Monthly Archives: September 2009

Tekken 6 on PSP was shown to be in fine form today as Namco released 14 new shots. Get them after the break.

The game’s still listed as an “autumn” release. We’ll let you know as soon as the publisher decides to get more specific.

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Freakbits has claimed that Need for Speed: Shift is “the most bug-ridden piece of code”, saying that the Xbox 360 version crashes sometimes when trying to access the PlayStation Store.

No, that ain’t a typo.

“The list of serious bugs being reported by customers is embarrassing and it has crashed on me at least a dozen times,” said the site.

“But this could be the most embarrassing fail of all.

“When navigating menus today while connected to Xbox Live the game suddenly crashed again. When my rage had subsided and I got a better look at the screen, I was pretty shocked at what I saw.

“Was my Xbox 360 version of Need for Speed Shift really trying to access the Playstation Store? Microsoft are not going to be happy about this.”

And the world LOL’ed.

Thanks, PSLS.

Microsoft Ireland confirmed to VG247 at a press event held two weeks back in Dublin that Sky TV will release for Xbox 360 in the UK in October.

The company has told CVG this morning that a date for the service still hasn’t been confirmed, despite the latest edition of the official Sky magazine listing an October date.

Subscription packages hadn’t been put in place at the time of the event. HD packages aren’t planned for now.

So now you know.

Team ICO boss Fumito Ueda has revealed that he would “hope” to see a simultaneous release between Europe and Japan for The Last Guardian.

“I hope to see that, yes,” said Ueda to Eurogamer on the sim-ship.

He also revealed it was “slightly disappointing” to see the internal Project Trico video leak back in May, just before E3.

“Yes, it was slightly disappointing. Everybody was working so hard to make that trailer for E3, staying up the whole night – then the next day it was leaked, and everybody was so surprised.”

More through the link.

Halo 3: ODST has, unsurprisingly, debuted at number one in the UK chart.

The latest Professor Layton, Pandora’s Box, made second place, pushing down NfS: Shift and GH5 into third and fourth respectively.

Last week’s chart here. Data below for the week ending September 26.

Both Gamestop and Amazon.ca are now listing Obsidian RPG Alpha Protocol as a June 2010 release.

Sega’s made no comment on whether or not we’re about to see a heavy slip for the game.

Alpha Protocol is still listed as an October release. Hint – no chance.

Thanks, EG.

Game Watch has posted up a few new shots of The Last Guardian. They’re down the bottom of that Ueda interview. Get busy with the translation, Japanese types.

It’s doubtful we could want this any more. Every shot makes us feel nauseous.

Digital Spy’s claiming that the last edition of Sky’s magazine’s revealed an October release date for 360′s Sky functionality in the UK.

The story’s based on the fact a URL published by the mag as a promo for the service contains the letters “oct”. It should be noted that this comes from the publication’s October issue.

No one’s contacted Microsoft about this. Maybe we will. Thanks, Blerk.

Update: The mag itself apparently says the update’s being released in October. Go nuts.

Update 2: We’ve had this confirmed.

Tokyo Game Show 2009′s recorded a dip in attendance compared to last year, drop from 194,288 in 2008 to 185,030 last week.

The show played host to some major announcements from Sony in particular, with GT5′s date being confirmed at the event and big-ticket titles such as LittleBigPlanet and Resident Evil 5 being screened using PS3′s upcoming motion controller.

Next year’s show will start on either September 16 or 17, according to Andriasang. Whether or not TGS 2010 will be a three or four-day affair hasn’t been decided as yet.

Thanks, GoNintendo.

Gearbox has confirmed that RPG-shooter Borderlands will be getting a Steam release, Destructoid reports.

The version will have two little exclusive features. It’ll allow players to export equipment cards as JPEGs, and will also come with timedemo benchmark software.

There’s no date on the Steam outing yet, but the disc-based PC version was just moved back to October 30. The console version hits on October 23.

There’s a movie after the break of the GT5 damage model doing the do. Looks great, but that car appears to be made of very stern stuff.

It’s off-screen footage shot at TGS. The game’s out in Japan next March.

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When we cash our paycheques, we usually go out and buy a new game. When Blizzard COO Paul Sams cashes his paycheque, he buys a team to play a game for him. And not just any game, either. Professional frikkin’ football.

