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.

En Masse Entertainment is launching its fantasy massively multiplayer online (MMO) game TERA to North America on May 1, 2012. The upcoming release of TERA will be available in standard and Collector’s Editions at retail and online stores. Marking a new era in gaming, TERA sets a new standard by delivering true action combat to players who want more than the stale and repetitive gameplay that exists in today’s MMOs. The developer talks about the new game, which is powered by Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3, in this exclusive video interview below.

SALT LAKE CITY –Epic Games’ Chair Entertainment is pushing the world of Infinity Blade beyond the Unreal Engine 3 game for Apple iPhone 4S and iPad tablets. The game developer has launched Infinity Blade: Awakening, a novella written by #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy author Brandon Sanderson (The Way of Kings, Mistborn, The Wheel of Time). The all-new literary adventure delves more deeply into the fantastical fiction of the Infinity Blade video games, to uncover a world of mystery and intrigue where magic and technology are indistinguishable, and even life and death are not what they seem. The Infinity Blade: Awakening novella is available now for $2.99 via the iBookstore. Sanderson talks about the new book and game in the exclusive video interview below.

inXile Entertainment is bringing a classic 1980’s video game back to life with a complete overhaul that goes beyond the gorgeous high definition graphics. Propelled by Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 technology, Choplifter HD promises to bring the spirit of the original game to PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, and PC this fall. Players will join the international helicopter rescue team C.H.O.P.R. (Coordinated Helicopter Operations, Preservation and Rescue) and fly through 20 different missions ranging from captured military prisoner extraction to saving survivors of viral outbreaks. Brian Fargo, president and CEO of inXile Entertainment, talks about the new game in this exclusive interview.  

2K Games will unveil one of the big games of E3 2011 in Los Angeles. The intense sci-fi thriller XCOM, in development at the 2K Marin studio, will invade Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC on March 6, 2012. XCOM is a gripping tactical action experience set in mid-century America, where the player leads an elite field team of specialized government agents into battle – combining deep, visceral gunplay with powerful sci-fi abilities. Together, they face a vicious and otherworldly enemy, who conspires to shatter our world and rebuild it in their own image.

Duke University School of Medicine and Virtual Heroes have entered into a partnership encompassing a broad range of initiatives to leverage interactive game technologies for medical education and training. The multi-faceted partnership will include initiatives in the following areas: healthcare team communication training, medical device and pharma product education, patient education, medical recertification, clinical trial education, CME courses and healthcare quality assurance training.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina – Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 technology is fueling a major new government and commercial partnership that will send gamers to the moon, Mars and Beyond. Virtual Heroes has partnered with serious game developers Motion in Place and Project Whitecard to develop a new massively-multiplayer online (MMO) game with the help and resources of NASA. This new subscription-based game, Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond, which will launch in phases beginning with a playable demo on July 6 through Valve’s Steam network called Moon Base Alpha.

Zombie Studios has incorporated a full co-operative gameplay component – entitled “Black Ops” – to the new downloadable Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game, Blacklight: Tango Down. This new mode comes on top of the already robust line-up of competitive multiplayer game modes for the first-person shooter, which will be published by Ignition Entertainment this summer via Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Store.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media company, showed media behind closed doors at the St. Regis Hotel during GDC 2010 a new third-person perspective Unreal Engine 3 game from inXile Entertainment. Bethesda Softworks will publish Hunted: The Demon’s Forge for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.