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Typically the Summer period is a long drought when it comes to game releases. With a few exceptions there’s usually not a lot to play until things begin to heat up around September. That looks to change this year with the announcement that Crackdown 2 will be released both in North America and Europe in July.

Diifii bring us more exclusive UK coverage of the awesome Final Fantasy XIII signing event! He got a chance to talk to the fans check out some cosplay and meet the people at the front of the line. They waited for 18 hours in the currently VERY cold London weather to get their copies of Final Fantasy XIII signed. Check out the footage below!

Looks like BioWare’s lust for the Cerberus Network knows no bounds. Not content to wait around for the release date of Firewalker to add some new content to your Mass Effect 2 game, BioWare launched a smaller update today that provides the addition of another Heavy Weapon titled: the “Arc Projector”. What does it do? Well BioWare is glad that you asked, from the quote on the website itself:

A little while ago I made mention of the fact that Mass Effect 2 will be getting itself some new planetary transport along with the added levels launching in the Firewalker DLC. Not a whole lot of people are getting as pumped about the return of planetary traversal as I would have hoped. But maybe that was because of a lack of moving pictures to showcase just how bad-ass the Hammerhead is. I can understand that.

While we’re still a good two months away from going hands-on with the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta, Bungie was kind enough to drop us a video early this morning showcasing some of the wide-variety of changes they’ve been making to their flagship franchise. It looks like they really weren’t kidding when they said they would be making changes and taking risks with this one.

Since our interview with Illfonic last year we've been keeping an eye on this development team. Illfonic graced us late Monday with with an email about their latest project Nexuiz. Working with Alientrap, Illfonic will be bringing the fun, fast paced first person shooter to XBox, PS3, and the Wii.

Amidst my early morning rage upon looking at certain things I must admit that looking at these new Alan Wake screenshots has definitely brightened my day up a bit. Perhaps it’s seeing the amazing visuals and lighting techniques that has slightly perked me up a bit or it could be the thought of shooting mysterious shadow dudes and making them go boom.

It looks as though Gamestop is once more the place to find out about release dates before a publisher bothers to announce it. Bethesda and Gamestop have teamed up to put forward a sweepstakes for the upcoming FPS “Brink.” According to the contest details (confirmed on the game page) the game will be releasing on September 7^th 2010.

There's never a shortage of Avatar buzz, so it was only a matter of time before Diifii got his hands on this game. Based on the highly successful cinema epic and it's unique blend of classic film and 3D graphics, Avatar the game has a lot to live up to. Find out what Diifii thinks about it!

A lot of people didn’t like the MAKO in the original Mass Effect and as a response BioWare wound up cutting it out instead of replacing it. This was a problem for me, because I was a fan of the planetary exploration in the first game. However it looks like with the upcoming “Firewalker” DLC that problem of mine is going to be addressed.

My apologies for not getting this posted sooner, but here at last is Diifii's long awaited look back at his favorite Fighter of 2009!

Last week was a good week to be an Alan Wake fan as not only was the game given a May 18 release date but a bevy of new media was released as well.  Even though the X10 event is over that isn’t stopping Microsoft and developer Remedy from releasing even more breathtaking images of the suspenseful noir experience that is Alan Wake.

The announcement that the Xbox 360 version of Dead Rising 2 would be getting exclusive DLC wasn’t the only DR2 news to come out of the recent X10 event as Capcom also demoed the game for the first time since TGS last year.

Well at this year's X10, it's become painfully clear that there's a disparity between the showcased games regarding new information released. Some games have lots, others get little more than a few new screengrabs. Final Fantasy XIII is in the latter category.

Alan Wake is a title that has been oft-postponed since it was announced oh-so long ago. For a long while now we’ve seen the game making the rounds and appearing at all the big trade shows to let us know it was still alive, but it wasn’t until today that we got a release date. That’s right; Microsoft and Remedy finally have set the date on the release of Alan Wake: May 18^th.