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Mass Effect's marketing campaigns have pretty much all featured the default male version of Shepard *as* Shepard, and not once touched on the fact that Shepard can also be a woman. That's going to change for ME3.

China's latest incredibly blatant knockoff product, Final Combat, takes more than just inspiration from Team Fortress 2.

Banpresto is finally getting around to releasing a Super Robot Wars game on the PS3, although it's actually the second in this particular series of SRT games, from their Original Generation story.

The original Dancing Eyes, released in Arcades back in 1996, had players cutting off women's clothing by controlling a tiny monkey. Now it seems Namco Bandai has had that venerable title remade for the PS3.

inMomentum, the sci-fi platform racing game that challenges the players to think in both horizontal and vertical perspectives, is now accepting Beta Applications

Fox has announced its plans to develop and release a Family Guy MMO, a game that no one's asked for or really wants.

EA intends to clear up misconceptions with its Origin service, which it claims will not be required for The Old Republic.

While slated for release on the 360 and PS3 in the third quarter of this year, KoF XIII has been in arcades exclusively since July of 2010, but apparently that's not stopping pirates from releasing it on PC.

Eurogamer is reporting that Mass Effect 3 will likely have a multiplayer component that will exist as a "standalone" element, separate from the game's single player campaign.

Today Microsoft released their beta software development kit for Kinect, which is of course free, but is also available only for non-commercial use. Or rather, it is for the moment.

Batman: Arkham City will force Games for Windows Live onto customers who purchase the game for the PC.

An artist at R-evolution GFX has drawn up an illustration of Cave Johnson's famous combustible lemon.

Four lucky winners of the Operation Flashpoint: Red River giveaway.

Late night show host and comedian Jimmy Fallon played a short demo of Battlefield 3 with the developers at DICE.

The court has ruled that Call of Duty creators West and Zampella can put Activision on trial.

Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata have shot down plans to release a Zelda anniversary collection.

DICE releases Battlefield 3 screenshots which reaffirm the fact that it will probably be one of the best looking games of 2011.

DICE has announced that the Physical Warfare Pack, while initially a timed exclusive for pre-orders, will eventually be unlocked for free later this year.

An official post on the Bioware social forums confirms that 18,000 accounts used on the company's NeverWinter Nights forums have been compromised by a hacker.

A post on the Steam forums may confirm the existence of Half-Life 3, assuming it isn't all a big hoax.

2K Games fires PR Firm responsible for threatening game reviewers for harsh reviews of Duke Nukem Forever.

EA says that it was not their decision to remove Crysis 2 from Valve's online store.

A new trailer for the Japanese beat-em-up Senran Kagura contains gratuitous cleavage shots.

The classic game of Arkanoid has been reborn as Wizorb, an indie title for the PC and XBLA.