Monthly Archives: July 2011

The KRB’s rated the original Crysis for a release on Xbox 360.

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Nearly two months after the console versions and the retail SKU launched, Steam’s finally gone live with Brink. For those who haven’t bought the Splash Damage shooter for PC yet, it’s currently on a 25 percent discount, priced at £22.49. The game launched back in May for PS3 and 360, as well as on PC at retail, but unknown issues with Steam seen its release on the service mysteriously delayed until now. This comes before the release of brand new DLC Agents of Change. You can buy the game here.

Media Molecule studio boss Siobhan Reddy has apparently said in Barcelona during GameLab that the studio will take a step back from LittleBigPlanet to focus on new things.

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Team Fortress 2 and World of Warcraft (sorta) aren’t the only ones to go F2P recently.

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The organisers of the Independent Games Festival have now opened submissions for the 2012 event. For those entering the main competition, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, deadline is October 17. For students, submissions close on October 31. Go forth and be better at indie game making than Notch. Or just yourself.

Atindriya Bose, country manager of SCE India, has confirmed that a PS Move-compatible PS3 sequel to Street Cricket Champions is in development.

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Namco Bandai’s announced this morning that Tales of the Abyss will launch in Europe and Australasia on November 10 on 3DS. That’s right, it’s being called up a day before fellow RPG heavyweight Skyrim launches worldwide. The news was announced at Japan Expo in Paris, but Namco’s press released it. The game is a 3D remake of the PS2 title that launched in 2005. The publisher also reiterated in the release that Tales of Graces F will launch on PS3 next year.

Brighton-based Split/Second and Pure developer Black Rock Studios is set to close, with 40 people made redundant, Disney’s confirmed to VG247.

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In celebration of the fact Team Fortress 2 has gone free-to-play, we’ve set up a dedicated server for you. I spy with my little eye, and all that.

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You did it, soldier. You did it. It’s Friday. You’ll still need to wait a couple more hours, but you pretty much did it. Read some shorts to celebrate.

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Physical media’s not dead, Limbo’s coming to PS3 and PC, Gearbox could have made a Blade Runner game, we now have a VG247 Team Fortress 2 server and I’m going on holiday on Sunday. Happy Friday.

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Tor Books has announced that the sequel to Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, known as Glasslands, will release on October 25. The book, written by Gears of War 3 pen Karen Traviss, will tell the events of the Halo Universe following what happened at the end of Halo 3. Tor’s also released the cover fro the book as well, which you can get at Joystiq.

Namco Bandai’s confirmed that Ace Combat: Assault Horizon will launch in Japan for ¥8,380 on PS3 and 360 on October 13. Those who pre-order will get a code to download the F-4E Phantom. You can read some impressions and an interview with Team Aces here from Namco’s Dubai event earlier this year.

It’s out in the UK on October 14. Thanks, Andriasang.

Ubisoft’s released a whole pile of new screenshots for Call of Juarez: The Cartel, showing a mix of both single-player and multiplayer. And that is pretty much what you need to know. You can find them over at Gamefront.

Cloud gaming may be the future but it’s real now, Gaikai’s Robert Stevenson tells Brenna Hillier. You shouldn’t be setting fire to that physical media just yet, however.

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Fan feedback has had significant impact on Mass Effect 3, according to Bioware’s Jesse Houston.

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Up to 146 companies – 36 of which are overseas – are due to show off their stuff on the Tokyo Game Show showfloor.

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Prope, the iDevice developer led by Sonic the Hedgehog creator Yuji Naka, has launched a first-person, Unreal-powered game, which looks stunning in the trailer through the break.

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Sony showed off PlayStation Vita’s facial recognition tech to developers last week, and now you can see it, too.

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Here’s something we missed in the launch of the new Respawn Entertainment website: a total of 40 former Infinity Ward staffers.

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