Monthly Archives: May 2010

Sources close to G4 are saying that not only has an unannounced stealth-action James Bond title been put on hold over at Activision, but that it was being developer by Raven and the team working on it has been moved over to Call of Duty: Black Ops, to create map packs for it.

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Daniel Erickson, BioWare’s lead writer on Star Wars: The Old Republic, has offered his ideas on what consititutes an RPG.

Turns out, it’s not Final Fantasy XIII.

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MTV Networks has announced that it will air Microsoft’s press event and the Natal Experience during E3 this year.

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Crysis 2′s executive producer, Nathan Camarillo, has said that Crytek’s foray into console shooters will stand out from the crowded market this holiday season, thanks to CryEngine 3 and the game being a mix between science fiction and a military shooter.

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Visceral’s Steve Papoutsis has told VG247 that the development team has listened very closely to feedback from fans and focus testing, and used all the information obtained to balance both the action and the atmosphere in Dead Space 2.

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If someone were to say that Star Wars: The Old Republic was a highly anticipated game, the prize for understatement of the year would be handed to over them.

Ever since it was revealed through an interview EA CEO John Riccitiello did during E3 2008, MMO players and Star Wars fans alike have been itching to get their hands on it, and the fervor has grown steadily with each passing year as BioWare tries to placate us with its trickle of information and assets.

Once in a while, the game is shown to press outlets at events like GDC, and most recently, EA’s spring showcase in London this week.

VG247′s Joe Anderson went to have a chat with the game’s executive producer at Lucasarts, Jake Neri, whom – if you recall – we spoke with back in March.

Read on below the break and see if he has any new nuggets of information for you.

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During EA’s spring showcase event in London this week, Crytek’s Nathan Camarillo was on hand to demo Crysis 2 to a salivating press, and have a chat with those present.

VG247 sent Joe Anderson over to grill the executive producer on the game, and find out what makes Crysis 2 stand-out from its peers in a crowded shooter market.

What Camarillo said, just may surprise you. Read on below the break for the full thing.

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Sony has released its financial results for its fiscal year 2009, which ended on March 31, 2010, and the good news for the company is that PS3 has moved 13M units to date worldwide, which is up 2.9M YoY.

The bad news? Revenues dropped 10.2 percent from $188.6B to $169.4B YoY, however – its operating loss of $938.6M last year was better this year at $890 million.

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Rockstar has sent over the launch trailer for Red Dead Redemption, and honestly, we don’t know what else to say about the game that hasn’t already been said.

Suffice it to say, “we wants it Precious”, and we will get it next week when it hits the local shops. We may have to pawn a few bits of jewelry here and there to get it, but hopefully it will be worth it.

We’re joking, obviously.

Enjoy the kick-ass video below the break, and try not to squeal with too much delight.

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Dead Space 2′s executive producer, Steve Paptousis, has told VG247 that those thinking the extra element of action added to the sequel means that it’s going to be a run-an-gun game, are wrong.

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Visceral Games’ Steve Papoutsis was in London this week, showing the press the progress the team’s made on Dead Space 2.

VG247 sent Joe Anderson over to have a look at it, armed with a Pulse Rifle, and had him corner the executive producer and ask him loads of questions regarding the sequel for you.

Happily, Papoutsis obliged, and revealed to Joe all sorts of lovely things.

We’ve posted the interview in its entirety below the break for you.

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Lionhead has put out a new developer diary for Fable III, and in it, Peter Molyneux discusses the game’s interface, and sillywalks with special guest John Cleese – who will be your butler in the game.

According to Molyneux, action and adventure “go hand in hand” this time out, with not only a revamped control scheme and dynamic 3D maps making sure you are “always in the action” and immersed in the experience.

“It’s such an exciting time because we’re actually changing Fable III,” says Molyneux in the video below. “We’re moving more towards the action-adventure and we’re diminishing a little bit the RPG.

“We still love RPGs, we still adore RPGs but we also love the drama and excitement that action-adventure brings.”

Watch for yourself.

Fable III’s due out by the end of the year for 360

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Some shots of Bulletstorm were released today, and we have ‘em for you below the break.

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Activision has sent over a lovely mail, informing us that Infinity Ward’s second pack of multiplayer maps for Modern Warfare 2 will hit first on Xbox Live June 3.

Not a bit surprising there, is it? PC and PS3 will likely get it a month later, should it follow in the Stimulus Pack’s footsteps.

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Watch. There’s nothing else we can say then that about the debut trailer of the People Can Fly shooter.

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Five long years after it was announced at E3, Remedy finally releases Alan Wake tomorrow in the UK and Europe for Xbox 360, with a US launch on Tuesday.

Anyone not buying it are obviously nuts for not doing so: game looks set to properly pump up the volume, according to reviews that came out for the thriller last week.

On Monday, we asked you for your questions for the Finnish developer, and you came in with an impressive set of them.

The best answer will get an Alan Wake Super Elite 360 bundle, with runner-up prizes consisting of Collector’s Editions of the game. We’ll let you know of the winners soon.

For now, get your answers from Remedy writer Mikki Rautalahti below.

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EA’s revealed a third Mass Effect 2 premium DLC pack, set for launch next month.

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You want more LBP2 stuff? You can never be too full of LBP2 stuff. After the break, there’s gameplay footage of the game from the latest episode of Qore.

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Dead Space 2. It’s going to blow people’s minds, innit. New shots for it might back up the case. Get them below

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Yakuza PSP’s gotten a massive story-based debut trailer. Interested? Watch it after the break.

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