Monthly Archives: July 2011

Bastion creative director Greg Kasavin has confirmed the game will be released on PC before the end of the year, but there are currently no plans to release the action-RPG on PSN.

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Nintendo has announced Pokemon Rumble Blast on 3DS for an October 24 release. It’s about wind-up toy Pokemon wind-up toys which will engage in real-time battles and larger Pokemon bosses. Players will collect Pokemon as part of your battle team and also as collectible toys, which there are around 600 of, including Pokemon from Black and White. Wireless allows you to play with friends, and StreetPass will start a battle with others as you walk by. Thanks, Shack.

Activison has announced ahead of Comic-Con the actors who’ve lent their voices to Spider-Man: Edge of Time and X-Men Destiny, both of which will be playable next week at the event.

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Eutechnyx has announced the closed beta for Auto Club Revolution, its online racing game and car community, will start next week on July 25.

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Robert Boyd, developer of indie RPGs Breath of Death VII and Cthulhu Saves the World, claims his firm Zeboyd Games made more money in one week on Steam as a $3 bundle, than the months both spent individually on XBL.

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Amazon, GameFly and GameStop are listing the Splinter Cell HD trilogy for a September 27 release in the US. The bundle was previous confirmed for a September 23 release in the UK by Ubisoft last month. The trilogy was originally slated for March, and then June, before moving into September. We’ll send a mail to confirm the US date. Thanks, Joystiq.

It looks as though Valve’s presence at gamescom next month is so the developer can show off DotA2, as well as hold an on-site tournament for professional DotA players, if a letter sent to the website DOTA-Two is any indication.

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SEGA has confirmed the release dates for Shinobi and CRUSH3D, both of which are slated for release on 3DS.

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After War comes Death. Stace Harman went along to a hands-off showing of Darksiders 2 to find out if the end of the world is all doom and gloom or one big party. Chat with developer Vigil and new shots are below.

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EA Sports has announced Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters will be hitting PC and Mac on September 6.

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Sony’s announced that its signed LittleBigPlanet Vita developer Double Eleven to a deal which sees it working with PlayStation platforms.

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Bastion reviews have started hitting the net, and it looks as though the majority find it a charming Xbox Live title from Supergiant Games.

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GDC Europe organisers have announced this afternoon that Epic president Mike Capps is to give the main keynote at the event next month.

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Polish retailer Empik leaked what it claimed to be pre-order information and box art for Star Wars: The Old Republic earlier today, before subsequently pulling the offending listing.

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Manchester City Football Club has announced its teamed up with EA Sports as a new partner, which will provide “dedicated MCFC virtual content,” through the Club and EA Sports digital channels, including MCFC match simulations.

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Just a quick reminder that the Rain DLC for Mortal Kombat arrives on Xbox Live and US PSN today -UK will get it on PS3 tomorrow. Rain is the third of four downloadable warriors and comes with his own move set, an arcade ladder story ending, and two brutal fatalities – just like Skarlet and Kenshi before him. Rain is available on XBL for 400 MSP or as a part of the Season Pass program for $4.99/ £3.19/€3.95 on PSN. The DLC also comes with two klassic Mortal Kombat 2 skins inspired by Jade and Kitana.

Amazon France has outed GoldenEye Reloaded for Xbox 360 and PS3, which would explain the various domain registrations which popped up for the game last month.

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Supergiant Games has said it picked Warner Bros. Interactive as Bastion’s publisher because it had “bought into” what the developer had wanted to do with the game.

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Xbox Live Arcade can be the perfect place for upcoming developers to showcase games to a large audience of gamers, but it isn’t always rosy: the competition is very tough with so many developers wanting games approved for the service. In such a scenario, words of wisdom from XBLA’s first-party director of publishing, Ted Woolsey, would seem like mana from the heavens.

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Zoo World and Gourmet Ranch maker, RockYou, has formed a new third-party publishing unit called Studio Partners, which is an “open program that enables talented developers to expand the reach of their games through RockYou’s network.”

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