Check it out. It’s filled with lots of voice-acting goodness from FemShep voice actress Jennifer Hale.

Yeah, I think she does a much better job than Mark Meer, who voices the male version of Commander Shepard.

As you can see, it’s very similar to the Mass Effect 3 trailers we’ve seen before. If anything, it’s a little more informative. We see lots of in-game footage. There are also tons of character cameos. Aside from FemShep and Anderson, Kaidan, Liara, Jacob, Samara, Miranda, Joker and Garrus all appear. Of course, you could always argue that it’s Morinth and not Samara making the appearance.

In case you’re curious and never saw the awesome “The Many Faces of FemShep” Mass Effect 2 fan-made video, here you go.

Mass Effect 3 is less than a month away and we’ll finally get to see what happens on March 6, 2012!

Site [Mass Effect 3]

The Last Guardian will most likely not be released anytime soon. We’ve only learned a few details since it was revealed in 2009. Development on The Last Guardian hit a significant speed bump last year when designer Fumito Ueda decided to leave Sony as an employee in favor of working on a contractual basis. Since then, The Last Guardian has continued its development, but it’s a slow and steady process.

1UP spoke to Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida at DICE recently and managed to get a few more details about The Last Guardian‘s development. The good news is Ueda is still very much involved with The Last Guardian. Even though he’s a contractor now, he still puts in long hours.

“He comes in every day, and he’s probably one of the people who works the longest hours,” Yoshida said. “The project has been making progress, but slow progress. So that’s tough, but we haven’t changed any focus. It’s still a really important project and a vision we want to see realized, and Fumito’s vision is really causing a very difficult challenge for the developers, so there’s some scrapping and rebuilding — iteration in the process.”

Yoshida hopes Ueda will continue working with Sony when The Last Guardian is complete, but nothing is certain.

Via [1UP]

All you impostors out there are in for a treat. The folks at Monolith are working on the first DLC pack for Gotham City Impostors, and it’s going to be free. You can expect the DLC to go live sometime in March. Along with new content will come fixes to balance weapons, optimize maps and fix exploits.

The contents of the free DLC were detailed on the Gotham City Impostors forums. It’s a pretty extensive update too. There’s going to be a new map that takes place on the 25th floor of the Gotham Times building, two new weapons called The Falcon Blade and the Kingmaker, more costume options and a new Fun Fact called Nimble Fingers.

Players across all platforms have also been experiencing matchmaking issues since launch. These problems were also present during the beta. Once the DLC hits, Monolith promises matchmaking errors will be “a thing of the past.” Players will also be able to join matches that are already in progress.

Via [Gotham City Impostors Forums]

Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure was a really big hit for Activision. Activision said Skylanders was the single biggest new intellectual property launch in the company’s history. How big you ask? Well, Activision said Skylanders was the tenth best selling game in North America last year if you include the number of toys it sold. At this rate, Activision believes Skylanders could become its next billion dollar franchise.

It’s no secret Skylanders figurines were disappearing from store shelves shortly after being stocked. It’s not like toys were in short supply either. Activision said over 20 million Skylanders toys have been sold. This helped the Skylanders franchise bring in $200 million in revenue. The demand has been simply massive and we’re bound to see a similar response once the new Skylanders: Giants toys hit the market in the fall.

The Skylanders franchise will also come to iOS and Android, so we’ll be keeping an eye on that as well.

I know this isn’t much of a surprise, but here goes nothing. Activision has confirmed another Call of Duty game is in development for a 2012 release. We have no idea what it’ll be about or who the developer is, but chances are it’ll be released in late 2012 (probably in November). We really can’t blame Activision for doing this. After all, Call of Duty keeps setting records year after year.

During the Activision Blizzard earnings call, we learned Call of Duty Elite is the third most popular gaming-related online subscription service behind World of Warcraft and Xbox Live. By the end of January 2012, CoD Elite has over 7 million subscribers. Based on the huge success of CoD Elite, Activision will continue to expand the service for the foreseeable future.

Activision also shared a couple scant details on the free-to-play CoD game that is being developed in China. Activision says everything is going well in Shanghai and it believes the CoD MMO will be a breakthrough title in China.

