Monthly Archives: June 2011

Warner Bros. Interactive has revealed the final box art for Batman: Arkham City.

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Speaking with Xbox World 360 magazine, Peter Molyneux expressed some of his frustrations with modern video gaming, and offered a glimpse at where he’d like to see video games go.
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DiRT 3 has received the latest of several downloadable content packs. The new DLC pack includes new cars and tracks from the country of Monaco and its titular city, Monte Carlo.

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The embattled CEO of Sony, Sir Howard Stringer, spoke today at an annual Tokyo meeting. He took the oppontunity to apologize for the PSN attacks, and defend his position.
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Nintendo’s last console was more popular with the average consumer than it was with Nintendo’s hardcore faithful, and now Nintendo President Satoru Iwata is eager to explain why Wii U will rectify that.

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The madcap Japanese arcade shooter turned Xbox 360 game will be coming to the App Store very soon according to developer Cave. They’ll also be offering a prerelease sneak peak at the new iPhone content.
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Square Enix has just unleashed a couple of battle screens for Final Fantasy XIII-2, running on the PS3 version. You’d have to be hard bitten to say it doesn’t look nice anyways. Get them all after the break. XIII-2′s out this December in Japan, and early next year for PS3 and 360 in the west.

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Speaking with Famitsu, long-time Zelda designer, Eiji Aonuma talked rather candidly about some details of the Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword’s storyline. Possible spoilers ahead.
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Frank Gibeau, president of the EA Games label, spoke in an interview today about its new digital download service, Origin, and what we can expect from them in the future.
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Eurogamer’s opened up submissions for this year’s Indie Arcade for the Eurogamer Expo. It’ll be free for anyone to submit or exhibit during the show in the arcade, which will this year be sponsored by Sega. Submissions are open until August 19. There’s more details here.

EG Expo takes place between September 22-25.

Stace Harman takes a fresh look at ArenaNet’s next-gen MMO opus, trying out underwater sections and tackling a hard-ass dungeon encounter. Guild Wars 2 is shaping up just fine.

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The Korean Ratings Board has rated a PS3 version of 2010 indie love-in Limbo. Sony Computer Entertainment Korea is the one who mate the listing. Previously released on Xbox Live Arcade last summer, developer Playdead had said it was working on a new IP, but insisted that Limbo was an “exclusive for life” on XBLA. Then again, so was Braid and Castle Crashers and look what happened. Just saying.

We’ll email Playdead. Thanks, GSW.

Mojang has confirmed that its next game, Scrolls, will go along a similar development path that Minecraft took when it first released.

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Sony’s gone live with what to expect from today’s EU PS store update. EA’s Gatling Gears is the headliner, priced at £7.99. There are also multiplayer demos for Homefront and Motorstorm: Apocalypse, as well as a proper blowout on DLC price reductions, including Take Two stuff like Mafia II, Borderlands and Grand Theft Auto IV. And, of course, there’s also the Uncharted 3 beta for the Plus lot. There’s more on what to expect today through here.

Bethesda Game Studios boss Todd Howard has said that any DLC for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will likely have an “expansion pack feel” to it.

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Because when there’s no Uncharted 3 beta to play, there’s shorts to be read. Go read them after the break.

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Develop organisers have announced this morning that Sony will be holding a talk at the event on PlayStation Vita. The talk, which will take place on July 20, will see head of developer services Kish Hirani and Sony’s Neil Brown give the first public talk of the handheld in the UK since its NGP-filled unveil in January and Vita unwrapping at E3 earlier this month.

Develop takes place between July 19-21 in Brighton.

UK retailer HMV will not accept trade-ins of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries as part of its RePlay scheme, VG247 has learnt.

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You may not have played the Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta, but at least now you can see what it looks like.

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Codemasters has just announced FPS Bodycount will launch on September 2 in Europe.

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