Monthly Archives: October 2010
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 14:33 BST
Mortal Kombat’s website countdown ends, goes live
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Posted in: Fighter, Hot, PS3, Warner Bros., Xbox 360
Tags: mortal kombat
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 16:46 BST
Medal of Honor reviews are go, Eurogamer gives 8/10
The global Medal of Honor review embargo has now lifted, following plenty of sites going live with scores this morning.
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 13:47 BST
THQ details WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011 DLC program
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Posted in: Fighter, PS2, PS3, PSP, THQ, Wii, Xbox 360
Tags: Fan Axxess, WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 12:23 BST
ngmoco bought by Japanese social games firm for $400 million
iPhone developer ngmoco has been bought by Japanese social games comapny DeNA for $400 million.
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Posted in: Development, iPhone
Tags: DeNA, Neil Young, ng:moco, Tomoko Namba
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 12:08 BST
HD Gun Loco trailer goes Nuts, gets sexually frustrated
Square’s just released the first trailer for 360 shooter Gun Loco, showing a rubbish bank robber shooting and kicking things.
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Posted in: Action, Square Enix, Xbox 360
Tags: gun loco
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 11:39 BST
Alan Wake: The Writer now available on Live
Microsoft’s now listed the final piece of DLC for Alan Wake, The Writer, on Xbox Live Marketplace.
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 11:19 BST
Venus Williams to promote EA Sports Active 2 in US
EA Sports has just announced renown US tennis player Venus Williams will be a “brand ambassador” to EA Sports Active 2 in the US.
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Posted in: Casual, EA, Fitness, Kinect, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
Tags: Ea Sports Active 2, Venus Williams
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 10:58 BST
Inafune hates his job, wants to “retire early”
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Posted in: Capcom, Development
Tags: Keiji Inafune
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 10:45 BST
MoH: Taliban name change imposes “nationalism on entertainment,” says US Marine
Following the release of Medal of Honor in America today, an Iraq War vet has said EA’s decision to take the word “Taliban” out of multiplayer amounts to “nationalism on entertainment.”
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Posted in: Action, EA, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Benjamin Busch, Danger Close, medal of honor
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 09:44 BST
Play Medal of Honor before you judge us, says Danger Close
Danger Close marketing boss Craig Owens has explained the decision to rename the Taliban to OPFOR in Medal of Honor’s multiplayer.
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Posted in: EA, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Craig Owens, Danger Close, dice, medal of honor
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 08:38 BST
Medal of Honor hits the US – launch trailer released
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Posted in: EA, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Danger Close, dice, medal of honor
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 08:25 BST
Force Unleashed II demo available now from Marketplace
LucasArts has put up the demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II on Xbox Live Marketplace.
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 07:31 BST
Game Informer shows off new Resistance 3 art
Game Informer’s shown off new art of Resistance 3, which was originally a cover idea for the magazine’s latest cover feature.
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Posted in: PS3, Shooter, Sony
Tags: insomniac games, resistance 3
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 07:26 BST
Xs for eyes: EA officially cancels Steven Spielberg’s Project LMNO
Hey, Guillermo del Toro, you’re not the only filmmaker-turned-videogame-designer on the block!
Oh, wait. Yes you are.
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Posted in: EA, Hot
Tags: cancellation, ea, Project LMNO, steven spielberg
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 07:06 BST
MoH PC to have two exes, will need “constantly stabilizing”
EA just confirmed that the PC version of Medal of Honor will come in two completely separate executables, and that server capacity is to be increased alongside demand.
Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | 06:25 BST
New Black Ops story trailer refuses to hand you a medal of honor
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: you drag yourself out of bed each day, work yourself to the bone at the office from dusk ’til dawn, and what do you have to show for it? Not a single soul recognizes that whatever stupid, probably pointless thing you do is a needed service!
As evidenced by a brand new story trailer, Call of Duty: Black Ops is kind of like that. Only, you know, with a couple more explosions, we guess. Catch it after the break, courtesy of GameTrailers.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Call of Duty: Black Ops, single-player, trailer, treyarch
Mon, Oct 11, 2010 | 19:43 BST
GDC Online sees 3,000 attendees
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Posted in: GDC Europe 2011, GDC Online 2011
Mon, Oct 11, 2010 | 19:01 BST
Report – 20-40 people laid off at Raven Software
According to reports from Shack and Kotaku, 20-40 people have been laid off at Singularity developer Raven Software.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Development
Tags: raven software, singularity
2K Marin staff working on second major project