Monthly Archives: July 2010

Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux told attendees at his Fable III session at Develop earlier today that its prequel was “rushed”.

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Last week, Capcom announced the Outbreak Edition of Dead Rising 2 for Europe, and promised an equally special edition would hit North America.

Today, the firm made good on its promise by announcing the Zombrex Edition.

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The Video Standards Council has confirmed the proposed changes to the age ratings system for games in the UK will not be applied until April 1, 2011.

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In March, Rare announced it would expand its operations to complement its main development studio in Twycross.

Today, it has released a virtual tour of the new office via its YouTube channel.

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Those purchasing StarCraft II digitally can download an encrypted version of the game starting today, in preparation for it going live on July 27.

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Eric Hirshberg, the newly-appointed CEO of Activision Publishing, has admitted the company needs to work on regaining the trust of the hardcore.

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Peter Molyneux took the stage at Develop this afternoon to demonstrate Fable III, and while chatting about the cast, he let slip the game contained more “unannounced Oscar-winning talent” than previously mentioned.

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Microsoft’s announced it’s canceled 1 vs 100 for Xbox Live.

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Yoichi Wada has told Gamasutra it would be “difficult to determine” where the Final Fantasy series should go following the release of FFXIII back in March.

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Zombie Studios has told Big Download that it’s currently working on Blacklight: Tango Down 2, despite the first game only released last week on Live Arcade and this week on PC.

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Tim’s stepped back from the brink.

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Lead world designer on World of Warcraft Cory Stockton has told VG247 that upcoming expansion Cataclysm will keep WoW players interested even if they’ve been playing for the last five years.

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Like many of Blizzard’s senior development team, lead World of Warcraft world designer Cory Stockton – the guy in charge of rebuilding the game for the incoming Cataclysm expansion – has been working on the IP so long he talks about the virtual world and its denizens as indistinguishable from the real one. The matter-of-fact tone in which he discusses the game’s protagonists and locales is exactly how you’d discuss the latest football result. It’s not the same as the rehearsed patter of producers pressed into media duties, but rather indicative of the time he and others have invested into this game over the past half-decade plus.

Not that Stockton has trouble differentiating reality from gaming. As the lead content designer in an expansion that focuses on ripping up parts of a game world populated by over 10 million subscribers, it’s going to be pretty hard to avoid all manner of “grounding” feedback in the coming months.

We sat down for a chat with Stockton to see where Blizzard’s content team is at with Cataclysm, and what it’s hoping to accomplish – and the one design trait Stockton attributes to the MMO’s ongoing success.

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Sega’s announced that planned patches for the console version of Aliens vs Predator have been cancelled.

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God of War: Chains of Olympus developer Ready at Dawn has confirmed it’s had to lay-off some of staff.

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EW has up the full artist roster for DJ Hero 2, confirming Justice, Tiesto, Daft Punk, M.I.A. and more for the game.

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Double Fine boss Tim Schafer has just told the crowd at his Develop keynote that he’s got a bunch of projects on the horizon.

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Co-op mode in Killzone 3? Not on your life. For now, at least.

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Let’s say it’s finally happened. Your worst nightmares have come true, and Kinect’s become sentient, immediately proceeding to go on a human-murdering, Facebook photo-uploading rampage. You take a seat, hoping your attempt at not resembling a colorfully-clothed idyllic Typical American Family will throw it off your tracks. But that does nothing to slow Kinect’s charge.

In your desperation, you trip and fall flat on the ground. But then, something odd happens: Kinect goes haywire. Congratulations: you’ve just thwarted the apocalypse by lying down.

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Triple-A game development downside #4567327: post-development lay offs. Designing a massive, “yee-haw”-inducing wild west from the ground-up and expanding it through bite-sized DLC chunks are two entirely different things, and, unfortunately, one of them requires far fewer people to pull off.

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