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Conan O’Brien paid a visit to the makers of Halo 4 last night in a segment that showed off brief scenes from the Master Chief sequel and O’Brien’s (fictional) role within it. The sketch, hinted at yesterday in Halo 4 release date announced for November 2012, took the ginger host …

We already reported that Nintendo/Miyamoto confirm new Mario game for E3 reveal (opens in new tab), but it turns out Mario wasn’t the only new game that Miyamoto said would be shown at E3 this year. Now, normally we’d take any story sourced as ‘Google Translate’ as a pinch of …

The Dark Knight Rises has debuted a clutch of new images in the latest Entertainment Weekly , including new looks at key players Bane, Catwoman and Batman himself. The latest shots show Bane on another terrorist rampage, Catwoman in her slinky new suit and Batman in what looks like a …

EA has just released Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Legacy update (opens in new tab). The new content includes a new Flashpoint, Operation and Warzone, all of them geared toward providing a challenge for high-level players who’ve got to grips with everything The Old Republic’s thrown at them so far. …

“Sony will change,” promises new president (opens in new tab) and CEO Kazuo Hirai: “I’ve fully dedicated myself to changing Sony.” Hirai, who took over Howard Stringer’s position at the top on April 1 of this year, responded to this week’s dire financial projections – a doubled loss for 2012, …

The first gameplay trailer for Medal of Honor: Warfighter has been deployed, and it has all the explosions, military chatter, slo-mo gunfights, and dubstep we’ve come to expect from a war-themed FPS. See how EA and developer Danger Close Games plan on making Medal of Honor the new go-to combat …

Electronic Arts says it’s received several thousand letters protesting the company’s incorporation of LGBT themes within games such as Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: the Old Republic. The company says it has no plans to censor its games – and at least three celebrities (at least two of them …

Nielsen Media Research – that’s the guys that tell you what you watched on TV, not the guy from the Naked Gun movies – has put together some charts (opens in new tab) of “Gamer Anticipation” for upcoming releases on all three major consoles. The company says it gauged anticipation …

Did you see the new Sonic trailer when it sneaked out with the Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II release dates (opens in new tab) last week? Doubtless the surprise Metal Sonic reveal at the clip’s end was all you could talk about over Easter weekend (which probably confused a …

With The Avengers hitting cinemas in just a matter of weeks, Marvel has been careful not to let the ball drop by announcing some new details concerning Captain America 2 . First and foremost is the fact that the film has a new release date, with Steve Rogers’ next adventure …