Is a game published by Ubisoftand due for release in 2012^. Excluding expansions, it is the fourth installment in the Ghost Recon series, and was announced to be in development by Ubisoft on January 22, 2009. The game will be a futuristic take on the Ghost Recon series.

The story will take place in Norway the Middle East and Asia. The Ghosts will be fighting an Ultra-nationalist force that took control of Russia and are invading neighboring countries. The player will take control of a 4-man Ghost squad consisting of a commando (Kozak), a sniper (Pepper), a reconnaissance expert (30k), and an engineer (Bones).

The Wii and PSP versions have different storylines.

The game is a third person shooter for most of the game, but when the player stops or enters a key location, the game switches to a first person camera in order to utilize more precise aiming.  Also, the cover can be partially destroyed, forcing the players to constantly seek other hiding spots. A new feature in the series is the "optical camouflage",  which allows the Ghosts to become instantly invisible. According to the game designer Rafael Morado, the optical camo technology, however, is still a prototype and there are as many disadvantages as there are advantages and its use will initially be extremely limited.  According to writer Gabrielle Shrager, it is also possible to control drones.

 Ubisoft announced that Future Soldier would be delayed once again for an April 2011 – March 2012 release.

Mass Effect 3

Is an upcoming action role play game, developed by Bioware and published by Electronic Arts for PC,  Xbox 360 and Playstaion 3.  Officially announced on December 11, 2010,  it is scheduled for a Q1 2012 release  and will mark the third and final chapter in the Mass Effect Trilogy Game.

Mass Effect 3 is currently in development. The player will control Commander Shepard and try to save the galaxy from the Reapers by rallying civilizations of the galaxy together, while also having to deal with Cerberus, who have decided to turn against him/her.  

A teaser trailer is also available.

Mass Effect 3 will begin with Commander Shepard on Earth for trial as a result of events from the Mass Effect 2 DLC pack Arrival.  During the trial, Earth is attacked by Reapers. Faced with insurmountable odds, Shepard is forced to flee the planet in order to gather support from alien civilizations and mount a counter-attack while also having to deal with Cerberus, who have decided to turn against him/her.
In an interview with PSM3 Magazine Casey Hudson said of the plot, "Mass Effect 3, in simple terms, a little more like the first game. You're collecting pieces of a story, but the more you investigate and explore these themes, the more the game will unlock and you'll see the bigger picture. In a way, it's more of a traditional story where you're learning about things and the plot changes as you find things out.

The Dark Eye: Demonicon

Is an upcoming fantasy-themed role play for the Xbox 360 and PC, and is to be published by The Games Company and developed in-house by Silver Style Entertainment.

The game will feature the original ruleset and game world of Dark Eye series.

The publisher TGC went into administration in summer 2010 and publisher Kalypso Media bought the IP and took over 17 developers of the Silver Style Studio and founded the third inhouse Kalypso development studio named Noumena Studios. The team has now 35 developers and the game will be released in 2012 for PC and Xbox 360.

BioShock Infinite

Is an upcoming first person shooter, and the third game in the Bioshock series. Previously known as "Project Icarus", it is being developed by Irrational Games for a 2012 release on the PC, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360  platforms^. BioShock Infinite is not a direct sequel or prequel to previous BioShock games, taking place in an earlier period and different setting, though it features similar gameplay concepts and themes. The player controls a former Pinkerton agent, Booker DeWitt, as he attempts to rescue a woman trapped aboard the collapsing air-city Columbia in 1912.

The events of the game take place in 1912. The player assumes the identity of Booker DeWitt, a disgraced former agent of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency  who was dismissed for behavior beyond the acceptable bounds of the Agency. He is hired by mysterious individuals, aware of Columbia's location, and tasked to infiltrate the air-city and rescue a young woman named Elizabeth, who has been held aboard the air-city for the last twelve years^. 

