In Mass Effect 3, an ancient alien race known only as Reapers, has launched an all-out invasion of the galaxy, leaving nothing but a trail of destruction in their wake. Earth has been taken, the galaxy is on the verge of total annihilation, and you are the only one who can stop them. The price of failure is extinction. You, as Commander Shepard, must lead the counter assault to take it back. Only you can determine how events will play out, which planets you will save from annihilation and which alliances you will form or abandon as you rally the forces of the galaxy to eliminate the Reaper threat once and for all. Battle with your comrades or even your own friends in this all-out galactic war to take Earth back. With co-op online multiplayer missions new to the Mass Effect universe , you can choose from a variety of classes and races, form an elite Special Forces squad, and combine weapons, powers and abilities to devastating effect as you all fight together to liberate key territories from enemy control in this third entry of the epic intergalactic RPG franchise.

In the post-apocalyptic action/adventure I Am Alive, players are faced with thought-provoking choices in the role of a survivor on a journey to find his wife and daughter, who were lost during the "Event." Arriving at his hometown of Haventon one year after it happened, he finds the town in shambles. Buildings are destroyed, toxic ash fills the streets, and society has been torn, causing inhabitants to take all necessary actions to survive. In I Am Alive, players will be challenged by both their environment and their enemies. Stamina and resource management are key when being exposed to deadly atmospheres and scaling enormous buildings in search of supplies. The unique combat system requires players to utilize intimidation: cowards are easily swayed with an empty gun, while other enemies will put players to the test.

The pioneers that brought you the award-winning PlayStation Network titles flOw & Flower are back with another title that challenges traditional gaming conventions. With Journey, thatgamecompany (TGC) continues its tradition of delivering simple gameplay and accessible controls in a rich interactive environment that invites players to explore and experience emotional chords that are still uncommon in videogames. An exotic adventure with a more serious tone, Journey presents a unique vision of an online adventure experience. Awakening in an unknown world, the player walks, glides, and flies through a vast and awe-inspiring landscape, while discovering the history of an ancient, mysterious civilization along the way. Journey's innovative approach to online play encourages players to explore this environment with strangers who cross their path from time to time. By traveling together, they can re-shape the experience -- creating authentic moments they will remember and discuss with others.

Armored Core V revolutionizes the series with a completely new atmosphere and a strong multiplayer component to compliment its single player mode. In addition, the online mode has been completely redesigned to focus on battles on a global scale, based on team play, absolutely immense. With mechs that are smaller than the previous chapters, Armored Core V is more focused on tactics used effectively geography level rather than relying only on the attacks.

Ninja Gaiden 3 offers for the first time a look at the world through Hayabusa’s eyes, showing what drives him to fight, and kill. At the center of the conflict this time around is a masked man whose motivations and goals are unclear. Through mysterious powers, he changes Hayabusa – and the lines between hero and villain, good and evil, are blurred forever. Featuring a new story, new gameplay and new modes, Ninja Gaiden 3 marks a new direction in this fan-favorite franchise. Team Ninja aims to change the way fans think about ninja and Hayabusa in this game, and promise that they’ll know what it feels like to “cut someone down” through their experiences in the game. The game will also feature online multiplayer, both co-op and competitive, that will add a completely new experience to Ninja Gaiden. A new Play Style system allows casual players to choose automatic guarding and evasion assists (HERO mode) while giving core players the freedom to play with no assists (NINJA mode). Pick up the Dragon Sword once more, sharpen its blade and hone your skills. An adventure unlike any other awaits you..

Trials Evolution is on every front the next dimension of the smash-hit, award-winning Trials HD. Bust out of the warehouse into an outdoor world of night and day, curving drive lines, and spectacular scenery. Multiplayer comes alive, in your living room or on Xbox LIVE. Build your own tracks with the included editor or download those of any other player from the new Track Central. Trials Evolution is survival of the fastest.

Tribes: Ascend proclaims the return of the sci-fi online multi-player shooter franchise Tribes. Developed using the Unreal 3 engine, this is THE definitive multiplayer FPS for those seeking fast-paced, jetpack-enabled combat combined with teamwork and strategy.

