Monthly Archives: August 2011

Platinum Games’ Hideki Kamiya has possibly hinted that the firm could be dropping word on a Bayonetta sequel in a Japanese gaming magazine this week. Note the words possibly and could and how they are used in that sentence.

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SEGA has announced Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure exclusively for 3DS, which blends rhythm, puzzles and story and is set for release in early 2012.

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Microsoft has announced a new Kinect Sensor Bundle which will come with Kinect Adventures and a download code for Child of Eden. It will run you the same as usual, around $149.00 give or take between retailers, and will start hitting stores next week in all Xbox Live regions, except Japan since Child of Eden has not been released there. This bundle will be available in limited quantities and while supplies.

Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has said he feels Wii was miscategorized by the media as a casual gaming console compared to PS3 and Xbox 360, and while he disagrees with the label, he admitted the console did not “cater” to every gamer’s needs.

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Battlefield 3 executive producer Patrick Bach has told VG247 that, while the shooter’s PC version is graphically “better” than its console siblings, gamers should stop worrying about the console editions.

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Deep Silver has released a six-page digital comic prequel to the Dead Island story, available exclusively on the Marvel website.

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EA Sports released Madden NFL 12 in the US today, and we have compiled a list of review scores for the latest iteration in the long-running series.

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Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford said during a community panel at PAX Prime that the firm would “soon,” start talking about creating a new Duke Nukem game, but for now the firm wants to focus on releasing DLC.

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Netherrealm has released a video for the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection, which hits PSN today in the US. It contains the first three games in the series along with leader boards, online play, achievements, trophies and more. Developed by Other Ocean, the game can be yours for $9.99 on PSN or 800 MSP XBLA. The Xbox 360 version will be released tomorrow via the usual update, same with the PSN version in the UK and Europe. Watch the video below courtesy of IGN.

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Patrick Bach, Battlefield 3′s executive producer, has told a roundtable interview at DICE’s offices in Stockholm that gaming’s next big thing “is not 3D, for sure.”

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EA’s European boss Jens Uwe Intat has said digital versions of the firm’s game will not be exclusive to Origin.

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We’ve invaded DICE to play Battlefield 3, but that’s mot all that happened today.

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A looks at the second exclusive level for PS3 contained in House Of The Dead: OVERKILL Extended Cut has been posted over on the PS Blog. It is apparently set in “the cosy confines of an abattoir taken over by a meaty disease of sorts,” called Creeping Flesh.

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EA has announced The Sim Medieval: Pirates and Nobles adventure pack is now available across Europe. The adventure pack includes a new storyline, additional quests and one new Kingdom Ambition.

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Faith no more? Don’t bank on it. Repeated suggestions that Mirror’s Edge will return have been compounded today by DICE creative boss Lars Gustavsson refusing to count out more from the first-person fan-favourite.

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SOE plans to close Star Wars: Galaxies on December 15, and it wants it to close with a nice big bang. Sort of like what happened with the Death Star near Yavin 4.

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Did you think it was the end? This is Kevin Butler we’re talking about here.

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The Haunted: Hell’s Reach, the winner of 2010′s Make Something Unreal contest, will be published by THQ. The Haunted is a third-person action survival horror title which focuses on multiplayer, as you try to liberate “cursed places and survive the assault from the minions of hell.” It has several multiplayer modes such as coop-survival, demons vs. humans and demonizer. There are four playable characters, over 20 enemies, 30 stages, eight different locales, six secret weapons, and four game modes. You can watch the trailer released for it last year here, and check out new screens over on Eurogamer. The Haunted: Hell’s Reach launches October 25 on Steam, and on PSN and XBL in 2012. Get more information and assets on the official website.

Activision publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg has said that not all studio analysis periods lead to closures, like with Bizarre, as the firm does its best to find buyers for the product like with True Crime developer United Front Games.

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Hurry up, though: it said on Twitter it was lasting for an hour. This was around 12:50, but you can probably conclude it’ll round it off to 2pm. The price, £21.97, applies to the PS3 and 360 versions only, though. Get it here.

It’s out on Friday.