News you may have missed (7-11 May 2012)

As each week in May gets scratched from the calender, the only thing most gamers are thinking about is the eventual launch of Diablo III.

Due to this, most people’s lives (including our own) are on hold, but the gaming industry doesn’t wait for even the most monumental of dungeon-crawlers, and instead trudged on, bringing us news, rumours and hints to what lies ahead.

Was only a matter of time

Ubisoft confirm some games that everyone’s been waiting to hear about.

>> Rumour control: Ubisoft making Avengers game

>> Avengers video game coming in all its spoof-tastic glory

>> Avengers: Battle for Earth announced

>> Beyond Good & Evil 2 is back in “active creation”, confirms Ubisoft

Just a peek

Ubisoft then teased us some more, but also let us lift up and peek under Assassin’s Creed III’s skirt.

>> Assassin’s Creed III gameplay premiere comes with a catch

>> Assassin’s Creed III won’t go Team America on you

>> Assassin’s Creed III gameplay premiere shows slick combat and traversal

If the wait wasn’t hard enough…

Prepare for release dates, and a little more.

>> Dishonored hunts down a release date

>> Hitman: Absolution targets a release date and gets Sniper Challenge

>> Help kill the Ur-Dragon in Dragon’s Dogma

>> Dragon’s Dogma launch trailer prepares you for battle

>> Wii U launch titles leaked?

Déjà Vu who?

Some classics were revisited as a nostalgic love-letter.

>> Tony Hawk HD release date confirmed

>> Original Deus Ex confirmed for PSN

>> Carmageddon reboot gets a Kickstart

>> Play Wolfenstein 3D in your browser for free!

>> Original Space Quest creators head to Kickstarter

>> All five Quest for Glory games on GOG for $10

Is it ready yet?

We were shown how a dominant game made it out of development, while one went back into the oven.

>> Bioshock: Infinite delayed

>> Assassin’s Creed was once a Prince of Persia game

“I can’t quit you!”

Addictions got the best of some…

>> Man hides cocaine bricks in Xbox, gets busted

>> Fez village recreated in Minecraft

>> Rovio made R770 million on Angry Birds last year

Brace yourselves…

And other addictions emerged as the fiery gates began to open…

>> Zaps announces Diablo III midnight launch party

>> Diablo III to feature “Global Play”. Kind of.

>> Diablo III sets pre-order record

>> Diablo III Launch Day Preparation Guide released

>> Some BT Games Diablo III Collector’s Edition pre-orders delayed

>> Zaps Online secures 40 Diablo III Collector’s Editions for midnight launch

>> Diablo III: Wrath short movie prepares players for Hell

Teaching old dogs new tricks

Fat men flew threw the air.

>> Max Payne 3 launch trailer brings gunplay and drama

>> Max Payne 3 arcade mode revealed

>> Max Payne 3 comic available for free download

Inevitable surprise

We found out about some (inevitable) games currently in development.

>> Sony preparing three Killzone games

>> New Need for Speed game coming this year

>> Dead Space 3 to feature co-op campaign, “skyscraper-sized” enemies

>> New Dead Space game confirmed

>> Company of Heroes 2 officially announced

Digging it a lot

Minecraft made headlines following its Xbox 360 release and also caused some controversy.

>> Minecraft breaks XBLA sales record, makes money back in one hour

>> Controversy as Minecraft Xbox Edition doesn’t support splitscreen on SDTVs

>> FortressCraft dev blames Minecraft community after DDoS attack

MMO money, mo’ problems

Online gaming subscriptions went through some unexpected rough patches.

>> EA loses 400,000 Star Wars: The Old Republic players

>> World of Warcraft still number 1 MMO

>> Call of Duty Elite has over 10 million users

Features

We checked out a bunch of top 5 stuff:

>> Top 5 cancelled games that should be made

>> Top 5 sleeper hits

>> 5 worst moms in gaming

>> 5 cool games that slow down time

Get a picture of the south African internet ladscape

>> South African Internet stats for 2011

Prepared for Mother’s Day, Max Payne 3 and a future WWII shooter:

>> Jou ma se favourite gadget gifts

>> Max Payne 3 – everything you need to know

>> 4 examples of shameless game branding

>> Enemy Front – why you should care

Industry quote of the week

“Words can not express how f**king wrong and horrible this is, for games, for gamers and for the platform as a whole.” – Edmund McMillen on the state of “child-like” mobile games.

Reader comment of the week

“An in other news, world population soars due to 1.1 million people growing lives overnight.” – PanthisZA, in response to World of Warcraft subscriber numbers slipping.

Competitions! – Win an Xbox 360, Samsung Galaxy mini tablet PC, and a copy of Diablo III Collector’s Edition.

This week MyGaming is giving away a Microsoft Xbox 360 250GB gaming console and a Samsung Galaxy mini tablet PC. All you need to do to stand a chance to win is to tell us about your best gaming memories.

To enter, head on over to the MyGaming competition forum and where you will find the details of the competition.

Our friends at Megarom Interactive have given MyGaming one of the totally awesome and hard to come by Diablo III Collector’s Editions to give away to one lucky member of the MyGaming community.

More details here: Win Diablo III Collector’s Edition courtesy of Megarom Interactive

What is your favourite story from this week? Anything you found this week that picked up your interest? Let us know in the comments below and on the MyGaming forum.

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