It was a busy day today in gaming news and indeed for tech news in general. Let"s look at what nuggets of game news came up from the surface today.
- What is the "Secret Feature X" that developer BioWare is currently testing for its upcoming sci-fi RPG Mass Effect 3?
- Speaking of BioWare, Christina Norman, the lead game designer for Mass Effect 2 and 3, has left the developer to join League of Legends creator Riot Games.
- For some reason the URL ModernWarfare3.com is currently redirecting to the official Battlefield 3 web site.
- Electronic Arts will be shutting down the online multiplayer servers for 17 of its older games on August 11, with two more on October 2.
- Microsoft has launched the Summer of Arcade promotion for Xbox 360 with new Xbox Live Arcade games due out each week for the next several weeks along with DLC and game sales.
- Ubisoft has acquired the free-to-play game developer Owlient for an undisclosed sum.
- Acclaimed indie game developer Positech Games has announced its next game project, a real time strategy-tower defense game called Gratuitous Tank Battles, which is due out before the end of the year.
- Burnout Crash, the recently announced downloadable driving arcade game from developer Criterion Games, is now due for release this August.
- Not one but two big pro StarCraft II tournaments will be held at BlizzCon in Anaheim in October.
- The upcoming Adventure Update for the sandbox game Minecraft will be available for play at PAX Prime this August.