A bank is accusing Konami and Autumn Games of fraud, after requesting a loan to help finance Def Jam Rapstar. The bank says the companies used faulty numbers and false promises of repayment timing to secure the loan. Read more

Join Garnett Lee on this episode of Shacknews Daily. Today’s stories: Mass Effect 3 gets more multiplayer DLC, get inside the Steel Battalion demo for Kinect, and a 101 on how to play Sleeping Dogs. Read more

Bethesda has announced details for their next Skyrim update. Patch 1.6 will add one of the fans' most-requested features: mounted combat. Read more

It appears 38 Studios is nearing the end of its very public death march. New reports today show that 38 Studios, and its subsidiary Big Huge Games, have laid off their entire staffs. Read more

Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor now has a demo available on the Xbox Live Marketplace, so you can try out the Kinect functionality for yourself. Read more

Magic: The Gathering's "Duels of the Planeswalkers" series has turned into an annualized game for the CCG, which developer Stainless Games attributes to Microsoft's policies and costs of updating. Read more

Coming May 29th is a brand new DLC pack called "Rebellion," which adds more gear, more weapons, more maps, and more kits to Mass Effect 3's online offering. It's also free. Read more

Live action trailers are all the rage these days. However, few are as effective as this short film for Metro: Last Light. Read more

When Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert joined Double Fine in 2010, he teased an adventure game project that'd been rattling around his head for a few years. Today it's finally been revealed as The Cave, coming to PC and unspecified consoles in early 2013. Read more

The complete 16 song set list for Tony Hawk HD has been revealed. Read more