Monthly Archives: August 2010

LucasArts has said a demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 will be made available before the game’s release in October.

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Interested in Rock Band 3 but only want the keyboard peripheral because you already have a closet full of plastic instruments?

Then this public service announcement is for you, because Amazon has a bundle featuring both posted on its site.

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SOE has announced its Star Wars: The Clone Wars Adventures MMO has gone into Open Beta.

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Vanquish producer Atsushi Inaba has said Platinum Games plans to release a demo for the game on Xbox Live and PSN September 2.

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Paul Wedgwood has said Splash Damage had to hire folks who were familiar with console development to lend a hand with Brink, due to the firm being more of a PC developer.

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Runic Games hopes to release Torchlight on PSN and XBLA bu the holidays, according to Runic CEO Max Schaefer.

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Steam has a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Bundle on sale this weekend for 75 percent off until August 23.

This means it will only run you $9.99.

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Bungie’s Brian Jarrard has said Master Chief will be in Halo: Reach, although not in the way you are thinking.

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Europe’s gamescom is barley done and dusted, and already publishers are prepping for TGS next month.

One of these publishers is EA , which has said it’s planning “several all new game reveals and announcements”.

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The first thing we thought of when we heard “two-player Portal” was “turning our partner’s every step into a living, portal-centric nightmare,” but apparently griefing isn’t all Portal 2′s good for. Crazy, right?

But it’s totally true! Take a quick glimpse at how it’ll work after the break, courtesy of Gametrailers.

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The plot, it thickens. You played as them; you laughed with them; you screamed with them; you listened to one of them complain a bunch. And now, you get to choose which one of them dies. Like, for real. Sorry, no magical resurrection lockers this time around.

We’re speaking, of course, of the original Left 4 Dead cast, and smart money says this next batch of DLC is their last hurrah – at least, as a foursome.

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Chatting with Splash Damage CEO Paul Wedgwood is always a treat – even if it comes shortly after the disappointing news that Brink won’t see the light of day in 2010.

We sat down with the lord of all things multiplayer and shooty during last week’s QuakeCon, where we talked shop about why Brink held down its S.M.A.R.T. button and sprinted out of 2010, what form the game’s DLC might take, the difficulties of multiplatform development, putting the color back in shooters, how a truly cross-platform multiplayer game might work, and tons more. Seriously, if you crawled out of bed this morning and thought to yourself, “Gee, I sure want to hear Paul Wedgwood talk about everything ever today,” then you came to the right place.

Read the full interview after the break!

[Interview by Nathan Grayson]

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THQ has released the gamescom trailer for Relic’s Warhammer 40K: Space Marine.

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Valve’s Erik Johnson has said the firm is looking to make amends with PS3 users after it failed to support previous releases on the console, and after a rocky start to its relationship with PS3, Valve has deemed the console “incredibly important” to the developer.

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THQ has released the first video of its Warhammer 40K MMO, Dark Millennium.

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A Mafia II review from Game Informer has hit.

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It seems Sony has struck the first blow in the war of motion control as Playstation Move was named best hardware at this year’s gamescom.

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Capcom has released some screenshots of Dead Rising 2, showing our hero Chuck Greene in some interesting outfits.

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EA Partners boss David DeMartini has said it’ll be a while before we can expect anything from Respawn.

In fact, the developer’s debut is further off than what Insomniac are working on for the publisher.

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The multiplayer in Killzone3 is going to be big business. Really big business.

When it releases in February, it’ll be a month before Crytek releases Crysis 2 and two months before Gears of War 3 and both game’s multiplayer modes.

We were given the opportunity to see the Guerrilla shooter and it’s multiplayer behind-closed-doors at gamescom, where a fair bit of details on new gameplay modes emerged, and speak with the game’s senior multiplayer designer Dan Nanni.

Read the full interview below the page fold.

[Interview by Johnny Cullen]

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