Publisher Ubisoft has announced that it will be transitioning the hosting of many of its online services "from a third-party data center to a new facility" on February 7. During the transition, which is meant to "improve the maintenance of our infrastructure and deliver better uptime and greatly improved services for our customers," some Ubisoft titles across a number of platforms will be completely or partially unplayable.

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Microsoft has once again outlined the next two weeks of Xbox Live Marketplace Arcade games, discounts, Games on Demand, and other assorted goodies.

Halo: Reach delivered digitally through Games on Demand will be $49.99 for one week only, starting today, no doubt to promote the launch of the Defiant Map Pack. And if you love Batman but don't yet own Arkham Asylum, you don't exist -- but the game is getting a price drop to $29.99 starting today anyway. 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.

The last Filter of the week features media for Dead Space 2, World of Tanks, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, MindJack, EA Sports Active 2, LittleBigPlanet 2, Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2, Alien Breed 3: Descent, Mafia 2, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, and LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. Read more »

If you fancy seeing how well your PC can run Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2, want to give the old grey box a workout or just like seeing planes flying around in your monitor, Ubisoft has released a benchmark based upon the air combat title, available on FileShack.

The benchmark runs a short in-game scene then reports back with your average and maximum frames per second scores--not the most in-depth analysis but certainly enough to give a fair indication of how it'll run and to compare excitedly with your chums. 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.

Yesterday's Filter was almost non-existent. Today? That's not a problem at all. Read more »

It looks like Ubisoft may have delayed Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 on the PC, according to a report by Big Download. Ubisoft frequently delays PC SKUs of its games, though the recently released R.U.S.E. was day and date across all three platforms earlier this month.

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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.

For our Friday Filter starts with co-op campaign screenshots for Portal 2, directly from PAX 2010. We've also added the announcement trailer for Bloody Good Time, DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue, Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, H.A.W.X. 2, Panzer Command: Ostfront, FIFA Soccer 11 and a "Witch Hunt" DLC trailer for Dragon Age: Origins. 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 includes a trailer featuring the real Tier 1 operators aiding EA in with development of Medal of Honor, an ARG video discovered by Bungie.net forum users promoting Halo: Reach and new trailers for LittleBigPlanet 2 and Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2. Read more »

As expected, this trailer for Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 includes a lot of high-flying, plane-based action. The game, developed by Ubisoft Romania, is due out this fall.

After announcing Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 with little in the way of details, publisher Ubisoft today unleashed variety of details on Ubisoft Romania's PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii aerobatic action game along with some screenshots.

The information dump is compromised of two documents, the first being a fact sheet that discusses specifics of the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 editions: Read more »

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. developer Ubisoft Bucharest (previously Ubisoft Romania) is readying a sequel to the aerobatic action game, publisher Ubisoft has revealed.

Simply titled Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2, the sequel is due out on PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii during the "Fall 2010" release window.

Few details of the sequel were provided, with Ubisoft noting that it will appeal to a wide array of gamers as players will have the chance to control exceptional pilots trained to use cutting edge technology in amazing aerial warfare missions." Read more »