This week Junglist checks out a studio, See Through Studios, who are making a game in 3 weeks.

Awesomenauts features the most awesome mercenaries in the galaxy in their fight for territorial supremacy. Awesomenauts brings Space frogs with mohawks, giant robots, and lots of other mighty aliens to the two-dimensional console battlefield. Combining classic platforming-action with modern online multiplayer functionality, the action-packed gameplay offers everything the 16-bit generation and modern gamers love.

Tera explores a new style of gameplay that combines all the depth of an MMO with the gratification of an action game. Players master their destiny using a pioneering dynamic combat system in which player skill -- not just stats -- determine success or failure in a richly detailed game world. Tera's player-driven political system allows individual player actions to influence a world where old rivalries are erased, and disparate races must form a common federation to stave off destruction by marauding monsters and warring gods.

Diablo III picks up the story twenty years after the events of Diablo II. Mephisto, Diablo, and Baal have been defeated, but the Worldstone, which once shielded the inhabitants of the world of Sanctuary from the forces of both Heaven and Hell, has been destroyed, and evil once again stirs in Tristram. Playing as a hero from one of five distinct character classes, players will acquire powerful items, spells, and abilities as they explore new and familiar areas of Sanctuary and battle hordes of demons to safeguard the world from the horrors that have arisen.

Super Monday Night Combat is a class-based, free-to-play third-person multiplayer shooter ... and the most popular lethal sport of the future! It blends intense combat, finishing moves, and gameshow-like challenges and rewards to produce an action experience unlike any other. Why fight for "honor" or "duty" when you can fight for the real American dream: cash, fame and endorsements?

Part of the Group for Specialized Tactics, a Special Mission Unit under the direct command of the Joint Special Operations Command, the elite of the modern US Special Forces is better known by their battlefield legend. They are the untraceable soldiers called the Ghosts. Only the best of the best, soldiers with a unique mix of skills on and off the battlefield, ever get to wear the coveted Ghost insignia. In the near future, four of these elite soldiers serve as the tip of the spear in a hidden war raging across the globe. But even as Ghost Lead, Pepper, 30K, and Kozak accomplish their objectives, they discover the threat they face is greater than they ever imagined -- one that could alter the international balance of power forever. Providing yet another new direction in the Ghost Recon series of military games, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier promises to go beyond the core Ghost Recon franchise and deliver a fresh gameplay experience. The game features cutting-edge technology, prototype high-tech weaponry, and state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes.

This week Junglist talks with Ian Bogost and looks at the topic of Free-to-Play games, and how the dropping prices in gaming are affecting the business.

Lollipop Chainsaw is the 'un-deadly' story of sweet and killer zombie hunter Juliet Starling and her quest to uncover the root of a colossal zombie outbreak. With her wickedly awesome chainsaw in hand, Juliet slices, dices and splits her way through hordes of the undead, but soon realizes the horde is only the opening act to a festival of zombie rock lords determined to kill the chainsaw wielding cheerleader.

It's the MMO aiming to change the rules. Again. There's so much new in Guild Wars 2 that we yappety yap yap yap right through this beta preview.

This week Junglist tackles the topic of Kickstarter - talking to developer Ted Brown and discussing the pros and cons of the Kickstarter business model.

The Junglist returns interviewing Jeffrey Yohalem, the lead writer on Far Cry 3. Having work on other premium titles such as Ghost Recon and Assassin's Creed games, he goes into depth on how to create an entertaining experience, particularly on how story and writing impacts the decision making and creative process of game design.

Junglist dives deep into a prevalent cultural phenomenon - speciesism in gaming, championed by the tower defence propaganda piece Orcs Must Die 2. Join Junglist as he works out whether this anti-orcs game has anything different to say about killing Orcs or not.

Darksiders II follows the exploits of DEATH, one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, in a weaving tale that runs parallel to the events in the original Darksiders game. This epic journey propels DEATH through various light and dark realms as he tries to redeem his brother WAR, the horseman who was blamed for prematurely starting the Apocalypse in Darksiders. Featuring a dramatically larger world, full weapon and armour upgrade systems as well as bigger and more challenging dungeons and vast array of new enemies and bosses, Darksiders II strives to improve on every aspect of the original hit.

