weren’t for the many problems littered throughout its design. In the end, it’s pretty unremarkable when compared to the competition.

C.O.R.E. blasts its way onto the Nintendo DS.