Though DeWitt finds Elizabeth easily enough, he quickly discovers that Elizabeth is central to the civil war raging in the city as each faction seeks to use Elizabeth to turn the tide of the conflict in their favor, forcing DeWitt and Elizabeth to trust each other in order to escape^.  To complicate matters, the pair is chased by Songbird, a large, robotic bird-like creature who had been Elizabeth's friend and warden over the last twelve years of her imprisonment. 

Songbird was designed by its creator to feel betrayal should Elizabeth escape, comparable to an "abusive husband", according to Hilary Goldstein of IGN and Elizabeth notes she "would rather be killed than be recaptured by Songbird^".

In addition to the internal strife, Columbia is ravaged by tears in the Fabric of space time.

A strange shimmering effect as seen by DeWitt causes momentary changes to pictures, banners, and people, representing the nearby presence of a tear. The tears have brought seemingly-anacronistic elements into the Columbia of 1912; for example, an early gameplay demo footage features a record player in a bar plays a woman singing the lyrics to Tears for fears' "Everybody wants to rule the world".  1up.com 's preview of the 2011 E3 game demonstration denotes that one point, DeWitt and Elizabeth find themselves in 1983, a result of a misfire of Elizabeth's powers involving tears in the fabric of space-time when she tries to help revive a horse.

Though the game takes place before the events of the previous two BioShock games (occurring in 1960 and 1968), Irrational Games has not confirmed if BioShock Infinite shares the same universe with these titles; Ken Levine left the question of the possibility unanswered in an interview stemming from the game's announcement

Planet Michael

Is a planned MMORPG inspired by the music, videos, and life of Michael Jackson.  It is being developed by See Digital Studios AB and will be published by See Virtual Worlds LLC The game is scheduled for release in late 2011.

Planet Michael is based within the Entropia Universe. It is a 3D internet virtual environment with an integrated economic system.

Planet Michael is a free-to-download game that will let players customize their own avatars, perhaps with red Thriller jackets and sequined gloves. Players will be able to spend money on items, and some virtual objects earned and created in the world can be traded or sold to others^.

Martin Biallas, CEO of SEE Virtual Worlds, has stated that "game play will focus on Jackson's dance moves and adhere to his credo of nonviolence, a departure from other online multiplayer games such as "World of Warcraft." The game will also allow for charitable contributions.

SEE Digital Studios AB and SEE Virtual Worlds, LLC are divisions of Special Entertainment Events, Inc. (SEE), based in Los Angeles, California. SEE is an entertainment company focused on creating virtual world video games as well as touring attractions.

Founder and CEO Martin Biallas first moved to the United States in 1975 as an exchange student during his last year of high school. He attended the University of Michigan, and later moved to Hollywood, California in 1982.

He formed an international entertainment company specializing in securing American talent for international tours. He later expanded the company’s focus to include European stars, most notably German film actress and singer Hildegard Knef. Biallas also partnered with Woodstock co-creator Michael Lang to create Bi-Continental Management, a talent management agency encompassing a roster of talent including Tina Turner, Liza Minnelli, Joe Cocker, Duran Duran, Barry White, Eartha Kitt, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Shirley Bassey, the Pointer Sisters, the Beijing Opera, the Bolshoi Ballet and Nena.

Biallas's company began incorporating touring exhibitions in 1996 when he worked with Paramount Pictures to promote and organize the 30th anniversary of the Star Trek franchise across the United States and Europe. The company then went on to create the Titanic Movie Tour in 1999.

In 2009, SEE expanded into the virtual realm of video games with the creation of subsidiary SEE Virtual Worlds.

In late 2010, SEE Virtual Worlds and Universal Pictures announced the development of a Universal Monsters MMOG, that will bring classic Frankenstein, Wolfman, The Mummy, Dracula, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and other monsters of the past up-to-date. Players will act as Van Helsing and track down the villains in their lairs. In regards to the partnership, Martin Biallas has stated that "partnering with Universal allows us to revive the horror genre for the 21st century by introducing timeless film franchise characters into an interactive platform.

