Monthly Archives: May 2011

Ubisoft’s confirmed that Ghost Recon Online – a free-to-play, third-person PC shooter – will launch this summer. See it in action below.

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EA’s released a new trailer for Grasshopper Manufacture’s upcoming title, Shadows of The Damned and it’s totally mental.

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Sony’s launched its E3 website. Not much else is there other than its booth details for the Los Angeles Convention Center and details of its E3 press conference on June 6. It also features an NGP bit and a list of PS3 titles for the show, including Uncharted 3, Resistance 3, Twisted Metal and more. Go nuts for it here.

Sony has posted the innards of the Hero Edition of InFamous 2, and it looks rather nice.

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Funcom has announced new content coming to Age of Conan’ which will tie together the game and the upcoming movie, Conan the Barbarian starring Jason Momoa.

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When Sony and Microsoft finally announce their next home consoles, it may spell the end of physical media on major console platforms. This should not take you by surprise.

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Nelson’s confirmed the release of a demo of Halo Reach, eight months after the release of the game. The taster for Bungie’s final entry in the series includes a single-player level, a competitive multiplayer map and a Firefight map as well. You can queue it to your 360 here. It’s currently exclusive for Gold members.

Over on Xbox Live Marketplace, there’s some nice deals on select Bethesda DLC and Avatar items.

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Hideo Kojima has hinted at a potential cancellation from Kojima Productions, saying a “thing” that the Metal Gear Solid creator has spent the past year on has now become “meaningless”.

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Microsoft has sent out its press invites for E3, and along with the invitation came some nifty stickers teasing possible games to be shown at the conference.

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Final Fantasy XIV producer Naoki Yoshida has posted a rather large list of planned updates and changes to the MMO. He has also checked off quite a few fixes and changes already accomplished by the team.

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Its actually happened: 2K has announced that Duke Nukem Forever has gone Gold, meaning that the game is now being pressed to disc and will ship – as in, baring a colossal catastrophe, actuality properly ship – on June 10.

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Double Fine’s put out the first developer diary of its Microsoft-published XBLA title Trenched. The video shows some of the main developers on the project talking about it, as well as showing some captured gameplay from the tower-defense shooter. Get it below, via D’Toid. Trenched launches later this year for Xbox Live Arcade.

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Sony is to bundle together Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2 as a Greatest Hits dual package ahead of Resistance 3′s September release. A leaflet included in the Blu-ray release of Battle: Los Angeles – which includes a single-player taster of R3 – says the pack will also come with $10 worth of bonus content and a Resistance 3-related skin. The pack releases for $40 this summer. No word on a similar release for UK yet. Resistance 3 launches on September 6 in the US.

Thanks, IGN.

Sony is making steps towards relaunching the PlayStation Store, activating free PlayStation Plus subscriptions and upgrading PSP’s Firmware, but has confirmed the service will not restart in the next day.

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Codemasters launches DiRT 3 worldwide today, and has released the rally racer’s final trailer. It shows multiple car classes and environments such as desert, snowy and modern circuits. You can get it below the break. Get the reviews for the game here. Then go and buy it.

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Atlus has confirmed it’ll localise Persona 2 for a US release this fall for PSP. It comes after an old-school newsletter tease of the localisation last week. Siliconera has some English-looking screenshots of the game. The game launched in Japan last month, with Ghostlight releasing Persona 3 Portable in the UK last month.

Persona 4 next, ta.

As promised, Splash Damage has launched a new update for the PC version of Brink. The update will fix audio and memory bugs, graphical performance is improved as well as additional interface and server issues. PS3 and 360 updates will launch once its passed certification from both platform holders. Full patch notes are here.

It’s Tuesday morning in your time zone, which means it’s cocktail hour in mine. Enjoy these shorts while I slip off to the pub.

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The E3 headlines are mounting now. Read this or get left behind, like some mentally deficient tortoise.

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