It's been a long wait for Crysis 2 details, but they're finally starting to trickle in. "Aliens invading NYC?

The first footage of Halo: Reach premiered during the Spike Video Game Awards this evening, providing an in-game look at Bungie's next Xbox 360 exclusive. Little is known of the fall-due game--a prequel detailing the fall of titular planet Reach--with a multiplayer beta coming to Halo 3: ODST owners in spring.

A new patch for Dragon Age: Origins PC is now available on FileShack, delivering several fixes and updating BioWare's recent fantasy RPG to v1.02.

While numerous games have bundled free downloadable content with new copies, Pandemic's upcoming The Saboteur is taking things to a new level by tempting potential buyers with the allure of less--clothing, that is.

"Adult content including nudity, a V.I.P. room and new hiding spots" is only available to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 players if they download the Midnight Show add-on, according to Kotaku, which posted a screenshot of the in-game prompt.

Meet John Marston, the lead character of Rockstar San Deigo's open-world cowboy action game Red Dead Redemption. He's here to capture or kill Bill Williamson. The two go way back--once upon a time, they used to rob trains and banks and the like together. Powered the same RAGE technology used in Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto IV, Red Dead Redemption is slated to hit PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on April 27, 2010.

The PC beta for DICE's military shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has been delayed until "very early next year," producer Gordon Van Dyke has explained in a blog post.

A new update for Call of Duty: World at War PC is now available on FileShack, bringing Treyarch's World War II shooter up to v1.7 through a 16.48MB download. To receive the handful of multiplayer fixes contained in the patch, players must have already installed the v1.6 patch. The v1.7 dedicated server package is also available, as is a German version of the update. The changelog follows:

Video games frequently flaunt international human rights and criminal law without portraying the consequences, a study by Swiss human rights organisation TRIAL and youth rights advocate Pro Juventute Switzerland has unsurprisingly discovered.

Lawyers trained in international humanitarian, criminal and human rights law cast their legal eyes over twenty shooters including Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, 24: The Game, Far Cry 2 and "Metal Gear Soldier 4 [sic]" for the study titled 'Playing by the Rules.'

Microsoft has announced that the Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adapter revealed in September will hit North American shelves this week with a recommended price of $99.99.

The revision adds support for the 802.11n wireless protocol which Microsoft says will offer up to "two times the range and a speed seven times faster" than the previous adapter when used on an WiFi-n network.

The debut trailer for Disney's game-inspired Prince of Persia film has arrived, offering a glimpse of the Jake Gyllenhaal's antics as the titular (and time-traveling) prince. Partially written by franchise creator Jordan Mechner, directed by Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean), the film rolls out to theaters in late May. A higher quality version of the trailer is expected tomorrow--for now, uou'll have to make due with this blocky YouTube embed: