Monthly Archives: August 2011

THQ has released not one, but three trailers to promote the demo which itself promotes Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine.

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Team Fortress, one of the most popular class-based squad shooters ever, is 15 years old.

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A new Xbox 360 bundle sporting a 250 GB hard drive and five games will launch in Canada tomorrow.

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The man who guided Apple through its transition from an almost irrelevant computing platform to ubiquitous household name has stepped down.

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It’s been an interesting day around VG247 headquarters. At least during my shift.

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Time for another round of gaming shorts. There’s quite a few interesting ones this afternoon.

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Following the release of the 360 and PC versions of Relic’s Space Marine demo yesterday, THQ’s gone live with a PS3 taster. Watch in HD while I have kittens about how completely awesome it is.

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Blizzard has launched a new community site which it plans on being a one-stop information hub for everything Diablo III.

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Sony has posted a video featuring Need for Speed:The Run executive producer Jason DeLong showing the PS Blog how the Frostbite engine provides a more cinematic experience to the game. The video, which is posted below, also shows a play-session featuring cars speeding down Independence Pass in Colorado, which was also shown during EA’s gamescom presser. Other terrains are shown as well, and DeLong also discusses how the development went about incorporating the route players will take in the game. Game’s out in November.

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Bioware associate lead designer Emmanuel Lusinchi, said the developer decided against giving Star Wars: The Old Republic a more realistic look because the firm didn’t think the art style would prove to be fresh a few years out.

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Autumn Games and Reverge Labs have released two new trailer for the 2D fighting game Skullgirls. You can find both below. The first one shows the character Filia and the second gameplay of the character Cerebella. Skullgirls is due on PS3 and Xbox 360 this year.

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European Xbox boss Chris Lewis has said it is extremely important for Microsoft to nab exclusive Xbox 360 games and DLC, and because of its importance to the firm, this is one of the reasons why formerly PSN-exclusive titles rarely if ever land on Xbox Live.

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Gamestop has taken the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution off store shelves following the removal of bundled OnLive download codes.

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Epic Games has released the August 2011 UDK beta, which is now available for download. The update includes a movie capture system, material functions, adaptive tessellation, and iCloud document saving for iOS. It also contains improvements to the Unreal Editor, including Unreal Matinee, Unreal Cascade, AnimSet Viewer, the material editor and more. You can get more update details through the notes. There is also a a video below which gives you an inside look at the update. UDK, the free version of Unreal Engine 3 has been installed 900,000 times.

While you’re looking over the updates to the kit, check out these cool projects from the Takenaka Corporation, as well as Q.U.B.E. and Desert Zombie: Last Stand for iOS.

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Bethesda will be at PAX Prime this weekend, and will allow attendees to go hands-on with Skyrim’s face creator. To help kick things off, the firm has sent over a compiled look at the preset face variations available for each of the ten races in the game. You can look over these below. Also, over on GameFront, the site has word that if you kill a person in the game, a family member might “wish to take revenge.” So, in other words, if you kill an paranoid wood elf, his equally paranoid son or wife could come after you at some point. November 11 cannot get here soon enough.

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Telltale has expanded its licensor agreement with Sony and Nintendo in order to release its PS3 games at retail.

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DICE’s Mikael Kalms has explained over on the EA forums why the company will not allow for the use of home servers with Battlefield 3.

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Microsoft has confirmed to OXM it has delayed Kinect Star Wars and the awesome R2D2-inspired limited-edition Xbox 360 with Kinect bundle.

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With all due respect and no offense to web technicians, thank heavens I’m only a games journalist.

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Steam is offering refunds to folks who purchased From Dust through the service, should they request one, per the urging of Ubisoft.

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