Monthly Archives: September 2011

Activision studio Vicarious Visions is working on three unannounced titles, including one for Wii U, in addition Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures.

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Brighton drum and bass act The Qemists lends its talents to the latest SSX trailer. It’s pretty solid.

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Before you check out Professor Genki’s latest promotional effort for Saints Rw: The Third, digest the following:

“This video contains flashing images and may trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.”

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Forza Motorsport 4 draws inspiration from the wonderful world of racing, obviously – but also from a few less predictable sources.

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That’s guns, grenades and gravity, according to Namco Bandai, in this new trailer for third-person shooter Inversion.

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EA’s confirmed via way of FIFA 12′s launch in the UK tonight that the reboot of FIFA Street will arrive in stores in March next year. The date is specifically mentioned in a leaflet which comes with copies of FIFA 12, which we’ve picked up a copy of in the past hour or so. Street was only announced for just “early 2012″ at EA’s press conference at gamescom in Cologne, Germany in August.

The game, which will appear on PS3 and 360, is the fourth FIFA Street game, but is the first in three years.

DICE executive producer Patrick Bach has said the team struggles to appreciate its successes, feeling “ashamed” of sterling efforts like Bad Company 2.

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A new Mortal Kombat movie by the director of the recent web series is on the way – alongside a new game.

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Tiny Speck has explained that the long queue to get on board unusual MMO Glitch is a deliberate throttling of newbies, not the result of sever overload.

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A Vita entry in The Legend of Heroes series of JRPGs has been confirmed after teases last week.

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Lots of banner news today during my shift. Get caught up on it below, I promise I will be quick today.

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NCsoft has announced the second chapter of Winds of Change for Guild Wars, which is the “largest free content expansion,” for the title to date, has been released.

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Here’s a few tasty bits for you to consume.

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“It’s a possibility we could use Geomod in Saints Row and, yes, we considered it [for SR3]. For Saint’s Row The Third, we decided not to do it, partially due to time reasons but also because you could make a good argument that if you had full-on destruction then it’s not a Saints Row game. A lot of those structures are mission-critical because they take place in the interior, so if you could allow users to decimate the entire world, what would you have left? It’s game-breaking.” – Volition’s Greg Donovan to Xbox World magazine, via CVG.

Insomniac has posted a new video for Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One which takes place on the Aldaros Plains, located on Planet Magnus. This area, full of floating islands of rock in a shifting landscape, has a boss called the Octomoth – not to be confused with Octomom – and you get to see our heroes battling it below. All4 One’s out on October 18 in the US and October 21 in the UK for PS3.

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Nielsen has published its annual Top 20 Games to Watch list for the holidays, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has topped it as the game “most coveted” by 27 percent of US gamers polled.

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Bloomberg is reporting that along with the rumored Comcast and Verizon deal, Microsoft is talks to bring HBO, Crackle, Bravo, Syfy, and Lovefilm UK to Xbox Live TV. According to the site’s source, an announcement of regarding the expansion of services via Xbox Live could come next week at the earliest. Earlier this month, MS CEO Steve Ballmer said Xbox Live TV would release sometime this year. The latest dashboard update for 360 is rumored to launch on November 15.

Cliff Bleszinski, in a post Gears 3 release interview with Edge, has described how the development team designed the boss and teh subsequent battles to be more than just massive beats its takes a few minutes to kill.

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In a video clip posted below, the opening intro to The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is shown. Below that, is another video featuring Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto chatting about Zelda’s development costs. Miyamoto said in it he is unsure whether the amount spent on the game is the most ever for a Nintendo title or not, but it still cost quit a few purple rupees. Sadly, the video has not been translated into English yet, but there’s some gameplay footage shown in the interview between the two industry vets. Thanks, Andirasang.

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Eurogamer is reporting that the PC version of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations has been delayed to December 2 while the console versions are still on course for a November release. The announcement was revealed by the Czech Ubisoft Facebook page (via EG.cz). Ubisoft has been contacted for confirmation of the news.