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Paramount Pictures and leading video game publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. have given fans the first look at the key villain to be featured in the upcoming Star Trek™ video game inspired by J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek (2009) film reboot. The announcement made at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), revealed that a legendary lizard-like race known in Trek lore as “The Gorn” will play the destructive and villainous role in the video game releasing in early 2013. The co-op game is based on a standalone storyline that continues the adventure of iconic characters Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock as they work together to stop the Gorn, an enemy race bent on conquering the galaxy. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft invites you to go beyond the reach of civilization lies a lawless island ruled by violence. This is where you find yourself stranded, caught in a bloody conflict between the island’s psychotic warlords and indigenous rebels. Struggling to survive, your only hope of escape is through the muzzle of a gun. Read the rest of this entry »

Go beyond Sony Picture Entertainment’s Colombia Pictures feature film and find out what happens next in The Amazing Spider-Man^TM video game, which brings Spider-Man’s free-roaming, web-slinging action back to New York City.  Beenox Studios is polishing up the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, PC and 3DS versions of the game for its June 26th release, while Other Ocean developed The Amazing Spider-Man for Nintendo DS. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft debuted its new, ground-breaking intellectual property yesterday at E3. The new open-world action-adventure game is called Watch Dogs, and development of the title is being led by Ubisoft Montreal, with a team comprised of industry veterans from blockbuster franchises like Assassin’s Creed®, Rainbow 6® and Far Cry™.  Watch Dogs blends cutting-edge technologies and sophisticated game design into a realistic and living open world where players must use any means at their disposal to take down a corrupt system. Read the rest of this entry »

Electronic Arts Inc. has announced that EA SPORTS™ is bringing innovations to EA SPORTS Football Club that will elevate its role as soccer’s social network, and drive a deeper connection for millions of fans to the world’s sport, their friends and their favorite club when FIFA Soccer 13 launches this fall. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has unveiled the development of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist, the next blockbuster title in the critically acclaimed Tom Clancy franchise. The game will be available worldwide for the Xbox 360®, PlayStation®3 and Windows PC in spring 2013.

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Ubisoft and Sony Computer Entertainment have announced a partnership to give gamers exclusive content for Assassin’s Creed III on PlayStation®3 and for Assassin’s Creed III Liberation for PS Vita. SCE also will provide specially-priced bundles of each game for its systems. Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa-based video game and interactive media developer Snowed In Studios has officially announced the development of their first original PC-based title Windforge. Supported by the OMDC Interactive Digital Media Fund, Windforge is currently in development and is expected to be released later this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian Guild Wars fan site GuildWars2Live, which presents live streaming events from the upcoming ArenaNet Guild Wars 2 game, will be announcing on the air today how gamers can have a chance to win one of 20 beta keys for the next GW2 beta weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

Independent developer Hothead Games has announced the release of an update for Big Win Soccer on the iTunes App Store and Google Play Store. The update includes the game’s localization in French, Italian, German, and Spanish, just in time for the Euro 2012 football championship build up. Read the rest of this entry »