Monthly Archives: July 2011

Insomniac is hoping to encourage strategic play in Resistance 3, as opposed to the last entry’s popular “use the Auger” approach.

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Toronto-based streaming games tech company TransGaming has said performance issues will be the death of rival services like OnLive.

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Halo 4 will channel “amazing” aspects of the original game, Microsoft has said.

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Sony Ericsson’s Dom Neil-Dwyer has said the Xperia Play will succeed as a dedicated gaming-friendly smartphone where the N-Gage famously failed.

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Now in its second week, the Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception multiplayer beta has been updated with two new gameplay modes.

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Team Ninja isn’t planning to offer a toned down gameplay experience to those who are expecting Ninja Gaiden 3 to be challenging.

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EA’s promised some “big announcements” for the company’s annual summer showcase this week.

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Time for some wallets to be raped even more: Steam’s gone live with its new offers in its summer sale, offering amongst others Fallout: New Vegas for £8.99. Also included in the offers is Bully for £2.49, Singularity at £4.99, Alpha Protocol at £3.74 and Homefront at £14.99. There’s more here. Go spend some money!

Rock, Paper, Shotgun writer Quintin Smith has announced he will be leaving the site effectively as of today. Smith says he’s leaving the site to pursue “ordinary freelancing.” Smith became full-time one-fourth of the RPS massive after Kieron Gillen left games journalism back in October of last year.

All the best, dude.

Gaikai founder Dave Perry acknowledged latency as “the biggest elephant in the room,” but also claimed that his company has left no stone unturned for trying to mitigate it.

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As spotted by EG, Valve’s got listed a “strategy” title to show at gamescom next month, according to the company’s page on the show’s website. So unless it’s announcing Portal 3, Left 4 Dead 3 or Half-Life 3 as strategy titles, this is all but likely to be DOTA 2. We’ll check in with Valve to see if that’s the case.

gamescom happens from August 17-21 in Cologne.

EG’s announced two further additions to EA’s line-up at Eurogamer Expo. Both Mass Effect 3 and Need for Speed: The Run will both join Battlefield 3, FIFA 12 and Star Wars; The Old Republic at the show. Boom.

Eurogamer Expo takes place at Earls Court in London between September 23-26. Tickets are on sale here.

The long-overdue Final Fantasy VII costume pack will finally arrive next week for LBP2, July 13, Sony has confirmed on the US PS Blog.

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Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells has said that the company would “love” to revisit Jak & Daxter at some point, but are insistent its current focus is with Mr. Drake.

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine will feature more than an hour-and-a-half’s worth of cut-scenes – 103 minutes and 17 seconds, to be specific – according to the BBFC. The game’s been given a 15 for its troubles, and passed with no cuts made. And that’s it.

Game’s out in September for PS3, 360 and PC. Read our interview on it from E3 here.

Microsoft Game Studios boss Phil Spencer has said that with the development of Ryse, Crytek has “fallen in love” with Kinect, adding the relationship between the German company and MS is “a perfect marriage.”

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Sony’s opened a teaser site for “World Game Project.” It seems to be an event from the company for July 23 in Akihabara, suggesting to play “the World’s games.” This sounds like games from the west will be on show for the event.

More details at Andriasang.

We missed this last week, but here we are: EA confirmed in a livestream of SSX in Canada last week that Moby and Psymon are the latest characters to be announced for the game. They join Mac and Kaori, who were announced at E3 last month. There’s a full video of the E3 demo from the event below.

SSX releases in January for PS3 and 360.

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Capcom US boss Christian Svensson has said the one save-file system for Resident Evil: The Mercenaries is unlikely to be used again following the backlash towards it.

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Develop organisers have announced that the opening keynote of the event, a chat with LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule and ex-SCE WWS head Phil Harrison, will be the main headliner later this month. Harrison, who first brought the company to Sony’s attention, will interview co-founders Alex Evans, Mark Healey and Kareem Ettouney for a session called “Living Inside a Molecule” on July 20.

Develop takes place in Brighton between July 19-21.