Monthly Archives: August 2011

Japanese analysts believe Sony should follow Nintendo’s lead and lower the PS Vita’s price.

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A new Sonic Generations video has surfaced, featuring the Chemical Plant and City Escape levels.

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Nintendo has cause to celebrate this week as Metroid, one of its best-loved franchises, turns 25.

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Warner Bros. Australia has confirmed Bastion’s local PC release date of August 17, one day behind other territories – although that’s probably a time zone thing, really, since we live in the future.

The critically-acclaimed action RPG (read: dungeon crawler) will go for $14.99, and kick off on Steam before hitting other local PS portal storefronts.

The PC version of the game has an overhauled control scheme but also supports control pads. It’s also available on Xbox Live Arcade.

Dead Island publisher Deep Silver has commissioned three Facebook apps to promote the upcoming zombie survival adventure.

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Police in Johannesburg last week stormed an alleged piracy ring apparently responsible for jailbreaking PlayStation 3 consoles and distributing pirated games.

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Stallion83, the world’s highest ranked Xbox Live member, has passed another astounding milestone.

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Despite outsourcing its development, Mojang has revealed Minecraft’s Xbox Live Arcade release will begin life as a beta, just like its PC progenitor. Xbots: get on board, stat.

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Shazam. It’s the weekend, and our shift is finished. If you’ve been busy most of the day, the list of headlines and blurbs below should get you caught up.

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The weekend is finally here. Thanks be to the Gods or however the phrase goes – we’re just happy. So happy in fact, we’re dancing.

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In the latest issue of Blizzard Insider, Blizzard has let lose on a few Diablo III beta details, most of which are already known thanks to a press event not long ago, but there’s some interesting bits in there as well. Pity these interesting tidbits don’t announce a date for the beta. It’s rumored to be sometime in September, with the firm itself confirming during its recent investors call that it would happen during the quarter. Thanks, EvilAvatar.

“It’s my job to pay attention [and] make sure we respond to the right kinds of things and let other things that we don’t normally touch just kind of sit there. Speculation is usually generated when people are interested, so in that respect it’s good. People want to know what we’re doing and people are engaged. That’s pretty cool. We’re kind of going into a dark phase now. We’re not going to make a whole lot of noise, we just want to allow people to build anticipation. And frankly we’re really, really busy.” Bungie’s Eric Osborne to Eurogamer.

Epic Games is currently hiring gameplay programmers to work on “Gears of War 3, as well as a new unannounced IP in development.” No word on what this “unannounced IP” could be, as we haven’t even heard mumblings, but we’ll send a mail and ask. Likely, it will result in a wink and a smile with a no comment, but, that’s the breaks. Thanks: Eurogamer, Xboxygen.

Bloodrayne: Betrayal has been delayed into October, according to the game’s developer. Scheduled for release this month with a delay of a week’s time already, the game will now land on October 5 on XBL. No reason for the delay was provided to D’toid, and since the delay is on XBL only, this will not affect the game’s PLAY incentive announced just yesterday. Earlier reports stated the game was also delayed on PSN, but we sent a mail and asked, and were told it was not the case. [pic]

“EA came to see us. I think they had plans, but picked up the vibe. Nothing’s been said since – it’s all very high politics. I play their games, and they make great games, but we are too far from each other. They can make their games, and I’ll buy them. We’ll make ours, and they can buy them. Not the property – that’s ours. But they can play it like everyone else.” – Minecraft creator Markus Persson on his meeting with EA CEO John Riccitiello, via Develop.

As if there was any more doubt that Battlefield 3 wouldn’t be made available on Steam, EA has pretty much confirmed what we’ve all already figured all along – no dice (pun intended).

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According to data retrieved from Media Create, sales of used 3DS systems have doubled after Nintendo announced the system was getting a price reduction. According to Nintendo World Report, Media Create believes it’s due to players wanting to get in on the Ambassador Program before the price drops, or sue to retailers dropping prices on used systems by around ¥4,000 ($51).

In the US, it has been rumored that Walmart will be dropping the price of 3DS a few days early, which would ensure the big box store would get the jump on it’s competitors.

Manveer Heir, senior designer at Bioware Montreal has said he would like to see more diversity in videogames as it would not only make things more interesting for players, but more demonstrative as well.

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SOE has announced on August 8, the firm is expanding the DC Universe Online server system into what it’s calling MegaServers.

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Valve’s added an updated version of the original Left 4 Dead Terminal Map for Dead Air into Left 4 Dead 2, and it is handing out an incentive to test it for bugs and the like. This incentive will come in the form of an achievement called Connecting Fights, which is earned by playing a complete game of Versus in Dead Air. What’s more, once 60,000 people earn the achievement, Valve will unlock the beta version of Blood Harvest on Steam the following weekday. Think of it as the same as with the Dead Air incentive, only instead of the goal being 20,000, Valve has added and extra 40,000 on top of it. Get to work. Thanks, Shack.