Monthly Archives: August 2010
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | 14:25 BST
BioShock 2 Protector Trials delayed for PC
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Posted in: 2K, Action, Games for Windows, PC, Shooter
Tags: 2k marin, bioshock 2, Protector Trials
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | 12:23 BST
Secret Blizzard MMO is new IP, says Kotick
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Hot, MMO, PC
Tags: Secret Blizzard MMO
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | 12:19 BST
New Vanquish trailer gets mental
So. What else can you get from a Japanese developer that’s already provided fucked-up monochrome violence and a hot-looking witch in spandex?
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Posted in: Action, Hot, PS3, Sega, Xbox 360
Tags: platinum games, Shinji Mikami, Vanquish
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | 11:38 BST
Kotick: Black Ops “the biggest investment we’ve ever made” for launch
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has said Call of Duty: Black Ops will be getting “the biggest investment” the company has ever made for a title launch.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, DS, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Wii, Xbox 360
Tags: Bobby Kotick, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Mike Morhaime, treyarch
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | 14:18 BST
Operation Flashpoint: Red River announced, first art, dated for 2011
Codemasters has just announced Operation Flashpoint: Red River, following previous reveals in the past week.
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Posted in: Codemasters, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: operation flashpoint: red river
Tue, Aug 10, 2010 | 22:58 BST
A 3rd Birthday sequel would be in HD, says Nomura
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Posted in: Action, PSP, Shooter, Square Enix
Tags: Tetsuya Nomura, The 3rd Birthday
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | 09:59 BST
Sakurai: “It’s going to be hard” to go back from 3D to 2D
Have you tried navigating the jagged maze of naked, non-bump-mapped polygons that is a PS1 game lately? Well then, congratulations! If you’re reading this, that means the profuse eye-bleeding has probably stopped.
Back in the day, though, those graphics actually weren’t – in most circles – considered a form of assault. So, what happened? Better graphics, that’s what. PS2, Xbox, PS3, HD. And now, Kid Icarus: Uprising boss Masahiro Sakurai thinks we’re looking at a similar step up in the leap from 2D to 3D.
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Posted in: 3DS, Action, Hot, Nintendo
Tags: 3d, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Masahiro Sakurai, Nintendo 3DS
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | 08:57 BST
Street Fighter x Tekken getting European premiere at gamescom
Blimey. Street Fighter x Tekken, announced last month at Comic-Con, will debut in Europe at gamescom in two weeks, Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has confirmed.
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Posted in: Capcom, Fighter, Hot, Namco Bandai, PS3, Xbox 360
Tags: Katsuhiro Harada, Street Fighter x Tekken, Yoshinori Ono
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | 08:32 BST
Activision: New Bungie IP “aligns well against online gaming growth”
Activision confirmed during its Q1 earnings call last night that Bungie’s new IP, which the publisher has signed for the ten years, will sit well “against the growth in online gaming”.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Hot
Tags: bungie, Halo: Reach, Thomas Tippl
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | 15:43 BST
New Borderlands DLC details leak, Gearbox doesn’t really mind
Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap.
Their words – not ours. Now then, since we know you’re already barreling past the break as fast as your clicking finger will carry you, we’re just gonna…
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | 11:08 BST
Konami rides strong sales of Peace Walker, PES 2010 to Q1 profit jump
Step 1: A handheld Metal Gear game that doesn’t somehow involve card games or evil puppets. Step 2: Anything even tangentially related to football during World Cup season. Step 3: A creepy Japanese girlfriend simulator. Step 4: Question marks – many of them related to Japan’s societal well-being.
Step 5: Profit.
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Posted in: Action, Adventure, Financials, Hot, Konami, Sports
Tags: financial results, konami, Love Plus, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, pes 2010, Q1
Thu, Aug 05, 2010 | 23:05 BST
ActiBlizz: MW2 map sales to “catch up” with WaW map sales “in a couple weeks”
Modern Warfare 2 map packs are selling well, so well in fact sales may catch up with sales of CoD: World at War map packs in a couple weeks.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, DS, Financials, Hot, PC, PS3, Retail, Shooter, Trade, Wii, Xbox 360
Tags: activision blizzard q2 financials, Black Ops, infnity ward, modern warfare 2, treyarch
Thu, Aug 05, 2010 | 22:48 BST
Tippl: Activision’s received over 5K applications for Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer
ActiBlizz COO Thomas Tippl has said the firm has received over 5K applicants to the Call of Duty franchise.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Development, Financials, Hot, Jobs, PC, PS3, Retail, Shooter, Trade, Xbox 360
Tags: call of duty, infnity ward, sledgehammer
Thu, Aug 05, 2010 | 23:03 BST
Activision Blizzard Q2 financials: Net revenue comes in at $967 million
Activision Blizzard has announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2010, ending June 30, and it posted net revenues of $967 million, which is down 7 percent from $1 billion yoy.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Financials, Hot, Retail, Trade
Tags: activision blizzard q2 financials, call of duty, guitar hero
Thu, Aug 05, 2010 | 21:56 BST
Activision moves True Crime: Hong Kong into 2011
Activision has announced True Crime: Hong King has been moved into 2011 to give it more polish.
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Posted in: Action, Activision Blizzard, Hot, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tags: Hong Kong, true crime, True Crime: Hong Kong, united front games
Thu, Aug 05, 2010 | 21:09 BST
Rumor: Guillermo del Toro in negotiations with THQ
Sources close to the LA Times have said the “big publisher” Guillermo del Toro is currently working with to bring his “technically and narratively” interesting games to the public is none other than THQ.
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Posted in: Development, Rumour, THQ
Tags: Guillermo del Toro
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | 14:18 BST
Operation Flashpoint: Red River gets detailed
During Develop, Operation Flashpoint: Red River was outed by Codemasters, and according to IGN’s preview of the game, “it’s still more military sim than straight-up shooter”.
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Posted in: Codemasters, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: operation flashpoint, operation flashpoint: red river
Thu, Aug 05, 2010 | 19:47 BST
Report – Annual shipment of PC hardware is twice that of consoles
The PC Gaming Alliance has released its Horizons Hardware research report, and it found the annual shipment volumes PC gaming hardware market in 2009 were two times larger than shipments of PS2, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 combined for the same period.
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Posted in: America, Asia, Europe, Hot, PC, Retail, hardware
Tags: Horizons Hardware Research, pc gaming alliance
Thu, Aug 05, 2010 | 19:17 BST
Rayman spent five years on UK charts
New Super Mario Bros. DS may have spent over three years on the UK charts, but another game has it beaten.
That game is the original Rayman.
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Posted in: Charts, UK
Tags: chart-track, uk charts, uk top 40 all formats
2K Marin staff working on second major project