Forget about that game called Deus Ex 3. At GDC 2010, publisher Square Enix debuted the trailer for the newly renamed Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The trailer from IGN, which can be seen after the jump, is unfortunately all pre-rendered CGI but it at least looks like the game will keep its unique cyberpunk art style.

IGN also chatted with Jean-Francois Dugas of the game's developer Eidos Montreal who talked about the new game's time line (its set 25 years before the first Deus Ex game) and other subjects. There's also a Q&A supplied by the publisher that answers some of the questions about the actual trailer (the main character is Adam Jensen who is also your player character i in the game and the city is Detroit. It looks like we will be waiting until E3 in June to perhaps get some actual gameplay time with the title.

This is going to sound like a broken record but here we go anyway. Developer Digital Illusions will once again be taking down the multiplayer servers for their recent first person shooter Battlefield Bad Company 2. The reason is at least a good one. They will be putting in some new server machines to deal with the online traffic that has been much larger than first anticipated for the game.

The downtime will begin tomorrow morning at 3 am Eastern time. Yet another downtime period will happen Saturday morning at the same time. Digital Illusions promises, "Once the maintenance is complete you will experience an improvement to your online experience." We certainly hope so.

Last month, Electronic Arts announced plans to publish some kind of new Dragon Age game in the first quarter of 2011. Now there's further proof of some kind of new entry in BioWare's fantasy RPG series as 1Up.com reports on a mysterious piece of art in the retail box of Dragon Age Origins: Awakening, the upcoming expansion to last fall's game.

As you can see there's a big dragon and the date 02.01.2011 on top. That suggests that something Dragon Age related is going to be released on February 1, 2011. But is it another large expansion pack or a true sequel to Dragon Age Origins. If it's a sequel it would be released less than 18 months after the original game came out.

Games that are coming out soon have a lot of unknowns that the average person might not know. Who is this character inspired by? Is all the talk of volumetric fog or cel-shaded graphics really worthwhile? Do the game mechanics really seem solid, or are they lackluster? In All You Need To Know we provide information to help you fully appreciate what these upcoming games have to offer.

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It's been two years since Telltale Games' second "season" of Sam and Max game episodes but in about a month the wait will be over. IGN, reporting from GDC, states that the first epsiode of the third season will be available for download on April 15 for both the PC and the Mac. It's the first time that any Telltale episodic series will launch for both PC and Mac platforms at the same time (oh, it's also coming to the Playstation Network too).

There will be five episodes for this season, which apparently has the overall subtitle The Devil's Playhouse. Telltale will let folks pre-order the full season for $34.95 but it looks like they won't be selling individual episodes yet. Anyone who does pre-order will get some special stuff such as a free episode from any of Telltale's previous games, access to a special preview section, a private forum with chats with Telltale's team and Sam and Max creator Steve Purcell and more.

OnLive's announcement on Wednesday that their streaming online service will cost $14.95 a month when it launches (not including rental or full payment for the games) took a few folks by surprise. However the folks behind one of its main rivals Gaikai told our sister site Joystiq at GDC today that there will be no such monthly fees to use their own service.

As we reported earlier today, InstantAction.com is partnering with Gaikai to use their tech to offer streaming PC games that can be embedded to any web site. Gaikai's founders also said they will have streaming servers at a whopping 300 locations in the US. In addition they say they have got deals with local broadband providers to put in servers at another 900 locations nationally. But when will all this actually go live? Unlike OnLive, who said their service will launch on June 17, there's no word yet on Gaikai's launch date.

Do you want to have your gaming PC with the fastest processor available, at least for the next few months? Intel has you covered today. The PC chip maker used the Game Developers Conference as an excuse to announce the new Core i7 - 980X Extreme Edition processor (previously known by its code name Gulftown). It's the first consumer PC processor to have six cores and 12 computing threads. Previously the top chips had "just" four processing cores.

As one might expect, this chip is both very fast and also extremely expensive. Intel expects to sell this for a whopping $999 in a few weeks and you will be seeing them inside high-end gaming PCs from various makers soon. Granted not too many PC games take advantage of multiple cores yet but more and more are showing up including Napoleon: Total War and R.U.S.E.

There are always a lot of racing games but the one we are most excited to play this year is Split/Second. The game, which combines Burnout-style driving with lots of property damage and destruction is due for release for the PC and other platforms on May 18. However it looks like the PC port could be bypassing retail stores.

According to That Video Game Blog, a rep for the game's publisher Disney Interactive told them that the PC port of Split/Second will be a "limited online release." That suggests either game will be sold in box form only via a web site or that the game will have no boxed copy at all and will be sold via digital download only on services like Steam and Direct2Drive. We have emailed Disney Interactive to get some clarification on the game's PC release plans.

