Monthly Archives: September 2011

DFC Intelligence anticipates that video game advertising will increase in prominence in coming years, reaching $7.2 billion in revenue by 2016.

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There are only two things in my life I expect to happen on a daily basis: the coffee is already made when I get in from the morning farm chores, and that my dogs do their business outside.

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More shorts to finish up your Tuesday, are below.

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Double good news on the Sony front today: the LittleBigPlanet 2 Move pack has landed on US PSN for $9.99 and Move peripherals are on sale at GameStop at 50 percent off. The former gives you Move compatibility, five levels, seven side-games, tons of tools, Move Paint and new costumes to name a few. The later, is a sale on the Move Motion Controller, the Move Navigation Controller, the Move Charging Station, and the Move SharpShooter which are all on sale until October 2 while supplies last. Hit up the links on both for more information.

ArenaNet has updated the Guild Wars 2 blog with a short story from Jeff Grubbs on an Asura and his golem, Mr. Sparkles, as well as a blog post from senior concept artist Matt Barrett, regarding the environmental design of the asura, and its real-world inspirations. You can read both posts through the links, and be sure to check the blog daily for more on the asura race.

DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson has responded to the leaked developer build footage of Battlefield 3 on Xbox 360, stating the footage – which has been subsequently been pulled – wasn’t how the firm nor EA wanted people to experience the shooter.

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Bioware has officially confirmed once and for all, that companion characters in SWTOR will indeed have the option to have same-sex romances, but not at launch.

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A myriad of details from Game Informer’s 10-page spread on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword have been posted to the net, courtesy of GoNintendo, and it looks like there are plenty of changes coming to the latest entry in the franchise, as well as a few things long-time fans will be pleased to know are staying the same. We’ve pulled a few quotes from the post, and you can read those below the break.

Below, you will also find 11 minutes of video from Nintendo’s pre-TGS conference, featuring Shigeru Miyamoto demonstrating both Skyward Sword and the Four Swords Anniversary Edition, which releases on September 28. Those who own a DSi, DSi XL, or 3DS will be able to download the title for free until February 20.

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SCEJ has confirmed that PlayStation Vita will ship on December 17 in Japan, reconfirming a price of ¥29,980 for the 3G version and ¥24,980 for the WiFi SKU.

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According to a report on Bloomberg, analysts expect 3DS sales to hit 16 percent below Nintendo’s projected target of 16 million units this year. The four analysts surveyed predicted the percentage, despite the recent cut in retail cost for the handheld, with Wedbush Securities expecting 10 million units for the low end, and Tokyo-based Macquarie expecting units sales to hit around the 14.5 million mark. Stock in the firm fell this morning by 5 percent following its pre-TGS conference, where it announced Monster Hunter 4 for 3DS, its second circle pad peripheral, and a delay for Kid Icarus. Thanks, CVG.

Modders have started releasing fixes and tweaks to Dead Island on PC. The list is rather large, but among some of the fixed listed on the Steam forum are: change field of view, the ability to disable motion blur, weapons blur, bloom, dust, and desaturate, and many other modifications and the ability to vsync which will help screen tearing issues. There’s also a few fun mods available as well. The PC Version of Dead Island, which was released last week, as seen issues with the PC version, most notably, the developers’ code being accidentally released on Steam instead of the retail version. Techland released a patch for the game, but players still reported bugs and problems with the multiplayer servers. Thanks, Kotaku.

EA has offered to refund disgruntled customers the purchase price of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters PC, which was released last week. According to posts over on the EA forums (via Reddit), the graphics and overall quality of the game is not on par with console versions, and it contains a premium PC service – Tiger Woods Online -as the sole multiplayer mode. While three months of the service is free, multiplayer on consoles is free for the duration, minus an Xbox Live gold membership, obviously. EA forum members suggest giving a call to EA support via the livechat web page, and ask for a refund. Thanks, Eurogamer.

Rockstar has announced a Game of the Year edition for Red Dead Redemption for PS3 and Xbox 360.

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Basically, setting four alarms is pointless. Here’s a bit of Yorke.

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EA has confirmed Battlefield 3 will indeed span two discs on Xbox 360, and has explained to Eurogamer what each disc will include.

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It’s Tuesday. Have some shorts to go along with it.

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According to a recent report from research firm research2guidance, the Android Market has now hit 6 billion app downloads. Near the end of August, the service was carrying 277,252 apps, of which 35 percent you had to buy. While the most lucrative app categories are weather and business, the fastest growing category was games, which made up for nearly a quarter of all downloads.

More details on GI.biz.

Konami aired a brand new trailer of Metal Gear Solid 3D: Snake Eater during the Nintendo 3DS press event earlier this morning. The trailer showed Snake sneaking across the bridge from the start of the game, as well as him taking on a young Ocelot and his group from Spetsnaz. This will be awesome, yessir.

MGS 3DS is due out this winter on 3DS. Get the trailer below.

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The God of War: Origins Collection is out today in the US, and Sony has released the launch trailer for it, which we have posted below.

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Rovio GM Andre Stalbow has related to VentureBeat that Angry Birds has been downloaded over 350 million times, and users log more than 300 million minutes each day playing the title.

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