Monthly Archives: May 2009

Loads of concept art for The Flash has popped up over on the official DC Universe Online site.

A few game shots are in there as well.

It’s out for PC and PS3 in 2010.

Via Kotaku.

Poison Ivy is the highlight of the new Batman: Arkham Asylum video posted after the break.

Can just imagine the cosplay outfits to come out of this one.

Still, she looks pretty smashing.

See for yourself.

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David Cage has said in an interview that there is zero chance there will be an Indigo Prophecy sequel because he is finished with the characters and story.

“After Indigo, I wanted to work on something different because I thought [a sequel] would be a commercial disaster,” said Cage to 1UP. “It was really different from what the industry was doing and there was absolutely no hype about emotion or narrative. But when we started talking to publishers, many of them told us they loved Indigo and they were interested in publishing the sequel.

“So I started thinking of Indigo 2 but I quickly realized I had nothing more to say on this story and these characters. I really enjoyed the time I spent with them, but they were attached to a moment in my life, and I had moved on.

“I wanted to write something more personal, deeper, more adult, with no world to save and no supernatural powers.”

This was pulled from the same interview where Cage talked about not wanting to do a game set in  France.

Hit the link for more.

The latest video for Ubisoft’s Wild West shooter Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is posted after the break.

Looks great, and reminds us of those romanticized, gun-tottin’, western films from the past.

Games out June 30 and July 3 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in the US and UK respectively.

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The teaser site over at Kojima Productions is scheduled to reveal what is in store for us later this evening, but that has not stopped a Japanese 7-Eleven e-Commerce database from claiming it’s a Metal Gear game.

Its listing mentions upcoming issues of trade magazines offering coverage of the MGS games, specifically pointing out Famitsu PSP+PS3.

Other than implying that the game is Sony only, the listing also mentions that the magazines are slated to hit retail on May 30.

Over on the Kojima site, there’s just over six hours left before another bit of tease is added, or we get a full reveal.

Maybe it will at least shed light on the “5″ that pops up with the lightening. Or it could be an “S”.

We don’t know, really. But it’s killing us.

Thanks, IGN.

A new video, developer diary and five new shots were released for Overlord II today.

The video after the break shows just some of the cute little critters your minions get to bash to bits, along with other things not pleasing to the eyes.

Screens and Codemasters’ developer diary are over on CVG should you care to take a gander.

Game’s out June 26 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

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This week’s European PSN update looks a bit better compared to last week.

Other than the already announced Tiger Woods PGA 10 and Red Faction: Guerilla demos, there’s the inFamous and Marvel vs Capcom 2 demos and the LittleBigPlanet Monsters DLC.

Loads to keep you happy, really.

The rest is posted after the jump, thanks to Joystiq.

Demos:

• inFamous
• Marvel Vs Capcom 2
• Red Faction: Guerrilla multiplayer
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
• Killzone 2 Behind The Bullet interactive advert

Full Game:

• Creatures 3: Raised in Space PS1 game (£3.99)

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EA has released the first video in a promo series for Brütal Legend starring Jack Black, Tim Schafer, and that guy from the Sarah Silverman Program, Steve Agee.

Watch after the break as he exercises using guitars and a mic stand before vomiting.

Vomiting always equals class.

Game’s out on PS3 and Xbox 360 October 13 and 16 in the US and UK respectively.

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A gold-plated Wii was delivered to Buckingham Palace today, especially for Her Royal Highness.

Finished in gold, the console was commissioned for the Royal Family to mark the launch of BIG Family Games from THQ.

“BIG Family Games is the ultimate Wii game to get all family members, from grandparents to young children, playing together,” said Danielle Robinson, Product Manager at THQ. “The Royal Family is arguably the most important family in the country so we felt that they had to have a copy of the new game.

“But we thought that Her Majesty the Queen wouldn’t want to play on any old console, so an extra-special gold one was commissioned. We hope that she and the rest of the Royal Family enjoy the game!”

At least it will match the ceilings and possibly the drapes.

Press release through the break.

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Vogster announced today that those interested in participating in the CrimeCraft closed Beta can now sign up.

The persistent world-shooter-rpg will have additional Beta slots opened over the course of the summer, so if you haven’t created an account on the official site, get to it.

Currently, the game is slated to ship for PC on August 25.

Press release is below.

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GameStop has reported record earnings during Q1 of 2009, ending May 2.

Sales increased 9.2 percent to $1.98 billion, while net earnings rose 13.4 percent to $70.4 million.

The company claims the robust sales of DSi, Resident Evil 5, and Street Fighter IV along with used games sales being up 31.9 percent contributed to the overall figures.

Despite the nice numbers, the sale of new games dropped 2.8 percent and the company expects to see a decline for store sales ranging from 8 to 11 percent due to sluggish hardware sales.

More over on Edge.

Goichi Suda told attendees at the Nordic Game Conference that many different films and actors inspired Grasshopper Manufature’s No More Heroes – most notably Dirty Harry, Jackass: The Movie, and Spaceballs.

During Suda’s presentation titled “The Birth of No More Heroes”, he showed films clips from  movies that prompted the ideas prevalent in the game.

Some of the antics in the Jackass movie provided the background and design for the game character Travis Touchdown, mainly Johnny Knoxville being beaten up by Butterbean and getting bitten on the nipple by a baby alligator.

Spaceballs was the inspiration for the beam katana, the city of Santa Destroy was based on the depiction of San Diego in Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry (actual setting was San Francisco), and the hotel in Memento was the inspiration for the hotel in the game.

