Following E3, various outlets--Shacknews included--are invited every year to vote on the best of E3. After careful deliberation, the winners have been decided! Read more

Hot Seat multiplayer has finally arrived in Civ V, as part of a colossal new patch which also brought heaps of changes, difficulty tweaks, and rudimentary support for play-by-email. Read more

Valve has announced the winners of the Summer Mapping Initiative contest, granting some Portal 2 swag to three skilled map-makers. Read more

The racer's $10 DLC packs 'Legends' and 'Speedhunters' are speeding towards the PC version at the lovely price of free, via EA's relaunched digital distribution platform Origin. Read more

Specially-marked new Xbox 360 and PS3 copies of Cod Blops containing a free download token for its first map pack are available from today in North America. Read more

In his latest blog update, Minecraft creator Notch reveals that the Pistons patch is coming early, but that it might be a long wait for the Adventure update. Read more

Built on Unreal Engine 3, Tribes: Ascend is a downloadable multiplayer shooter for PC and Xbox 360, billed as a "multiplayer successor" to Tribes 2. And, surprisingly, it will also be free-to-play. Read more

Activision has released yet another trailer for the 'Annihilation Map Pack' DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops. Set to launch on the Xbox 360 tomorrow, this trailer focuses on the new zombie level. Read more

The spaceship MMO's long-overdue "walking in stations" update Incarna finally launched last week, but it's sparked the Internet's latest round of microtransactio outrage, fanned by leaked internal documents. Read more

As promised, Crysis 2's "Ultra Upgrade" is available today. But what do all the new graphical effects look like when turned on? Read more