Monthly Archives: November 2009

Ve3tro has live the first two chapters of Left 4 Dead 2, if you’d like to take a peek. Vids are after the jump.

Looks awesome. Go buy.

It’s out this week in the US and UK for the PC and 360.

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It’s out tomorrow in the US, but us Europeans won’t be getting it until sometime in 2010. So let us be jealous at out pie eating, Jack Bauer loving American friends, as they get their grubby hands on the God of War: Collection.

The first reviews have started to come in, which you can find below. If you have a link, add it below in the comments. IGN’s video review is after the break.

• IGN – 9.4
• 1UP – A
• GameFocus – 9.5

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Joystiq has live the full list of achievements that will be accompanying the second season of 1 vs 100 when it goes live. The full achievements list rounds off to 200GS: the same as a XBLA game.

Go get them through the link.

The second season goes live, at least in the US anyway, this week.

Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase has revealed that there will be no DLC for the Japanese release of Final Fantasy XIII on December 17, with a decision yet to be made on the overseas version of the game.

Back in August during GamesCom, the FFXIII producer said that non-story related DLC could be coming. Now though, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

“Unfortunately, it has been decided that no DL contents will be available for the Japanese version due out in December, while no decision has been made for the overseas versions.”

Sad face. The game got a Western release on Friday: Tuesday March 9 2010.

Thanks, CVG.

Speaking in a interview with The Times, Rockstar co-president has said that games are “a popular and easy enemy.”

It comes as the latest media criticism is aimed squarely at Modern Warfare 2 for it’s airport level.

“Look, video games are a popular and easy enemy. It’s all part and parcel of doing something that’s not been done before. One of the things that’s always been exciting is the feeling of being in at the birth of a new medium, but of course the history of technology-driven art from the printing press onwards has been of people fighting against that stuff,” revealed Houser.

“It feels at last like we’re moving on from that debate. The audience is getting past 30 so it all becomes a bit silly. That’s not to say that all games are for all people; we’ve never said that. GTA has always been rated 18 and we’ve always been very happy with that.”

In the same interview, Houser talked about GTA V a bit. Lovely.

Uh-oh.

Russia has recalled all copies of Modern Warfare 2, thanks to the inclusion of the airport level in the game.

Infinity Ward has patched the PC version in the country to get rid of the level completely, with an edited retail version due for release in stores shortly.

Thats not all though, nuh-uh. Russian gamers aren’t pleased that the game’s centric plot revolves around a US/Russian war.

Amazing stuff, innit.

From Hellforge, via D’Toid.

The latest Media-Create charts has shown that our hardware winner for the week is the PlayStation 3, with weekly sales of 48,925 units.

It comes thanks to sales of Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, or Winning Eleven 2010 in Japan, which is an exclusive for the PS3 in the country.

Find the full lot below, courtesy of Joystiq.

PlayStation 3 – 48,925
DSi – 37,421
PSP – 33,784
Wii – 31,810
PSPgo – 13,992
DS Lite – 5,515
Xbox 360 – 4,679
PS2 – 2,066

With the first one not even due out until December in the UK, it seems that work is about to get underway on Tony Hawk RIDE 2.

Developer Robomodo has up 15 job listings for an unannounced “extreme sports game”. Get applying if you fancy it, and are qualified obviously.

The game is out in the UK on December 4. Thanks superannuation.

According to Kotaku, GameStop has broken the release dates of Assassin’s Creed II and Left 4 Dead 2 in the US.

The move, which is only being done in stores within New Jersey, was signed off by corporate.

It only comes as last week, several of the retail chain’s stores broke the release date of Modern Warfare 2: something Activision did not sign off on, despite GameStop’s claim to the contary.

Both games are out this week. Via D’Toid.

According to a post on ShockTillYouDrop, Resident Evil movie director Paul W.S. Anderson is still cracking the whip on the Castlevania movie. Or at least, he’s trying to. Apparently, directing a movie’s a bit of a stretch without a script, or so we’ve heard.

“Producer Jeremy Bolt told us this morning that Paul W.S. Anderson is still circling video game adaptation Castlevania at Rogue Pictures and that they are waiting on a script,” said the site.

Meanwhile, Anderson’s also expressed interest in helping Solid Snake infiltrate the big screen. If “directing” in this case means “letting David Hayter write the script, choreograph all the scenes, choose the cast, and play Solid Snake,” then we’re cool with this.

How about you?

Well, not live in the “everyone can play it right now” sense, but we couldn’t resist the headline. Sorry. Our bad.

Anyway, during a Wedbush financial conference, CEO Steve Perlman dialed up interest in OnLive to stratospheric levels by explaining that the streaming software also runs on cell phones.

