If you have already been enjoying the action and excitement of the new Battlefield 3 first person shooter game. You might have already worked your way through the maps available on release and are now ready for a few new ones.

Well if you purchased a limited edition you will be pleased to know the new Strike at Karkand expansion will be arriving in December. Bringing with it all new massive maps together with new weapons, vehicles and action. Check out the new Strike at Karkand expansion after the jump.

If you haven’t already experienced the new Battlefield 3 game, its powered by the new Frostbite 2.0 engine and provides a new environmental, audio, and graphical experience for gamers. Together with real-time weather changes and more destr ... Read more »

He should’ve stuck to Cortana. No human girlfriend will ever understand how bad it got with the Covenant and then the Flood. Nah, kidding! The true backstory behind this Master Chief mystery is almost too weepy to handle. The bad part is Eric Smith, the guy who spent a ridiculous amount of dough to buy the MC armor from an artist, poured out his heart in a long blog post explaining his life-changing buy. Turns out his fiancé dumped him.

Eric Smith, a certified geek and part time college instructor, went through a crushing phase in his private life. To soothe the pain and the empty hole where his sweetheart used to emotionally reside, he sold the engagement ring he bought her and used the money on some good ole Mjolnir. Then he recounted his odyssey in a long blog post.

The most poetic, Pulitzer Prize winning part:

I’ve seen other Master Chiefs. The ... Read more »

Activision has today announced that their new Modern Warfare 3 has now broken all 5 day sales records for book, movies and video games, racking up an impressive $775 million in worldwide sales in just 5 days since launch.

The new figure beats last years record set at $650 million by their previous Call of Duty: Black Ops games title and the $550 million by Modern Warfare 2 set two years ago.

Activision explains:

"With $775 million of sales of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in its first five days, Call of Duty has become the first entertainment property in history to set five-day launch records for three consecutive years across all forms of entertainment,”

Modern Warfare 3 has also broken records on Xbox Live with more than 3.3 million unique gamers played Ca ... Read more »

Zenimax Media has announced today that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim game which launched on Friday and has been developed by Bethesda Softworks has landed 50 perfect reviews and is expected to generate more than $500 million in global retail sales from launch units alone.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim game "re-imagines and revolutionises” the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world for you to explore any way you choose allowing you to roam where ever you like.

Tens of thousands of fans queued at retail stores on 11-11-11 to get their hands on a copy and Valve’s Steam portal recorded a massive 280,000+ concurrent players enjoying the world of Skyrim, beating all other titles on the network. Robert Altman, Chairman and CEO of ZeniMax Media said:

"We are grateful for the fans’ response to Sk ... Read more »

Sony has unveiled plans to launch a UMD Passport for its PS Vita console once it officially released. Gamers with large libraries of UMD games from previous PSP consoles will be able to sign up for access to the new UMD Passport. However you wont be able to simply port your game across to play on the new PS Vita device.

Once you have registered and received acceptance from Sony you will then need to download a free Registration UMD app that will then allow you to insert the UMD and link to a PSN account to register the title. Once this is done you will then be able to re-purchase the title at a discounted value.

The discounted value will be between £4 and £12, states Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and currently the UMD Passport supports only around 200 games from 40 publishers. A full list can be found over ... Read more »

With the launch of Assassin’s Creed Revelations arriving next week Ubisoft have now released an awesome launch trailer which show what you can expect from the Assassin’s Creed Revelations game once its officially launched on November 15th. Enjoy!

In the new Assassin’s Creed Revelations game, master assassin Ezio follows in the footsteps of the legendary Altaïr on a journey of discovery and revelation.

It is a perilous path that will take Ezio to Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilise the region. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations game that will be released on November 15 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Over the weekend the Valve Steam forum was defaced by hackers redirecting requests for the forum to the hackers website. Now after further investigation by Valve it looks like the hack went deeper than originally thought and has compromised the main Steam database.

The main Steam database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. Although Valve are still unsure whether encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information was taken.

Valves announcement:

We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card in ... Read more »

We have already heard a lot about NVIDIA’s new quad core Tegra 3 processor over the last few months, codenamed Kal-El, the new NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor will power the new Asus Transformer Prime, which launches in December.

According to NVIDIA, their new Tegra 3 processor provides up to three times the graphics performance of the Tegra 2, with 61 percent lower power consumption, which according to NVIDIA will give up to 12 hours of HD video playback.

We suspect that the Tegra 3 is going to make Android tablets a lot more popular, especially for gaming, have a look at some of the screenshots below.

You can find out more information about the new NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor over at NVIDIA.

There is, however, a generous amount of unidentified person sailing through the air. And smoke. Lots of smoke. Apparently that whole mysterious teaser image thing worked so well for Bioware when they announced Mass Effect at the VGAs last year that they are reprising the same strategy to draw attention to their newest endeavour.

An endeavour which seems not so much a departure from the usual Bioware style of game as teleportation. Heroes have been blown up and buggies have been driven across sandy wastes in Bioware games before and just in case you find yourself questioning the studio’s action bonafides, be ye reminded, gentle reader, that the first ever Bioware game was a mech simulator. At first glance it looks kind of like they’re planning to bring their RPG touch to the Uncharted crowd as they did with Mass Effect to the Gears of War formula. And we’re willing ... Read more »

Xbox Live gamers where a little surprised, but I am sure very pleased to see a beta version of the highly anticipated Mass Effect 3 game available as a download via Xbox live. The new Mass Effect 3 game isn’t officially being released until March 2012 and it now looks like the beta release was down to "human error”.

The beta release seemed to be particular available to those gamers who had who registered to be part of the Xbox Live Dashboard update. Allowing them to enjoy access to a playable version of Mass Effect 3. Unfortunately for its creators Bioware they were just as amazed to see their new game available in beta form without their authorisation.

Bioware explained:

"Microsoft has advised us that through human error at their end, content which was meant for internal beta testing was flagged incorrec ... Read more »