Deus Ex: Human Revolution Gets Aug 23 Release Date

Nintendo has said that 3DS and its software launch line-up are targeted at core gamers, a group it’s “absolutely” not planning on ignoring in the future. Read more here.

A Half-Life fan film, ‘Beyond Black Mesa’, was released over the weekend – and it’s mighty impressive. The team behind the film shot the entire project in their spare time, reports PC Gamer, taking seven film makers two years and $1,200 to make. Give it a watch below: via CVG

Konami’s released the first Silent Hill: Downpour screenshots and confirmed a release date of ‘autumn 2011′. View them here.

A leaked trailer revealed that LA Noire would be releasing on May 17 2011. Now, Rockstar has confirmed the date. LA Noire will hit the PS3 and Xbox 360 on 17 May in North America and 20 May in Europe.

September 13th and 15th, the NA and EU release dates for id Software’s Rage, are less than nine months away. Sadly, between now and then, the odds of a demo are extremely unlikely. Read more here.

Visceral Games’ Steve Papoutsis has said the original Dead Space’s weaponry needed tweaking for the sequel, to make it “more fun”. “We looked at all of [the weapons from Dead Space] and we decided there were some that we really needed to adjust,” Papoutsis said, in the fourth episode of Visceral’s “Ask Steve” video question [...]

Mortal Kombat is on the way, and Kratos is featured on the PS3 boxart. See it here.

Confirming the news that broke a couple of weeks ago, Warner Premiere has officially announced a new live-action Mortal Kombat webseries – or, in their terminology, “digital series.” Read more here.

Bethesda’s Peter Hines has said that they will be releasing more DLC packs for Fallout: New Vegas this year. “Oh absolutely,” said the company’s VP of PR and marketing when asked if we could expect more packs in 2011. “I don’t think we’ve ever had a product where we said, ‘Yeah, we’re just gonna do [...]

Word is just in that Test Drive Unlimited 2 has gone gold, the game is done and is now being stamped into retail discs. Test Drive Unlimited 2 is set for release on February 8 2011 (US) and February 11 2011 (EU) on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. via PSLS

A leaked photo shows an unnamed player participating in the Modern Warfare 3 private beta. According to this unnamed player, the game is being developed by Sledgehammer games and will, obviously, succeed the previous Modern Warfare. Click here to see the shot.

Sony is widely expected to formally unveil the PlayStation Portable 2 later this week, but ahead of this a major Japanese newspaper has spilled the beans on some of the new handheld’s specs and capabilities. Among them include a 3G connection and an OLED screen. Read more here.

Valve’s Chet Faliszek has said this Portal 2 on PS3 was the first 100 percent internally created product for the firm, because it had external help with The Orange Box on the platform. Speaking with The Gaming Liberty, Faliszek that this time around “it’s just us and it’s us working with Sony” which he described [...]

EA Sports is hard at work on FIFA 12, and has detailed some of the improvements you can expect to see when the game releases later this year. “I think we did a great job with the Personality Plus feature in FIFA 11,” EA Canada producer David Rutter said, “but the the teams [AI] doesn’t [...]