Monthly Archives: July 2011

Microsoft kicks-off its annual Summer of Arcade today, and it has released the schedule of offerings it’s hosting from now until July 25.

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Insomniac’s James Stevenson has posted the latest developer diary for Resistance 3 over on the PS Blog, and in it, the team talks about bringing back classic Resistance: Fall of Man gameplay “like the weapon wheel.” Resistance 3 launches on September 6 in the US and September 9 in the UK for PS3. Check out VG247′s impressions of the game’s single-player demo here.

Square has released a gameplay trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which focuses on Adam Jensen delving deeper into the conspiracies inherent in the game. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is due on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in late August. Thanks, Gematsu.

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Ubisoft has announced the acquisition of free-to-play game developer Owlient and its Howrse brand, a free-to-play horse breeding game with almost two million monthly active users.

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Christina Norman has joined Riot Games as a lead designer for the League of Legends developer.

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Blizzard has announced region linking for StarCraft II, which promises to connect SCII communities together for multiplayer matchmaking and chatting purposes.

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San Diego Comic-Con 2011 takes place next week, and the schedule of panels for the show has been released. We’ve posted the game-related ones for you below.

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The Chimera have won. Humanity is all but dead. Joseph Capelli is its final hope. Johnny Cullen plays through the single-player demo of Insomniac shooter Resistance 3. Spoiler alert for those who haven’t finished Resistance 2.

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Shane Kim, ex-corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, has been appointed to GameStop’s board of directors, the company announced in a statement this morning.

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Mode 7 Games’ co-founder, Paul Taylor, believes Steam is indispensable for the success of indie PC game developers.

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Steve Hood has hinted that classic racing seasons are being talked about around the Codemasters offices for future F1 titles, and adding such a feature to the series as DLC would be “a cool thing to include.”

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Microsoft’s put Forza 4′s E3 sizzle trailer out for general release, showing a bevy of virtual cars on virtual tracks set to Kanye’s Power. These cars have wings, buddy. Turn 10′s latest releases for 360 in October.

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EEDAR has published a new Retail Buyer Report for July which, using IGN GamerMetric figures, discusses how Sony’s Welcome Back Program helped boost sales through the firm’s PlayStation Network.

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Trion Worlds is holding a summer subscription offer through July, which will save folks some money should they purchase an annual sub for RIFT.

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The Catherine demo is now available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace. You can add it to your queue here. The demo comes in at 854.20 MB, and PSN users should probably check later to see if it is available yet. We checked online and didn’t see it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not there. Catherine releases on July 26 in the US for both systems.

EA’s confirmed that Burnout Crash will launch next month. The top-down, downloadable game from Criterion – the studio’s first download game – was previously confirmed for just an autumn date. Now it’s coming near the tail-end of summer instead. Everybody wins.

Crash, based on the crash mode that was introduced in Burnout 3: Takedown, will release on PSN and XBLA, the latter having Kinect support.

MetaCritic co-founder Marc Doyle has admitted that ratings for games on the website are unbalanced.

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Venturebeat reckons EA’s bought Californian social games firm Ohai for an undisclosed sum. The deal’s yet to be announced. The news follows speculation that EA was poised to buy Plants Vs Zombies creator Popcap for a ludicrous sum. Ohai created Facebook vampire MMO City of Eternals, which achieved relatively little success.

Remember the amazing Meet the Medic video recently released for Team Fortress 2? It didn’t just wink itself into existence, you know. There were bloopers, animated storyboards, and the decision to drop the origin story of the medigun to focus on the iconic image TF2 players all know and love: the Medic ubercharging the Heavy. Read about how the project came together on the Team Fortress 2 blog. Thanks, Blue.

And don’t forget we have a dedicated TF2 server set up for you. Get the details after the break.

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CCP has said that it’ll include more high-priced items for sale in EVE Online than a $70 molecule.

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