Monthly Archives: October 2009

The PC version of Modern Warfare 2 will ship with Steamworks, Acti just announced.

All PC versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will come complete with the Valve tookset, providing gamers with auto-updating, anti-cheat technology, Steam Achievements, and the recently introduced Steam Cloud.

The Steam version will have 50 Steam Achievements.

Modern Warfare 2 releases on November 10. PR after the break.

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It must be good. Edge, gaming’s last true bastion of tight-fisted reviewing, has awarded Uncharted 2 a mighty 9/10. As good as Might and Magic: Clash Of Heroes, apparently. We jest. Again.

The rest of issue 208′s scores are below, courtesy of GAF.

• New Super Mario Bros Wii – 7
• Uncharted 2 – 9
• Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising – 8
• Ratchet and Clank: A Crack In Time – 7
• Borderlands – 6
• Brutal Legend – 7
• GTA : Episodes From Liberty City – 9
• Forza 3 – 9
• PES 2010 – 7
• Mario and Luigi : Bowsers Inside Story – 9
• Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter – 5
• Might and Magic: Clash Of Heroes – 9
• Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days – 5
• Lost Winds: Winter Of The Melodias – 8
• Tekken 6 – 7
• Ju-On The Grudge – 4

Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division (the Xbox and Zune bit) has seen profits rise from $159 million in last year’s Q1 to $312 million this year.

Revenue for the quarter remained static at $1.89 billion.

Microsoft corp saw some big drops in both revenue and profit, with sales down 14 percent to $12.92 billion and income down 18 percent to $3.57 billion.

Get the full thing here.

Naughty Dog co-boss Christophe Balestra’s claimed Uncharted 2 almost maxes out PS3′s “power”.

“On PlayStation 3 for our first game, we were using probably only 30 percent of the power of the Cell, and this time we’re getting close to 100 percent of using the power of the PS3,” he said, talking in two making-of movies you can see after the break.

That’s it, then. Uncharted 2 is as good as PS3′s going to get. May as well bin it now, then.

We’re joking. Watch the movies for yourself.

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IGN’s posted some screens from Bayonetta’s early narrative section, and they look suspiciously as though they’ve been self-grabbed.

Platinum’s actioner, the 360 version of which recently grabbed a rare 40/40 from Famitsu, releases in Japan next week.

Nippon Ichi said today that it’s to make a sequel to Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?

Actiontastic. The announcement coincided with news of a budget version of the original for Japan.

Low priced Prinny hits Japan on November 26, in both retail UMD and download form.

More on IGN. No date on the sequel.

There’s a trailer on Kotaku of Henry as a playable character in No More Heroes 2.

It’s a bit bonkers, as you’d expect. The sequel’s out early next year.

Sorry for the lack of news today. Chaos, chez Garratt.

IW’s released some new Modern Warfare 2 shots, as seen on GameInfoWire.

Looking good, as ever. The PC version’s min specs were released this morning, in case you missed them.

It’s out on all formats on November 10.

Plants Vs Zombies is on sale as of now. This is a very good thing, seeing as it’s brilliant.

PCGameStore is selling it for $7. This is very cheap.

Steam has it for £7, if you’re in the UK. This is also very cheap.

Buy it. It’s Friday.

Thanks, Destructoid.

As FFXIV’s out next year, it’s not the most surprising thing in the world that Suare’s decided to drop its pants on FFXI products – say hello to the MMO’s Ultimate Collection.

The just-announced download is to include the game, all four expansions and three extra scenario.

It’s out November 12. Get full details after the break.

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Infinity Ward’s released minimum specs for the PC version of Modern Warfare 2. And they are:

• OS: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7
• Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor or better
• Memory: 1 GB RAM
• Graphics: ATI Radeon 1600XT or better or 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT or better
• DirectX: Microsoft DirectX(R) 9.0c
• Hard Drive: 12GB of free hard drive space
• Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
• Internet: Broadband connection required for Multiplayer Connectivity. Internet Connection required for activation

But what about the dedicated servers? Sign every petition. The game’s out on November 10.

Uncharted 2 voice actor Nolan North’s told PSN program Pulse that the team is “desperate” to move onto the next game.

