Sony's free-to-play games offering on the PlayStation 4 grows, with three more titles headed to the console at or close to launch: Digital Extremes' 'Warframe,' plus 'PlanetSide 2' and 'DC Universe Online,' both from Sony Online Entertainment

The next chapter in the Dragon's Dogma series is Dragon's Dogma Quest, a free-to-play 2D role-playing game that is coming exclusively to PlayStation Vita in fall 2013. Only confirmed for Japan right now.

Microsoft execs Steve Ballmer and Nancy Tellem reportedly meet with key figures in Hollywood's TV biz to discuss the non-interactive entertainment possibilities for the Xbox One and show off the hardware.

'Deus Ex: The Fall' is not a sequel to 'Deus Ex: Human Revolution,' but rather to the 2011 novel 'Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect.' It's coming out exclusively for smartphones and tablets this summer.

Eidos Montreal teased something called 'Deus Ex: The Fall' on Twitter and Youtube today, hinting that something will be announced tomorrow. Previously, publisher Square Enix registered domain names for something with the same name.

The Omni follows the lead of the Oculus Rift, with a newly launched Kickstarter campaign for a treadmill-like device that is made to work with standard game controllers and other peripherals. The campaign reached and then doubled its funding goal in a matter of hours.

Precursor Games' crowdfunding campaign for 'Shadow of the Eternals' shuts down this week, unfulfilled, but the studio promises that 'exciting new developments' will surface soon and the campaign will be restarted.

Double Fine's 'Massive Chalice' Kickstarter reach its funding goal of $725,000 after less than a week. It's Double Fine's second successful Kickstarter campaign, after the one for the adventure game that became 'Broken Age' earned many times its original goal last year.

Microsoft revealed the game Lionhead has been teasing all week, an HD remake of the original 'Fable' called 'Fable Anniversary.' Curiously, it won't appear on Xbox One, despite the fact that both the game and the console are expected to launch by the end of the year.

The latest multiplayer update for 'Halo 4' boosts the damage output of many weapons and bumps up player movement speed by 10-percent. In related news, a Raptr case study suggests that interest in the latest 'Halo' is waning faster than it did with 'Halo: Reach.'

Gamers will likely flock to GameStop in droves to trade in their current consoles for next-gen upgrades later this year. According to one analyst, the retailer could generate billions in store credit from such transactions.

Producer Charles Roven confirms that the plan is to begin production on the long-in-development 'World of Warcraft' movie in the first quarter of 2014. Duncan Jones is attached to direct, with a script from Charles Leavitt.

Mortal Kombat fighter Scorpion is headed to NetherRealm Studios' Injustice: Gods Among Us as downloadable content. He joins a roster filled out be DC Comics characters, so it's fitting that DC's own Jim Lee handled the design.

Sony ponders breaking off its entertainment division - an umbrella that includes its movie and video game business - to launch an IPO aimed at generating funds to help reinvigorate the company's electronics division.

The studio behind 'Uncharted' and 'The Last of Us' made a mistake when it started the PS3 generation by creating a brand new engine, according to its game director. Instead it will add to its existing engine as needed for PS4 development.

The government that gave Curt Schilling $75 million to open his failed 38 Studios is reportedly looking into the consequences of simply not paying the loan back, or the $32 mil in interest, back.

'Prey 2' development reportedly shifts from Human Head Studios to Arkane Austin, with all work on the project scrapped for a total re-do that is currently targeted for a 2016 release.

Electronic Arts begins the process of eliminating its Online Pass from past games, with content for certain games -- Mass Effect 2, Bulletstorm, and Kingdoms of Amalur, among others -- plus the full version of American McGee's Alice, now available for free.

Double Fine launched a new Kickstarter campaign for a strategy game called 'Massive Chalice.' The studio kicked off the Kickstarter craze last year with 'Broken Age,' and now it hopes to replicate that success.

'Sonic: Lost World' won't be exactly the same game on 3DS and Wii U, Sega confirms. Newly revealed story details also confirm that the game sees Sonic joining forces with the villainous Dr. Eggman for once.

Aspyr Media releases an iPad port of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the classic BioWare RPG that is widely regarded as one of its best efforts. The $9.99 iPad release sports touch controls and addresses lingering legacy issues from the 2003 game.

Electronic Arts and Crytek reveal Crysis 3: The Lost Island, an upcoming multiplayer content expansion that adds four news maps, two new match types, and an unspecified number of new weapons to the game.

Ubisoft Reflections, the studio behind Driver: San Francisco, reportedly has a realistic racing simulator currently in development for next-gen platforms, called The Crew. An E3 2013 reveal is expected.

Microsoft is prepared to invest heavily in games during the coming console generation, company execs Don Mattrick and Phil Spencer revealed. The Xbox One maker is working to win gamers over after the console's heavily criticized debut.

A report looking at the Entertainment Software Association's 2012 anti-piracy efforts reveals that the 3.4 million takedown notices sent out by the organization last year had a 96-percent success rate, with roughly 5.2 million offending files and listings removed.

Sales of Nintendo's Wii U appeared to increase by almost 400 percent on Amazon U.K. following the Xbox One unveiling on May 21, 2013.

'Counter-Strike' players will be policing their own ranks for cheaters with a new feature called 'Overwatch' that is currently in beta. Valve will review cases for now, but Overwatch will eventually be entirely community-driven.

Reports are pouring in that Microsoft and other publishers will take a cut, possibly as large as 90-percent, of Xbox One used game sales. Retailers are being made to register every transaction through a Microsoft service, sources say.

EA's Ghost Games studio and Criterion Games are hard at work on the first next-gen Need for Speed title, 'Need for Speed: Rivals'. The game also heads to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC in November 2013.

Rockstar today announced the special and collector's editions of 'GTA V.' At $79.99 and $149.99, they're not cheap, but they include tons of real world and in-game extras.

EA Sports does not have a first amendment right to use college football players' likenesses, judges say. There are a number of similar cases in progress, and they could have some consequences.

Ryse originally debuted at E3 2010, but now it's an Xbox One exclusive that uses a controller and the new Kinect simultaneously. More is expected to be revealed at E3 2013.

Two Microsoft executives independently confirmed that the next-gen Kinect sensor will eventually arrive on Windows PC. Details are nonexistent, but one promised that more will be revealed "soon."

The Oculus VR team currently creating the Oculus Rift virtual reality gaming headset adds two new full-time members to the team, include an ex-Valve engineer and a world-renowned robotics expert.