With so many shooters that came out last year, it was hard for gamers to get their hands on them all without putting a decent dent in their wallet. Beyond the heated rivalry between the Battlefield and Call of Duty franchises, 2011 hosted other shooters such as the long-awaited Crysis 2 and THQ's Homefront. That year has passes, but one game has a neat trick up its sleeve to keep itself relevant in 2012, and that game is Killzone 3.

Who doesn’t want to be a ninja?  Don’t sit there and tell me you’ve never dreamed of the day of being insane enough to throw stars at objects with utmost accuracy, or get the sneak-up on someone from behind to subdue them.  Well, very few games these days make you truly feel like a ninja, since the Tenchu series has fallen by the wayside.  To make up for this, Namco Bandai has brought in Acquire, Tenchu's development team, to produce Shinobido 2: Revenge of Zen to the PlayStation Vita, giving gamers the opportunity to go all ninja-like with a vengeful assassin named, well, Zen.

Am I the only one who truly appreciated the maniacal genius that David Jaffe and his team brought to Twisted Metal Black like a decade ago?  Sure, the storyline was much more twisted, and the darker M-rated approach was quite the jolt for those who expected something along the lines of the original PS One games, but I thought it was a change for the better, with a lot more at stake and concentrated car combat like only Jaffe can provide.  I’m sure there are fans out there who appreciate it as much as I do, and they’re the probably the ones who will get a kick out of the reboot that just arrived on PlayStation 3.

No matter what we may do to try to prevent something from happening, sometimes there is just nothing we can do. Commander Shepard has put so much effort into fighting off the Reapers, even going so far as having to be resurrected for round 2. However, it is only a matter of time before the inevitable will happen, and gamers will put their best efforts forth in preventing the universe from being taken over by them. To give us a glimpse of just what this final battle will look like, EA has released this new trailer for the upcoming Mass Effect 3.

SAN FRANCISCO – Kyle “Kungbu” Kingsbury has celebrated success on the gridiron and in the Octagon. The MMA fighter was a defensive lineman on the 2005 Sun Bowl Champion Arizona State University football team. Kingsbury went from football to “The Ultimate Fighter” TV show, which led to a career in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Kingsbury was in San Francisco to check out THQ’s new UFC Undisputed 3 game. He talks about his own gaming background in this exclusive video interview.

United Front Games (UFG), the developer behind Sony’s hit franchise, ModNation Racers, has been busy recreating Hong Kong for its new game, Sleeping Dogs. Originally called True Crimes: Hong Kong with Activision on board as the publisher, game was canceled by Activision and then picked up by Square Enix. Sleeping Dogs is now scheduled to ship for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in the second half of 2012. Check out the game in action in the trailer below.