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With this year’s Game Developers Conference in full swing, Microsoft has issued forth several new screenshots from Lionhead’s upcoming action-RPG sequel Fable 3.

In addition, several new details on the game were revealed during creator Peter Molyneux’s GDC presentation, including word that players can marry their online co-op partners and the revelation that Monty Python’s John Cleese is voicing the butler.

An Xbox 360 exclusive, Fable 3 arrives this fall, complete with support for the platform’s motion-sensing Project Natal add-on so th…

Former members of Command & Conquer 3 and Red Alert 3 developer Electronic Arts Los Angeles have gone off on their own with a new independent studio named Supergiant Games.

According to its official site, the company–comprised of C&C3 / Red Alert 3 designers Amir Rao and Gavin Simon plus musician Darren Korb–is readying a game for unspecified “digital download platforms.”

That game is targeting a 2011 release and appears to be two-dimensional, as the company’s about page notes “we’re always on the look out for …

Shown to attendees of GDC 2010, Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto showed an intro cinematic from Metroid: Other M, which takes place after the events of the Super Nintendo’s Super Metroid and the Game Boy Advance’s Metroid Fusion.

The cinematic began with footage directly from the end of Super Metroid, right when Samus has been weakened and Mother Brain is gearing up to kill her. The baby Metroid (all-grown up) saves Samus and begins draining Mother Brain’s energy.

As the Metroid goes to heal Samus, we’re treated to an all-new computer generated cinematic through Samus’ visor. Mother Brain springs up and attacks it, dropping Samus in the process. …

Alongside word that an enhanced special edition of Monkey Island 2 is headed to PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and iPhone this summer, developer LucasArts also revealed plans to bring the revamped original to PlayStation 3 and Mac in the near future.

Fancy redrawn art or the pixelated original? Your call.

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition–released in downloadable form on PC, Xbox 360 and iPhone circa July 2009–packs two versions of the classic LucasArts adventure game, the 1990 ori…

What’s that, Kratos? You think you’re big stuff, just because you’ve slayed some mythological deities? Why, I think it’s time that you were offered some perspective.

Not so big now, are you Mr. Spartan?

How ever will Kratos fight his way out of this predicament? You’ll have to wait until God of War III hits North America on March 16–that’s next Tuesday–to find out. Should you want to try the PlayStation 3 exclusive on for size before then, a demo showcasing its extreme brutality is currently available for download from the online PlayStation Store.

Apparently that path to Mordor is even trickier than we previously thought, as publisher Warner Bros. now expects the “friendly action-adventure game” The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest to arrive in fall 2010–a full year after it was originally expected.

Aragorn’s Quest on Wii

Along the revised release date, Warner Bros. also revealed that a PlayStation 3 edition of Aragorn’s Quest is now due alongside the other versions and will pack support for the console’s motion-sensing PlayS…

With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward promising to cure the shooter’s “mapathy” with some downloadable content on March 30, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 developer EA DICE has thrown down the gauntlet.

The same day, March 30, will see DICE release its second “VIP Map Pack” for Bad Company 2, it revealed in a blog post titled “how to avoid ‘mapathy’ without paying.”

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