Monthly Archives: August 2011

CD Projekt’s announced today that its teamed up with Gaikai to provide a demo of The Witcher II for the cloud service.

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We’ve just been on a studio tour of DICE in Stockholm, Sweden, and we’re going to get to play a PS3 co-op mission of Battlefield 3 this afternoon. This afternoon we’re also interviewing Lars Gustavsson, DICE’s creative director, and studio head Patrick Bach. We’ve got readers Chris Hockey and Colin Gallacher with us: they won a competition to come on this trip earlier this month. We’ll have some content up for you as soon as we can.

Some pictures below the break.

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NCSoft will allow player-made PvP servers for Guild Wars 2, according to a report from MMORPG.com. The news comes from an interview with Colin Johanson and Eric Flannum, where they apparently confirmed that players would be able to create and host servers with specific rulesets as well. Developer ArenaNet will also have its own servers, though.

Thanks, Massively.

Ubisoft’s sent out a brand new video of Driver: San Francisco, as the Reflections reboot prepares to launch in the UK this week. The clip featured the movie director mode, something which has become a normal standard feature in most Driver games since the series began. Get the video below the break.

Driver: San Francisco launches in the UK on Friday, with a US release next Tuesday on PS3 and 360. PC version launches on September 30 in the UK.

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THQ’s announced this morning that a 3DS version of WWE All Stars is in development, and that it’ll release this fall. The game will come with a “power-packed roster of colorful WWE Legends and prominent current-day WWE Superstars,” including 13 superstars who were included as DLC for the earlier-released PS3 and 360 version. The “gameplay experience and over-the-top energy” of the console releases will “translate well to a handheld format,” according to THQ core EVP Danny Bilson.

It’s currently down for a November 22 release in the US.

BioWare offered up tasty Dragon Age III story tidbits over the weekend, saying that its plot was about “saving the world from itself.”

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Following confirmation of a US release date yesterday, GiantBomb‘s carrying a new trailer for Professor Layton and the Last Specter. The game, a prequel set before the first trilogy, will release on Nintendo DS on October 17 in America. No date for Europe as yet, though.

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Blizzard International VP and Managing Director Michael Ryder has said that it can still “build and sustain” the subs base for World of Warcraft, despite a decrease in memberships within the MMO.

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It’s happened. It’s actually happened: Deus Ex: Human Revolution has become the new UK number one, overthrowing Zumba Fitness from the top of the pile.

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Warner’s confirmed to VG247 that Batman: Arkham City for PC will still release under the Games for Windows Live banner.

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The Arcade version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will begin rolling out in Japan on September 14, Namco Bandai’s announced in the country this morning. In terms of an international release, nothing has been finalised but it is due for later in the month or beyond. And that’s all she wrote. A PS3 version is coming at some point next year.

Thanks, Andriasang.

It’s Battlefield day for the three-man team currently in Sweden. But we never stop for anything, including bank holidays. Get all the main news below.

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Oh, balls, I did finish on time. Typical.

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Anarchy Reigns, Platinum Games’ first venture into multiplayer territory, gets the thumbs up from Alex Donaldson. Impressions from gamescom can be found inside.

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US retailer Walmart’s said that a price reduction of the 4Gb Xbox 360 and Kinect bundle from last week was a mere error, saying it was “mistakenly labeled as a rollback.” However, until either next Monday or while stock lasts, it will honour the reduction in price. Microsoft insisted that it was not the prologue to an official price-cut announcement, telling Joystiq that Walmart had “made an independent decision to implement this temporary price cut.”

Brace yourself – it’s a biggie. But mainly because I stuck two videos at the bottom.

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Valve boss Gabe Newell has said that sales of Portal 2 were better on PC than they were on either 360 or PS3.

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Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi is set to give a big announcement at a press conference tomorrow, according to Japanese streaming service Nico Nico. It’s all happening at 3:00pm Japanese local time, which is 7am BST. What the announcement is from Nagoshi, who’s currently working on Binary Domain at Sega, is a mystery. New Yakuza? New game altogether that’ll be announced before TGS? All will be known tomorrow.

Thanks, Andriasang.

Yesterday’s special Deus Ex: Human Revolution message arrived as expected, but its contents are yet to be deciphered.

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If you missed out on local qualifiers, you may still have a chance to enter the $1 million Modern Warfare 3 tournament at Call of Duty XP in Los Angeles this weekend.

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