Monthly Archives: June 2011

Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has said that the E3 demo of Fable: The Journey came from when full development began four months ago.

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The International Game Developers Association has said it’ll investigate claims over LA Noire developer Team Bondi’s crunch work policy.

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NPD’s said that Xbox 360 is selling more online-capable games than both PS3 and Wii.

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Boom. Less than a year after its predecessor Modern Warfare 2 took over from Dr. Kawashima, Call of Duty: Black Ops has become the biggest-selling game in the UK ever.

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It’s Tuesday. You’ve gone past Monday. Which means you can now push towards Wednesday. And then finally reach the end goal of Friday. But before you do that, read these shorts.

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Rising Star’s announced that Swery cult thriller Deadly Premonition is coming to Games on Demand for 360 on July 5. That’s next week for those who can’t keep count. The game got absolutely mixed reviews when it launched last year: IGN gave it a two, yet D’Toid gave it a ten. That wait for Swery’s next game just probably got a whole lot shorter.

The third map pack for Black Ops, Annihilation, has launched on Xbox Live.

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Namco Bandai’s confirmed that Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon has been given a slight delay in the UK. Namco Bandai UK PR boss Lee Kirton tweeted earlier the game would be out on July 22, not July 15 as intended. “Apologies to all UK EDF fans of the slightly late launch in July,” he said. “Trust me that it’s a great fun game for great price. And co-op! 22nd July.”

Kirton has said to EG it’ll cost around £24, adding that fans should pre-order now to avoid disappointment due to it not having a “major ship” in the UK. You can pre-order it now at GAME, Amazon and ShopTo, to name a few.

After two previous similar reports within a month-and-a-half, BGR‘s now reporting that Microsoft is set to unveil the next-gen Xbox at E3 2012.

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The former head of Homefront developer Kaos Studios, David Votypka, has gone to Ubisoft.

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Gamerzines has spotted another special edition of Driver: San Francisco, making it three editions now for the Reflections action title. Alongside the standard and limited editions, the special edition will include in-game bonuses such as the 1963 Aston Martin DB5 in multiplayer and a taxi single-player challenge. It’ll apparently cost the same price as the standard edition £40, according to GAME.

Game’s out on September 2 in the UK. Watch the first dev diary for it here.

Loads going on this morning. Catch up in a few minutes instead of stumbling around the internet like some kind of drunk pervert.

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Namco Bandai junior community manager Charlotte Toci has retracted comments that Microsoft paid for some sort of exclusivity on RPG Tales of Vesperia for Xbox 360.

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Twisted Pixel CEO Mike Wilford has said the company is working on an iOS title.

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“Yeah, you know we actually reference a lot from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. We used a lot of their GUIs and the way they did their ship – that was kind of like in some of the early designs for the Normandy. Our attack helicopters are loosely based off that movie. There’s some great stuff, especially their glowing GUI screens; we used those a lot. I keep a folder of that stuff and I still actually tell the guys ‘just go back and look at that. Change it like that!’” – Mass Effect 3 art director Derek Watts, speaking to X360W, on the inspiration CG movie The Spirits Within has given to the threequel.

OnLive’s unique feedback and metrics capacities are drawing publishers in, founder and president Steve Perlman has said.

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Sony CEO Sir Howard has said Sony was hacked because it “tried to protect” its content from those who “want everything to be free”.

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Kenshi is returning to Mortal Kombat next month. Watch his reveal trailer and ask yourself if you can really do without a psychic blind swordsman with telekinesis.

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Capcom is adamant the used game trade was not the motivation behind the permanent save files of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D.

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The two doctors of BioWare have said they’re still figuring out what’s in store for the Mass Effect universe once the initial trilogy draws to a close.

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