The game, which is out now on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, features an original story developed in collaboration with author George R. R. Martin, as well as likenesses and voices of several actors portrayed in the popular TV series. Gamers play as two former soldiers of Robert’s Rebellion who, despite divergent paths, must reunite to face a new and deadly threat to the Seven Kingdoms. Travel a parallel course with the original series, interacting with familiar faces, including Cersei Lannister, Qhorin Halfhand, Jeor Mormont, Varys, and Chataya.

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The company was funded using taxpayer money through a loan from the state-run Economic Development Corporation, in a bid to create jobs in Rhode Island. Jobs for employees they are no longer able to pay.

Meetings continue for 38 Studios, and for the sake of their employees let’s hope it all works out.

Over ten years of hype and anticipation are behind the launch of Diablo 3. But can the game live up to the hype? Let’s find out!

Access keys are to be given out to those who purchase Ghost Recon: Future Soldier on May 22nd at Gamestop outlets. Users will then be required to enter said code on the Gamestop website to gain their place on the mailing list for the actual access keys once the beta test looms ever closer. Of course, those with on the mailing list will be guarenteed beta access and you’ll be able to specify your preferred platform without being tied to which version of the game you buy.

That won’t be the only way to get your hands on one, however. Ubisoft also outlined plans to give keys away during a Facebook sweepstakes competition, through the Ubisoft website, and also through usual fansite and media giveaways.

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Konami have just announced that the anticipated Vita title that includes Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty & Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater will be available on June 12th. This is great news for fans as they can experience ‘transfarring’ that Kojima himself touted so much. Players will be able to transfer data from PS3 to Vita and visa versa. Some fans may be disappointed that the HD collection on the Vita does not feature Peace Walker.

Look out for Metal Gear Solid HD Collection on the Vita June 12th.

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Eager players who were not lucky enough to attend Eve Fanfest in Iceland or be chosen as a current EVE Online player to participate in the beta will have their chance on the official websiteE to sign up. Once accepted players will be notified via email to join the fight. DUST 514 will take players onto a massive online battle with rich character advancement and intense large scale warfare all wrapped up in a Free To Play environment.

DUST 514 is set to release later this year on Playstation 3.

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NASCAR The Game: Inside The Line (that title feels overly long), looks to bring about more features for the NASCAR fan. Allowing players to race with NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers and featuring all twenty-three (23) licensed racetracks. The title features a fully fledged Career mode and robust online features including race weekends. Check out the screen batch below.

NASCAR The Game: Inside The Line is set for a Fall 2012 release date on Playstation 3, Xbox 360 & Nintendo Wii.

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Shown behind closed doors at GDC 2012, Epic Games showed off a tech demo for the new engine, and if you remember the incredible visuals of the Samaritan demo (which was Unreal Engine 3 pushed to the limit) imagine what Unreal Engine 4 looks like.

Luckily, you don’t have to imagine too hard as not only do we have some still screens for you to view, Wired have gone and informed the world of what their eyes saw on screen, and boy does it sound glorious.

The opening of the tech demo is described as “if H. R. Giger and George R. R. Martin took peyote together. And had a baby. And that baby had a fever dream,” which is unnerving as that sounds both glorious and absolutely terrifying. Wired go on to say that this opening cinematic isn’t just an “empty spectacle—it’s a crystal ball. Every pixel is spent on visual effects that are impossible in today’s games because of hardware limitations. But those limitations could be overcome: In an impressive departure from the usual practice of such demos, this one is running on a single consumer-level graphics card—Nvidia’s new Kepler GTX 680.”

