Monthly Archives: January 2010

Update: Matthew Pruitt, assistant producer & community manager for EA has clarified that the game will not have two separate campaigns after all.

“We want to clarify that Medal of Honor will have one seamless single player campaign, not two separate campaigns as was recently reported,” he wrote on the official site. “You will, however, play as multiple characters that each partake in diverse and unique experiences from both the ‘Tier 1′ and ‘Big Military’ perspectives; hence the ‘Sledgehammer’ and ‘Scalpel’ motifs that were taken out of context.”

There you are.

Original: Extra details on EA’s Medal of Honor revamp emerged today, regarding not only the in-game Tier 1 Operatives within Afghanistan, but two different single-player campaigns.

Speaking with Gamesmaster magazine, a real-life Tier 1 Operative (who wished to remain anonymous for good reason) told the mag that games like this are great – as long as it’s done with respect.

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New CVG ed Tim Ingham’s stuck his neck on the block over the Heavy Rain release date – he reckons its February 26.

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Sony’s just unveiled the pack-shot you’ll be seeing when you buy Gran Turismo 5 later this year.

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LEGO Universe will be shown in public for the first time this Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas.

According to Massively, there will be hands-on demos, a debut trailer and beta sign ups for the MMO, which is slated for launch during the second half of this year.

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Speaking in an interview with Edge, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has that Keiji Inafune’s comments on the state of the Japanese market at Tokyo Game Show last September were “discouraging”.

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The British Board of Film Classification has said that, despite Heavy Rain depicting child murder, a serial killer and prostitution, it still warrants a 15 rating.

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Namco Bandai’s PSP demo for God Eater has been downloaded over 1 million times since its release through PSN on November 19, according to Kotaku.

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ELSPA’s announced that Xbox 360 overtook Wii as the biggest software format by revenue in the UK last year.

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Immerz is now accepting pre-orders for its “KOR-fx acousto-haptic chest vibrator”, announced at CES in Vegas, yesterday.

It’ll run you $189.99, plus applicable shipping and handling, during a special introductory offer which expires on March 15. Immerz says that the peripheral will arrive in stores and on your doorstep around May 30.

Full PR below.

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Dan Teasdale, lead designer on Rock Band 2, has posted some updates for the title over on the US PS Blog.

Due to loads of consumer feedback, a few tweaks have been made to the hammer-ons and pull-offs, along with changes to sorting in Quickplay and, finally, the long awaited addition of SingStar mic support in the US.

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According to Abstract360, the next Treyarch Call of Duty, rumoured to be set in Vietnam, will take more of a story-centric approach.

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ELSPA just confirmed 2009 as the second largest year on record for games in the UK, with revenue coming in at £3.311 billion, down from £4.034 billion the previous year.

The figure respresents a drop of 17.9%, year-on-year.

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Microsoft has released figures on how Xbox Live did in Japan in 2009: Virtual On Oratorio Tangram (VOOT) came in as the best selling Arcade game of last year, while Castle Crashers was declared the best selling Arcade game of all time in the country.

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Capcom exec Seth Killian has told D’toid that despite winning a BAFTA, Flock! was a disappointment for the company in terms of sales because it just did not “find it audience”.

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Mistwalker boss Hironobu Sakaguchi has revealed that the story for the AAA RPG in development at the studio is all but done, bar “directions of the ending scene.”

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Naughty Dog’s Evan Wells has said the firm will not be developing Uncharted-style with PS3 motion controls any time soon.

Instead, he said that he’d rather create a game designed specifically for the system.

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Visceral Games has told CVG that it won’t rush the development of Dead Space 2. Oh no.

It’ll be released “when it’s ready”.

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As promised yesterday by Capcom, the demo for Dark Void is now on Xbox Live Marketplace.

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Update: It’s now up on the OXM website.

Fallout: New Vegas will feature in next month’s OXM UK, editor Jon Hicks has told VG247.

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The Final Fantasy XIII team may move onto “‘next generation’ forms of play” now the game’s complete, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada’s told Edge, and that “this type of game” may cease to be made at the firm.

The comments are likely to cause shock in the FF fanboy fraternity.

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