Namco Bandai has nailed down the official release date for Dark Souls 2 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 at its Tokyo Game Show event earlier today. READ MORE

Valve has given the green light to 24 new games and one piece of software via its Steam Greenlight program. READ MORE

Given that Dark Souls II is one of my most anticipated upcoming titles, I've almost wanted to avoid finding out any new details about the game so that my experience with its finished form wouldn't be spoiled. As part of Namco Bandai's pre-TGS events, however, I got a taste of some major new changes coming to the project—and they've left me even more intrigued by what's being done in this sequel. READ MORE

SimCity creator Will Wright's new company, Syntertainment, has secured $5 million in investments and added former Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello to its board of directors, GamesBeat reports. READ MORE

EA Sports released the first gameplay footage from NBA LIve 14 int he form of a 50-second trailer set to "Strictly 4 My Jeeps" by Action Bronson. READ MORE

Dead Rising 3 will feature online co-op similar to that of Dead Rising 2, Capcom liaison Greg "GregaMan" Moore confirmed in a post on the Capcom-Unity blog. READ MORE

Grand Theft Auto V raked in $800 million in sales on the day of its release, publisher Take-Two announced today. READ MORE

Humble Indie Bundle 9 remains on sale for another week, and now includes a handful of extra indie jams including Bastion and Limbo. READ MORE

Come this November, Atlus and parent company Index Corporation will be living under Sega's roof, courtesy of a ¥14 billion ($140 million) acquisition. READ MORE

Publisher Capcom and developer WayForward Technology's DuckTales Remastered, the digitally released HD update of the 1989 NES platformer, is getting a proper retail release, Capcom announced today. READ MORE

Does Link's swashbuckling adventure on the high seas stand the test of time, or have the past 10 years tattered his sails? Find out in our review of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD! READ MORE

The city councillor for Scottish town Hawick says the GTAV town of the same name, described by the Rockstar website as having "a disaffected drug addict hipster vibe," could ruin the real town's reputation. READ MORE

Microsoft Game Studios VP, Phil Spencer has indicated that the platform holder would like to see Gears of War make an appearance on Xbox One, but the decision ultimately falls to Epic Games. READ MORE

Treyarch has released a new patch for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. READ MORE

DICE is looking into adding Kinect features to the Xbox One version of Battlefield 4 that "enhance controls," such as head tracking. READ MORE

Nintendo has announced that Wii Fit Balance Board owners will be able to download a free one-month trial of Wii Fit U from November 1 (anyone can download the trial, but it requires a Balance Board to play). READ MORE

Nintendo has announced that it will release a HD version of Wii Sports for the Wii U via the Nintendo eShop this November. READ MORE

Rockstar has acknowledged issues with its Social Club and recently released iFruit app, and has promised to resolve them as soon as possible. READ MORE

Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono has tweeted three new images of PlayStation 4-exclusive Deep Down. READ MORE

The Developer Pack for 4A Games' Metro: Last Light is now available to download, allowing players to test out all of the game's weaponry and create their own deathmatches in the AI Arena. READ MORE