Monthly Archives: November 2009

Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has said in an interview with ONM that Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be a “really challenging” game.

He also admitted that he isn’t sure the Super Guide from New Super Mario Bros. Wii will be in the game.

“As far as the challenge of Super Mario Galaxy 2 is concerned, I think it’s going to be a really challenging game, but whether or not we are going to incorporate the Super Guide, I just cannot tell.

“In general, wherever and whenever appropriate, I think we will want to incorporate that kind of thing, but I cannot commit to anything specific right now,” said Miyamoto.

Galaxy 2 is out in 2010.

OXM has lined up the first review of Left 4 Dead 2, giving it a 9/10.

Here’s an excerpt:

“The first Left 4 Dead proved a handful of campaigns could provide months of replay value; the extra variety this brings could last years. It’s up there with MW2 as a must-but multiplayer game for Xbox Live.”

You know what to do, girls. GO BUY!

The reviews embargo is history as of tomorrow morning. The game is out tomorrow in the US, and Friday in the UK for the Xbox 360 and PC.

Capcom has released some new shots of Super Street Fighter IV, which you can look at over at Videogamer.

They look sweet, as does all the other SSFIV screens before it.

The game is out next spring for the PS3 and 360.

SouthPeak Games has managed to acquire the TNA Impact licence from what used to be Midway Newcastle.

It was announced in a conference call with investors by SouthPeak’s CEO Melanie Mroz, according to GameSpot, with two TNA games in development for the PSP and DS.

The company also confirmed that it has pushed Two Worlds II into spring 2010.

Find more info on the call through the link.

SCEE has confirmed that a new patch is in the works for SingStar, after some massive bugs for the game were found following the release of update 4.2.

“As soon as we were aware of these issues, the senior SingStar development team came together and have been working flat out to fix these issues with the aim of getting a patch out as soon as possible,” said SingStar director Dave Ranyard, speaking on the EU PS Blog.

“Due to the severity of these bugs there was a very real possibility of a “quick fix” actually making these problems worse and that is why we have opted instead for a very thorough development and QA test process to ensure that the problems that you are experiencing are resolved.”

However, Ranyard did promise that the soonest we would see a patch is early December.

Meanwhile, GAF has uncovered evidence that a track pack involving Sir Paul McCartney is on the way. This could tie in with the upcoming release of his live DVD/CD “Good Evening New York City”.

Then again, if you don’t care for the solo stuff, and have Beatles: Rock Band, buy Sgt. Pepper tomorrow.

Nelson’s confirmed that this week’s Live Deal of the Week is 3 on 3 NHL Arcade.

Once 800 MS points, for one week only, it’s now 400 MS points.

Gold members only, remember.

Konami has just confirmed to VG247 that Metal Gear Solid will release as a PS1 classic this Thursday.,

It will retail for £7.99.

In addition to MGS1, Konami also told us that Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, as well as it’s expansion Portable Ops +, and Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel will also be released to celebrate the release of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker next year. Dates, though, are to be announced.

Find the full PR after the break.

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CNET gadget blog Crave has named VG247 the third top gaming blog in the world.

Gawker’s Kotaku was named as number one, with AOL’s Joystiq coming second.

“This certainly has the most momentum of all the UK blogs on this list, having recently scooped three gongs at the Games Media Awards,” said the site.

“They were well-deserved too: the writing is excellent, and it covers all the important news with a twist of humour.”

We’re so awesome. Hit the link for the full list. Thanks, PySk!

Speaking with OXM, Gearbox head Randy Pitchford has had a pop at Crytek and id software, stating they aren’t prepared for what Pitchford has called “the longest console generation we’ve seen.”

“Anyone that built their strategies around the last generation timing, and is trying to employ those strategies today, is either being forced to adapt very quickly or is risking failure,” said Pitchford.

“Some people have invested a lot going to a place that’s too far, and the customers aren’t ready for that yet because they don’t have the hardware for it. And so they can’t find the market. I was thinking of Crytek, they couldn’t find a market because they made a game [Crysis] that very few people could play. I’m not putting words in their mouth, I remember reading something publically where they said they couldn’t put this on consoles because of the hardware…

“It’s not just Crytek who misjudged it. We see the id guys talking continuously about this, [with Rage] – ‘well, Sony will have a Blu-Ray and I don’t know what we’ll do on the 360, maybe we’ll have three DVD’s… if the publisher will let us do that, maybe we’ll errrrahh I dunno.’ Because they’re in this kind of “generation plus” mode, and like nobody knows what the generation beyond this one is going to look like.”

More through the link.

Speaking at the Montreal Games Summit, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has confirmed that they have in development their “first global game” in development at Eidos Montreal, alongside Deus Ex 3 and Thief 4.

It’s the company’s first title since the acquisition of Eidos earlier this year in April.

“[It] would be the first collaboration between Square Enix and Montreal,” said Wada.

