Monthly Archives: September 2011

A video for the Adventure update to Minecraft has been released, and we’ve got it posted below for you courtesy of Shack. Mojang plans on releasing the update on September 8 which will include various fixes, new enemies, achievements, crafting recipes, a Creative mode, mod support updates, multiplayer lists and tons more.

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SCEE’s Jim Ryan has said the budget PSP mode unveiled at gamescom last month is aimed directly at the younger market.

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Sony has released the launch video for Resistance 3, showing the first look at the game’s R3 weapon: The Cryogun.

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To support the release of Driver: San Francisco, Ubisoft has announced a new free multiplayer content and a game-to-web service for PS3 and Xbox 360.

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Avalanche Studios founder Christofer Sundberg isn’t a big fan of always-on DRM solutions for PC, and feels that if a publisher is going to incorporate such a system, it needs to reward the players in turn.

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Various reports state that the PC version of Dead Island released today in the US is having a few issues, most notably on Steam, where apparently a dev build of the Xbox 360 version was released on the service by accident.

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Tokyo Game Show is fast approaching quickly and swiftly. Let the bombs drop.

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Driver: San Francisco, the first title from Ubisoft to require Uplay Passport, is missing the code required to play online for the Xbox 360 version, according to a report on Joystiq.

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Wedbush Securities has called Call of Duty: Elite, Activision’s new free and premium service, a “no brainer” for consumers.

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Modern Warfare 3 producer Mark Rubin has said that Infinity Ward is more concerned with gameplay than trying to “push technology.”

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Its been announced that Resistance 3 will get its first DLC pack next month. The pack, called Survival, will feature a new multiplayer mode called Invasion, where humans and Chimera need to capture multiple control points as long as they can. There’ll also be a Survival skin for MP and XMB theme.

Survival launches on October 4 for $3.99. The game itself is out now in the US and Friday in the UK. Get the reviews so far here. Thanks, Eurogamer.

Definitely not kidding.

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Ninja Theory creative boss Tameem Antoniades has said that AAA games development is “crushing innovation.”

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Sony’s announced that its appointed an ex official at Homeland Security to become its chief information security officer in the wake of PSNGate this past April.

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Tales of series producer Makoto Yoshizumi has hinted we’ll see the Namco RPG series make its way to Vita, saying that we should expect news shortly. It comes as Xillia released on PS3 in Japan last week, with Yoshizumi saying to Dengeki that work has already begun on the next main Tales installment.

Thanks, Andriasang.

According to a forum post on the Steam forum (via Kotaku), 3 million promo keys of DiRT 3 have leaked. The codes, which were given out as part of a promotion between Codemasters and AMD when you bought a graphics card from the latter, were part of a list that found its way online. As the codes belong to Steam, it would be simply a case of blocking any said code that was part of the list from the service to prevent it being played.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution has been delayed into October in Japan by Square Enix, Andriasang is saying. The Eidos Montreal RPG was due to release on Thursday, but the publisher found an area in the game which showed expressions that are forbidden by Japanese ratings body CERO. Square didn’t provide any other details than that.

Human Revolution launched in the west last month for PS3, 360 and PC.

It’s all non-stop Modern Warfare 3 action from now to November 8: the official Call of Duty YouTube’s gone live with a second multiplayer trailer in four days, showing off proper first-person footage. The first trailer got out at CoD XP. Get it below the break.

It’ll be out on PS3, 360 and PC from Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer. A Wii version will also drop from Treyarch at release.

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343 Industries creative director Ryan Payton has left the Halo developer to begin a new studio called Camouflaj.

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Battlefield 3′s September beta won’t be a cosmetic affair, and will result in changes for day one patches and Battlelog right up to launch. Head below for audio of DICE devs talking about the beta, confirmation of “hundreds” of changes being made to the game based on the alpha and everything we know about the beta so far.

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