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EA will launch a Crysis 3 open multiplayer beta next week on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Running from January 29 until February 12, it will let players sample two of the game’s eight multiplayer modes, Crash Site and Hunter, across two maps. Participants will be able to level up …

“As a result of repeated dealings, today the Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras informed Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas over the telephone that the two Czechs arrested by Greek police because of supposed photography of military objects on the island of Lemnos have been released. Both can now return back …

The secret past of your favorite games Games can go through vast transformations between the time they’re conceived and released. Usually, though, the game that arrives on store shelves is more or less the one the developers sought out to make when they first came up with the idea. This …

Its time to eat crow We gamers are a fickle gang, arent we? Cut the hair of our favorite monster-slaying protagonist? Treachery! Port a platform-exclusive series to another platform? Treason! But these are misdemeanors when compared to adding multiplayer to an otherwise single-player franchise. This rabble was recently re-roused when …

Electronic Arts and specialist UK retailer GAME are offering eager gamers the chance to play Dead Space 3 (opens in new tab) before anyone else with a series of ‘lock-ins’ at GAME stores across the country. Of course, you’ll really be able to leave whenever you want to, but the …

You don’t have to be a high-paid analyst to see that the PS Vita is in a tough spot. You’ll find many stories headlined “3DS outsells PS Vita 46 to 1” or “3DS crushes Vita during Black Friday week.” Add to that the poor reception of some high profile recent …

Despite housing the bulk of the holiday shopping season, December is typically the calm after the storm for game releases–by that point, most notable titles for the year are already out and fending for themselves on store shelves or their digital equivalents. But while the schedule is notably thinner, the …

If you bought Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 for PC or Lego Lord of the Rings for Xbox 360, you might want to check your discs real quick. Users have reported some truly bizarre mix-ups for both games which left them with either demo versions or the wrong game …

We’ve heard rumours about a next-gen version of Valve’s Source Engine being in development, some of which even came from code inside Source Filmmaker (opens in new tab). But Gabe Newell has finally gone on the record (see for yourself below at 6:14) to state that Source 2 is in …

Gearbox has wasted no time in getting post-release content queued up in the month following Borderlands 2 (opens in new tab)’s launch. First, the developer unveiled a downloadable fifth class, the Mechromancer; now, the game gets its first add-on content, in the form of the pirate-themed Captain Scarlett and Her …