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#thq A few weeks back, the future of THQ's Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium MMO was very much up in the air. Comments early yesterday had seemed to ease fears over the project, but comments later yesterday brought the fears right back. More »

#crime It started out as any other fall afternoon. High school student "Joseph" was in his room playing video games when he got a call from Amanda Johnson, 17, to come over to her house. More »

#fineart Multiplayer shooter Hawken snuck into our collective megacity last year and stole our robotic hearts. Sadly, it's been a very long time since we heard or saw anything about the game. More »

Beginning February 7, Ubisoft will transition all of its data from one third-party server farm to another, and as a result online functionality in most Ubisoft titles will be disabled during that time. Some Ubisoft games won't be playable at all, but that list is rather short and will only affect Mac and PC gamers.

Ubisoft's most recent triple-A titles will thankfully be unaffected: Anno 2070, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Driver: San Francisco, and Just Dance 3 will all remain playable (both online and offline) during the transition. The OSX version of the original Assassin's Creed, however, will be completely unplayable, as will the OSX version of Splinter Cell: Conviction and the PC versions of Might and Magic: Heroes VI and Tom Clancy's HAWX 2.

The online portions of all other Ubisoft games will be disabled during the transition, although offline modes should still function normally. Ubisoft has yet to provide an estimated completion date for the move, recommending instead that people follow its official Twitter account for updates.

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#soundtrack Time for a little antipodean rock n' roll on Soundtrack tonight, I think. More »

#ubisoft Next week, Ubisoft will be moving around some of its PC authentication servers. What this means for those of you saddled with Ubisoft PC (and Mac!) games that have restrictive DRM is that, in many cases, your games won't work while the move takes place. At all. More »

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#zelda So Nintendo has, more or less, settled on some semblance of an official timeline for the Legend of Zelda series. You may have thoughts/concerns about this. You also probably don't have as many as reader Zach does, though. More »

Soon after launching in October, Scribblenauts Remix soured to the top of the charts in the App store. Today, Warner Bros. celebrates one million downloads to date for the iOS title with a new Valentine's Day-themed update.

Players will find a free new Valentine's Day playground in which to conjure up objects -- the press release offers a few suggestions for odd items, including a "loving, polka-dotted charonosaurus" or "giant, pink, flying chocolate box." If we didn't read heavy, leather-bound books, like, every day, we'd think WB was trying to pull a fast one on us with that charonosaurus business, but we assure you it is a real animal. It is, in fact, the ancestor of charizard.

A portion of a GameSpot review...

The Good
Well-designed combat system Challenging without being inflexible Fun minigames and unlockable extras.

The Bad
Stage designs are bland and basic.

Full review here

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#thehorror If you need help sleeping tonight, why not curl up and listen to a man with a very proper accent read you a novel based on a video game about men with giant necks shooting monsters in the face. More »

- Madden NFL 13 cover athlete to be chosen by fans
- 64 candidates
- first round of voting is "play-in" pitting NFL teammates against each other

#rumor Some patent and resume digging by French site HardGamers has uncovered the very real possibility that Electronic Arts is bringing back from the dead one of its most treasured old properties: Populous. More »

#republished A visit to IKEA usually means house moving, renovating, and too much fun spent with LEGO for grown-ups. But is there an element of videogame design hidden away within the Swedish minimalism? More »

