Monthly Archives: July 2011

Warner Bros. Games general manager and vice president Laura Fryer has criticised the practice of hiring, burning out, and then firing development staff.

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The BBC’s commercial arm is set to begin publishing independent games as early as next month.

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The association for UK Interactive Entertainment has launched a £100,000 fund to promote digital industries, with support from TIGA and the Department of Culture Media & Sport.

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Gaikai, our very favourite cloud-based streaming games advertising platform, has netted another $30 million in funding.

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Thanks to the San Diego Comic Con, we have launch information for Gotham City Impostors, Spider-Man: Edge of Time and X-Men Destiny.

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Independent companies cleaned up the Develop Industry Excellence Awards 2011, with Minecraft developer Mojang coming out the clear winner with three awards.

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Enslaved: Journey to the West has won Best New IP award at tonight’s Develop Awards. But you know what’s even more exciting for Trip and Monkey fans? Namco Bandai is looking at new ways to explore the series, the publisher’s Lee Kirton has told VG247.

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Activision’s just announced Prototype 2 for an April 24 launch in the US at least.

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Here’s a second batch of shorts for your hump day.

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Mandeville Films, the Walt Disney-affiliated production company behind The Fighter, will be developing a film based on Top Cow’s graphic novel, The Darkness. The news was confirmed at Comic-Con today to the L.A. Times by a spokesperson for Mandeville, who said David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman will produce, while David Manpearl and Top Cow’s Marc Silvestri and Matt Hawkins will be the executive producers. The firm and Top Cow previously brokered deals for graphic novels Alib and Crosshair. Meanwhile, the Darkness II game has been moved into 2012, as we’ve previously reported.

Turbine has releases some screens from the LotRO fall expansion, Rise of Isengard, showing off the area of Dunland located in the foothills of the southern Misty Mountains. It is infested with Dunland Clans, rugged warriors tempted by “the dark promise of power,” and probably other stuff you will want to slash with your sword more than once. Rise of Isengard launches on September 27, which we think of as a very nice birthday present from Turbine. [art]

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Ian Baverstock of Tenshi Ventures and Kuju Entertainment co-founder, told attendees at Develop that Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata’s GDC keynote decrying mobile and social games was a “shocking indictment” of how “obsessed” the firm is with retail.

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Capcom has announced Street Fighter III: Third Strike will be made available on PSN and XBL on August 23. UK PSN users will get it on August 24. It will run you $14.99/1200 MSP. There is also a new video for the fighter, which shows off the game’s features. It’s posted below.

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Brian Dunn, Sony’s associate product marketing manager, has said on the PS Blog that the ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection for PS3 will come with a voucher for two XMB Dynamic Themes, one for ICO and one for Shadow of the Colossus. The disc will also include video content from ICO, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian. More information on the collection is promised soon. The collection, which includes full 1080p HD and stereoscopic 3D support, 7.1 surround sound, and full PSN Trophy support for $39.99 hits stores on September 27.

The news of Mega Man Legends 3′s cancellation wasn’t pleasing for anyone to hear. Keiji Inafune knows this, and has issued an apology to fans and staff members via a blog post today, although it’s been a long time since he left Capcom.

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Those who purchased Medal of Honor’s Limited Edition last year was promised access to the Battlefield 3 beta, and letters regarding the offer have started hitting inboxes today.

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DICE has updated the Battlefield Blog with information on Battlelog, BF3′s new social network, after shots of it leaked out last week.

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SEGA has officially announced Aliens: Infestation, the side-scrolling action-adventure title from WayForward re-outed by the ESRB last week.

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Both the PS3 and PC versions of Limbo has extra additional “secret” content over its 360 brethren at release, VG247 can confirm.

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Konami’s revealed the Teammate Control system for Pro Evolution Soccer 2012, which will allow users to move two on-field players at once.

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