Monthly Archives: August 2011

A user over on The Escapist Forums has read over the end-user license agreement for EA’s Origin, and has found that the service doesn’t allow users to opt out of system information collection, nor data mining.

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As if a PES 2012 demo hitting PSN today wasn’t enough to make you happy, Konami, as promised, has posted a demo for the PC version.

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Bethesda’s released five new shots of Arkane’s Dishonored to celebrate the game getting a brand new website. You can get them below the break. We seen the title behind closed doors at gamescom last week, and can honestly say you should be looking forward to this a lot. Thief meets Half-Life 2 is what we’d say it’d be most like. Nathan’s impressions of it and a chat with Harvey Smith from QuakeCon is here.

It’s out next year for PS3, 360 and PC.

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Sony has updated the European end of the PS Store with a couple of high profile demos for you, the first PS PLAY title, and it has also posted a massive list of special offers. Let’s get you caught up below.

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Sony WorldWide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said that its learnt from the mistakes of its software line-up for PSP, saying it will offer a “continuous supply” of titles for Vita.

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ChunSoft has confirmed in this week’s Famitsu that the team behind 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is making a successor for Vita and 3DS. Besides voicing stuff and who’s doing what, nothing else was confirmed, though. ChunSoft is also working on a follow-up to Super Famicom thriller Night of the Kamaitachi​, known as True Night of the Kamaitachi. That’ll release on Vita and PS3, with the former getting exclusive features.

Thanks, Andriasang and Siliconera.

Microsoft’s announced a new hardware bundle for Xbox 360 in Japan, headlined by Monster Hunter: Frontier Online. The bundle will come with a 250Gb console and codes for MH:FO that will enable free play time and in-game loot. The bundle will set you back ¥29,800.

Thanks, Kotaku.

Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi has said that it’s unlikely to move the series from PlayStation to Xbox.

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With Harmonix breaking off from MTV Games, did you think there’d be any issues with music licensing for Rock Band or Dance Central from here on out? Doesn’t sound like there will be.

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This week’s Famitsu has shown that the Vita version of BlazBlue – now subtitled Continuum Shift Extend – will have cross-platform save support with the PS3 version of the same game, which was announced in the magazine this week alongside a 360 SKU. There’ll also be two new fighters in the game: Ignis and Relius Clover, the latter due in an update in the arcade version of Continuum Shift 2 this fall.

The game’s due to launch on Vita in Japan this winter, which is when Sony has said it’ll release the handheld in the country. Thanks, Andriasang.

MCV’s confirmed that CVG editor Tim Ingham has quit the site and will be returning to Intent to edit Music Week. Ingham joined Future from Intent, where he previously worked on MCV’s site, in 2009. He won the best online writer award at the GMAs last year.

Simon Maxwell, group publisher for Future’s games and film portfolio, said that the company is “sorry to lose Tim,” and that CVG’s “UK unique users” are currently “up 38 percent and page views up 67 percent year-on-year.”

All the best with it, Tim.

Konami’s confirmed that it’s to hold a special press conference in Japan tomorrow. What’s it about, we have no idea, but the Japanese Twitter for LovePlus has promised an announcement for tomorrow as well. As noted by Andriasang, there are also hardware bundle details for the 3DS version of the Japanese dating game in this week’s Famitsu, as well as reports on games already known, including the Konami-published Little King Story for Vita, Winning Eleven 2012 and the MGS HD Collection.

Capcom’s given 15 minutes of footage from Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 from gamescom, showing off new characters Doctor Strange and Nemesis with commentary from the publisher’s fighting master Seth Killian. Get the video below the break.

Retail-only expansion UMvC3 launches this November for PS3 and 360.

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You will soon be playing DOTA 2. If you live in the US, you’re probably already playing Deus Ex, and if you’re in Europe you’ll be doing so on Friday. Old news? New news? Battlefield 3 TDM caps, Rock Band’s refusal to die and plenty more. Catch up on the last 24 hours in video and text form inside.

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Today’s little nibbles span all five food groups – social, mobile, promotional, Japanese, and fish.

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The PC retail version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution includes a code for the OnLive version of the game, the company has announced. The code for the game from the cloud service will mean it can be played on the OnLive game system on TVs, as well as nearly any PC and Mac, as well as the upcoming support for iPad and Android tablets.

The Eidos Montreal reboot launched in the US yesterday, with it releasing in Europe and the UK on Friday.

A couple of voucher codes have resulted in Tesco Direct offering 160GB Slim model PlayStation 3 consoles for just £165, according to HotUKDeals.

The retailer’s stocks ran low yesterday, but a new shipment has since brought the deal back into effect.

Sony recently dropped the price of new PS3 consoles to £199, resulting in a reported 65 percent increase in sales.

Expecting more Resistance with Insomniac after the release of 3? Doesn’t sound hopeful. R3 director Marcus Smith has suggested it could hand off the series.

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Today, I learned a lot of things about video games, and also, one thing about Jodie Foster.

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Activision’s announced overnight that Kanye West is to perform at Call of Duty XP. West, in what will be the rapper’s first performance since the release of his latest album, will close out the show on September 3 in Los Angeles. The event will also see Modern Warfare 3′s multiplayer unveiled for the first time and the full features list of Call of Duty Elite being announced as well.