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Is the third game in the Uncharted series, created by Naughty dog for the Playstation 3, and due for release in North America on November 1, 2011, Europe on November 4, 2011 and Australia on Q4 2011.

Creative director Amy Hennig has explained that the desire for a desert-themed Uncharted stemmed from wanting to push the team creatively and technologically, as "organic" elements such as sand, water, and fire are "technically difficult to credibly render with animation".

New features in Uncharted 3 will include "enhanced backward climbing", automatic ammunition pickup, and the ability to fight multiple enemies at once^. Enemy AI is improved, providing the ability for enemies to form squads^. Multiplayer and co-op features will also be greatly expanded. It will also support stereoscopic 3D^.

Game director Justin Richmond explained that the game will feel more open than other Uncharted games. "We're not an open-world game, we're never going to be an open-world game. It's still up in the air how much gameplay we're going to let you wander around. But we're never going to let you just ride a thousand miles off into the middle of nowhere. Ultimately the feel we want to get is, yeah, you're lost in the desert. So it needs to feel like that. But it's not going to feel open-world."

Naughty Dog said "A Great Move game is a game made around Move and we started Uncharted long before that. It would be very difficult for us to adjust it. We tried a couple of things but it wasn’t making a lot of sense."

Naughty Dog community strategist, Arne Meyer, has said that Uncharted 3 is created like a Hollywood film. The Uncharted series has received praise for its movie-like sections, which Naughty Dog hopes to continue to work on.

Twisted Metal

Sometimes referred to as "Twisted Metal PS3" is an upcoming 2011 Vehicle combat  Video Game developed by Eat Sleep Play and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for the Playstation 3 video games console. It is the eighth installment in the series of the Same name. The game is set to be released on October 4, 2011.

The game focuses heavily on multiplayer combat, including various online game modes with up to 4 player split-screen and 16-players online. For example, the Nuke Mode is a new online game mode where you choose a faction to play against an opposing faction. In this mode, each faction has a giant metal statue that is being held in the air by a helicopter, which the opposing team must try to destroy. In order to destroy these statues, the player must abduct the enemy team's leader, then sacrifice the leader to a missile launcher that will, in turn, launch a nuclear missile. The person who sacrifices the leader and launches the missile has to control it to hit the opposing teams statue in the air. In order to win the opposing team has to repeat the process 3 times before the statue is destroyed for a team to win. Four factions have been revealed so far: the Clowns, the Dolls, the Skulls, and the Preachers. The former having been announced as being inspired by Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal series) and Dollface (Twisted Metal: Black) respectively. The latter are assumably led by Mr. Grimm (Twisted Metal series) and The Preacher (Twisted Metal: Black) respectively.

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North

Is a role-play action game in development by Snowblind Studios.  It is based on the events taking place in the northern regions of Middle Earth  in the background of the main story of J.R.R Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings  Players will take control of a hero of the war, and will be able to play through the game alone or cooperatively with other players, with the ability adjust the percentage of experience the co-op partner receives.

In a preview article in Playstation magazine, it was discussed that players will have certain skills that are upgradeable, characters that can be customized, and conversations play out similarly to Mass effect without the moral ramifications.

The game is scheduled for release in North America on August 24, 2011. The game will feature stronger graphic violence than previous Lord of the Rings games and is expected to be the first game in the series to receive an M rating from the ESRB.

The Darkness II

      

Is the upcoming sequel to 2007's The Darkness.  It will be developed by Digital Extremes, published by 2K Games and written by Paul Jenkins. It will be released in late 2011 for PC, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3.

The Darkness II has similar game play as the first game, but in the sequel there is a new tactic called "quad wielding". It allows lead character Jackie to use his darkness powers while at the same time use firearms. There is more focus on the aspect of darklings, with there now being only one primary darkling which will hold greater importance and will be more involved in the storyline. It has been revealed that it will be able to interact with the environment by using items such as a workers drill to attack and torture your enemies and it will also be able to use standard weaponry such as pistols to attack or threaten them. Jackie can use the environment for help and can do actions such as use car doors as shields and parking meters to impale things^. Unlike in the first game, you will be able to use your weaponry and darkness abilities in public places.

The game textures will be more aligned to the comic book and are designed using a Cel-shading  technique, similar to the style used in Boarderlands, to give this effect. There will also be the ability to use your demon arms for 'finishing moves', whereas the player can execute the enemy in ways such as ripping people into two, and your darkling can also use special attacks, such as urinating acid on enemies. The character and player will feel more uncomfortable in light, with exposure to light resulting in blurring of vision occupied with a high pitched ringing^. Light will be more of a physical threat as well with there having a 'light vs darkness' feel. The voice of The Darkness will again be voiced by musician Mike Patton, however the voice of Jackie Estacado Kirk Acevedo has been replaced by Nolan North.

The Darkness II takes place two years later in the life of Jackie Estacado, the current wielder of the darkness who has used his powers to become the Don of the Franchetti crime family, and for The Darkness II his characteristics have been said to be more "well rounded". He has been unable to shake the thoughts of his dead girlfriend Jenny since he contained his supernatural powers and now the Darkness "wants out". A sudden, unprovoked attack on Jackie’s life heralds the start of a full-scale mob war, which has clearly been orchestrated by some outside force. The assassination attempt reawakens the Darkness, sending Jackie on a trip to hell and back as he discovers the mystery of the attack and motivations of the Darkness itself.

So far there have been two demos that have been released exclusively to game critics and have been received with high praise. The first depicts Jackie being crucified and torched by a mob who want him to give up his darkness powers. The second one shows Jackie experiencing an unexpected attack in a restaurant and then ultimately having a gun fight on the railway lines before being struck by an oncoming train.

Spider-Man: Edge of Time

   

Is an upcoming video game by the Activision-owned developer Beenox.  The game is written by Peter David,  and will feature a new "cause-and-effect" gameplay system where one of Spider-Man's actions will effect the other or vice versa. It is set to arrive in Fall 2011. Information on the game was released at Wondercon on April 2, 2011. This is the second Spider-Man title to be developed by Beenox, following Spiderman:Shatterd Dimentions of 2010, and the first released since Activision's decision to make Beenox the lead developer on all future Spider-Man games.

The plot revolves around the player switching between timelines of Marvel 2099 Universes, playing as both Peter Parker/Spiderman and Miguel O" Hara/Spiderman 2099 , to try and prevent a catastrophe resulting from Peter Parker's untimely death, caused by an evil scientist from the 2099 universe.   It has been stated  that the actions of Peter Parker can affect the the world of Miguel O'Hara. An example of this is that if Peter Parker was to destroy a robot prototype, the finished robot would not exist in Miguel O'Hara's time.

Spec Ops: The Line

    

Is an upcoming third person shooter video game being developed by Yager Development and published by 2K games.  The game is the ninth installment in the long-running Spec Ops series and it set to release sometime in 2012. The game will release on the PC, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360  platforms. It was officially announced at Spike Video Game Awards  on December 12, 2009. The game is inspired by Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of darkness.


