Monthly Archives: July 2011

Keji Inafune has announced his first game since leaving Capcom, and it’s called The Island of Dr. Momo. The game was announced during a press conference held by GREE, Index, Atlus’ parent company and Inafune’s Comcept. The Island of Dr. Momo is a social game for GREE mobile’s social gaming service. You play as mad scientist who loves cute things, and so you combine critters together to “make the world’s cutest thing.” The game will be playable on iOS and Android devices this fall, and will make use of microtransactions like most GREE games. Thanks, Andriasang.

Robert Bowling has posted a picture of the Hardened Edition of Modern Warfare 3. Bowling said more on this edition will be revealed during the Call of Duty XP event in September. The event will also debut Modern Warfare 3′s multiplayer. Game’s out in November.

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The development team for Deus Ex: Human Revolution explained to attendees at a Comic-Con panel for the game, how it set about creating a believable world with present-day events that also tied into the Deus Ex series.

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A gameplay video out of Comic-Con has been released for WayForward’s side-scrolling action-adventure, Aliens: Infestation. The game takes place in an expended Aliens universe which will allow players to recruit and play as 19 different marines, each with their own unique dialogue, while exploring cannon environments such as the Sulaco, the Derelict ship, and LV-426. The game is slated for release in September on DS. Thanks, Gamespot.

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Members of 2K Czech and Bohemia Interactive have formed a new studio in Prague called Warhorse, where the new firm is working on an RPG.

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A video posted on Kiwi (via 4chan- link not working) titled Assassins Creed Revelations Seizure – Ubisoft, shows what the poster calls “an internal project we did here at Ubisoft Cinematics. I animated the character on the table. No mocap whatsoever.” What you will see, is a doctor performing surgery on a man’s head to test out memory binding. There’s no word from Ubisoft how authentic the footage is, and/or what it planned to use it for as of yet. What we do know, is we agree with Joystiq on how lovely yet disturbing it is. We’ll send a mail to see if we can find out more about this. Watch it here.

Siliconera has reported that the Kirby Wii game is now known as Kirby Returns to Dreamland. The title was revealed to the site during hands-on time with the game. It’s set for release this fall.

“We’re at a state now in the Call of Duty franchise, where you have several teams working on CoD that have their own very distinct styles on what type of gameplay they deliver. And I think that’s a great thing for Call of Duty in general, especially if you’re having games come out every year. To have very distinct flavors and to have very distinct styles, it allows us to innovate in different ways and not feel forced to innovate in the same ways and build on the same interactions in the other games.” – Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling on having various studios working on the Call of Duty series.

During the City of Heroes panel at Comic-Con, Paragon Studios’ lead game designers Melissa Bianco and Matt Miller along with art lead David Nakayama, development producer Nate Birkholz and community manager Andy Belford chatted with attendees about the MMO going free-to-play, and going under the new name City of Heroes: Freedom.

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Sony has released a video from Comic-Con, which contains highlights from the Resistance 3 panel featuring creative director Marcus Smith, art director Grant Hollis, animation director Kevin Grow, as well as voice actors Robin Atkin Downes and Crispin Freeman.

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Todd McFarlane has told folks attending Comic-Con that Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is scheduled for a February release, “unless [EA] tells us otherwise.”

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Konami has provided two screenshots for the Silent Hill HD collection. Announced at the firm’s pre-E3 conference, the Re-Mastered Collection contains Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 in HD 720p for PS3. There still isn’t an exact date for it yet. There’s also some shaky-cam footage from the collection taken at Comic-Con here. When we get the actual video from Konami, we will post it.

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Bioware has released the Comic-Con trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, and it asks you to “join the fight”.

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Konami has released some new screenshots from Vatra’s Silent Hill: Downpour, and each is unsurprisingly dreary. Not like any of the Silent Hill games are full of unicorn and rainbows or anything, just an observation is all. The game is slated for a winter release on PS3 and Xbox 360, and it is also expected for PS Vita whenever it hits stores.

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Sony has announced version 1.1 of the PlayStation Official App has been released. Using it you can sort your PSN friends by status, or filter them by presence. You can even search for new ones, and view specific trophy details. You can even comment on the blog, get news, and more. Hit up the PS Blog for more details.

Ed Boon has said the inspiration for adding Freddy Krueger to Mortal Kombat as a DLC character was because NetherRealm wanted to add a famous character into the series that fit with the overall theme.

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It’s the weekend. Rejoice and read the latest news from the European news day. Go on, why not. Did I say it was the weekend?

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One of Swords has posted a video walkthrough for Call of Duty Elite, which debuts in November and the public beta taking place now. The video below features team leaders at Beachhead, Chacko Sonny the studio head, and Noah Heller Elite’s product director. Another video we posted last week is here.

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Twisted Pixel has announced The Gunstringer and Halfbrick’s Fruit Ninja Kinect will be bundled together at retail for £29.99/$40.

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Videogame.de has previewed Modern Warfare 3, and in the write-up are two new shots of the game, which we’ve posted below. Head on through the link to see what the site thought of the game. MW3 is out in November for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Thanks, NeoGAF.

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