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F.E.A.R. 3 is charging up its marketing push in advanced of the horror-themed first person shooter's May release date. Today publisher Warner Bros Interactive announced that the game will let players control Paxton Fettel in the game's single player mode.

While the supernaturally powered Fettel will still be playable in the game's two player co-op mode, developer Day 1 Studios will now allow players to control Fettel all by his lonesome in the game's single player campaign. Fettel will be unlocked in each of the game's single player levels once the player completes each level while playing as the heavily armed Point Man. That should add some replay value to the game as Fettel can use his telekentic abilities to take out or posses enemies.

[Via email press release]

F.E.A.R. 3's release day may have been moved this week from March to May but the horror-themed first person shooter from developer Day 1 Studios is moving ahead, at least in Europe, with plans for a Collector's Edition of the game. A video showing its contents was posted up earlier this week.

Besides coming in custom packaging, the Collector's Edition will include a code to access a unqiue weapon and a DC Comics-produced F.E.A.R. comic book. But the centerpiece of the edition has to be the 7 inch figure of a creepy and very pregnant Alma, the central character in the game franchise. It even glows in the dark. There's no word on when the truly scary edition will be released in the US.

The horror-themed first person shooter sequel F.E.A.R. 3 may have had its release date pushed back yet again. The game from developer Day 1 Studios and publisher Warner Bros Interactive was originally supposed to come out last fall and then was delayed until March 22. A few days ago, however the game's official message boards had a post from its administrator announcing yet another delay.

According to the message board post, the new release date for F.E.A.R. 3 will be sometime in May 2011 with the post saying the decision was made "to deliver the best possible game for our fans."

[Via Gamershell]

Batman Arkham City got its first trailer reveal at the 2009 Video Game Award and on Saturday the upcoming sequel to 2009's acclaimed action game Batman Arkham Asylum will get yet another trailer. We've been promised that the visuals of this new video footage won't look like a video game but if someone had filmed what happens.

And that's not all. The trailer on Saturday will also reveal a villain that will make an appearance in the Rocksteady-developed game. Who could it be? Ra's Ah Ghul? Hush? The Red Hood? Ma Parker? The Bookworm? (OK, those last two came from the 1960's Batman TV show).

It was announced about a year ago and earlier this year Game Informer did the first real preview of the game but now it looks like the marketing for Batman Arkham City is ramping up. Today MSN Games hosted the a new teaser trailer for the game. It's only the second such video released for the Rocksteady-developed sequel to 2009's Batman Arkham Asylum.

The 30 second video, which you can check out after the jump, is a CGI-only affair but it does show The Dark Knight doing what he does best; kicking the crap out of the bad guys. We should see a longer version of the trailer on Saturday during the Video Game Awards show on Spike TV. Batman Arkham City is still due for release in the fall of 2011.

Lord of the Rings is a franchise that has seen so many ups and downs in the videogame space that it's hard to keep track of just what is going on nowadays. The latest game set in Tolkien's esteemed Middle Earth is War in the North, and it's a hack-and-slash RPG by the esteemed Snowblind Studios. This trailer gives a brief glimpse into the raw brutality of the game, which is a big departure for Lord of the Rings. Despite the violence of the movies and book, the games have been mostly oriented to allow children to play. The blood splatter and violence makes this a far more mature outing, and also makes us more interested.

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After being pushed back from a previously planned fall 2010 release schedule, the horror shooter sequel F.E.A.R. 3 now has a solid release date. IGN reports that the game from developer Day 1 Studios and publisher Warner Bros. Interactive is due to be released in the US on March 22, 2011.

In addition to the new release date, the publisher also revealed that select retailers will offer pre-order incentives for F.E.A.R. 3. Amazon.com will give pre-order customers a 12-page prequel comic book to the game. Best Buy offers an exclusive in-game weapon, The Shredder while GameStop customers get their own exclusive weapon, The Hammer.

Alma's fractured psychic mind is the cause behind most of the disturbances in the previous FEAR games. However, the damage to reality was local, rather than widespread, leading to the visions and minor apparitions players are familiar with. However, in FEAR 3, Alma is losing it for real and showing off just what her demented, abused, destroyed mind can produce. The result is the Almaverse and this trailer. It shows off some of the new environments and gives brief glimpses at the monstrous enemies the player will be fighting, although the trailer is so dark it's really hard to tell what is going on.

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Today is the day that Turbine officially turns the page on Lord of the Rings Online, turning the subscriber exclusive fantasy MMO into a free-to-play game with subscription options. Turbine and publisher Warner Bros. Interactive clearly know that the J.R.R. Tolkien-themed game has a large mainstream audience. That's maybe why they decided to make a TV commercial for the game for the first time.

The TV ad, which you can see above, is meant to be funny, perhaps lifting some inspiration from Blizzard's World of Warcraft TV ads. The commercial will first be shown on Fox's Family Guy on Sunday although we wonder why Turbine didn't buy ads during this weekend's showing of the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy on TNT.

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An alleged internet leak over at the NeoGAF forum has apparently yielded the first real screenshots from Batman: Arkham City, the upcoming sequel to developer Rocksteady's 2009 super hero action game Batman Arkham Asylum. While we have yet to get confirmation from publisher Warner Bros. Interactive that these are the real deal, we feel confident enough that these are legit to go ahead and post them.

Besides the visuals here are just simply too cool looking not to post about. Batman looks cool as always but take a look at Two-Face. That has to be the best representation of Harvey Dent we have ever seen, and yes we include The Dark Knight movie in that comparison. It's going to be a long wait until Batman Arkham City's fall 2011 release.

[Via Joystiq]