Monthly Archives: June 2011

Crytek has released the DirectX 11 patch for Crysis 2 after a false start last week which saw information posted then pulled.

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Aspyr Media has announced that its port of controversial shooter Duke Nukem Forever will be arriving on Macs sometime this Summer.

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Japanese RPG developer Mistwalker and others have sent a warm “thank you” to their fans today after finding out about Operation Rainfall, a campaign started by American fans looking to convince Nintendo to bring some Europe- and Japan-only games to the States.

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Activision may be planning more forays into the GoldenEye series: internet detective Superannuation has unearthed evidence that the publisher has registered domains pointing to a game called “GoldenEye Reloaded.”

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Battlefield Heroes is back online after the game was temporarily taken offline after LulzSec released more than 550,000 user account details.

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Sony’s announced a new PSP “Dual Pack” line-up of games today, which will feature two PSP titles in one package and cost $14.99.

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Microsoft has confirmed this year’s Summer of Arcade line-up for Xbox Live, dating Ubi Montpellier’s From Dust and Supergiant’s Bastion in the process.

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Frontier boss David Braben has been confirmed as a keynote for this year’s Develop. Braben’s keynote, which will happen on the second day of the Brighton-based event, is called “Making Disneyland,” which will touch upon the development of the studio’s latest project Kinect Disneyland Adventures. The game was announced during Microsoft’s E3 briefing.

Develop takes place between July 19-21.

The three-month-old Nintendo 3DS is about to get its very first Kirby game this week as the original 1992 Game Boy platformer makes its way to the 3DS download store.

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The Supreme Court of the United States has sided with the videogames industry, declaring it the winner in the EMA (Entertainment Merchants Association) vs Brown case that has gone on for six years.

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GT’s released the first dev diary for Driver: San Francisco. The video shows key members of the Ubi Reflections dev team, including the Edmondson brothers Martin and Gareth, talking about the return of classic characters like Tanner and Jericho, as well as welcoming back San Francisco from Driver 1. Watch it after the break.

Driver: San Francisco launches on August 30 in the US and September 2 in the UK for PS3, 360 and PC.

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Microsoft convinced Britain’s top two ranked female table tennis players, Kelly Sibley and Joanna Parker, to play Kinect Sports in the middle of the Rough Trade record store in East London this weekend, and got them both to say how great it all was and play with frying pans. There’s video proof after the break. They’re aiming to beat China in the Olympics next year: they are now obviously more likely to do so after hitting virtual balls instead of real ones.

See for yourself.

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Question. What does Kazunori Yamauchi, horrible comedian Jamie Kennedy and industry analyst Michael Pachter have in common? Answer after the break in this short edition of Monday Shorts.

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Resident Evil producer Masachika Kawata has admitted that, on a personal interest, he’s interested in developing for Wii U.

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Zavvi’s basically made it impossible for you to not have Enslaved now: the amazing Ninja Theory action title, which did critically well, but unfortunately lacked in sales, is at £7.85 for 360 and PS3. Crackdown 2′s going cheap for the 360 massive as well at £5.85. Either way, whatever you do, you owe yourself to get Enslaved. Now.

Thanks, Blerk.

According to Gamer Segmentation 2011: The New Faces of Gamers, the latest report from US data monitor NPD, Core Gamers, once considered to be the leading gaming segment, is facing rising competition from “Digital Gamers” for amount of time spent gaming and number of games acquired.

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Microsoft’s dropped details on the collector’s edition of Forza Motorsport 4, confirming a steelbook edition and an additional set of cars to come with it.

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Notch has confirmed that the “adventure” update for Minecraft, thought to by the next addition as v1.7, has now become v1.8.

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Zumba FItness has still held on at the top of the UK charts, but Grasshopper and Shinji Mikami horror Shadows of the Damned has just barely missed the top 30.

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“A world where we’re not involved in fighting is a world I’d rather not think about. That said, what goes on in the sport, and what’s gone on between the UFC and Strikeforce, certainly has an impact on what we can do in the space. I am, other than [EA Sports MMA executive producer] Dale Jackson, probably the biggest MMA fan here. So it’s not a ‘no,’ but it’s also not a ‘yes’. “We’d love for there to be one because I’m a diehard fan of the sport. We have to figure out how to make that happen.” – EA Sports’ chief of development Andrew Wilson told Kotaku on the chances of an MMA sequel.