Blizzard has posted the Black Soulstone cinematic which premiered during the Blizzcon 2011 opening ceremony. As Chris Metzen said, this version is slightly edited (to remove some story details) from that which we’ll see in the game. It’s got story info galore as it is, with Leah facing Azmodan in some sort of dream/vision/nightmare, where the Lesser Evil shares his plans for global domination.

Some 1.3 million e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords were stolen from the Sega Pass network, the company said. However, Sega assured that credit card numbers of the network’s users were not affected by the attack, which came nearly two months after Sony Corp’s PlayStation Network also fell prey to hackers. Sega apologized for the service stoppage, and admitted that it is not sure when the network will be back online. “We are deeply sorry for causing trouble to our customers. We want to work on strengthening security,” spokeswoman Yoko Nagasawa said.

The Sega Pass hit continues the recent spike of cyber attacks against major companies and organizations. Only last month, the International Monetary Fund and Citigroup were also attacked by hackers. Citigroup said around 360,000 accounts were affected by the attack.

Duke Nukem‘s much-awaited return is finally happening after 2K Games and Gearbox Software announced that “Duke Nukem Forever” will hit stores in the United States in May.

According to the International Business Times, “Duke Nukem Forever,” the long-delayed sequel to 1996′s “Duke Nukem 3D,” will be available to fans starting May 3 in the U.S. and May 6 the rest of the world. The first-person shooter game has been in development since 1997 and its release been delayed several times due to a variety of problems that included the folding of original developer 3D Realms in 2009.

2K Games head Christoph Hartmann said Duke Nukem’s return will be epic. “The moment fans all over the world have been waiting for is almost here … His return is going to be epic and one that will make video gaming history!” Hartmann said.

Wired.com also posted on its website the “Duke Nukem Forever” trailer released by 2K.

Nintendo‘s much-awaited 3DS is set to arrive in US stores on March 27 at an initial price of $249.99, the company announced on Wednesday, according to the Washington Post.

Nintendo said in press conferences held in Amsterdam and New York that more than 30 games will be available during the first few months of the 3DS, which allow users to play video games in 3D without the need of 3D glasses. Games released for Nintendo’s other DS family consoles may also be used with the 3DS, the company said.

Nintendo also announced that the 3DS will have a docking station, a 3D camera, a pedometer, and a StreetPass feature that allows users to interact with fellow gamers within a specific range. For those yearning for the good old days of gaming, the 3DS also includes a feature that permits owners to play classic Game Boy games with the use of the console.

The 3DS will first be released in Japan next month, then in Europe just days before it hits North America.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the upcoming third expansion for World of Warcraft. Set primarily in a dramatically reforged Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms on the world of Azeroth, the expansion set follows the return of the evil Dragon Aspect Deathwing the Destroyer formerly known as the ancient guardian Neltharion the Earth Warder whose fiery arrival from Deepholm, the elemental plane of earth, causes a massive worldwide catastrophe known as The Shattering.






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The reboot of a 2002 first-person shooter video game from Electronic Arts (EA) gets banned from all locations of US military bases worldwide.

Medal of Honor will allow players to be the good guys and the bad guys. If you are playing the bad guys, then you get the opportunity to pretend that you are a Taliban fighter killing American soldiers in Afghanistan.

The families left by those who died in the real-life combat did not like this part of the game’s features.

“I don’t see how shooting soldiers based on real Americans is entertainment while people are dying every day for this country. How can they say it’s OK for someone to play the Taliban? You’ll have people sitting at home, drinking beer, shooting at American soldiers, maybe missing, then starting over. Well, Ken didn’t have a chance to start over,” said Karen Meredith, the mother of Lieutenant Ken Ballard who died in the field last 2004.

The commander of the Army & Air Force Exchange, Major General Bruce Casella, said that the game was pulled out of sensitivity concerns for soldiers, airmen and their families around the world.

British Defense Secretary Liam Fox also asked British retailers not to sell the game.

