Monthly Archives: June 2011

Several sources close to Develop have told the site Microsoft is planning to bring free-to-play gaming to Xbox 360.

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Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has said developing Crysis 2 to be playable on most PC systems ended up “backfiring” on the firm.

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EA Sports has put out a new developer diary for FIFA 12, and it chats about the features of Pro Player Intelligence. It’s posted below, along with another which talks about the game’s physics. The game is set to launch at the end of September.

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According to a class action lawsuit filed this week, Sony laid off employees who were responsible for the firm’s network security two weeks before the massive data breach occurred in April.

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T3 Entertainment’s free-to-play MMO Hellgate, will go into open beta on June 30 and is to include two new game modes: the PvP Duel Area and the zombie-infested Cow Room.

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So in case you lot are unaware, FEAR 3 is out today in the UK. The Warner and Day One horror’s been getting good reviews, with it standing at 77 for PC & PS3 and 78 for 360 on MetaCritic. We got a PS3 promo in the post earlier today, featuring a pretty cool artbook. You can take a look at it below.

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A LulzSec member has confirmed that Ryan Cleary, who was arrested in the UK this week on suspicion of hacking charges, had no formal ties to the group despite a few media reports stating otherwise.

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Bethesda’s announced that the first DLC for Brink, Agents of Change, will go live in “early July.”

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Starting today at noon EST and running until noon EST on Monday, June 27, all XP earned in Killzone 3 multiplayer matches will be tripled. It’s to get folks started on the new From the Ashes map pack which was released on the PS Store this week. The triple XP counts on both sides of the pond. Check out the EU and US PS Blogs for more details.

Sony’s released a couple of gameplay screens for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. It actually released eight shots, but we’re pretty sure some of them are from E3, so we’ve left them out. The game’s being made this time round by Sanzaru, not creators Sucker Punch, but you should be in good hands: Sanzaru were behind The Sly Collection.

Thieves in Time launches in 2012.

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Bungie’s Marathon is heading to iPad, and the science-fiction FPS is being ported by indie developer Daniel Blezek using the game’s source code, which was released for free back in 1999.

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A notice on the PS Store has alerted PS3 users that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled will no longer be made available in the US come June 30.

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Some crafty Sonic fans have played around within the innards of the Sonic Generations demo and have apparently found a chronologically correct stage list as well as possible DLC.

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Zeboyd’s announced it’ll have a $3 Steam and Gamersgate bundle that’ll include Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII: The Beginning being bundled together. It says the low pricing is because of “cosmic insanity, induced by the developer’s prolonged exposure to Lovecraftian monstrosities.” Kickass.

Thanks, Blue.

Sony intends to skip the Christmas period with Vita in Europe, instead launching it in 2012, VG247 has learnt.

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A Google job ad has seemingly confirmed that the US search company is getting into games.

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9lives has gone live with a seven minute Saints Row: The Third gameplay trailer which gives you a sneak peak of the various things you would be able to do in its sandbox world.

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Codemasters has shown off the first dev diary for F1 2011. The diary, revealing the first gameplay footage from the game, confirms a co-op championship mode, as well as a bump in the amount of online players from last year, going up to 16. Live the Life will be also be more clnematic this year. There’s more on that, as well as tyre use and KERS, in the YouTube vid after the break. The video was initially part of GameSpot’s Start/Select show.

F1 2011 launches on September 23 in the UK for PS3, 360 and PC. 3DS and Vita versions are also in development.

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EG’s announced Ninja Gaiden III will be at Eurogamer Expo, while BioWare’s confirmed it’ll also be at the show with Star Wars: The Old Republic.

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Bohemia Interactive’s announced it’ll re-release the original Operation Flashpoint under the Arma brand.

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