“We desperately want to do a third one,” North said, speaking at 1.26 in this video.

We doubt you’re going to be waiting too long, Nolan. Have a watch.

GameTrailer’s put up its single-player reveal show for BioShock 2 – and here it is.

We won’t spoil it for you if you don’t want to see, but suffice it to say this is “good shit”.

It’s out early next year. Take a look. Light up your Friday.

Thanks, Blerk.

Forza 3 releases today. You should buy it. If you want to see why, check the video after the break. It’s the game’s first 14 minutes, with us playing fairly badly: fortunately, not even our driving “skills” can detract from the quality.

So. Off you go.

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Konami Europe has put 3 million copies of PES 2010 into retail for the game’s launch today, the company’s confirmed.

“PES 2010 is Konami’s largest release of the year, and we cannot stress the gratitude for all the input from the enormous PES fan base,” said Konami marketing boss, Martin Schneider.

“Global sales for the PES series to date are over 55.5m, and we expect a very strong performance from what is easily the best PES in a long, long time.”

Good luck, etc. PR after the break.

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Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising Sion Lenton has branded Modern Warfare 2 the “Michael Bay of videogames,” saying the upcoming Infinity Ward shooter is a “hyped event”.

“The very nature of the game, and I mean this in the nicest possible way, is a hyped event,” the developer told EG.

“It’s kind of like the Michael Bay of videogames. Its budget, its sales, all these kind of things – it is a huge game. But if you’re worried that about kind of thing then nobody would ever make games – there would only be one football game, one shooter game and one platform. It’s healthy to have competition.”

Lenton went on to say, however, that Dragon Rising and Modern Warfare 2 aren’t actually competing. Make your mind up, Sion.

“I don’t actually think we’re in the same place as Modern Warfare 2, anyway,” he said.

“We’re a different creature. We’ll probably get people buying [our game] and Modern Warfare 2 as well. There’s a market for both. I really see Modern Warfare 2 as Hollywood and we’re the Cannes, the arty documentary – dare I say the reportage-style thing.”

Full interview through there.

DFC Intelligence David Cole has claimed Sony and Nintendo’s handheld offering have run out of steam.

“The dedicated portable game systems from companies like Nintendo and Sony are still expected to lead the [handheld] market, but it appears growth for these devices has peaked,” he said.

“The platforms from Apple are expected to be responsible for the bulk of market growth over the next few years.”

There’s more on GI.

Want to kill some more Nazis? Sure you do. Who doesn’t?

“I think you can probably expect at some point there’ll be another Brothers in Arms game,” Gearbox vice president Brian Martel told CBS11tv.

“You can probably expect that… If you look at the history of where we’ve been, where we’re going… That’ll be in the future for sure.”

Get some Borderlands in your life before going back to Germany. You may as well.

Via TVB and GoNintendo.

OXM may not have a fancy-pants past-rewriting animus at its disposal, but the magazine’s still making some history of its own with the world’s first ever Assassin’s Creed II review. So, how’d Ezio and co. stand up under OXM’s unfaltering scrutiny? Pretty well, as it turns out. The numbers nine and ten were apparently mentioned once or twice, or so we’re hearing.

“OXM’s Mike Channell was the first non-Ubisoft person in the world to complete the game, the company tells us, and he was impressed,” said a post on OXM’s official site. “It addresses nearly all the gripes we had with the original game, including all that artificial flag-collecting nonsense, and delivers a brilliant single-player experience that’s built around a cracking story.”

The new issue – in all its review-packed glory – is on shelves now. Go buy it! Buy it so that the fine folks at OXM can keep telling you what to buy!

Back when Dragon Age was delayed into November, the PS3 version was curiously banished into the month’s furthest reaches. However, no specific date or reason was given. Now, though, EA’s seen fit to spill the beans.

It’s coming on November 17, EA’s David Silverman told Joystiq. Why? Apparently, BioWare “wanted more time to get [the] PS3 [version] to ‘Bioware standards.’”

The game’s hitting the Xbox 360 and PC on November 3 in North America and November 6 in Europe. We’ve taken the liberty of emailing EA to make sure the November 17 date applies to Eurpean PS3 owners as well. If not, we’ll be sure to let you know.