Monthly Archives: July 2011

A Californian court has ruled EA Sports must respond to claims it used National Collegiate Athletic Association members’ likenesses and personal information without compensation.

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The latest Deus Ex: Human Revolution developer diary talks up the RPG side of the cyberpunk adventure.

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Capcom has released a half-hour direct feed video of Street Fighter x Tekken being played at the company’s booth at Comic Con.

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Oh, those wascally wesumes – they’ve outed Crytek’s latest project, an unannounced shooter based on new IP.

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Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, resoundingly damned for his recent championship of crunch time, has said his comments were taken “out of context”.

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Carbine Studios has teased its yet TBA MMO with NCSoft on its website. Word to the wise, this is all but likely to be the publisher’s big announcement for gamescom in a couple of weeks.

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Don’t underestimate gaming’s shift to a service-based business model, warns Dan Fiden, VP of publishing at Marvel Universe and Fortune Online developer Gazillion Entertainment.

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US bricks-and-mortar retail chain Gamestop continues its unceasing march to the future by allowing shoppers to buy downloadable PC games in-store.

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The 3DS price-cut bombshell from earlier this morning pretty much made the rest of today’s news look like nothing more than a King of the Sheep competition – unless of course some sheep-eating beast was running rampant across the countryside causing contestants to no longer look like themselves – then that would have topped the price cut, assuredly.

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Time for more shorts, and the list is rather, er um, short this afternoon.

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THQ has announced The Rock as a pre-order incentive for WWE 12 and it has provided screens of the People’s Eyebrow which we’ve posted below along with a trailer. Miz is also a pre-order bonus. WWE 12 is for release in November on PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360.

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Analysts are convinced Nintendo has aggressively lowered the price of its 3DS handheld in order to best Sony’s Vita when it hits the market.

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Ubisoft has released a new Driver: San Francisco developer video which explains the game’s shift mode, which gives players the ability to switch between cars. Then, there’s another video posted below, courtesy of GameFront, which shows how shift can be used in multiplayer. Driver is out September 1 in Europe, September 2 in the UK, and September 6 in the US.

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A Ubisoft representative has told PC Gamer it has seen “a clear reduction in piracy of our titles which required a persistent online connection, and from that point of view the requirement is a success.” This is thanks to the firm’s use of “always on” DRM for PC games, which was first used with The Settlers 7, but didn’t cause too much of an uproar until Assassin’s Creed 2 came out on the system due to shaky internet connections and server issues causing game log outs or loss of saves. Ubisoft clarified earlier reports which stated From Dust on PC would require the DRM, and informed VG247 that the single-player portion of the game would not make use of the DRM.

Since when isn’t a Final Fantasy game not lovely, I ask?

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Kevin O’Leary, brand manager for Battlefield 3, and Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling have each spoken to Kotaku regarding the rivalry – be it real or fan imagined – between the two shooters slated for autumn, and both developers are resigned to the fact that “passionate” fan reaction comes as part and parcel with the territory.

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Rising Star Games has announced its line-up for Q4 and it includes release dates for King of Fighters XIII, Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar, Rune Factory 3, and more.

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FIFA 12′s UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and Middle East cover will feature Jack Wilshere and Wayne Rooney, according to a tweet from Wilshere. This will be Rooney’s seventh appearance on the cover. FIFA 12 will be released on September 30 in the UK. You can view the cover through the link. Thanks, MCV.

The Japanese hardware and software charts for the week ending July 24 finds 3DS still on top, and Everyone’s Rhythm Heaven debuted strong on Wii.

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Insomniac has announced early access to the Resistance 3 public beta will start in early August.

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