Monthly Archives: June 2011

ngmoco’s announced that ex-EA Easy boss Ben Cousins is to lead the company’s new studio in Sweden.

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Wisconsin authorities have approved the placement of a memorial to Gary Gygax in Donian Park, in the designer’s home town of Lake Geneva.

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UK retailer ShopTo‘s mentioning a November 4 release for Vita in the UK. The date is mentioned alongside pre-order listings for the handheld, as well as several titles including Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Wipeout 2048, Ruin and ModNation Racers. Games have also been priced at £40. Sony’s told MCV that it had “not made any announcements about software pricing, so that’s just speculation.”

Vita is due to release sometime this year in at least one region.

Game Informer’s gone live with a behind the scenes video of Darksiders II’s development at Vigil, coming away with a tiny snippet of off-screen pre-alpha gameplay footage as well as character models. And a couple more things too, but those are the big stuff. Get it here.

Darksiders II launches in 2012 for PS3, 360 and Wii U.

Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi has said he’s a living argument against an old prejudice against gaming as a kid.

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Amazon’s posted a listing of a Just Dance expansion for Wii, subtitled Summer Party, which will be coming out next month, according to the retailer. The tracklist includes Katy Perry, Rhianna, Estelle and more. It hasn’t been formally announced, but Ubisoft’s since confirmed it with GameSpot. This is just a taster before the main event in October with Just Dance 3 for PS3, 360 and Wii.

Senior producer Tomek (Tomasz) Gop has left CD Projekt RED, and apparently the games industry.

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The chaps making Indie Game: The Movie have released a trailer for the film, showing the guys behind Super Meat Boy, Fez and Braid chatting about their various paths to market. You can contribute to finishing the project on Kickstarter.

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1C’s UK publishing director Darryl Still has said retailers are driving developers to digital distribution with an artificial “bottleneck” on PC games.

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City interactive’s released a brand new trailer for the PS3 version of Sniper: Ghost Warrior, detailing some of the extras that come with it over the 360 version. New multiplayer modes, new single-player missions and more are mentioned in the new video, which you can see below the break, via GiantBomb. It’s out this summer.

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“We’re thrilled with the way PlayStation Vita is coming together. We’re so excited about the development community and the way they’re seeing all the promise and possibilities that they can bring to the canvas that they’re going to be able to create their portable games on, the connectivity from a portable device now to their console, and to the communities that they’re building around their games. I feel that this device is really the start of our future for PlayStation. It’s that big of a quantum leap in what it’s going to enable our gamers to do – and saying that, it’s a quantum leap in what we’re going to be able to bring to our gamers.” – SCEA SVP Phil Rosenberg, speaking to IG about Vita at E3.

Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has said that Kinect does have some issues currently as “an input device.”

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It’s boomtime Tuesday, baby. Get all the major headlines in video and text form after the drop. Can you afford to enter today not knowing what’s going on in the world of videogames news? You cannot.

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Satoru Iwata has admitted that planning on Wii U started as far back as four years ago.

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Bloody hell, it looks like a news aggregator threw up in here. You’d not believe how much content is through the break.

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Sega’s confirmed Binary Domain will launch next February. Only early 2012 had been confirmed up until now. The date is mentioned at the end of a brand new story video for the game, which details more of the story, which shows robots uprising against humans. Get the video below, via Joystiq. The game, a new IP from Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi, will launch on PS3 and 360.

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Invites for the upcoming closed online beta of Armored Core 5 have been sent out in Japan, according to DailyDL. The taster will offer players the chance to get to grips with stuff such as customise mechs, team play, story stuff and the chance to try out Mercury Mode, where one player becomes an operator and issues orders to other players in the game. The PS3 beta will first kick off between July 1-14, with the 360 beta between July 18-August 1.

The From Software mech actioner launches in October in Japan and 2012 in the west from Namco Bandai for PS3 and 360. Thanks, D’Toid.

Further to claims of over 100 missing staff credits for L.A. Noire, an alleged inside source has described crunched conditions at Team Bondi which led to the departure of frustrated staff.

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Michel Ancel has clarified why Rayman Origins made the jump to a retail release, saying it was how “the franchise works.”

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Serious simmers aren’t interested in distracting sops to realism like blurring, cockpit view and bobbing driver heads, according to F1 2011 designer Stephen Hood.

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