Monthly Archives: November 2010
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 11:56 GMT
Persona 2 PSP comparison shots show new interface, visuals
Siliconera’s posted up a bunch of screens showing off the differences between the PSone and PSP versions of Persona 2, and it looks as though it’s had more than its fair share of paint-licking.
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 11:38 GMT
Microsoft: Kinect doesn’t capture data for ads
Following comments from Xbox COO Dennis Durkin that suggested Kinect could be used as a data collection tool for marketing purposes, Microsoft has sought to assuage fears of being watched by the peripheral.
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Posted in: Kinect, Microsoft, Xbox 360
Tags: Dennis Durkin
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 12:48 GMT
UK charts: Black Ops sells 2 million in first week as it becomes number one
Call of Duty: Black Ops has made a, quite frankly, massively stonking revenue of £81.9 million as it sells 2 million units in the UK to go number one, Chart-Track’s announced.
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 10:33 GMT
First DiRT 3 dev diary reveals 32 stages, snow and ice, co-driver gender-picking
Codemasters has released the first dev diary for DiRT 3, dropping some massive details on the rally racer.
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 10:27 GMT
GT5 Photo mode images leak before final launch
Following last week’s confirmation that GT5 is to ship globally on November 24, a bunch of knock-out images of the racer’s photo mode have emerged from hookey copies.
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Posted in: Hot, PS3, Racing, Sony
Tags: gran turismo 5, gt5, photo mode, Polyphony Digital
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 10:58 GMT
Poll: 65% of Americans want violent games sales to minors illegal
According to a new Rasmussen survey, 54 percent of those polled believed that violent games lead to more violence in society.
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Posted in: America, Stuff, Violence in games
Tags: Rasmussen
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 10:51 GMT
Breach, Six Days in Fallujah and the state of the modern FPS
There’s something strange going on in the world of the military shooter right now. Call of Duty: Black Ops has recently become the biggest entertainment launch in history. Medal of Honor made the news by virtue of being set in a current conflict. And yet there is a groundswell of feeling that the genre is becoming stagnant, repetitive, unadventurous – that the lack of bravery and conviction evident in EA’s concession to renaming the Taliban is indicative of a wider trend not just in the genre, but in the games industry as a whole, and that the tyranny of triple-A boxed-title franchises is leading us to a creative dead end.
Peter Tamte is the President of Atomic Games, the studio behind forthcoming download-only multiplayer shooter Breach, a title that he hopes will shake up our perceptions about how first-person shooters can be made and marketed. It’s also the studio that made Six Days in Fallujah, an ambitious military FPS set in the early years of the Iraq War that was famously dropped by publisher Konami because of its controversial content. On a recent visit to London to promote Breach, he talked to us about his conviction that something has to change.
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Posted in: Action, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: atomic games, Breach, Peter Tamte, Six Days in Fallujah
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 09:21 GMT
Team Meat “will do what we can” for Super Meat Boy for 3DS
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Posted in: 3DS
Tags: Super Meat Boy, Team Meat
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 09:08 GMT
BHPR goes into liquidation
UK videogame PR firm Barrington Harvey, headed by director Simon Harvey, has gone into liquidation after 22 years in the business.
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Posted in: 2K, Codemasters, Eidos
Tags: barrington harvey
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 08:44 GMT
RAGE: Mutant Bash TV out this month, video shows new gameplay
IGN’s posted up a preview of upcoming RAGE iPhone spin-off Mutant Bash TV, which confirms it’ll be out this month.
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Posted in: Bethesda, Hot, Shooter, iPad, iPhone
Tags: id software, rage, RAGE: Mutant Bash TV
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 08:36 GMT
Sullivan: NfS demo pulled to “switch servers to support the main game”
Criterion creative boss Craig Sullivan’s explained the reasoning for removing the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit demo, saying the exercise was to ensure the studio could provide a suitable “service” to buyers, and that it was necessary to end the test to enable to full game’s online hardware.
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Posted in: EA, Hot, PC, PS3, Racing, Xbox 360
Tags: craig sullivan, criterion games, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 07:54 GMT
Castlevania, MGS4 PS3 bundle gets pictured
Konami’s officially detailed the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 bundle previously confirmed for Japan.
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Posted in: Action, Konami, PS3
Tags: castlevania: Lords of shadow, kojima productions, Mercurysteam, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 07:49 GMT
Treyarch details incoming Black Ops PC updates
Following confirmation of incoming fixes for the PS3 version of Black Ops, Treyarchs done the same for the PC version of the stellar-selling shooter.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Hot, PC, Shooter
Tags: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Black Ops, cod, treyarch
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 09:59 GMT
Zipper: MAG still “amongst the most played online PS3 games out there”
Thought MAG was dying following news of Zipper Interactive working on a new SOCOM game? Think again.
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Posted in: PS3, PlayStation Move, Shooter, Sony
Tags: Jeremy Dunham, mag, Zipper Interactive
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 07:24 GMT
Transformers: War for Cybetron sequel confirmed
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Posted in: 3DS, Action, Activision Blizzard, Hot, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
Tags: transformers, Transformers 3: The Dark of the Moon, Transformers MMO, War for Cybertron 2
Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | 07:06 GMT
Fight Night Champion dated for March 1 in US – new trailer and screens
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Posted in: EA, Fighter, Hot, PS3, Xbox 360
Tags: ea vancouver, Fight Night: Champion
Sun, Nov 14, 2010 | 21:11 GMT
Sly 4 teased in Sly Collection
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Posted in: Adventure, Hot, PS3, Platformer, Sony
Tags: Sly 4, Sly Racoon 4, The Sly Collection
Sun, Nov 14, 2010 | 17:05 GMT
First 15 minutes of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood videoed
Someone’s uploaded the first 15 minutes of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood to YouTube, showing what to expect when you put it in your disc tray.
Spoilers, obviously.
Sun, Nov 14, 2010 | 13:54 GMT
Sonic Colors gets launch trailer, review round-up
SEGA’s released the launch trailer for Sonic Colors, the latest adventure for everyone’s favourite blue hedgehog.
Catch the movie after the break, along with the review round-up.
2K Marin staff working on second major project