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Here’s a brief new snippet of gameplay footage from Atlus and Vanillaware’s upcoming RPG/Beat ’em up hybrid Dragon’s Crown. Players will be able to take up your sword and bring the pain to legions of fantasy monsters later this year when the game is released for the PS3 and Playstation Vita.

They say happiness is a warm gun. If that’s the case, then Prophet has quite a bit to be happy about. Take a look inside Prophet’s goodie bag of destruction in the latest trailer for Crysis 3 which showcases all the tools an augmented soldier needs to turn a Ceph hive into a basket of fried calamari. The third chapter in Crytek’s blockbuster shooter franchise makes its way to retail today and is available for the 360, PS3, and PC. Are you looking forward hopping back into your fully-charged Nanosuit  to take down the forces of C.E.L.L. once and for all? Let us know in the comments below.

Today Atlus revealed their first English language trailer for the upcoming US release of their 1997 cyber-horror RPG, Soul Hackers. Take a look first look at the Amami city and the cast of this upcoming dungeon crawling epic. Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers is set to be released on April 16th.

Alistair Bloom further explores the mysteries surrounding the floating city of Columbia in this “Truth from Legend” segment. What is the “Songbird” and how is it connected to the enigmatic “Lamb of Columbia”?

Meet the Desperado Elite. Raiden has his work cut out for him if he hopes to bring down this unit of tricked-out cyber samurai.

Today the folks at Capcom Japan shared some footage of the upcoming PC edition of last year’s smash flop Resident Evil 6. Our thoughts? Well, it certainly looks…like Resident Evil 6. While the visuals seems essentially untouched from the 360 and PS3 versions of the game that were released last year, hopefully the PC version’s delay was intended so that Capcom could improve some of the problems that plagued the original release with more ghastly symptoms and weeping sores than a case of the T-Virus. We’ll find out when the game is released next month.

THQ. you may not have always made the best games, but you did give us some gems. You will be missed.

With the Baltimore Ravens and San Fransciso 49ers set to battle it out at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans this Sunday, Sony is has drawn back the curtain to reveal their lavishly-produced Super Bowl ad set to air during the big game shedding a ray of light on their own upcoming epic conflict set to unfold next month. The spot, titled “From Ashes”, begins as an army marches its way towards a much less menacing Kratos as he spends a tender moment with them bathed in warm sunlight, presumably moments before he murders his family and becomes the Ghost of Sparta. With the average cost of a Superbowl ad just barely under 4 million dollars, Sony choosing to spend the dough on Kratos’ next…

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This handy customer service training video produced by Nintendo in 1991 teaches retailers to handle any sticky situation that might arise from their Nintendo hardware- namely. those bumbling consumers. Anyone who has had the pleasure of working in video game retail in the past can surely relate to some of these situations,  from once-proud consoles turned into plastic husks of roach motels to discs that look like their previous owner attempted to crudely etch the entirety Declaration of Independence into their delicate surfaces. Have a particularly awkward story about a nightmare customer? Share it in the comments below.

Raiden has more sharp and pointy implements than a cybernetic Swiss Army knife. Take a look at this cyber samurai’s tools of the trade in this high frequency gameplay trailer.