Monthly Archives: May 2009

A new video for Ghostbutsers: The Video Game is out, and we have it below the break.

Shows the multiplayer bits, and it looks like loads of fun.

Game’s out on multiplatforms June 16 over in the US.

Europe gets the PS3 and PS2 versions on June 19 and the Xbox 360, Wii and DS versions later this year.

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Ubisoft has announced that Might & Magic Clash of Heroes will land on DS in August.

It’s a manga-style, puzzle-RPG based on the Might & Magic Universe with customizable characters and five different quests allowing players to choose between exploration and turn-based puzzle battles.

The game can be played solo or in two-player PvP mode.

Press release is below.

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Former Sucker Punch developers Dev Madan and Matthew Scott, along with Amblin Entertainment’s Ricci Rukavin, have formed an independent development studio in Seattle called Loose Cannon.

Founded in 2005, the studio was formally announced this week and is currently working on an unnamed IP for consoles. The new title, slated for release by late autumn, will be revealed “in the coming weeks” for PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii.

A second game “built upon Loose Cannon Studio’s singular vision to create a new breed of inventive entertainment products,” is also in the works.

Madan and Scott were previously involved in the Sly Cooper series, while Rukavina worked on the films Alive, Jurassic Park, and Twister. He was also creative director at Universal and Vivendi where he was involved with Spyro the Dragon and movie-to-game adaptations of  Scarface and The Thing.

More over on Cinemablend.

NPD has released a list of the 10 best-selling PC games at US retailers for the week of April 26 – May 2.

World of Warcraft always fills the charts. When it doesn’t, expect the Earth to spontaneously collapse on itself.

NPD’s Top Ten

1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
3. Left 4 Dead
4. World Of Warcraft Battle Chest
5. Empire: Total War
6. World Of Warcraft
7. Fallout Trilogy (Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics)
8. Demigod
9. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Exp. Pack
10. Spore

Direct2Drive numbers are posted after the jump, courtesy of Shack.

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Radical Entertainment has posted job listings for a designer and programmer familiar with Wii.

The designer must have an “affinity for 3rd Person ‘Open-World’ Camera Design/Functionality”, and the programmer needs to be able to “take game features from concept to execution for a port of a 360/PS3 game to the Wii.”

Talk has it as a possible Wii port of Prototype, but more than likely it’s the Spider-man game rumored to be in development.

Via Joystiq.

Capcom has put two of it’s gaming soundtracks up on iTunes.

1942: Joint Strike and Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 are the offerings and both were revamped by Sumthing Else Music Works and Gem Impact.

Check out iTunes and sample it for yourself.

Via Guardian.

Microsoft says that The Lost and Damned is not headed to PS3.

Responding to rumors that surfaced over the weekend from a PSW article, Gamespot contacted Microsoft for comment and were bluntly told by a rep that “the [GTA IV] episodes are exclusive to Xbox 360.”

Sony and Take-Two both refuse to comment on the rumor, so read into Microsoft’s response however you like.

More through the link.

Speculation that Crystal Dynamics and Buzz Monkey are working on the next Tomb Raider has hit the net thanks to an online resume and a website announcement.

Underworld’s senior environmentalist, Caleb Strauss, has listed an “Unnanounced Project” on his resume, stating his involvement includes “pre-production development, 3D world environment modeling, documentation, contribution to art pipeline and workflow, and mentoring.”

According to the same report, Buzz Monkey, has listed a “Top Secret Game” on its official website, calling it the “next smash success.”

The firm developed the PS2, PS3 and Wii for Underworld, and worked on the previous two Tomb Raiders as well.

It’s all speculation at this point, so take it as a rumor until we know something different.

Get loads more over on Tombraiderfanboy.

Sony has shot down rumors that a PS3 redesign is currently in the works.

Reports regarding a slimmer PS3 made the rounds yesterday, claiming that Sony planned to announce both the redesign and a new PSP at E3.

Sony UK, however, has told CVG that it “doesn’t have any plans for a redesigned PS3.”

Still no comment from Sony on the PSP Go!, but hopefully E3 will shed more light on that one.

A profile page on LinkedIn has inadvertently announced that Call of Duty 7 is in development.

The information was posted by a Senior Animator at Treyarch via his online resume which states: “I am currently on my second title as a senior animator in the games industry with Activision / Treyarch on Call Of Duty 7.”

Shock, surprise, and awe is what you’re feeling, right? We thought so.

Rumors earlier in the month set the title in various locations during the era of the Vietnam War.

Brutal Legend is Jack Black. Jack Black is Brutal Legend. Apparently, though, Double Fine boss Tim Schafer never thought Herr Black would be interested in the title.

“We didn’t think we’d get someone of that calibre in the game,” Schafer said, talking at EA’s spring showcase in London.

“We were just inspired by him. When I saw School of Rock it reminded me of how I’d wanted to make this game for years: just that character, and how sincere he was, how much he loved metal.

