Monthly Archives: November 2011

Analyst firm Lazard Capital Markets has concluded World of Warcraft could lose between 900,000 and 1.6 million players when Star Wars: The Old Republic launches next month.

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Brian Horton, art director at Crystal Dynamics, has taken to the firm’s official forums to explain the design choice for Lara Croft in Edios’s upcoming reboot, after members expressed concern over Lara’s iconic blue tank top and shorts being scratched for neutral colored cargo pants and a layered tank.

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Just a quick reminder to let you know that Batman: Arkham City is now available on PC, Steam, OnLive, Origin, and GameStop’s Impulse in the US. The Robin Bundle packs is also available today on the aforementioned platforms, along with PSN and XBL for $6.99/560 Microsoft Points. In the Robin Bundle Pack, the Boy Wonder comes with his own unique gadgets and special moves, and is playable in all challenge maps, as well as two additional challenge maps included with the pack: Black Mask Hideout and Freight Train Escape. The pack also contains two alternative Robin character skins.

In case you haven’t seen the 30-second Robin video before, we went ahead and posted it for you again below. The game will land on PC in the UK Friday, and the Robin Bundle will be made available in the region tomorrow.

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Bethesda’s launched a RAGE taster on Xbox Live Marketplace, nearly two months after the full game released.

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Nintendo has announced new eShop goodies heading your way soon, starting with Game Boy classic Metroid II: Return of Samus on November 24.

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Microsoft has told VG247 that security for Xbox Live is of “utmost importance,” following a story in The Sun today that phishing schemes have cost 360 gamers “millions of pounds”.

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Paragon’s announced the 2012 Salute to Statesman Loyalty Program for City of Heroes. The scheme will enable players of the MMO to gain exclusive costume parts, emotes and more by remaining a loyal sub. Those who would like to gain their extras will need to make sure their subscription doesn’t run out between December 1 and March 31.

More details here. Thanks, Massively.

Activision has announced that one million premium memberships of Call of Duty: Elite were sold with in six days of launch, and over 4 million have registered overall.

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2K’s confirmed a spring 2012 launch for Spec Ops: The Line, as the embargo on new impressions on the game lifts after a near 18 month underground period.

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Codemasters has seemingly confirmed the return of ancient, egg-shaped mascot Dizzy, releasing a teaser video and launching Eggcitingnews.com

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The Cynical Brit’s posted a 20-minute video from Star Wars: The Old Republic, showing off character customisation. There’s no story stuff in here, but if you intend to stay clean for the launch next month, it’s probably best you don’t watch this. Get it below the break. The BioWare MMO releases on December 20 worldwide.

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The launch trailer for Serious Sam 3′s gone live ahead of the game’s release today. It’s full of action. It’s full of aliens. What else do you expect? Get it below the break.

The shooter goes live on Steam at 6.00pm UK time this evening.

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Activision’s put out a notice correcting its initial figure of 3.3 million simultaneous users on multiplayer for launch day of Modern Warfare 3. The number now, according to the publisher, 1.4 million users. Acti reported last week 3.3 million users logged onto Xbox Live day one to play the shooter.

Infinity Blade II will set you back $6.99 when it releases on the App Store, according to Kotaku. IB2 will come with cloud saving, additional character customisation and more. The Epic and Chair-made stunner releases for iOS devices on December 1.

Microsoft’s announced that today’s Dance Central 2 DLC will be on all things Gaga: Marry The Night and Edge of Glory will both be available for 240 MS Points on Xbox Live Marketplace later this afternoon. These will be the third and fourth Gaga tracks added to the Harmonix dancer, which comes with Born This Way and Bad Romance on the disc.

MS has also said that Rhianna DLC will be inbound next month. Thanks, Joystiq.

Amazon US is currently offering a 160Gb PlayStation 3 bundle that includes Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Part 2 for $249.99. The pack, along with the hardware and movie on Blu-ray, will come with a DualShock 3 and a free 30-day membership to PlayStation Plus. Also being offered as optional add-ons are a media remote, a PS3 new owners kit and a copy of Resistance 3. The offer comes ahead of Black Friday in the US this week.

Get the details here. Thanks, Joystiq.

DICE has unleashed a massive update for Battlefield 3 on PC, as promised last week.

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Sony’s confirmed it’ll release Gravity Daze for Vita on February 9 in Japan. The retail version, which wil come with booklet featuring a comic, illustrations and bonus extras, will cost ¥5,980. The download version from PSN will be ¥4,900. The game, which is being made by Silent Hill creator Keiichirō Toyama and is looking absolutely lovely by its latest batch of shots, will require a memory card.

Thanks, Andriasang.

Final Fantasy XIII-2′s story will take around 30-40 hours to finish, the development team has told this week’s Famitsu (via Siliconera). After you complete the game, you’ll be able to reload your save to take you back to a point before the game’s final boss. If you have a save file for FFXIII, you’ll get a special wallpaper.

Final Fantasy XIII-2 releases in Japan on December 15, and in the west on the week of January 30 for PS3 and 360.

Bethesda’s put out a Skyrim patch that ties the PC version of the RPG more closely into Steam and apparently stops users accessing RAM over 2Gb, RPS reports.

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