Updates

Eurogamer is reporting that Mass Effect 3 will likely have a multiplayer component that will exist as a "standalone" element, separate from the game's single player campaign.

Today Microsoft released their beta software development kit for Kinect, which is of course free, but is also available only for non-commercial use. Or rather, it is for the moment.

Batman: Arkham City will force Games for Windows Live onto customers who purchase the game for the PC.

An artist at R-evolution GFX has drawn up an illustration of Cave Johnson's famous combustible lemon.

Four lucky winners of the Operation Flashpoint: Red River giveaway.

Late night show host and comedian Jimmy Fallon played a short demo of Battlefield 3 with the developers at DICE.

The court has ruled that Call of Duty creators West and Zampella can put Activision on trial.

Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata have shot down plans to release a Zelda anniversary collection.

DICE releases Battlefield 3 screenshots which reaffirm the fact that it will probably be one of the best looking games of 2011.

DICE has announced that the Physical Warfare Pack, while initially a timed exclusive for pre-orders, will eventually be unlocked for free later this year.

An official post on the Bioware social forums confirms that 18,000 accounts used on the company's NeverWinter Nights forums have been compromised by a hacker.

A post on the Steam forums may confirm the existence of Half-Life 3, assuming it isn't all a big hoax.

2K Games fires PR Firm responsible for threatening game reviewers for harsh reviews of Duke Nukem Forever.

EA says that it was not their decision to remove Crysis 2 from Valve's online store.

A new trailer for the Japanese beat-em-up Senran Kagura contains gratuitous cleavage shots.

The classic game of Arkanoid has been reborn as Wizorb, an indie title for the PC and XBLA.

A new trailer of the total-conversion mod for Half Life 2 called CANVAS looks stunning.

Katamari will be making a comeback with Namco's newly announced Katamari Amore, which was presented at E3 this year.

Artist Zac Gorman has illustrated a series of pictures dedicated to his love for Nintendo.

CliffyB presented Gears of War 3 on TV last night, causing host Jimmy Fallon to go bananas at the footage.

Nintendo has announced that its new console will have neither Blu-Ray nor DVD playback, citing that customers already have devices to play movies.

Counter656 Productions has created a stop motion video inspired by Final Fantasy VII. The video was made fro over 10,000 photographs and took two months to produce.

Wii U to fancy a last-generation Radeon, which by industry standards is still very good.

The publishing giant has reportedly pulled its games Crysis 2 and Alice: Madness Returns from Valve's digital store.