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UPDATE:You’ll get more than a silenced shotgun or a stupid-looking assault rifle with your pre-order ofSplinter Cell: Convictionat Best Buy or GameStop. According to the retailer’s respective game detail pages,publisher Ubisoft will doing something of a special run ofConvictiondiscs that will offer access to an Xbox 360exclusively-firstGhost Recon: Future Soldiermultiplayer beta. The beta offer — which appears very similar to theHalo 3/Crackdownbusiness of long ago — extends to online and in-store pre-orders at the two retailers — but only while supplies last....

I know jack sh*t aboutDungeons & Dragons(and Jack just left town) and have only playedNeverwinter Nightsonce or twice, but I do know the games exist and they are popular. And now I know that Atari is most likely working on another game in the series. Not onlydid Atari admitthat it was getting ready to announce anotherDungeons & Dragonsgame recently, but it alsoregisteredsome interesting links pertaining to the game. First off at Gen Con 2010 this past week it was quietly revealed that Atari had some plans for a game, but could not talk about it then....

Infinity Ward has pumped out another patch for the PC version ofCall of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Before you caninstall the patchthough, you’ll need to verify you already have v1.4 downloaded. Also, the two patches aren’t compatible with one another, so you won’t be able to see servers running with the older v1.4 patch if you’ve got v1.5 (the newest one) instead. You’re probably wondering what’s included in the patch, right?...

Sony’s Cambridge studio has done a lot, but not in the way of developing their own game. That will change according to a job listing for the studio: We are looking for an experienced lead programmer to head the engineering team for our next PS3 game title as it enters the production phase. The position offers an excellent opportunity to play a key role in the shaping and delivery of an exciting new IP for the studio, and would suit a senior engineer wishing to pursue a managerial track to their career path....

Developer Deep Silver hasrevealed to IGNthe concept for a brand new survival horror which it aims to exclusively bring to the Wii. Going by the name ofCursed Mountain, you are placed in the chilly boots of a 1980s mountain climber, scaling the Himalayas to find his missing brother. “As he ascends the mountain, he encounters an ancient curse,” expounds Deep Silver. “The souls of the people who died in that region are stuck in limbo, caught in the Shadow World....

GoNintendo somehow managed to stay awake through Satoru Iwata’s quarterly financial reports briefing, a feat I would probably not have been able to accomplish. Good thing, too, as the President of Nintendo confirmed that the next iteration ofZeldaon Wii would be shown at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo. It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of the series when it goes 3D, but I at least managed to finishTwilight Princess....

Okay, this is classic. Just when you think that Europe gettingSuper Smash Bros. Brawlin the Summer is insulting enough, Reggie Fils-Aime has nowcome out and statedthat we won’t be seeing the game at all until Autumn. When asked about Europe gettingWii FitandMario Kartbefore the United States, Fils-Aime essentially showed off by stating “Yeah, but they don’t getSmash Brothersuntil fall,” smugly trying to appease US gamers by letting them know they get the more anticipated game first — and simultaneously farting in the face of every PAL-imprisoned Nintendo fan that is still strangely loyal to a company that has no respect for the territory....

Nintendo’s got a March Madness thing going on with its digital downloads this month, kicking this off this week with Capcom’sMega Man 10for WiiWare. While that might be a no-brainer for retro gaming fans, your mileage may vary with this week’s other releases, which includes a NeoGeo fighter (Fatal Fury Special), a curious EA DSiWare title (Flips: Terror in Cubicle Four), and at least one iPhone port (Let’s Golf). WiiWare Mega Man 10(Capcom, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)Dart Rage(JV Games, 1-4 players, 600 Wii Points)Happy Hammerin’(Gamebridge, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)...

Geeks and Otaku, stand proud. Our incessant bitching has finally made it to the ears of the upper brass at Nintendo, and now it seems that they are finally working on some kind of storage solution for the memory-gimped Wii. After the recent controversy, Nintendo let NoE marketing man Laurent Fischer drop the good news: “We’re working on a solution.” Nice save! But don’t go jumping to conclusions yet; whatever this solution is, it’s not external hardware....

Here is a small bundle of newDragon’s Dogmascreenshots for you to have a proper good gawp at. They have dragons, harpies, goblins and bald men in them — a veritable smorgasbord of mythical creatures. Still keeping my fingers crossed for this one, as it looks almost exactly like the kind of thing I’m into. An open world full of griffons and hydras that are justbeggingto be set fire to? Yeah, I’m all up in that business, son....

Wow! Look at all this stuff you get with the “Legendary Edition” ofOkamiden. Japanese gamers will nab this insane collection of Okami goods for the 8,000 yen ($90) asking price. Inside the lovely collector’s box you’ll find the game, a CD, a DVD, a storybook, a cute plushie, a keychain, and the cutest earbuds ever created (seen in our gallery).Kotakusays that orders from Capcom’s online store will also get a brush to go along with this massive haul....

Per a recent Ipsos Reid poll conducted by Microsoft, it seems Canadian gamers have some, er, “special” habits when it comes to the way they like to play. The poll asked respondents to confirm whether or not they played games in a variety of situations, including at work, in the bathroom, in public or in the bedroom and last but not least, in the nude. The poll was answered by just over a thousand people, with the most popular answer being that people play at work (30%), followed by in the bedroom (27%), in public (19%) and in the bathroom (7%)....

OnLiveexploded on the sceneat this year’s GDC, and then, much like a real explosion, slowly dwindled into a small fire that no one paid much attention to. Their lack of presence at E3 was disappointing despite the fact that they had working demos of the service at a condo in downtown LA near the event. Post E3 we’ve heard practically nothing, buttheir sitehas continually claimed that beta testing (whichopened back in March) was going to start this summer....