Monthly Archives: October 2011
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 | 03:57 BST
BioShock: Infinite’s politics have real world equivalents
BioShock Infinite’s politics-heavy plot in firmly rooted in real world cycles, Irrational boss Ken Levine has explained.
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Posted in: 2K, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: bioshock: infinite, irrational, irrational games, ken levine, NYCC
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 | 03:43 BST
Blizzard Arcade to replace Marketplace, monetise mods
The re-christened Blizzard Arcade will finally allow creative types turn the hours they pour into mods and custom maps into delicious cashmoney.
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 | 02:16 BST
Blizzard believes players will “come around” to Pandaria
Blizzard isn’t worried about a negative reaction to the World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria expansion, announced at Blizzcon this weekend.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Blizzcon 2011, MMO, Mac, PC, RPG
Tags: blizzard, Mists of Pandaria, Scott Mercer, world of warcraft, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 | 01:53 BST
Sony Pictures domains point to Assassin’s Creed film deal
A spate of suspicious domain registrations have added weight to reports that Sony Pictures has won the film rights to Assassin’s Creed.
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Posted in: Action, Adventure, Movies
Tags: Assassin's Creed, domain registration, Sony Pictures, Ubisoft Motion Pictures
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 | 01:38 BST
Microsoft Research creates HoloDesk with Kinect
A new tech demo from Microsoft Research shows off a “HoloDesk”, allowing users to manipulate 3D rendered objects with their hands.
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Posted in: Development, Kinect, Microsoft
Tags: HoloDesk, Microsoft Research
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 | 01:25 BST
Sonic Generations to include unlockable Sonic 1
The original 16-bit era Sonic The Hedgehog will be playable in the upcoming Sonic Generations.
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Posted in: 3DS, PC, PS3, Platformer, Sega, Xbox 360
Tags: Sonic Generations, sonic team, sonic the hedgehog, Takashi Iizuka
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 | 01:09 BST
Artifacts of Power DLC confirms that Orcs Must Die
Original Age of Empires Online developer Robot Entertainment has announced the first DLC pack for its strategy action title, Orcs Must Die.
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 | 00:52 BST
Deep Silver promises Dead Island console patch “as soon as we can”
Deep Silver has refused to commit to a release date for the console version of the latest PC patch, but promised to hurry.
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Posted in: Deep Silver, Horror, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Aubrey Norris, dead island, techland
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 | 00:38 BST
Lord of the Rings: War in the North delayed in Australia
Warner Bros. Australia has announced a two-week delay to the release of Lord of the Rings: War in the North.
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Posted in: Action, Australia, PC, PS3, RPG, Warner Bros., Xbox 360
Tags: lord of the rings: war in the north, snowblind, snowblind studios
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 | 00:27 BST
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning sidesteps scaling enemy levels
Big Huge Games and 38 Studios have found a neat work-around for the dilemma of scaling difficulty levels and gating.
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Posted in: EA, PC, PS3, RPG, Xbox 360
Tags: 38 studios, big huge games, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Will Miller
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 | 00:04 BST
CCP to continue work on World of Darkness at a “much slower pace”
CCP’s spate of layoffs haven’t shelved new MMO World of Darkness, but the developer has acknowledged it was “spread too thin” with three major games on the go.
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Posted in: MMO, PC, RPG
Tags: Hilmar Pétursson, World of Darkness
Sun, Oct 23, 2011 | 23:23 BST
PixelJunk Sidescroller to release this week
Q-Games finally has a release date for its latest gloriously 2D effort.
Sun, Oct 23, 2011 | 23:03 BST
GOG.com views piracy, not Steam, as its competitor
Digital distribution service Good Old Games doesn’t look on other businesses as competitors in the war for PC gamers’ dollars.