Although in the Spec Ops series, The Line does not take any story elements from previous games, but rather introduces its own storyline. The game will follow the story of player character Captain Martin Walker (Voiced by Nolan North) as he is sent into a post-apocalyptic Dubai with an elite Delta Force bravo team. Previously, Dubai was a wealthy area with many high profile citizens until catastrophic sandstorms left a majority of the city buried. This caused many to evacuate, leaving only a few behind. One of the people left behind was U.S. Army Colonel John Konrad (a reference to the author of Heart of Darkness; Joseph Conrad), a founding member of Delta Force, who refused to evacuate from a training facility in the city and instead remained behind with the men under his command to help protect the citizens that could not evacuate. After several weeks of no contact, the Army fears that Col. Konrad and his men are lost to the destruction of the city until a weak distress signal is picked up. This gives the Army reason to deploy the player and their squad, who must infiltrate the city, neutralize outlaws and survive sandstorms as they attempt to determine what happened to Konrad and his men. Through the narrative in the trailer and sound clips from the game's website it is hinted that Konrad may not have entirely genuine motivations for remaining in Dubai against orders.

Batman: Arkham City

   

Is the upcoming sequel to action adventure stealth video game Batman Arkham Asylum, based onDC Comics ' Batman, for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. It is being developed by Rocksteady Studios, and published by Warner Bros Entertainment and DC Comics. The game was officially announced during the beginning of the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards and is scheduled to be released worldwide the week of October 18, 2011.

The story for Arkham City takes place about one year after the events of Arkham Asylum^. Quincy Sharp, former warden of Arkham Asylum has taken credit for stopping the Joker, and used the notoriety to become mayor of Gotham City As neither Arkham nor Blackgate Prison are in any condition to detain inmates, Sharp buys out a large section of Gotham's slums and arms the perimeter with private military contractors from a group called Tyger in order to create "Arkham City". The prisoners are brought into Arkham City and are given free rein, as long as they do not attempt escape. To oversee the city, Sharp hires psychiatrist Hugo Strange who appears to have his own secret agenda for the city. Batman maintains a vigil over the city, worried that the situation may get out of hand. Part of the setup for "Arkham City" was contained in plans in a hidden room in Sharp's office in Arkham Asylum.

The events of the game are set in motion when Two-face seeking to gain status among the inmates and other villains outside the city, devises a plan to publicly execute Catwoman,  Batman decides for both the safety of Gotham and of his past relationship with Catwoman that he must stop the execution by entering Arkham City.

A teaser trailer was released that featured Joker being nursed by Harley Quinn  from the effects of the Titan formula while Gotham descends into chaos. The sequel was confirmed by Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy  to be "really, really dark". While relating the game's dark nature to the animated movie Batman beyond: Return of the joker  Conroy also said, "It involves a lot of the villains and it goes to that area – it's that dark.

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad

Is an upcoming WWII themed First person shooter Video game developed and published by Tripwire Interactive,  It is a sequel to Red Orchestra:Ostfront 41-45. The title will focus heavily on the Battle Of Stallingrad, Officially there is no exact release date. Currently Tripwire can only say that it will be released in 2011^.  The developers have stated that the game will be a PC exclusive and have no plans to bring it to the consoles. The game will contain many new features including a new first person cover system combined with blind firing, first person collision detection as well as an entire new system of statistics tracking and enabling player development.

Tripwire announced an expansion to the game in May, 2010, titled 
Rising Storm, It will focus on thePacific Campaign of World War II.

Silent Hill: Downpour

Is an upcoming Survival Horror game and the eighth installment in the Silent Hill series. Initially bearing the tentative title Silent Hill 8, the game was developed by Vatra Games and will be published by Konami Digital Entertainment for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 in late 2011.

Shinji Hirano, President of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. is quoted saying: "In honoring the rich history and strong following of Silent Hill, we're working hard to build a next-generation horror game the fans truly deserve... This Silent Hill introduces an all-new storyline and unique evolutions in gameplay, building on innovations and successes from over a decade of true survival horror and terror.

According to Konami, Silent Hill: Downpour's camera will remain primarily in a Third Person Perspective. The game will feature the "mind-bending" puzzles and "thought-provoking storyline" that launched the series into mainstream fame, and will provide a "deep psychological horror experience" with multiple side-quests depending on the player's in-game decisions and behavior^. The Player  will only be able to carry one weapon at a time and these weapons may break. Downpour will also include puzzle difficulty selections. Buildings featured in previous installments of the series, such as a hospital and a school, will be excluded. The element of water will be holding a prominent role, with torrential rain being featured.

