Monthly Archives: July 2011

SCEA has announced a PS Move Bundle for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters.

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Rumor has it North American localization for Xenoblade Chronicles has wrapped up, and currently, localization for The Last Story is in the works.

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Sony has released a new PS Vita trailer and it showcases various features of the handheld including cross-play between Vita and the PS3, the handheld’s party features, a new feature called PS More and lots of other cool stuff.

The trailer’s also got blink-and-you’ll-miss it gameplay footage of various PS Vita titles including the likes of Uncharted and LittleBigPlanet. It’s pretty cool and you should check it out below.

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Last week, EA announced the Wake Island map for Battlefield Heroes. Today, we’ve run across a video of it, and it’s posted below. The Wake Island pack for the game included Battlefield funds, some festive flares, and a Birthday Suit if players logged in between July 1-7 for the game’s second anniversary. Today is July 8, so if you didn’t log in beforehand, you may be out of luck on the goodies. You can still get the map, though. Thanks, EvilAvatar.

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DICE has updated the Battlefield Blog with details on the four classes players can choose from in Battlefield 3.

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Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception will launch on November 2 in the UK, VG247 can reveal.

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In the most obvious news you will see today, probably, EA has revealed Origin will be the “exclusive source” for the N7 Digital Deluxe version of Mass Effect 3.

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GameStop has listed minimum and recommended specs for those who plan on playing Battlefield 3 on PC.

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The sequel to one of the most challenging and gratifying games of recent years is set to launch in October. Stace Harman ventured into its depths and, remarkably, lived to tell the tale. Hands-on impressions inside.

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Blur’s lead designer Matt Cavanagh has formed a studio called Totem Games.

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“It’s definitely something a lot of us are interested in doing. But right now, the focus is on Hitman: Absolution.” – IO Interactive in a tweet earlier this morning when asked if it would ever revisit the series. There is hope, it seems.

Nintendo’s announced that the European release of Xenoblade has been brought forward from its original September 2 date. The Monolithsoft RPG will now launch on August 19. Nintendo’s also said that the Classic Controller Pro bundle for the game is in limited supply, and that those interested should pre-order now before it’s too late. So get to it.

The BBFC’s rated Resistance 3 – an 18, so you know – with the rating on its website showing that it’ll come with three demos: 2D and 3D demos of Killzone 3, inFamous 2 and Motorstorm Apocalypse. For R3 itself, it has nearly 90 minutes worth of cut-scenes throughout the game, with no cuts made to the content in the game.

It’s out on September 6 in the US and September 9 in the UK for PS3. Thanks, Gamerzines.

Sure, your humble mobile communication device is loaded up with 27 different versions of Angry Birds right now, but time makes fools of us all. Just, you know, fools with really awesome cell phones.

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You did it. You made it to Friday. High five the nearest person and woop around the area you’re in now. And then read these shorts after the breaks. And then woop some more. Because there is never wrong with wooping.

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A top-down Burnout that’s more pinball-with-cars than the explosion porn equivalent of fine art? Blasphemy! Or is it? Criterion insists that this is still the Burnout you know and love. In that spirit, the Fischer Price’s “My First Deathmobile” look houses a dark secret: This time around, things explode bigger than ever.

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Capcom’s to release a colossal 15th anniversary boxset of the Resident Evil series. The box will include PS1 versions of the first, second and third games, as well as the Revival Collection that will include HD versions of Resident Evil 4 and Code Veronica X. CDX and RE4′s soundtracks will also be included. There’s also a “spacer” so you can add a copy of Resident Evil 5 in the box. It’s a Japan-only thing right now, and is available from September 8 on e-Capcom.

Thanks, Andriasang and TheDutchSlayer.

GameSpot‘s gone up with an 18-minute long, off-screen gameplay video of Funcom MMO The Secret World. The EA Partners-published title was one of the main points during last night’s publisher showcase, but still no announcement was made on when to expect it release. You can get the video below the break. Watch the CG trailer shown at last night’s showcase here.

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Namco Bandai’s released a new six-minute trailer for Tales of Xillia, still showing some of those pretty cut-scenes and more in between. You can get it below the break. Game’s out for PS3 in Japan in September. No western release has been announced as of yet.

Thanks, Andriasang.

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Ubisoft wants to introduce you to the three protagonists of Call of Juarez: The Cartel. Having read their bios, I’m quite pleased the game is played from behind them.

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