A tipster sent us what appears to be art work for the upcoming Half Life 2 Episode 3, however, we can’t confirm it at this point (we’re still investigating, we’ll update this page accordingly). Click the image for full view.

Update: We can now confirm that this is not the official art work for the game, rather, it’s concept art from Pene Menn, a Korean artist.

Tiger Woods may be having some problems in his personal life but that hasn’t stopped consumers from anxiously awaiting Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11. While not much has been said about the game’s until now it was just announced by EA that it will in fact support the Playstation Motion Controller.

Other than that they let us know that the game will feature the Ryder Cup which lets gamers create 2 12-man teams and pit them off against eachother.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 will be out for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii on June 8th.

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Codemasters has been talking about a brand new IP that they are developing for some time now but hadn’t confirmed anything solid. Not long after they filed a trademark for Bodycount which made even more rumors fly. Now, the studio has officially announced that Bodycount will in fact be their newest IP and will be dropping sometime in 2011.

The game will be an FPS and is described as all sorts of badass. The game will have players gunning down countless eneimes and blowing up pretty much everything in their path. And yes, it will be including some form of multiplayer.

Again, Bodycount will be dropping sometime in early 2011 for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

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Back in early February, Rebellion told us that Aliens vs Predator would be getting a DLC pack at some point in the future but didn’t give us any details about its content. We now know that the new pack will be calld the ‘Swarm Map Pack’ and will dro pon March 18th for 560 Microsoft Points or about $7.

The Swarm Map Pack includes 2 regular multiplayer maps and 2 brand new Survival Mode maps. No details were released on what these maps will be like so we’ll just have to wait and see.

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Looking for more Left 4 Dead goodness? You’re in luck — Valve just let us know that a Left 4 Dead comic will be made available through Xbox Live in the near future. Of course, this is most likely to hype players up for the forthcoming ‘The Passing’ DLC pack that is also set to drop on Xbox Live later this month.

The comic will give us some insight into the happenings of Louis, Bill, Zoe and Francis and explain how they meet Ellis, Rochelle, Coach and Nick.

There was no word on a price for the comic so until there is let’s just assume it’s going to be free.

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Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling has just let us know via his Twitter that Modern Warfare 2 has officially surpassed the 25 million unique players mark. While we don’t have exact numbers, Bowling says that the majority of the players are on Xbox 360 with the PS3 in a “close” second with the PC version in third.

This is a pretty amazing feat and even more reason for Infinity Ward to be working on Modern Warfare 3. If they sort out that mess with Activision, of course.

It seems that Ubisoft just can’t get a break — Back in January we told you that Ubisoft would be trying out a new online-based DRM service that would, theoretically, help the studio combat piracy. Well, not long after the service launched hackers had their way with it cause it to crash altogether. After that, Ubisoft managed to get the service back up but once again they are being attacked.

They comment:

Our servers are under attack again. Some gamers are experiencing trouble singing in. We’re working on it and will keep you posted.”

Luckily, the servers have since gone back online meaning you’ll be able to play your games but the chances of this happening again, unless Ubisoft makes some major changes, remain high.

If you’ll recall, late last month we gave you a look at the top 10 most expensive video game budgets of all time. Well, it seems that God of War 3 would have come in at a close 11th place according ot recent reports.

Director of production development, John Hight has said that God of War III cost the studio $44 million to develop. This may seem like a lot but according to Hight it was “right within budget”. He then went on to tell us that the work was done by 132 staffers, up from about 60 that worked on the previous title.

Since God of War III‘s March 16th release date is just around the corner we’ll have to wait and see if sales will top the budget.

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EA has just announced that they will be the exclusive publishers of 38 Studios’ first title. no, this isn’t the previously announced MMO Copernicus but instead a game developed by Big Huge Games. What we know about this title is that it is currently codenamed ‘Project Mercury’ and will be an ‘epic single-player RPG’. It should be epic considered it’s headed by Ken Rolston, the guy behind Oblivion and Morrowind.

That’s about all we have regarding the game but expect more at this year’s GDC.

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The announcement that the latest Final Fantasy would not be exclusive to the PS3 had Sony fanboys everywhere disappointed. However, those with Sony’s precious console won’t be getting completely shafted as as the Final Fantasy XIII launch party, Son’y Rob Dyer took center stage to announce some exclusive content for the PS3 version.

This content is both a secret in-game item for the forthcoming Final Fantasy XIV and a chance at a key for the FFXIV beta. Just a chance? Come on Sony, you can do better than that.

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