EA and Starbreeze have announced that the long-rumored Syndicate reboot is official, following a massive leak of screenshots and details this weekend. READ MORE

Daishi Odashima, Game Director for Soul Calibur V, has hinted that a Soul Calibur HD collection might be in the works soon. Many companies are releasing HD collections at the moment, could Namco be next? READ MORE

The epic Bayonetta 2 rumor saga continues, as a new source claims that a Bayonetta reveal will occur at the Tokyo Game Show this week. Could we finally get to see epic conclusion to this long running rumor? READ MORE

Someone managed to get their hands on a developer copy of Battlefield 3, and leaked several minutes of gameplay footage online, along with a number of images. READ MORE

A cool new Easter egg has been uncovered in Dead Island that brings you face to face with Jason Voorhees, the machete-wielding killer from the Friday the 13th films. READ MORE

Writer Jesse Stern worked on the first two Modern Warfare games, but not the third. In the new issue EGM we asked him why and got some blunt answers. READ MORE

A new villain will be announced for Batman: Arkham City on the next episode of GametrailersTV. The show will air online and on SpikeTV this coming week. READ MORE

Crytek has announced that it is bringing a modified version of Crysis, available exclusively for download, to both the Xbox Live Arcade and PSN later this year. READ MORE

Rumors of Steam on Xbox 360 have officially gone into overdrive after users discovered an "Xbox Support" section in the platform's online support forums. Is it a hint of things to come or much ado about nothing? READ MORE

As part of the promotion for NBA 2K12, 2K Sports and Michael Jordan himself want to know who you think the greatest NBA team of all time is. Jordan's pick is unsurprising—the '96 Bulls—but do you think there's been a better team out there? READ MORE

Take-Two has announced an expected release date of March 2012 for Max Payne 3 and also released a few new screenshots. READ MORE

The third entry promises to be bigger, badder, and more explosive than ever before, but does this exposition in alien eradication deliver? Dive in to our full review and find out! READ MORE

It was a weekend truly unlike any other I've had in gaming. From zip-lines to paintball in the Pit, from Dropkick Murphys to Kanye West, Call of Duty XP 2011 was an experience that needed to be lived to be believed. But possibly more important than the memories of standing in line for two hours for a CoD t-shirt with my Gamertag on it, was all the new information that was given to us about Modern Warfare 3. So, incase you missed gleaning all the information that flooded out of the event about MW3, click here to catch up on everything you may have missed. READ MORE

Taking on the likes of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is no easy task, but EA, 38 Studios and Big Huge Games think they’ve got the necessary mojo to move the metaphorical mountain and dethrone the current king of big-budget RPGs. We had a chance to sit down with Lead Designer Ian Frazier to talk about the team’s star power, creating new IP, and why Reckoning will be a definitive experience for role-playing fanatics. READ MORE

At a special event held in Japan, Square Enix finally unveiled the first real details of Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Online—including, as the name implies, that the game will have a huge online component. READ MORE

Eat Sleep Play’s Scott Campbell and David Jaffe talk shop on the next generation of deliciously demented car combat in Twisted Metal. READ MORE

Call it a rebuilding year. READ MORE

Call of Duty news continues to roll out today with more info on Modern Warfare 3's new Survival mode, which joins the standard mission-oriented co-op Spec Ops and essentially functions as CoD's take on Horde mode. Get ready for an ever-changing (and always different) cast of enemies looking to take you out. Read on for more info from the frontlines... READ MORE

Call of Duty news continues to roll out today with more info on Modern Warfare 3's new Perks, Load Outs, and Strike Package Customization features which look to even the playing field between the objective based players and the lone wolves. Read on for more info from the frontlines.. READ MORE

The children of the 8- and 16-bit eras have grown up to become the ones with the power to program, and be it out of a love for nostalgia or just a longing for the days when gaming was simpler and more innocent, they’ve never been more in love with making games that wrap present-day design concepts with experiences you’d swear could have existed on long-gone platforms. So, we decided to take a look at some of our favorite retro-inspired releases from recent years—games that, while conceived and designed during the 21st century, pay homage to their forefathers in one way or another. READ MORE