Updates to Nation Red have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

- Chinese version of Nation Red now available
- Added a new radial comms. menu (default binding: 'z'). This makes it much quicker to ask for help, indicate powerups, etc
- Your Perk mode is now saved between games. For example if you always use Auto Perk mode, you will never need to set it again.
- All achievements are now enabled in on-line and local coop.
- Mission stats (unlocked mission and earned mission stars) will now also be saved on Steam's Stats servers. This will make them browsable plus makes it unlikely your mission progress can be lost.
- On-line games where the host has selected Auto Perk and Shared Xp will now give correct level up time to other players
- Weapon balancing: M107 reload time has been reduced by 35%. Damage from M240B, Uzi/Dual Uzi has been increased by 15%. AK47, Beretta 93R and M4A1 damage increased 10%.
- Dead zombies can now drop powerups outside the map area if at least one of the players has a Powerup Hook/Snare perk.
- Some boss tweaks: Minigun and AK47 boss' armor and spawn rate has been reduced. Brawler's armor has been slightly increased. Ak47 Boss firing rate has been slightly ramped up on later levels/waves. Melee Bosses have slightly increased armor.
- Console can be activated with ~ or ` keys
- Player will no longer jump when using the controller to select a perk in coop
- Powerup Hook and Snare further fine-tuned in on-line coop
- Players with Lone Wolf in coop will no longer be able to pull or snare Sentry Gun and Ghost perks
- Fine-tuned the cursor crosshair position on screen (was slightly offset)
- You can now cancel the in-game chat box with ESC
- The game will automatically pause and unpause in Single Player or Local coop if you bring up the Steam interface
- ESC button at the bottom of the screen is now clickable
- New 500K and 750K kills achievements have been added to sit between the existing 250K and 1M achievements.
- Double Experience powerup now also doubles Auto Experience points during the powerup
- Added better menu navigation with controller. Auto Perk mode and Player classes in Single Player can be edited using a controller.
- AK47 Machine Gun boss kill Xp has been increased
- On-line Warehouse Barricade mode: zombies will be able to break down the fence faster according to the number of players
- Fixed Player Class Icon not changing on some machines
- Added achievement tracking bars for a few achievements which could not be tracked
- Sound looping (clicking) bug in on-line coop has been fixed
- Setting the music volume to 0 (zero) will completely stop streaming music which may increase performance on some slower PCs
- Fixed AK47 Boss sometimes getting stuck on Bridge Barricade
- Several other smaller bugfixes.

How can you tell Naughty Dog is serious about the infectious danger in The Last of Us? Because while Uncharted's Nathan Drake made the half-tuck famous, Last of Us' Joel has apparently gone full untuck in these screenshots over on Game Informer. Not. Kidding. Around.

Elsewhere in the screenshots, we can see that part of the game takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so steel yourself for that (sorry). Weapons will break after being used in combat, so part of the challenge in wandering around the lush world is just staying armed. And that girl in the image above is Ellie, a teenager who will be following Joel around for part of his journey. Naughty Dog is working hard on her AI, and says she won't require a lot of micro-management while being escorted.

Game Informer promises 20 images of the game in its upcoming issue, but you can head to the website right now to see the other two shots on display. Full untuck, guys!

At Madden Bowl XVIII, EA Sports' Anthony Stevenson just announced that the cover athlete for Madden NFL will be voted on by fans for a second year. This year's field will be doubled to 64 candidates, and the first round of voting will be a "play-in" round pitting NFL teammates against each other to determine their franchise's representative. More »

#pullquote Because there's no product-tie in too outlandish for KISS, frontman Gene Simmons told IndustryGamers that he and his rock band (or, "Rock Band") are looking into some sort of partnership with Rovio's insanely popular Angry Birds video game franchise, in addition to talking to Sony about other possible KISS video games. More »

At least there's a helicopter that can take you to the nearest...medic tent.

Microsoft has launched a Facebook app called Mass Effect 3 Mission Command, that both serves as promotion for the upcoming Mass Effect 3, and an opportunity to get some in-game items. You "log in" to Mission Command (which grants EA access to your Facebook account and email), and then you have to fulfill missions like recruiting your friends, posting pickup lines for Liara, downloading the demo, or sharing movies of you pretending to be in the game.

The first prize on offer is an Xbox Live avatar prop of the Normandy (presumably the same one found in the Xbox 360 Collector's Edition), and later missions will give away an Xbox 360 console complete with the game and Kinect. Sure, doing missions for EA's promotional gain might not be quite as heroic as saving the universe from the reapers, but even Commander Shepard finds the time to sell out occasionally.

#teamfortress Team Fortress 2 is a pretty great game, but the best thing about it are Valve's marketing shorts, which introduce each character with the kind of animated quality you'd expect from a Pixar flick. More »

Without a doubt, Rhythm Thief will prove to be one of the oddest 3DS titles released this spring. Focusing on a young thief named Raphael's quest to find his father, the game mixes touch-based puzzles, beat-based challenges and map-based exploration to create an experience that feels mildly disjointed, yet calls upon some of the ideas of another franchise - Level-5's Professor Layton...

THQ had a sizable success with uDraw on the Wii. Everyone can see how those two markets would match up nicely. Then for some unknown reason, THQ decided to create the same device for 360 and PS3. Not surprisingly, no one bought those. Just how much did this blunder hurt THQ?

#coffeetablebooks Miguel Concepcion recently posted a healthy reminder that gamers CAN be bibliophiles—especially where books about video games are concerned. Behold, the 25 Best Video Game Coffee Table Books. More »