Monthly Archives: July 2010

Sounds like someone’s not ready to head to that great gaming retirement home just yet.

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PAX Prime organisers have announced that Warren Spector will be keynoting the event in September.

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SOE’s opened sign-ups to the online beta of DC Universe Online.

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Game Informer‘s put live a whopping rumour: Capcom and Namco are pooling together for two new fighting games.

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So much for waiting until tonight. EA Sports has announced Fight Night: Champion for a 2011 release on PS3 and 360.

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EA’s confirmed it’s to announce some new games today.

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Some videogames pontificate on the deeper themes of love, loss, and control – ultimately causing players to see the world in a new light once they’ve dabbed the tears from their eyes. Other videogames grab a giant hammer – that, in some cases, is an ostrich that somehow migrated to Mars – and gleefully lay waste to everything in sight.

Red Faction: Guerrilla was most certainly the latter.

A surprise hit, Guerrilla sneaked under gamers’ radars and smacked them with all the subtlety of the animal it’s not named after. Thanks to Volition’s Geo-Mod destruction engine, sending buildings tumbling down had never been more satisfying. Sure, the game didn’t reinvent any wheels, but it definitely made them explode real nice.

This, however, raises a question: if your game isn’t broken (well, minus the billions of space dollars in property damages), how do you fix it? Our magic videogame eight ball tells us “Make it bigger! Duh.” But that’s not quite the approach Volition’s taking. Instead, Armageddon’s ditching its colossal open-world for a more constrained underground setting. So long, freedom. Hello, linearity. How are the kids?

Frightened? Curious? We sure were. So we quizzed lead designer David Abzug on everything from the whys and hows of Armageddon’s switch to a more linear format, to new additions to the Geo-Mod engine, to potential Kinect/Move support in a Red Faction game.

Read all about it after the break.

Interview by Nathan Grayson.

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The Ghosts are experts at sneaking behind enemy lines and tearing the soiled undergarments off terrorism’s ugly unmentionables, but even they don’t quite pack the secret-uncovering, dirt-digging prowess of the ESRB.

So, ESRB, what’s the scoop on Ghost Recon Predator for the PSP? Does it focus on the trials, tribulations, and heart-rending struggle to just fit in faced by the brand new eight-foot tall, green-blooded, dreadlocked member of the Ghost team?

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Cats versus dogs. Good versus evil. Regrettably, Team Edward versus Team Jacob.

If Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood associate producer Jean-Francois Boivin has anything to say about it, Assassins versus Templars could be the next eternal struggle to join that list of clashing titans/effeminate supernatural cliches.

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The two main developers behind Call of Duty have tonight debunked rumours that a subscription plan to play the series online will be coming into play in the near future.

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Hideo Kojima is working on an “adventure” title, according to collaborator on the project, Chiyomaru Shikura.

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The latest issue of V Jump has confirmed that Kingdom Hearts: Re:Coded will release on October 7 in Japan.

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Blizard’s confirmed that the second phase of the StarCraft II beta finishes tooday, and with it, the taster itself. For good. Done. Forever.

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THQ’s announced the first full details of the TV movie Red Faction: Origins, which acts as a prequel to Red Faction: Armageddon.

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PopCap’s announced that Plants vs Zombies will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade this September for 1200 MSP.

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BioWare’s released details of a massive update for Dragon Age: Origins, which will go live later today for PC.

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Codemasters has confirmed to VG247 that swear-meister Stuart Black “has decided to move on” from the Bodycount team.

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Mr Bond might be Bizarre’s focus right now, but staffer Nick Davies has told Gamerzines that Blur is still a massive deal for the studio.

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VG247 has learned this morning that Nintendo is telling UK publishers 3DS will release in Britain next March.

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Chart-Track’s announced that 360 Slim’s UK launch has surpassed those of both PS2 and PS3 Slim.

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