Monthly Archives: June 2011

Team Bondi’s technical director, Franta Fulin, has said development on L.A. Noire took quite a while because when the team first started on it, PS3 “wan’t really something that existed,” yet.

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Reviews for Shadows of the Damned are starting to trickle in, and it seems folks are rather enjoying Grasshopper Manufacture’s descent into Hell. Get caught up on the scores below the break.

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“[We] would love to support the new Twisted with DLC but as of now, we’re totally 100 percent laser focused on getting the core game done. I think we could intro new vehicles though and keep the balance of the MP in mind, so I don’t see DLC/Balance being the issue. The issue is more splitting your user base with the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’. BUT we have some ideas on how to deal with that as well if we ever get to make Twisted Metal DLC.” – David Jaffe speaking on Twitter. Via ThatVideogameBlog.

Microsoft Australia’s Xbox boss, David McLean, has said Kinect will be voice enabled in the country by the end of the year, and also dropped a few interesting statistics for Aussie use of the console.

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2K Games has announced on its forums a playable demo for Duke Nukem Forever is now available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace.

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What’s better than dishing out some serious punishment to your opponents playing as Ryu or Ken? Having a highly customized Ryu or Ken to do so.

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Hitman: Absolution’s game director Tore Blystad and gameplay director Christian Eleverdam, have said that when it comes to an open world game, the atmosphere and non-playable characters need to “feel alive.”

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Warner Bros. and NetherRealm Studios announced today that Skarlet is now available for download on PSN and XBL for Mortal Kombat.

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Rockstar has released the L.A. Noire DLC case Nicholson Electroplating for PSN and XBL.

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After being teased in a not so secretive manner over the last month, Capcom has released in-game shots of Hwoarang, Julia and Sagat. There’s one with Cammy in it as well, and Tekken’s Bob too. There’s also some new artwork for the teased fighters below as well. Enjoy the shots below. SFxT is slated for a 2012 release on Xbox 360 and PS3.

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VentureBeat‘s reporting that Gaikai will partner with US retailer Walmart and its website Walmart.com.

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EG’s announced that Konami will support this year’s Eurogamer Expo in Earls Court. The Japanese publisher, which now joins the likes of EA and Namco Bandai in attending the show, will have Silent Hill: Downpour and PES 2012 on the showfloor.

Eurogamer Expo takes place from September 22-25 at Earls Court, London.

A new video of Horde 2.0 for Gears of War 3′s been released, showing off the vast improvements for the mode from its introduction back in Gears 2. Boss monsters, custom fortification and thensome. But the goal remains the same: kill plenty of Locust. Do that and you’ll earn money. As a certain games developer once said, this seems to be bigger, better and more badass. Go nuts, Gears lot.

Gears of War 3 launches worldwide on September 20 for Xbox 360. Thanks, Ve3tro.

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has spoken out against Microsoft due to its suit with Datel over the UK firm’s third-party memory cards for Xbox 360.

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“We know that every father has a personal responsibility to do right by their kids – to encourage them to turn off the video games and pick up a book; to teach them the difference between right and wrong; to show them through our own example the value in treating one another as we wish to be treated. And most of all, to play an active and engaged role in their lives.” – Barack Obama in a Father’s Day letter from The White House.

Thanks, Spong.

Avalanche Studios has said it chose New York City as the location of its new US studio, due to it being less expensive than California.

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XCOM went off the grid for nearly a year, and it used the time to do some serious soul-searching. Has it changed for the better? We saw the game and chatted with 2K Marin to find out.

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Simon Carter, lead technical director on the Fable series, has left Lionhead Studios, apparently to found a new company with brother Dene Carter.

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The ESRB has rated Deus Ex: Human Revolution at Mature, and given a potentially spoiler-filled account of protagonist Adem Jensen’s spoilerific activities throughout the spoilery plot of spoilers. With spoilers. Are we clear? Spoilers. Don’t go through the link unless you are ready.

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The UK Metropolitan Police has confirmed that its Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) has arrested a 19-year-old man in a pre-planned intelligence-led operation.

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