EA meanwhile said that the video games are just another form of art like movies and books. They said that it is not fair that films and books did not get the same attention as video games. The film The Hurt Locker was cited as an example. The film actually won several awards including Best Picture at the Academy Awards early this year.

The game is due for release on October 12.

Blizzard has scrapped its Real ID system.

Announced earlier this month, the system aimed to curb rule-breaking by showing real names instead of anonymous usernames on its forums.

Users said that the idea was an invasion of privacy and could lead to online scams, and responded by posting information about Blizzard employees found using their real names.

Co-founder Mike Morhaime has since announced that the firm has listened to user feedback and will not implement the scheme.

"We've been constantly monitoring the feedback you've given us, as well as internally discussing your concerns about the use of real names on our forums. As a result of those discussions, we've decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums," he said.

"It's important to note that we still remain committed to improving our forums. Our efforts are driven 100% by the desire to find ways to make our community areas more welcoming for players and encourage more constructive conversations about our games."

However, the scheme will still be optional for in-game chat in World Of Warcraft and StarCraft II, which the publisher believes will be a "powerful communications" tool for players.

StarCraft II launches on PC on July 27.

A Lego video game has been released featuring the magical world that brought back the notion of reading books in today’s young children, youth and even adults.

Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 was released in North America Tuesday, June 29, in Australia last June 30 and in Europe Last June 25. The game is multi-platform and is available for Windows, Nintendo DS, Wii, Playstation 3, Playstation Portable and XBox 360.

As the title suggests, only stories from Sorcerer’s Stone (Philosopher’s Stone in UK), Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire are included in the game.

Characters in Lego games don’t talk so the story unravels via pantomime mode. A total of 167 characters are playable including Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Albus Dumbledore, Rubeus Hagrid, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin, as well as some more minor and unusual ones like Fang, Dobby, Buckbeak, and Centaurs.

A Lego building area can be found inside Gringotts Bank.

The game can be played by two players in the console platform versions.

Blizzard today began sending out invitations to try the massively multiplayer role-playing game's upcoming expansion, Cataclysm.

Selected individuals who opted in to playtest the add-on via their Battle.net accounts are now receiving invitations, and Blizzard says it will add more week by week. Those interested in getting in on the action can create a beta profile on their Beta Profile Settings on Battle.net and hope for the best.

Blizzard says beta testers can help shape the final product by providing feedback to the studio in the form of reporting bugs, commenting on balance issues, and contributing other constructive feedback.

Cataclysm is World of Warcraft's third expansion, following 2007's The Burning Crusade and the following year's Wrath of the Lich King. The new add-on, available both as a boxed retail product and as a download, is due out by the end of 2010. It brings new zones, ups the level cap to 85, and adds the Goblin and Worgen races to the popular MMORPG.

In other Blizzard news, WOW lead designer Tom Chilton hinted at the possibility of the game becoming free-to-play, though he said no immediate plans are in motion.

The Town Raiders is a Full 3D Survival Shooter for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
In the Peaceful town of Moai, the Beautiful Town with the trees and the bushes, the villagers hunt and cut the woods for the living....
Suddenly, the naive Town Raiders came to this town, and threatened the villagers!
The Raiders are dumb, ignorant, easily tempered, but Dangerous!

Now the villagers are in fury, and they tries to hunt down the raiders fast for the peace of their town again!

Your job is to help the raiders to wipe out the villagers with their Unique and Powerful Weapons and Conquer the Town!

Main FEATURES:
-Control the Raiders with two Virtual Joysticks; the left joystick for movement and the right joystick for firing.

-Three Characters with Unique Weapons to Play!
- Mady, the Bomber!
- Rody, the Sniper!
- Woody, the Machine Gunner!

-Level Up System to increase your Raider's Stat!

-Many Customizable Game Mode
- Rainbow Mode
- Wind Mode
- Item Mode
- Boss Mode

- 7 Different Item to Power Up Your Character during the Game!
- Fast Move Item
- Let your Raider to Move FASTER!
- Fast Shoot Item
- Increases your Raider's Firing Rate!
- Big Shoot Item
- Increase your Raider's Ammo Size!
- Multi Shot Item
- Shoot Triple Shots!
- God Mode Item
- Makes your Raider INVULNERABLE!
- Invisible Mode Item
- Makes your Raider INVISIBLE from the Villagers!(But watch out! Your Raider will get damaged when contacted with the villagers!)
- Health Item
- Heal your Raiders!

