Monthly Archives: October 2010
Fri, Oct 22, 2010 | 08:19 BST
Get Batman: Arkhum Asylum GotY 66% off on Steam
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Posted in: Action, Adventure, Eidos, PC, Square Enix
Tags: Batman: Arkhum Asylum, discount, steam
Fri, Oct 22, 2010 | 08:07 BST
Blizzard “miscalculated” over Real ID forum furore
Battle.net director Greg Canessa has told Joystiq that Blizzard had “miscalculated” over the controversy surrounding Real ID earlier this year.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Blizzcon 2010, Hot, PC
Tags: battle.net, Greg Canessa
Fri, Oct 22, 2010 | 07:38 BST
Catherine to release on February 17
Atlus announced that adult adventure Catherine, the first HD game from the Persona team, will be releasing on February 17 in Japan next year for PS3 and 360, priced at ¥7,329.
Fri, Oct 22, 2010 | 07:17 BST
BioShock: Infinite gets 4 new screens
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Posted in: 2K, Action, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: bioshock: infinite, irrational games
Fri, Oct 22, 2010 | 06:35 BST
Move sells 1 million in NA, production upped to meet demand
Move sold over 1 million units in its first month on sale in North America, SCEA’s confirmed.
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Posted in: America, Hot, PS3, PlayStation Move, Retail, Sony
Tags: 1 million, jack tretton, Peter Dille
Fri, Oct 22, 2010 | 02:23 BST
Bethesda updates on Fallout: New Vegas fixes
Fallout: New Vegas may have enjoyed a solid critical reception (with the odd exception) but paying customers soon found plenty of things going awry once the game went on sale.
Fri, Oct 22, 2010 | 00:20 BST
TF2 contest winners rake in the cash
If you run into Shaylyn Hamm, Shawn Spetch, Steven Skidmore, Spencer Kern or Rob Laro this week, drinks are on them.
The five pocketed between $USD39,000 to $USD47,000 each in royalty payments after virtual items they created went on sale to the Team Fortress 2 masses.
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Posted in: Hot, Jobs, PC, Shooter, Valve
Tags: Competitions, gabe newell, royalties, Team Fortress 2, valve
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | 23:17 BST
ArenaNet: no decision yet made on GW2 DLC
Guild Wars 2 is attracting plenty of attention at present.
Developer ArenaNet has put the smack down on one recent piece of information circulating about the game: whether they will release dungeon content post-launch as paid DLC.
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Posted in: Hot, MMO, NCSoft, PC
Tags: arenanet, dlc, Eric Flannum, Guild Wars 2
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | 23:12 BST
Analyst: Initial Move sales “OK…not spectacular”
The scale of initial consumer uptake of PlayStation Move will be clearer at the end of the month with Sony promising to reveal more detail during a scheduled earnings report.
Venturebeat reports Sony Computer Entertainment America marketing head Peter Dille hasn’t disclosed figures. Dille claims Sony is flying in replenishment shipments as “many retailers” have sold out of the motion control unit.
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Posted in: PlayStation Move, Retail, Sony, Trade, peripherals
Tags: kinect, Move, Peter Dille, playstation
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | 21:48 BST
Ace Team hasn’t forgotten about Zeno Clash 2
Ace Team, the Santiago, Chile-based developer behind Zeno Clash will one day revisit the popular beat ‘em up. For now they’re all about Rock of Ages, a game which is shaping up to be an imaginative mix that owes a little to everything from Breakout to Tower Defence.
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Posted in: Action, Development, PC, PS3, Puzzler, Xbox 360
Tags: ACE Team, Andres Bordeu, Carlos Bordeu, rock of ages, Source Engine, unreal engine, zeno clash
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | 20:52 BST
Remedy on long Alan Wake dev time: “We did not think it was going to take this long to get right,” said Myllyrinne
Five years was all it took between development and release for Alan Wake, but even developer Remedy didn’t think it would take as long as it did to get here.
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Posted in: Action, Horror, Hot, Microsoft, Xbox 360
Tags: alan wake, Matias Myllyrinne, remedy games
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | 20:53 BST
Time Crisis: Razing Storm to launch November 3-5
The EU PlayStation blog has confirmed the latest iteration of Time Crisis, Razing Storm is headed for a Novermber 3 launch in mainland Europe, with the UK and Ireland following suit on November 5.
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Posted in: Europe, Namco Bandai, PS3, Retail, Shooter, Sony, peripherals
Tags: Deadstorm Pirates, Namco Bandai, Sony, Time Crisis : Razing Storm
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | 19:25 BST
Another zombie movie: RDR’s Undead DLC multiplayer
The trailer trickle-feed for Rockstar’s Undead Nightmare DLC continues. Today’s footage – complete with ‘scary’ voiceover – shows off zombie-themed multiplayer in the game’s Undead Overrun mode.
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Posted in: 2K, Action, Hot, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360
Tags: dlc, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Undead Nightmare, Undead Overrun, zombies
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | 18:55 BST
Fable 3 to include free launch DLC
People tearing the wrappers off their copy of Fable 3 next week will also be able to collect some instant virtual swag for the character in-game, gratis.
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | 18:23 BST
DICE: Battlefield 3 needs “special attention” on PC
Developer DICE is well aware of PC gamers’ fears Battlefield 3 will be “consolized”: designer Alan “Demize99″ Kertz acknowledged the concern in a forum thread on EA’s BF3 messageboard this week.
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Posted in: Development, EA, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Alan Kertz, battlefield 3, Demize99, dice, PC vs console
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | 18:21 BST
Wedgwood on Splash Damage: AAA or bust
Splash Damage boss Paul Wedgwood has told GI that the studio’s philosophy is “triple-A or bust.”
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | 16:29 BST
Parasite Eve classics release confirmed by Nomura
Happy days. Square’s Tetsuya Nomura has confirmed the first two Parasite Eve games will get a classics release on PSN.
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Posted in: Action, Horror, Hot, PS3, PSP, Square Enix
Tags: Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, The 3rd Birthday
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | 15:42 BST
Limited edition Mario anniversary Wii, DSi XL coming to US
Nintendo of America’s announced it’s bringing over the special 25th anniversary of Mario SKUs for Wii and DSi XL to the US.
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Posted in: DSiLL/XL, Hot, Nintendo, Platformer, Racing, Sports, Wii
Tags: mario, Mario Kart DS, new super mario bros. wii, wii sports
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | 15:30 BST
NBA Jam HD to release worldwide on November 17
EA’s just announced NBA Jam HD will release worldwide at retail for PS3 and 360 on PS3 and 360.
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | 15:20 BST
Games news versus Price and Bleszinski – Why it’s time for developers to man up
Last night, Insomniac’s Ted Price claimed he was “misquoted” and his words from a recent EGM interview were taken “out of context” when reported by gaming news sites, calling for “the press” to focus on the bigger picture of an American legal issue instead of posting his words up as news.
Price joins Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski as another high profile developer to recently claim he’s been mistreated by the games media, both of whom have complained about the use of “context” in news reports.
I’ve wanted to write this piece for a long time. VG247 was one of the sites Bleszinski chose to publicly name in his “push back” against what he sees as a growing “tabloid” press sector earlier this year, and I never felt we got the chance to state our case.
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Posted in: Development, Hot, Journalism
Tags: Cliff Bleszinski, Epic Games, insomniac, ted price
2K Marin staff working on second major project