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The Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine suffered layoffs today.
It's unclear how many employees were affected by the move. Parent
company Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment would not comment at this time.

Video games are cool. Dressing up is...also cool? People seem to like
doing it anyway. With Halloween approaching, which video game icon are
you thinking about dressing up as?

Ubisoft said today Assassin's Creed III is the most pre-ordered game in the publisher's history. Pre-orders have more than doubled Assassin’s Creed Revelations, the previous record holder.

Ubisoft announced a season pass for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future
Soldier on PC. It's available today with the release of the Arctic
Strike Map Pack.

It would appear that almost every major toy manufacturer is christening Halo 4's launch with some kind of action figure.

Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, and a new trilogy by Level-5 are just a few of the games shown.

Miracle Network Hospitals are still tallying up all the donations received from the Extra Life 2012 charity event, with Team GIO raising nearly $11,000 from staff and community contributions. To celebrate, a round of blogs on the house.

Dishonored: Dunwall City Trials, which includes 10 challenges, is coming in December.

Nintendo has released new details about the game, including its North American name.

All proceeds are donated to Child's Play, Macmillan Cancer Support, Block by Block, and SANDS Lothians charities.

Like many systems before it, Nintendo's Wii U is first going to lose money before it starts making it.

Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Super Monkey Ball, and Shenmue
are tapped for costumes in Hell Yeah's downloadable content.

Mass Effect's potential move to the silver screen is now in the hands of Morgan Davis Foehl.

It's a good day to die again.

If Portal's Wheatley had been cast in the original Halo, it might not
have been a better game, but it would have been a lot funnier.

Remember Midway's Stranglehold, the slightly flawed but fun gaming sequel to John Woo's cult action film Hard Boiled? We almost got a sequel.

Airtight Games, the developer behind Dark Void and Quantum Conundrum,
recently announced it was working on a mobile puzzle game for iPhone
and iPad called PIXLD.

All good things come to an end some day. After what seems forever at
being #1, the Call of Duty series has finally been overtaken by
Minecraft on Xbox Live's activity chart.

Few nerdy fires rage as brightly as the debate over Star Trek or Star Wars being the superior science-fiction series. So out with it, already: Rancors or Romulans? Kirk or Luke? The Force or beamin' up?

Long-time PR man and Game Informer Replay special guest Aram Jabbari announced he's leaving ATLUS USA at the end of this week.