Monthly Archives: October 2009

Assassin’s Creed is now just $5 on Steam, and will be until tomorrow.

Which is great if you’re in the US. No such luck if you’re British: it’s still £20 for you, you un-American loser.

Go crazy, Star and Stripes people.

Capcom community manager Seth Killian’s told Kotaku that Super Street Fighter IV’s end boss will be annoying enough to make you stamp your joypad to death. He didn’t actually say that, but what the hey.

He did say this: “Seth will be even cheaper and more irritating” than he was in SFIV.

Heartening. Why?

“This is the most fan-responsive game in Capcom’s history,” Killian said.

The game’s out next year. You may as well start getting riled now.

As you can see from this ScrawlFX shot of the review section in the latest Famitsu, talk of Platinum’s Bayonetta receiving a perfect 40/40 in the mag was true. For the 360 version.

The PS3 game got a shameful 38/40. This will make the purest’s head explode. Does this mean Bayonetta has 39/40 overall? Or should the two versions be seen as separate entities?

You decide. Or just play the game and enjoy yourself. Whatever.

FIFA 10′s launched in North America, as you can see in this PR.

The highly-rated sports title shipped on October 1 in Europe, racking up 1.7 million copies in its first week at retail.

The US packaging features Major League Soccer players Cuauhtémoc Blanco of Chicago Fire and Sacha Kljestan of Chivas USA.

More through there.

According to NPD figures, 5th Cell’s Scribblenauts sold almost 194,000 units in the US last month.

Which is a good deal. As Kotaku points out, this means we may get another. Best fix that washing machine thing first though, eh?

Indian 26-year-old Chirantan Patnaik has taken the official Guinness world record for the longest continuous play session of GTA IV.

Patnaik played the Rockstar epic for 40 hours 20 minutes at the offices of blog NeuralChaos.com from September 4-6.

An exercise regime of running and yoga helped him reach his goal, apparently, which beats the previously held record of 28 hours and 1 minute, held by an American.

What format? He was playing the game on PS3.

Thanks, MTV.

Namco and TimeShift developer Saber Interactive have announced Inversion, a third-person shooter featuring the ability to reverse gravity.

Sounds funky. The game takes place during an alien invasion that sounds pretty much like an excuse to be able to spin the environment around a lot with pockets of funny gravity stuff. Call us cynical.

Joystiq has more. And some shots. It’s out next year for PS3 and 360.

Polyphony’s included a Toyota FT-86 Concept sports car in a special version of GT5, to be shown at this weekend’s Tokyo Motor Show, IGN reports.

There’s some shots of it here. It’s pretty.

Attendees can also take along there copies of GT PSP and download a free 100-car pack, in addition.

You can watch a video of the FT-86 in action in the PS3 game here. Thanks, Syrok.

GT5 hits Japan in March.

Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling’s posted an explanation of how IWNET will work with the PC version of Modern Warfare 2, following uproar surrounding news that the game won’t allow dedicated servers.

Bowling claims the closed system will allow players to match against others of similar skill while deterring cheating, adding party features, and so on.

A petition aimed at getting dedicated servers added to the game is now past the 100,000 mark.

Nintendo dev lord Shigeru Miyamoto’s told Popular Mechanics that motion control will most likely stay for the company’s next console, but that everything’s going to be… squished.

“My guess is that because we found this interface to be so interesting, I think it would be likely that we would try to make that same functionality perhaps more compact and perhaps even more cost-efficient,” he said.

He added that the motion-based interface is now familiar to the masses.

“What we’ve been able to do is introduce an interface that is both I think appealing and at the right price for a broad audience,” he said.

The WiiNie? Thanks, Gama.

NCsoft’s announced a ton of in-game Hallowe’en events for its MMOs, bringing seasonal quests, costumes and contests across across Aion, City of Heroes, Guild Wars, Lineage, Lineage II and Exteel.

It’s all very spooky. All details, including dates, are listed after the break.

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NCsoft MMO Aion was the bestselling PC game in the US last month, NPD just said in a press release.

Here’s the lot. Good month for new MMOs, what with Champions Online coming in third.

1. Aion
2. The Sims 3
3. Champions Online
4. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack
5. Aion Collector’s Ed
6. Mumbo Jumbo Assortment
7. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
8. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest
9. Reel Deal Slots Treasures Of The Far East
10. World Of Warcraft
11. Spore
12. Grand Theft Auto IV
13. Starcraft: Battle Chest
14. Zuma’s Revenge
15. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
16. Batman: Arkham Asylum
17. Reel Deal Slots Adventure
18. Nancy Drew: Ransom Of The Seven Ships
19. Civilization IV: Complete Ed
20. The Sims 2 University Life Collection

Tickets for the first PAX East are on sale now.

The show, running in Boston, will take place March 26–28 next year.

You definitely want to go to this. We might. Hit this for full details.

PR after the break.

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Oopsie. Australian ratings board the OFLC has given a 15+ to something called Ghost Recon Predator. It’s multi-platform, apparently.

What is it? It’s the next Ghost Recon game, silly. The one out next year. The one that’s only been half-announced for fiscal 2010.

No detail, obviously. Thanks, Destructoid.

Realtime Worlds has confirmed to VG247 that APB’s beta has now started.

“Yes, we have just begun closed beta for APB,” marketing boss John Davies told us today my email.

“We are still in the very early stages beta testing,” he added.

A couple of stories went live elsewhere this afternoon saying users had received emails saying the beta was underway.

And that’s that. Can we play now, please?

Microsoft is apparently about to trial some kind of Live rewards program.

According to Kotaku, emails received by subscribers today promise “cool stuff” for those chosen for stage one of the effort.

“This is an exclusive pilot rewards program,” said the mail.

“That means that the people who get in get stuff. Cool stuff. You want cool stuff, right? Sure you do, we all want stuff. Especially cool stuff.

“Well, you’ve only got until October 21, 2009 to let us know you want cool stuff, because after that, the doors close and someone else gets the cool stuff.”

Read the full thing through there. Rumour for now.

According to The Age, PSPgo managed to move only 1,000 units in Australia on its launch week.

Michael Ephraim, managing director of Sony Computer Entertainment Australia, told the publication that first week sales were “not under 1000 but it’s slightly over 1000″ units.

“Clearly we haven’t done massive numbers but it’s not something that we’re concerned about … because there are still some issues that we need to work through,” added Ephraim.

More on GI.

Nelson’s confirmed that Army of Two, Midnight Club: LA and Sonic Unleashed have all been added to 360′s Games on Demand service.

Buy them. You may as well. Apparently, “THE BEST WAY TO SEE LOS ANGELES IS AT 245 MPH.” You can’t argue with that.

OK. We’ve got PS3 promo copies of PES 2010, Madden 10 and OpFlash: Dragon Rising sitting here. We’re looking at them. Do you want them? Then comment below. We’ll give them out as follows:

• 100th comment – Madden NFL 10 (PS3)
• 200th comment – Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (PS3)
• 300th comment – PES 2010 (PS3)

Got it? Go!

Best Buy’s put up a list of store opening at midnight across the US in celebration of the release of Modern Warfare 2.

There’s “quite a few,” meaning you should be able to not use dedicated multiplayer servers wherever you are.

No idea if UK retailers are planning anything on the same lines. We’ll check.