If Twisted Metal isn’t enough to satisfy your need for vehicular combat, perhaps Smash ‘N’ Survive will help to fill the void. Smash ‘N’ Survive will be released on the PlayStation Network on February 22 for $14.99. It has some traditional vehicular combat weaponry, but it also utilizes environmental weapons such as tornadoes and catapults.

So far, two gameplay modes have been announced -campaign and versus. The campaign mode requires the completion of 19 primary and secondary objectives. Goodies such as new cars (over 30), maps (10 total) and game modes will unlock after successfully completing objectives.

Some of the missions have elements such as chases, territory control, escort missions and checkpoint races.

Additional modes will be revealed a little later. For now, take a look at the debut trailer.

Via [PlayStation Blog]

During CES 2012, we got a sampling on what PlayMemories Online can do. PlayMemories is essentially a suite of applications that allows you to store and edit videos and photos in Sony’s cloud. According to Andriasang, Sony will launch PlayMemories Online this spring.

The different services that accompany the PlayMemories suite can be confusing. Fortunately, everything has been broken down and detailed. Let’s examine each application separately.

PlayMemories Online

This is the heart of the suite. Media such as videos and photos are stored in the cloud and can be accessed on PC as well as iOS and Android devices. Sony will give everyone 5GB of cloud storage when it’s launched.

PlayMemories Home and PlayMemories Mobile

PlayMemories Home is a way to access and manage the media you have stored in the cloud on PC. PlayMemories Mobile does the same thing from iOS and Android devices.

PlayMemories Studio

This is a PS3 application. It will allow you to edit photos and videos on the console. This application won’t be free, but it will be attached to a 30-day trial.

Via [Andriasang] (cached)

Well that didn’t take too long did it? PC players have been rolling around in Skyrim‘s improved world since the release of patch 1.4 at the beginning of the month, but PS3 and Xbox 360 players are about to get their chance too. Bethesda tweeted not too long ago the PS3 patch for Skyrim should be available sometime tomorrow. The Xbox 360 patch should also go live early tomorrow morning.

Both platforms will benefit from the large number of general bug and quest fixes the patch will bring, but PS3 players should be especially excited about this patch. Many players have been plagued by crippling frame rate issues ever since Skyrim was released. This patch promises to correct those issues. Specifically, the patch notes say the patch improves “long term play optimizations for memory and performance.”

We’ll keep an eye on social media to see if this patch actually does fix Skyrim‘s biggest problems.

Via [Bethesda Twitter]

Good news for those of you that have decided to purchase a 3DS. GameStop has given the handheld a temporary price cut. From now until February 12, 3DS units at GameStop are $149.99 which is $20 off the original price. The price price drop applies to all 3DS models including the Pearl Pink model that releases on February 10.

It seems GameStop is trying to make the 3DS a little more attractive in time for the PS Vita First Edition Bundle release on February 15.

With the money you’ll save, you may want to put it towards the Circle Pad Pro. It’s only available from GameStop and also happens to be $20. The Circle Pad Pro sacrifices the 3DS’ portability in favor of a second analog stick. At least you won’t have to worry about changing the battery in the Circle Pad Pro for a very long time.

Here are some more deals at GameStop this week.

• Batman: Arkham City – $39.99
• Battlefield 3 – $39.99
• Kinect with The Gunstringer, and Fruit Ninja Kinect – $99.99
• 12 month Xbox Live Gold membership – $39.99
• 250GB Xbox 360 Kinect Holiday Value Bundle – $349.99

Site [GameStop]

About a year ago Activision canceled the release of True Crime: Hong Kong because the company felt the game would not bring in the buckets of money Activision has come to expect from the titles it publishes. The fate of True Crime: Hong Kong remained in limbo until Square Enix purchased the rights from Activision later in the year. Square Enix is finally ready to announce it has renamed True Crime: Hong Kong to Sleeping Dogs. The trademark that was discovered recently wasn’t for a new Kane and Lynch game after all.

Sleeping Dogs is scheduled to be released in the second half of 2012 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. It stars an undercover cop named Wei Shen who is working to take down the Triads within Hong Kong. Sleeping Dogs will retain the open-world gameplay as originally conceived. You’ll be shooting and kicking people all day in this game.

Sleeping Dogs may not sell as well as Red Dead Redemption, but it has an opportunity to still turn a profit.

Site [Sleeping Dogs]