Here are my words on Firaxis’ X-COM remake, here are the lead developer’s words, and below, for the first time, is your own chance to eyeball it in glorious technicolour and living motion.

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The ravages of war & natural disasters have depleted natural resources, leaving mankind in peril. Wage fierce battles for control of territories using the most powerful weapons of war: Armored Core!

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It’s almost time to face off with the reapers; prepare yourself with the latest action-packed trailer. The story of the trilogy defies simplification, not least because it unfolds differently depending on player choice. Governments fall, friends and enemies are made, whole races live or die by your decisions, so that by the third game, loading a save from the first two radically changes the world you wake up to in ME3.

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Sniper Elite V2 is a third person tactical WWII shooter and the sequel to 2005′s Sniper Elite. It’s been called “distasteful”, “disgusting” and “bad taste”, and, from another point of view, potentially “one of the most satisfying moments in gaming history!” But for its creators it’s “chilling” and asks “difficult questions” of the player.

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If you’re a fan of the webhead wall crawler and don’t mind that the latest film looks like it could be abit of a washout, you’re probably already super psyked about the upcoming video game tie-in. If not, you likely will be after watching this trailer.

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Gearbox Software teams with Valve for Steam achievements, DLC, auto-updating, matchmaking, and Steam Cloud support for new shooter. Borderlands 2 will benefit from Valve’s Steamworks features, publisher 2K Games announced today.

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SSX is a terrific evolution of the series that delivers extreme snowboarding thrills like no game before it.

Those who have played past SSX titles will jump right back into hitting all of their favorite moves. New users should definitely look to take the training course; with practice, like a lot of things, it may not be anywhere near perfect, but you’ll get it eventually (maybe). Or you can do what I did and just play every course with your flying-squirrel-like “wingsuit”. Who cares about points when you can soar down the mountain at blistering speeds like Batman on a snowboard?

Score: 8.5 / great

Blades of Time catches one’s eye for what is a Hack ‘n Slash full-blown with a protagonist who, more for the skimpy outfits and charisma, and reminds us of Bayonetta. And the game approaches in general for elements and characteristics as in X-Blades and, as admitted by the same developer, takes a lot of inspiration from Darksiders.

In Blades of Time, here is the heroine Ayumi, a treasure hunter who finds herself trapped in a mysterious island populated by monsters and a group of pirates in search of valuable secrets belonging to a handful of lost legends. She will find itself involved in the discovery of an artifact belonging to an ancient tribe of dragons. From one of these will inherit the powers to go back in time and be able to stop the conflict broke out between dragons and humans.

Would you like to play Borderlands 2? You can do it on September 18 this year, on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. (September 21 for international audiences, Gearbox tells us, meaning those of you not in North America.)

You can even play it in splitscreen. Four-player co-op, too. With more guns and skills than ever, it looks like.

Get ready to strap in, go back in time and take stick in the most pivotal battles in the history of air combat.

Birds of Steel puts you right in the crosshairs of WWII’s most intense skirmishes. This original IP blends next gen supremacy and the fine details of aerial combat into a historical recreation fit for flight sim fans and history buffs alike. Use your skills to pilot the top planes from all combatants in WWII to recreate history or to change the outcomes of the most prolific battles in history. Online and offline elements add an entire new element to the game which will ensure Birds of Steel remains a fresh combat experience long after you’ve played for the first time.