Monthly Archives: November 2011

Nippon Ichi’s unique dungeon defence series, variously known as Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman, What Did I Do To Deserve This My Lord, and No Heroes Allowed, will grace Vita’s Japanese launch with combination freeware game and personal scheduler.

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With Final Fantasy XIII-2, Square Enix hopes new tech has reduced the visual disparity between the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 evident in Final Fantasy XIII.

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Follow Ubisoft-owned mobile publisher Gameloft’s Android Twitter over the holiday weekend; the company intends to give away free games.

This batch of giveaways is specific to Android devices and the US, but keep an eye on GameloftUK, GameloftAus, GameloftUS and good old Gameloft for future promotions for other territories and devices.

Gameloft’s titles include MMORPG Order and Chaos and games based on Ubisoft properties.

Thanks, Kotaku.

It’s time for a new console, and therefore, it’s time for a new Ridge Racer. This trailer for the upcoming Vita title is spliced together from in-race and replay footage.

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A recent interview has shed light on some new gameplay and animation mechanics in Max Payne 3.

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“I think we would consider it undesirable to be significantly later than the competition [with PS4], [but] there’s still a lot of unfinished business on PS3. If you look at PlayStation 2, now in excess of 150 million units installed globally, a huge majority of that was done at price points of £120 or lower. [With PS3] we’ve only just hit £199 in the UK, so clearly there’s a considerable untapped part of the market there.” – PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan to Eurogamer.

A tweet from Internet sleuth Superannuation points to a resume which suggests Visceral is either working on a follow-up to Dante’s Inferno or, at the very least, hired someone to write the script for it.

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Blizzard has released a 10-minute video for Hour of Twilight, patch 4.3 for Cataclysm, which contains three new five-person dungeons and the Deathwing raid, Dragon Soul.

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Activision has sent out a friendly reminder to all Modern Warfare 3 players letting them know that Call of Duty: Elite’s Friday Night Fights starts on November 25. Executive produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott’s RSA Films, and director RJ Cutler, real life rivals will go against one another in Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer matches. The inaugural episode pits teams from the US Army vs US Navy. Friday Night Fights starts at 12.00pm PST on Elite and can be accessed through the premium end of the service’s program guide. Following each initial broadcast, a replay will be available via streaming.

The firm has also said the service should be stable by Thursday, to prepare for the holiday weekend.  Currently, overall average user functionality is at around 95%. According to Daniel Suarez, VP of production at Activision, speaking to VentureBeat:  “We are where we should have been at launch. It should be an enjoyable holiday weekend for people.”

Ubisoft has patched the Splinter Cell Trilogy HD on PS3 to add inverted aim support after enough players informed the developer that it would be nice to have options pertaining to y-axis alignment. The firm has told Eurogamer the patch is only available for the PSN version at the moment, but one for the retail version is “coming soon.” The Splinter Cell HD Collection was released back in September.

InXile Entertainment has announced The Bard’s Tale will be released on iPad next week. The port will be rather large too, weighing in at 1.7GB. It will contain all the content included in the 2004 release and will include a “custom-redesigned user-interface for touch control” and “optional in-app purchases” for your character. Thanks, Kotaku.

Valve has announced that the Steam Autumn Sale has started. To kick off the savings and daily deals is Portal 2 for 66% off, Black Ops at 50% off, Duke Nukem Forever for 66% off. Mass Effect 2 is 75% off, Risen is 50% off, and so is Renegade Ops.

Head on over to Steam and start buying.

A gazillion screenshots for PS Vita games have been released – well, maybe not a gazillion, but 200 at least. Shots include art and in-game screens from: Everybody’s Golf, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, WipEout 2048, Resistance: Burning Skies, Sound Shapes, Super StarDust Delta, Top Darts, MotorStorm RC, Lumines, Gravity Rush, Michael Jackson The Experience, Reality Fighters, Escape Plan, Hustle Kings, Little Deviants, and LittleBigPlanet. There’s also a video for Touch My Katamari below.

The majority of these games are launch titles, and some of the screens you may have seen, some you may not have: either way, they’re posted below.

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Media Create has released its weekly sales chart, and Modern Warfare 3 topped the software chart, besting high-profile Japanese debuts Ni no Kuni and One Piece Gigant Battle

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Employees of GameStop owned EB Games in Canada have stated that the company is to stop differentiating between the price tags on new and used games, making it harder for customers to tell the two apart.

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He’s back at it. Labour MP Keith Vaz has tabled an Early Day Motion on Modern Warfare 3 in Parliament. [Spoilers for MW3 after the break]

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Mari Shimazaki’s character designs for Soul Calibur V characters Lexia, Ivy and Tria have been released along with a bevvy of in-game shots from the fighter. Shimazaki, works as a freelance illustrator in various fields, and previously worked for Capcom where she designed characters on Okami before transferring to Platinum Games to work as a character designer for Bayonetta. Enjoy the screens below the break. Soul Calibur V is slated for an early 2012 release on PS3 and Xbox 360.

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Activision publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg feels that while “video games are fictitious popular culture” in the same vein as films, the content included in each are received in a very different manner.

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Ubisoft has seemingly killed off hope that I Am Alive will come to PC.

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Gears of War 3 players who finish Horde mode on Insane difficulty in either single-player or multiplayer, and who watch the Mission: Impossible trailer on XBL before December 25, will get a “themed weapon skin pack”. The pack consists of skins for the Lancer, Hammerburst, Retro Lancer, Gnasher Shotgun, and Sawed-off Shotgun. If you are unable to finish Horde on Insane, though, you’ll still be put in a contest to win separate prizes.

Gears 3′s free Versus Booster map pack arrives on November 25. Thanks, D’toid.