Monthly Archives: October 2011

An environmental artist for Red Faction Guerrilla has said said one of reasons Red Faction: Armageddon wasn’t as well-received as other entries in the franchise, was due to interference.

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Sony has announced the PS Vita First Edition bundle, which will be made available in limited quantities a week before the handheld’s official release in the US and Canada. The bundle will be pre-sold at select retail locations, starting today, and includes the 3G + Wi-Fi model, a limited edition case, 4GB PS Vita Memory Card, and Little Deviants game for $349.99. The Canadian bundle includes a Wi-Fi model, a limited edition case, 4GB PS Vita Memory Card, and Little Deviants game for $299.99.

Those who pre-purchase the bundle can pick it up on February 15 instead of February 22 like the rest of the continent.

Is Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer a natural extension of the franchise’s rich universe or shoehorned in to tick a box on a checklist? Stace Harman goes hands-on and speaks to Bioware’s Aaryn Flynn to find out.

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EA has announced third-party PC titles will be offered on platform Origin starting in November.

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Blizzard president Mike Morhaime has admitted the subscription-funded MMO market is a difficult one “to compete in,” but considering the value players get when paying a monthly fee, he feels free-to-play “doesn’t necessarily make for a better game.”

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Avalanche has put the kibosh on yesterday’s rumor that Just Cause 3 will be released in 2012. Furthermore, the firm’s Christofer Sundberg told Eurogamer that the studio is ”not releasing any game in 2012,” and the Xbox World report was “just a rumor.” Earlier this year, Avalanche said it has two titles in the works for 2013, and recently released Renegade Ops on consoles. The game launched digitally for PC today.

Paradox and Arrowhead have announced The Stars are Left, a Lovecraftian expansion for Magicka.

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Speaking to the Guardian games blog, Andy McNab has described what drew him to advise Dice on Battlefield 3 – “the story” – and which bits reminded him of genuine missions – “the urban stuff”.

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According to a rumor posted over on tech site Win Rumors, Microsoft’s new Xbox Live dashboard update is set to launch next week. The site said it had a look at the update yesterday at the Nokia World event, and has posted a video of its hands-on with the update’s Windows Phone integration and Kinect features. It has been reported previously, that WP7 users can use the phone as a remote control with the dashboard via an app created for the service. A leaked PayPal memo posted back in September, while the dashboard’s beta was ongoing, pegged the new interface for a November 15 release. We’ll send a mail. Thanks, OXM.

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IGN news and features boss Colin Campbell won the Games Media Legend award at the GMAs last night, an event marred by behaviour from main sponsor Grainger Games. Read the presentation speech in full inside.

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Pre-order the luscious Trine 2 on Steam ahead of its December release and gain instant access to the online co-op multiplayer beta.

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The official website for Atouteki Yuugi Mugen Souls has had the curtains pulled back, and is now available for perusing. The game is in development at Compile Heart and Idea Factory, with Keiji Inafune heavily involved, and will be released on PS3 in Japan during March 2012. Thanks, Andriasang.

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A new trailer highlighting the headline features in this seventh iteration of Mario’s kart-based racer reveals the numerous items, customisation options and driving modes available.

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As appropriated from the great scribe and scholar Mr Bartholomew Simpson: Eat my shorts.

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Renowned Fighting Fantasy author Jonathan Green has penned a new title in Tin Man Games’ Gamebook Adventure series, it’s about an arachnid overlord and it’s out tomorrow for iOS devices via the App Store.

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Game director Justin Richmond has told Official PlayStation Magazine that the time was clocked up by a Naughty Dog tester who had all of the solutions to the puzzles and was playing on very easy difficulty.

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Sony has bought out Ericsson’s remaining 50 percent share in the previously joint venture, giving it full control of the company and of the PlayStation certified Xperia Play handset.

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As expected, Nintendo has posted a huge net loss of some ¥70.3 billion ($926 million) for the six months to September 30 2011.

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Phoenix Wright looks to be the very definition of the thinking-man’s fighter and so to play him effectively you’re going to need to know how to use him. Voila.

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Watch Frank West unleash his inner-Terminator in this video showing off the Cyborg Skills DLC pack.

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