Monthly Archives: July 2011

A post over at Major Nelson’s blog has confirmed that Avatar Kinect is now available for download.

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Ubisoft announced today Assassin’s Creed Embers, a new animated short movie which will expand on the final chapter of the life of Ezio, covering a journey which has spanned more than four decades. It’ll be releasing alongside Assassin’s Creed: Revelations on November 15.

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Sony’s announced that Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will make its way to PlayStation 3 next year.

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Want to know what happened during the European news day? This is why you should always read this every day. But not with me at the helm tomorrow anyways.

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EA Sports SVP Andrew Wilson has said that there will come “a time” when the company will start dishing out subs to access its content.

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BioWare said over the weekend that it intends to have Star Wars: The Old Republic to keep going for “decades.”

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DeNA has announced its signed up three major devs to create new games for the social games service Mobage. Grasshopper’s Goichi Suda, ex-Capcom dev boss Keiji Inafune and Sonic the Hedgehog creator Yuji Naka will make titles for Mobage. Inafune’s creating a game called JJ Rockets, while Suda 51 will release a No More Heroes-related title.

There’s more details at Andriasang.

A release schedule for NIS that was posted on Yahoo! Japan has listed Disgaea 3 for a release on PlayStation Vita as a launch title. The release schedule has since been pulled from the site, but not before it was caught. The original version of the RPG launched back in February 2009 for PS3 in Europe after NIS hit a publishing agreement with Square Enix for the continent.

Thanks, Siliconera.

According to an Examiner report, Amazon US has suspended all sales of Nintendo 3DS. The reason why isn’t officially confirmed, but it’s claimed that the issue could be down to scratching the upper 3D screen on the device. Amazon says it’s looking to “fix the problem as quickly as possible.”

Thanks, MCV.

Stroking the flames of fire a bit, Take Two COO Karl Slatoff has said the company is a “very attractive” target for a buyout due to the company’s arsenal of IP.

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Codemasters has said that including GP2 with the publisher’s F1 titles isn’t possible due to restrictions on the licence it currently has for the sport.

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We’re running out of stuff to say. Honestly. Zumba’s still top of the UK charts, but new entry Call of Juarez: The Cartel has entered in second.

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Time to do it all over again. It’s Monday, which means four days until Friday. Impossible, right? Not for me it’s not! I’ll explain all in the Euro News Wrap this afternoon, but for now, here are your shorts.

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Sony Computer Entertainment Japan boss Hiroshi Kawano has said in a blog post that the public will get their first hands-on with PlayStation Vita at Tokyo Game Show in September.

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Loads happened over the weekend. Mass Effect 3, Gears of War 3, Battlefield 3 – all the threes. And Skyrim. And Resident Evil 6. Not three. Get it all below in video and text form.

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Sony’s announced the launch of the PlayStation Store in Brazil. Those in the country can now buy content in Brazilian Portuguese and English, and will also even carry its own Welcome Back pack following the PSN downtime in April. There’s also local versions of the PlayStation Blog and website that have now opened up as well. Find more details here – if you can read it anyways.

Via GI.biz.

Namco Bandai announced over the weekend at ComicCon that it was to include a playable prologue to Tekken Tag Tournament 2 with PS3 exclusive Tekken Hybrid.

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What started out last year as an unofficial thing, the final episode for official Mortal Kombat mini-series Legacy has breathed its last breath. The final episode mainly focusses on how characters Cyrax and Sektor came to be. You can get it below the break, via GameSpot, and then probably buy the game if you haven’t done so already.

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Rockstar co-founders Dan and Sam Houser have made this year’s Top 100 MediaGuardian 2011 hitlist, the publication announced last night.

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Your Monday is just beginning but mine – alas! – is at an end. Here’s the run down on everything that happened during the opening hours of the Aussie news desk.

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