Monthly Archives: November 2009

Media Molecule’s giving away a special birthday cake Sackboy in this week’s PSN update to celebrate the game turning one.

Better still, the developer’s re-releasing the fabled spacesuit for one week only.

Nothing can ever be better than this. Get more from the game’s blog. Thanks, Syrok.

In his preview for the upcoming Q3 financial results for Activision Blizzard this Thursday, analyst Michael Pachter has said that he expects Modern Warfare 2 to make over $500 million at release.

He also expects the game will “easily sell 10 million units in Q4″.

“Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 should allow Activision to achieve guidance. We expect global sales to exceed $500 million in the first week following launch, and think that the company can easily sell 10 million units in Q4.”

The game is out next Tuesday for the PS3, 360 and PC.

Square Enix has lifted the wraps of what appears to be the Japanese boxart of Final Fantasy XIII

It’s now live on the Square Enix shop to look at. It’s here.

Apparently, it was meant to be something like this, but now, it seems, it was just a placeholder.

This could be the boxart for the UK and EU as well, if past boxarts are anything to go by, so don’t be surprised to see the same cover when it releases here next spring.

The game is out in Japan on December 17 for PS3.

Quantic Dream head David Cage has revealed that the studio will “need to fight a little bit” for the Austrailan release of Heavy Rain.

Speaking at the Eurogamer Expo in his Q&A session in London on Saturday, Cage said:

“For Australia, at the moment as far as I know, they take the game as it is. So I don’t know, but I think we need to fight a little bit for that and evangelise.

“We haven’t had this discussion yet. We have to make some cuts for certain territories, honestly they’ve been – so far – quite minor cuts. So there is nothing where I felt like, ‘oh my entire experience has totally changed because I had to make those changes.”

The game is out next year for the PS3.

From TVGB.

It’s that time of the week again! It’s the US Nintendo update!

This week on DSiWare, you get Sparkle Snapshots, Viking Invasion and Battle of Giants: Dragons – Bronze Edition, while WiiWare gets Carnival King, Aha! I Got It and Family Card Games.

Finally, the Virtual Console gets the Arcade port of the first Street Fighter, as well as R-Type.

Get the details after the jump.

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Want to go hands-on with Skate 3 this Friday? EA wants you to, so all you need to do is tell them why you should go and play the game this week in less then 50 words.

You must be 16 or over to play the game, but heck, it’s Skate 3. Just be excited.

Find more through the link. The game was announced back in September for a May 2010 release for PS3 and 360.

Nelson’s confirmed that this weeks Arcade games will be Eps 2, 3 and 4 of Wallace & Gromit.

All of which will go for 800 MS points.

And thats your Arcade round-up for this week. Happy New Year!

Nelson’s confirmed that the map pack DLC for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is this weeks Live Deal of the Week.

Once 800 MS points, now it is at 400 MS points for this week.

Go get it, but only if you’re a Gold member.

Valve’s Doug Lombardi has revealed that, out of the $25 million being spent for the ad campaign for Left 4 Dead 2 worldwide, over $10 million will be used for the European ad campaign. Thats £6 million in sterling.

“$25m is being spent on the game’s launch globally. Half is set aside for Europe, with the lion’s share being spent on the UK release,” revealed Valve’s Doug Lombardi.

“Based on the strength of pre-orders, Left 4 Dead 2 will be the fastest-selling product in Valve’s history,” said the head of the studio Gabe Newell.

“Left 4 Dead 2 has consistently run at 300 per cent of Left 4 Dead’s numbers.”

The game is out on November 20 in the UK for the Xbox 360 and PC. Find more at MCV.

Speaking with Videogamer, Insomniac’s James Stevenson has revealed that they are now so familiar, they can do “tricks” with the PS3.

Can you teach it to sit? Fetch? Roll over? Thought not. But Stevenson did say:

“After we get it off and running and we have a game or two released, three, four years into the lifecycle of consoles is where it starts to get exciting. Now we know how to ride that bicycle and we can start performing tricks on it.”

