Monthly Archives: August 2011

Valve has confirmed to VG247 that it’s preparing to add journalists to the closed DOTA 2 beta, following news that the game itself won’t ship until next year.

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Ubisoft has announced the line-up of games it will be bringing to PAX Prime with it next weekend. It has also revealed an Assassins’ Creed panel and pre-order incentives for the fan event as well.

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“One of the most important things I would say is a unified virtual 64-bit address space, across both the GPU and the CPU. Not a partition space, like the PS3. Also, a full 64-bit space with virtualization on the hardware units – that would be a large improvement. There aren’t any twitchy graphics features that I really want; we want lots of bandwidth, and lots of cores. There’s going to be a heterogeneous environment here, and it’s pretty obvious at this point that we will have some form of CPU cores and GPU cores. We were thinking that it might be like a pure play Intel Larabee or something along that line, which would be interesting, but it seems clear at this point that we will have a combination of general purpose cores and GPU-oriented cores, which are getting flexible enough that you can do most of the things that you would do on a CPU.” – d Software co-founder John Carmack on what he wants to see in next-gen consoles.

The old Alien movie phrase “In space no one can hear you scream”, is not exactly true of this new video from Gearbox. There is plenty of screaming going on, and we’re sure someone is hearing it. Watch for yourself below. Aliens: Colonial Marines launches in 2012 for PC, PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii U. Thanks, EvilAvatar. [pic]

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Tripwire has released the first multiplayer gameplay trailer for Red Orchestra 2. Hitting around the 2 minute mark, it features in-game footage shot in an online MP game during beta testing last week. Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad will be available digitally and in stores on September 13. If you pre-order through Steam, you will get 10 percent off.

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Croteam and Devolver Digital have announced a release date for Serious Sam 3: BFE.

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Major Nelson has provided an update on what to expects between now and September 5 on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

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Capcom has sent over a reminder letting folks know that Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition has hit PSN today in the US. It will be released on PSN tomorrow in Europe and XBL in both regions.

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Sonic Team’s Takashi Iikuza has said not to expect the second episode of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 until 2012.

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Insomniac creative director Brian Allgiar has said Overstirke may not be a well-established franchise, but he expects the new IP to benefit for that very reason.

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You need your European-timed news. I need to give you European-timed news. We both need each other. Hence, if you haven’t been reading all day, I’ll forgive you for not doing so, but only if you catch up right here, right now.

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Warner Bros. has announced a date for Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection. It will be officially be available for download worldwide on August 31 on PC, PSN, and XBL. The release marks the first time the original Mortal Kombat arcade trilogy – Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 – have been brought together in a single collection. The Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection will be available for $9.99 on PC and PSN and on XBL for 800 MSP.

Following today’s news of Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, Sega West president Mike Hayes has told VG247 it’ll continue to reinvent some some of its classic IPs over the next three to five years on various platforms.

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IGS has entered into a partnership with GamersFirst to distribute the retail version of APB Reloaded in North America.

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SCEJ president Hiroshi Kono has said the next four issues of Famitsu will contain Vita announcements leading up to TGS.

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505 Games has released a new trailer and screens for Supremacy MMA showing “killer moves”. The game is out on September 23 for PS3 and Xbox 360. It will also be released on Vita once the handheld hits stores.

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Time for your second round of shorts for the day. Don’t worry, it’s not as short as the shorts being sported by this fella.

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Activision’s released the Rezurrection map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops on Xbox Live. The pack features four zombie maps – Nacht der Üntoten, Verrückt, Shi No Numa, Der Riese and new map Moon – that were first included in the Hardened or Prestige editions of the game last year. For those who had already purchased either edition already with the map pack, you can redownload it again to get Moon. There’ll also be a double XP weekend to celebrate Rezurrection’s release on CoD XP weekend between September 2-5.

Queue the pack to your 360 here.

During gamescom, Epic president Mike Capps said the developer wrote two different endings for Clayton Camine into Gears of War 3 in case the fella’s fate was leaked earlier.

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THQ’s launched a single-player demo of Warhammer 40k: Space Marine onto Xbox Live. The taster of the Relic TPS, which is currently Gold exclusive and will set you back 1.50Gb of HDD space, will let you play as Captain Titus of the Ultramarines, as you take on the Ork army and the forces of Chaos. There is also an early access PC demo available to those who are members of the Honour Guard.

Queue the demo to your 360 here.