Battlefield 3 already has 1.25 million pre-orders, but EA doesn't "expect to surpass" the Call of Duty franchise this year. Read more

Disney Interactive Studios has laid off 15-20 employees of Avalanche Software, the studio behind movie tie-in games like Cars 2. Read more

Cor, aren't cars great? Not driving, that's rubbish, but cars themselves. If you dream of tweaking cam profiles and chassis, car-building business sim Automation might be up your alley. You can pre-order now for $20. Read more

A Game of Thrones: Genesis, Blood Bowl developer Cyanide's RTS adaptation of politico-incesto-assassino-fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, is slated to launch for PC on September 29. Read more

Lists containing at least 1.7 million Steam promotional codes for the off-road racer Dirt 3 were compromised over the weekend. Read more

The minimum and recommended system requirements for id Software's upcoming title Rage have been revealed. Read more

DICE is implementing "hundreds" of changes from the alpha version before releasing the beta, and the second test will go down to the wire as well. DICE plans on releasing a day-one patch. Read more

At Call of Duty XP this past weekend, Shacknews discussed some of the changes and reaction to the latest entry in the best-selling Call of Duty series with Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling. Read more

Techland's Dead Island hasn't got off to the most auspicious of starts. Steam received a wonky build when the open-world zombie shooter launched today, which was apparently intended for developers, not players, and suffers a few... quirks. Read more

Star Trek Online goes free-to-play before the end of 2011 and developer Cryptic Studios has released a complete set of details on the system will work. Read more