Monthly Archives: July 2011

Ubisoft has announced Uplay Passport, which it said will offer “access to online features and exclusive content” for the firm’s various titles.

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In a Baird Equity Research report, analyst Colin Sebastian said the firm expects GameStop’s digital business to hit $1.5 billion annually by 2014.

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Harvard Bonin, senior producer at Santa Monica Studio has posted a new behind-the-scenes video for Starhawk over on the PS Blog. It’s also posted below. In it you’ll get “insights into how we created our universe and story, as well as background thoughts on Emmett from the team at LightBox.” You will also see snippets of the game’s animated cut-scenes in the video as well. The game is due on PS3 in 2012.

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EA’s Sean Smillie has said the team behind SSX “listened to the fans” and has made the game more colorful and over the top like past iterations in the series, while also apparently dropping the latest version’s Deadly Descents subtitle.

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NetherRealm has released a character vignette video for Rain to go along with the gameplay video released for him earlier in the week. Rain will be released as DLC for Mortal Kombat on July 19. Thanks, GameZone.

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Government-supported tax breaks are just one of the ways EA is able to continue investing in EA Canada, said EA Sports SVP Andrew Wilson.

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SOE and LucasArts today announced Mission on Iceberg Three, the summer series of Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, which connects the storyline between seasons three and four of the Cartoon Network television series.

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A study, conducted by Doritos which surveyed 2,052 people, has found women who play online games prefer their game to having a bath, shopping, exercising or having sex.

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Rocksteady has released a lone bit of Arkham City artwork and a biography for Harvey Dent, also known as Two-Face.

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Warner’s put out the launch trailer for Bastion. The Supergiant RPG will kick off Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade 2011 next week for 1200 MS points. After that will come the PC version that has been on the backburner whilst the 360 version has been made. We’ve played the first half-hour of the game and chatted to Supergiant about the game, but we can’t say much else other than that. Stay tuned to the site next Tuesday for more deeds. Game’s out on Wednesday for 360.

Read our impressions from E3 here.

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TopWare Interactive’s releasing the Two Worlds II: Velvet GOTY Edition October 18, and it includes the expansion Pirates of the Flying Fortress, which also releases this fall.

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Some new screenshots from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning have hit, and the full group is posted below for you. The debut game from MLB pitcher Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios,is an action-RPG with MMORPG roots. Reckoning is due on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in early 2012.

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The ESRB has confirmed details on Aliens: Infestation, the WayForward-developed DS side-scrolling shooter which was outed by the Australian Classification Board back in May.

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Famitsu has listed game companies in Japan which have mad the most profits from game sales from December 27, 2010 to June 26, 2011 and Namco has come out on top.

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Up to at least 100 staff will be laid off at Future UK, according to an MCV report.

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It’s Friday, which means you’ve now reached the weekend. Congrabulatgonglations. That’s a word I just made up. Here are your shorts.

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Radical Entertainment has released a short developer diary on the use of tendrils in Prototype 2, and we’ve posted it below the break for you. In it, the team discusses how when using the tendrils, you can grab bits of the environment such as cars, and pull them in towards an enemy and smash him. That’s just one example of the many ways you can use this feature. Watch for yourself. Prototype 2 is out in 2012.

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Sony’s fully detailed the World Game Project. The event is, as expected, to show off games made within the west. Titles to be shown inFamous 2 and Resistance 3 on the first party front, with Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Shadows of the Damned, despite the latter being made by Grasshopper in Japan. Video footage of other games will also be shown at the event on July 23.

Thanks, Andriasang.

Square Enix has released a bunch of short snippets of gameplay of Final Fantasy Type-0, as director Hajime Tabata admits that development is nearly done.

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Blizzard’s said that it’s to test out new feature Real ID Party in World of Warcraft. The feature will enable WoW players to invite Real ID friends of the same faction to a party, regardless of what realm that friend is currently on at the time. That party can then queue up for a five-player dungeon on either normal or Heroic. There’s more details in an FAQ on GamePolitics.