Monthly Archives: October 2009

Konami has confirmed on it’s European blog that Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 will recieve free DLC.

No date or price, but they do say it’s coming “shortly”.

“We’ll be adding downloadable updates and content shortly – free of charge of course – so watch out for those.”

The game is out tomorrow in the UK for PS3, 360 and GFW.

Speaking in the latest Famitsu (via 1Up), Team ICO head Fumito Ueda has said that the current generation of consoles is “about expressing ideas”.

Ueda, who is creating The Last Guardian for the PlayStation 3 currently, said:

“As a creator, technical skill is important, but I really feel like this generation is about expressing ideas, about what you do with the technology.

“I also got the impression that, instead of talking about what makes games innovative and so on, a lot of companies were pushing Western titles hard, positioning them as a new ‘genre’ for gamers to try out.”

He also admitted he was looking forward to Modern Warfare 2.

“It’s one of the few games, I think, that conjures up what’s going outside of the picture in your mind as well. I feel a serious sublime beauty in all of Infinity Ward’s FPSes.”

Find more through the link.

Gamikaze has live ten new shots of Assassin’s Creed 2 for you to pop your eyeballs over.

Find them at the link. They look hawt.

Game is out on November 20 for PS3 and 360. PC version isn’t due until 2010.

Thanks, TomisH.

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has told Gizmodo that Xbox 360 is to make use of add-on Blu-ray drives.

Addressing the format in an interview with the site, Ballmer said:

“Well I don’t know if we need to put Blu-ray in there – you’ll be able to get Blu-ray drives as accessories, can get Blu-ray drives as accessories.”

He added:

“I think mostly the future of movies is on-demand, actually, as opposed to distribution via physical media. So we’re just gonna keep driving forward and try to make it the best entertainment — overall entertainment, not just gaming, but overall entertainment experience we can.”

Mini megaton for Thursday morning. Find the full thing through the link.

Lumines won’t be making it to PSN any time soon. Developer Q Games said yesterday on its Twitter feed that licensing issues have created a sticky online wicket for the rhythm-action classic.

“We would love to bring Lumines/Lumines II to the PSN store,” said the company, “but there are complications, music licensing, was published by Namco, etc.”

There was a foll-up, however: “That said, we’re obviously looking into it. ”

Hold onto the dream, weird coloured block fans.

Via GamePro and Kotaku.

Speaking in the gameplay demo that was released for Japan on Monday, executive producer on Heavy Rain Guillaume de Fondaumiere has said that the game will undergo cultural censorship in some regions to get rid of stuff which will be alright in some areas, but not in others.

He does insist that the game will essentially be the same though everywhere, saying the changes that will be implemented won’t make a “big difference”.

“We wanted to have pretty much the same game everywhere, be it Europe, in the United States, or in Japan, of course, with slight adaptions — for instance, the Japanese version,” says de Fondaumiere.

“But I don’t think the changes we made will make a big difference, so that those are real modular things.”

Game is released next year. Thanks, D’Toid.

Square’s released the TGS trailer of Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep.

You can watch it after the break.

It was earlier confirmed that the game would release in Japan on January 9 2010.

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Chair Entertainment co-founder Donald Mustard has confirmed to MTV Multiplayer that the developer is working on a new game, saying only as much that it’s in “the design phase.”

“We’re definitely working on…things. I’m just not going to tell you what it is…we’re still evaluating in the design phase.”

Is it Shadow Complex 2? We’d like to think so. It’s one of the best games released this year.

Find more through the link.

Ubisoft has trademarked the name “ASSASSIN”, if a report from D’Toid is anything.

Has it to do with Assassin’s Creed? Maybe so, maybe not. We just have nothing else to use as our picture.

Either way, start speculating.

According to a report from FF Reunion, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep will release in Japan on January 9 2010 for the PSP.

It was previously tagged for just January 2010 by KH creator Tetsuya Nomura. No date yet for the West.

Thanks, KH Union.

