It’s a very big week for Tom Clancy fans. Ubisoft, which now owns the rights to the Tom Clancy brand, is making the most of it. They’re launching a new short format Ghost Recon Alphas movie, Ghost Recon Future Soldier for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and the new free Facebook game, Ghost Recon Commander, an isometric tactical combat game.

Seth Killian knows more about fighting games in his sleep than most people do awake. Capcom’s resident pugilist has been helping the development team improve the Street Fighter X TEKKEN console experience with the new Sony PS Vita portable game. Check out the exclusive video interview below from Captivate 2012.

Hockey has gone Hollywood with the Los Angeles Kings skating into the Stanley Cup Final. EA Sports is capitalizing on all the buzz with a deep dive into NHL 13. The developer is introducing True Performance Skating and EA Sports Hockey I.Q. to the franchise, which promises to deliver a revamped gameplay experience that accurately captures the speed, creativity and strategy of NHL hockey. In addition, NHL 13 will also deliver new experiences that connect hockey fans to their friends and the real world of hockey with the all-new GM Connected and NHL Moments Live modes. NHL 13 will be available on September 11, 2012.

Blizzard Entertainment celebrated an epic launch with its much-anticipated Diablo III, only to experience an epic fail due to DRM issues and the dreaded Error 37 message that prevented many players from logging on. As a result of the launch woes, Blizzard has issued an official apology to gamers, which you can see below this exclusive launch video from a Gamestop in Irvine, CA, home town of Blizzard.

One of the most-anticipated games of 2012 is now coming to a lot more screens. Adhesive Games’ free-to-play PC game, HAWKEN, will be available in 720p running at 60 frames per second through Gaikai’s cloud gaming network. That means anyone who has a Smart TV or high-end tablet will be able to play the new Mech shooter from publisher Meteor Entertainment. Check out the video demo below showing the game in action.

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), which assigns the official age and content ratings for computer and video games, announced a new public service announcement (PSA) campaign starring San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey and pitcher Ryan Vogelsong at AT&T Park. The PSAs, which feature the players explaining the ESRB rating system and encouraging parents to use it when buying games for their families, will soon begin running on television and radio stations throughout northern California as well as at Giants home games this season.  

Kyrie Irving is the recipient of the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy as the 2011-12 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year. Irving totaled 592 points and received 117 first-place votes from a panel of 120 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. The Cleveland Cavalier talks NBA 2K12 in this exclusive video interview below.

Taking full advantage of Kinect for Xbox 360, Steel Battalion Heavy Armor is a first-person perspective action game that will put players in the cockpit of futuristic Vertical Tanks (VTs) starting June 19. Set in 2082, the game depicts a world devoid of semiconductors, where war is waged with rudimentary weapons as new superpowers struggle for dominance. In a twist of fate, the U.S. army has been forced to begin major landing operations on what was once its own soil. Playing as pilot Lt. Powers, players control one a VT as he embarks on a mission that will see the action shift from North America to battlefields and war-torn streets across the globe. The multiplayer mode of the game made its debut at Captivate 2012.  Capcom’s Antoine Molant was on hand to discuss this sequel in this exclusive interview.

2K Sports has crowned its third millionaire in three years, although this time the winner had to go head-to-head in a live eight-man competition to take home the giant check. Christopher Gilmore was the last man standing in this year’s Major League Baseball 2K12 Perfect Game Challenge, held at the MLB Fan Cave in New York City.

There are some options if you want to play Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo III for free at launch, and beyond. ORIGIN PC is celebrating the launch of the highly anticipated action role-playing game with a free Diablo III Standard Edition to anyone who buys one of their PCs on May 15. Those who don’t want to make an investment can try to win the highly coveted, sold-out-everywhere Diablo III Collector's Edition game by going to their Facebook page.

Long before actor Masi Oka broke into Hollywood with the NBC TV hit, “Heroes,” his work had been seen by millions of people on the big screen. It’s just that they didn’t know it. Oka spent years as a programmer for George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) writing hundreds of thousands of lines of code. It was his programming that allowed ILM to bring the water effects to life in films like The Perfect Storm. In fact, even though he doesn’t actively write code for ILM any more, his technology can still be seen on the big screen in films like Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. While Oka is currently starring in the CBS hit, “Hawaii Five-0,” he’s using his programming background to actively develop original video games aimed at the Japanese audience. The tech guru and self-professed gamer talks about his latest projects in this exclusive interview.

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises like Counter-Strike,Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress and leading technologies like Steam and Source, is moving The International Dota 2 Championships 2012 to its home town of Seattle. The International was launched last year in Cologne, Germany during Gamescom with 16 of the most elite Dota teams competing in a group stage, double elimination playoff format for a grand prize of $1 million.