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Absolutely gorgeous artwork for Batman: Arkham Knight.

Game Informer’s Resident Evil 6 variant.  The August edition of the magazine is to feature six varying covers, a different game each.

Rev your lancers for the proper announcement of Gears of War: Judgement.  Apparently starring younger versions of our favorite muscle-headed COGs Cole and Baird, Epic Games is handing off development duties to People Can Fly (you may recall their previous dick joke opus, Bulletstorm, from early last year).  The title screams prequel and the quasi-finality of GoW3 supports this theory (besides, look at those baby faces up there – these guys definitely have lighter kill tallies than when we first met them in 2006).

Both Monday’s Microsoft conference and July’s Game Informer will shine some iridescent Imulsion light on this installment, so stay alert, gears.

Game Informer Cover Teasing Next Gears of War

You thought Microsoft would come to E3 without packing the big guns?  For shame.  Game Informer admits they typically like revealing what game is featured as their cover story the week before their magazine stuffs your mailbox with editorial goodness.  But in a courtesy gesture to Epic and Microsoft, we won’t get to know what this Gears is, or even what it’s called, until Monday’s E3 conference where the publisher will officially announce the title.

At a glance, I’m guessing the neon-handcuffed figure is a young Marcus Fenix – we first meet Marcus in a prison cell during the opening moments of Gears of War 1 – and that this new installment is actually a prequel.  Anyone recall those murmurs way back when about a new prequel trilogy?  Those rumors circulated around the fact that Bulletstorm’s dev house, People Can Fly, were to take over the GoW series, finally putting us in the midst of the often referenced Pendulum Wars.

That Was Quick, Internet:  The Elder Scrolls Online Screens and Info Leaked

A PDF of Game Informer Online’s June edition looks to have been leaked early (and when I say “leaked,” I mean downright poured), unleashing the entire featured write-up on Bethesda’s run at the MMO market, Elder Scrolls Online.  Included in the article were several concept and in-game images from the game.  With the MMORPG’s announcement, Game Informer promised fans would get a singular glimpse at the new game today.  Instead, nineteen images surfaced.  That’s more than sneaking a peek; that’s lifting up the game’s skirt and snapping photos.

I don’t imagine Game Informer is anywhere within the realm of pleased regarding the leak.  If this was an accident, hopefully no one’s job security (or life) comes into harm’s way.  I can assure the magazine’s staff and Bethesda that we all feel really very guilty about all the screens our eyeballs are enjoying.  Sorry for the, uh, whole photo and skirts thing.