Monthly Archives: June 2011

Here’s a new developer diary for Age of Empires Online, part of a marketing campaign which has turned slightly kooky since Gas Powered Games took over. The latest episode explains the different tiers of equipment and how to get ‘em, and features the antics of two carefully voiced puppets.

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Super Mario 3D project lead Yoshiaki Koizumi has said the switch to 3D graphics with Super Mario 64 began to detract from the core Mario experience: not dying.

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Crystal Dynamics’ Karl Stewart has explained why gameplay footage of Tomb Raider has so far only shown quick-time event combat.

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Star Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto has said the Wii and Wii U embraced an all-white design to help shuck the company’s “kid-oriented” image.

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BioShock Infinite is unlikely to break from its precursor’s tradition of layered narrative, so you’d do well to start boning up now. In the video below the cut, creator Ken Levine discusses the origin of Colombia City and the origins and intent of the Vox Populi faction – as well as showing off some in-game footage.

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Kaos staff left jobless by THQ’s closure of the New York studio may find a new home with Just cause developer Avalanche.

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After years of pretending she’s not a gazillion times better than her male counterpart, EA and BioWare are set to give the female version of Commander Shepard a portion of the attention she deserves.

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Thursday is not Friday, no matter how many times you wish it throughout your day. It will be here soon enough though, so close the before the best day of the week with a second round of short things.

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EA CEO John Riccitiello believes that Modern Warfare 3 is “going to be a really good game” and that the war of words between his firm and Activision is all part of the business.

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Game Informer has posted a video which features Marvin Donald, the game director for Darksiders II and some footage of the game as well. It shows how Death will be a much more agile character to play than War was in the first outing. He was a tank, after all. Since there is not option to embed the video, you’ll have to click the link to watch. Darksiders II is slated for release during calender year 2012 on PC, PS3, Wii U, and Xbox 360.

EA has released the costumes and weapons pack for Alice: Madness Returns, and we’ve posted the pretty pictures of it for you below.

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DICE has said the Physical Warfare Pack DLC being made available immediately to customers who pre-order Battlefield 3, will be available to all for free after the game launches.

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Square has sent over a reminder that its DLC for Dissidia 12 [duodecim] Final Fantasy is now available,  and has provided a really large list of the content available for purchase.

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EA Sports president has predicted that in the future there will be no “offline games,” as the gaming industry starts to embrace connectivity en masse.

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Activision has released a behind-the-scenes video for Annihilation, the DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops coming to XBL on June 28. In it, the developers at Treyarch provide a look at Hangar 18, Drive-In, Silo, Hazard and Zombies. After the exclusivity period on Xbox 360 ends, the pack will be made available for PC and PS3.

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id Software’s John Carmack believes that due to limitations with hardware and technology, Cloud gaming could cause consoles to die out within 10 years.

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Sony has posted a developer walkthrough for Starhawk over on both the EU and US PS Blogs. We’ve got it posted for you below. Harvard Bonin, senior producer at Sony Santa Monica, also noted in the posts that the game would be on display at Comic-Con San Diego July 21-24 where more on the solo campaign and the Starhawk universe will be revealed. Starhawk launches in 2012.

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Microsoft has announced that the Kinect for Windows SDK is now available as a free download from Microsoft Research.

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Rockstar has released a new trailer for the upcoming L.A. Noire DLC case, “Nicholson Electroplating”, along with some interesting facts on it.

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The US PS Blog spoke with Battlefield 3′s executive producer, Patrick Bach, at E3 about the upcoming military shooter, and during the interview, the site included a lot of questions folks asked on Twitter.

Hit the jump to watch the video, and read highlights of Bach’s quotes pulled from it.

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