Monthly Archives: April 2010

Harmonix and MTV announced this week that a three pack of songs from Coheed and Cambria, as well as singles from Supergrass, Siouxsie & The Banshees and The Violent Femmes will be added next week to the Rock Band Music Store.

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Valve’s L4D2 DLC, The Passing, will hit next week according to a blog post on the game’s official site.

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John McLaughlin, producer for Move’s The Fight: Lights Out, has revealed some of the developmental processes for the game along with play styles over on the US PS Blog.

Previously known as Motion Fighter when we had a look at it at GDC, McLaughlin says that the team did a “ton of motion capture to ensure that every punch, every hit reaction, every dirty move and every hard-hitting knockout makes the player feel right in the thick of the action”.

Sounds cool. Check out the video of it below the break and information on it through the links.

More on the game is expected at E3.

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Rockstar has revealed in the latest Q&A on its official website that Red Dead Redemption’s difficulty modes will accommodate all types of players.

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A source close to Infinity Ward has told Kotaku that the developer as we know it is “dead” and “will continue to crumble”.

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Update: Well that was quick. Joystiq has learned from a Grasshopper representative Closer is no longer being used for any projects currently in development. “Closer was one of the names considered for a project, but that name has since been abandoned,” said the rep.

Original: Grasshopper Manufature has filed a copyright in the US for something called Closer.

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Michael Pachter has revealed in a post-NPD industry note that DSi XL had a “solid” sales debut in the US during March.

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Telltale bossman Dan Connors has revealed that a survey the company conducted asking what fans would like it to develop had some surprising results on it.

The most requested one, however, was to create an adventure game based on the television show LOST.

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Crytek CEO and co-founder Cevat Yerli has said that he’s not sure if a demo for Crysis 2 will be made available as free tasters are “a luxury” that becomes “prohibitively expensive” for game studios to make.

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SEGA has revised its earnings forecast for Q4 2010, as it now expects a profit for the December 2009 -March 2010 period.

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Sony updated the US end of the PlayStaion Network overnight, and other than more games on sale through the Spring Fever promotion, this week sees the debut of Sam & Max on PS3m and a demo for Skate 3.

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Funcom has announced that a retail release containing both Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and the expansion Rise of the Godslayer is to be published by Deep Silver.

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Sony has updated the US end of the video store, and it looks like we’re being treated to the most excellent Wayne’s World. Schwing!

This week’s Deal of the Week is Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Rick Bobby and Driven which are up to 50 percent off.

Full list of HD offerings are below the break, and the full thing is over on the US PS Blog.

Party-on.

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Simon Prytherch, managing director of Lightning Fish Games, has suggested that Move and Natal will appeal mainly to the non-core audience that use consoles for casual play and fitness regimes.

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Ubisoft’s detailed how the multiplayer beta of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will work when it goes live in summer.

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Dan Connors, CEO and co-founder of Telltale,  has said that the company’s first outing on PS3 with Sam and Max: The Devil’s Playground gives new dimension to the series and takes the graphics of the game “up another level”.

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Super Mario Galaxy 2 goodies landed on the Nintendo website this week, along with a nice video that is posted below the break courtesy of GoNintendo.

Apparently, giant cogs are making a comeback, and a second player can play along with you by controlling a Luma.

Click here for loads of screens and artwork.

Super Mario Galaxy 2, is slated for release May 23 in the US and June 11 in Europe.

Thanks, D’toid.

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Resistance developer Insomniac Games has said that the sackings last month of ex-Infinity Ward heads Vince Zampella and Jason West were “horrifying”.

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Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has revealed that the developer is working “very closely” with Microsoft and Sony’s new motion controls.

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Hideo Kojima’s not happy: he’s revealed that the western edition of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will be uncut when it releases in the summer, but in Japan, it has had one scene cut.

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