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Blizzard announced this weekend it will hold an open beta for Diablo III. Anyone with a valid Battle.net account can try it out!

In an exhaustively researched and well-written article, Wired digs deep into the saga of the failed Halo film adaptation.

ATLUS said today it acquired the North American and Japan publishing rights for Vanillaware's 2D side-scrolling action RPG Dragon's Crown.

According to an unidentified source at Prey 2 developer Human Head, the game has not been worked on since November of last year.

Indie developer D.S. Williams is hard at work creating The Road to REVOLution, the Ron Paul video game.

Rumors circulated last week that Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Valve's offices. Gabe Newell says that actually didn't happen.

The upcoming celebration of independent gaming announces the host for their upcoming ceremony.

Over 100,000 players began posting their scores after the game went live yesterday, resulting in widely-reported error reports.

Vicarious Visions was developing a prototype for a new strategy game in the Call of Duty series. Too bad it's never coming out.

Almost Human Games, the team behind the successful dungeon-crawler Legend of Grimrock, is developing an iOS port of the game.

UPDATE: Sony said it's looking to remedy the situation. "We are currently working together with EA and BioWare on an implementation to bring Mass Effect 3 multiplayer weekends to PS3."

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A new patent from Sony earlier this month has surfaced, showing off a bizarrely-shaped controller with the Move wand attached.

Sony started teasing a new Vita game titled Soul Sacrifice. According to the official website, it's going to be revealed next month.

The collective efforts of the Game Informer user community prove once again why it's the premier gamer hangout on the Internet.

City Interactive's sniper sim is coming to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC in just a few months.

UPDATE: Sony has officially announced God of War: Ascension, and the company is promising more details very soon.

Bethesda gives frank assessment of game's progress so far.

Square Enix is releasing a series of mock newspaper front pages from the fictional town of Hope, and something tells us the news there is going to be getting more interesting.

Indie darling Fez just release last Friday, but already this puzzle platformer as risen to the top of Xbox Live’s downloadable charts.