Swedish publisher/developer holds their annual convention to
show off their 2012 line up. Known for their hardcore strategy titles, Paradox
Interactive is growing and expanding. CEO Fred Wester shares his thoughts about
the death of consoles, talks about empty promises and more…

The Golden Joystick's Action Game of the Year category might make your head explode.

One misconception about Canadians is that we spend our lives obsessing over hockey, guzzling superior beer and adding extra vowels to our words. This is simply not true – we do all that, and also make and play a ton of videogames. In honour (that's honour with a 'u') of this, the Canadian Videogame Awards are returning to Vancouver this May for a second year, and today its producers released the list of finalists vying for the 2011 cup...
Drew Karpyshyn, a lead writer for
BioWare blockbusters like Mass Effect 2 and Star Wars: Knights of the
Old Republic, has announced he will be parting ways with the Canadian developer to focus on non-gaming projects...

The Golden Joystick's Action Game of the Year category might make your head explode.
It’s starting to look like this whole “free-to-play”
thing might be sticking around. EA has announced a deal with Aeria Games,
publisher of Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine and WolfTeam, to bring EA’s selection
of free-to-play games to their network. It’s going to start with Battlefield
Heroes and continue with Need for Speed World, bringing EA’s Play4Free games to
an even wider audience...

The Golden Joystick's Action Game of the Year category might make your head explode.
Capcom has given up its list of what's in store for E3 next month in LA. But while most of what's on offer was a given anyway, the publisher has said there'll be two unannounced games on the show floor for the first time.
What they might be, we don't know. But a Dead Rising sequel's been on the cards for a while now. Maybe that'll turn up?
Anyway, here's the list, via IGN:
* Bionic Commando (PC, PS3,