While Disney Interactive Media Group continues to develop new games like Brave and Disney’s Epic Mickey 2, the Walt Disney Imagineers are expanding interactive entertainment at sea. Bob Zalk explains how games are influencing the guest attractions on board the Disney Fantasy cruise ship in this exclusive video interview below.

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.

3D technology company DDD Group has quietly had success with sales of its TriDef 3D for PCs and TriDef 3D Mobile, each of which have topped sales of one million units. TriDef 3D is DDD’s solution for automatic 2D to 3D conversion of games, videos and photos on 3D PCs, TVs and mobile phones. In mobile phones, LG uses the TriDef 3D Mobile Android app for 2D to 3D video conversion on its Optimus 3D range of handsets.

Fans eagerly who just can’t get enough of Darksiders II can get an exclusive Darksiders prequel comic from Dark Horse Comics when they pre-order the Best Buy exclusive Darksiders II: Angel of Death edition for Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. With a stunning cover from game creator Joe Madureira, this Best Buy exclusive print issue takes place before the events of Darksiders II, as Death travels to Earth to hunt down and confront a rogue demon. Vigil Games talks about the new game in the exclusive video interview below.

Every year, video game companies go all out at one specific event – the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which takes place every year in Los Angeles around June.  Here, companies like to show off what lies ahead in the next twelve to fifteen months, big projects, small uprisings, little advancements to their hardware…that sort of thing.  We’ve been to a lot of shows now, and they’ve been impressive, but E3 2012 should be an even bigger year, thanks to what the companies are bringing.

According to Insights into the Freemium Games Market, the latest report from leading market research company, The NPD Group, 4 out of 10 of those who have played an upgradable freemium game report making an in-game payment to extend or enhance a game. A growing number of freemium, or free-to-play games are hitting the market, like Firefall, which can be seen in the exclusive video below.

Commando Kiwi, developer of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain: Lost Chapters, emerged victorious in the Make Something Unreal Live video game development competition at Gadget Show Live. Four teams presented their new Apple iOS games based on individual books in the Fighting Fantasy series to the franchise’s esteemed creators, Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone OBE, and the duo determined that Commando Kiwi’s fresh twist on the third-person adventure genre makes the best use of the property and exhibits the most outstanding commercial potential. Epic Games Design Director Cliff Bleszinski discusses the winner in the video below.

SAN FRANCISCO – Vigil Games has been hard at work on THQ’s big game of 2012, Darksiders II. The developer has been crafting a story featuring a new Horseman, Death. The action players will experience in this sequel takes place in parallel with the first game, which means there will be intertwining as players explore the vast new regions of the game. Vigil Games’ David Adams explains what’s in store for action gamers in this exclusive video interview below.

Epic Games and its award winning Salt Lake City-based development studio, ChAIR Entertainment released Infinity Blade II: ClashMob, a free content update for its Game of the Year Award-winning iOS blockbuster, Infinity Blade II. In support of the update, gamers can purchase the full version of Infinity Blade II for a limited-time promotional price of $4.99  (regularly $6.99) via the App Store.

Riot Games was on the show floor of PAX East 2012 in Boston over Eastern weekend displaying two new Champions for League of Legends. The centaur warrior Hecarim the Shadow of War and archer Varus were introduced to legions of gamers in the Boston convention center.

CCP Games and Nexon have expanded the science fiction MMO game EVE Online to Japan as part of its preparation for the launch of the PlayStation 3 exclusive DUST 514 later this year. The new localized version of EVE Online has entered the world’s 4th largest gaming market with CCP’s own in-house localization system and with Nexon as its pre-eminent local marketing partner. Japan joins EVE Online’s growing localized selection alongside English, Chinese, German, and Russian-based game clients. In addition to full language support, the launch features a full range of core game services in Japanese including local billing, customer support, an official Japanese EVE site, forums and more.

HAWKEN has become a blockbuster game of 2012, which is quite amazing when you consider that no one has played it yet. Through a series of kickass videos, HAWKEN went viral and spurred a bidding war with publishers. Meteor Entertainment, a new publisher, will launch HAWKEN on December 12, 2012. But you can check out the Unreal Engine 3 game now with a personal tour from Adhesive Games’ Khang Le, the creator of the Mech combat free-to-play online game in this exclusive video interview below.