Junglist gives us a double dose of the Floppy this week as we look at 5th Cell's Hybrid and Supervillain Studios' Tower Wars!

Junglist returns to Dark Souls in honour of its PC release, and because he can. Head through to see how the PC port of the 5 Inch Floppy's 2011 GOTY goes!

Junglist returns to his roots... but is everything as he left it? In CS:GO's case, the answer is yes - it looks like it is. Head through to see what Junglist thinks about the new Counter-Strike variant in this week's 5 Inch Floppy!

Does Junglist have the will of a warrior, or is he more of a nonja? We'll find out this week as he plays the new XBLA title Mark of the Ninja, a stealthy effort from the guys behind Shanked and N+.

Junglist heads to the Black Mesa research facility to see how things look in the new mod Black Mesa Source this week. Then he uses Faster Than Light to investigate the terrible secret of space... and it turns out he was the monster the whole time!

This week he checks out Rocksmith - the new game/guitar teaching tool from Ubisoft available on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. He gives us the ins and outs of the game and also chats with Jason Schroeder - Rocksmith's Producer. Along with all that, he drags me kicking and screaming back to my youth by playing In Bloom a whole bunch. I really want to get hammered on goon and cheap bourbon right now.

Junglist put up the latest episode of the 5 Inch Floppy - this time checking out the latest iteration of that Soccer sensation - FIFA 13! Floppy fans will no doubt be aware of Junglist's love for football, which shines through in his excellent look at the game. And seriously, look at that hair! On the internet, I believe the correct response to hair like that is :o

Junglist feels the need, the need for speed taking a look at the upcoming and amazing looking Need For Speed: Most Wanted. Chatting with Producer at Criterion, Leanne Loombe about how Burnout inspired the Autolog, the new direction for single player and the dynamics of crashing. He also plays Baba O'Riley in the background, as if you needed another reason to watch the Floppy.

Bonus Episode: As if one episode was enough this week, you can now watch Junglist's special episode of the 5 Inch Floppy, in which he checks out the fighting game Dead or Alive 5 and has some of the best lines ever committed to video.

Join us for a big preview of Assassin's Creed 3, speaking with Associate Producer Julien Laferriere and Mission Designer Philippe Bergeron about forest parkour, harder combat, and the constraints of historical accuracy.

Floppy is up! FPS/RTS hybrid Natural Selection 2 will be released in a few days, and we've been hitting up the beta. It's another ambitious indie title aiming to give back to core PC gamers what the triple-A now lacks, and here's what we think so far.

Guess what cats and kittens, this week the ever dapper Junglist is checking out Halo 4, a game about shooting aliens. Given how long the game has been out (negative time) Junglist hasn't had a good shot at the multiplayer, but he's played the single player all the way through and he's ready to tell us all about it - go watch it!

This week Junglist heads to Sydney developer Epiphany Games to talk about their new RTS/MOBA Hybrid Frozen Hearth. Can this Aussie developer change the scene up - head through to see what Jung thinks!

Junglist talks to Omar Kendall from Superbot Entertainment about PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale - the newest fighting game on the block.

This week Junglist takes on Agent 47's latest outing by way of Hitman Absolution. Is this latest addition to the series a killer or is it dead on arrival?

Junglist gets embedded with the Terran Republic to find out how their struggles are in the world of Planetside 2. Sony Online Entertainment's new MMOFPS has local servers and pretty gameplay - see what Junglist thinks!

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is a first person melee game about swords and shields and shouting Come Hither over and over again. Chivalry began life as the Half Life 2 mod Age of Chivalry, but it is now a full fledged title available on Steam.

Junglist straps in and gasses up a mech for a bonus episode of the 5 Inch Floppy today, as he takes us through the free-to-play action of Hawken! Is the game dull or a gas? Find out in this episode!

This week is the one you've been waiting for - the 5 Inch Floppy's annual 2012 greatest hits show - The Semis - this year voted by viewers through the 5 Inch Floppy Facebook page! Junglist takes us through all the highs and lows of 2012 and shows us what won in each category!