Monthly Archives: March 2010

Cryptic has put out a video for Star Trek Online showing-off a the new raid that hit the game.

Called The Infected, it is posted below the break, courtesy of Joystiq.

In it, five players at level 43 and higher are set to infiltrate a Borg station and while there, investigate a Borg nanovirus that can “assimilate entire worlds at alarming speeds.”

More information on this raid and the other ones in the pipeline were posted last week.

Hopefully, the latest marketing gimmick to tractor-beam players into the game did not put you off so you can play the new bits.

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Peter Molyneux has revealed that there have been “countless revisions of cameras and countless revisions of software” updates made to Project Natal since it was first shown to the press.

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GameStop has announced which costume has won enough votes to be included in the Red Dead Referendum program for Red Dead Redemption.

Turns out, Deadly Assassin was the winner.

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European Xbox 360 bossman Chris Lewis has said that there is no reason for gamers to fear that Microsoft is losing it’s edge with the release of Project Natal.

Far be it – the firm says it’s staying committed to the core audience.

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2K has announced that the first bit of downloadable content for BioShock 2 will be made available worldwide on March 11.

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David Jaffe has posted on his blog that Sony should “send a sternly worded legal letter” to Microsoft over the vehicle combat game Scrap Metal, as it is just a bit too close to Twisted Metal.

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GameStop has posted a listed for Portal 2, and a suggested retail price on the site has it down for $49.99.

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Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that a three pack of songs from The White Stripes, as well as singles from The Futureheads, The James Gang, Shaimus, and Neil Pert will be added next week to the Rock Band Music Store.

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Shinji Mikami has confirmed there won’t be any multiplayer for Vanquish when it releases this year.

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Wondering where the just-announced Portal 2 is heading to when it releases this holiday? Spoiler: not PlayStation 3. Surprise!

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After the intitial batch of European reviews this morning, the US are starting to go live with their scores.

Get the second wave after the break.

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Update: Valve’s just formally announced it on Steam, saying the game’s releasing “coming holiday season”.

Original Story: Portal 2 is now official: it’s the cover star of the next issue of Game Informer.

We’re making a note here: huge success

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Cryptic Studios is getting yelled at by players of Star Trek Online over a deal it had running where a $10 price cut and an additional 60-days (actually a total of 90-days) free game time was handed out to customers who purchased the standard edition of the game by March 3.

If one purchased the Collector’s Edition before 9PM PST on March 3, they didn’t get $10 off – just 60 days free play time.

This pissed off a lot of those who were early adopters of the title.

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Sony has updated the US PS Video Store with HD flicks Where the Wild Things Are, 2012, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

HD TV shows include the newest 24, Psych, and one of the most kick-ass episodes of LOST to date, in our humble opinion.

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Dates for QuakeCon 2010 were announced today by id Software and Bethesda.

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iPad is to launch in the US on April 3, Apple has confirmed.

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Michael Pachter’s chimed in on the Infinity Ward/Activision war that’s going on right now, saying the outed heads of the studio Jason West and Vince Zampella are “unlikely” to win the rights to the Modern Warfare IP.

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Zipper Interactive’s creative director, Ed Byrne, sat down yesterday to record a few tidbits of information on the trailer that debuted for SOCOM 4 on GTTV today.

In the video below the break – which is the same one that was posted earlier, just with Byrne chatting over it – he talks about the Ops Commander, how the it shows the core mechanics of the game, and how the video was a way for the team to show off the amount of guns in the game.

Apparently, there’s lots.

Zipper says the game will be out in the fall, and you can watch the original video through here.

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Sony updated the US end of PSN last night with quite a bit of stuff.

One of the most notable things was a fix being issued for the Heavy Rain DLC voucher code. Some folks found it would not apply – but it will now, so get to downloading.

Get some of the larger bits below.

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Stephen Toulouse, director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live, has tweeted some good news this morning.

A change to the XBL code of conduct will now allow you to express your sexual orientation in profiles and Gamertags.

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