Silent Hill: Downpour's plot follows player character Murphy Pendleton, a prisoner who is stranded in the Town of Silent Hill  after the prison transport vehicle he is being transported with careens off a road^. The game's events take place in the southeastern region of Silent Hill, which has never been explored in previous games in the series, and the plot will be unrelated to previous installments.

Hitman: Absolution

Is the upcoming fifth title in the Hitman Series by producer, 10 Interactive,  Hitman: Absolution will be the first game in the series to be published by Square Enix, after their 2009 acquisition of Eidos Interactive. The game will be available for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.  Notably, it is the series' debut on the PlayStation 3 console. Hitman: Absolution will run on IO Interactive's proprietary Glacier 2 game engine, combining classic Hitman game mechanics with brand new mechanics. The game's story will further delve into the mysterious life of Agent 47  the series' protagonist. Hitman.

                                                 

Hitman: Absolution in Europe, leading sites to speculate that it would be the name of the fifth Hitman game.  On 6 May 2011 a teaser trailer was released, confirming the title: Hitman Absolution. The short, 27 second trailer, briefly showed Agent 47 attaching a suppressor and a rattle snake coiled around his signature Silverballer pistol^. It has been reported the game will be "familiar and yet  significantly different experience from other Hitman Games.

Agent 47’s handler, Diana Burnwood, is rumoured to have a “close relationship” with 47 in Absolution. 

The main antagonist is revealed to be Blake Dexter, a new character to the series. The character will be voiced by Keith Karradine.

It has been confirmed by the developers that the game is only going to be set in the US with one portion taking place in Chicargo The other locations as of yet remain unconfirmed.

The game will be released around 2012.

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

Is an upcoming 2011 Third Person Shooter for Playstation 3, Xbox and PC, co-developed by Slant Six Games and Capcom, and currently scheduled for a release in late 2011. It is part of the Resident Evil series. Capcom estimates that Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City will sell 2.5 million copies worldwide.

The game takes place during the events of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 Nemesis, and is set in Raccoon City, whose residents have been turned into zombies after an outbreak of the T-virus, a biological weapon illegally developed by the pharmaceutical company Umbrella. The story is a reinterpretation of the events that occured in the original games, changing certain facts in the series. Players will take the role of either an officer of the Umbrella Security Service (USS), or a member of a United States Special Operations task-force. Both have vastly different objectives: Members of the USS are tasked with destroying evidence of Umbrella's illegal activities, including killing survivors of the outbreak, while the Special Operations team has to expose the actions of the company. Operation Raccoon City will allow the player to make decisions that could have major repercussions on the series' storyline, such as causing the death of Resident Evil 2 protagonist Leon.S.Kennedy.

There are four playable characters in the game, Vector, Spectre, Beltway, and Bertha. Each have their own unique abilities; Vector is the team's recon expert and is equipped with a cloaking ability, Beltway is proficient in the use of explosives, Bertha is the medic who can heal her comrades, and Spectre is the team's surveillance class. Alongside the single-player mode, the game will also offer four-player co-operative gameplay, which pits the USS against the US Special Operations task-force.

F.E.A.R. 3

(Stylized in the logo as F.3.A.R) is an upcoming first person-shooter developed by Day 1 Studios for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC as a sequel to the game F.E.A.R 2 Project Origin, and the third installment of the F.E.A.R. series. It was announced on April 8, 2010 and is stated to include John Carpenter helping on the cinematics as well as writer Steve Niles Originally scheduled for a 2010 release, a delay to March 2011 was announced followed by a further delay to May 2011. On the 27th of April 2011, Warner Bros. announced yet another delay to the title; Pushing it back to June 21st in North America and June 24th in the UK