Monthly Archives: August 2011

HotHead has released a new video for DeathSpank’s latest adventure, The Baconing. Where else can you collect a bounty for a Leprechaun Mob Boss? No, no, not Johnny Cullen, an actual mob boss who heads up a group called the McMafia who reside in Rainbow’s End, which is a Leprechaun Las Vegas.  

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It looks as though the HD version of MDK2 will be released next month by former BioWare co-founder Trent Oster’s Overhaul Games via Beamdog digital distribution service. Try saying that three times, really fast. Oster said the HD port will contain improved visuals and gameplay, and will run you $14.99. The game was released on WiiWare back in May. Thanks, Joystiq.

Valve has officially announced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

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With all the gamescom trailers coming out before the show, pretty soon there won’t be any to post during the event itself. Today, another one for the Cologne event was released for Jagged Alliance Online, showing off cinematics and gameplay. The game was announced at gamescom last year, and information since has been minimal, so hopefully we’ll hear more on it next week since it will be present in playable form. The game was originally slated for release this year. Thanks, Blue.

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Some new Dragon’s Dogma shots were released today, and they show a creepy forest and its very pale resident, Selena. We’re not sure who this waif of a girl is, but she looks like she needs a bit of sun. Then again, she is standing near a tombstone, so she could be a ghost. There is also a screen showing very large spiders, because it’s not an RPG unless you includes these nasty critters. Oh, rats and wolves too. We’re sure they’re about in the game at some point, we just haven’t seen them yet. Oh wait! Capcom just posted a few extra shots here with mean looking wolves. See, we’re psychic.

The RPG, announced back in April, is set for release next year. Check out the screens below, courtesy of Andriasang.

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Hello Games has announced a sequel to Joe Danger, the working title of which is Joe Danger: The Movie which will be playable at gamescom next week. Joe’s second outing starts with him working as a Hollywood stuntman, apparently.

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NOE has listed features part of the 3DS Ambassadors Program for those in Europe.

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It’s my last wrap before gamescom and before Stace takes over. So in name of that, I’m going to do this one-off thing of having a non-game related image in my wrap, like Brenna did this morning. So. Who likes a bit of Frou Frou?

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Bethesda, GAME and gamestation have announced an exclusive RAGE Collector’s Pack.

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Rovio Entertainment is in talks for new funding which would put the firm’s value at $1.2 billion, according to a Bloomberg reports. Citing “two people with knowledge of the discussions,” Bloomberg states Rovio is considering an investment from an as of yet unnamed entertainment firm. The funding would help the firm with its Angry Birds movie, currently at the idea stage, and extra fund to open offices outside of its home-base of Finland. In March, Rovio raised $42 million from an investment fund controlled by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom. Thanks, Forbes.

OXM UK editor Jon Hicks has confirmed that a previously-planned reveal for the magazine that was pushed back in February is now back on for the mag’s next issue at the end of September. Hicks said on Twitter: “That secret reboot that we pulled at the last minute in February is back on. It’s in the OXM issue on-sale 30th Sept.” Considering the teaser page at the time was heavily speculated to be something related to EA Partners and Starbreeze’s rumoured Syndicate reboot, and add in this week’s earlier report, this has only added to the fire you’re about to see Redlime for the first time next week in Germany.

On August 4 a patent was filed by Nintendo detailing what’s inside Wii U’s tablet controller, and it looks as though some of what we already know has been confirmed along a bit of interesting tech as well.

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Eugen Systems’ has announced its brand new game, an RTS called Wargame: European Escalation. The game, the first from the developer since last year’s Ubi-published RUSE, is set during the Cold War, and sees NATO at war against those Soviets. Them nasty Soviets. There’s a trailer below the break of the game in action. There’s screens of it at BN.

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While a VG247 poll suggests gamers are more interested in Battlefield 3 than Modern Warfare 3, analyst Michael Pachter reckons the Activision effort will outsell DICE’s shooter by 2:1.

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Sony’s announced that it’s to stream its gamescom press conference on Tuesday online. Having already confirmed it would stream within PlayStation Home, the company’s said it’ll stream it via three other ways: the EU PS Blog, the PlayStation App on iOS and Android and Facebook.

The presser happens from 6pm CET, 5pm BST on Tuesday. We’ll be there live. Hit up our preview of the show here.

Sega West CEO Mike Hayes has told VG247 the company will have two games ready for Vita’s launch.

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Codemasters has announced it’s to bring F1 Online: The Game to PC and Mac from Q1 next year.

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It’s gut check time. Koelnmesse’s announced this morning that next week’s gamescom will feature 550 exhibitors from 40 countries. The numbers are an increase of last year, with the number of countries going up by seven, with the exhibitor figures being a ten percent increase on last year. The show’s project manager Tim Endres said he was “delighted with this result above all for our visitors from Germany, Europe and the world.”

gamescom takes place from August 17 – the first day being a media-only day – until August 21. Read our preview of the show here. Thanks, MCV.

Ubisoft’s formally announced details this morning of the PS3 version of Child of Eden, confirming that it will have Move support for the spiritual Rez successor from Q Entertainment. The publisher also confirmed that CoE will have full stereoscopic 3D support. The Xbox 360 version, which featured Kinect support, launched in July to great critical acclaim, but sunk when it went on sale. The PS3 version launches in the US on September 27 and September 30 in Europe.

You can watch a video of it being played below.

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Link’s latest adventure is a playground of pretty pinks and vibrant violets but, as everyone knows, you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. So, is the series growing up or dumbing down? VG247 spent time finding out.

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