PS3-owning Assassin’s Creed II fans can get ready for some downloadable content due to be released on February 18th. The primary content is an episode called Sequence 13: Bonfire of the Vanities, in which you get to work with Machiavelli to free the city of Florence from the grip of the mad monk Savonarola by targeting influential citizens under his control. Battle, sneak and free-run your way through more than ten new memories, and discover a new district of Florence, as well as using Ezio’s new move, the spring-jump. In order to be able to get the new content, you must ...Read more.

Publisher Zen United and distributor PQube have today announced details of a Limited Edition of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger for PS3. The Limited Edition, which is presented in a specially branded box, is now available for pre-order for a limited period at the same price as the standard version of the game. As you can see from these amazing screenshots, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is a fantastic-looking 2D weapons-based fighting game, created by Arc Works Systems, the Japanese developer behind the Guilty Gears franchise. The characters and art have been specifically designed for ...Read more.

EA has today released ten brand new screenshots for Skate 3, and pretty amazing they look too. You can see some rail-grinding action, some bowl action, great shots of the all-new skate park, all sorts of good stuff. One thing’s for sure, if it plays as good as it looks, Skate 3 is shaping up to be the best game in the Skate series so far, by a mile. Much of the action centres around the new Skate city, Port Carverton, which features unique districts, plazas, skateparks and endless lines. An all-new Skate School has been introduced to enable newbies to get some practice in before ...Read more.

We already knew that an Albert Wesker skin would be an extra download in Lost Planet 2 for anyone pre-ordering the game at Game Stop, but now Capcom has revealed that Gears of War heroes Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago will also be available for selection as playable skins, either in the campaign or versus mode. The accompanying screenshots show the three characters in action. Imagine that, getting to play as Marcus from Gears of War alongside Wesker from Resident Evil! Pretty surreal! Marcus will probably be looking for cover all the time though, jus’ saying. Meanwhile, Capcom ...Read more.

Although the sequel to Dead Rising was first announced almost a year ago, there hasn’t been that much more information coming from Capcom over the past 12 months, save for the odd fact sheet. Now all of a sudden Capcom is spoiling zombie-bashing fans rotten, not just with some brand new screenshots, but also with actual official release dates of September 3rd for Europe, August 31st for North America, and September 2nd for Japan. The Dead Rising series is well-known for letting players pick up and use everyday items to bash bits off the undead zombie hordes, but in Dead Rising 2 ...Read more.

It seems that no major game gets released today without some sort of special edition being released at the same time, and Yakuza 3 is certainly no exception to that, with SEGA Europe today announcing that the game will be available in an exclusive premium edition pack when it’s released exclusively for the PS3 on March 12th 2010. This is the full contents of the pack, as revealed by SEGA Europe: “• 4 pieces of DLC 1. Battle for Survival – Take on all the bosses of Yakuza 3 as Kazuma 2. All-Star Tournament (7 character tournament) 3. All-Star Tag Tournament (8 team ...Read more.