Monthly Archives: September 2011

Naughty Dog has said it’s pleased that director Neil Burger has signed on to helm the Uncharted movie, and his ideas for the flick are seen as a good omen for fans of the game franchise.

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The Witcher 2′s development director, Adam Badowski, has said that due to restrictive polices on Xbox 360, DLC for the game is unlikely to be free as it is on PC.

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Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi has tweeted that the Spec 2.0 update of Gran Turismo 5 will arrive in the third week of October, further promising that DLC will launch “a week later.” And that’s it. No exact date for the update, what’s in it or even details on the DLC.

Following on from our first take on the now-live Battlefield 3 beta yesterday, Patrick Garratt reports on attacking and defending gameplay before the test goes fully open tomorrow.

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PlayStation Vita was due to release in Japan on December 3 instead of its since-confirmed December 17 release in the country, SCEJ boss Hiroshi Kawano has said in Famitsu this week.

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Namco Bandai and French website Soulcalibur.fr have posted a brand newvideo of Soul Calibur V, showing a fight between Maxi and Siegfried. The video will be welcome to all Soul Calibur fans, considering its ten-minute length. Get it below the break, via Siliconera.

Soul Calibur V launches next year for PS3 and 360.

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M2 Research analyst Billy Pidgeon has predicted that Blizzard will left the wraps off its next-gen MMO Titan at Blizzcon next month, despite previous claims from the company it wouldn’t be announced for another year at least.

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According to PSLS and Gamasutra, EA’s locked Starbreeze’s Syndicate reboot for a February 2012 release in the US and Europe.

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If new job listings from IO is any indication, it seems big Ian was right when he said Kane and Lynch wasn’t going anywhere.

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The GAME Group’s announced that its suffered a loss of £51.5 million, not including tax, for the first six months of 2011.

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Battlefield 3! iPhone 5! And some other stuff. Here’s everything you should know this morning in video and text form.

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Konami’s announced that 3DTV support for Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 has arrived for the game’s US launch in a day one update. The update also includes the beta to myPES, a brand new social network being introduced for the series where users will be allowed to exchange data between their myPES and Facebook, such as sharing results and posting them onto other users. The full version will “arious statistic, achievements as well as the ability to create private and public game groups.”

The full myPES rolls out next mont with 360 and PC patches. PES 2012 launches here in Europe on October 14 for PS3, 360 and PC. Via Shack.

I won a gleeful competition today, ate a delicious steak for lunch, managed to play some games, and even – gasp! – wrote some video games news. Amazing.

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Lots of little bits and bobs through the break – many of them incongruously interesting! Has the world gone mad? MOAR STUPID VIDEOS.

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Amazon Germany’s listed a 250Gb hardware bundle for Batman: Arkham City.

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Yakuza: Of the End is a game about Japanese mafia zombies. Crazy? Brilliant? Both? We have no idea. But – seeing as that description probably secretes some sort of pheromone-based Western exec repellent – we weren’t exactly hopeful that we’d ever get to find out. Show’s what we know, though, because the apparent result of a genre-based Mad Libs match looks to be expanding its criminal empire to this side of the pond. According to a European trademark dug up by Joystiq, something called Yakuza: Dead Souls is on the way. Odds are, it’s either a shiny new name for Of the End or a Dark Souls crossover. Which – come to think of it – sounds incredible.

Despite earlier doubts, BioWare’s Daniel Erickson has confirmed Star Wars: The Old Republic will feature achievements from day one – and they won’t be trivial, either.

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iPhones are flying off shelves. Your grandparents frequently go on 27-hour Farmville binges. OnLive and Gaikai may actually be powered by magic. So, this triple threat has consoles six feet under, right? Not even close, says GameStop president Tony Bartel.

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PaRappa the Rapper creator Masaya Matsuura fears the games industry will schism if we don’t see more international collaborations.

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While we’re posting trailers for new console network releases, check out this one for the PlayStation Network Dead Nation, which scored a new batch of DLC this week called Road of Devastation.

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