Monthly Archives: July 2010
Fri, Jul 02, 2010 | 09:57 BST
Dead Rising 2 to launch in Australia uncut
Australia’s ratings board, the OFLC, has classified Dead Rising 2 for a release in the country with an MA15 rating. Best news? It’s releasing in the country uncut and unedited: Aussies get a break at last.
Fri, Jul 02, 2010 | 09:39 BST
Microsoft seeing “unprecedented demand” for Slim
Speaking in its post-NPD statement last night, Microsoft said the Slim 360 it introduced at E3 is a hit at retail.
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Posted in: America, Hot, Microsoft, Trade, Xbox 360
Tags: May NPD 2010, xbox 360 slim
Fri, Jul 02, 2010 | 09:15 BST
Insomniac would get behind Ratchet & Clank Collection
Insomniac has said it’d support a Ratchet & Clank remix, but it wouldn’t want to get involved with its development.
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Posted in: Adventure, PS3, Platformer, Sony
Tags: insomniac games, ratchet & clank, Ratchet & Clank Collection
Fri, Jul 02, 2010 | 08:38 BST
Yet more GT5 Top Gear test track video posted
Want to know what it’s like driving the Top Gear test track in GT5? Forgot to watch the last video? Want to watch someone go completely off at Gambon? After the break.
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Posted in: Hot, PS3, Racing, Sony
Tags: gran turismo 5, Polyphony Digital, Top Gear
Fri, Jul 02, 2010 | 06:02 BST
Interview – Michael Jackson: The Game’s Felicia Williams
We were honestly a bit surprised when Ubisoft offered us an interview involving its newly announced Michael Jackson game. After all, our experience with the game – like everyone else’s – was limited to a surprise dance-off at the end of Ubisoft’s E3 conference. Flashy? Sure. But about as revealing as women’s fashion in the 1800′s.
And so, having literally seen neither hide nor iconic white suit of the game, we decided to start from the top. What is the Michael Jackson game? What do you do in it? Is it Moonwalker 2, and if so, why would you do that to the world, you monster? We asked all those questions and more, and international brand manager Felicia Williams was kind enough to answer.
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Posted in: DS, E3 2010, Hot, Interview, Kinect, PS3, PlayStation Move, Rhythm action, Ubisoft, Wii, Xbox 360
Tags: E3 2010, felicia williams, Interview, michael jackson, Ubisoft
Fri, Jul 02, 2010 | 05:32 BST
Jaffe not sold on Modern Warfare-style level-up system for Twisted Metal
Gamers have heard exuberant sounds and received a marginal stat increase for everything from slaying monsters to watering plants, so why not do it for driving like a maniac while playing as an actual maniac?
Well, David Jaffe has a few good reasons, actually.
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Posted in: Action, Hot, PS3, Racing, Sony
Tags: david jaffe, modern warfare, twisted metal
Fri, Jul 02, 2010 | 06:57 BST
NPD May 2010: Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft in Mexican statement face-off
US sales figures for May are in. Nintendo blitzed hardware, Red Dead Redemption flattened the software chart. The big three have released their statements on the numbers: hit the link to see who drew first.
Fri, Jul 02, 2010 | 10:29 BST
NPD May 2010: RDR clears 1.5M, Nintendo dominates hardware
NPD has released May sales figures for the US, showing the third best-selling May on record after 2008 and 2009 and some monster sales for Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption.
However, the industry as a whole was down 10 percent for the month year-on-year.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010 | 22:50 BST
Epic: “We’re very much into the PC game business”
Epic’s Mark Rein has said the firm is “very much” into the PC game business, and people mistake the firm’s interests due to the Gears franchise being published by a console-holder.
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Posted in: Development, Hot, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tags: bulletstorm, mark rein, unreal engine 3
Thu, Jul 01, 2010 | 22:15 BST
Need For Speed World Open Beta starts tomorrow
EA has announced that the Open Beta test for Need for Speed World will start tomorrow, July 2.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010 | 21:58 BST
Square unleashing Lord of Arcana on PSP
Square has announced Lord of Arcana for PSP, which looks to be its version of Monster Hunter.
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Posted in: Action, PSP, Square Enix
Tags: Lord of Arcana
Thu, Jul 01, 2010 | 20:53 BST
Perils of Summer Sale on Steam – Dragon Age, BioShock, Thief
Valve has added more goodies to its Perils of Summer Sale, with one-day-only savings on some really nice titles.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010 | 20:52 BST
Yoshida: Sony “very aware” of demand for Team ICO Collection
SCE Worldwide studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said Sony is “aware” of the demand for a Team ICO Collection on PS3.
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Posted in: Action, Adventure, E3 2010, Hot, PS3, Sony
Tags: Fumito Ueda, ico, shadow of the colossus, Shuhei Yoshida, team ico, Team ICO Collection, the last guardian
Thu, Jul 01, 2010 | 20:49 BST
THQ’s fully confident WH40K:DMO will attract 1M players
THQ’s Danny Bilson has said that should Vigil’s Dark Millennium Online garner 1 million players, he would be very pleased. Unsurprisingly.
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Posted in: Hot, MMO, PC, THQ, gamescom 2010
Tags: danny bilson, vigil games, Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium Online, WH40K:DMO
Fri, Jul 02, 2010 | 14:56 BST
Mythic now officially known as BioWare Mythic
Mythic Entertainment’s changed its name to BioWare Mythic, better reflecting EA’s merging of the two studios last year.
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Posted in: Development, EA, Hot, MMO, PC
Tags: bioware, BioWare Mythic, Carrie Gouskos, mythic, Ray Muzyka, warhammer
Thu, Jul 01, 2010 | 18:57 BST
Fallout’s Howard: Console RPGs must be “easier to learn and easier to play”
In a chat on console RPG development between Irrational legend Ken Levine and Bethesda’s Todd Howard, the Fallout 3 boss has said console players want RPG experiences that are just as deep as their PC counterparts, but developers “need to ease them in a bit more.”
Levine, however, said console gamers just “don’t have the patience to wade through the introduction of systems.”
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Posted in: Bethesda, Development, Hot, PC, PS3, RPG, Xbox 360
Tags: elder scrolls, fallout 3, irrational games, ken levine, shawn elliott, todd howard
Thu, Jul 01, 2010 | 18:13 BST
Metro 2034 not out for “a couple of years,” might be on PS3
THQ’s VP of core games, Danny Bilson, has told IG that Metro 2034 won’t be released any time soon.
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Posted in: Action, Hot, PC, PS3, THQ, Xbox 360
Tags: danny bilson, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2034
Thu, Jul 01, 2010 | 16:50 BST
Cage: Sony demand for Heavy Rain Move support scuppered DLC
Sony’s decision to add Move support to Heavy Rain was responsible for halting the game’s DLC production, Quantic Dream’s David Cage has confirmed.
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Posted in: Action, Hot, PS3, PlayStation Move, Sony
Tags: david cage, heavy rain, heavy rain chronicles, Heavy Rain Move, quantic dream
Tue, Nov 09, 2010 | 20:35 GMT
Braben: Kinectimals does not use Milo & Kate tech
Frontier has said its feline-filled Kinectimals does not use any technology based on Lionhead’s Milo & Kate, despite comments made earlier in the week by Microsoft.
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Posted in: Development, Hot, Kinect, Microsoft, Xbox 360, hardware
Tags: Aaron Greenberg, david braben, frontier, Kinectimals, milo & kate, Phil Spencer
2K Marin staff working on second major project