A good friend of mine has pointed me towards two stories this week. First the Arkham City reveal, and now this one. Kudos, cheers, and may someone kindly rub your genitals. Remember the BioWare teaser we were all speculating about? First it was reported that it was an off-shoot Mass Effect game. Now it’s been “confirmed” by nebulous dark sources that it’s actually Mass Effect 3 with multiplayer.

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So just what exactly has BioWare been teasing to reveal at the Spike TV VGAs for the last couple of weeks? Would you believe it is, after all, Mass Effect 3? Joystiq reports that a “trusted source” has informed them the mystery game, first teased with the single image above, will indeed be the final chapter in the Mass Effect trilogy.

What’s more, this source says Mass Effect 3 will feature some kind of multiplayer mode, a first for the series. What this source couldn’t confirm, though, is whether the VGA reveal will highlight the multiplayer or not.

Thoughts? Reactions? I couldn’t give less of a shit about a multiplayer aspect for the Mass Effect franchise. Completely understand why it makes sense from a business standpoint. But still, don’t give a shit. Hit the comments box with your take.

Want more official Uncharted 3 screens? Including placeholder box art? Of course you do. Hit the jump, and indulge. You’re welcome.

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Goddammit! Haven’t we learned anything. I was pretty sure that all this fucking around we’re doing with the Kinect is going to bring about the robot apocalypse. And now I’m getting more sure. The mad scientists over at the Hybrid Systems Lab at UC Berkeley have used the Kinect to construct an autonomous flying machine.

Kotaku:

Instead of being hooked up to an Xbox 360 to play games, Kinect is sending visual data to a Linux box onboard the mini-copter, letting the quadrotor fly autonomously, detect its own altitude and avoid obstacles. A back-up motion capture device provides other data–lateral and yaw–and provides a safety back up for altitude detection, should Kinect fail at some point.

It seems cool now, but when they’re used to fly over cities and drop nuclear caches, we’re going to be seriously displeased with these guys.

Hit the jump for the video of it flying. It’s amazing. And terrifying.

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With all the news coming out today about Uncharted 3, it makes sense that Sony’s other top (previously) exclusive developer would drop some noise of their own on our asses. Insomniac Games released even more Resistance 3 screens. On Facebook. Well then, that’s a unique way to do it. Mark Zuckerberg just orgasmed at that use of his leviathan, while continuing to stare in that eerie ass way that he does.

Hit the jump for the new pictures.

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Oh hell yeah! We didn’t just get a reveal of Uncharted 3 today. We got a fucking teaser trailer. You know how BioWare and Rocksteady dropped teasers for their trailers that are being revealed at the Spike VGA? Naughty Dog is following suit. Ain’t nothing much to say.

Hit the jump for the fucking teaser for the Uncharted 3 trailer, dummy!

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Entertainment Weekly just blew the lid off of one of the most anticipated games, Uncharted 3. The game’s official title is Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, and it is totally going Indiana Jones and Lawrence of Arabia with Drake running around some fucking gorgeous sand dunes and shit.

Here, some details:

According to Naughty Dog’s creative director Amy Hennig, the theme of deception plays out in multiple ways throughout the threequel, from Drake doing the deceiving to Drake being deceived to some mysterious deception about Drake’s very identity. The story focuses on the hero’s relationship with his mentor and father figure, fan fave Victor “Sully” Sullivan, and has him searching for a legendary lost city that will ultimately take him to the Arabian Peninsula and the vast wasteland of the Rub’ al Khali Desert, also known as the Empty Quarter.

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Uncharted likes to keep one foot (or at least a toe) grounded in history (Nathan’s ancestor is the British pirate, explorer and Navy officer Sir Francis Drake) and the plot of Uncharted 3 draws more from Drake’s exploits as well as from the life of T.E. Lawrence – not from his militant days as the fabled “Lawrence of Arabia,” but rather the Brit’s early years as an archaeologist. The inspiration for the story, says Hennig, came from Naughty Dog’s desire to take on the challenge of conceiving and building out gameplay scenarios within a desert locale – “challenge,” because organic elements like water, fire and sand are technically difficult to credibly render with animation.

It’s a scientific fact that Uncharted 2 is the best game of the generation. Doing some tabulating with my abacus and some beaker work to conjure the true essence of knowledge into my brain stem, I have ascertained this. So I am beyond stoked for this title.

HIT THE JUMP FOR THE SCREENSHOTS OMFG

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Apparently everyone’s a fucking fan of teaser trailers for   trailers these days. Specifically, for shit they’re revealing in this weekend’s Spike Video Game Awards. First it was BioWare, and now it’s time for Rocksteady Studios to tease the new footage of Batman: Arkham City that’s being revealed on Saturday. It features Batman laying down the stinky-hammer on a bunch of jabronis that are hunting him, and looking all smoldering and shit.

Hit the jump for the video.

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Japanese developer DMM.com has released a game which was obviously secretly created and coded by myself. It is titled rather aptly, “Virtual Sex Club”. I could only come across this title after several hours of hyperbaric meditation, and I have to say I’m pretty proud of it. However, I’m much more excited about the premise. You pay a monthly fee, ¥1,800 (US$21), then that entitles you to 30,000 Gold. Why gold? ‘Cause isn’t that what we’ve always wanted to spend when buying porn stars? Hey you! Porn star! Fourteen gold bricks to brick your bung-hole!

It’s me, making dreams come true.

But wait, there’s more!

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The original Resistance? Justification for my first-wave purchase of my PlayStation 3. The sequel? An unremarkable journey through the universe. My hopes for the third game? Pretty fucking high. Insomniac Games always delivers the goods, and despite how unmemorable the third one was, I still enjoyed it.

These screens for the third game dropped, and as Luke Plunkett points out, they’re totally Half-Life 2 in their feeling. Tattered remains of humanity post-alien invasion? Check. Beautiful destruction? Check. That’s all straight though, Half-Life 2 is one of my favorite games of all time.

Resistance 3 would be so lucky as to be mentioned in the same breath as HL2. Hit the jump for the screens.

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Ah, Dream Club Zero by Tamsoft. This is the same game that I covered a bit ago. You know, the “dating simulation” that lets you pump sausages into what appears to be underage chicks’ mouths? Hey man, it’s a date! You’re just feeding them! Well, Kotaku dropped some news on another way you’re going to help some chicks out; slapping bugs off their tits. Pesky bugs!

According to Andriasang, players will be able to brush away bugs from sensitive areas of the hostesses they’re trying to charm. Good and bad attempts of insect-removing techniques are shown, but both look like clumsy gropes that serve as an excuse to fondle virtual girls.

Excuse me? An excuse to fondle virtual girls! Why! What an accusation. What girl doesn’t want a Sir Lancelot to come into their life, and help them out? And for those not in the know, nothing says helping out like slapping bugs off of a helpless girls’ boobs, and I’m going to assume inner thighs.

It’s called chivalry. Clearly in Japan it’s not dead.