While many folks may still swear by their physical media collection many are moving towards digital distribution. If you’re a move lover you’ll probably know that Netflix is one of the quickest and easiest ways to get your movie fix and you don’t even have to leave the couch. On the gaming front we also have a digital distribution systems with the most popular currently being Steam from Valve.

Including in Steam’s library are a whole slew of different games from just about every developer in the book. Additionally, Valve has also been known to give us weekly deals dropping otherwise hefty price tags down to just a few dollars. This week is no different as Steam has just posted their latest weekend deal with the price tag of the Ubisoft Hit Collection, which includes Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Far Cry 2 and Assassin’s Creed, from $69.96 all the way down to $12.99

The deal only lasts for the weekend so if you’re looking to get down be sure to do so fast.

Bungie’s Halo franchise has become one of the Xbox 360′s killer exclusives. However, now that Halo: Reach is on the market, Bungie is onto bigger (and hopefully better) things with their new partner in crime publishing Activision. As of late, the studio has been quite about what their latest project will be but during GDC the company’s David Alrdridge came forth and said that the new game will not be called “WoW in Space”.

Moments after these words came out of Aldridge’s mouth the entire Internet went into a frenzy (including us) assuming that Bungie’s next title will be an MMO. Luckily (or unfortunately, depending on who you ask) Bungie has sent out their weekly update letting us know that the announcement was in fact a joke. Of course, this doesn’t exactly tell us that their next game isn’t an MMO but until anything official is said, we’re just going to assume it’s not.

What do you think of a Bungie developed MMO?

Battlefield 3 developer DICE proudly showcased a lot of engine tech at GDC, showing what they can do with their spanking new Frostbite 2 engine, which powers Battlefield 3. Now a new gameplay video has been leaked, showing some hands on single player action with Battlefield 3, albeit not the best video quality. Too bad we still haven’t seen any multiplayer videos of the game.

Battlefield 3 is set for a Fall 2011 release, and will feature a single player campaign taking place in Iraq, New York and Paris, and of course, the signature Battlefield 3 multiplayer portion, with 64 player support on PCs and 32 players on consoles. The game has been extensively showcased at GDC, especially its technical aspects. We expect the full details at E3.

Sure, the Resident Evil films have, well, sucked, at least artistically speaking. But that’s almost expected of a video game film these days. The last Resident Evil film, Apocalypse, is considered the worst of the bunch and has received awful reviews and ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, but ironically, that didn’t stop the film from grossing $236 million worldwide, making it the top grossing Resident Evil film, by far. In fact, it grossed more than all three previous films combined.

Now Capcom and Sony Pictures have confirmed that a fifth film is in the works, will shoot later this year and will be released in 2012. In 3D, of course. We dunno if Mila Jovovich will be back or whether Paul W. S. Anderson will helm yet anther sub-par sci-fi flick. We saw RE Afterlife in the theaters in 3D, and we went away not just disappointed, but hoping that they’d never do another Resident Evil film. Well, back luck for us.

Epic was well represented at the latest GDC, which just wrapped up in San Francisco. They showcased the latest version of their popular Unreal Engine 3, and the demo certainly blew us away, with a dark, Blade Runner meets Robocop meets Deus Ex look. Watch for yourself and be amazed. We can only wish that this would be a game one day, but sadly, it appears to only be a demo showcasing what the engine can do today.

Unreal Engine 3 is the de facto game engine of this generation console games, and has powered dozens of games, including Gears of War, Unreal 3, Bulletstorm, and many many others. A typical license fee for the engine runs upwards of $1 million, with a 5% royalty paid to Epic on all game sales. Yes, everything comes with its price.

Nintendo has a rather large line up of exclusives including hard hitting franchises like Mario, Donkey Kong, Kirby and Zelda. While we’ve already seen a recent entry into the Mario, Donkey Kong and Kirby franchise we haven’t seen a major Zelda release since Twilight Princess back in 2006. Luckily, during last year’s E3, Nintendo came forth to announce the latest addition to The Legend of Zelda series dubbed Skyward Sword. From what we’ve seen so far, the gameplay seems to be quite similar to what we’ve come to know in games like Twilight Princess but Nintendo is touting the addition of full support for the MotionPlus peripheral quite highly.

