Monthly Archives: November 2011

Square Enix has released a two-minute video of one of the Final Fantasy XIII-2 cinematics, showing an epic battle between Lightning and new baddie Caius, which takes place in Valhalla. As is the Square norm, it’s in flabgobinglytastic CG. Get watching below the break.

FFXIII-2′s out in Japan on December 15, with a US launch on January 31 and a European launch on February 3, for PS3 and 360.

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Ubisoft’s released some new I Am Alive screens, showing climbing, standing on the edge of things, hitting things, shooting things with a bow and arrow and more. Grey is a definite theme. The survival game, which has a development history as long as your arm, releases for XBLA and PSN this winter.

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Bigpoint has made over €2 million this month on an in-game item purchase in the company’s free-to-play, browser-based space shooter MMO, DarkOrbit.

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A pack of six developers, who’s experience includes Epic Games, Monolith and Yager, have announced the formation of Strange Games. Its first title is puzzler Demolicious, which will release on iOS and Android later this year. The majority of the team at Strange are still working on AAA projects, but Ken Mayfield, currently working on Spec Ops: The Line, says he’s “hoping we can concentrate on ourselves after this, after we release Demolicious.”

The identities of the other five people involved are being kept secret until they wrap their work on their current projects. Thanks, Eurogamer.

Namco’s surpassed its £5,000 target for upcoming UK games industry charity event, Fight Club.

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GI.Biz is reporting that ex-Reflections bosses Gareth and Martin Edmondson have taken board roles at mobile studio Thumbstar Games. The pair, who were both ex-studio director and creative director at the Ubisoft-owned studio respectively, join as the company prepares to make an expansion up to Newcastle. Gareth comes in as CEO, while Martin, who had originally invested in the Liverpool-based company, will be chief creative officer. News of Gareth’s departure hit last week, but Martin’s exit was not publicised.

Sony has updated the European end of the PS Store with full game downloads, a nice sale, some Batman DLC, and Plus discounts. The full update is posted below.

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CVG‘s gone live with gameplay and story “montage” videos of Spec Ops: The Line, showing the Yager third-person shooter’s big aspects, including its setting in Dubai. Nolan North’s on voice control again for main character Captain Walker. Man’s got to provide bread, and all that. Videos are after the break.

Spec Ops: The Line launches next spring for PS3, 360 and PC.

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Shares in the GAME Group have gone down by more than half after it lowered revenue forecasts last week.

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The OnLive demo for Batman: Arkham City has broken both the US and UK records for most demos being played in a day, the streaming firm said today, but no figures to back up the claim have been provided.

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Codemasters has confirmed that the upcoming Dizzy remake will release on Android, iPhone and iPad on December 9.

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Metal Gear Solid: Rising may be a hands-off project for Hideo Kojima, but be warned, developers: mess up the series’s core principles and he’ll step back in.

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Sony’s released the first trailer for Unit 13, the Zipper Interactive third-person shooter announced last night for Vita at a European showcase in London. Take a look after the break. The game’s being promised for “around” Vita’s EU launch on February 22. Get the rest of the European launch lineup here.

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When development of I Am Alive switched from Darkworks to Ubisoft Shanghai, work went back to square one but remained “with the same pitch,” the latter has said.

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Id, as promised, has released the source code for Doom 3. A delay was threatened when tech director John Carmack recently tweeted that lawyers for Bethesda were “skittish about the patent issue” with a trick called Carmack’s Reverse that was used in the full game, but the law, quite clearly, is an ass. It’s now available from GitHub. Get to it.

Thanks, Gamefront.

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword director Hidemaro Fujibayashi thinks the latest game gives the player more reason to care about saving the day.

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Bigben Interactive has announced a new entry in the Test Drive franchise, building on one of the hottest licenses in racing.

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Put down your pitchfork, fanboy. Konami understands how the newly-recorded voice acting in the Silent Hill HD Collection offends your very being, and have included an option to switch it off. Unfortunately, “technical and logistical” constraints mean Silent Hill 3 only supports the new voices.

The Silent Hill HD Collection, which collects the second and third games, is expected on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in January.

Riot Games has kicked off Season Two, with big money on the table for the latest round of competitive League of Legends action.

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Just as Death is the grimmer, darker brother of War, Darksiders 2 is bigger and badder than the original game. We take a look and chat with Vigil’s Daniel McGuffy.

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