Monthly Archives: September 2011

SCEJ president Hiroshi Kawano has quipped that if you want to know the reason why Monster Hunter 4 is not heading to Vita, “ask Capcom.”

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DICE has posted pertinent information pertaining to the multiplayer modes in Battlefield 3 and the maps, all of which allow for five multiplayer game modes at launch.

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Ubisoft has released screenshots for three of its Vita games, literally on the system, which the firm is showing at TGS this week.

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Square Enix’s Yoichi Wada turned visionary in his TGS address this morning, telling the industry to climb the mountain of games tech diversity rather than fall. Brenna Hillier reports from Tokyo.

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Sony has revised its ToS and user agreement for its online services, in order to prevent US users from bringing a class action lawsuit against it.

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Video, video, video, video, video, video, video.

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Deep Silver has said Techland’s priority at the moment is fixing issues in Dead Island, which mean the planned DLC packs for the game may see a delay.

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It’s Asura week over on the official Guild Wars 2 website this week, and we have the video featurette posted for you below. In case you missed it earlier, we had a chat with ArenaNet’s continuity and lore designers Ree Soesbee and Jeff Grubb, as well as posted the first look at new screens and artwork featuring the little mad scientists and their battle suits. You can check that out here. Enjoy the video below the break, and a look at the amazing city of Rata Sum.

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Because nothing shouts happy Thursday like a Team Fortress 2-Skyrim mashup, but here we are. It’s after the break, via the Bethesda blog.

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id Software and Bethesda have released the TV Spot for RAGE, which features the A Perfect Circle track Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums. Double awesome. The tv advert first aired during the Michigan versus Notre Dame game on September 10. RAGE will be released on PC and consoles October 4 in the US and October 7 in the UK.

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Yakuza 3 director, Daisuke Sato, has said if Yakuza: Of the End were to be localized in Europe and North America, the controls would be changed around a bit.

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Warner’s announced that its sold 3 million units of Mortal Kombat since it went on sale in June.

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Sony’s released a brand new trailer for Starhawk. The video for the Lightbox Entertainment title shows for the first time in large detail the space combat battles that are within the game: on food, mechs and, naturally, in the jets themselves. This is a very hot looking video, as you’ll discover below the break. Get to it, children.

Starhawk releases in 2012 for PS3.

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EA and 38 Studios have announced pre-order bonuses for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

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Over on the official Guild Wars 2 website this week, the spotlight is on the Asura race, and VG247 has an exclusive interview with continuity and lore designers Ree Soesbee and Jeff Grubb as well as the first look at new assets featuring the diminutive, gnome-like mad scientists.

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Just Add Water’s lifted the wrap off footage Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath, showing a video of the HD redeux for the first time. JAW’s been working with Oddworld Inhabitants on the series, with HD version’s of Munch’s Odysee and Abe’s Odysee also inbound as well as other things. Stranger’s Wrath is due on PSN this fall.

Get the video below, via the EU PS Blog.

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Deep Silver’s announced overnight in the US via the medium of press release that its shipped 1 million units of Dead Island in the country. The publisher now expects to hit 2 million units shipped worldwide by the end of the week. The Techland, not without its controversies after release last week, went to the the top of the UK charts earlier this week.

Thanks, IGN.

Lord of Apocalypse has gotten its first trailer from Square Enix following its unveil in Famitsu this week. The game, thought to be a sequel to this year’s Lord of Arcana, will be a launch title for Vita on December 17 in Japan, but will also get a PSP release as well. Get watching the trailer below, via GT. Some of the animation in it is amazing, if we’re being very honest.

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Namco’s released the first trailer of Tales of Innocence R following its unveil at TGS this week. The RPG’s reveal follows the recent release of big PS3 brother Xillia in Japan a couple of weeks back. You can get the video for it below the break, which goes all in on the anime cutscenes in the game.

Innocence R launches next year in Japan for Vita.

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Konami’s gone and released the TGS trailer of the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, showing properly for the first time Metal Gear Solid 2 in actual HD footage. The video confirms that the version of MGS2 that’ll be in the pack will not be the vanilla version of Sons of Liberty, but rather Substance, with Snake Tales and the VR missions included. It also shows a bit more of MGS3 as well, following its first sighting back at gamescom last month.

The Collection was dated for November 23 in Japan this morning for PS3 and 360. Konami is still to officially announce a date for here other than just November.

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