If you’re craving more media surrounding Skyward Sword, you’ll be happy to hear that a new trailer was just debuted by Nintendo during this year’s Game’s Developers Conference (GDC). Seeing how we love you, we’ve included the trailer after the break for your viewing pleasure. Be sure to check it out and let us know what you think.
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Just earlier today we told you that that Gears of War 3 beta would be kicking off on April 18th for Bulletstorm Epic Edition owners but if you’re a PS3 owner, that probably doesn’t mean much to you. Luckily, the PS3 has their own respective line up of exclusive shooters as well – one of them being Zipper Interactive’s highly popular SOCOM franchise.

The SOCOM franchise has seen numerous releases over just about every one of Sony’s consoles both portable and not. However, as of now, Zipper Interactive has not released a game SOCOM game for the PlayStation 3 with the console’s only SOCOM title, SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation, being developed by Slant Six Games. This just won’t do considering Zipper created the franchise and the PS3 is one of the most technologically advanced consoles on the market. Luckily, Zipper will be going on to produce a SOCOM game for the PS3 simply dubbed SOCOM 4.

We’ve seen several tech demos of this game in the past with the developers making an emphasis on the Move support but until we actually get our hands on the game we won’t know for sure how it will fare. While the game itself won’t hit store shelves until April 19th, Zipper has just let us know some details regarding the game’s beta.

First of all, a private beta will be launching in March 15th with Zipper simply stating that they’ll be “contacting elegible players soon.” Following that is a more widespread release with PlayStation Plus subscribers getting the beat on March 22nd, Killzone 3 owners getting it on March 29th and finally all PS3 owners with PSN access getting it on April 5th.

In terms of gameplay, the beta will include two different maps dubbed Assault & Battery and Port Authority and 4 different game modes including Uplink, Bomb Squad, Last Defense and Suppression.

That being said, as an extra tidbit we’ve included a video of SOCOM 4 being played with the PlayStation Move after the break. Be sure to check it out and let us know what you think.
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Bungie is one of the most iconic video game development studios of recent memory with their Halo franchise selling millions of copies and securing itself as one of the Xbox 360′s premiere exclusives. However, if you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know that Halo: Reach is the last Halo game the studio will be producing with the rights instead being shipped off to Microsoft who will find another studio. While there will always be questions regarding the next Halo game, an arguably more interesting question (seeing how they haven’t produced a game besides Halo in over a decade) is what is Bungie’s next title?

Well, it seems that according to some reports and Bungie’s lead network engineer David Aldridge taking center stage during GDC 2011, we now know that the studio’s next title will be an MMO. There’s no telling exactly what kind of MMO Bungie will be producing but Aldrige did take the time to let GDC attendees know that the name of the game will not be WoW in space… glad we got that cleared up!

Anyways, seeing how Activision and Bungie have now teamed up for future titles, it will be very interesting to see what they’re able to come up with. A StarCraft MMO, please?

Every home video game console currently on the market has their own share of respective exclusives that help push the hardware and please loyal games. Just to name a few, on the Nintendo side of things we have hard hitting franchises like Mario and Zelda, Sony has Killzone, LittleBigPlanet and Uncharted while Microsoft has Halo and Gears of War.

Gears of War from Epic Games, in particular, has managed to impress with just about every release and is currently on its second iteration appropriately dubbed Gears of War 2. However, it’s long been known that Epic Games is currently working on a sequel to the game, also appropriately dubbed Gears of War 3. While we’ve seen things such as game3play videos, screen shots and more, we haven’t known when we’ll be able to get down on the game’s beta.

Lucky for us, Epic Games has just come forth to finally give us some insight saying those who purchased the Bulletstorm Epic Edition will be getting early access starting April 8th while those who pre-ordered Gears of War 3 at GameStop will be getting in on April 25th. For all, the beta will conclude on May 15th with the game actually hitting store shelves on September 20th, 2011.

Want some more info on the beta? Check out the official press release after the break.

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THQ has announced that its upcoming FPS Homefront has been pre-ordered 200,000 times, making it the most pre-ordered game in THQ’s history. And those pre-orders are just for the US only.

Homefront is a shooter set in the near future where north Korea invades the US and you’re the leader of the resistance. I launches on March 15.