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.

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.

When it comes to the global sport, soccer still reigns supreme. EA has sold over 100 million copies of its FIFA games over the years. With E3 around the corner, Electronic Arts unveiled five new innovations that will bring big changes to EA SPORTS FIFA Soccer 13, along with the largest and deepest feature set in the history of the franchise.

NEW YORK CITY – ESPN reporter and “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Erin Andrews is in EA Sports new NCAA Football 13 game. Andrews was at the NFL Draft to check out the PlayStation 3 game for the first time, alongside some of the top NFL rookies including Robert Griffin III, Michael Floyd and Trent Richardson. Andrews is a big fan of Richardson, as you’ll see here in this exclusive video interview below.

Epic Games, developer of the blockbuster Gears of War franchise and the groundbreaking Infinity Blade series, has added 3D technology company RealD into its Integrated Partners Program(IPP). Epic’s partner program brings industry-leading middleware technologies to the company’s award-winning Unreal Engine 3 (UE3), which powers many bestselling console, PC and mobile games.

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.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo is only a few weeks away from happening, and gamers everywhere are gearing up to hear more about the event, including upcoming game reveals and details on big hits.  But not everyone gets to share in the fun, as the event is strictly for industry only.  So if you were hoping to get in with your fan-made website, you might have a problem.  But not to worry.  There’s still plenty to do around the event…

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.

NEW YORK CITY – Robert Griffin III, who is best known to sports fans as RGIII, is taking control of the Washington Redskins this season. The Heisman trophy-winning quarterback from Baylor has just as much skills off the gridiron as he displays on it, which seems appropriate given that his skills are often compared to that of a video game character. Before going as the second pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, RGIII took some time to talk NCAA Football 13 and Madden NFL 13 in this exclusive video interview below.

Halo 4 fans won’t have to wait until November 6th to explore the new Halo 4 universe. Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, will release the second novel in the Kilo-Five Trilogy”written by bestselling novelist and renowned game writer Karen Traviss earlier. HALO: THE THURSDAY WAR will ship in hardcover alongside a simultaneous audio edition on October 2, 2012, giving gamers a full month to explore the universe that Microsoft and 343 Industries is creating based on Bungie’s game franchise.

Gamestop continues to ride the success of its Nationwide NASCAR driver Joey Logano. The young driver plays all the games that are featured on the cars that he drives. Logano beat out Danica Patrick, Kyle Busch and other Sprint Cup drivers at Talladega Superspeedway. Logano talks about the games he like to play off the track in this exclusive interview below.