Rockstar Pre-order

Pre-order bonuses have been around for a long time now and usually consist of a small incentive to give fans and other potential customers a reason to play the game on day one. Recently, many pre-order bonuses have been extra digital content available within games, such as extra cosmetic items or perks to be used whilst playing.

Rockstar are giving players a little more though; they will be shipping a t-shirt worth $20 to anyone who pre-orders from their online store, Rockstar warehouse.

The offer is only available for those in North America, which is slightly unfortunate for the rest of the globe. However, if you are living in North America and haven't

Metal Gear Solid 4 25th Anniversary

Konami has recently announced an anniversary edition for Metal Gear Solid 4, celebrating the 25^th birthday of the Metal Gear series, dating back to the original Metal Gear game for the MSX PC console which was released in 1987.

The 25^th Anniversary edition follows on from the HD collection released last year, where Konami have redefined games solely for the series' loyal fans. However, those who were new to the series after purchasing the HD remastered games on an Xbox 360 console for the first time may be disappointed to hear that unlike the HD collection, the 25^th Anniversary Edition Metal Gear Solid 4 game

New Mass Effect 3 DLC Released

Bioware is still churning out the DLC, and this time Omega - a new DLC featuring singleplayer content - has been released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Although there has been a fair amount of multiplayer content, extra singleplayer missions have rarely been added, so if you are more interested in the stories within the Mass Effect universe over the social aspects of multiplayer gameplay, the new Omega DLC will be a good addition to the game for you.

Omega adds new characters and allies and takes Commander Shephard's relationship with Aria T'Loak a little further as they team up to plot revenge on Aria's own domain,

Bungie's New Game: Destiny

Earlier this week a leaked document from Bungie Headquarters showed the background and concept art of their upcoming game.

The basic story deals with a futuristic human race that, after colonizing the stars has been fought back by an alien race to Earth. The only thing left is one city that is being protected by a giant alien space ship, from a different alien, hovering above that city.

"A massive, mysterious alien ship hangs overhead like a second moon. No one knows where it came from or what it's here for, but only that it's our protector," One of the passages in the concept art said.

Call of Duty Reigns Supreme

Halo 4 may have been released one week before Black Ops 2 but it remained in second place this Black Friday week in the amount of players online according to Major Nelson.

In that same top five bracket was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in fourth place trailing behind Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition.

The original Call of Duty: Black Ops sits at sixth place while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 reigns at ninth place.

If you've been a fan of the wacky FPS for a while now, then you've probably heard talk about a new HD remake collection of all the previous games, and now Crytek, the new developers of Timesplitters, have heard talk too, and they want to know how many people are interested in a new remake for the classic first person shooter.

Free Radical were the original developers of the Timesplitters series, but back in 2009 Crytek bought them out after the world had decided that they prefer more realistic games like Call of Duty or Battlefield 3, to the inane cartoony gameplay from the Timesplitters series.

However, CEO of Crytek, Cevat Yerli, has made a small statement about a possible future HD collection, but it's very much down to the player's input. Cevat has said, "There's a very hardcore market that is very verbal about it. I would love to see this, and if the fan base approves a further petition. They're trying to call 300,000 voices; I think it's at two or three thousand right

For most of you, max Prestige isn't something you will be reaching for a good few months, but for one gamer, he has set a goal to be the first to reach prestige in Black Ops 2. Ernest Le became the first player in the world to max prestige in Modern Warfare 3, and he's back at it again with Black Ops 2.

Ernest, who's teamed up with GoldGlove, TmarTn and Jericho, will be playing and live streaming Black Ops 2 twenty four hours a day. The stream can be found at Twitch.tv and has so far received over 5 million unique viewers.

For most, achieving a goal like this would have to take more than just a passion for playing video games, but a huge amount of dedication and trying to reach max prestige before anyone else will be difficult. Thousands of others are reaching for max prestige as well, with some players also playing on a 24/7 game stream.

You're probably thinking that playing Black Ops 2 every single day practically non-stop is a little strange, but Ernest Le's Twitch

After the delay due to Hurricane Sandy, Rockstar has finally released the second trailer for GTA 5. The new trailer depicts the world of GTA 5, and flashes between the three characters that you will play as in the game. Straight away, it's easy to note how far Rockstar have worked on the story of the game, and I think the characters are going to feel more lifelike and humorous than ever before. On top of the realism within the three main characters storylines, the graphics are top-notch too, and although the trailer mainly showed cut scenes within the game, the graphics in GTA 5 will probably be a big improvement from Grand Theft Auto 4.

Grand Theft Auto 5 will take players back to San Andreas, where the story progresses between the three separate characters' lives as they weave in and out of each others stories, creating a huge, well-constructed single player experience. On top of the huge storyline, the total land space of Grand Theft Auto five will be four times that of Grand

Bungie were very nice to the Halo Reach community, and were always fine tuning the matchmaking playlists to make players' gameplay experiences ever more improved. Bungie went as far as to change some of the weapon mechanics, which is a huge deal when applying this to an Xbox 360 game that had been out for over a year. 343 Industries hasn't mentioned any such game-changing plans, but they are adding and rotating the War Games playlists each week. Last week 343 added SWAT to the mix, which for many was a great relief, and it's quickly become one of the most played playlists on War Games matchmaking.

Next week 343 will be adding Team Snipers, which will be playable on Longbow, Complex, Solace, Ragnarok, Vortex, Exile and Meltdown. Similarly to SWAT, players will be able to choose between predefined load outs, although so far secondary weapons have not been included.

A few other changes have also been applied to matchmaking, and although there isn't anything too interesting, these

Saints Row the Third

If you haven't played the third installment of the Saints Row series yet, or you didn't want to buy the extra downloadable content the first time round, this may be a great time for you.

The Full Package pretty much contains what it says on the tin. The new premier edition will include the three extra download content mission packs; Genkibowl VII, Gangstas in Space and 'The Trouble with Clones.' On top of that, all of the DLC items will be included, as well as a bonus thirty new items, including new vehicles weapons and costumes.

The Full package was released in USA on November 6^th, and the rest