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At today’s Nintendo Direct, along with a new gameplay trailer, Nintendo has dropped the release date for their new 3DS title, Donkey Kong: Country Returns 3D: May 24 in both Europe and North America.

New Super Luigi U DLC Coming this Summer

Nintendo has just announced via Nintendo Direct that their new DLC for New Super Mario Bros. U, titled New Super Luigi U, will be landing this summer. The DLC, which stars Mario’s brother, Luigi, who can jump higher but slips off ledges easily, will feature shorter stages redesigned with replayability in mind—with a default timer…

We’ve seen a lot of the gameplay mechanics behind Mars: War Logs, Spiders’ third-person sci-fi RPG. This time, Spiders CEO Jehanne Rousseau tells us about the game’s story and universe, and describes the ways our choices will shape the way the story unfolds. Mars: War Logs is coming “very soon” to PS3, Xbox 360 and…

Telltale’s Poker Night 2 will contain a whole bevy of unlockables, according to this trailer—not just for Poker Night 2 itself, but also for Borderlands 2 and Team Fortress 2, along with themes for PS3 and avatar items for Xbox 360. The game’s coming out next week, on April 23.

Remember Descent? You know, the sometimes vertigo-inducing six degrees of freedom shooter from 1994? Above is a teaser for an episodic, unofficial updated re-release of sorts using Unreal Engine 3, named Sol Contingency. The first episode, The Lunar Incident, will be arriving sometime this year. [via DSOGaming]

And now, courtesy of a recently released trailer, have a small glimpse of Grid 2’s “Redefined” multiplayer gameplay. Codemasters’ arcade racer is coming out on May 28, with Europe getting it three days later, on May 31.

Here’s almost eighteen minutes’ worth of awesome-looking, insanely fast multiplayer footage from Interceptor Entertainment’s remake of Apogee’s 1995 shooter, Rise of the Triad. The game’s coming out this summer.

EA has announced that three of their Facebook games, The Sims Social, SimCity Social and Pet Society, will be going offline on June 14

games.on.net has spotted a few-days-old entry for The Elder Scrolls: Arena in the Australian Classification Database. Arena, of course, being the name of the very first game in the series.

Looks like Microsoft is planning to break into the touch-enabled watch business

The Most Defining Decisions You Have To Make In Mass Effect

Ever since the first game, Mass Effect has always been about shaping the story the way the player wants it. Through Shepard’s actions, players could create millions upon millions of iterations of the same universe. We decided to take a look back at the series—specifically, on some of the decisions our Shepards had to make…

The Corporate Side Of Mass Effect

Corporations play a huge part in the Mass Effect series. Some of them take on more passive roles, like creating weapons and armor. Others, however, like stirring up trouble with their shady little schemes—or simply get in trouble often. Here’s a look at the corporations which had the most profound effect on our adventures. Note:…

Japanese blog はちま起稿 says that a release date of July 25 popped up on Capcom’s official page for Ace Attorney 5, only to be removed shortly after. We’re asking Capcom to confirm the date, and will update this post should they respond.

Flashback Re-Release Trailer Sees Conrad Jumping to Modern Consoles

Ubisoft has revealed a trailer for a “re-imagining” of the 1992 cinematic platformer, Flashback. The game is coming “soon,” according to the trailer itself, to PS3 and Xbox 360.

The Countless Characters of Mass Effect

The Mass Effect franchise has introduced a huge amount of characters; an incredibly diverse cast of aliens, humans and synthetics who served to make our adventure in the Mass Effect universe memorable, who made us laugh, made us cry, who amazed us, scared us and sometimes even made us think. So let’s talk about them!…

Ubisoft has confirmed that the upcoming stealth-em-up Splinter Cell: Blacklist is coming to the Wii U. This version will have special Wii U Gamepad-exclusive features, which allow players to “operate innovative gadgets, take out enemies and move through the environment, and intuitively switch between weapons.” The Wii U version will be released at the same…

Harebrained Schemes has announced that Shadowrun Returns, the 2D cyberpunk turn-based RPG funded a year ago through Kickstarter, will be coming out in June

Shinichi Watanabe, director of the quirky and hilarious anime Excel Saga, is currently recovering from a heart attack at a hospital. (Tip courtesy of tipster Sang.)

VP of development Rod Fergusson, who has previously left Epic to help with the finishing touches on BioShock Infinite, is departing Irrational Games. “Now with the game shipped successfully, I’ve done what I set out to do here and now I’m looking forward to the next chapter in my life and career,” he told Polygon

A while back, we talked briefly about the ambitious Grimlands, a post-apocalyptic free to play MMORPG-shooter in the vein of Fallout. Well, it has found its way to Kickstarter. The Poland-based team is asking for a whopping $650,000 to finalize the game.