Electronic Arts has released a new gameplay trailer from their upcoming third-person action-adventure game ‘Dante’s Inferno’. The game itself is scheduled to be out on February 9th for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PSP platforms. Watch the trailer after the jump.

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Here’s a look at the upcoming God Of War III ‘Ultimate Edition’. This collector’s edition set will include a copy of the game, a sculpted replica of Pandora’s Box, an exclusive collectible artbook and downloadable content. It will be out on March 16th for an estimated retail price of $100. [Kotaku]

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is a racing game currently in production for Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS and PC. Developed by Sumo Digital, the video game was announced on May 28, 2009 and will be released on February 23, 2010. Watch the game trailer after the jump.

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Steam, Valve’s platform for digital game sales, social networking and online matchmaking, grew by 25 percent last year, it said Friday.

In 2009, gamers signed up for 25 million active Steam accounts, growing the service by 25 percent. Of those users, 10 million created profiles in the Steam community. In December the number of concurrent online users peaked at 2.5 million.

Sales were up as well. The service now boasts over 1,000 games from more than 100 different developers and publishers. ..read the full article

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City will make its way to PlayStation 3 and Windows PC on March 30, Rockstar said Friday.

Episodes from Liberty City features both episodes of the downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV — The Lost and the Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony — on a single disc for $40. GTA IV owners can buy the episodes as downloadable content for $20 each, but the disc version will not require players to own ..read the full article

Nintendo will publish the latest game from the creators of Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey on Wii, it said Friday.

The Last Story, which Nintendo calls a “full-scaled RPG,” will be released for Wii this year. It is the next creation of Mistwalker, the role-playing game development studio started in 2004 by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. More information on the game will be available in March, according to the official site.

(Yeah, yeah, I know — it’s not the final fantasy, ..read the full article

Ubisoft has finally announced the release date for the upcoming Metro 2033 for Xbox 360 and PC. The game will hit the shelves on March 16th, 2010 in the US and three days later in Europe. The Metro 2033 is an action-oriented video game with a combination of horror, survival, RPG and shooting. [DigitalBattle]

GameTrailers brings us this first look at the next game from the makers of Bayonetta and MadWorld.

Titled Vanquish, this is (probably) the game that Shinji Mikami, creator of Resident Evil, said he was working on when Platinum first announced its lineup of Sega-published games. It’s not what you’d expect from the master of survival horror — in fact, it looks more like a trailer for a Halo spinoff, all military ops and suits of space marine armor.

Since the name Vanquish ..read the full article

Sony Computer Entertainment America has made an official announcement today concerning the upcoming God Of War III release date. Based on their statement, the game will hit US stores starting on March 16th in both standard and Ultimate editions. The Ultimate Edition will include a copy of the game, a sculpted replica of Pandora’s Box, an exclusive collectible artbook and downloadable content. [ScrawlFX]

You don’t just recruit the galaxy’s most dangerous soldiers, assassins and outcasts in Mass Effect 2. If you play your cards right, you can sleep with them.

Futuristic hook-ups in the role-playing game have already been captured by players and uploaded to YouTube just days after the game’s Tuesday release. They all require your character, Commander Shepard (which can be played as either a male or female), to jump through a series of conversational hoops before hopping in the sack with ..read the full article

Check out the latest trailer from Capcom’s upcoming Super Street Fighter IV. As mentioned before, the game is scheduled to be released in the US on April 27th. Watch the trailer after the break.

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The wait is over! Ubisoft has finally and officially announced the release date for the highly anticipated Red Steel 2. The video game will be released in the US market on March 23rd, 2010. Meanwhile, folks in Europe will receive the game on March 26th, 2010. The Red Steel 2 will retail for around $50, with the WiiMotion Plus attachment. Video after the jump.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple’s iPad holds some unique possibilities for gaming, but what the company showed at the overly hyped tablet’s unveiling Wednesday barely scratched the surface.

The tech demos that mobile gamemakers like Gameloft and Electronic Arts showed at the briefing were tweaked versions of the companies’ iPhone games, adding a few new features that rely on the iPad’s bigger screen: In first-person shooter Nova, players can drag a mini-map around the screen, resizing it to their liking. In the ..read the full article

Zachary Quinto, the actor who played Spock in last year’s Star Trek reboot, says that his bow in the forthcoming Star Trek Online game will be his last voyage to the stars for a while.

“I’m stepping away from Star Trek for at least two years — no movies, no conventions, no anything for a while,” Quinto told Wired.com in a telephone interview. His planned absence from geekdom was a major motivation for doing the new game. “I did this game ..read the full article

It should come as little surprise that last week’s release of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom was accompanied by a branded Wii fighting stick. It should also come as little surprise that Mad Catz’s Arcade Fightstick is pretty darn good.

Serious fighting game players know they can’t survive with a standard game pad. I am not a serious fighting game player, as well you already know, but I understand the sentiment. Fightsticks that mimic the authentic arcade experience can get pretty expensive and ..read the full article

Here’s a preview of Super Street Fighter IV’s box art. As a reminder, this much awaited fighting video game will hit store shelves on April 27th. [gameinformer]

Here is a single-player gameplay footage of Bad Company 2. FYI, the game is a direct sequel to Battlefield: Bad Company that was showcased for the first time at E3 2009. The release date for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is March 2, 2010. Video after the jump.

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Mass Effect 2 drags role-playing games kicking and screaming into the future.

The science fiction epic from Bioware, released Tuesday for PC and Xbox 360 (reviewed), is a glaring reminder that stats, loot and potions don’t have to be the end-all, be-all of RPGs. Mass Effect 2 effectively pushes all the fiddly little details to the back burner, emphasizing a grand story told not only by the designers, but each individual player. The sequel delivers a captivating experience worthy of following ..read the full article