Caro and the GameSpot team band together in the latest campaign in Left 4 Dead 2 – Cold Stream.

Check out Swarm, a gigantic bee from the air elemental class in Skylanders Giants.

I don?t get CGI trailers, though at least this one states its not actual game play footage. All game trailers should be game play footage, even if it?s just cut scenes from the game. And if you want to release a trailer hyping the game before it?s even in production, they should just show concept art with narration. To me, it?s like watching a CGI a trailer for the Avengers with the Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor running around smashing things, then find out it?s actually a 1960?s British spy show. Well, we said it was just a CGI trailer.

Microsoft has reportedly shut down its Vancouver game studio, according to a Kotaku report and various Twitter posts from Microsoft Game Studios Vancouver employees.

Citing an anonymous tip-off, the Kotaku report pointed to the Facebook page of Vancouver innovation initiative Can We Do It? which reported: “We’ve just gotten word that the entire studio at Microsoft Games Studios on 840 Cambie has been laid off. 35 people in total. This is nuts. We’ll update with more when we can.”

In May last year, it was reported that the Microsoft Vancouver studio was involved in developing a big-budget AAA shooter for Kinect.

The studio’s website is still operational, listing several job openings. The site’s opening blurb reads: “MGS Vancouver is building a world-class development team in Vancouver, BC, Canada, dedicated to making games for ‘core’ gamers.”

Earlier this month, Capcom enacted a round of layoffs at its Vancouver studio, while Rockstar announced that it would be moving its Vancouver team to a new studio in Toronto.

[UPDATE] A Microsoft spokesperson told GameSpot the publisher is not shutting down the Vancouver studio completely, but will be stopping development on two projects. According to the spokesperson, the team affected by this move is “small”. The full statement reads:

“Microsoft Studios has decided to end development on Microsoft Flight and Project Columbia. As a result of this action, some positions within the development teams have been eliminated. Microsoft human resources is working with the affected individuals to find new roles within the company.”

“Microsoft Studios is invested in British Columbia and still has several teams, both in Vancouver and Victoria, which will continue to produce the best entertainment and gaming experiences possible.”

Nintendo has reported a smaller loss than expected between April and June this year. The firm posted a ¥10.3 billion ($132 million) operating loss in its earnings report, an improvement on the ¥37.7 billion ($482 million) quarterly loss reported a year earlier.

In particular, sales of the 3DS have risen, Nintendo said, with 1,860,000 units sold worldwide between April and June, more than doubling the 710,000 sold in the same period in 2011. The resurgent sales followed a substantial price cut in August last year.

Total worldwide sales of the 3DS now stand at 19 million, with the profit on each device sold having improved since launch. The 3DS has been selling at a loss, the company confirmed.

Wii sales, however, continue to taper off. Only 710,000 of the six-year-old Nintendo console were sold between April and June, down from 1,560,000 in the same period last year.

Nintendo continues to forecast its full-year operating profit will bounce back to ¥35 billion ($447 million) for the year ending March 31 2013. The firm will look to the late 2012 launch of its new console, the Wii U, to boost its sales between now and then.