Monthly Archives: May 2009

Praise be, Jesse. The new Red Dead Redemption screens on Eurogamer look as though they’ve gone ten rounds with a shrivelled whore after six weeks on the range. That’s a good thing.

Out this year, next year, some year, never. Look and lament for the wait.

Update: A bunch of previews just went live.

• MTV
• CVG
• Gamespot
• Eurogamer.de
• 1UP
• Eurogamer.net
• Boomtown

Edge’s next issue, due in UK shops on June 4, contains a first look at FIFA 10.

In the big interview, FIFA’s producer, David Rutter, chief engineer Gary Paterson and vice president of EA Sports, Andrew Wilson talk about how the company has “reinvented their vision of how football can be played through technology.”

Should FIFA 10 not do it for you, Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya talks about how the game is not as hard as it looks and can “be played your granny”.

Can’t say ours would approve if we brought such a gal home, though.

More through the link.

Jesus. Steve Ballmer whipped out his Zune HD for Engadget at D7, showing off some video and the touchscreen.

Those journos will be doing sex wee over that for years. Salute them with page impressions.

There’s a video walkthrough after the break of what must now be final gameplay.

You’ll see mutant poster-boy Alex on a mission to steal a helicopter, consuming soldiers as he goes.

The open-worlder’s out in mid-June.

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It has been announced that Capcom will attend GameOn! London this year.

Games available for the public to try out include:

• Dark Void (Xbox 360)
• Lost Planet 2 (Xbox 360)
• Marvel vs Capcom (PSN)
• Original Resident Evil (Wii)
• Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles (Wii)
• Spyborgs (Wii)
• Tatsunoko Vs Capcom (Wii)

“We are delighted to be part of GameOn,” said Stuart Turner, head of Capcom UK marketing. “It gives us a chance to show off our forthcoming titles for the first time to the UK public at a fresh new exciting event.”

The event will be held on June 20-21 at London’s Olympia exhibition halls.

Press release through the break.
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DJ Hero will ship with mroe than 100 individual tracks – including music from Black Eyed Peas, 50 Cent, Justice, Marvin Gaye, Beck, Beastie Boys and N.E.R.D. – Activision said today.

DJ Shadow, DJ Z-Trip and DJ AM will all contribute original mixes to the game.

Watch E3 next week for tons more on this. Press release after the break. End of the year for Wii, 360 and PS3.

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Xseed has secured the North American publishing rights to Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon.

Set to the backdrop of an atmospheric post-apocalyptic world, the tri-Crescendo-developed project will land on Wii this winter.

“We are ecstatic to be able to finally confirm Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon for gamers in North America,” said Jun Iwasaki, president of Xseed Games. “We have received countless requests from eager gamers pleading with us to publish this title, and it gives us great joy to be able to give the public what they want while being able to work on such a great game.”

The game takes you through the adventures of a boy named Seto who may possibly be the last human alive.

IGN has an interview with Xseed’s localization manager Kenji Hosoi over on it’s site.

Go have a read.

New trailer of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince after the break.

It’s out for all platforms next week. Looks pretty much great, to be honest.

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George Harrison’s son, Dhani Harrison, has said that The Beatles: Rock Band is going to take games in general to the next level.

“The Beatles: Rock Band is going to blow people’s minds’, he said in a podcast on Music Radar. “It’s going to set a new standard for video games. I absolutely love it and can’t wait for music fans and gamers to get their hands on it.”

Dhani also promised a “big demo” of it at E3 next week, as he has been working with Harmonix on the project since inception.

Game’s out September 9.

More over on CVG.

Polish gaming site GamiKaze has posted the minimum PC specs for Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood.

Don’t worry about it being called Blood Ties on the site, that’s what it’s called over there, apparently.

• Windows XP (SP3)/Windows Vista (SP1)
• Intel Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, Intel Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+
• 1 GB Windows XP / 2 GB Windows Vista 1 GB
• NVIDIA GeForce 6800-9800/GTX 260-280/ATI RADEON X1650 – 1950/HD 2400-4870
• 4 GB of disk space
• DirectX 9.0c sound card compatible with DirectX 9.0
• DVD-ROM

Should run on most, we reckon.

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

Initial speakers for GDC Europe 2009 were announced this morning for the August event in Cologne, Germany.

