Of all the new additions we've heard about Mass Effect 3, one new big game changer is the inclusion of the Heavy Melee class character. According to recently leaked information, the Heavy Melee class is what it sounds like, a melee based character that relies on combat attacks that are upclose and personal.
If you've yet to join the ranks of Xbox Live Gold status by subsribing to the service, you'll get a free trial this weekend. Starting today, Xbox Live Silver Members will be temporarily upgrade to Gold.
Gearbox Software may have it's hands full with Duke Nukem Forever at the moment, it appears they're also developing Borderlands 2. The leak comes from an online resume that was recently found and outed for the world to see by supererogatory.
Electronic Arts recently spoke out about the misrepresentation of sales figures in NPD data claiming that without digital representation included in the sales data, these numbers paint a skewed picture of the gaming industry.
SCEA and SCEE have acknowledged the recent outages of the PlayStation Network. There have been numerous reports by users claiming to have limited ability to access the online network beginning yesterday.
LA Noire's latest gameplay video, "Rising Through The Ranks", takes a deeper look into the world of Detective Cole Phelps, and the various partners you will work with as you rise through the desks of the LAPD. The video outlines the game's ranking system, the use of 'Intuition Points' to help solve a case, and provides information on how to tackle street crimes or 'Unassigned Cases'.
There's been a rivalry brewing for quite some time with Games for Windows Live and Steam. Microsoft's first party titles have not shown up consistently on Valve's Steam platform because of the companies attempt to broaden the appeal for the PC based Games for Window's Live games service.
It's rumored that Sony and Microsoft have no intentions of launching new home console hardware until 2014. Earlier claims had pegged the PS4 and Xbox 720 for a 2014 release so this could be good or bad, depending on how you view things.
It's no secret that Bungie is working on their next big title with Activision. The game has been rumored to be set in a massively multiplayer universe, but Bungie hasn't spilled the beans on any specific details just yet.
