Monthly Archives: May 2010

Square Enix has released the first video of Arcade Mode for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days.

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Rockstar’s revealed the co-op mode for Red Dead Redemption, with a free mission pack to release in June for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.

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Have your fingers crossed for any potential Bethesda-flavoured surprises in six weeks time, like the Elder Scrolls MMO? Keep walking, Ringo.

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EA’s just announced Medal of Honor will release on October 15 in Europe, with an October 12 launch in the US.

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Update: Cliff Bleszinski has just tweeted not to “trust badly translated leaked scanned info on Gears 3″, as there’s “lots of false info out there”. So, take it for what it is until we can get more info.

Original: In Soviet Russia, pictures loud speak then words!

Warning: spoilers, innit.

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Update: Microsoft’s just sent VG247 a statement on the matter. It reads:

“No, this event is a “technology free” event designed for you to come and enjoy yourself.  Please leave your technology at home, no photography or video allowed.  Visual assets will be provided following the event.”

Original: Anyone hoping for a live-stream of Microsoft’s pre-E3 event on Project Natal? You’re getting nada.

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With Rage being id’s first new IP in 14 years, you’d need to bring the goods, right? Well, the firm didn’t just bring them, it brought the house down at the same time.

The game was one of four titles shown by Bethesda during pre-E3 events held by the company in Las Vegas and France for journalists in the past couple of weeks.

Get rounded up of what people have seen from the events here.

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Ninja Gaiden 3 will be awesome, brilliant, “spectacular”. At least, that seems to be the impression given by Koei-Tecmo managing director Yoshiki Sugiyama.

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THQ, Activision, EA, Nintendo, Sony, Ubisoft and Take-Two all report figures this month, so you can expect a ton of game information on the back of it all. Hit the link for all the dates, news-watchers.

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Blowout. A Russian games magazine’s running an eight-page feature on Gears of War 3, showing some stuff never before seen for the game.

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Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart has told Joystiq that he considers Fallout: New Vegas to nearly be an original IP.

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It’s happening: no more delays for Alan Wake. It’s definitely coming next week for Europeans, which is why the online embargo has just lifted.

Opinion on it so far seems to be go out and buy it when it does launch. Or place your pre-order down as soon as humanly possible.

Get rounded-up below

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LucasArts has announced Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II will release on October 26 in the US at least.

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Halo hunting season is officially open over at EA. The publisher’s weapon of choice? Crysis 2, a game about, well, a dude in armor who has to save humanity from aliens using a variety of weapons both vaguely reminiscent of our own and not of this world.

We’d say it just about fits the bill.

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It’s been a behemoth of a wait, but if all goes according to plan, PS3 gamers will soon have their own slice of hacking, slashing, curiously poop joke-obsessed bliss.

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Funcom has released a video for the Age of Conan expansion, Rise of the Godslayer.

The video, posted below the break from GameTrailers, pretty much shows you everything that’s been revealed for it over the past few months, as well as some new scenes of the game in action.

It’s out on PC May 11, and you can get it two ways: digitally, or through a retail disc containing the core game.

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Nintendo has released another video for Super Mario Galaxy 2, this time featuring Starship Mario.

You can get it below the break, courtesy of D’toid.

Also, in case you didn’t already know – the game will come with a bonus DVD that will serve as a bit of a tutorial, per Cubed.

SMG2 releases on May 23 in the US, and in the UK on June 11.

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Microsoft has released its schedule of DLC for the month of May, along with Games on Demand and the Deals of the Week.

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EA games label president, Frank Gibeau, has said that its Medal of Honor franchise reboot will hopefully get them into the top 10 of shooters.

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2K Games has announced that Sid Meier’s Pirates!, the classic swashbuckling high-seas adventure, will land on Wii this fall.

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