Monthly Archives: March 2009

Hideo Kojima’s said he may do another iPod/iPhone title after the “success” of Metal Gear Solid Touch.

Hold onto that hat, though: this time it could well be something “crazy”.

From this G4 report of the developer’s visit to San Francisco’s Apple Store following his GDC keynote:

Finally, Kojima is open to doing another iPhone/iPod Touch game, but it might be something completely “crazy.” One of Mr. Kojima’s favorite apps is the lightsaber app. He would also like to do something that uses even more of the unique capabilities of the iPhone platform. For example, say you listen to a lot of Coldplay (his example, not mine)… if you then listen to Coldplay while controlling Snake, he might fight better. Interesting stuff.

Sounds mental. More through there.

The PC version of Jon Blow puzzler Braid’s been delayed by 10 days to April 10.

The game’s planned for release on Steam, Greenhouse, Impulse, and GamersGate, so if you haven’t played the time-warping award-winner on 360 yet, you may as well give it a waz on your desktop.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Below you can see some footage of Batman spectacularly taking out muscle-bound goons in Rocksteady’s Arkham Asylum.

This movie’s from this week’s GDC.

We can only say that if the game plays as good as it looks, there won’t be a dry eye in the house.

Look down. Thanks, Kotaku.

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Capcom’s Christian Svensson has said the company is platform neutral, rejecting claims of bias toward PSP, Wii or DS.

“We support all systems appropriately,” he said. “On PSP we’ve released more than 10 titles this generation, very high quality titles and there’s more coming.

“DS has been home our popular Megaman Starforce and Ace Attorney series. Wii has a slew of titles (more than we’ve released on 360/PS3 to date) and a massive effort in the form of Monster Hunter Tri.

“In addition there’s Spyborgs and Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles which are big efforts from us too,” he added.

Thanks, Nintendoeverything.

Some direct-feed inFamous footage from GDC after the break. There’s no doubting the looks of Sucker Punch’s open-worlder, but we’ve been told of control “concerns”. Hope it’s all OK.

Because we want it. Hit the link to see why. It’s out this summer for PS3. Thanks, Plainview.

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Speaking at GDC in San Fran this week, Blue Castle’s Izmeth Siddeek apparently said that that he wants a mere 6,000 zombies on screen at once in Dead Rising 2.

The information comes by way of Laura Scholl, product manager for Mental Mill, who released of postscript of the game’s presentation at the event. No actual quote is forthcoming.

According to Scholl, Siddeek said that “Dead Rising 2 deal[s] with the rendering of the greatest number of characters ever seen in a video game. Everything else needed to be subordinated to this requirement.”

More rendering madness over at MTV.

Killzone 2 has some bugs. Exploit them in multiplayer from now on and not only could you get kicked from games, you could actually lose your PSN ID. Seriously.

“Glitchers risk losing their PSN ID altogether,” Guerrilla said on the game’s official Twitter.

“We’ve been quite lenient so far, but that’s going to change.”

Don’t mess. Thanks, Destructoid.

ThreeSpeech has the first movie of Ratchet and Clank: A Crack In Time.

There’s not much to go on there, but it’s very pretty, nonetheless.

It’s out this autumn. Thanks, Gekidami.

Super Robot Taisen K’s top of the Japanese charts this week, with RE5 the only HD game in the top 30.

Chart March 16-22 below, courtesy of Kotaku.

1. Super Robot Taisen K (DS) – 117,000
2. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2009 Live (PS2) – 50,000
3. Amagami (PS2) – 42,000
4. Mario & Luigi RPG3!!! (DS) – 3
5. Resident Evil 5 (PS3) – 29,000
6. Rittai Picross (DS) – 24,000
7. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (PSP) – 23,000
8. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Next (Wii) – 22,000
9. Shin Sangoku Musou Multi Raid (PSP) – 19,000
10. Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus (DS)
11. Crayon Shin-Chan: Arashi o Yobu – Nendororo~n Daihenshin (DS)
12. Saru Get You: Pipo Saru Senki (PSP)
13. Bokujou Monogatari: Sugar Mura to Minna no Negai (PSP)
14. Kuroshitsuji: Phantom & Ghost (DS)
15. Wii de Asobu: Pikmin 2 (Wii)
16. Wii Fit (Wii)
17. Yakuza 3 (PS3)
18. Tomoyo After: It’s a Wonderful Life – CS Edition (PSP)
19. Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 3 with Izayoiki Aizouban (PSP)
20. Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Wii)
21. Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
22. Rhythm Tengoku Gold (DS)
23. Aibou DS (DS)
24. Brandish: Dark Revenant (PSP)
25. Seventh Dragon (DS)
26. Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode (DS)
27. Resistance Retribution (PSP)
28. Tantei Jinguuji Saburo DS: Fuserareta Shinjitsu (DS)
29. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 (PSP)

THQ’s released a new video for upcoming Volition shoot-fest, Red Faction: Guerrilla.

