Weekly Recap March 3rd: PS Vita, iPad 3 Reveal, New Baldur's Gate, Doom 4

Ubisoft finally unveiled more details and screenshots of Assassins Creed III. New info reveals that Valve's Steam could become its own dedicated console system, the PS Vita has been on the receiving end of a lot of doom and gloom reports despite being one of the most highly anticipated devices from Sony. Apple drops hints about a possible iPad 3 reveal. A new website surfaces indicating that a Baldur's Gate sequel is in the works and id Software lets loose some leaked screenshots of Doom 4. These stories and more in this March 3rd, 2012 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.

Sunday

Pachter Says Nintendo is In Disarray, Wii U Won't Save Them Pachter has some harsh words for Nintendo and their next-gen console.

Industry Blend: Is Day-One DLC Acceptable? The big question about whether day-one DLC should be acceptable or not.

Borderlands 2 Assassin Details Announced Zer0 the assassin gets spotlighted in the new info released for the game.

Project CARS Screenshots Show Off Most Realistic Game Ever? Check out the screenshots and then decide for yourself.

Star Wars The Old Republic LFG Tool In The Works Having trouble finding a group? Well, the new Looking for a Group tool will ease that trouble.

Diablo 3 Gets Improved Skills Blizzard wanted to make sure gamers felt really powerful with the new skillsets.

Monday

Pokemon Black White 2 Coming June Pokemon fans rejoice, new content is coming your way this summer.

Mass Effect 3 Live Action Trailer Leaked A new live-action trailer was released for one of the biggest games coming out this year.

Darkstalkers 3 Resurrected For PS3, PS Vita Capcom's classic is getting some HD treatment on the newer consoles.

Mass Effect 3 From Ashes DLC Screenshots Reveal Squadmate That super secret squadmate finally gets revealed in the new DLC, check him out right here.

Reviewer: Last Story Superior To Final Fantasy XIII-2 In Every Way It looks like some people aren't afraid to be honest.

Game of Thrones RPG Pre-Order Customers Get Free Art Book Pre-order the game right now to gain access to some extra fan-favorite goodies.

GameSpy API Available For PS Vita This April Devs will be able to implement more multiplayer and faster multiplayer thanks to IGN's GameSpy API.

Sine Mora Release Date Set Microsoft's newest XBLA exclusive gets an official release date.

First Mass Effect 3 Review Reveals It's 40 Hours Long The game is jam packed with content...40 hours worth to be exact.

Hawken Receives $10 Million From Investors, Still F2P The same people funding League of Legends is now funding Hawken.

Study Shows Video Games Show Religion As Violent, Problematic And who doesn't agree?

Epic Confirms Unreal Engine 4 At GDC 2012 Can't wait to see what they have to show off at this year's GDC.

Bethesda Hiring For Fallout 4? It's a possibility, but hopefully they wait until next gen.

Tuesday

Blizzard: We Spread Ourselves Thin With World of Warcraft Cataclysm Interesting tidbit of news from the boys at Blizzard.

Report Shows Facebook Dominating Online Casual, Social Gaming No it's not Nintendo, despite popular belief.

Pokemon Black and White 2 Trailer Confirms Western Release No need to worry about whether you'll be able to collect the rarest of rare Pokemon, this game will be coming to a retailer near you, Stateside.

Otherland Gameplay Trailer Is Out of this World Amazing footage of the upcoming cyber-punk, fantasy adventure title.

RODE Release Date Set With PS Vita, Alienware M17 Giveaway Just by playing the game you have an opportunity to walk away with some snazzy prizes.

SSX Now Available For Xbox 360, PS3 The top-end snowboarding title that made waves last gen is now available for the current-gen consoles.

Origin Scans Your PC To Auto-Add Steam Games To Library How do you feel about Origin scanning your PC?

Skyrim Patch 1.4.27 Goes Live With Mod Control Fixes Another patch is live for Skyrim.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 DLC Arrives For PS3 Overwatch DLC is now live for PS3 gamers.

Interstellar Marines Deadlock 0.3.0 Released Gamers can now do some mean deathmatch for Interstellar Marines.

Flare3D Studio Allows 3D Flash Player Games, Support for Mixamo Flash Games are about to get a big upgrade thanks to Flare3D and Mixamo.

Boondock Saints Game Confirmed For Xbox 360, PC It's going to be kind of sketchy whether a PS3 version is on the way.

iPad 3 Reveal Expected March 7th By the time you read this you'll only have to wait a few days to find out if the reveal will actually happen on March 7th

Wednesday

Game of Thrones Screenshots Reveal Castlewood A new location exclusive to the upcoming RPG is revealed.

