Monthly Archives: November 2011

According to the latest Xbox Live activity charts, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is hugely popular. Based on unique users, the single-player game is beating out platform-favourite multiplayer contenders like FIFA 12, Battlefield 3, Gears of War 3 and both Halo titles, second only to the twin Call of Duty juggernauts, Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops. The Bethesda RPG is still topping the Steam charts, too.

Thanks, Miladesn.

Capcom, Namco Bandai, Konami and Square Enix are yet to indicate their participation in the Vita’s UMD Passport scheme, which assists players in porting their PSP collection to the new hardware.

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Danish developer IO Interactive is looking forward to trying something totally new once Hitman: Absolution ships.

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Indie Game: The Movie, a feature documentary about “video games, their creators and the craft,” will make its world premiere as an official selection in World Documentary Competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

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According to the latest issue of Nintendo World, Shifting World is on its way to 3DS. The original flash game appeared on Armor Games and is on the way to full retail release thanks to Aksys. The action puzzler allows players to turn the level upside-down, switching solid black areas to white space. It boasts 60 levels and a variety of obstacles like switches, teleporters, low gravity and exploding barriers. No release date as yet.

Thanks, GoNintendo.

In anticipation of the Vita’s release, Silicon Studio has released an updated version of its popular engine, Orochi. Andriasang reports the new middleware allows for easy porting of PC games to Vita as well as PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and also aids simultaneous PS3 and Vita development. The company released some comparison screens of the engine running on PC, PS3 and Windows, which are suitably impressive – check ‘em out through the break.

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Capcom has announced it will publish World Gone Sour, an adventure game based on the Sour Patch Kids candy.

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Tiny Speck has announced it will “unlaunch” Glitch, its unusual, side-scrolling MMO.

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Turbine has released a few new screenshots from Update 5: Armies of Isengard, the December update for The Lord of the Rings Online. The epic story continues in the Rise of Isengard title update, and tasks the player with aiding aid Prince Théodred of Rohan as he and his Riders strive to thwart the evil plans of Saruman. The update will include five new Isengard instances, new raids for smaller groups, and instance finder, and lots of other updates and tweaks. Preliminary patch notes from the Bullroarer test server can be found through here. The screens below the break are from The Prince of Rohan instance.

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Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has revealed the publisher’s plans to expand its line up of brands.

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Activision has announced Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies for iOS will be released tomorrow, December 1 for $6.99. It will basically be the same zombies mode found in the console version of the game, only scaled down for your iPad and iPhone screen’s needs. The title will launch with the Kino der Toten map and the mini-game Dead Ops Arcade. It also contains multiplayer support for up to four players and has voice chat capabilities. Thanks, Joystiq.

A second round of lectures for GDC 2012′s Main Conference have been announced, and the set includes a look at the crowd system in Hitman: Absolution, a talk from WB Games Seattle, and a session from Dear Esther’s creator on indie success.

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The venerable GamePro brand – which began life as a magazine in 1989 – is being retired.

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Square has released another batch of screenshots for Army Corps of Hell. The Vita title, to be released around the system’s launch, will contain four-player co-op where each player controls his or her very own demon king and up to 50 goblins at a time. The game can, if you wish, support up to 200 goblins on screen at once casting spells and “stabbing monsters with tiny swords on the battlefield,” according to Siliconera. In single-player mode, the player can command up to 100 goblins. Awesome. Check out the screens below.

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CCP has released a launch video for EVE Online’s Crucible update. The video, as mentioned in the title of this post, contains actual in-game footage of real-life EVE Online players going about their business in the MMO. It also provides a look at the new captain’s quarters and battlecruisers. Crucible is a free expansion, and launched yesterday.

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Sony has teamed up with Best Buy to offer folks who purchase the new PlayStation 3D Display a 160GB PS3 for only $100. The promotion went into effect on Sunday, when the latest Kevin Butler ad went live during the Falcons vs Vikings game. You can also get a bundled version, which features the 24-inch display, 3D glasses, Motorstorm Apocalypse, an HDMI cable and a 160GB PS3 for $599.99. Watch the new ad below.

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Gameloft has released a new video for it wild-west shooter, Six Guns. The game is slated as a microtransaction title for iOS devices. In it, you’ll play a gunslinger who gets to shoot vampires, witches, werewolves and what looks like a nasty cult composed of Native Americans led astray. Originally titled Bullet, the game was originally slated for a fall release, now, it’s just “coming soon”.

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Cipher Prime Studios, the folks that brought you Auditorium and Pulse: Volume One, have released Fractal: Make Blooms Not War on Steam. The music puzzler tasks the user with pushing, chaining, and using combos to push their way through a “pulsing technicolor dreamscape” with three different game modes: Campaign, Puzzle, and Arcade. You can add it to your Steam cart for Mac or PC for $6.99.

THQ has announced that its stat tracking site for Saints Row: The Third has gone live, and you wouldn’t believe some of the numbers.

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Gearbox is looking to hire a live-action model for Borderlands 2, specifically one who has a sufficiently “plausible resemblance” to the character Lilith. The firm is looking for a female between the ages of 18 and 30 (aren’t we all?) who is free for testing and shooting during the first three weeks of December. No prior acting or modeling experience is required, so ladies in the Dallas area: go nuts. The only thing you need to be able to do is show a range of emotions through facial expressions. More details on how to apply can be found here. Thanks, VoodooExtreme.