-The Full 3D Moai Town rendered in the Beautiful Pastel Style!
-Completed the Map with Bushes, Trees and Rocks Randomly Generated to make feel like New Map every time, You Play!

-The Villagers come in 3 Different Shapes and 3 Different Sizes: the Moai, Human, and Ghost in Small, Medium, and Large Size, and watch out for the Village Headmans, who Dash Faster than the others! They will hunt the Raiders Down Fast!

This stunning Wild West epic raises the bar for open world action games, and stakes its claim as one of the most engaging games this year. John Marston is a partly reformed outlaw in America in the year 1911. When federal agents threaten his family, Marston is sent across the American frontier to help bring the rule of law. He must kill or capture his former gang members, including his old 'friend' and gang leader Bill Williamson or his family will pay the ultimate price.

Red Dead Redemption gives the player a large, open world environment allowing the player to move freely. Players on foot can walk, talk, shoot, kill, ride, run, interact with the environment, and combat enemies with firearms. Different breeds of horses are the main forms of transportation. Swimming is not an option, as the protagonist John Marston cannot swim and will drown if the player ventures too far into a body of water (though he is able to wade where the water is shallow enough).

The open world environment allows players to choose how they want to play. Storyline missions are for progress. Along with the main storyline, players can take part in random events they encounter as they explore the West. These include public hangings, ambushes, pleas for assistance, and dangerous animal attacks. Players can also take part in optional side activities ranging from standoffs, gambling, and hunting animals for pelts and meat.

Red Dead Redemption makes use of a morality system where players have the ability to gain positive or negative 'honor'. Some of the ways to gain positive honor include taking an outlaw alive instead of killing him, or saving a kidnapped innocent. Negative honor can be attained for committing crimes including killing and/or robbing civilians. This works along with another system, 'fame,' showing and governing how people react based on Marston's honor status.
Red Dead Redemption's world is a far easier one to get sidetracked in than most. That's because in addition to the dozens of excellent and varied story missions, there are countless optional undertakings to enjoy--most of which offer some tangible reward in the form of money, weapons, or reputation. While you're in town, you might choose to gamble at card and dice tables or tear a wanted poster from the wall and do some bounty hunting, for example. And when you're in the middle of nowhere, opportunities for gunfights and the like have a habit of presenting themselves or even forcing themselves upon you.

Random strangers in need of help can show up at any time, and while it's a little jarring to find two or three strangers in the same predicament back-to-back, most of their requests are varied and fun for the short time that they take to complete. You might be called upon to retrieve a stolen wagon, to collect herbs, or even to rescue someone being hanged from a tree. There's no penalty for ignoring strangers, but when you help them you collect a small reward and become a little more famous in the process. 

Combat and gunplay are major parts of the game. Gunfights in Red Dead Redemption are conducted using a third-person system. The player can take cover, target a specific person, blindfire, and free aim. Individual body parts can also be targeted, as to take targets down non-lethally. When the player shoots an enemy, the game engine uniquely creates the AI reactions and movements. John Marston has an arsenal of period-accurate weapons to choose from; these include revolvers, lever or bolt-action rifles, knives, explosives, lassos, mounted gatling guns, shotguns, and cannons.

A combat feature that Marston can utilize is the "Dead-Eye" targeting system. "Dead-Eye" is used in a bullet time-like manner, allowing the player to slow down the world to place a precise shot or paint in multiple shots on the body parts of one or multiple enemies. When the targeting sequence ends, Marston will fire in extremely quick succession on targeted people.

Red Dead Redemption will include online multiplayer with a maximum of 16 players per session.

Every multiplayer game, both free-for-all and team based, will begin with a Mexican standoff. Survivors of the standoff will be able to move to any part of the battlefield in preparation for respawning enemies. Crates in the environment will contain extra weapons, ammo, as well as recharge Dead-Eye powers, which has all the features of the single player version except for slow motion.

