Xbox Live Gold access has already been granted to everyone until February 5, but we won’t have to wait too long before free Gold access will become available again. The Mass Effect 3 demo, which will be released on February 14, will unlock Xbox Live Gold until the full game launches on March 6.

The PlayStation Store update for this week contains a couple multiplayer demos for Twisted Metal and Syndicate. While I can’t speak on how steady the servers are with Syndicate, myself and others have experienced connection issues with the Twisted Metal multiplayer demo. Fortunately, Sony is actively working on getting everything straightened out.

The Gotham City Impostors beta is going on right now for anyone that’s interested in trying a multiplayer shooter with a unique premise. Batman is away fighting the worst of Gotham City’s villains, so the overzealous citizens of Gotham have decided to fight crime in their own way. Ordinary guys and gals dressed in Batman more »

The Xbox Live Marketplace website has provided the internet with more Resident Evil 6 details that Capcom failed to share. Resident Evil 6 will apparently have offline and online multiplayer. The offline multiplayer mode will support two-player co-op and the online multiplayer mode will support between two and eight players. Interestingly enough, the online multiplayer more »

We’ve got two bits of information about Starhawk to share with you today. First, Starhawk will be released on May 8, 2012. Secondly, the public beta for Starhawk‘s multiplayer mode begins today. The beta is only open to select players right now, but everyone will be able to take part in the beta on February more »

Following the leak of the Mass Effect 3 beta and really big story spoilers, BioWare filled gamers in on a lot of new details regarding ME3‘s online component. PC gamers will need to make sure their internet is alive and well before they try to start playing ME3. The game will require an internet connection the first time you start it up. This method is usually meant to check whether or not the game is a legit copy and wasn’t pirated from somewhere. After you jump through that hoop, you’ll be free to play as much ME3 your heart desires without needing an internet connection.

A couple days ago, Microsoft accidently released an unfinished beta version of Mass Effect 3. The beta was made available to some individuals that signed up for and were accepted into the Xbox Live Fall Preview Program. The nearly 2GB file contained access to the multiplayer and single-player portions of ME3. The beta is no longer available and its modes have been deactivated. However, new information was obtained during the brief window of the beta’s existence.

March 6, 2012 seems so far away. That’s the date Mass Effect 3 will be released. On one hand, it’s good the game made its way out of an already super crowded holiday 2011 season. On the other hand, it’s Mass Effect 3 and we want it now. Come January 2012, EA and BioWare will release a Mass Effect 3 demo that showcases the games multiplayer and single-player modes. If you purchase Battlefield 3, you’ll get early access to the multiplayer demo.

BioWare has a little thing called the BioWare Pulse. It’s a little video show that comes out periodically, providing information about new and forthcoming BioWare releases. Well, a new episode has just been released and it’s about the most talked about new feature for Mass Effect 3, the cooperative Galaxy at War multiplayer mode.

Let’s just jump right in and watch Casey Hudson and David Silverman talk about Galaxy at War…

BioWare put all the speculation about Mass Effect 3‘s multiplayer to rest recently. An optional co-op multiplayer mode will be a part of the game. In it, you’ll control characters of different races that aren’t a part of Shepard’s main squad. You’ll take on missions that will directly influence the overall ending of Mass Effect 3. If you want to take part in this, you’ll have to purchase the game brand new.