Sony Playstation 3 owners along with subscribers to Sony Online Entertainment"s MMO games are still unable to play games online. However the weekend wasn"t about bad news for gamers.
- Rayman Orgins, previously announced as a downloadable only game by Ubisoft, will now get a retail release sometime this holiday.
- It"s not exactly a shock to hear that someone has made a Minecraft mod with Portals
- Test Drive Unlimited 2 for the PC got a new free update that includes new cars, events, in-game clothes and lots of bug fixes.
- This YouTube video claims to show gameplay footage from Grand Theft Auto V but the footage is so blurry and shaky it could be anything.
- Will we see an official reveal of Starhawk, the sequel to the PS3 game Warhawk, sometime this week? Signs point to yes.
- An upcoming zombie action game, Dead Block, (shown in the above screenshot, has been revealed via its official web site.
- Valve"s head man Gabe Newell has an interview where he discusses the company"s current stance on making single player games.
- Speaking of Valve, one of its writers Erik Wolpaw talks about the creation of Portal 2 including why the player character doesn"t speak in the game.
- The first of eight prose short stories based on the upcoming crime action game L.A. Noire is now available for free download.
- Bungie"s weekly news update confirms that the developer won"t have an official presense at E3 2011. There"s also a Stephen Colbert reference.
- The late Osama Bin Laden"s Pakistan compound has now been made into a Counter-Strike Source map.