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Duke Nukem Forever's going to get announced tonight

There's no way it's not going to happen. The evidence has been mounting. First there was the Gearbox rumour, to which the studio's gaffer, Randy Pitchford, said we'd find out more at PAX. Then 3D Realms' George Broussard posted a picture of some flying pigs on Twitter, one of which was wearing Duke's glasses. Now 2K's teasing a huge announcement..

If Mafia II's main campaign and exclusive PS3 DLC weren't enough to fill your mobster cravings, then 2K's got your back

They've confirmed that the next slice of Mafia II DLC, Jimmy's Vendetta, will launch on September 7th for $9.99. The pack adds 30 new missions to Mafia's campaign. Jimmy, the DLC's protagonist, is described as "the guy the other guys call when they need to finish the..

Take Two's nailed down a date of August 31st for Bioshock 2's final slice of DLC, "Minerva's Den"

The $9.99 extension builds on the single-player narrative of Bioshock 2, and plunges players deep into Rapture once again. The additional campaign adds three new areas to explore, aswell as six new Little Sisters. The DLC's narrative runs alongside Bioshock 2's campaign, and fills in some plot detail..

The latest Bioshock game, Bioshock: Infinite, is notably set in the sky

Aside from going into space, you couldn't get further from the depths of the ocean. So is this the end of Rapture then? This was the question CVG put to Bioshock's creator, Ken Levine, during GamesCom last week. His response was decidedly indecisive (ooooh): “It was a very challenging and very difficult thing for me not to do..

No matter how fresh, bright and exciting Bioshock's worlds are supposed to look; they're usually dark, sinisted and horrible

We assume Bioshock: Infinite's sky-city, Columbia, will be no different. See this guy holding a gun? Yeah, he's probably not a happy man.

With the announcement of Bioshock: Infinite, many people are asking the question as to why the series' creator, Ken Levine, skipped on Bioshock 2

The answer's simple, he told Joystiq that he "felt like we said what we wanted to say about Rapture". He continued: "That's one of the reasons Bioshock 2 wasn't the right project for us and, as we agreed with the company, we didn't have..

What is Icarus? It's Bioshock: Infinite, the latest title from Ken Levine's Irrational studio

Infinite lifts players out of the depths of Rapture and places them in Columbia, a heavenly estate in the sky. Set in 1912, protagonist Booker DeWitt is sent to the airborne city to rescue an imprisoned child named Elizabeth. The pair's powers are fused together, and as a duo they attempt to escape..

It was nice of Gearbox to mention that there'd be even more Borderlands DLC

Assuming the third pack was the last, we eliminated Borderlands from our growing PlayStation 3 software tower a while ago. Wrong move, PushSquare. "Claptrap's New Robot Revolution" is due in September and will set you back roughly $10. The DLC will include 20 new missions, Claptrap (skag-traps, etc) modded beasts,..

"Take out the fat guy," our partner declares as we point a sub-machine gun out of an upstairs window

Just moments earlier we'd been knocking back coca-cola while perusing a copy of Playboy magazine. Such is the life of a gangster. There's a good sense of place in Mafia II. Almost meticulously so. Take for example the afore-mentioned Playboy magazine. It includes genuine, licensed photoshoots from..

Look, getting a demo 24 hours earlier than everyone else doesn't exactly justify the purchase of PlayStation Plus -- but as subscribers we can't help but feel like it's a nice little feel-good gesture

As the PlayStation Blog notes, European PlayStation Plus subscribers will get access to the Mafia II demo via automatic download or the Plus front-end from tomorrow morning. Everyone else will have to..

Making open world games is hard

This "Behind The Scenes" trailer with the developers of Mafia II details just how hard. They make an excellent point when they state that Mafia II is not a "sci-fi game and therefore people have an understanding how things should work within the gameworld". And it's true — watching people wait for the traffic lights to change in order to cross..

2K Games has confirmed that Bioshock 2 will be getting new single-player focused story content

The add-on, titled Minerva's Den, will see players taking on the role of a brand new character and teaming up with Brigid Tenebaum to fight a dictator's district in Rapture. "Minerva's Den is a substantial addition that will give players more of what they're looking for: more story, more narrative,..

Gangsters are jerks

This Mafia II trailer confirms as much. Shoot-outs, bribes, cabaret, dead bodies, drugs and stupid accents. Could the mid-1940s have been any worse? We guess they could have been without Frank Sinatra. Yeah, that would have been worse.

WhatIsIcarus

com</a> may be a smokey charade of nothingness, but its launch suggests one important thing: Irrational Games are about to announce their new project. We hinted as much last week when Irrational announced a special press event scheduled for early August. Despite there being nothing on the page at the moment, we're assume things will be gradually revealed over the coming weeks..

It's been three-years since Ken Levine's Irrational Games started work on "Project Icarus", but we've still not heard a peep about what's in development

That could all change next month however, as the studio are sending out invites to a New York event on August 11th. One might assume that an announcement will follow. Levine already confirmed in January that the game would be announced this year,..

Curious about Mafia II but not sure whether you want to drop the cash for the gangster package? 2K's got your back

According to an advertisement in the latest issue of trade magazine MCV, the game's getting a demo on August 10th, a couple of weeks before its official release date. We're looking forward to checking it out. Don't forget, the PS3 version's getting exclusive DLC.

2K's lifted the lid on the first set of single-player DLC that is headed to Bioshock 2 this August

The pack riffs on some of the best moments from the game's campaign, where you're tasked with protecting a little Sister from a host of Rapture's nasties. The new "Protector Trials" DLC will include six maps "based on favorite locales" from the campaign. It'll also include new..

The Alice In Chains soundtrack is pumping and the action's in slow-mo -- it must be a trailer for 2K's upcoming cinematic shooter, Spec Ops: The Line

Looks like they're really pushing the style angle in this desert based shooter — everytime we've seen it the trailers have been swish. Differentiation is a good thing with so many familiar looking shooters on the horizon. This looks like one of the..

We've got to be straight-up: as a publication PushSquare has no affinity with the 90's turn-based strategy game X-Com

A lot of people do though, and are giving mixed reaction to the announcement of a new game in the series coming from Bioshock 2's development house 2K Marin. The thing that's confusing most people? The new X-Com's not going to be a turn-based strategy game but a first-person shooter..