Dungeon Siege 3 will be adding a new piece of downloadable content this October, which will raise the level cap, add a new quest, and bring in a new enchantment system. The "Treasures of the Sun" pack is set to launch for $9.99 on Steam, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live.

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E3 hasn't stopped the march of the PlayStation Store update, and now that it's back, the marketplace is getting pretty hefty loads of content.

New demos include El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron and Dungeon Siege 3. New game downloads featured this week include New Adventure Island and Soldier Blade for $5.99 each, and the fourth episode of Back to the Future. Read more »

If you're feeling overwhelmed by all the video game news spilling out of E3, perhaps you need to take a break and actually play a video game. Say, a demo for the PC edition of Obsidian's dungeon-crawling action-RPG Dungeon Siege III.

As Dungeon Siege III is a Steamworks game on PC, you'll need to hit up Steam to download the demo. It's a 1.5GB download. Read more »

Dungeon Siege 3 is getting ready to bring its monster-hacking loot fest to consoles and PC in less than a month. Though I'd gotten my hands on the first couple of hours back in February, I recently revisited a near-final version for the Xbox 360 to see how Obsidian's return to the kingdom of Ehb is shaping up.

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A new trailer for Dungeon Siege 3 has been released featuring some enthusiastic voice-over work and co-op gameplay. Detailing the story for the third game in the franchise, the trailer highlights the lore behind the four characters previously featured in videos released by publisher Square Enix.

Square Enix and Valve are partnering up to triple the siege-value for those who pre-order Dungeon Siege 3 from Steam. Order the Gearbox-developed ">Dungeon Siege 3 in advance of release, and you'll receive free copies of the first two titles in the series made by Gas Powered Games. Read more »

Fans of clicking will have to wait a little longer for Dungeon Siege III, as publisher Square Enix announced today that the action-RPG has been delayed by three weeks.

Dungeon Siege III will now hit PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on June 21 in North America. The previous release date, just announced in February, was May 31. The new date for the European launch is June 17. Read more »

Obsidian Entertainment, located in Irvine, California, is a developer best known for making a stable of high-quality sequels for successful role-playing franchises. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, and Fallout: New Vegas, have been largely regarded as worthy sequels, due in no small part to Obsidian's respect for the established worlds and characters pioneered in their precursors. Dungeon Siege 3, based on the series created by Chris Taylor and Gas Powered Games, is Obsidian's latest endeavor.

Last week at the Dungeon Siege 3 hands-on preview event held at Obsidian's offices, I had a chance to sit down with CEO Feargus Urquheart and pick his brain about how Dungeon Siege 3 came to be, the key considerations when rebooting a well-liked franchise, and the challenges of adapting the series' gameplay for consoles. Read more »

The Dungeon Siege series, the hack-and-slash dungeon-crawler originally developed by Chris Taylor and the folks at Gas Powered Games, saw two full retail releases in 2002 and 2005, with parts one and two receiving their own expansion packs. In 2006, the series also made a brief foray onto the PSP. Now, in 2011, developer Obsidian Entertainment has taken up the mantle and are poised to reboot the series this May. Dungeon Siege 3 will be the first game in the series playable on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, in addition to the traditional PC offering.

I traveled to Obsidian's offices last week and was able to see the game running on all three platforms, and also spend some time playing through the game's opening segments on both PC and PlayStation 3. Chief among my concerns was how Obsidian would translate the series' Diablo-like pointy-clicky combat into something suitable (and fun) for console controllers. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features new media for Dungeon Siege 3, MLB 11: The Show, Test Drive Unlimited 2, DC Universe Online, One Piece: Gigant Battle, Battlestar Galactica Online, Anarchy Reigns, Dynasty Warriors 7, SBK 2011, Cities in Motion, and Dead Space 2. Read more »

Square Enix announced North American and European release dates for Dungeon Siege 3 in press releases today, along with word of pre-order goodies. The game will hit European Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC players first on May 27, then follow in North America on May 31.

Square also outlined the (always popular) retailer-specific pre-order bonuses, most of which are in-game items. GameStop gets the Burning Band of Scorch to increase damage and set enemies on fire, and the Talisman of the Grand Mage for a mystical attack. Amazon shoppers will get the Bite of the Arakun, a ring to poison enemies. Best Buy gets a Sacred Heart of the Legion amulet to protect characters in battle. Read more »

As though simultaneously developing three games didn't pose enough of a challenge, the developers behind Sniper: Ghost Warrior have announced that they're working on yet another first-person shooter, bringing the studio's tally of in-progress shooters to four (via Eurogamer).

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Although it had a shaky launch, City Interactive's Sniper: Ghost Warrior has some intense, well-crafted moments. Those looking to create more moments--so long as slow-motion and bullets are involved--will soon have the chance to download five new multiplayer maps for the game.

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter includes new media from PAX 2010. We've added a "Story" trailer for Vanquish, gameplay footage for Dungeon Siege 3, a "Causality" trailer for EVE Online, a trailer featuring the "Mysteries" of Star Wars: The Old Republic, the launch trailer for Kirby's Epic Yarn, the debut trailer for Fluidity, gameplay footage for Mega Man Universe, a number of "Making Of" trailers for Dead Rising 2, a "flythrough" video of Rift: Planes of Telara, and the announcement trailer and screens for Swarm. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Daily Filter includes a whole bucket full of screenshots and trailers from Gamescom 2010. So many, that we couldn't even fit all of them here. We've filtered the filter! Below you'll see new footage of Dead Space 2, two videos from Red Faction: Armageddon, a trailer for Metroid: Other M, new images of BioShock Infinite, Dungeon Siege III, screens and a video for F.E.A.R. 3, a retro-inspired Splatterhouse trailer, screends and video of TERA, a fast new trailer for Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, two gameplay videos for Enslaved, screenshots from Dead Rising 2, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, Civilization V, DiRT 3, Mortal Kombat, and some screends and video for End of Nations. Whew! Read more »