Monthly Archives: May 2009

Maxis is looking for staff for a “fast-paced multiplayer action game,” as you can see here.

The Sims? “Action”? Probably not. The ad says the position’s to work on a project “focused on heavy customizability,” and calls for “RPG, combat, or card collection game design experience.”

It’s a Sims-Conan hybrid. The truth is we just don’t know.

Thanks, superannuation.

Couple of new screens on IGN here, showing the co-op side-scroller doesn’t get uglier with age.

The Fozenbyte project’s a PC and PSN release. It’s out sometime this quarter.

EA’s renamed its Redwood Shores studio – the outfit responsible for Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno – as Visceral Games.

The publisher trademarked the title at the beginning of March.

In addition, Visceral has now been confirmed as working on two unannounced projects, as well as Dante and Dead Space: Extraction.

Press release after the break.

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Arkanoid, Space Invaders and Zombie Wranglers are this week’s XBLA games, the Major’s confirmed.

That’s it. We’ll buy Arkanoid because it’s ace. Hopefully there’ll be better news tomorrow.

Update: There’s an Arkanoid movie here. Thanks, Blerk.

Stardock boss Brad Wardell has promised that Demigod’s multiplayer connectivity is to be fixed this week.

There’s a bunch of information on Wardell’s blog on ports, opening them, why they can’t be opened right now and how you’ll be dancing with Stardock’s proxy server if your NAT fails.

For the win. Hit the link.

Wii Rockband’s getting Styx, REO Speedwagon, System of a Down, The Clash and tons of other stuff this week.

Which is all very exciting, but not enough to make us format a list of tracks. Find it, instead, in the press release after the break.

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EA’s expected to announced a loss for its fourth fiscal quarter tomorrow, with a Reuters poll pointing to a 43 cents per share downside on sales of $631.9 million.

“While the company may not deliver significant revenue upside compared to consensus, we think that prospects for very strong June results will embolden management to deliver some upside in the March quarter,” said Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter in a note today.

Watch for full-year figures and news tomorrow after NYSE close.

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 and Grand Slam Tennis will release a week early, EA said today.

Both games will now hit the US on June 8, and both support Wii MotionPlus. Which is why the games have been brought forward: the peripheral launches on the same day.

Press release here.

The 360 version of Wheelman was granted some DLC today, some free, some not so much.

The Free Street Showdown pack costs nothing, and includes one side mission.

The Premium Street Showdown Pack costs 400 MS Points, and offers five new street showdown side missions.

PS3 owners get the same stuff on May 7.

There are some screens of the new content on IGN.

After the break. This is the last piece of Fallout 3 DLC, after which we’ll probably start looking forward to more on New Vegas. E3 for that, or we’re Dutch. And we’re not.

Be warned. There’s a monster spoiler in this trailer. The content’s out on PC and 360 on May 5.

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Remember the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remake that was shown in New York last week? There’s a really rough video of it in action after the break.

It’s a revamp of Turtles in Time. Looks cool. Well, what you can see does, anyway. Just squint and pretend.

From Gamervision, via Kotaku.

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Capcom’s listed Monster Hunter 3 (tri~) as an upcoming US release on its press site.

This isn’t shocking in any way. If there’s one thing Capcom’s more than anxious about getting busy with in the West, it’s Monster Hunter.

There’s been no announcement as such, but, well, you know.

The9 may have lost the World of Warcraft license in China, but it’s undeterred: it’s launching World of Fight instead.

There’s an official site here. You may notice some similarities between this and the Blizzard MMO.

More on Gama.

According to this Ninja-Pizza post, a new Ninja Turtles games was shown in New York last week.

It’s a Turtles in Time remake with 3D graphics, from the look of it.

From the piece:

• The game is set up and directly taken from TMNT Turtles in Time.
• Right now it’s only going to be for Xbox Live, but they’re working on bringing it to Wii (Virtual Console Wiiware?).
• It has the same music as the old game.
• Only the levels “Alleycat Blues” and “Skull and Crossbones” were playable.
• The only difference noticed was the bosses for the “Skull and Crossbones” are Tokka and Rahzar (unlike the original, which had Bebop and Rocksteady).
• For Alleycat Blues the boss is still Metalhead.
• The game is basically Turtles in Time with new graphics – Awesome!

No idea who’s publishing this. Thanks, Blerk.

Nintendo may be gearing up to announce Pokémon Gold and Silver remakes, according to this Serebii report.

The titles are thought to be heading for an announcement on the Japanese Pokémon Variety Show.

The belief’s spurred on by the fact that new merchandise featuring the Johto Region starter Pokémon is being manufactured.

Greek to us. More on Destructoid.

Deadpool’s on the way to Ultimate Alliance 2, according to this IGN piece.

The hero hasn’t been officially announced for the game, but appears in an ad for the title in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He was an unlockable in the original.

Raven will be pleased: it’s keen on making Mr Deadpool the focus of his own project.

Thanks, anasui.

Remember that Brazilian Microsoft presentation video that included a masked Forza logo? Well, according to this Destructoid piece, it also showed a Perfect Dark image at the top of a Live game list.

That’s it. If there is a God, Rare will announce its old shooters from XBLA at E3 and stop the madness.

On GameInfoWire. There’s not long to wait for the Codemasters racer now – it’s out for PC, 360 and PS3 at the end of May.

Some more shots of the 360 version of Sacred 2 on GameInfoWire. It’s a Bank Holiday, OK?

It’s out in June.

Time’s put Sam and Dan Houser in the “artists and entertainment” section of its most influential people in the world issue, saying the pair have offered “quantum leaps in genre-defining fun”.

Their work’s on a par with that of Dickens, apparently:

“But what makes the Housers’ creation unparalleled is that their games have a take on American cultural history,” said Matt Selman, executive producer of The Simpsons.

“A smart take. A take that solidifies the culture’s vision of its recent past. Was it a prominent film or book or record that defined how we look back on gang-era Los Angeles? No, it was a video game that uses movies, music and writing to a greater effect.

“Who better summarized and satirized the drug-dealing Miami of the ’80s? Or the New York City of now? The Housers are doing the work of Tom Wolfe, creating tapestries of modern times as detailed as those of Balzac or Dickens. At least, I assume that’s true. Instead of reading those guys, I’ve been in Liberty City stealing tanks.”

Thanks, Kotaku.