NeocoreGames has finally placed a firm release date on their upcoming action-RPG The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing. The game will launch through Valve’s Steam service on the PC for May 22, 2013.

Along with the official release date, the development team has also released a new trailer for the game that highlights the game’s skill trees and perks. You can check that out below and look forward to our full preview of the game very, very soon. Plus, we will be hosting a special live stream of the game later this week which we will tell you more about later.
   

Lobo will be coming to Injustice: Gods Among Us tomorrow but the game will also be getting two skin packs for various characters as well. 

The Teen Titans pack contains skins for Deathstroke, Cyborg and Raven.

The Bad Girls pack contains skins for Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman and Catwoman.

In addition, the compatibility pack for Lobo will contain a free Batman Flashpoint skin.

Here is all the info about tomorrows DLC drop that you need to know. 

• -Lobo will be available for $4.99, or free to Season Pass holders.
• -Batman's Flashpoint skin is FREE with the compatibility pack.
• The Bad Girls & Teen Titans skin packs will be available for $2.99 each, and are not included in the Season Pass.

It's been about one year since Awesomenauts was launched worldwide on the PS3 and Xbox 360.  Since that day, over a dozen updates have been made that includes adding items, new characters, and a new map, along with the usual balance adjustments that come with a lot of games today.  To celebrate, Ronimo Games has released a new video that showcases the progress the game has made since it's inception back in 2010, including some footage that has never been shown before.  Ronimo Games has also released a video showing off an upcoming skin known as Leon Pirate.  Leon Pirate will be the first premium skin and will be released with updat 1.18.  The skin will also replace the audio for the character, which according to the video makes the character have a French accent...or just speak French entirely. [READ MORE]

Things are grinding to pretty much a complete halt this week after a hectic month of April. Don’t worry though, this won’t last forever and things will pick up again next week with the very promising Metro: Last Light which kicks off a string of non-stop, high profile releases over the next 2 months. Nintendo fans are about the only ones who have anything worth celebrating this week with a digital release that brings Mario and Donkey Kong together once again. Aside from that, there is just a little guy named Lobo joining the Injustice roster on both platforms.

This week’s lineup (yes, this is everything officially launching this week):

• Injustice: Gods Among Us Lobo DLC for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
• Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move for Nintendo 3DS

There were many stories on Star Wars: Battlefront III last year. Some developers even claimed that the game was 99% done and all they had were bug fixes to do when the game was cancelled. Well, now you can actually see the game as PtoPOnline has recorded his play through with a build of the game on Twitch. 

I'm sure there will be many folks who watch this and crave for the release of the game. It's unfortunate that the game was cancelled when it was so close to being shipped and we'll probably never know why the powers that be pulled the plug on it at its current state. But, for now, enjoy what would have been.

Insomniac Games and EA announced that a demo for the upcoming cooperative shooter Fuse will be available May 7 on Xbox Live and PSN.

Players can team up with one other friend in split screen mode, or three others online, but also play alone as the four characters of Overstrike 9 squad. Each of the characters will work together in the demo to find the source of Fuse –– the alien substance that grants supernatural powers –– in an arctic weapons depot.

For an in-depth look at our cooperative session with Insomniac CEO Ted Price, head here to see Fuse in action before it releases May 28.

 

Beyond: Two Souls has a 2,000-page script but will only have 10 hours of gameplay. Activision's CEO is one of the highest-paid in America, while EA lopped off limbs left and right. But it's wasn’t all bad this week--Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon’s pulpy VHS shtick won hearts and minds, and critical darling Fez finally spun its way onto PC.

What are you playing this weekend?

Russell Archey | staff writer | Twitter @neoscyther
More than likely I'll be working on my next review piece, Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move. It's been awhile since I've played a Mario vs. DK game, so I'm really looking forward to spending time with this one.

Sean Cahill | staff writer | Twitter @seancahill2
I'll be sitting down for some Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen on the 360 for the latest review piece. Outside of that, after beating BioShock Infinite in the past couple of days, I'll probably return to Tomb Raider to finally beat that and, perhaps, Far Cry 3.

Sean Colleli | staff writer
It's time to hit the indie Steam backlog, probably with some They Bleed Pixels. I might also pick up DLC Quest; my girlfriend tells me it's pretty funny. Then again, I might also get Mars: War Logs, Zeno Clash II, or of course Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. Decisions, decisions.

Jeremy Duff | senior staff writer | Twitter @duff3c
This weekend I need to sink a bit of time into The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, which is shaping up to be way better than I expected. I might also have to dip my toes back into Soul Sacrifice because, well, those monsters aren't going to slay themselves.

Charles Husemann | editor-in-chief | Twitter @chusemann
This weekend will be spent working on Farm Simulator: Suburban Edition as I finally get around to cleaning up the garden areas in my backyard and start working on taming the yard. On a digital game front, I'm going to be spending time with MechWarrior Online as I continue level grinding on my next sets of mechs to elite status.  Time permitting, I'm going to try and progress a bit on BioShock Infinite and possibly even start a playthrough of Half-Life 2 as a recent HL2DM session has reignited my love of the game.

