Monthly Archives: October 2011

Amongst blinking lights, soul-shredding bass and the mega-publisher bombast of the Eurogamer Expo there is a beacon of calm. Stace Harman visits the Indie Games Arcade with a pocket full of high hopes.

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Sony’s updated the EU PS Store, bringing with it the previously-delayed Castlevania: Harmony of Dispair, Sideway: New York, the Gold Edition of Resident Evil 5 and Warhammer 40k: Space Marine for £50. There’s also a DanceStar Party demo to boot, as well as the launch of the Survival Pack for Resistance 3 and Mark of the Assassin for Dragon Age 2. There’s also a Call of Duty sale for most DLC for MW1, MW2, World at War and the full version of Call of Duty Classic.

Get the full list after the break at the EU PS Blog. Here’s the lot from the US.

Following the news this morning that the promising Time Travelers is now coming to Vita and PSP alongside 3DS, this week’s Famitsu has detailed the game’s story.

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Microsoft’s announced its bought Twisted Pixel, making it the latest studio to join its internal Microsoft Studios arm.

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“We’ve completely restructured our studio around it. Nowadays, we have operations team who looks at the title when it starts getting closer to launch (or long before) with potential downloadable content and so on, to really have a plan. Otherwise you’re quite likely to start slipping. If you’re focusing just before release on what you’re going to ship post-launch, then I think you have problems.

“So, yes there is a massive plan in place.” – DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson, speaking to MCV about BF3′s DLC plans. Game’s out at the end of the month.

Despite it being still not officially announced yet, X360A‘s spilled the beans on the achievements for the XBLA release of Daytona USA. Sega US released a small audiobite teaser last week which practically gave the game away, but still hasn’t formally announced it. Before that, it was classified by the ACB. Get the full list at the link.

Bargin hunters, PES 2012 is 99p from HMV (via MCV). But there’s is a twist: the price is available for those who trade in their copy of FIFA 12. The retailer is also offering Forza Motorsport 4 at a low price for £1.99 if a copy of F1 2011 is traded in. On its part, GAME will be offering Forza 4 for £4.99 if either Dark Souls, RAGE, FIFA 12 or F1 2011 on 360 are traded in, while Ace Combat Horizon is 99p if Gears of War 3, FIFA 1, RAGE or Dead Island are swapped.

PES 2012, Forza 4 and Ace Combat all launch in the UK this Friday.

Zynga lifted the wraps off Project Z, a brand new “social playground” where it’ll host games from the company outside of Facebook.

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Duke Nukem 3D is to make the jump to Android devices “very soon,” its been announced. The game, which is a port of the iOS version, is being made for the OS via a collaboration between Tapjoy Inc and MachineWorks NorthWest. When it releases, it’ll be available for all Android devices that are running on Version 2.1 or upwards.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Get shortie after the break, innit.

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Ubisoft has confirmed on Facebook that Rocksmith will not release in Europe until 2012. The game is still down for a release next week, but will miss here until next year due to “music licensing and other external factors.” For those thinking about importing, you may be out of luck. According to GameSpot, the 360 version is region-locked, and the PS3 version won’t be compatible in PAL as won’t post-launch DLC despite it being region-free.

Warner and 5th Cell have launched an iOS version of Scribblenauts, known as Scribblenauts Remix. The title will bring ten new exclusive levels, iCloud support to switch between iPhone and iPad without hastle, Game Center support and more.

You can get it on iPhone or iPad for £2.99 or $4.99.

Aksys has announced it’ll release PS3 and 360 versions of BlazBlue: Continumm Shift Extend the same day its Vita counterpart does when the handheld launches in the US. When that is stil a mystery other than it’ll be early 2012. Continuum Shift Extend will feature a brand new fighter Relius Clover, as well as all the DLC fighters from the last game.

Thanks, Siliconera.

Namco Bandai’s US arm has announced (via Joysitq) that the 3DS version of Tales of the Abyss will come to America on Valentines Day, February 14. It comes days after NBG Europe confirmed the 3DS version of the PS2 RPG would release here and in Asian Pacific regions on November 24.

Namco also re-confirmed a 2012 launch for Tales of Graces F on PS3 for both Europe and the US.

THQ’s confirmed that the final superstar to be confirmed for WWE ’12 is none other than the ‘next big thing,’ Brock Lesnar. Lesnar left the WWE in 2004, before going on eventually to UFC. But speaking to IGN, he said that he “probably wouldn’t be where I am today” without the WWE, adding that “the visibility from that company and what they did on a global network for ‘Brock Lesnar’ as a whole, put me on another level.”

There’s a trailer of his return below. Game’s out next month for PS3, 360 and Wii.

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This will be the greatest thing ever if something happened.

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What else is there to say? 57 seconds of pure, lovely, pure lovely destruction via EA is below the break. The DICE mega-shooter releases at the end of the month for PS3, 360 and PC.

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Valve leader Gabe Newell has said the growing popularity and success of closed platforms is likely to squash innovation.

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Sony has detected a seemingly large scale hack attempt on the PlayStation Network among other services, and warned users to secure their log-in details.

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Level-5 has announced the previously 3DS exclusive Time Travelers will see release on Vita and PSP as well.

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