Players who found the Splinter Cell: Conviction demo too easy will be happy to know Ubisoft have tweaked the difficulty profoundly.

So you all remember how Crackdown was shipped with a Halo 3 Beta, right? Or maybe how ODST comes with an open invitation to the Halo: Reach multiplayer? Well Ubisoft are following suit, with a truly exceptional deal.

The recently released demo of Splinter Cell: Conviction was a pleasant surprise, and whilst it had a mixed reception, it’s one of the highest rated demo’s on the Xbox Live marketplace. It’s quite interesting then, how Ubisoft creative director Maxime Beland stated it was a ‘nerve wracking’ process.

According to ‘codvietnamnews,’ a magnitude of info on the new CoD game has been posted on the official game forums. David Vonderhaar (the multiplayer design director for Treyarch,) has given away several bits of info on the upcoming fps.

It seems that Lionhead have now understood the pointlessness of releasing episodic instalments of Fable II on the XBL Marketplace.

The boys and girls at Bungie have now released a whole load of details about the game on their website. Obviously bored with drip-feeding us information, they decided to fully open the valve, drowning us in golden Halo goodness.  Odd metaphors aside, the website lists a large quantity of changes and tweaks they have made, in an attempt to better the multiplayer experience.

If a movie coinciding with the release of a new game isn’t enough, THQ have recently outlined plans of spending $30/40m on a Natal release. However, this isn’t planned as a launch title, THQ prefer to wait and see how the device does commercially.

According to CVG, THQ have announced that a Red Faction movie is currently being created. It’s set for release alongside the next game in the series, and promises to capture the tension between Ultor and the Red Faction.

In an attempt to tease those looking forward to the beta, Bungie have detailed a new ability for the use of the Spartans and the Spart-esses.  The ‘Armour Lock’ power basically allows you to become temporarily invincible, but at a price. You will be unable to move around and shoot.

BioWare and IDW Publishing have recently launched a Dragon Age themed comic series. It’s available through the iTunes store and most comic book stores across North America.

According to Robert Bowlings Twitter, Infinity Ward has made a fix for the multiplayer’s ‘super speed’ glitch. Bowling states we should “Expect a playlist update later today on #MW2 for Xbox Live. It’ll prevent “super speed” games.”

Hopefully, this will signal the end of MW2’s online bugs.

According to Microsoft, a 250GB hard drive will be released in the UK come April. It will cost £79.99.

Proving they believe digital distribution is the future, a Microsoft representative stated: “The 250GB hard drive offers the player more space to store game content and full titles with games on demand. They’ll also have more freedom to download the latest demos, Xbox Live arcade games, TV shows, movies, music and more straight to their Xbox 360 console.”

We all know Valve as being a developer fairly comfortable with its own creation process. With most of the games they release, they usually have some kind of ‘directors commentary’ to boast inform you of how they did it.

BioWare has released information regarding the upcoming DLC for Mass Effect 2, named ‘Kasumi’s Stolen Memory.’ The DLC will cost 560 Microsoft Points for the 360, and 560 BioWare points on PC, which is roughly the same cost. Kasumi is set to be one of the most intriguing characters in Mass Effect history, and has been named “the galaxy’s most enigmatic thief.”

Expected release date, 6th April.

Things have been quiet on planet Sera, every since Marcus Fenix and his merry band of heroic soldiers dispatched the Locust threat, and rode off into the sunset at the end of Gears of War 2. Sure there were a couple of cliff hangers, Marcus’ dad working with the Locust queen, and possibly more? And Marcus making ga ga eyes at Anya, but what about the Locust? I mean the don’t take getting their asses handed to them lightly, so you know they will be back and out for blood.

It has just been confirmed that Crackdown 2 will be released early July. Here are the release dates:

According to Matias Myllyrinne, managing director of Remedy Entertainment, Alan Wake’s DLC support will depend entirely on how the game is received. It has already been revealed that Remedy plan to support the games episodic nature with future DLC packs, but the quantity of these packs are purely controlled by how successful the game actually is.