Randy Kalista | staff writer | Twitter @randykalista
My 14-day trial of EVE Online expired, so my character's early explorer/archaeology career is on ice indefinitely. They've done extensive work with the tutorials. It unlocked entire branches of gameplay too complicated to figure out on my own before. So now I need a pick-me-up. I would revisit The Walking Dead or Planescape: Torment but, ugh. Downers. Some Sacred Citadel beat 'em up action might do the trick. Jeremy and I co-op'd a bit, but it crashed as soon as we reached the first boss, some ancient, 'roided-up Treant.

Mike Mahardy | staff writer | Twitter @mmahardy
I've been getting back into nightly loot fests in Diablo III, so those will be punctuated by attempts to finally become a fighting game fan. I have a tendency to try out most new fighting games, but after trying Injustice: Gods Among Us at GDC, I think my love for the license will pull me through.

• Batgirl possibly outed for Injustice: Gods Among Us DLC
• New Remember Me trailer makes me remember what I love about videogames
• Dark screenshots and and super-generous minimum PC specs released today
• Tiny Tina's assault on Dragon Keep is the next Borderlands 2 DLC.
• Space Hulk: developer Q & A
• Nintendo Download for 05/02/2013
• Now Loading: Audio Edition for 05/02/2013
• Say hello to Katarina, the not-so-friendly ghost (The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing)
• Intel's next chip line will have some greatly improved graphics
• One Defiance gamer will win a "special place" on the Defiance TV show

Let's see... New IP? Check.  Female protagonist with something approaching normal proportions? Check.  Cyberpunk?  Check.  Future setting? Check.  Nearly a full checklist of "things that get me excited about an upcoming game release?"  Check.  

I'm really digging Remember Me.  Hopefully it will live up to the hype I can't help but build up in my sad, stunted, man-mind.  This game first got on my radar last month.  Now, it pretty much owns my radar and is leasing it back to me at my own great personal hardship.  Such is life.

The following trailer features the game's Creative Director, Jean-Maxime Moris and lots of gameplay footage.  Oh Capcom, please just shut up and take my money.

And don't forget: Remember Me lands on retail shelves on June 4 in North America and June 7 in Europe.  It will be available for the PS3. Xbox 360, and PC.

A lot of Borderlands fans have been wondering what the next downloadable story content for the game would be since being teased at PAX East. Well today Borderlands 2 writer Anthony Burch tweeted the following photo in which a poster for "Tiny Tina's assault on Dragon Keep" can be seen in the background. 

The tweet was deleted shortly after but not before many people screen grabbed it and now its making its way around the net. Sure the DLC reveal could have been "accidentally" leaked but knowing the sense of humor the Borderlands dev's have when it comes to this game makes me think this was a clever way of teasing the DLC. 

No date or price yet has been released but the seasons pass for the game said that all content will be out by the end of June so I would say to expect it around that time. 

Reverb Games has released a new trailer for their upcoming game, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing. The gothic-noir / steampunk action RPG, based on the classic literary character from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, is heading towards PC’s everywhere later this month.

The new trailer, shown below, highlights your companion in the game: the ghostly Katarina. She is as lethal as she is beautiful and seems to keep you in line as much as she watches your back. After putting a little bit of time into a preview build of the game, I can say that she definitely makes your adventure interesting. The AI that controls her really plays the role well, akin to something similar to one of your trusty pets in the Torchlight series. We’ll have a full preview of the game next week and look for a live stream of the game sometime this weekend. We’ll post more details on that later this week.
 

EVE Online players are, as we speak, submitting stories to seed EVE TV shows, comic books, and novels. 

Meanwhile in Defiance, one lucky gamer will get a transmedia experience as their video game character's likeness is artistically rendered into a "special place" in the TV show. One can only hope that special place is in the pale alien lady's hot tub room.

When it comes to declaring a winner, very little luck will be involved. From April 30 (the contest already started) to May 12, the person earning the most ark salvage per hour during their time played over the contest's duration will win.

What I take that to mean is: you can't just log in for an hour, make a bajillion ark-salvage bucks, or whatever, and then log out hoping you'll win. You'll have to complete a Most Wanted: Competitor and Most Wanted: Rogue's Gallery pursuit as well. That means killing mutants, raiders, 99ers, and plenty of other undesirables on your path to video-game-TV-show-crossover fame.

The official sign-up site hints that this is only the first opportunity to do this. You'll have more chances to get your game character digitally remastered for the TV series in the future. Sure would up the ante if one of those times has you transformed into a bath bead in Stahma Tarr's hot tub.

[Not pictured: Stahma Tarr's bath attire.] [READ MORE]

Just like clockwork every year a new Call Of Duty game has been announced and as you would expect, you can pre-order the game from Gamestop and get some bonus items as well. Gamestop is now taking pre-orders from the game online and in-store and for those who do you can get an exclusive poster. Also for the first time you can get an exclusive Call of Duty: Ghosts themed in-game weapon came for use in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 when you pre-order.

For more information go to www.gamestop.com/ghosts

Call of Duty: Ghosts will be available for current and next gen platforms on November 5th 2013