Monthly Archives: August 2011

David Jaffe has announced on the PS Blog that Twisted Metal will miss it’s October release, and has been delayed to early 2012.

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Team 17′s Mark Baldwin has announced on the PS Blog that over the next month, four DLC packs for $4.99 Worms 2: Armageddon will be released.

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And that’s the end of another European news week. And with it, we’re near one week to gamescom. I’m pumped beyond belief for Cologne. Are you?

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“That’s obviously still in the plan. But is it the next thing or is it something beyond that? We just don’t know. We have a lot of good ideas for the MMO, we just aren’t committing to any kind of schedule yet. If Torchlight 2 blows up on PC and it’s the biggest thing since sliced bread we’ll probably want to give more attention to that before heading into the MMO world.” – Runic Games CEO Max Schaefer to Eurogamer.

Square Enix posted its financial results Q1 of its current fiscal year, and due to a lack of major title releases, the firm reported a 62 percent decrease in profit to ¥690 million ($8.8 million) compared to ¥1.8 billion ($22.9 million) for the same period in 2010.

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Warner’s announced that it’s to release Bastion on PC on August 16. The Supergiant action RPG had previously launched last month as part of Xbox Live’s Summer of Arcade. The game’s currently up for pre-order on Steam for £14.99, and will have Steamworks support, an all new control scheme and gamepad control. It’ll be up on other PC portals later this month.

Robert Bridenbecker, Blizzard’s VP of online technologies, has said he’s “surprised” by the reaction of Diablo fans over the always online requirement to play Diablo 3.

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PopCap co-founder John Vechey will deliver the keynote at GDC Online 2011, which is titled: “Playing Well With Others – How PopCap Creates Compelling Social Game Experiences.” Vechey will also chat about the firm’s experiences working alongside various mobile and social plaftforms. GDC Online runs October 10 -13 in Austin, Texas. Thanks, GI.biz.

“I actually get a lot of requests for Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat on my Twitter feed and elsewhere. I understand why people want it, but it’s easier said than done. Having Chun Li getting her spine ripped out, or Ryu’s head bouncing off the floor… it doesn’t necessarily match.” – Yoshinori Ono speaking to the US PS Blog (via Eurogamer).

EA Sports has released a FIFA 12 video featuring Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, otherwise known as Real Madrid footballer Kaka, answering what looks to be fan submitted questions. Apparently, Kaka is very pleased to be one of the cover boys this year for the game. The video is posted below, courtesy of Ve3tro. FIFA 12 is out at the end of September for everything under the sun. PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Origin, Wii, PS2, 3DS, PSP, iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

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UK game sales at retail seen a massive downer last month, suffering its worst period this year to date, according to MCV.

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Notch has just said on Twitter that Minecraft has now sold 3 million units. Here’s the tweet: “Minecraft just sold its third million copy!” Amazing. The game first launched bare bones in 2009, with the full version launching on November 11 and an Xbox 360 version to follow this holiday season.

MercurySteam CEO Enric Alvarez is to give a keynote at GDC Europe, organisers ThinkServices has announced this morning. Alvarez will give a post-mortem of the Spanish studio’s development on Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, in which he will “share surprising and inspiring insights into how to create not one, but several AAA video game projects from a small studio in Spain.”

GDC Europe happens from August 14-16 in Cologne alongside gamescom.

Capcom’s announced its line-up for gamescom, confirming it’ll bring Street Fighter x Tekken, Dragon’s Dogma, Resident Evil: Revelations for 3DS and Asura’s Wrath to the showfloor, with all games being playable. Capcom’s booth will be at Hall 6 of the Koelnmesse in Cologne. We will be there, obviously.

SCEE senior dev manager Simon Benson has said that it’s not concerned over the currently slow uptake of consumers buying 3DTVs.

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It’s the year of RAGE. Not DOOM. It’s not the year of Vita, either. Get all the major headlines from the last 24 hours in video and text form below.

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“It’s probably healthy for the industry because the industry gets a lot of attention when there’s all these things happening, just like the movie industry gets a lot of buzz when there’s a bunch of really big things at the movies and everyone’s talking about them all. It’s probably not healthy for everyone who has one of those titles, because as you rightly pointed out usually someone gets the short end of the stick. Someone ends up falling short and not doing quite what they expected to do.” – Bethesda VP Pete Hines, speaking to Eurogamer on the best and worst of releasing a game in the holiday period.

Bethesda has two games for the holiday season: RAGE on October 7 and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on November 11.

In releasing its financials this morning, Square Enix has downgraded the release of Final Fantasy XIII-2 in Europe to just “early 2012.” The game was already confirmed for a January release from ComicCon for the west. Square Enix has told VG247 the January release applied to the US only. This latest change comes from the publisher’s latest release schedule.

Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine is suing Activision over his inclusion in Band Hero, according to Reuters.

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Viz Media has said it’s to publish a novel based on ICO from author Miyuki Miyabe. Subtitled Castle in the Mist, the book will be published in the US on August 16 for $14.99. Pre-orders are been taken right now from Viz’s website. The novel’s launch comes before the HD re-release of the game itself in September for PS3.

Thanks, D’Toid.