Monthly Archives: May 2009

We’ve just put a reader survey live, and it would be a huge help if you could take the time to fill it out.

There’s one short sheet of questions there: it’ll take a few minutes at the most.

Why do we need you to do this? It helps with marketing, basically, which means more writers, better content, more extensive tattoos and yachts in the Bahamas.

We’d like to say you’d be in with a chance of winning something if you do it, but that would be a lie. Unless you count respect as a prize, obviously.

Update – A Codemasters chap just got in touch. Apparently you don’t count respect as a prize, so he wants to offer three copies of FUEL to you lot in return for filling out the survey. Watch videos of it here. We’ve got no way of telling whether or not you’ve taken the survey as it’s completely anonymous, so do this instead:

• Take the survey (we trust you – just do it)
• Tell us in the comments below why you read VG247
• We’ll pick three of the best answers and Codemasters will send you the game (360-only) when it launches on May 29

That’s it. Good luck!

Fable II DLC See the Future is now available for download.

The content costs 560 MS Points and features many dogs. Get to it.

After the break. Who knew games marketing people could make you smile? We didn’t. The game’s out May 18.

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A new City of Heroes expansion, Going Rogue, has been confirmed via marketing company StreetWide Concepts, Kotaku reports.

Mention of the pack appears to have been removed.

The add-on will be only the second in the game’s history, the first being City of Villains.

Going Rogue will introduce the world of Praetoria and a new alignment system “that explores the shades of gray that lie between Heroes and Villains,” apparently.

No date.

The first footage of Contra ReBirth popped up overnight, as you can see after the break.

The Wiimake looks shooty. It’s actually out now in Japan, but we’re still waiting for details of a western release.

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Kotaku’s got a shot of what’s claiming to be a white American DualShock 3.

That’s it. No confirmation on when these are hitting either the US or UK as yet.

Kotaku’s put up thelatest Dragon Age screens, showing a game stamped with “no-brainer” for the fantasy crowd.

Seriously, check it out. BioWare’s gone mental for it.

The game’s out for PC, 360 and PS3 later this year.

Halo Wars gets a patch today – get all details from the official site.

Looks like general stuff to do with balance. Few bug fixes there, but nothing major.

According to this Videogamer story, yuo can get early access to the Fight Night Round 4 demo in the UK by pre-ordering from GameStation.

See here. Buy it and you can play the taster this Thursday. Don’t, and you’ll have to wait until an unspecified date.

The game’s out on June 26. Get a new video of it after the break.

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Players aren’t saddled with a “good” or “evil” choice in inFamous, Sucker Punch co-founder Bruce Oberg has told the PlayStation Blog, and can instead switch between the two through the open-worlder’s adventure.

“Good and evil in inFamous is not just a binary choice,” said Oberg, speaking in the video interview after the break.

“You don’t have to be good and evil the whole game. You can go back and forth between it. And depending on whether you’re good or evil at any particular time, you can actually choose to upgrade your powers in different ways.”

Players can flip between good and evil in the game to access various upgrades and powers.

“Depending on where you are in the game you may want to actually play a mission with certain sets [of powers], and it may actually make sense for you to maybe become more evil to play a particular mission.”

Full thing down there. The game’s out on May 21 in the US, and May 29 in Europe.

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Though it pains us to say it, everyone needs some Peggle in their lives. Fortunately, then, PopCap’s priced the iPhone version at $4.99. Amazing.

According to Joystiq, the game features all of the original content and a double-tap zoom view and scroll wheel for precision aiming.

Buy it. And if you haven’t got an iPhone or iPod Touch, buy one of those. Buy everything.

Pearl Jam’s announced that it’s working on a live Rock Band project.

It’s coming next year, apparently. Which is great, because we need another rhythm action game. Not enough of them going on at the moment.

See proof through the link.

Ubi’s patched Far Cry 2, reducing the risk of corrupted save data and fixing a ton of other stuff in both single-player and online play.

A “Hardcore” mode has also been added, giving weapons far greater damage.

Go back and play it again. It’s ace. Get the patch notes here.

The next Tony Hawk game – the one with the plastic skateboard – is to be shown for the first time on GTTV this week. See the promo after the break.

The plastic skateboard hasn’t been announced yet. Gasp like a fumbling teenager when it is.

The game’s out this winter. The announcement’s on Thursday.

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Game Informer’s next cover is Modern Warfare 2, as you can see here.

The mag’s got ten pages of it, as well as six pages of DJ Hero. Acti-tastic.

There’s a nice bit of art through there. No date on when the issue’s actually out, though.

Red Steel only works with Wii MotionPlus. This may or may not be a particularly clever idea.

“It’s a huge risk,” creative director Jason Vandenberghe said in the latest Nintendo Power.

“We have no idea what the penetration rate for Wii MotionPlus will be. We assume high. We would like it to be high.”

Not using the peripheral wasn’t an option, Vandenberghe added.

“I would love to say to you that it’ll be compatible with just a regular controller, but the gameplay simply isn’t there without MotionPlus,” he added.

“That core experience just isn’t there without it.”

The game releases this Christmas. MotionPlus launches in June.

Via NintendoPad and GoNintendo.

Stardock boss Brad Wardell has told those still playing pirated copies of Demigod to accept they’re thieves.

The game debuted at number three in the US PC charts, but Wardell said that doesn’t make playing hooky versions of the game acceptable.

“Demigod is heavily pirated,” said the exec on his blog. “And make no mistake, piracy pisses me off.

“If you’re playing a pirated copy right now, if you’re one of those people on Hamachi or GameRanger playing a pirated copy and have been for more than a few days, then you should either buy it or accept that you’re a thief and quit rationalizing it any other way.”

Demigod was pirated over 100,000 times in its opening weekend.

Rock Band Wii’s getting 25 new tracks this week, from bands such as Silversun Pickups, Duran Duran, The Pretenders and Mötley Crüe. Girls on Film’s there, which is always a good thing.

Endless. Read the press release. It means we don’t have to make lists of infinite music.

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Harmonix chap Alex Navarro has told Eurogamer that at least part of The Beatles: Rock Band’s tracklist is to be announced next month.

“You’re looking at E3,” said Navarro.

“It’s not going to be the full tracklist that we announce, but we’ll have some info at that point. We’re gonna tease it a little bit.”

Wonder if the full cost of the “experience” is going to be detailed at the show?

Cooking Mama has sold more than 4 million copies in the US, Majesco said today.

The franchise includes Cooking Mama, Cooking Mama: Cook Off, Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends, Cooking Mama World Kitchen and Gardening Mama.

Sizzling, no matter how you slice it. Hit the link for gushing quotes.