Monthly Archives: November 2010
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 21:24 GMT
The Last Story’s online mode gets a preview with new screens
Last week, we told you how Mistwalker has included six-player online with co-op and competitive modes in The Last Story.
This week, the online component has been previewed by Andriasang.
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Posted in: Japan, Nintendo, Platform holders, RPG, Wii
Tags: mistwalker, the last story
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 23:48 GMT
Activision’s Vivendi end happy with Infinity Ward “reconstruction”
Vivendi chairman and CEO Jean-Bernard Levy has said the firm has put any concerns it had after the Infinity Ward departures in the past thanks to the grand success of Black Ops.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Hot, PC, PS3, Retail, Shooter, Trade, Xbox 360
Tags: Black Ops, call of duty, infinity ward, Jean-Bernard Levy
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 20:53 GMT
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together hitting PSP on February 15
Square Enix has announced Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together will hit the US on February 15.
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Posted in: Hot, PSP, Square Enix, Strategy
Tags: Let Us Cling Together, tactics ogre, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 20:25 GMT
Spector most proud of “edgiest” area in all of Epic Mickey
Epic Mickey is out next week on Wii, and for those who plan on picking it up will see a section of the game Warren Spector is surprised made it into the final version at all.
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Posted in: Action, Adventure, Disney, Wii
Tags: epic mickey, junction point studios, warren spector
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 23:19 GMT
New Sub-Zero trailer shows off his Mortal Kombat moves
A new Mortal Kombat video is posted below the break, and it goes on a bit more about Sub-Zero fighting for his dead brother’s honor and such before he unleashes the power of ice onto his foes.
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Posted in: Fighter, Hot, PS3, Warner Bros., Xbox 360
Tags: mortal kombat, Netherrealm Studios, Sub-Zero
Sat, Nov 20, 2010 | 09:51 GMT
Homefront team inspired by Half-Life 2, wants game locations to feel more domestic to players
Kaos Studios’ Rex Dickson has said the team behind Homefront owes a lot of its inspiration to Valve’s Half-Life 2.
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Posted in: PC, PS3, Shooter, THQ, Xbox 360
Tags: homefront, kaos studios, Rex Dickson
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 17:37 GMT
Watch how Kinect works with Windows 7
Three new videos showing how Kinect works with your PC popped up on YouTube, and we’ve posted all below break for you.
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 17:28 GMT
Closed beta for Natural Selection 2 launches on Steam
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Posted in: Platform holders
Tags: Natural Selection, natural selection 2, Unknown worlds
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 17:26 GMT
Soderlund: Crysis and BFBC2 look just as good through OnLive as “the highest end PC”
EA senior VP Patrick Soderlund has seen how games like Crysis and Bad Company 2 look using OnLive, and he feels the games look “exactly like they would” on the “highest end PC”.
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 17:12 GMT
Sony’s holiday ads feature the Guru of Gift Giving
Black Friday is next week and Sony wants folks to buy a PS3.
Therefore, to get folks pumped to spend money, it will start airing two new ads tomorrow on television.
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Posted in: PS3, Retail, Sony
Tags: black friday, kevin butler
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 16:39 GMT
More journalists and fiction writers are shifting to writing videogames
Whether it is the economy, the lack of folks buying books, or the demise of so many newspapers and magazines, many people whose livelihood depends on their ability to wield the pen are switching to writing for videogames instead of continuing to pursue a more literary route.
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Posted in: Development, Stuff
Tags: journalists, videogame writing, writers
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 16:04 GMT
Poker Night at the Inventory out next week
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Posted in: PC, Strategy
Tags: Poker Night at The Inventory, telltale games
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 15:45 GMT
LOTRO: Rise of Isengard set for release in fall 2011
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Posted in: Hot, MMO, PC, Warner Bros.
Tags: lord of the rings online, lotro, Rise of Isengard, turbine
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 17:46 GMT
Interview – Homefront’s lead designer discusses why the US is sensitive to the game’s themes
After playing the first 15 minutes of Homefront, VG247 got in touch with lead level designer Rex Dickson from Kaos Studios to talk about the game’s unsettling portrayal of a Korean invasion of the United States, and why American audiences seem especially affronted by it. Apparently, you guys need to adjust your cultural mentality – can Homefront do it for you?
Hopefully, because as Dickson puts it, the US has never had to deal with the possibility of an invasion like other countries and has the “elitist idea” it’s the “best the world”. Because of this bravado, Kaos Studios preys upon the idea of excess, democracy and freedom being stripped away, and how the US portrayed in game is unprepared to deal with an invasion by a formidable opposing force.
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Posted in: Hot, Interview, Journalism, PC, PS3, Shooter, THQ, Xbox 360
Tags: homefront, kaos studios, Rex Dickson
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 14:50 GMT
Hands-on: Homefront’s an innovative FPS which doesn’t shy away from controversial themes
Modern military FPS games, viewed ungenerously, are basically a sequence of orders cloaked in comfortingly abstract jargon, removing any illusion that you’re shooting at actual people. Go here, put C4 on that, shoot that dude, defend this building, oskar mike tango down eliminate contact GET ON THE MACHINEGUN RAMIREZ . As a cog in the war machine, you barely even know whether you’re fighting for the good guys. Who cares, anyway, so long as there are objective markers?
Homefront is a bit different. In its opening sequence, you are handcuffed to a schoolbus and forced to watch an invading Korean army round people up in front of houses and shoot them in front of their small, screaming children, splattering the insides of their heads against the window. Well, there’s your motivation.
Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | 15:28 GMT
Report – GT5 install takes 50 minutes, 6.4Gb on HDD [Update]
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Posted in: Hot, PS3, Racing, Sony
Tags: gran turismo 5, install, Polyphony Digital
2K Marin staff working on second major project