“Today, at a Wedbush financial conference in New York I showed OnLive running simultaneously on 2 iPhones, a TV, and a computer. What is really cool is that all 4 devices had access to the full OnLive Game Service, so they could play the same games, spectate on each other’s (and Beta users’) game play, watch Brag Clips, check out Gamer Profiles, etc,” he wrote on the OnLive blog.

“That said, it’s important to understand that a cell phone is a very different beast than TV, PC or Mac. And while we’re thrilled about eventually bringing many new games to cell phone platforms, currently, games on OnLive are tuned for TVs and computers. So initially, it’s the Community and Social elements of OnLive that we’re most excited about on mobile devices,” he added.

That’s a good start, Mr. Pearlman, but we gamers are a notoriously greedy bunch. Give us Crysis on our graphing calculators, Dreamcast VMUs, and Etch-and-Sketches. Then we might be impressed. Maybe.

More through the link.

When it’s your job to blabber into a microphone for hours on end, sometimes, keeping your tongue in check isn’t the easiest thing to do. Case in point: voice actor Craig Fairbrass blurted the news that some form of game starring Modern Warfare 2′s resident badass “Ghost” is in development.

“I did in the last game a voice for a character called Gaz and in this game I’m now voicing a guy called Ghost, who now just got a spin-off comic of his own and they’re talking about another little game to go with it. So I’m quite excited about it. It’s grown and grown and grown,” Fairbrass said during Modern Warfare 2′s UK launch event.

Modern Warfare 2: Ghost, huh? Didn’t Activision Blizzard used to have another one of those?

Thanks, That VideoGame Blog.

GT has live some new footage of Alan Wake, which shows him trying to out-run the cops.

It does look good, which is why you need to see it after the jump. It’s an extended version of the footage shown the other day on GTTV.

They also have a full playthrough of the level that writer Sam Lake was talking about back in August. That is also after the jump.

The game is out in spring 2010 – possibly May – for the Xbox 360. PC version is MIA.

Via VGChartz. Thanks, reask.

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Famitsu has live 17 new shots of Final Fantasy XIII, showing Hope and his summon Alexander, a couple of more enviroment shots, playable chocobos and detailing the Crystalium System.

They look nice, obviously.

The game is out in Japan for the PlayStation 3 on December 17.

Square announced on Friday that the game will get an EU-US sim-ship on Tuesday March 9 2010. Huzzah!

Gameswire has up seven screens of Assassin’s Creed II, showing screens of the sex scene in the game.

No tits and ass, though. No tits and ass…

The game is out for the PS3 and 360 tomorrow in the US, and Friday in the UK. PC version is out in 2010.

Speaking in a interview with The Times, Rockstar co-president Dan Houser has admitted that they would need to think of the main location and the main characters for Grand Theft Auto V before it goes into pre-development.

It’s really the first we’ve heard of any kinds of development work in GTA V, although a location for the game was teased in the manual for stand-alone DLC disc Episodes from Liberty City.

“We’ll think of a city first, then the characters,” admitted Houser.

Houser also spoke out on the controversy overshadowing the initial banning of Manhunt 2 in the UK, before it was lifted in March last year.

“Manhunt 2 was not a good situation. When a game gets banned, it means we’re not doing our first job, of making the investors back their money.”

Find the full interview through here.

Not much this week that didn’t hit the front page, but head on through the break and you will find out all sorts of stuff.

Information on the upcoming Warhammer patch, Martial Arts for City of Heroes, and a Beta weekend for Global Agenda.

Go on and hit the button.

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Not too much this week for this post, so don’t go into it expected a massive wall of text and tags – sorry to say.

Still, there’s a bit below the page break such as demos, Steam offerings, content updates, news on Prinny 2 and other stuff regarding games that normally bypass the front page.

Click onward and read all about it.

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Turbine has updated the UI for LOTRO with Vol. 2 Book 9 which part of Siege of Mirkwood.

To access the new feature, all you d is go to the Options Panel and select “UI Settings”, or click the new Customize Toolbar Slots button to the left of the Auto-Attack button.

It has Skirmish Join and Skirmish panels, and customizable Toolbar Slots that will open up whatever panel you want – there’s loads more detail through here.

This was a much needed update to the UI, and it should make things much easier.

Those who were keeping up with anything and everything Modern Warfare 2 knew that you’d be able to use throwing knives.

Well, one lucky person used a throwing knife to pull of a very impressive kill with one, and you can see it for yourself posted passed the break.

That is, if you haven’t already seen it – the net is totally abuzz with it.

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