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Posted in: CD Projekt, Piracy, Retail, Trade
Tags: gog.com, good old games, Guillaume Rambourg
Sun, Oct 23, 2011 | 22:39 BST
Dishonored dev: Gamers aren’t stupid
Harvey Smith, the veteran co-creative director at Dishonored developer Arkane, says players don’t want the stripped back press-X-to-win offerings some publishers seem to believe they do.
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 | 08:11 BST
The Weekly Wrap – WoW pandas, next-gen rumor mill
Batman, RAGE, BF3, Uncharted – the holiday season’s in full swing. Oh, and let’s not forget Skylander’s Spyro… I mean, uh, Skyrim. Er, yeah. Look, a distraction: what last week’s biggest news means.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, EA, PS4, Weekly Wrap
Tags: battlefield 3, blizzcon, PS Vita
Sun, Oct 23, 2011 | 17:59 BST
Eurogamer goes live with full relaunch
Eurogamer.net has gone live with its well-anticipated relaunch after a private beta period, showing a radical new take on one of Britain’s most popular games sites. Gone is the static centre content column and obvious ordering of articles by type, replaced instead with article feeds based on date and popularity.
It’s getting hammered at the moment, so you may have trouble getting it loaded, but it is there. Congrats to all involved.
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Posted in: Journalism, UK
Tags: eurogamer
Sun, Oct 23, 2011 | 00:42 BST
BlizzCon 2011: SCII: Heart of the Swarm panels reveal new and existing unit changes
During a StarCraft II panel at BlizzCon, game director Dustin Browder, balance designer David Kim, and senior designer Josh Menke discussed some of the new units included in the expansion, as well as changes being implemented to existing units, and revealed which units would be retired from service.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Blizzcon 2011, Development, PC, Strategy, Videos
Tags: David Kim, Dustin Browder, heart of the swarm, Josh Menke, sc2, scII, starcraft 2, starcraft II
Sun, Oct 23, 2011 | 00:44 BST
Saturday Shorts: Uncharted 3, Inafune, Bloodforge, Batman, Postal 3, Transformers, The Office
Oh what a day. And it isn’t even over yet, even though it should have been a while ago. Let’s get these shorts out of the way so we can get back to BlizzCon stuff, shall we? We can always have our soup later.
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Posted in: Saturday Shorts, Shorts, VG247
Tags: Arkham City, arkham city map app, batman, Binary Domain, borg, Deadmund’s Quest, Emily the Strange, Gameloft, Jurassic Park, Keiji Inafune, Medieval Moves, Medieval Moves: Deadmund’s Quest, music unlimited update, naughty dog, Order & Chaos, Postal 3, Postal 3: Catharsis, star trek online, starcraft, STO, The Office, uncharted, uncharted 3, us ps movie store updates, vita twitter app
Sun, Oct 23, 2011 | 22:11 BST
BlizzCon 2011: Diablo III panels touch upon consoles, Book of Cain, gameplay, random dungeons
Blizzard held Diablo III panels today at BlizzCon, which focused on the lore in the RPG, and well as the game’s Auction House, gameplay mechanics, skills, and crafting.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Blizzcon 2011, PC, RPG
Tags: D3, diablo 3, diablo 3 consoles, diablo III, DIII
Wed, Nov 02, 2011 | 23:51 GMT
Dampierre’s ever the showman in Soul Calibur V video and screens
As Stace noted in his Soul Calibur V piece this week, Broken Destiny’s mustachioed Dampierre has been announced as a pre-order incentive for the fighter. While retailers partnering up with Namco on this have yet to be announced, those who do not pre-order will be happy to know the dapper fella will be made aviailable sometime after the game launched. A price is yet to be determined. The game hits stores in the US on January 31, 2012 and in Europe on February 3. Screens and a trailer are posted below. Thanks, D’toid.
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Posted in: Fighter, Namco Bandai, PS3, Screens, Videos, Xbox 360
Tags: dampierre, soul calibur v, team soul
Microsoft takes action against Halo 4 beta scam