This week has been pretty exciting for gamers.  We have had some great games come out and are getting ever so close to the launch of one of the most anticipated games of 2012, Mass Effect 3!

If you havent yet, jump onto Xbox live or PSN and try out the demo.  It showcases alot of what we can expect from the game and the multiplayer shows that when BioWare wants to jump into a market they do it right!  You can try out each different class and play out a sort of horde mode game that pushes you and your team mates to the limit as you take down waves of enemy forces.  As well as completing some challenges along the way.

But if you have than you may be interested in checking out this incredible cinematic trailer that was done for the game.

Mass Effect 3 releases on March 6, 2012 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.

You won’t be able to actually play Mass Effect 3 for a few weeks still, but you can start warming up your vocal cords now.

EA recently released this cheat sheet of all the commands you’ll be able to issue to your team members using Microsoft’s Kinect. We’re still a little disappointed that you can’t order your teammates to kill each other, but that’s not going to stop us from continually trying (prepare yourself Kaidan…).

Start shredding down the world’s mountain with the demo for EA’s new SSX early next week.

During the latest episode of the SSX Ubercast, creative director Todd Batty revealed that the SSX demo would be available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on February 21 in North America, and the 22 for everyone else. The demo will feature Zoe as a playable character, two tutorials, two events and a skydiving sequence. We’re ready to dive in.

[Source: Joystiq]

If you havent heard yet Grand Theft Auto IV has become available on the PSN network.  Whether you want the original release or the deluxe edition including the DLC, you can now head onto PSN to get your GTA fix.

The original game will run you $19.99, and The Complete Edition is $29.99, though PlayStation Plus members get 20% off of that second price, dropping it to $23.99 through February 21.

In related news, you can also now get either Grand Theft Auto III: 10 Year Anniversary Edition or Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for $0.99 apiece on iOS. The sale runs through this Monday, February 20th. That’s a lot of hours of game for two bucks!

Who can forget those good ole days playing the Super NES.  Walking around like a boss, taking names and… castles…

Well As times change so do methods for getting the job done!  With that said check out this fan made video that had us at Darthpixel laughing and begging for more!  I mean who doesnt like to get their hands dirty from time to time? Like Koopa dirty!

Make sure to stick around for the twist ending, and fair warning: this video does contain a large amount of blood, and bleeped profanities.

Pokemon have always been an adaptive species, able to exist in many genres and now apparently eras.  This new title shows a crossover that still leaves us at Darthpixel a little confused on the overall direction, and in some cases purpose, of the newest iteration to the Pokemon franchise.

Originally announced in December, Pokemon + Nobunaga’s Ambition looks like it’s going to be a turn-based strategy game that will release on the original DS. No word on a stateside release, but we like Pokemon nearly as much as Japan does, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see it over here at some point.

We’ve known that Gangstas In Space would be coming some time in the Winter for Saint’s Row: The Third, but now we know the exact date.

THQ  and Volition announced a season pass for Saint’s Row: The Third shortly after the game released that revealed details about all the planned DLC, but it didn’t have exact dates. We’ve already received Genki Bowl VII, which by most standards didnt quite live up to our expectations.  Now Gangstas in Space will be releasing next week on February 21, the only hope for us is that is provides a bit more content than 6 short missions a couple vehicles. Although one good thing is that it’s free if you purchased the season pass in advance, if not than it will be $6.99.

The last planned DLC will be The Trouble With Clones, and it is scheduled to release sometime in the Spring.

[via THQ]

Researchers recently reported findings that playing first-person shooters can help your eyesight.

Scientists took six subjects with cataract disorders and asked them to play Medal of Honor for 40 hours over the course of a month. The subjects played the game for two hours a day, five days a week, for a month. Daphne Maurer of McMaster University in Canada who led the study said that playtime was limited becasue she didn’t want to the patients to become addicted to the game. That’s also probably the reason they chose Medal of Honor instead of Battlefield 3 or Call of Duty, or at least that is what I hope is the main reason for that choice.

Five of the six participants showed improvement after the month was up. “They were able to recognize faces more easily, as well as make out small print and judge the direction of moving dots.” This is good news for EA. They can now put a bullet on the back Medal of Honor boxes that reads, “improves eyesight!”

Maurer said, “the visual nervous system is still plastic enough to either form or reveal connections in adulthood….and we suspect that might be true for any kind of visual defect.”

The next step for Maurer and her team is to create, “the perfect vision-improving non-violent video game.” Someone should introduce them Portal or QUBE.

[via Digital Trends]

Apparently Viacom’s Nickelodeon bought the global rights to the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle franchise, including all films, TV shows and games, for a cool $60 million from.. get this.. Viacom’s Paramount Pictures. A price tag that would even make master splinter get excited.

The producing team of – deep breath – Platinum Dunes’ Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller and original producers Scott Mednick, Galen Walker and Maria Norman are seeing the movie fast-tracked (i.e. rushed beyond all reason) and want a first draft of the script by October so they can attach a director and go into production asap. In order to accomplish this, they’ve turned to Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, writers of Iron Man, a new, unproduced Punisher, a new Highlander and the future Buck Rogers movies. Put like this, maybe they are a good choice to handle a nerdy franchise such as this. Still, rushing films never ends well.

Source: Deadline

A show floor photo snapped during New York’s recent Toy Fair might have revealed that Activision is working on a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game.

A few years ago, Ubisoft held the license for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but since 2009’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up, the company hasn’t released any turtle related games.

Nickelodeon is prepping a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show, which will air on TV later this year, but that likely won’t be the only Turtles related entertainment that TMNT fans have to look forward to. During the annual Toy Fair, held last week in New York, ToyArk spied this piece of marketing, which advertises Nickelodeon’s partnership with Activision and IDW. Sounds like a TMNT video game and comic book are in the works. Check out the image below:

[Source: NinjaPizza]