Monthly Archives: August 2011

It really doesn’t get any clearer than that.

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Sega’s announced it’s to bring a refined edition of Virtua Fighter 5 to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live next summer.

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The line-up for Xbox Live Indie Games Summer Uprising has been decided, with the community picking ten games that will go live on Xbox Live via the Indie category beginning this week and ending next week. The first title, Raventhorne, went live yesterday, with today’s title being Battle High: San Bruno, with the final title being Redd: The Lost Temple next Friday. All titles will be priced at $3 except Battle High and Cute Things Dying Violently, which will be $1.

There’s a list of the games below the break.

• Tues Aug 23rd – Battle High: San Bruno
• Wed Aug 24th – Cute Things Dying Violently
• Thurs Aug 25th – T.E.C. 3001
• Fri Aug 26th – Doom and Destiny
• Mon Aug 29th – Take Arms
• Tues Aug 30th – SpeedRunner HD
• Wed Aug 31st –Train Frontier Express
• Thurs Sept 1st – Chester
• Fri Sept 2nd – Redd: The Lost Temple

Grasshopper’s released a couple of screens and video for downloadable title Black Knight Sword. The game sees you, a black knight, team up with a sword spirit to take down a princess. The game is being made as of a continued collaboration with Digital Reality: the two are currently making Sine Mora together. You can get the video below, via D’Toid, with shots at the link. It’ll release on XBLA and PSN, but no date as yet.

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Paradox has released the opening cinematic for Sword of the Stars II. Seems a bit Mass Effect-like, but only a tad, though. The sci-fi RTS is being developed at Kerberos Productions, and releases for PC on September 20.

Via Gamefront.

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A report coming out of Japan this morning is claiming that Nintendo is set to hold a pre-Tokyo Game Show event.

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LucasArts is staffing up for an “open-world RPG,” according to a job listing from the company on its website. The listing was tweeted out by LucasArts creative director Clint Hocking, who’s currently working on an unannounced project at LA. Maybe this is it. Who knows. You can get the listing here.

Home’s going to be completely rebooted. Also, Metro: Last Light looks amazing. And Dota 2′s caught Blizzard on the hop, seemingly. Catch up on the last 24 hours right now.

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Sega’s set to announce an Xbox Live Arcade port of Sonic CD at PAX this weekend, according to a Major Nelson post which mentions what games will be at the event. Nothing has been announced on it so far formally, but it will be at Xbox’s Booth 432 as a playable title. Sega said that it’ll be “sharing some more information soon.”

Thanks, Joystiq.

Sony is planning to give PlayStation Home an almighty reboot, turning it mainly into a social games platform.

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THQ’s released, as promised, the full 12 minute gameplay video of the Metro: Last Light. This was the demo from the 4A shooter that was shown at E3 in June and at gamescom last week. Going by what we saw in Cologne, it’s looking spectacular.

Get it below the break. Game’s out next year for PS3, 360 and PC.

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Today was an exciting delight from start to finish.

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A new trailer has been released to celebrate Ubisoft’s decision to publish tongue-in-cheek arcade shooter, Shoot Many Robots.

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Capcom’s announced its full line-up for PAX, announcing it’s bringing Street Fighter x Tekken, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Street Fighter III: Third Strike – Online Edition, Street Fighter IV: Volt for iOS, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, Resident Evil: Revelations, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, Dragon’s Dogma and Asura’s Wrath. All games will be playable at Booth #3425 to those attending the Seattle event this weekend

Nathan Grayson talks to RAGE creative director Tim Willits about helming the first new IP in years from the shooter genre’s grandaddy, id Software.

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Awesome merchandise! Day and date digital releases! Marriage! Many other delightful things! Enter the world of brevity.

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Decide-o-tron 8000 is a new app from the team at Penny Arcade, in collaboration with EEDAR, which helps you discover new games.

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Bodycount’s not a game that takes itself too seriously, so Codemasters had no problem turning over some grunty sound assets to YouTube star Freddie Wong for this new trailer.

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The callow young Dante seen in Ninja Theory’s upcoming DmC is far from the slick sophisticate of previous Devil May Cry games.

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The Cryengine 3 SDK is proving hugly popular with developers, clocking up 100,000 downloads in just five days.

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