Monthly Archives: August 2011

According to a BD Horror report, the newest Resident Evil movie, subtitled Retribution, will feature Leon Kennedy and Barry Burton. Jill Valentine is also set to return in the movie, but as a recasted role, according to the site. Parts of the film will be shot in Tokyo – as already mentioned this year – and Toronto, Canada this October, with a release next September. Paul W.S. Anderson and Mila Jovovich will also return to direct and star as main character Alice respectively.

Activision and GameStop are holding a Get in the Game pre-order promotion for Prototype 2, and you have to do to enter is pre-order the game and go online between now and September 1.

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THQ’s released the final part of the three-part gameplay video series of Metro: Last Light’s E3 demo, which sees Artyom and Khan having to intercept a train that has a mysterious prisoner on board. The end of the video promises the full 12 minute gameplay video will come on August 23. Get the final part below the break.

Metro: Last Light releases in 2012 for PS3, 360 and PC.

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Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes have released a gamescome teaser video for Risen 2: Dark Waters. In it, ancient creatures are rising up and you must take a stand against the evil denizens of the deep. The firms also announced today that the official website is finally online with quite a few updates on the game’s world and the unnamed hero starring in it. However, for some reason it won’t let us past the age gate at the moment. There’s no exact date just yet for the game, but it will be released on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

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Sony has updated the European end of PSN and has also tossed in some Plus content to go along with it. The amount of information this week is quite hefty, so let’s get started.

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Just a heads up so you don’t freak out when you can’t log into PSN later tomorrow afternoon: the service will be brought down from 4:05pm on Thursday until 2:00am on Friday, BST to apply firmware 3.70. If you wish to play online during the maintenance, please ensure you sign in to PSN before 4:05pm on August 11. What’s it being brought down for? Brenna has you covered through this link. There’s also some information on the EU PS Blog as well.

Capcom US VP Christian Svensson has said that the cancelation of Mega Man Legends 3 was a decision that needed to be made, but insisted that the IP is still “super, super important” to the publisher.

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GameStop UK is selling Nintendo 3DS on its website for £134.97, drastically less than what other retailers selling it for right now: GAME‘s going for £195 and Amazon is at £170 in the meantime. This comes ahead of the system’s previously-announced price-cut this Friday, with MCV reporting that the expected UK RRP is to be £140.

Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg has claimed that players involved with Call of Duty are keenly more involved than those who play Facebook games.

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Not content with the Team ICO blowout, IGN’s gone live with ten minutes worth of footage from the God of War Origins pack. The pair, which will release as God of War Collection Vol 2 in Europe, will come with remasters of the two PSP titles in Kratos’ adventures: Chains of Olympus and Ghosts of Sparta. Get the openings of both games below. It releases in September for PS3.

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IGN’s gone up with at least more than 15 minutes worth of footage from the ICO and Shadow of the Colossus Collection. There’s the first five minutes of ICO, more than ten minutes worth from the opening of Colossus and more. They look utterly stunning, so go watch them after the break. The pack’s out at the end of September for PS3.

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THQ’s announced it’s taking Darksiders II, Saints Row: The Third, Warhammer 40k: Space Marine and more to gamescom next week, with the former debuting to a public audience for the first time. WWE ’12, Metro: Last Light also make the trip to Cologne. Get the full lot below, and our preview of the show here.

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IceFrog’s confirmed that the worldwide DOTA 2 tournament at gamescom next week, which will see the game unveiled for the first time, will be streamed online. The news was confirmed on the DOTA forums, with the livestream coming in four languages: English, Russian, Chinese and German. You can get the stream here. The game launches later this year.

Thanks, AEPortal.

Remember that infamous scene from the E3 demo of BioShock Infinite? It was made of assets from a previous project at Irrational that was canned, the studio has said.

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Wowzers. Amazon UK’s announced this morning that pre-orders for Battlefield 3 are more than 2,000 percent higher than those for Battlefield 2.

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Perfect World has completed its acquisition of Champions Online developer Cryptic Studios. The Chinese company has apparently spent $49.8 million on the buyout after Atari announced earlier this year it was to divest from the studio. Atari says it will use to decrease debits among other things. Perfect World also has a majority stake in Torchlight studio Runic Games from May this year.

Thanks, Gamasutra.

Dead Island’s gold, MW3′s Spec Ops mode looks awesome, The Secret World is finally starting to shine, and it looks as though Team Bondi’s gone bust. And gamescom’s next week. News drought: we laugh in your face.

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Nintendo’s announced it’s to release a new 3DS colour in the US from September 9 alongside the release of Star Fox 64 3D.

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Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has said that Grand Theft Auto V could sell 18 million units, as well as going on to sell as much as 24 million units.

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If anything happened today that wasn’t games news, I missed it, because the local blogosphere was all Aussie job cuts, all the time.

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