Monthly Archives: September 2011

Black Ops map packs are selling through the roof. Also, surprise of the century, Activision is raking in money by the truckload.
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If there was ever any doubt that Sony would recover from the PSN hack attacks, let them be laid to rest now.
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We get our first glimpse at the final box art for the upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken from Capcom.

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We’ve known it was coming, but now we have details on what to expect from Rockstar’s free downloadable content pack for Red Dead Redemption.
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They tease us with that horribly short introduction last week, but this time we’re getting a bit more story and substance.
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Obsidian has announced a suite of downloadable content options for fans of Dungeon Siege III.
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Capcom pulls the veil off their interesting “Pawn” system for the upcoming Dragon’s Dogma.
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Capcom has gone into detail on their blog about their plans to roll out downloadable content for the XBLA version of Street Fighter III.
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Square-Enix has offered a response to allegations that one of its NPCs represents an African-American racial stereotype.
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Two studios under the 2K Czech brand have been the target of a redundancy program that trimmed their staff by more than 40 developers.
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It’s a news heavy day in Europe. I love news. You love news. Therefore, we love each other.

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Some new clues have surfaced that may point to EA planning a new Facebook game based on the Mass Effect universe.
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Eidos Montreal is to increase the total number of staff it has on its books by 350 people within three years, Canadian site La Presse Affaires is reporting.

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Warner’s announced that GAME and GameStation will exclusively have the Robin Pack for those who pre-order Batman: Arkham City. Robin will be a fully playable character in the challenge mode in the game with all maps, plus two additional maps included in the Robin Pack – Black Mask Hideout and Freight Train Escape – and will also come with a Red Robin character skin.

Arkham City launches on October 21 in the UK for PS3, 360 and PC.

Konami’s announced that Cristiano Ronaldo will be Pro Evolution Soccer 2012′s coverboy. The Real Madrid and Portugal international says he is “flattered” to be chosen as “the face of PES 2012, and by their reasoning behind the cover image.” There’s an image of the PS3 box below the break.

PES 2012 is out on October 14 for PS3, 360 and PC, with PS2 and PSP versions landing on October 28. It comes to Wii on November 4. Watch Pat pathetically play the demo here.

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Perfect World, the company who recently acquired Cryptic, has confirmed the studio intends to turn Star Trek Online into a F2P game by the end of this year.

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The first trailer of Yakuza: Black Panther 2 has gone live following its unveil yesterday, with the video showing a continuation of what happened with the first game and how that leads into the second game in the same animation style from the first game. Get it below the break. It’ll be released on PSP next spring in Japan, but it will be playable on the showfloor at TGS.

Thanks, Andriasang.

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Bethesda PR and marketing VP Pete Hines has ruled out the company making a move towards social gaming anytime soon, saying its main aim is the core audience.

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Sony’s confirmed dates and prices for the upcoming tablet devices from the company that have been PlayStation Certified, which means PS1 titles can be legally downloaded onto the devices. The S1, which has been renamed to Tablet S, will release this month for $500. The flip-up S2, which again has had its own name change to Tablet P, will launch in November, but no price has been confirmed as yet.

Thanks, Kotaku.

EA’s dropped details of a tour around the UK at HMV Gamerbase, enabling Joe Public to go hands-on with Mass Effect 3, Need for Speed: The Run and FIFA 12. The tour kicks off tonight in Glasgow and continues in Edinburgh tomorrow, Manchester next Monday and Tuesday and concludes in London next Thursday and Friday. More details here.

FIFA 12 releases at the end of this month, while Need for Speed: The Run launches in mid-November. Mass Effect 3 releases in early March 2012.