Stevenson also revealed how they had to rebult the Ratchet & Clank series for the PS3 after the series’ PS2 illiterations.

“We had to rebuild Ratchet for PS3. All that stuff we took for granted: the move set, the animations, the character, the crates, everything that works on PS2, had to be redone for PS3.”

Find more through the link. Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time is out in the US now, while the game gets an EU/UK release this week

EG has live a brand new video of Lego: Rock Band, which looks like the introduction of the game.

Find it through the link.

It’s out this autumn for PS3, 360, Wii, PS2 and DS.

Didn’t attend the Eurogamer Expo? Didn’t catch the Q&A that Tom Bramwell and Ellie Gibson did in London? Dont worry, the site has you covered by giving you all 40 minutes of it.

Oh, and there is the stark realisation that no one has a PSPgo. Oh dear.

Find it through here.

Ubisoft’s revealed that the official soundtrack for Assassin’s Creed II will be released on November 16.

The OST is done by Hitman composer, Jesper Kyd.

“Jesper Kyd’s score for Assassin’s Creed II brings players into the Italian Renaissance by providing a true sense of depth for the poignant moments, while also giving a jolt of adrenaline to the action-packed sequences,” said creative director of the game, Patrice Desilets.

Press release is after the jump. Game is out on November 20 for PS3 and 360.

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In between its lawsuit with Bethesda over the rights to the IP, Interplay has released concept art of the Fallout MMO, which is still in development at the studio, despite the lawsuit.

“Keep in mind that this is concept art. It’s not finalized art, but it will give you a feel for what we are aiming for with V13,” said Interplay’s Chris Taylor.

You need to be signed up to their forums to see the art, but you can also see them at Kotaku.

Eurogamer.pt has live new shots of the international version of Star Ocean: The Last Hope that is coming to the PS3 next year.

They look good. As does the one above, for possibly perverted reasons.

Excuse us.

The game is out on February 12 in Europe.

According to Famitsu, the PSPgo has sold over 28k since it on sale yesterday in Japan. The exact figures were 28,275 units.

Sunday was the last day in Famitsu’s parent company Enterbrain weekly tracking period, although as the site points, the DSi and PSP-3000 both launched in a two day period, and sold extremely well at that point.

Make of that as you will.

Thanks, Andriasang.

According to a report from CVG, Kameo 2 was in development at Rare, but was subsequently canned because of the company’s restructure and switch to development of Project Natal.

Bad sales of the original game, which was a launch title for the 360 back in 2005, is known to be a factor of why the sequel was canned, apparently.

The report also suggests there was another known series getting a new edition at Rare alongside Kameo 2, but that was also canned.

Could that have been Perfect Dark Zero 2? Or even Killer Instinct?

We’ll leave an email with Rare anyways to see what they say.

Eurogamer.pt has live a new gameplay video of Front Mission Evolved.

It looks decent, truth be told.

It’s out next year for the PS3, 360 and PC from Square. Catch the video through the link.

Microsoft is readying two new Elite bundles for the Xbox 360 in the UK, according to MCV.

The two bundles celebrate the release of Paramount films Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Star Trek. The Star Trek bundle has the console, the movie on a USB stick and 800 MS points for Star Trek: PDLC and an additional pad.

Meanwhile, the same can be said for the Transformers bundle. The only difference being that instead of 800 MS points, you get the full Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen game. No dates yet, nor pricing.

Find more info through the link.

Update: SCEE’s just offered VG247 this response.

“We haven’t confirmed this and aren’t offering any other comment at this time.”

Original Story: According to E4G, Polyphony has confirmed that a track editor will be available in Gran Turismo 5. At least, thats what the developer could have said to the site.

Anyways, you will be able to either fully edit from scratch, or just edit the tracks already there, apparently.

“Yes it will have a track editor. You will be able to rebuild a track from scratch or edit the tracks that are already put in Gran Turismo 5,” said a rep from PD to the site.

The force is telling us something is wrong with this, hence why this is labeled as a rumour, so we’ve emailed SCEE to confirm or deny this.

Via TSA.

Thanks, Gekidami.