Gaming download FilePlanet is shutting down soon. Parent company IGN has revealed that they are no longer updating the site. Eventually they'll take it down as well. We have decided to archive FilePlanet and will eventually stop operating the site, IGN publisher Peer Schneider told Game Front, a site which experienced its own brush with death a few years back. "A lot of things have changed over the last decade. A standalone site for downloads of videos, demos, or patches made perfect sense bac...more

A huge collection of Elder Scrolls Online images leaked onto the Internet today. Though the MMO is supposed to be set in the same world as Skyrim and Morrowind but you wouldn't know it from these visuals. The single-player Elder Scrolls games were limited to one province apiece. However, ESO lets players explore all (or at least most) of Tamriel. If any of the locations in the screenshots or concept art (via AGB) look unfamiliar, it's probably because that particular locale was never featured ...more

Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, will be making an appearance in Assassin's Creed 3. However, in spite of his background as an inventor, he won't be supplying the player with gadgets like Leonardo da Vinci did in AC2. Instead, Ubisoft decided to play up the bawdy side of Franklin. It's not a depiction you read much in textbooks. "So we got him in a little bit, we went with the more unusual sides of him. Like his love of women, creative director Alex Hutchin...more

Zynga has come up with an interesting way to squeeze some extra revenue out of mobile game Draw Something. Companies will be able to pay to insert guesswords of their choosing into the app. In Draw Something, players are given a list of three random words. They must choose one of these words and draw it. If a Facebook friend guesses your drawing correctly, you win points. Zynga's new advertising initiative, detailed by Ad Age, lets companies add their own words to the game's library. For exa...more

Today, if you're not aware, is Star Wars Day. BioWare has decided to commemorate the occasion by offering a discount on their MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic for the weekend. Old Republic takes place thousands of years before the Star Wars films. Players take part in a massive conflict between the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire. You can be a brave Jedi Knight or a grizzled bounty hunter, among other things. Each class has a personalized quest line with NPC companions and light/dark side ...more

On the eve of Diablo 3's release, Blizzard will be hosting several launch events throughout the world. Here in the United States, the official launch party will take place at Big Wheel Court in the Irvine Spectrum Mall in Irvine, California. The US launch event will kick off at May 14th at 8pm PDT. It'll run until midnight PDT. At that point, everyone will get their slimy little mitts on the game and retire to their homes, never to be seen again. The event, sponsored by Intel and GameStop, wi...more

Epic Games China, or Yingpei Games, has let loose additional details for their upcoming third-person, Gears of War-esque shooter, Mercenary Ops. The new information confirms that the game will have a zombie mode, a survival mode and a horde mode. What's more is that like most other free-to-play games out there, Mercenary Ops will have a full assortment competitive modes for players to engage in as well, including team deathmatch for eight-on-eight bouts as well as elimination and demolition mo...more

Despite Electronic Arts' silence on a successor for the commercially successful Dead Space 2, a game designer working at the IP's developer, Visceral Games, has all but confirmed a third installment's existence. Twitter sleuth Superannuation found a resume for one of Visceral's game designers, Jeremie Benhamou, who reveals a few projects he has been working on. Although his CV has since been removed, a webcache confirms said projects to be Dead Space 3, as well as Army of Two 3. In addition, ...more

Tango Gameworks' secret project has been revealed by Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. With a codename ofZwei,Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami is heading the game's development. Thetitle, touted as a survival horror experience, which is currently being developed byMikami's new studio Tango Gameworks. They're making the title for Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax, following the firm's buyout of the developer. Originally announced back in 2010,Zwei'sdevelopment phases are said to be progres...more

We all know EA likes to try to keep their slate clean. We all know that those boot-kickers wipe the grease off the floor wherever they go. Well, this time they got caught in the act of attempting to "damage control" the words of one of their employees. Just recently Dead Space story creator Chuck Beaver, a member of the EA subsidiary Visceral Games, let loose some harsh words about Epic Games' third-person shooter franchise, Gears of War, saying... "Story can only ruin a game for those people ...more