Players can level up and complete weapon challenges giving rewards such as new character models, golden weapon skins, and new mount breeds.

Both regular and team versions of Shootout mode follows a traditional deathmatch scenario where players or teams must accumulate the most kills. Many Capture the Flag variants are also available. Hold Your Own is a traditional capture the flag, where each team has their own bag of gold to defend from the enemy team. Grab The Bag has one team attacking and the other team defending; the attackers goal is to grab the bag and return to base, while the defenders must stop them in the act. Gold Rush is a free-for-all variant, trying to grab and keep as many bags, spawned all across the map, as possible.

Like Grand Theft Auto IV's free mode, Red Dead Redemption has its own free roaming mode. All players in the server can form and join player parties, named "posses", of up to eight players and taking part in activities such as attacking computer-controlled gang hideouts or other player posses, go hunting, and create in-server matches.

Other multiplayer gamemodes in Red Dead Redemption feature up to 16 players in one game.

BioWare continues to support Dragon Age: Origins with its latest downloadable content, Darkspawn Chronicles which is scheduled for release on Xbox Live and PC on May 18. You now fight as the Darkspawn! The city of Denerim, jewel of Ferelden, girds itself for war. As a hurlock vanguard, you alone hold the power to make thralls of your fellow darkspawn and drive them into the heat of battle.

The Darkspawn Chronicles is set in an alternate history where the player hero died in the joining ceremony, never becoming a Grey Warden and never saving the world from the blight. As such, it doesn't make sense to carry over characters and story choices to and from the original game. That said, there are achievements and trophies to unlock, and one of those, once unlocked, will spawn a new sword called Blightblood into your character's inventory in Dragon Age: Origins and Awakening. 

Major Points:

• A look at an alternate history: what if your character had died in the Joining ceremony, and the Grey Wardens marched under Alistair's command instead?
• A standalone adventure in which you command genlocks, hurlocks, shrieks, and even the mighty ogres.
• Complete the module and unlock an epic Darkspawn item in DA:O and Awakening.

Super Street Fighter IV is a 2010 fighting game produced by Capcom. It is an updated version of Street Fighter IV and has been said to mark the definitive end of the fourth installment of the Street Fighter series. Super Street Fighter IV adds ten characters to the original character roster from Street Fighter IV, bringing the total to 35, all of which are unlocked from the start. The added characters include eight characters from previous Street Fighter games, as well as two fighters who are brand new to the series.

Some of the changes, such as the introduction of a second user-selectable ultra combo per character, new online battle modes, and fresh animated cinematics that bookend each storyline, are obvious, but plenty of work has also been done under the hood, away from prying eyes. Each character has been rebalanced to maintain a level playing field; for example, Sagat's Tiger Shot damage has received a minor reduction, while Ryu's fierce Shoryuken now lands two hits instead of one. For a game as ferociously contested online and offline as Street Fighter IV, these fine adjustments are just as important as introducing new fighters to the already well-populated roster.

Two all-new characters to the series. The first, Juri, is a young South Korean female Taekwondo fighter who works for Seth's organization, S.I.N. Juri has an energy-boosting device implanted inside her left eye called the "Feng Shui Engine", which provides her with time-warping abilities. 
The second, Hakan, is a Turkish oil wrestler who seeks to prove that Turkish oil wrestling is the greatest fighting style on earth.
Most of the online portion of Street Fighter IV has received an overhaul in this new Super version. If you remember, when Street Fighter IV was first released, only Ranked and Player matches were available online. The point system in that game was also problematic, because it encouraged players to only use their best fighters in Ranked contests and punished experimentation. Capcom sidestepped that issue in Super Street Fighter IV by implementing two point systems.

The gameplay is fast, fun and easy to dig into, and deep enough so that you're always discovering new ways to chain combos and improve your skills. Whether you're a franchise veteran or a total newcomer, you can't go wrong with Super Street Fighter IV.

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Release Date: Q2 2010