Monthly Archives: May 2011

This week’s Nordic Game Awards highlighted some of the amazing games to come out of that region, with indie titles trumping the major AAA releases on the night.

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Sega has said production on an Aliens vs Predator sequel isn’t currently being considered right now.

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Sony has finally unveiled Warhawk sequel Starhawk, showing the game to press in London this week. Quotes, impressions, shots, trailer, dev diary inside.

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Brace yourselves – while PlayStation Network isn’t quite open to the public yet, we’re hearing reports that the internal PSN developer network is back online, so it shouldn’t be too far off.

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BioWare’s released a video of Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Sith Inquisitor class in action, and we are deathly afraid of her. Seriously, is there anything she can’t do? Assassinations, shields, explosive lightning, sucking the color purple out of people – you name it. Oh, and she looks like Darth Maul while quoting the Emperor. When you feel like you’re being watched and you nervously take a backward glance, she is the reason why. Check out the full thing after the break, courtesy of GameSpot. Happy cowering!

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Friday. You made it. Make sure you know what’s going on this morning. Do it now.

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EA’s released the first full gameplay video for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, The 38 Studios and Big Huge Games RPG first sees your main character rise from the dead due to something known as the Well of Souls. The video is taken from the demo of the game shown at PAX. Get it below, via IGN. Reckoning’s out next year for PS3, 360 and PC.

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Not being able to duke it out/shop for fake clothes online is kind of a bummer, but – at least, for most of you – your livelihood isn’t on the line. Some game developers, however, aren’t so lucky.

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It could be a good thing, it could be a bad thing, but Microsoft has now announced that Xbox Live Indie developers will have the ability to – among other things – choose the game’s release date.

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Microsoft has said it expects to see the games line-up for Kinect to “triple” this year.

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The public websites for Eidos and its upcoming game Deus Ex: Human Revolution were apparently “defaced and plundered” in an attack on Wednesday, believed to have its origins within hacktivist group Anonymous.

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After a bit of leak-based kerfufflery, Blizzard’s “officially” released a trailer of Diablo III’s follower system, which pairs you up with the NPC companion of your wildest dreams. Well, if those dreams adhere to fairly standard RPG classes and include some form of appearance-changing upgrade system. Our dreams involve tigers made out lightning. Or lightning made out of tigers. We forget which. At any rate, you know the drill: the break. After it. Go there.

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Cracks are starting to appear around the carefully guarded fortress that is L.A. Noire. First, reviews popped up online and in early-edition magazines, and now we’ve gotten our hands on a video claiming to show the first fifteen minutes of the game.

It goes without saying that there are indeed spoilers in this post, so if you want to avoid any hint of what you might be in for, look away now.

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We’ve all heard about the Gymkhana courses set to be included in Dirt 3, but we’ve never really had a good chance to take a look at them. That’s all about to change, with the release of this new trailer for the game, set – of course – amidst the game’s new setting.

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Another British politician has spoken out about the PlayStation Network dramas, calling on the games industry to prioritise data protection.

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Where do video games go when they die? According to Disney Interactive, they get reborn, sort of, inside other, more popular games.

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The idea of a sequel to beloved PC RPG Planescape: Torment isn’t completely off the table, admits Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart.

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With the worldwide release of L.A. Noire less than a week away, gamers are waiting with bated breath to see if Rockstar Games’ new crime thriller can live up to the hype. Wait no longer, a UK paper has gone ahead and published its review of the game a little ahead of schedule.

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El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron has been out for a while now in Japan, but we’re still waiting for a western version of the action game. To make things a little easier, we’ve got thirteen screenshots to share with you, thanks to Ignition.

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Tomorrow is Friday. You should be pleased. Very pleased. Have some shorts to help you celebrate the impending end of your work week.

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