Taking place August 17-19 at the Cologne Congress East Center in Germany, the first set of speakers and their subject matter are as follows:

• Flower – Design Postmortem by ThatGameCompany’s Kellee Santiago.

• Surviving Project Cancellation in the Economic Downturn by Zootfly’s Bostjan Troha.

• Advanced Racing Game AI in, by Black Rock’s Eduardo Jimenez.

• Compressing Loads of Content Into Only 20MB: A Case Study Of Swords & Soldiers for WiiWare by Ronimo’s Joost van Dongen.

• Off-Road Racing Physics, Indie Style by Twitchy Thumbs Entertainment’s Jim Buck

More speakers are to be announced soon, and you can view the current schedule over on the official website.

A new Big Surf Island video is posted for you after the jump.

The eight minute video gives you am eight minute guided tour of the new Island and shows off loads of new jumps, the Carson Dust Storm vehicle and a whole load of other stuff.

Burnout Paradise: Big Surf Island is due on PS3 and Xbox 360 June 11.

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Dead Space Extraction will be released in North American on September 29 and in Europe on October 2.

EA announced it this morning via a press release, which is posted after the break.

“Our team is really excited to bring the intensity of the Dead Space universe to an entire new audience,” said producer, Steve Papoutsis.

“We are going to deliver the same high quality, cinematic experience we delivered in the original Dead Space, while also adding co-op, new enemies, weapons and taking advantage of all of the unique features the Wii has to offer.”

Hit the jump for the rest.
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After the break. The new Sega racer was announced for PS3, Wii and 360 earlier today.

It’s out in early 2010. Looks like cartoon MotorStorm with guns.

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Media Molecule has released screens for the rest of the 2000AD LittleBigPlanet costumes.

Due to be released today for both EU and US, each costume will run you $1.99, Judge Dredd and Judge Anderson are a package deal, while the bundle will set you back $5.99 and includes 17 stickers.

Hit the link to take a look at what you’ll get.

EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich said today that 43 percent of 2008′s video game titles released in the fourth quarter, accounting for 45 percent of total annual sales.

“The thoughts on releasing more games in Q4 seem to run analogous to expanding a sports stadium from holding 20,000 fans to 35,000 fans – if you can fill the seats, then the expansion is justified,” said the bean counter.

But he added, “This data does not suggest causation and there is no one-to-one correlation between release quantities and sales by quarter. Instead, the data suggests that other factors such as quality scores, variety of releases, marketing, and economical factors play a role in shaping quarterly sales for the industry.”

More on Gama.

Sources claim that EA and Valve are to reveal Left 4 Dead 2 at E3 next week.

Four characters trying to survive, same time frame, new guns, axes, chainsaws, baseball bats and other weapons normally used to dispatch zombies.

A new big and fast boss is expected too.

Destructoid says that its source is reliable and that the game will be released on PC and Xbox 360.

Go through the link for the rest.

It’s starting to snow media. EG.fr’s posted up two new screens from Gearbox shooter Borderlands – get them here.

The game’s an E3 show, so watch for plenty more next week.

Sloan to Michael: Nazo no Monogatari was the number one game in Japan last week, and Mass Effect’s launch was a nice one, with the game debuting at number three.

Top ten is below, with the rest after the break courtesy of ChartGet.

1. [NDS] Sloan to Michael: Nazo no Monogatari (Level 5) 43,000 / NEW
2. [NDS] Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! 2 (SEGA) 39,000 / NEW
3. [360] Mass Effect (Microsoft) 17,000 / NEW
4. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2 G (PSP the Best) (Capcom) 14,000 / 692,000
5. [PSP] Bleach: Heat the Soul 6 (SCEI) 13,000 / 54,000
6. [NDS] Dragon Ball Kai: Saiyajin Raishuu (Namco Bandai) 12,000 / 148,000
7. [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky (Nintendo) 12,000 / 311,000
8. [NDS] Made in Ore (Wario Ware) (Nintendo) 11,000 / 123,000
9. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 10,000 / 3,424,000
10. [NDS] Mario & Luigi RPG 3 (Nintendo) 9,000 / 624,000

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The EU PS Blog just updated with today’s PSN deploy, although there’s not a huge amount there to be getting excited about.

Cellfactor: Psychokinetic Wars and Inferno Pool are the full games,

Get the lot through the link.