Monthly Archives: June 2011

Square Enix has just announced it’s to show the first trailer of Hitman: Absolution from next Wednesday evening BST. The trailer will premiere at 10:47am PST (6:47pm BST) at the publisher’s booth at the Los Angeles Convention Center during E3. Hitman: Absolution launches in 2012 for PS3, 360 and PC.

Codemasters has announced the Colin McRae Vision DLC pack for DiRT 3, which is available now. The pack, based on the late, great WRC champion on which the series was formerly named from, includes a Ford Escort MkII and five liveries. The pack is available on Xbox Live Marketplace for 160 MS points or £1.19 for when PS Store returns, with all proceeds being donated to the Colin McRae Vision Charity. The pack is the first of a “series of weekly downloadable content” for the racer.

Nintendo has set aside the date of June 25, so that 3DS users nationwide can plan in-person meetups and exchange content together. The firm has named it StreetPass Day.

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Following the reimagining of Edge’s brand earlier today, Future’s relaunched CVG into a blog-style design with a red header. You can take a look for yourself here. Editor Tim Ingham’s said the design is a step in creating “the best gaming news site in the world, built around our core offerings of news, media, comment and community all served up with a healthy dose of cheeky, irreverent humour.”

The site is now apparently updated 24 hours per day, including news from Australia. New features include a widescreen media player and a “Most Popular box”.

EA has announced that Need for Speed World, its Play4Free online PC racers, now has over five million registered users.

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The Major’s announced that a 360 demo of Fable III is now available from Marketplace. No details on where in the Lionhead RPG the taster is based from, but if you didn’t buy the game eight months ago, you’re in a win-win situation. Queue it up for your 360 here.

Ubisoft and Nintendo are set to launch two official 3DS bundles for Driver: Renegade and Splinter Cell 3D, MCV is reporting.

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Sony has released launch trailers for White Knight Chronicles II and White Knight Chronicles: Origins, both of which are posted below the break.

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Future’s relaunched the Edge brand with its “deepest makeover” ever, redesigning both magazine and website. You can take a look at the new site here, the object of which, according to the press release, is “to better serve the games development and publishing community along with high end gamers”. The relaunch issue of the magazine is its thickest ever at 212 pages, and will go on sale on Thursday June 9 with an unnamed E3 exclusive.

Microsoft’s released a brief live-action teaser for Star Wars Kinect, featuring a curious R2-D2 examining the camera before freaking out after it nods back at him. And that’s it. No, really, that is it. Expect the Terminal Reality game, first announced last year, to be part of Microsoft’s E3 presser on Monday. Watch it below

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VG247 super-freelancer Keza MacDonald’s latest full-time gig has been made official: the London-based journalist is joining IGN UK as games editor.

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Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg has said that it’s creating a web series on Call of Duty that Elite subscriptions will get exclusive access to.

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EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich has said he expects newly-announced premium service Call of Duty: Elite will have 1.5 million subscribers by the end of the year.

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A new video on Youtube has Major Nelson giving us the first glimpse of Forza 4′s head-tracking feature.

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The company who created the camera for iPhone has hinted at a possible deal with Nintendo over Wii successor Project Cafe.

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As with many works of fiction, Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” got it all wrong. And as is normally the case with these things, the real life version is turning out to be far worse.

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Stainless games has confirmed that Carmageddon: Reincarnation will release as a downloadable title in 2012.

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Thought last night’s postponement of maintenance kept you online for another couple of days, right? Dorian. Sony’s just announced that PlayStation Network will go down from 4:30pm this afternoon.

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Uh-oh. Someone’s going to get a slap for this. Someone on YouTube’s upped the first ten minutes of Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

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We’re all for swooping in to save the day at the last second, by this is getting ridiculous. After a strong 2010, Microsoft’s been eerily silent about what’s next for its old-but-not-over-the-hill box. Or at least, that’s been the case as far as games go. But the whole “videogame console” thing is only half the battle, and Microsoft’s now got a much larger target in its sights: “entertainment.”

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