“We would like to be able to create an new title that is made by the group as one.”

It’s unknown if it is a new IP, or if it is an established property.

Thanks, Develop.

BioWare bossman Ray Muzyka has hinted in an interview with Videogamer that co-op could become a feature for future Mass Effect/Dragon Age games.

“Sure, we would consider it. We haven’t announced anything on that front yet, but those are interesting ideas. They could make a great gameplay experience. Whether we’ll do them or not remains to be decided.

“We’ve done it, and we’re doing it again now in Star Wars: The Old Republic. But it is challenging,” revealed Muzkya.

Find the full thing through the link. Dragon Age: Origins is out now on PC and 360, with an EU PS3 release on Friday, and Mass Effect 2 releases in January 2010 for PC and 360.

Speaking at the NEoN event in Dundee, Ruffian Games has stated how important Crackdown 2′s online is, and how it needs to be able to “keep your disc in people’s disc drive.”

“If you’re doing that you’re onto a winner. We play games online, and we want to bring that element of quick skirmish action. We always thought Crackdown was perfect for online and always wanted to do it like this,” said Ruffian producer James Cope.

The company also confirmed it will work on Crackdown 2 after it’s release next year.

“As a company, we’ve got a really strong belief in staying as a single project company. We feel that enables us to make the best games possible.

“We’re not putting people with really great skills in the position of having to manage multiple things. You always get that situation where one game, one project, becomes more important than the other and you dilute your key staff across that. We want to stay incredibly focused on making really great core action games. That’s where the future of the company is.”

Find more at GI.

It’s been confirmed that Develop 2010 has been dated for July 13-15 2010 in Brighton. No keynoters announced yet.

It came at the end of a press release detailing the one day event held recently in Liverpool.

No more info other then that. The press release is after the jump.

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Update: PS Store staffer Mike Kebby just confirmed it on Twitter.

“EU PS Store will see some Snake related goodness this week – yup, MGS is a coming.”

Brilliant. No price yet, though.

Update 2: Konami has confirmed it with us. £7,99, plus Portable Ops and the Digital Graphic Novel to be released at a later date.

Original Story: According to GAF (via TSA), Konami Germany has sent out a press release which confirms that Metal Gear Solid will finally get a EU PSN release this week.

It’ll retail for €9.99.

No UK PR has materalised yet, nor has our request for comment from us to Konami UK. We’ll bring word as soon as we get it, if we get it.

Find info through the links.

BioWare’s CEO Ray Muzyka has revealed to Videogamer that the reason there was no nudity in Dragon Age: Origins was down to an “artistic choice”.

“It’s an artistic choice by the development team.

“We don’t constrain what they do. We don’t strive for gratuitous content. But we also ask the teams to choose a direction and then run with it. That was their choice. That’s how they wanted to depict the romantic liaisons in the game, so that’s what we did,” said Muzyka.

Shame. Game’s out now for the 360 and PC. It’s out on Friday in Europe for the PS3.

Microsoft has confirmed that Codemasters’ GRiD will be lining up on Xbox GoD this week.

It goes live tomorrow for £19.99.

Thanks, CVG.

Speaking in an interview with TGS, the voiceover for Mario, Charles Martinet, has said he wanted to voice Link in a Legend of Zelda game, but was refused by Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto.

“I spoke to Mr. Miyamoto and said: “I wanna be Link, I wanna be Link”, and Miyamoto told me that Link isn’t going to have a voice; he is going to stay the way he is,” said Martinet.

“Of course Mr. Miyamoto is always right! The way it works right now is the way it is supposed to be. It’s the genius of Miyamoto and he knows just the right formula for making his games more fun and more exciting. For example in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, If things slowed down for Mario to express his inner feelings it just wouldn’t work and this way it keeps our hearts pounding with enthusiasm.”

There you have it. Stick at Mario. Find the full interview through the link.

The latest UK charts has just been released, with Modern Warfare 2 completely smashing everyone to become No. 1, raking in 1.7 million units and grossing £67 million.

Ain’t that a surprise.

Wii Sports Resort went up one, from three to two, and FIFA 10 drops down one to three.

Other then Modern Warfare 2, it’s all just movers and shakers. No new entries.

Full top ten is below.

After selling 1.25 million in first day sales, Chart-Track has confirmed that Modern Warfare 2 has sold over 1.7 million units in the UK in one week. The Xbox 360 sold over 1 million alone.

It smashes the old record of 927,000 from Grand Theft Auto IV, with MW2 grossing over £67.4 million in the one week it has been on sale. In fact, it made almost double of the entire UK entertainment software market last week.

It easily enters the UK charts at No. 1. The rest of the UK charts are here.

Eurogamer has put live the dev session in Leeds of Just Add Water’s Stewart Gilray talking about Gravity Crash, as well as showing the level creator and more

Lovely. Find it through the link.

The game is out soon.