“When we cast the voice, we were like, ‘We don’t want to get an imitator. That would just be stupid.’ Then we heard through secondhand information that he really liked Psychonauts, and that gave us the courage to get in touch with him. We pitched him the game, and he loved it. And he signed up.”

It could have been Lemmy, kids.

Brutal Legend ships for PS3 and 360 this October.

Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings is loaded to the gills with whip use, headbutting, and general fisticuffs.

The video after the break shows just how much, really.

In it, Matt Shell from LucasArts explains how to wield Indy’s iconic weapon with the WiiMote so you can introduce Nazis to your fists.

Game’s out for DS, PS2, PSP, and Wii June 9.

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More than 900,000 people have now played Castle Crashers, the Behemoth’s confirmed on its blog.

Approximately 3,532,940 princesses have now been saved with around 112,478,313,017 swings of a sword.

The developer’s launched a competition to guess the time and date of the millionth player. Hit the links for rules.

Bonkers. Someone, somewhere, is laughing all the way to a very large bank.

Naughty Dog co-founders Jason Rubin and Andrew Gavin have formed Monkey Gods, a social game-focused outfit.

The company’s working on all consoles and iPhone.

Check its site out here.

Red Dead Redemption is to have multiplayer containing stagecoaches and trains, Rockstar’s Dan Houser’s told IGN.

“Charging around on horses and stagecoaches and trains, shooting each other in a multiplayer world,” said Houser.

“It’s pretty epic, but it’s not finalized to talk about in any more detail than that. We’re still learning a lot as we learn how to do multiplayer games successfully.”

Houser said lessons learned on GTA IV would be applied to its upcoming western.

“We definitely feel there’s something really fun about third-person multiplayer games, just as we feel there’s something really fun with third-person single-player games.

“Even between GTA IV and the Lost and Damned we made quite a leap forward in how the games were structured and how they played and I think we’re looking to do that again with everything we do going forward.”

The game’s out this year.

Nelson sends word that Star Trek DAC is now up on Live. It’ll cost you 800 Points.

Blurb:

Star Trek®: D-A-C is a fast-paced, top-down space shooter inspired by the new motion picture. This pick-up and play game allows you and your friends to choose starships ( from a list including the all-new U.S.S. Enterprise ) and battle it out online! Enlist in Starfleet or join the Romulan Empire as you battle with up to 11 friends in game play modes including: Solo Play, Online Versus, and Online Co-op. Command the powerful Flagship, the nimble Fighter or the devastating Bomber, each with their own unique capabilities. Choose your side, fire your weapons, boldly go!

You may as well, innit.

Broken Steel may have been the last scheduled bit of Fallout 3 DLC, but there may be more, Bethesda’s Peter Hines has told OXM.

“Whether it’s the absolute last one remains to be seen, because it’s been hugely successful,” he said.

“Operation Anchorage vastly exceeded our expectation. It was like, ‘Holy shit, we did how many?’ And the Pitt was really successful, after a bit of a false start.

“But Broken Steel is the one that… everyone has been bugging us the most about, because it removes the ending and changes the level cap and lets you play more in that world.

“I think it’s going to be hugely, hugely popular.”

Broken Steel’s out now.

The latest Famitsu’s carrying an ad pointing to a May 18 reveal for Kojima’s next game.

The DPS shows a cloudy scene, long grass, bare shrubs and a dimly lit, hidden house.

Moody as fuck. Do the good stuff, Hideo. More on 1UP. Thanks, Blerk.

This is it, kids. We’re in the next-gen super-zone. We know because Dean Richards, senior producer on Fight Night Round 4, told us so at the EA spring showcase in London.

“We’re in the sweet spot of the next generation, of pushing, of getting to that kind of place,” he told us.

Richards was quick to add that Fight Night Round 3 was a game of its time.

“We pushed the hardware as fast as we could, or as best as we could when we go to Round 3,” he said.

Round 4 comes packed with advanced features such as adaptive AI, 60 frames a second, a streamlined combo system and additional online modes over Round 3.

It’s out on June 26.

Nintendo’s Denise Kaigler never wants to give you enough. She wants you to keep begging, you disgusting little boy.

“I will give you that hardcore gamers have an insatiable appetite for everything Nintendo,” she told BitMob.

“And we love that! We love that! When we get to a point where core gamers say, ‘OK, Nintendo, enough! We don’t need any more games from you guys…” None of us wants to be put in that position, right?

“We don’t want your appetite to ever be satisfied, because when we satisfy you, it’s time for us to go [dusts off hands], ‘OK! Let’s go on home now!’ And none of us wants to go home. So there’s this sort of fun… relationship, I think, that’s happening between Nintendo and the hardcore gamer — which we enjoy and hope that the core gamer enjoys it.”

Keep going, Denise. Nearly there.

Via GoNintendo and Kotaku. Image.