Monthly Archives: February 2009

After the break. Protagonist Jack is harder than a “bunch of frat boys at a strip club,” apparently.

To be fair, he is pretty hard. Game’s out for Wii in March in the US. No date for Europe.

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A new IGN Star Trek Online preview from Comic Con, based on a chat with the game’s producer, has claimed that the MMO has now been in production for a year.

“The game has been in development for a full year now and, thanks to Cryptic’s advanced technology, is already at a state where the team is playing it on a weekly basis,” says the piece.

Cryptic’s latest, and undoubtedly highest profile project, was announced last year in Las Vegas. Creative lead Jack Emmert failed to put a release date on the game at the time, but said it’s going to be “sooner than you think”.

This year? After a year’s work? Don’t think so.

Sony’s released an 80Gb PS3 SKU in India, priced 25,990 rupees (£361).

It replaces the current standard 40Gb model and comes with a DualShock 3 in the pack.

“The introduction of high definition gaming and entertainment systems among the Indian audience is the result of extensive research into the entertainment needs and preferences of the next generation of PS3 owners,” said Atindriya Bose, SCE’s Indian country boss.

More on GameGuru.

New York Comic Con’s now well under way, and a bunch of big-name hands-ons got posted overnight. You may want to read them.

You are, therefore, in luck. Sorry, we’re just writing words for the sake of it.

Looks as though plenty of that’s been done already:

• Wolverine Claws of Olympus hands-on (Joystiq)
• GTA Chinatown Wars hands-on (Joystiq)
• GTA: Chinatown Wars hands-on (Kotaku)
• The Conduit demo (IGN)
• Ghostbusters: The Video Game preview (IGN)
• Resistance: Retribution preview (IGN)

Sucker Punch’s InFamous is still looking fantastic in its latest screens, released for Comic Con last night.

Get them from IGN. The electro-heavy superhero PS3 exclusive should make plenty of splash later this year if this lot’s anything to go by.

Date, please, Sony.

The latest issue of Edge, number 199 to be precise, has given Guerrilla Game’s nuclear-shooter a rather surprising 7/10.

This goes against the grain of the almost perfect scores the game has received so far.

Just what gameplay elements the magazine felt was lacking remains to be seen.

The full list of review scores in the issue are as follows:

• Killzone 2 – 7
• FEAR 2: Project Origin – 8
• Halo Wars – 7
• Race Pro – 8
• House of the Dead: Overkill – 8
• Let’s Tap – 8
• Deadly Creatures – 5
• The Maw – 5
• Lord of the Rings: Conquest – 2
• Tenchu: Stealth Assassins – 6
• Crayon Physics Deluxe – 7
• Flower – 7
• Boing! Docomodake – 7
• Klonoa: Door to Phantomile – 6

The next batch of Fallout 3 DLC has slipped by a month, Bethesda’s confirmed to Gamespot.

“The next DLC for Fallout 3, The Pitt, will be out in March,” said marketing boss Pete Hines.

“Broken Steel will be out the following month, in April.”

The first piece of the game’s 360- and PC-exclusive DLC, Operation: Anchorage, has already shipped.

Bottle Rocket’s put out a new trailer for the Splatterhouse reboot, and it looks stupid in all the right ways.

The world needs more monster metal horror in videogames, which is just as well.

No date. PS3, 360. After the break.

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Game Informer’s shown off the cover of its next issue, resplendent as it is with some fantastic God of War III art.

The game’s the magazine’s main feature, with a ten-page preview.

Kratos’s latest is to be shown to online press in LA on February 10, with assets embargoed until February 13, so expect plenty more very soon.

Speaking on a Comic Con panel today, Bethesda’s Todd Howard announced that the firm’s currently at work on an iPhone game.

Howard himself is in charge of the project, apparently, although he provided attendees with no specifics.

More from Shacknews.

Actiontrip has them, and they look fantastic.

CD Projekt Red’s console version of the highly acclaimed RPG will release on PS3 and Xbox 360 late this summer.

More screens through the link.

A new Xbox Live Arcade game based on the gang fight brawler The Warriors will be released this summer, Paramount’s confirmed.

The game is being developed by CTXM, not Rockstar who developed the decently-received console version back in 2005.

The release is part of the 30th anniversary celebration of the cult classic movie of the same name, which will also see a new comic book series and other goodies released around the same time.

There’s a trailer on Joystiq.

The rumours were true. Criterion’s gone live with confirmation of a Cops and Robbers Pack for Burnout Paradise.

See here. Details, such as they are, have only been released in-game. And here they are, courtesy of AutoGaming.net:

Slotting in soon after the Party pack, Legendary Cars, Toy Cars and Boost Specials, comes another premium pack – Cops and Robbers. This one’s dedicated to bringing you the thrills and spills of cops and robbers car chases in Paradise City.

We’re keeping details of the pack under wraps for a little longer, but here are the first ever screen shots to keep you going! Check these stunning high resolution at www.criteriongames.com and on Sony’s excellent PlayStation Blog from Monday (9th February 2009).

Double awesome. More soon.

Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy will join the track Shackler’s Revenge as DLC on the Rock Band Store this spring, front man Axl Rose has said in an interview with Billboard Magazine.

Lucky for Harmonix it’s not taking Axl as long to release the album for Rock Band as it did for retail.

More through the link.

Comic Con, innit. SOE’s put out a bunch of new shots of DC Universe Online, showing various super-people being simply super.

On IGN. This year for PC and PS3.

America McGee’s Grimm: Volume 3 will be the last in the point and click adventure, says GameTap.

The online gaming site is celebrating the series upcoming February 12 release by making all episodes of Volume 2 free to play this weekend. So, if you want to step into the shoes of the naughty troll Grimm and make fairy tales as nasty as possible, complete with the ability to wee on everything, head onover there now.

The first episode of Grimm: Volume 3 will be the Frog King – also known as The Princess and the Frog in some circles.

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 is also free to play until February 11 if you sign up for the free service. That should give you something to do over the weekend, no doubt.

On GamersHell. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Riddick’s latest looks sweet as pie. A massive bald pie.

The Atari-Starbreeze collab will be available for PC, 360 and PS3 this spring.

Kotaku’s got the first proper play details of Battlefield 1943 from Comic Con in New York, and the news is “OK”.

Snip:

I really had no idea what to expect from this game. I was presently surprised to see my favorite online game ever get a much-needed upgrade. The one concern I have is that this won’t seem like a completely new, full Battlefield game. There won’t be as many maps in the final game and the focus on casual play has me worried.

The DICE sequel was announced this week.

A supposed shakycam video of Dead Rising 2 has just surfaced on YouTube, and sources close to Capcom have promised us it’s the real thing.

We contacted Capcom to be told by a rep that he had personally not seen this video, but as far as Dead Rising 2 goes, nothing has “officially” been confirmed nor released at this time.

Judge for yourself after the break — if you can make anything out of the fuzziness.

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EA has refused to specify what company CEO John Riccitiello meant when he said that Mass Effect 2 was a “multi-format” title on Tuesday, yet again skirting heavy rumour that the sequel is heading to PS3.

“As John Riccitiello said on our earnings call this week, the game will come to multiple platforms, but we do not have any more details for you at this time,” a senior UK rep told VG247 today.

Speculation of a PS3 version for the 2010 sequel has been off the chart since Riccitiello’s comment in EA’s Q3 earnings call.

The original Mass Effect was a first-party affair and hence, obviously, a 360 console exclusive.

EA’s cagier on this than a mad lion… in a cage. We’ll know soon enough.