Warheads! Last Tuesday, May 8th, LightBox Interactive and Santa Monica Studio released Starhawk into the wild. Getting here was a real &*#%^# at times, but it sure as hell has been a fun ride! If you’d like to peek behind the curtains look at the final days of Starhawk’s development, check out this video. We shot it a few weeks before release and it’ll give you a nice glimpse into the inner workings of a game developer in crunch mode.

Never heard of Pitbull Studio? Neither had we. Apparently the English studio specializes in hired gun work and is lead by ex-Midway Newcastle’s Robert Troughton ( Wheelman , etc.).

The first gameplay footage of Infinity Blade: Dungeons reveals a game that is very different from its predecessors. For one thing, all the enemies aren’t orc-type club wielders and Voldo guys – there’s a dog thing too.

There are so many games out there we couldn’t possibly review them all. Welcome to Snapshot , where we highlight games that might fall outside our usual coverage but are still something we think you should know about. Today: Datura for PS3

Back when Forza Horizon was first officially announced by Microsoft and Playground Games back in March, all we had to gaze upon was a montage of desperately pretty cars and people, living the kind of life you’d expect someone with that kind of a car to live. Now, though, we’ve got our first real look at the game in the form of the screenshot above, which features the 2013 SRT Dodge Viper, some rocks, an extremely flat American highway and the same vignette framing we’ve come to expect from Forza in-game screenshots. Granted, this is but a single image, but from where we’re sitting it sure does look a hell of a lot like a Forza game, which is reassuring considering that this is Playground Games’ first spin behind the franchise’s wheel