Monthly Archives: November 2011

Sony’s unveiled a brand new campaign for PlayStation 3 in Japan ahead of Christmas, called Play It! Take It! PS3! The campaign’s website focuses on the red and blue colours that were announced at TGS and release in Japan today, as well as upcoming titles releasing in the country soon, including Uncharted 3, Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Ni No Kuni.

Thanks, Andriasang.

Tony Davis, the director of Crytek gladiator Kinect game Ryse, has joined ngmoco Sweden, GI.Biz is reporting this morning. Davis worked on the original Far Cry and both Crysis games as well as Ryse in his time at Crytek. Also joining him is Vesselin Efremov, an ex artist working for Crytek on an unknown project at its Black Sea studio. It’s the third Crytek member to jump ship to ngmoco Sweden – headed by ex-EA Easy GM Ben Cousins – having already gained ex-senior development director at Crytek, Senta Jakobson.

Capcom’s announced it’ll bring Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors for PSN later this month, provisionally set at November 29. The ESRB had recently outed the classics release of the PS1 title, which came out in 1996. Unity has more details on it here. Buy it and you may actually get to see a new game after all.

November 17 marks the fifth anniversary of the PlayStation 3′s US debut. We look back over the console’s journey from an unprofitable embarrassment to the powerhouse it is today – and beyond.

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Metal Gear Solid: Rising producer Shigenobu Matsuyama has stepped down from the project.

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Guillermo del Toro is gleefully excited by the prospect of mentally scarring you with his first game project, inSANE.

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Nintendo’s been touting The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword as its most-labour intensive title, with over 100 staff at work for five years, but Shigeru Miyamoto says two of those years don’t count.

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Acclaimed PS2 launch title Dark Cloud didn’t tick all the boxes for developer Level-5.

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The New Zealand games industry has seen significant growth over the past year.

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“Zelda doesn’t fit into any gaming genre perfectly. Of course there are certain techniques and certain basics that are similar throughout the series, but really what we are striving to do with each new Zelda is offer a new world for people to enjoy and to experience. Over 25 years, while we’ve been working on the Zelda series and creating the games, we’ve always had a wealth of ideas, which I think is what has kept us going all these years.”

– The Legend of Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma tells MCV about Link’s timeless appeal. Skyward Sword releases for Wii this week.

Thanks, GoNintendo.

A new game is in the works at the new US offices of Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios – possibly for rumoured new hardware.

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A new developer diary looking into EVE Online’s customer support team claims CCP has got responding to support requests down to a fine art.

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The mystery of the missing PlayStation 3 exclusive content has been solved.

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Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono and Monster Hunter Frontier producer Kazunori Sugiura have been placed at the head of a new initiative to drive social and mobile development at Capcom.

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Riot Games considers its Tribunal system, which dobs in League of Legends players who take trash talking too far, to be a great success.

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Skyrim hasn’t been out an entire week, and already the mod community is working day and night to create various patches, enhancements, and textures for the PC version. One of the neatest we’ve seen, and there are quite a few cools ones out there, is the map mod which shows you how to tweak the map in full 3D in order to zoom clear to the ground. PC Gamer said the result is a bit like a free camera mode that allows the player to “roam anywhere in the world” a bit like Google Street View. You can check it out through Skyrim Nexus, the video below, and look over a list of some other mods for the game here.

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The Lost, a game which has never seen release in English-speaking territories, laid the foundations for Irrational Games’ masterpiece.

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Back in February, Bethesda provided fans with a Skyrim challenge: have a baby on 11-11-11, name him or her Dovahkiin, and the studio would give the parents free Bethesda games for life. Today, it was announced that Megan and Eric Kellermeyer met the challenge when Dovahkiin Tom Kellermeyer was born on Friday at 6:08pm PST. How nerdily-awesome is that? Congratulations to the happy couple, as we really hope the little Dragonborn isn’t teased too much growing up.

The Secret World’s Templar week continues with some new artworks and an introduction to the faction’s history, goals, and headquarters.

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Goodies galore in shorts today, starting with an instance finder coming to Lord of the Rings Online, King of Fighters XIII DLC, Amazon sales, an indie game coming to Steam, and some interesting news out of Japan. Go ahead and hit the break.

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