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The Last of Us gets new trailer, reveals Ellie redesign

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Upcoming apocalyptic PS3 release The Last of Us received a new trailer today on the official Sony PlayStation blog, depicting Joel and Ellie's travels through the US as they meet with various survivors, some who may be dangerous.

Titled "The Sky has Turned Grey", the duo continue their journey West through an unnamed American city while the somber Hank Williams, Sr. classic "Alone and Forsaken"...

Mass Effect 3 multiplayer DLC revealed by Sony website

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New Mass Effect 3 DLC was revealed today on the official Sony Asia website, outing plans to deliver a new multiplayer pack called Rebellion.

According to the website, the Rebellion Multiplayer Expansion opens two new fronts against the Reapers: Firebase Jade's jungle reservoir and Firebase Goddess on Thessia.

"In-game reinforcement packs now include three new weapons as well as equipment, consumables, and six new classes: Quarian Engineer and Infiltrator, Vorcha Soldier and Sentinel, Phoenix Adept and Vanguard. The battle continues - hold the line!" read a statement on the now unavailable page.

The site also stated the new content would be available in Asia today.

We have contacted EA for comment and will update the story when new information arrives.

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'Star Wars: The Old Republic' kicks off free trial weekend

Star Wars: The Old Republic is kicking off a weekend pass free trial commencing May 17 at 12:01AM CDT through to May 21 at 2:00AM CTD.

The free trial weekend is only open to those who have not participated in any previous SW:TOR free trials in the past. This include...


38 Studios defaulted on loan payment

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer 38 Studios defaulted on a $1.125 million loan payment to the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (EDC), according to reports from WPRI.

In 2010, the Rhode Island EDC gave 38 Studios a $75 million taxpayer-backed loan to lure the studio from Massachusetts to Rhode Island. Under the terms of the...


Itagaki's 'Devil's Third' being sold by THQ

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THQ has announced it is in the process of finding a buyer for Devil's Third, the first project from former Team Ninja head Tomonobu Itagaki since his contentious departure from Tecmo.

The publisher, which suffered a staggering $239.9 million net loss during its 2012 fiscal year, has changed its...

American 'Diablo 3' servers back up after an evening of errors

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UPDATE at 2:28AM EDT: Blizzard reports that the American servers are back up. They will continue to monitor the servers closely throughout the night to ensure everything runs smoothly.

UPDATE at 1:00AM EDT: Blizzard announced on its message board at 9:50PM PDT that the problems with its American Diablo III servers will take approximately two hours to resolve.

The problem, which has kept players from logging into Diablo III, has been identified and Blizzard expects game services to be restored by 11:45PM PDT.

Blizzard apologized for the errors and delays and will continue to provide updates as they come.

UPDATE at 11:54PM EDT: Diablo...

'Diablo 3' servers going down for maintenance again

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Diablo 3 servers — which players must connect to even if playing solo — have been shut down, and are scheduled to come back online at 6:30 p.m. ET.

Despite two rounds of emergency maintenance and the implementation of server queues, Blizzard has brought down the game's American servers to try to implement fixes for some of the issues players have been experiencing.

"Starting at approximately 2:15 p.m. PDT, we will be bringing Diablo III servers in the Americas offline for urgent...


'FIFA 13' introduces First Touch Control features this fall

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FIFA 13 is introducing five "game-changing" features this fall, including Complete Dribbling, First Touch Control and Attacking Intelligence, EA Sports announced today.

Complete Dribbling is influenced in part by the reboot of FIFA Street this...

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Nvidia announces GeForce Grid: cloud gaming direct from a GPU, with games by Gaikai

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Nvidia just finishing telling us about how it's going to stick a Kepler GPU in the cloud: now, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is telling us how it will use distributed graphics to stream low-latency video games from the internet to computers that don't have one themselves. Nvidia's partnered with cloud gaming provider Gaikai, and claims that the GeForce Grid GPU has reduced latency of streaming games to just ten milliseconds by capturing and encoding game...

Irrational and Harmonix veterans unveil 'Dreadline'

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Eerie Canal Entertainment, the new studio from former Irrational Games and Harmonix veterans Bryn Bennett and Steven Kimura, unveiled its first game Dreadline this week, with aims to develop titles "too risky for large studios."

Dreadline is described as a frantic squad-based role-playing game in which players control a team of monsters and kill humans doomed to die anyway, such as passengers of the Titanic.

"It will be much smaller in scale...

Error 315300 preventing 'Diablo 3' players from logging in, inconvenient fix found

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The long, long wait for Diablo 3 was made longer for some folks this morning by Error 315300, an issue that's preventing players from logging into the game.

The error is indicative of an incorrect username or password input, commonly brought about by user error, or by attempting to paste non-plain text into the password field. However, some Diablo 3 players (and beta participants) are getting the error through no fault of their own.

The issue appears to be a subfolder in the game's ProgramData directories which gets elevated privileges, making it inaccessible for the account which installed...



Error 3006 can break Diablo 3, Blizzard investigating

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With the launch of Diablo 3 just recently underway, some unfortunate players are already reporting a game breaking bug said to disconnect the user from the game's server and prevent them from logging back in.

Error 3006 is triggered when the user...


Elder Scrolls Online Daggerfall Covenant details

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ZeniMax Online Studios dropped some additional details regarding one of The Elder Scrolls Online's three playable factions, The Daggerfall Covenant.

As detailed on GameInformer, the faction is made up of the Breton, Orc and Redguard races based in...


Metro: Last Light countdown appears, live-action movie reveal next week

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A countdown clock on the official Metro: Last Light website is now live, pointing to the world premier of a live action short film on May 24.

The title is the sequel to the 2010 release Metro 2033, a first-person shooter with an undercurrent of survival horror, based on the novel of the same name by author Dmitri Glukhovsky.

Metro 2033 took place in a post-apocalyptic Russia and featured a struggle through territory occupied by Soviets, Nazis and mutants. Its sequel, however, will not follow the events of Glukhovsky's second novel in the series, Metro 2034.

Metro: Last Night was originally...