Straight from Major Nelson's Google+ page, here what the box for Xbox One games will look like. Simple, nothing too fancy. You'll get the green border with white lettering for the Xbox One designation at the top. Now, not many games were talking about at the presentation last Tuesday, but that's what E3's for so hopefully, Microsoft lets out all the stops on game announcements then.
 

In Infinite Crisis, Warner Bros. upcoming MOBA featuring characters form the DC Universe, heroes and villains collide in a battle of alternate universes. The newest video profile features Shazam, a hero intent on being at the center of the fray to disrupt the enemy team with lightning and magical attacks.

His melee-based attacks are best used up close, although he's one of the more versatile characters, being able to switch between two forms. Check out the trailer for Shazam's full list of attacks.

Warner Bros. is also taking applications for Infinte Crisis' closed beta. Head here to sign up.

Besides BioWare RPGs, no upcoming new release makes me want to enter cryogenic stasis more than a Rockstar open-world title. GTA IV and Red Dead Redemption sit right up there with my favorite games of all time, and I have no reason to expect that GTA V will be the title that lets me down.  What GTA IV had that sucked me in was a strong sense of place, and I can feel that same sense of place oozing out of Grand Theft Auto V's screenshots.  That's like getting a sunburn from your buddy's vacation photos.  

It's really too bad that the nitrogen-flux matrix on my cryostasis machine blew out the last time I tried to use it.  Thank the Maker I was only testing it on the neighbor's cat.  The neighbors weren't happy, but at least I didn't need someone to explain to my children why their daddy was now an empty husk. 

Anyway, I'm getting off topic....  Rockstar has announced a GTA V Special and Collectors Edition and revealed their details along with pre-order bonuses.  

The GTA V Special Edition will include the full game (natch), a SteelBook filled with exclusive artwork, a Blueprint Map of Los Santos and Blaine County, the Stunt Plane Trial mini-game, bonus outfits, new weapons, and the three playable characters, Michael, Franklin, and Trevor, will receive a boost to the recharge rate on their special ability meter.  

The GTV V Special Edition will run you a cool $79.99.

The GTA V Collector's Edition includes everything in the Special Edition plus a GTA V Security Deposit Bag with Logo Key inspired by the in-game heists, a GTA V 9FIFTY Snapback Cap from New Era, custom characters to use online, unique vehicles and an in-game garage to store them in, and the game will come in a collectible outer box with the GTA V logo foil embosses across its surface and a matte, scuff-resistant film lamination.

The GTA V Collector's Edition will run you an even cooler $149.99.

Finally, everyone who pre-orders the standard game, Special Edition, or the Collector's Edition will get the in-game ability to pilot the Atomic Blimp.

You can pre-order them starting now right up until GTA V's September 17 release date or while supplies last.

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Nintendo fans can boot up their system of choice today and check out the latest batch of downloads in the Nintendo Download. The pickings are a little bit slim this week; however the reviews of the 3DS version of DKC have been through the roof. Definitely check that one out if you get the chance!

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Want the latest and greatest consumer video card? Then look no further than the GeForce GTX 780. Today, NVIDIA unveiled their latest flagship video card and it sounds like it's going to be hella fast. 

Up to 35% faster than the GeForce GTX 680, the card has 2,304 CUDA cores and 3GB of memory to give you plenty of power. It runs quieter than the previous card. With GPU Boost 2.0, you can do things like set a card to run a certain temperature and the card will adjust its clocks to make it run cooler.

GeForce Experience is a convenient piece of software to let you download game ready drivers and also adjust the games at its best settings. You don't have to do settings by hand anymore if you don't want to to get the best visual experience. 

One of the things I'm most excited about that's launching with the card is Shadow Play. Shadow Play can auto record the last 20 minutes of your gameplay and will take advantage of the video card to encode the video into H.264. It can be set always on so you don't have to even think about it. Now, there's no Twitch integration yet, but NVIDIA's going to be improving on this and if they add that in, say goodbye to buying software to do your streaming needs if you're using a NVIDIA card.

NVIDIA was extremely nice enough to send us a card so expect a review next week. If you want the card, you can grab it today for a price of $649

The fixing of SimCity continues as patch 4.0 should be delivered today. Looks like some fans of the game who purchased it early get access to a new park called SimCity Launch Park. It doesn't say what qualifies you to get this park as it just says early adopters will have access. Does it mean those that pre-ordered? Perhaps those that purchased before patch 1? Guess we'll know today. 

Leaderboards are finally back in. Sort of. They will be activated by regions so the first ones up are EU West 3, Pacific 1 and Pacific 2. The others will be rolled out in due time.

The last time I played was pre-patch 1 so it's been a while. I think I'll jump back in sometime to see how the game is after all the patching. It's got to be better, right?
 

NoecoreGames has officially launched its action RPG The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing on Valve’s Steam service. The game retails for $14.99 but is being offered for 10% until May 29.

I took a brief look at the game last week and had a lot of fun with it, although I know that I barely scratched the surface of the adventure. The final build brings the full alchemy system and the ability to design and develop your own hideout for a meta game where you face off against waves of monsters. You can check out the official launch trailer for the game below:
   

The Ignite engine is EA Sport's next-gen sports engine.  It got its first big introduction yesterday as part of the whole Xbox One (boy, that sure is nicer to type than "Xbox 360") announcement.  It upgrades rendering, physics, animations, artificial intelligence, locomotion, and pretty much everything else that makes an EA Sports game what it is.

The four titles announced that will take advantage of Ignite are Madden NFL 25, FIFA Soccer 14, NBA Live 14, and EA Sports UFC.  In these games, Ignite will allow the AI-controlled players to make more natural decisions, ostensibly the decisions an actual human would make.  Ignite can handle four times the calculations per second which, ideally, means faster decision-making at the very least.  Ignite can also handle 10-times the animations that previous engines could.  I don't even think I need to explain that one.
 
Anyway, you can watch the following video for some idea what next-gen games using Ignite will look like.

For full details, follow the jump.  You can also find EA Sports on the web and Facebook and get all the lastest news at ea.com/news.  You can also visit Madden 25, FIFA 14, NBA 14, and EA Sports UFC on the web.
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LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes comes to Wii U today, along with new features exclusive to this version.

Players can use the touch pad to view the world map off-TV, and even play the game completely on the touch pad away from the TV. Alternatively, friends can join to play separately on the television screen and touch pad. 

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super heroes is already available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PC and 3DS.



 

Warner Bros. released their newest DLC today for Injustice: Gods Among Us, bringing Batgirl to Xbox Live Marketplace for 400 Microsoft points. The DLC will release May 22 for $4.99 on PSN. 

Available alongside the Batgirl DLC is the Red Suns skin pack. This add-on features several skins from the Soviet alternate reality of Superman from the Red Son graphic novel. The Killing Joke Batman skin will also be available. Both are 240 Microsoft points or $2.99.



 

...because you will still need it if you want to play your current generation games. The Xbox ONE will not be backwards compatible with Xbox 360 software according to Microsoft’s Marc Whitten. In an interview with The Verge (via Polygon), Whitten noted that the systems new architecture makes it impossible for the current software to be run natively on the console. It is unknown if streaming measures will be taken in the future to address this situation, much like Sony is doing with the PlayStation 4.