Monthly Archives: January 2011

Steam’s Australian portal has added a collection of previously-unavailable Rockstar games to its lineup, including the notoriously violent Manhunt. Rated at “refused classification” by the Australian Government’s Classification Board, the sale of Manhunt is illegal within Australia.

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Your friends and family want you to help fertilize their crops?

Declare war.

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The “other, other” digital distributor, Direct2Drive, are throwing a slightly whimsical codeword-powered sale by chopping 20 percent off the full price of all MMOs, including City of Heroes and Guild Wars, apparently to celebrate the upcoming release of the also-discounted DC Universe Online.

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We’ll be upfront with you: this Uncharted 3 CES trailer is largely extremely charted territory. But if you fast-forward to the very, very end, you’ll find a few tiny morsels of brand new eye candy. Jumping! Water! Hallways! But it’s all very nice looking and will make the long wait until November almost imperceptibly more bearable. Watch it after the break, courtesy of Gametrailers.

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The number of little dudes running around on screen in Total War: Shogun 2 is enough to make your GPU consider installing air conditioning this summer, but the Creative Assembly has just announced its minimum and recommended system requirements and surprisingly, they’re reasonably modest.

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The Optimus 2X isn’t just a smartphone – the official description is superphone. LG and nVidia are pretty proud of their new Android handset, especially as it can run a multiplayer game against PC, PlayStation 3 and presumably Xbox 360 competitors. Whoa.

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We know what Portal 2 is going to look like when it lands, but for some territories, the question of when that will happen is a fractious one indeed.

Australia can now proudly discount itself from the masses: the girted shores have a solid April 21 release date at last.

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Major Nelson has posted the full list of this fortnight’s new content and special deals.

In addition to the usual new games on demand and avatar items landing over the next few days, January lucks out with a pair of spectacular sales from two titan publishers and a free Gold subscription trial.

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Broke after the holidays? Harmonix might be too, since they’re holding a fire sale on Rock Band DLC. You have until January 11 to take advantage of discounts on various track packs and even full albums from The Cars and Rush.

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Fire up Red Dead Redemption today and you’ll likely meet with a mandatory download screen. Rockstar’s latest patch brings with it a host of fixes, including removing the enforced reboot upon switching between single and multiplayer modes. Thank. You. Rockstar.

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EA’s push to conquer the Android gaming market has a fine bit of ammunition to its credit in the form of a polished-up Rock Band Mobile port – the only multiplayer game available at the launch of Verizon’s new 4G LTE network.

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Individual modders whose work is featured in the Morrowind 2011 compendium have threatened legal action against its compiler, resulting in the removal of the 4Gb pack’s torrent.

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Koei Tecmo has gone screebshot crazy over Dynasty Warriors 7, and it couldn’t please us more.
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Hironobu Sakaguchi’s latest saga takes the Final Fantasy creator into the murky world of online multiplayer. Details of this rather daunting prospect have emerged at last, outlining the game’s two online modes.

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Those attending CES who happen to stop by the Microsoft booth will be in for a treat, as Fable III is on-hand and being demoed on PC.
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Turbine has revealed that profits for Lord of the Rings Online have tripled since the game went free-to-play back in September.
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2K has decided to bring back the contest it held last year with MLB 2K 10 where the first person to throw a perfect game wins $1 million.
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The Writers Guild of America has nominated Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, God of War 3, and Fallout: New Vegas among others for its annual Video Game Writing Award, which is to be handed out on February 5.
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Warren Spector has stated in an interview with Develop he’s a bit disappointed that the gaming industry tends to focus more on combat mechanics when it should be looking to include other interactive means of compelling gameplay.
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Zarksoft Games, which is comprised of developers which worked on the Unreal, Diablo and Star Trek franchises, has announced Empire of the Eclipse, which is being hailed as the first online, real-time strategy MMO for iDevices.
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