The open-world shooter allows you to roam Mars and blow stuff up. That’s pretty much it.

Game is expected sometime during Q2 for PC, PS3 and 360.

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Mass Effect 2 project director Casey Hudson has told GTTV that a third Mass Effect game is likely to include space combat.

“There is no actual space combat in Mass Effect 2, but thats something that we wanna have as part of the trilogy at some point,” he said.

He also gave the first solid details on the game, including news of new romantic encounters and how your Mass Effect 1 game save will affect play in the second title.

Get all that here.

In addition, first early footage of ME2 leaked overnight – and here it is.

Mass Effect 2 project director Casey Hudson has told GTTV that the game will essentially continue from from the first title if you’ve kept your save game.

“If you chose to start a game by importing a Mass Effect save, your game will feel like your game,” he said.

“The first moment will be different.”

Hudson expanded to give the first real details of the game’s plot.

“It’s about what’s happening with the Reapers, what happens to the human race.

“You’ll be able to see the Elusive Man in Mass Effect 2.”

He added: “Romances will be as well done and as sophisticated in Mass Effect 2 as they were in Mass Effect 1.

“Theres gonna be more people that you can meet, that you can take with you on missions and stuff like that. So there’s actually more romance options in Mass Effect 2.”

The developer said to expect plenty more from E3. Thans, Ben!

Note to developers: people own video cameras.

Shaknews has posted what’s apparently the first gameplay video of Mass Effect 2, shot during a GDC presentation in San Francisco this week.

The footage shows a couple of action sections and a bit of dialogue.

Expect to see tons more on this very soon.

EA’s released the first Bad Company 2 teaser video. Find it after the break.

There’s not much to see of the DICE game, other than a string of various vehicles blowing each other up.

This year for hi-defs and PC.

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Multiplayer.it’s posted up the first gameplay video of Uncharted 2. It’s shot off-screen at GDC, but it’s easily good enough to see what’s going on.

It’s bonzer, mate. Seriously, it does look fantastic.

Go see. It’s out this year. Thanks, Plainview.

Harmonix revealed at GDC that Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing is coming to Rock Band. ‘Bout time, that.

It should be arrive next Tuesday and Thursday for Xbox 360 and PS3 respectively.

Proof positive is in the video below, showing Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos on drums and GiantBomb co-founder Jeff Gerstmann on vocals.

It’s eight minutes long, so if you want to fast forward a bit we won’t blame you. Especially the beginning.

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Fallout 3 lead designer Emil Pagliarulo has said that Bethesda is working on more DLC for the game.

“I can say we’re working on lots of DLC,” he said during a panel at GDC.

“Lots of stuff brewing up here. God only knows where that may go. What famous landmarks can we destroy next?”

Bethesda’s third bit of DLC for Fallout 3, titled Broken Steel, is slated for next month.

Why not? The Lionhead boss has already said he’s not going to announce a new game at GDC this year, but he’s always worth watching.

Who knows? He’s British Development’s greatest showman, and he may well talked about the Fable II DLC he confirmed yesterday, named See the Future.

You never know until you know.

Anyway. Get it all after the link. It runs from 2.30pm-3:30pm PST. That’s 9.30pm-10.30pm GMT.

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Activision put out a new Prototype trailer this evening, the first we’ve seen of the open-world actioner from some time.

It’s ten reasons you should be wanting it, basically. It looks as awful lot better than it used to, no question.

Watch it on IGN. The game’s out later this year.

The strangest part of next week’s Rock Band DLC has to be the SpongeBob SquarePants Track Pack, but to each his own.

Here’s the lot:

• Journey – Don’t Stop Believing
• Pat Benatar – Heartbreaker
• Glasvegas – Geraldine
• Von Bondies – C’mon C’mon

• SpongeBob SquarePants – I Can’t Keep My Eyes Off of You
• SpongeBob SquarePants – The Best Day Ever
• SpongeBob SquarePants – Where’s Gary?

The “normal” singles are the usual 160 MS Points ($1.99), while the The SpongeBob SquarePants singles are 80 MS Points ($.99) each, or 240 MS Points ($2.99) for the pack.