Monthly Archives: August 2011

Konami’s announced it’s to release two demos of Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 ahead of the game’s October release. The first demo, launching on Wednesday, is a preview build that isn’t representative of the final game: it’ll feature ten minute matches, with teams including Manchester United, AC Milan, FC Porto, S.S.C Napoli, Santos FC, and C.A. Panaro. The second demo is more representative of the final game, featuring ten minute matches from teams such as Tottenham Hotspur, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Rangers, Club America and Sport Club Internacional in mid-September. Both demos will release on PSN, XBL and PC.

The full game launches on October 14 for PS3, 360 and PC, with PS2 and PSP versions launching on October 28.

One final video from the Microsoft Play Day: it’s Star Wars Kinect. There’s a minute-long video of the game from Terminal Reality, where you’ll be able to get “a lot of finesse” from challenges in the game for hardcore gamers playing it.

Star Wars Kinect launches this Christmas for Xbox 360.

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Another of our videos from the Microsoft Play Day, this time showing footage of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition.

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We shot some videos last week at the Microsoft Play Day. Here’s the first of them, it’s Horde 2.0 from Gears of War 3 being shown at the event in Cologne.

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Bethesda’s announced that its to offer attendees at Eurogamer Expo next month hands-on with RAGE and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the first time the latter has been available to play to the public in Europe. The games join a big line-up including Battlefield 3, Dark Souls and more, as well as the UK launch of OnLive. RAGE releases on October 7 in the UK, while Skyrim launches on November 11 worldwide, both for PS3, 360 and PC. Get tickets here.

Gearbox is reportedly set to reboot Duke Nukem after development on Aliens: Colonial Marines ends, according to the same OXM rumour wrap that cited Fable IV for a 2013 release this morning. The reboot will come with Duke Begins, the project that Gearbox was working on before taking over development on Forever after being in dev hell for 15 years. After announcing it took over development on DNF, the Texan developer said it had became the rights holders of the IP. Via CVG.

Codemasters has released a brand new trailer of F1 2011 ahead of the racer’s released next month. The video shows the story of the 2011 season so far as it prepares to return from its summer break in Belgium this weekend, with the safety car being shown for the first so far, finally confirming it for the game after fan demand. Video’s below.

F1 2011 is out on PS3, 360 and PC on September 23.

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Sales of PlayStation 3 were up by 65 percent last week in the UK, MCV is reporting.

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Virgin Gaming’s announced that it’s to give away €3 million in cash and prizes in 2012 from the introduction of a brand new thing called called Series Tournaments. Launching from Thursday, it’ll allow gamers to enter tournaments at any time, as well as play any matches as they wish. You can get more info from the Virgin Gaming website here.

Namco Bandai’s announced that its formed a brand new company alongside Mobage company DeNA for mobile and social titles in Japan. Called BDNA, a majority of it is owned by Namco with a 75 percent share, whilst DeNA owns the remaining 25 percent.

Via Kotaku.

Ubisoft has said it rebooted Ghost Recon because of changing conditions in the shooter genre, as well as how gamers play them.

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Microsoft is looking at how to integrate Skype into Xbox Live, the company has told VG247, but it’s not something you should expect very soon.

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Fox has given a fair bit of leg room with the Aliens IP to Colonial Marines, developer Gearbox has said.

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And if Deus Ex has its way this week, it’ll be the last time.

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Gears of War 3′s gold and gamescom got seriously packed. All this and Johnny dancing with Harmonix. Catch up on the weekend’s headlines now.

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Blizzard has said that its “completely rebooted” the DOTA mod its developed for StarCraft II since it was last properly shown at Blizzcon last year.

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The things I do for you. Truly.

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Fable IV will release as a fully-fledged title in 2013, according to the latest issue of the Official Xbox Magazine. The rumour section of the mag said: “Look for the Fable cycle to continue with a proper, controller-based Fable IV in 2013, says The Ball.” The last main title in the series, Fable III, released last year. The next edition in the series The Journey, a Kinect-only title, releases next year.

Via LMG.

It was a beautiful day. The sun shone, birds sang, I drank a lot of cough medicine and news flew from my fingertips like nourishing rain on the earth of the Internet. One or more of these things is not true.

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