Update: Big Download just heard directly from Disney Interactive's PR rep for Split/Second. In a nutshell, the rumor is not true. He tell us, "The game will be available for PC at retail outlets. We also plan to release the game via digital distribution but have not announced details yet. It is not planned to be a limited release."

While Mass Effect 2 fans are still waiting for their free downloadable vehicle to add to the hit sci-fi RPG, the team at developer BioWare is already working on their first paid downloadable mini-expansion. Reporting from GDC, our comrades at Joystiq report that Kasumi's Stolen Memory will be available on April 6 for the PC version (pricing has yet to be revealed).

The mini-expansion will add Kasumi, a new female thief, to the game. Shepard has to help out Kasumi on a particular mission that Joystiq reports will take about 90 minutes to complete. The DLC will also add a new achievement and some other new content like a "Locust" SMG and a flash-bang grenade loyalty power.

The latest developer video for The Settlers 7 focuses on the deep customization features that will be available to players. The Mapforge feature allows players to adjust almost every aspect of a map, significantly changing up gameplay, so that no game plays quit the same way twice. Players will also get Castleforge, which lets players personalize their castles with new components that can be imported into each play through. This castle also acts as a sort of online avatar tied into the new social network features, so players can show off their creativity and how well they do in the game.

The Settlers 7 is expected to release later this month for PC and Mac.

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As promised, 2K Games has released the first downloadable content for BioShock 2. We have already reported on the features in the new Sinclair Solutions Test Pack but today we've got news on a special sale for the downloadable version of the game from Microsoft's Games For Windows Live.

This is a little complicated but worth it so stick with us. Starting on Friday and ending on Monday you can download and purchase BioShock 2 via the Games For Windows Live client for $37.49, 25 percent off its normal price. But here's the kicker; if you buy the game and also purchase the Sinclair Solutions DLC pack (which costs 400 Microsoft Points) during the sale period, Microsoft will add 800 Microsoft points to your Games For Windows Live account. That's about $10 worth of points that can be used for other downloadable items. The bad news? The points will be awarded a month after the sale is over.

It's been a week since GoG.com has added an Activision-owned game to its DRM-free line up but today they continue with the addition of Gabriel Knight 3 to its library. The adventure game, first released back in 1999, is the third (and as it turned out final) game in the classic franchise that was originally published by Sierra Online.

Sub-titled Blood of the Sacred-Blood of the Damned, the game is the first in the series to use full 3D graphics (the first was 2D while the second was a mix of 2D and full motion video). A fourth Gabriel Knight title was in some kind of planning stages but was never released. In the meantime we are still awaiting the release of Gray Matter, the title that will mark the return of Gabriel Knight's creator Jane Jensen to the industry. In the meantime GoG.com has Gabriel Knight 3 available for download for $5.99.

2009's release of Red Faction: Guerrilla was something of a sales disappointment for publisher THQ but the company is confident the sci-fi shooter game franchise still has some life in it. Our sister site Joystiq reports from GDC 2010 that the next Red Faction game, currently due for release in March 2011, will hearken back to its original roots.

While Red Faction: Guerrilla was more of an open world game set on the surface of Mars, THQ's executive VP of Core Games Danny Bilson told Joystiq, "The new game takes [Red Faction] to a whole new place, it kind of goes back to the old Red Faction because about 80 [percent] of it is underground." Yes, the new game (which doesn't have an actual title yet) will still have that GeoMod destructible environment feature. We just hope the PC version is released at or close to the console ports this time. THQ plans to show off the new game this June at E3.

While players of Battlefield Bad Company 2 have had to battle issues with multiplayer servers going up and down in the past week, at least they won't have to pay for two new upcoming maps. Gamers who buy the recent first person shooter and put in their included VIP code will be able to download two new maps on March 30.

As previously announced the two new maps will include the Arica Harbor level in Conquest mode and the Laguna Presa level in Rush mode. While future downloadable content for the game may cost something to get, the game's official blog site states, "these packs will focus on expanding other parts of the game experience rather than the selection of maps available for the basic game modes."

It's Thursday which means it's time for yet another entry in this week's Square Enix sale on Steam. Today the sale takes on two lesser known games in the publisher's library; one is the cute action game Mini-Ninjas from developer Io Interactive. The other is the downloadable only puzzle-RPG game Gyromancer which was developed with the help of PopCap Games.

From now until 11 am Eastern time Friday you can download and purchase either game for 50 percent off their normal Steam prices. If you want to go all out and get both you can grab the bundle package for 66 percent off its normal price. The final games in the Square Enix sale on Steam will be posted on Friday.