Welcome to Digital Blend, your one-stop-shop for coverage and recommendations of all things relating to mobile gaming, digital marketplaces, and indie titles (for the week ending June 24).

Sony launches an enrollment page for the previously promised free year of identity theft protection from Debix following April's network breach that led to the shutdown of the PlayStation Network, Qriocity and Sony Online Entertainment services.

Those who buy or pre-order Madden NFL 12 from GameStop will be eligible to join the 'Battle of the Gridiron' online tournament, as part of the retailer's partnership with Virgin Gaming.

Gearbox Software and 2K Games reveal the Borderlands 2 $100,000 Loot Hunt, a month-long contest in which players can take down daily targets to score unique loot drops and enter to win both cash and physical prizes.

The upcoming Spec 2.0 update for Gran Turismo 5 has had some of its features detailed on Twitter by series creator Kazunori Yamauchi/

A new trailer for Assassin's Creed: Revelations offers some hints on the direction the modern-day portion of the story will be heading in.

Electronic Arts' latest trailer for Alice: Madness Returns is light on gameplay and heavy on atmosphere, with a twisted picture book telling of the upcoming video game's backstory.

Capcom reveals new details about next year's Xbox 360 exclusive Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, including a hybrid control scheme that read inputs from both an Xbox 360 gamepad and a Kinect controller.

A newly released trailer for Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 gives fans their first look at the newly added Survival mode, part of the co-op-oriented Spec Ops section of the game.

Call of Duty Elite brings social integration to Activision's popular first-person shooter series, with free and subscription-based options launching this fall alongside Modern Warfare 3.

Like the games that came before it, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim succeeds first and foremost for letting you write your own narrative.

L.A. Noire may fall short of perfection, but the core gameplay is so refreshingly different that it never quite matters.

Envizions announces the planned fall release and $249 price point for the EVO 2, an Android-powered gaming console that brings mobile games to your television.

Web analytics firms break down the social networking statistics at South By Southwest.

Razer reveals OSVR, an open source platform for virtual reality development. The company will launch a headset and supporting software in June 2015.

See how painter Joshua Mongeau interprets scenes from Mirror's Edge 2, Assassin's Creed: Unity French Revolution, and Tomb Raider v13, among others.

Take a peek at three new screens from Monolith Productions' open world action-RPG Middle-earth: Shadows of Mordor.

Microsoft will pack a download code for 2013 launch title Forza Motorsport 5 in with Xbox One console purchases for a limited time.

A Windows 8 screenshot reveals that Microsoft's famed Blue Screen of Death may be replaced in the new operating system by a Black Screen of Death.

2K Sports gives us a look at some of the new features and enhancements in Yukes' first post-THQ wrestling game, WWE 2K14, which comes to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 29.

Some helpful tips that lay out how race/class, exploration, War Table, and more work during your lengthy adventure in BioWare's Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Roger Craig Smith and Troy Baker, the voices of Batman and the Joker, respectively, in Batman: Arkham Origins, square off to chat about the challenges of playing characters with so much history and baggage.

Sony dropped a whole lot of news on fans during PlayStation Experience, and here's a rundown of everything that was revealed and all the trailers that were released.

Some tips to help you get started in Dragon Age: Inquisition's four-player cooperative mode, a loot-driven adventure with randomized dungeon crawls.

Here are our favorite games from PAX East 2016, including a few games that have still yet to be released as we approach the 2017 show.

The latest Star Trek fantasy from J.J. Abrams weaves into an entertaining, yet uneven, pre-summer blockbuster.

We've got 10 codes apiece for the PC and PlayStation 3 versions of Ultra Street Fighter IV, and we want to share them with you. Find out how to nab one right here.

Enter here for your chance to win a free Assassin's Creed Unity Xbox One bundle, which includes the console, a copy of Unity, and a copy of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

If you want to play the Destiny Beta, but don't have the money to pre-order the game, you're in luck. We're giving away a mess of access codes for the game to nearly a dozen lucky DT readers.

We've got a batch of PC beta codes for Ubisoft's open world racing game The Crew to share right here!

Oculus VR and Sony both continue to work behind the scenes on the Rift and Morpheus headsets, respectively, but the big marketing push won't start in 2014.

Iogear delivers on the dream of console-based mouse/keyboard gaming with the new KeyMander, which supports consoles in the PlayStation and Xbox famiilies.

Samsung's Gear VR is the first official consumer-ready virtual reality hardware, but we have some big questions about its long-term potential.

It's impossible to predict which games will be the biggest in 2015, but here are 15 that you'll definitely want to keep a close eye as the new year kicks off.

Game culture wars defined 2014 as much as the games that arrived, but the coming year will bring calmer waters, new trends, and even better games.

Review: Dark Souls presents gamers with an unusually challenging – but rewarding – dungeon romp that builds on the success of previous titles.

Review: EA Sports scores another hat trick with NHL 12, with the improvements made to the annual hockey simulator outweighing the few, and minor, stumbles.

Telltale Games co-founder and new boss Kevin Bruner discusses plans for the studio's first original creation, the upcoming Minecraft: Story Mode, and the evolving face of storytelling that's been spurred by interactive entertainment.