Cliff Bleszinski, design director for Epic Games, spoke to Gamespot regarding the studio's rumoured on-rails Kinect title, Gears of War: Exile. Trademarks for the game were filed back in January 2011, with a reveal rumored for E3 2011. However, nothing came to fruition.
Grand Theft Auto V will be launching in October of this year, according to the CV of a Rockstar North employee. Beneath the 'Shipped Titles' section of character animator Alex O'Dwyer's CV is a listing for Grand Theft Auto V, showing the sandbox game as an October 2012 release for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
Payday: The Heist was updated recently - for free! The new additions to the intensive first-person shooter from Overkill Software include presidential disguise masks (pictured above), an extra difficulty setting and more statistic comparisons, alongside other features.
Robot Entertainment, the developer behind titles such as Hero Academy and Orcs Must Die! 2 (due for release this summer) told Joystiq at PAX East that they have an unannounced project in the works.
Rockstar Games has released a brand new trailer for its upcoming shooter, Max Payne 3, showing off some of the game's shotguns in action. Having previously highlighted the SMGs, this new video demonstrates the fact that "these close-quarters specialists are just as great to make a noisy entrance as they are at dropping bad guys with their ferocious heavy rounds."
Torchlight II may launch soon after Diablo III, according to a news story reported by Joystiq. Runic Games' CEO, Max Schaefer, spoke to the website at PAX East, where he mentioned that the sequel's release will "ideally" fall shortly after Blizzard's juggernaut debuts on May 15.
We reported previously of BioWare's plans to launch Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut, a free DLC pack that will expand on the game's controversial ending, in order to provide closure on unanswered questions. Despite this announcement citing a DLC expiry date of April 12, 2014, EA have told Joystiq that there are "no plans to ever pull that content down or charge for it."
The first teaser poster for Rian Johnson's Looper has been released. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, this time travel thriller follows a an assassin (Gordon-Levitt) that is assigned a very special objective, to kill his future self (Willis).
The Twisted Pixel platformer, Ms. Splosion Man, has been an Xbox LIVE Arcade exclusive since its launch. However, that is about to change, as it was announced today that the game would be ported to PC (available on Steam and Games for Windows Live,) iPad, iPhone and Windows Phone 7.
A man who is perhaps most famous for his role as Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation, John de Lancie is stepping behind the microphone to provide voice work for Quantum Conundrum, an upcoming game designed by Kim Swift, the lead designer on Portal.
