Monthly Archives: August 2011

Activision has sent over a batch of screenshots from GoldenEye 007: Reloaded. Earlier this week, we posted a video featuring the brand new Mi6 Ops Missions from the game, which contains levels separate from the campaign that span varied environments from the story. These missions also contain a challenge to complete different Assault, Elimination, Stealth and Defense objectives. GoldenEye 007: Reloaded will arrive in stores this fall and is being developed by Eurocom.

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SEGA has announced Binary Domain will land in the US on February 14 and in Europe on February 17. It will be released for both PS3 and Xbox 360. Screenshots from gamecom, posted earlier in the week can be found here.

Media Molecule has put out a list of what to expect with the LittleBigPlanet 2 Move Pack when it lands on the PS Store’s virtusal shelves September 14.

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It’s time for your last batch of shorts for the weekend, which we are officially dubbing the malaise edition. Read onward.

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Gabe Newell has said one of the goals Valve has set with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the inclusion of cross-platform play.

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“It’s a Batman game. He’s powerful and aspirational but you never lose sight of the fact that he is mortal. It’s such fertile ground and in Arkham City we will go deeper into the man behind the cowl by bringing in characters like Hugo Strange, who knows Batman’s true identity, and Talia al Ghul, who has a romantic relationship with him. Through those characters we see his vulnerable side but our aim has always been to make an action game, not a business simulator, and when you start thinking about what you would do while playing as Bruce Wayne, it doesn’t seem terribly exciting in comparison.” – Rocksteady’s Dax Ginn to Sony on why Bruce Wayne is not included in the Batman titles.

Posted below the break is a Guild Wars 2 video, with ArenaNet’s Ree Soesbee setting the viewer up for the footage to follow. Said footage, which is really cool, features a battle against Tequatl the Sunless, a which is one of the dragon bosses in the game. Enjoy. Thanks, Wartower.de.

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CCP has explained to Joystiq how PSN will handle the microtransaction-based Dust 514.

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EA Sports president Andrew Wilson has said consumers absorb content so expeditiously in this day and age, that if publishers are unwilling or able to keep up, the games industry will end up in the same boat as the music industry back in the Napster heyday.

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Bioware has said it is “looking to bring back all the characters you interacted with,” in the previous Mass Effect games with Mass Effect 3, especially characters you started a story or relationship with.

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Activision has released new screenshots for Call of Duty: Elite, showing the various areas included in user profiles.

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Nielsen’s has released a list consisting of the top 10 PC titles per average time spent playing the US during June 2011 and it finds World of Warcraft topping the chart, and strategy title Warcraft III in second place.

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EA has further confirmed it will be limiting both digital and physical pre-orders for Star Wars: The Old Republic, so as not to flood the game’s servers at launch.

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Koelnmesse organisers have confirmed to Joystiq that the venue has hit capacity this afternoon in the third and penultimate public day of gamescom.

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PaRappa the Rapper designer Masaya Matsuura gave a live performance of his work at the Sydney Opera House last night, and attendees were treated to the world premiere of NanaOn-Sha’s Kinect game, Haunt.

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THQ has released four Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine videos from Relic, showing off various aspects of the game.

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To celebrate the fact Gears of War 3 became golden yesterday, not only did Epic eat cake, but the firm also released the opening cinematic from the game. Below the break here, you can watch it, courtesy of Ve3tro. Gears 3 will grace store shelves on September 20, which is rather close to a certain day a certain someone was born, who would love to see it wrapped in paper which suits such an occasion. If my family can’t see the blatant hint in this, well, they aren’t that observant. Thanks, Reece.

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Gamescom’s come and gone, and journalists the world over are nursing broken bodies and fatally wounded livers. We can’t curl up in our coffins just yet: we have to tell you what it all means.

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Gamescom is over. The dust is starting to settle, and things will soon be getting back to normal around here. If “normal” is a word I would use to describe the team here or anything else pertaining to us.

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It’s time for a second round of shorts to get the weekend started. Some of you have already started the weekend. Just don’t pass out, or you could get pranked.

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