Luckily for us, that isn’t the end, we get a wonderful description of the opening few moments:

“A heavily armored demon knight sits frozen to his throne in a ruined mountain fortress. As he awakens, lava begins to flow around him and flames engulf the world. A magma vent spews a column of smoke and smoldering embers. He stands, sending up showers of sparks that dance, fall out of focus, and fade into ash. The knight hefts a massive hammer that glows with an inner fire. As he stalks down an empty corridor, a deep rumble sounds and masonry falls from the ceiling—this is no mountain but a volcano on the verge of eruption. When the knight steps outside, we see a range of snow-capped peaks in the far-off distance, rendered in stunning clarity. Behind him the volcano belches black smoke, while burning embers mix with swirling snowflakes.”

It appears that Unreal Engine 4 can handle “millions” of tiny ash particles or snowflakes on screen at once, “as long as the hardware is potent enough to sustain them.” Of course the worry now appears to be that when developers get their hands on the tech particle effects will be rampant in every release, ”Mark my words,” heralded Cliff Bleszinski ”those particles are going to be whored by developers.”

As Wired correctly pointed out, Epic have managed to change the face of game development in such an obscenely small amount of time, and then they went on to push the boundaries more:

“In one 153-second clip, the Epic team has packed all the show-off effects that have flummoxed developers for years: lens flare, bokeh distortion, lava flow, environmental destruction, fire, and detail in landscapes many miles away. Plus, it’s breathtakingly photo-realistic—or would be if demon knights were, you know, a real thing.

“But that’s just the opening scene. After the cinematic, Epic’s senior technical artist, Alan Willard, starts playing the demo. At this point the view switches to that disembodied first-person perspective made so ubiquitous by shooting games like the Call of Duty franchise and Epic’s own influential Unreal titles. Willard maneuvers his avatar into a dimly lit room where a flashlight turns on, revealing eddies of dust—thousands of floating particles that were invisible until exposed. In another room, globes of various sizes float in the air. Willard rolls a light-emanating orb along the floor (think of a spherical flashlight that rolls like a bowling ball) and beams of light wobble and change direction, illuminating parts of the room and revealing the clusters of floating spheres with a kind of strobe effect. At first it all seems perfectly familiar: “Well, yeah,” you think, “that’s how they’d act in the real world. What’s the big deal?” But it is a big deal: This is stuff that videogames have never been able to simulate—the effects simply aren’t possible on today’s consoles.”

It’s then that the rug is pulled from below the viewers feet as Alan Willard comes onstage and drops a bombshell – of sorts – to the crowd. The entire tech demo had been running from inside the UE4 game editor, meaning at any point it could have been tweaked and fired up once again:

“Then the twist: Willard reveals that both the cinematic scene and the following tech demo haven’t been running off a game file but in real time from within UE4?s game editor. It’s like finding out that the actors on TV are actually tiny people living inside your set. It also helps him show that changes can be made to the game’s design and code, recompiled and executed nearly instantly—a technical feat that has been simply unheard-of in game development. And just like that, the silence in the room becomes reverent. The videogame industry has changed.”

This certainly sounds like the biggest change to how games are made, and shows just what the next generation can hold. Epic have never shied away from telling console manufacturers like Sony and Microsoft just how they need to make the next generation extremely powerful and capable. If this Unreal Engine 4 tech demo doesn’t convince them, then nothing will.

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Today Rocksteady and WB Games treated us to a new trailer.

Harley Quinn is now vengeful due to the events that occurred during Arkham City. Today’s trailer is an awesome buildup and preview of the events that are set to occur in the DLC.

The trailer titled, ‘Payback’ can be seen below.

Harley Quinn’s Revenge is set  for digital release on Xbox 360 & Playstation 3 on May 29th and can also be bought via the Arkham City: Game Of The Year Edition releasing the same day.

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In today’s announcement, publisher Kalypso Media says the game is coming this fall, and will mix two styles of gameplay- a strategic mode for planning your gang’s expansion across Atlantic City, and a tactical RPG mode that kicks in when you need to plan bank heists, fight battles with other games, and more.

Yeah, we know, we are glad it is coming to consoles too. Check out our interview we did earlier with the developers behind Omerta.

Omerta: City Of Gangsters is set to release on Xbox 360 this Autumn.

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