Monthly Archives: January 2011

World of Tanks, the WWII action-strategy-MMO-hybrid thing, has had such roaring success in closed beta that those of us not in it are battering at the doors and howling for entrance. Thank the stars that the open beta has finally been dated!

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Blizzard has issued a statement explaining its intentions and actions so far regarding this week’s World of Starcraft Starcraft 2 mod, having invited creator Ryan to visit the Blizzard studios and meet the development team.

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Whether you’re a Three Kingdoms or Sengoku geek – or have no idea what either of those things mean – there’s something of interest in the Omega Force info dump through the jump. The impressively deep-seeming 3DS launch title Samurai Warriors: Chronicles has been detailed, and some lovely new Dynasty Warriors 7 artworks have appeared to drool over.

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Capcom Interactive president Midori Yuasa says casual and hardcore gamers alike are abandoning traditional portable platforms in favour of smartphones.

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A retail representative is reported to have said the cost price of Nintendo’s 3DS is £173, meaning the most common UK retailer price point include a mark up of £46 or more.

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LittleBigPlanet 2 is freely available at retail – in exchange for currency, according to capitalist principles – but that doesn’t mean we’re over it. A new pair of trailers takes you behind the scenes at the Media Molecule offices and teases a Toyota Prius promotional competition with some hefty swag up for grabs.

Jump through for details.

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Paradox Interactive held its Convention press event in New York City today, revealing its list of products for 2011. It was announced earlier today that Hearts of Iron III was getting an expansion, but there’s more than just that heading your way, PC gamers.

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Kotaku has gotten its hands on an internal email belonging to EA, which suggests Infinity Ward put off releasing a map pack for Modern Warfare 2 at the request of the firm. The letter was released today as part of court filing in the Activision suit against EA and Infinity Ward co-founders Vince Zampella and Jason West.

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According to a report over on the LA Times, Activision has tasked Sledgehammer with co-development duties on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 with Infinity Ward. This is according to “people familiar with the situation,” and will add to burgeoning rumors surrounding the next installment in the monster shooter franchise.

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Paradox Interactive has announced during its Convention press event that two more entries in Hearts of Iron series are headed your way.

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Hothead Games has released a new developer diary for Swarm, featuring the game’s AI creator, Mike Hayward.

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Square Enix US has confirmed this evening that it’s to release Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy on March 22 in America.

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Team Meat has said its level editor and the portal for Super Meat Boy will be out within the next couple of weeks.

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Major Nelson has posted an update on the content scheduled for Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and while you already know about Plants vs Zombies being the current Deal of the Week, there’s other goodies headed your way as well.

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Activision has released a developer diary and new screenshots for Eutechnyx’s NASCAR 2011: The Game. Both are posted below.

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Ubisoft has sent over a release schedule for some of its 3DS games, and it looks as though you’ll be able to play some of these right at launch.

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Wanting to play a RAGE demo before it launches in September? Chances are looking slim, Jim.

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Thinking about it for a second, tennis games have a weird tendency to be at the forefront of revolution in the videogames industry. The first proper commercial videogame was a tennis game. Virtua Tennis was a Dreamcast poster child. Tennis games were some of the first to really embrace online. And many of the first motion control game were tennis games – Wii MotionPlus launched with two of them.

According to 2K Czech President Stephane Dupas, Top Spin 4 marks the point at which motion control has become sophisticated enough to satisfy the series’ simulation needs – on Sony’s hardware, anyway. We spent some time with Dupas and the game in London recently – read our impressions below.

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Earlier in the month, UKIE reported that Call of Duty: Black Ops was the biggest selling game of 2010. Today, that information hasn’t changed, but the firm has finally released the full listings for the all-formats chart as wells as individual platforms.

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According to an earlier report from RPS, Frontier’s David Braben had confirmed that The Outsider was canned.  However, Braben has since told Develop that is not the case.

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