Sams, according to a post on the Steelers’ official website, is one of ten new shareholders for the popular NFL team. Apparently, Sams has “coached youth athletics for the past decade,” so he’s not a total fish out of water here, either.

Is this ActiBlizz’s sneak attack on EA’s Madden franchise? Crafty, Sams. Very crafty.

More through the link.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Square Enix has publicly released a new trailer of Final Fantasy XIII, showcased at the Premiere Party in Tokyo a while back and at TGS this past weekend.

How do we describe the trailer? In one word: incredible.

A new character is revealed too in the form of an unnamed tattooed woman. What part she plays is currently unknown.

The whole trailer is now available to download from the Japanese PlayStation Store if you have an account, but you can catch it after the jump.

It’s out on December 17 for PlayStation 3 in Japan. For the US and Europe, spring 2010 is when you can expect it for PS3 and Xbox 360.

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The latest Mass Effect 2 trailer’s all about Subject Zero, who surprisingly isn’t a blue-suited ice ninja.

Instead, she’s a hootin’-hollerin’ rage machine. Short of the immolated chain swords, she’s basically God of War’s Kratos. Same hairstyle and everything!

Watch her in action after the break, courtesy of GameSpot.

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Remember that Street Fighter announcement that was recently, er, announced? Well, now it’s got its own teaser.

Right now, the teaser page is counting down to 2009.09.29 17:00 JST. The site’s url, meanwhile, mentions a “new warrior.” In other words, we’ll presumably catch our first glipse of the next generation in paved pugilism on Tuesday, September 29.

What’s in the pipeline for Street Fighter? We have no idea. Would you like to hazard a guess?

Sony has sent over a bit of PSPgo launch information to IGN that you may find interesting.

On October 1, 16,000 pieces of digital content will be available for the PSPgo in the US which includes:

• 225 games (combination of full PSP titles, PSN exclusives, UMD legacy titles and Minis)
• 2,300 movies
• 13,300 television episodes
• Gran Turismo, Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny and God of War: Chains of Olympus
• PlayStation Network Game Cards allowing the download of games like Gran Turismo, Daxter, Patapon 2, Secret Agent Clank and Twisted Metal: Head-on.

That’s a lot of stuff right there.

Full thing through the link.

It’s that time of the week again, kiddos. Time for the MMO news round-up for the week.

Unfortunately, this week the pickings were slightly slim. We blame TGS.

However, past the break there is news concerning the artbook for Guild Wars 2, a massive update to Bounty Bay Online, a round-up of news concerning the launch of Fallen Earth, and your chance to score a Star Trek Online Beta key from IncGamers.

Go ahead. Hit the jump.

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Looks like a new level 80 dungeon, the Iron Tower, and a veteran rewards program is heading to Age of Conan.

This bit of good news was revealed in the latest director’s letter on the official site.

The veteran rewards program uses “veteran points” – instead of a reward per-month interval system – with monthly points that can either be saved or spent via a new veteran reward shop. One of these rewards is an item that summons Casilda, the slave from the tutorial whose boobs shake, to “cheer you on as you fight things”.

As far as the new dungeon is concerned, the Iron Tower is a team effort that is loaded to the gills with Aquilonia criminals, five different bosses, four mini-bosses, and possibly a rare boss.

Good to know that more stuff is headed Hyboria’s way.

Thanks, Massively.

Capcom has not decided on a producer for Resident Evil 6 yet, according to RE5 producer Jun Takeuchi.

“The producer for Resident Evil 6 hasn’t been decided yet,” Takeuchi told Kotaku. “I think, while Resident Evil 4 is a great game, its appeal was limited somewhat to maniac players. With RE5, I wanted to bring the series to a larger audience. I think its important to do the same for the next RE.”

Also, while possible, the gaming house has no plans to port RE5 to Wii due to the hardware.

“With the difference between hardware specs for the Wii and the PS3, porting might be hard,” he said. “We currently have no plans.”

Bummer.

Thanks, GoNintendo.

TGS organizer CESA has reported that day two totals for the event accounted for 24,605 attendees, which beats out last year’s second day total of 24,178.

Day one this year saw 27,434 people walk through the door, compared to day one’s 27,305 in 2008.

Tthe first two days of the show are only open to press and industry insiders, but today and tomorrow the public shall be able to attend.

Total attendance for last year’s show, including all business and public days, was 194,288.

More over on Andriasang.