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The cover story for Game Informer's February issue has finally revealed a turn-based strategy title called XCOM: Enemy Unknown (not X-COM). Firaxis Games, of Civilization and Sid Meier fame, will be developing this re-imagining of the classic strategy series. (Maurice Tan)

2011 wraps up another record year for Steam. This year Valve's service hit 40 million accounts and has about 1,800 game offerings. It just keeps on going: sales have increased by more than 100 percent for seven years straight. That is INSANE. (Dale North)

BioWare is working on a patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic that'll stop in-game chat from breaking for some players, and more importantly, tone down our beloved dance moves so they don't provide our characters with invincibility. (Jordan Devore)

Just when you think gamer melodrama has peaked, something comes out of the woodwork to knock our community down another ten pegs. Ninja Theory's Tameem Antoniades has revealed that some gamers were so distraught over their development of DmC: Devil May Cry that they sent in death threats. How classy. (Jim Sterling)

Apparently Namco Bandai has taken some pages from the Dead or Alive school of marketing, as this Japanese print ad for SoulCalibur V seems to carry one message; the game is entirely, completely, utterly about breasts and nothing else. (Jim Sterling)

CES is next week, and so we had our pal, Anthony Carboni join us to tell us what to expect. Be sure to stay tuned to YouTube.com/Rev3Tech for constant updates all week long!