Microsoft’s Major Nelson has sent word (via Twitter, naturally) that invites for the New Social Networking Experience preview program will be along shortly.

“The preview schedule: We close sign ups later today and (if all goes well) send first wave of notification emails Friday,” he said.

And that’s all he wrote.

During his recent BAFTA lecture, the ever-talkative Peter Molyneux announced that Fable III will include a microtransaction-based in-game shope.

Apparently, items like swords will run you little more than £1 a pop, while new areas (think Fable II’s DLC) will probably cost a bit more.

So, you’ve got all these swords and landmasses – now what? Well, Molyneux suggested that players might be able to purchase walkthroughs at the store as well. However, he emphasized that – as with many of his ideas – this one could be left on the cutting room floor long before Fable III hits shelves.

Thanks, That VideoGame Blog.

Now you see it; now you don’t. About one blink of the eye ago, PS3 Borderlands players were reporting issues with seeing their online friends while, er, online. Now, though, the game’s as good as new.

“We are very pleased to report that using PSN friends lists with the game should now work properly for all PS3 customers. The fix has been released invisibly and should work automatically for all PSN users on the PS3 platform,” Gearbox’s Steve Gibson told Joystiq.

“No special action is required by PS3 customers to apply the fix – just play the game and you’ll find that everything works fine now. We thank you all for your patience and for making us aware of the issue!”

So there you go.

Conviction on PS3? Don’t quite rule it out yet, as there is “hope” yet according to Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat.

He was speaking to Videogamer at the premiere of Assasin’s Creed: Lineage.

“There is always hope,” said Mallat.

“I can’t predict the future. But it’s good to hear that people who can’t play Splinter Cell are willing to.”

For now though, Conviction is exclusive to the Xbox 360 and PC. It’s out on February 26.

Insomniac’s confirmed that Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time will release on November 4 in mainland Europe and November 6 in the UK.

It was previously confirmed that the game would release in the US on October 27.

The first demo of two is out today in the PS Store update.

Meanwhile, Eurogamer has just published the first European review of the game, giving it 7/10. Go read it.

Famitsu has new scans of Final Fantasy XIII in it’s latest issue.

It mostly shows new girl Oerba Yun Fang, shown at the end of the English Tokyo Game Show trailer, with her summon Bahamut.

You can find them over at FF-XIII.net.

Meanwhile, IGN has managed to translate the exact same article, which confirms the PS3 version of the game will recieve no install at all. Oh, and there obviously will be trophies.

Find more through there.

Game is out in Japan on the PlayStation 3 on December 17. Europe and US get it on the PS3 and Xbox 360 in spring 2010.

Gama’s reporting that the average Call of Duty: World at War player has spent an amazing $9 on DLC.

The number comes from NPD.

According to the US tracking body, the shooter’s three DLC packs digitally moved 6.5 million units between March and mid-August of 2009 across both 360 and PS3.

More on Joystiq.

Kotaku’s reporting that Australian developer Transmission Games has gone bust.

Administrators are now apparently in control of the company.

The developer was founded in 1996 and was most recently responsible for Ubisoft’s Heroes Over Europe and Codemasters’ Ashes Cricket 2009.

Transmission had two unannounced games in development.

Via Edge.

Update: Minkley’s confirmed it.

Original Story: If a tweet from UK industry money man and Gamesbrief founder Nicholas Lovell’s to be believed, Peter Molyneux tonight confirmed that Fable 3 will feature Natal support.

Said the note: “Fable 3 will have Natal support. Is that an announcement? #molyneux”

Molyneux dropped the nugget in a BAFTA lecture in London tonight.

We’re in Scotland with Microsoft at the moment, and no one seemed shocked by this. We’ll get an official comment in the morning.

CVG’s running some new screens and video from Pandemic’s Saboteur. It’s all looking intriguing.

The Parisian WWII Resistance title’s out just before Christmas for PC, 360 and PS3, and is looking as though it’ll do nicely for a Holiday Game, thank you very much.

Hit the link to see why.