Nintendo Won't Allow Binding of Isaac on 3DS This religiously themed action game won't be appearing on Nintendo's 3DS.

Free to Play Microsoft Flight Launches on PC Hop right into the game, right now, for free.

Borderlands 2 Puts Steamworks To Work Valve and Gearbox want to make sure PC gamers enjoy Borderlands 2 to the utmost.

Jet Set Radio HD Confirmed For PC If you thought that Jet Set was confined to home consoles, think again.

Blacklight Retribution Shoots Its Way Into Open Beta The free-to-play sequel to the 2010 FPS kicks it into high gear right now, today, for free.

Blizzard Announces Layoffs More than 600 employees are laid off as the company redirects its focus with upcoming, hard hitting games.

Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning Dead Kel DLC Adds new Continent EA keeps the new content rolling out for their recent open-world RPG.

Thursday

Ready At Dawn Hiring For PS4 or Wii U Game Based on the info the game is either going to be for the PlayStation 4 or the Wii U, we'll just have to wait and see.

Battlefield 3 Aftershock Isn't Coming Back EA just scraps the shooter after all the poor reviews.

Hell Yeah! Wrath of Dead Rabbit Announced Sega joins forces with one way, way out there studio for Hell Yeah!.

Star Wars Republic Update 1.2. Needs Testers Want to test out the new patch for update 1.2? Well, sign-up right now or click the link for more info.

Trials Evolution Release Date Outed The next game in the popular arcade series finally gets an official release date. Check it out after the jump.

HellGate Mythos March Events Unveiled Plenty of premium items to be won in the March madness events.

Dear Esther Recoups Costs In Hours, Sells 50,000 Units Who says PC piracy is killing PC games? Looks like this indie dev is cleaning up on the process.

GameSpy API Now Powering 600 Games From 1,200 Developers IGN's GameSpy API is really kicking it into high gear and now big and small games alike will be using the new toolset.

href=http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Assassin-Creed-3-Box-Art-Reveals-Revolutionary-Hero-40047.html>Assassin's Creed 3 Box Art Reveals Revolutionary Hero Check out a revolutionary assassin with the new box art.

Minecraft 1.2 Now Live A new, more updated version of MineCraft is now live...head on over to the game's website to see what's new. Obviously it's not the NES quality graphics.

BioShock Infinite Release Date Too Far Away October 17th to be exact. Definitely not the March date we were all awaiting.

Friday

Aeria Games Unveils Mobile Games Line-Up The company is moving from free-to-play MMOs to free-to-play mobile games and they're bringing 35 million gamers with them.

PAYDAY The Heist Free This Weekend By the time you read this you'll only have a few hours left to download the game and try it out for free, so work fast!

Sumioni Demon Arts Goes Gold For PS Vita The artsy platform title goes gold for PS Vita and will be arriving Stateside soon thanks to XSeed Games.

Turtle Beach Opens Up Audio Preset Community For PX5, XP500, Delta Headsets This is great news for anyone who enjoys specific presets for specific games.

Devil May Cry Info Explains Why Dante Looks like A Crack Whore We've all wondered it, now Capcom explains it.

Assassin's Creed 3 Screenshots Hunt Deer, Climb Trees It's possible, the next Assassin just might be Native/Indian American...if so, I'm very excited.

Total War Battles Coming To Mobile Devices The popular RTS games on PC will be getting portablized for mobile devices.

MineCraft Designer Gives $3 Million To Employees Isn't Notch a nice guy, eh? Find out why he did this by checking out the article.

Rayman Origins Demo Hits PC A new demo now available for PC gamers to test out.

Sly Cooper Thieves In Time Release Date Narrowed Down Find out when the next PS3 exclusive will be launching for the console.

Saturday

Most Commonly Earned PS3 Platinum Trophies Revealed So which game garnered the most plays for its trophies? Check out the list after the jump.

Official Trophy List For Mass Effect 3 Speaking of trophies...

Oh Joy, Is A New Baldur's Gate Incoming? Well, you'll need to click the link to see the details to determine if it's really coming or not.

Former LionHead Devs Set Up Another Place Productions It seems a little confusing called Another Place Productions but it's the name of the new studio.

Valve Making Steam Box Console Could Valve be entering the console race? That's what it's looking like.

In Depth Preview: Risen 2 Dark Waters How much game is contained in this new expansion? Check out the preview from Electronic Theatre to get an idea.

That wraps up this edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap, you can check out the new launch trailer for Mass Effect 3 below, which easily pops itself onto the Coolest Game Trailers of 2012 list. Enjoy.