Metal Gear Solid Rising Revengeance is the first Metal Gear game to appear on the Xbox 360 and features Raiden as a playable character.

I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first Darksiders game, but even I’ll admit, that’s a pretty snappy tagline for its sequel.

This trailer was released over the weekend. It’s short on gameplay, but long on soft focus and dripping blood.

Darksiders 2 is out on PC, PS3 and 360 sometime in 2012.

Remedy crafting new survival horror action adventure seeing titular writer face off against Mr. Scratch. Alan Wake may not have been Microsoft’s best-selling Xbox 360 exclusive, but the Remedy-developed survival horror action adventure will be returning. That fact was confirmed at the Spike TV Video Game Awards tonight, with the announcement of Alan Wake: American Nightmare.

Titular hero Alan Wake is again the star of the show, as the writer journeys to another remote town. According to the trailer, Wake is facing off against a new supernatural villain, Mr. Scratch. The two do battle using the powers of light (for Wake) and darkness (for Scratch).

The trailer did not indicate when Alan Wake: American Dream will see release, nor on which platforms. However, the title had previously been pegged as an Xbox Live Arcade release.

I’ve played quite a bit of the latest entry in Croteam’s twitchtastic first-person shooter series, but I never encountered the super-speedy giant unkillable pink spider creature in the first level. Know why? Because my copy isn’t pirated.

In order to curb rampant pc game piracy, developer Croteam purposefully included a bug (hee) in Serious Sam 3: BFE that trips when the game has been cracked. The bug (I said it again!) spawn a pleasantly-pink, positively unkillable scorpion creature that will hound the player until he or she is dead, dead, dead. To give the pirate a fighting chance, the spawn point is right next to the game’s first projectile weapon. It won’t have any effect, of course, but you’ll briefly feel better.

While not a particularly effective means of combating piracy, the giant immortal pink scorpion is a fun way to catch those masquerading as legitimate customers in places like GameFaqs.

Thanks for the entertainment, Croteam!

You’ll finally be able to get your hands on the medieval, character-switching action of Trine 2 today, if you’re getting it on Steam. The game’s gorgeous art style and beautiful color palette manifests into gorgeous vistas and sharp character animations. As previously mentioned, console versions release a little later. Either way, consider this sequel an anecdote to the grit and brown of the last few months’ AAA games.

GoldenEye 007: Reloaded is the true HD James Bond experience that you and others around the world have been waiting for.

The game offers striking HD visuals, realistic environments, and gameplay running at a consistent 60 frames per second. In addition, Reloaded features unprecedented player choice and has immense replayability with new offerings that include new MI6 Ops Missions.

GoldenEye 007: Reloaded takes multiplayer to a new level, maintaining and improving its renowned four-player split-screen action and also adding full, adrenaline-pumping 16-player online matches with more maps, weapons, characters, and game modes than ever before.

You’ve gotta love a game that makes a sly reference to 2010 indie darling Limbo. But, further perusal shows that Pid’s not going to be like PlayDead’s hit game. It’s got color! Energy! Localized gravity fountains! The retro-styled release happens on a remote alien planet where you’ll need to jump, solve and float your way past the local fauna—or are they automata?—through multiple levels of platformer action. Pid’s the result of a partnership between developer Might and Delight and production company Beefy Media. Collectively, the guys who make up Might and Delight have titles like Mirror’s Edge, Battlefield, and Killzone on their resumes, but their most relevant experience in this instance is their joint work on the first Bionic Commando: Rearmed release from Capcom. Pid will launch into orbit on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC next year.

The Adventures of Tintin: The Game is now available! You will play as Tintin, the intrepid reporter and hero of the action-packed movie The Adventures of Tintin.

In The Adventures of Tintin: The Game, play as Tintin, the intrepid reporter and hero of the action-packed movie The Adventures of Tintin directed by Steven Spielberg. Developed in close collaboration with the filmmaking team, the video game offers an authentic immersion into the movie’s enchanting environments and characters.

Players will experience non-stop action and adventure as they investigate the mystery of a lifetime that may lead them to one of the greatest sunken treasures. But the quest won’t be easy and players will need to join forces with the quick-witted dog Snowy and the grumpy Captain Haddock to beat greedy art collectors, kooky arms dealers, and other crooks to reveal the truth behind the Secret of the Unicorn ship.

Rayman Origins is a comic adventure set in a lush 2D world brimming with unexpected secrets and outlandish enemies. Here’s a trailer breaking down the 10 ways you can beat Rayman Origins.

This isn’t one of those mildly boring “look at an object I recreated in Minecraft” posts. This is hot-blooded machinima, Minecraft’s blocks used to recreate whole sequences from the end of Star Wars.

It’s the work of reader Grahame, aka Paradise Decay, who is not just a games musician, he’s a dude who has found that “somehow minecraft is taking over my life”.

That happens. At least he turned the addiction into something we can all enjoy.

If you like what Grahame’s cooking here, know that next year he’s releasing a full-blown Star Wars/Minecraft adventure called Rise of the Rebellion.