Monthly Archives: August 2011

Warner has announced to MCV that Mortal Kombat has sold close to 3 million copies worldwide since launch.

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Warner has released a new video for War in the North which gives you a glimpse of and interactive trailer experience located on the official website. This allows you to dive deeper into the War in the North by selecting either a Human Ranger, Elf, or Dwarf as your guide. Every choice offers up new details about combat and lore. It’s rather cool. War in the North is out this fall for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

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Muse Games has announced Guns of Icarus: Online, the sequel to the original dieselpunk shooter that have players flying about in planes and zeppelins shooting each other. The game focuses on multiplayer airship combat with players filling different roles on the ships carrying out various duties.You can get an idea of all this through the cinematice reveal trailer posted below. A beta is expected soon, so hit up the link to find out more on it and sign up.

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Those worried about whether Tommy will have a presence in Prey 2 or not due to the game having a new playable character, should stop fretting: Human Head has said he has a role to play in the sequel.

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Gamersmint have posted some shots from Borderlands 2, and they look rather nifty. Like Kotaku, we don’t have the new Game Informer yet and can’t tell if these are scans or not, but just to be safe, we’re going to just let you click the link and not post them. Borderlands 2 is out next year and will be shown at gamescom next week.

Update: Yes, they are scans, as pointed out to us by subjectxen, who linked us to Game NYUSU.

A US patent application filed by Nintendo earlier this year suggests the firm is interested in creating a “Massively Single-Playing Online Game,” or at the least owning the rights to the term.

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“When I was working on Andrew Ryan, the two things that were most formative to me were reading [Ayn] Rand, and then I watched a documentary about Joseph Goebbels. It wasn’t his evil that struck me, it was the fact that he felt like such a victim. Even though he’s obviously a villain, in his mind, he wasn’t. Everybody’s the hero of their own story; if you can’t find something that makes them great, you don’t have a tragic character. These [are] characters that struggle between their view of the world and their realities of the world. There’s that dissonance that turns them into an antagonist for the player. It’s not just because they want to be.” – Irrational’s Ken Levine on creating villains to Gamasutra.

Kalypso has sent over some in-game shots from The Dark Eye – Demonicon, showing some of the locations, characters and demons featured in the game. Demonicon tells the tragic love story of two people who become “the pawns of sinister forces in a world full of cruelty and depravity.” Both are constantly threatened by mortal danger and demonic temptation and their common destiny will “determine the fate of the entire continent and will be decided by the choices they make.” Demonicon is scheduled for release in 2012 for Windows PC and consoles, and a playable demo will be on-hand at gamescom next week.

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SMBC Nikko Securities analyst Kazuharu Miura has forecasted units sales of 2.5 million for Vita by the end of March 2012, and sales of software for the handheld reaching 7 million units during the same period.

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Those who post on the Bethesda forums have been notified via email that a “potential breach” of the user database occurred during the morning of August 12.

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Nanna is apparently not in the mood to dance around or play some karafuckingoke.

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DICE has confirmed via Twitter that those playing Battlefield 3 on PC will have their in-game solider name linked to their Origin accounts, which means that unlike previous installments of the series on PC, player won’t be able to create more than one profile or soldier.

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QuakeCon’s passed, and Gamescom lies ahead. You’re in the eye of the news storm. Frightened? Don’t be. The Weekly Wrap is here to tell you what it all means. And give you a hug. If you want one.

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They say it’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Martin Mathers grabs a candelabra and puts this theory to the test with From Software’s hardcore epic, Dark Souls.

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EA’s announced tonight that its completed the take over of PopCap Games. The news comes via way of a Form 8k the company has sent out. The buyout was announced last month, with EA buying PopCap for $750 million: $650 million in cash and $100 million in stock options. The pricetag could get as high as $1.3 billion, though. Find some analysis in the wake of the takeover from Nathan here.

Today was almost painfully slow, and while we did get a big big of news with the Counter Strike drop from Valve, it’s almost as if the entire industry is just phoning it in until the onslaught starts on Tuesday.

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More shorts are posted below to help get your weekend started. As for us? Well, ours doesn’t start until tomorrow but that just means we can get smashed on Sunday whereas you can’t. We laugh at your fate.

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Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey has said it’s possible BioShock: Infinite could end up moving 4.9 million copies and amass $221 million in sales. In his latest note to investors, Hickey said should the game achieve such success, it could outpace BioShock 2 which shipped 3 million as of March 2010. Infinite is out next year on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Via Gamespot.

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In the latest issue of Game Informer, it mentions how gun manufacturers in Borderlands 2 have been revamped a bit, and will now have their own style and personality, and now the magazine’s official site has some more information pertaining to the gun peddlers.

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SEGA West boss Mike Hayes has said he believes digital and physical can exist side-by-side for years, with great success and all this talk of packaged goods dying is “a total exaggeration.”

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