Travis Touchdown was modeled not only after Knoxville, but UFC/Pride champ Josh Barnett who was also the basis for Destroyman. A bit of Scarlett Johansson can be seen in Sylvia , Henry can lay claim to bits of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, Dr. Peace got his characteristics from Charles Bronson, and Thunder Ryu was Japanese pro wrestler Genichiro Tenryu.

Loads more is through the link.

Thanks, 1UP.

This was never going to be pretty. Following a Sun story this afternoon that claimed Paul McCartney ex Heather Mills demanded a “six-figure sum” to appear in Capcom’s Bionic Commando, the amputee model has said she’d like to appear in a game in which journalists from the paper were shocked at the genitals from a lie detector.

“I know one game I’d happily appear in and I’d do it for free,” she said on her Twitter account.

“Connect Sun journalists to a lie detector machine which triggers an electric current attached to their privates.

“If they tell the truth they’d get a good boy drop. But if they tell a porkie pie… it’d give them a short sharp shock to the privates.”

Mills went on to say the Sun’s journalists would likely have fun at the treatment.

“They’d probably enjoy it and not only would we all be able to tell Sun fact from fiction,” she said. “One day’s power surge from their uncontrollable bullshit would generate enough power to light up England each and every week.

“Now that’s what I call alternative energy.”

The Sun’s original story said Mills had turned down involvement in the game after Capcom refused to pay a significant sum of money.

Mills reacted, saying the money was to be a charitable donation.

Capcom declined to comment on the matter this afternoon.

Bleach: Heat the Soul 6 was the number one game in Japan last week, followed by the debut of Atlus’ Grow Lancer.

Winning Eleven Playmaker 2009 and Rack Pachi 6 were the other debuts to make it into the top 10,

Data for the week ending May 17 is courtesy of ChartGet.

1. [PSP] Bleach: Heat the Soul 6 (SCEI) 41,000 / NEW
2. [PSP] Grow Lancer (Atlus) 23,000 / NEW
3. [NDS] Dragon Ball Kai: Saiyajin Raishuu (Namco Bandai) 20,000 / 136,000
4. [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky (Nintendo) 15,000 / 299,000
5. [NDS] Made in Ore (Wario Ware) (Nintendo) 15,000 / 112,000
6. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2 G (PSP the Best) (Capcom) 15,000 / 678,000
7. [WII] Winning Eleven Playmaker 2009 (Konami) 14,000 / NEW
8. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 11,000 / 3,414,000
9. [NDS] Mario & Luigi RPG 3 (Nintendo) 10,000 / 616,000
10. [PS2] Rack Pachi 6 (Tecmo) 9,000 / NEW

Midway has announced that a $33 million offer from Warner Bros. to purchase a majority of the company is under consideration by the courts.

Under the “stalking horse” agreement, Warner Bros. would acquire all of the Midway’s US assets including its Mortal Kombat franchise and its development studios in Chicago and Seattle for a purchase price of $33 million.

The agreement does not include the Company’s development studio in San Diego and the TNA franchise games, nor does it include the Newcastle, UK studio which developed Wheelman.

Currently, Midway is waiting on the bankruptcy court to approve the deal.

Press release through the break.

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Sega has quietly released the original Sonic the Hedgehog for iPods and iPhone on the App Store.

Seven zones are there for users to speed through including Green Hill and Labyrinth, along with some special stages as well.

Options include arcade and full-screen views, and it will run you £3.49 ($4.99).

Via Kotaku.

The premium multiplayer Map Pack for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena has landed on Xbox Live.

It will run you 800 MS Points ($10.00) and includes: “Munity” and “Viper Run” for Butcher Bay Riot; “Sneerock” for Deathmatch; “Tracker Star” for Capture the Flag; “The Tangle” for Pitch Black.

Hit the link for extra details.

The PC version of Red Faction: Guerrilla has been pushed back and will now release on August 25.

This is according to the official GameStop website, which of course, does not list a reason for the delay.

PS3 and Xbox 360 versions are still scheduled for a June 2 release, so no worries there.

We’ve contacted THQ for clarification and we’ll let you know when we get a response.

Via BigDownload.

Update: Capcom just mailed this over: “We will not be commenting on the matter.”

Update 2: Mills has apparently confirmed the truth of the story on her Twitter, saying the large sum was to be for a charitable donation.

The ex-model lambasted Capcom as “stingy” in the process. Here are the tweets:

Got offered to promote an amputee bionic computer game, from a wealthy computer games company I said if you donate a large sum to charity

The stingy company came back saying they couldn’t, what happened to charitable businesses, seems they just want to exploit and give nothing

Update 3: Mills has responded, saying she’d appear for free in a game in which Sun journalists were attached to a lie detector by their genitals.

Original story:

This is awesome. The Sun’s claiming that Heather Mills, Paul McCartney’s one-legged ex, demanded a “six-figure sum” to appear in Bionic Commando, and wanted the game to revolve around a character based on her.

Capcom approached her about the game “because of her charity work with amputees,” according to that piece.

Said a source: “She was insistent she wouldn’t do it for a smaller fee and said the producers should make her the star.

“The request was way, way over budget and they certainly weren’t keen on basing the game on her.”

Just mailed Capcom. In between bouts of choking.

A demo for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 is now up on Xbox Live and PSN.

Players can take part in a two hole practice round on both the Bethpage-Black and Turnberry courses, and get a taste of Tournament Challenge. In it, players will participate in a single challenge to get a preview of the mode while a number of preview screens will be made available.

Full game’s in stores June 8.

Click through the links for the rest.