Monthly Archives: September 2011

Amazingly talented sand artist Natalya Netselya has released a video featuring her latest work using her favorite medium, and it’s the first one she has ever created for a video game, and what better one to base it on than Uncharted 3.

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Epic president Mike Capps has said there is “room from improvement” when it comes to 3D, yet despite this, Gears of War 3 looks “really good,” when played on a 3D television.

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Microsoft’s confirmed its Tokyo Game Show lineup, with several first and third-party key titles from E3 and gamescom appearing at the show, including Halo Anniversary, Gears of War 3 and Lollipop Chainsaw. Get the full list below.

Thanks, Impress Watch.

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THQ CEO Brian Farrell believes that eventually, consoles will no longer require discs and will instead support cloud gaming, the result of which would mean a reduction in cost for publishers with the savings trickling down to consumers.

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Bethesda’s taken the wraps off the first gameplay footage from the co-op segment of RAGE, Wasteland Legends – seemingly renamed from Legends of the Wasteland when we seen it in Utah back in April. The video shows the level in Wellspring, where bandits try to destroy its water supply, which is where you and a partner come in. This is the level we seen at the time in April. Get it below the break.

The id shooter’s out on October 7 in the UK for PS3, 360 and PC.

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Ubisoft’s announced on the EU PS Blog that From Dust will launch on PlayStation Network next Wednesday, September 14. The game, made by Another World creator Eric Chahi, will launch for £11.99/€14.99. The God sim had launched earlier in the year as part of the Summer of Arcade line-up for Xbox 360 near the end of July, as had the PC version, which encountered the wrath of consumers with problems over Ubi’s always-on DRM.

Sony Bend has admitted it was planning a sequel to Resistance Retribution before it started work on Uncharted: Golden Abyss for Vita.

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If you were planning on playing around in the SWTOR beta this weekend, you should probably make alternate plans, like playing another game or participating in underwater sock darning. Whatever it is you crazy kids do these days.

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We missed this in the Max Payne 3 press release. Rockstar’s confirmed it’s to bring Max Payne to mobiles in HD. The Remedy original will come with support for the Rockstar Games Social Club, as well as all the features from the game’s original release a decade ago. No platforms are specifically mentioned, but we’ll chase up Rockstar for more deeds.

Two-and-a-half years after it was first announced for a winter 2009 release, Max Payne 3 has been confirmed by Rockstar for launch in Europe and North America next March.

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Sony’s confirmed that it’ll hold its Tokyo Game Show press conference this Wednesday, September 14.

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Infinity Ward’s confirmed that the PC version of Modern Warfare 3 will have LAN support. Studio comms boss Rob Bowling spilled the news in a tweet: “Yes, #MW3 has LAN along with detailed class restriction control + default class creation option.” He also specified how those restrictions played out, adding: “Ability to restrict any weapon, equipment, perk, deathstreak, secondary, attachment, ANYTHING from being used when setting up game,”

Modern Warfare 3 launches on November 8 worldwide. Thanks, BluesNews.

Harmonix has released VidRhythm, the iOS game that was announced a bit before gamescom last month.

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Amazon.jp‘s posted what Final Fantasy Type-0′s box looks like for when it releases in the country next month. Grainy images emerged of it last week via a NicoNico stream, but the direct-feed version is out. It pretty much looks amazing for just a boxart. There’s an image of it below the break. Game’s out on October 27 for Japan on PSP.

Thanks, RPGSite.

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Codemasters has released the third dev diary for F1 2011 ahead of the game’s release in two weeks time. The video shows devs Stephen Hood and Paul Jeal discuss one of the major new features for this year’s game: co-op championship, where you and a friend will compete against one another to be the number one driver in the team, as well as together help the team win the constructors championship. Get the video below the break.

It’s out on September 23 for PS3, 360 and PC. Vita and 3DS versions are also in development.

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According to research firm DFC Intelligence, digital sales of games will surpass that of retail by 2013.

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Eric Chahi’s Another World will launch on iOS on September 22, according to AusGamers. The iOS version, which was first confirmed by Chahi at GDC to celebrate the game’s original release on PC 20 years ago this year, will feature original and remastered graphics with the option to switch to one of the two at any one time, two game controls, three game difficulty modes, Game Center support and localisation for France, Italy, Germany and Spain.

The remaster will set you back $4.99.

Diablo III’s beta is on the horizon, the ACR beta opens up on PSN and Battlefield 3′s hit howmanypreorders? Get the details in video and text form below.

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“I’ve never actually finished [Legend of Zelda]. I almost feel like there’s still no game more difficult than it. Every time I try to play it I end up getting ‘Game Over’ a few too many times and giving up partway through. Certainly after playing the original Zelda for the first time, I didn’t ever think that I wanted to make a game like that.” – Zelda boss Eiji Aonuma, speaking to Game Informer as part of its Zelda cover feature.

Like Liam Neeson rescuing his daughter with the help of his best pals Fist and Gun, Activision was relentless in its pursuit of its beloved website domain. And you know what that means: mountains of unconscious and/or deadsploded thugs. No wait, the other thing: court cases!

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