Monthly Archives: November 2011

Major specialist retail chains have responded to isolated street date breaks with a mass release of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim.

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Analysts have predicted 16% growth for digital game revenue over 2011, peaking at $24 billion.

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Adobe has rung the first death knell over once-ubiquitous web standard Adobe Flash.

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Activision is busy behind the scenes coping with massive launch demand for its new social network service, Call of Duty: Elite.

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Gaikai has updated its catalogue of browser-based triple A demos to include Dead Rising 2. If your browser can run Java, you can have a go at the 30 minute offering – head on over to Gaikai’s Showcase to try it out, and hit the escape key to skip cut scenes. Other available demos include Dead Space 2, Bulletstorm, and Magicka.

Dead Rising 2 released in September last year, on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Thanks, Kotaku.

The long-rumoured Jak & Daxter trilogy collection looks to be an official thing at last.

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Despite acknowledging problems with piracy and hardware hassles, Bethesda still loves the PC.

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It looks like Square Enix isn’t messing with a classic battle formula too grievously with the first MMO in the series, Dragon Quest X.

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Frozenbyte has released some new shots for the lovely-looking Trine 2 which will be released in December. Those in Europe will be lucky enough to get a Collector’s Edition for PC and Mac, which contains all sorts of goodies, including the first Trine. The game is also slated for release on PS3 and Xbox 360.

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Former Team Bondi boss and founder Brendan McNamara has a new project in the works.

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During a keynote at the University of Southern California, EA president Frank Gibeau pretty much confirmed Battlefield 4 – although EA has hastened to asure gamers nothing has been announced.

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A second batch of hump day shorts are below the break and chock full of power at that.

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Atlus sent us a very nice mail letting us know winter was coming. To those who are fans of George R.R. Martin, you already know what this means.

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“Even Mr. Miyamoto himself has been talking recently about going back to the 2D Zelda games. In particular the ones that were designed with multiple levels to the world like A Link to the Past, and taking those 2D graphics and recreating them in 3D so that you could get a sense for the depth of those worlds. That’s something that might be interesting to do, so I would say there might be a possibility of something like that in the future.” – Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma to GamesRadar on the possibility of a Link to the Past remake.

Mobile analytics firm Flurry, along with NPD data suggest Apple and Android games have surpassed both Nintendo and Sony in the gaming on the go market.

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One of the better Simpsons games to grace consoles may finally be heading to XBLA, if listing on the Australian Classification Board website is any indication. Dug up by XBLAfans, the listing pegs Backbone Entertainment as handling the current-gen port for Konami which is good news considering the bang-up job the studio did with X-Men Arcade. When Joystiq asked Konami for comment on the listing, the publisher said it had “no information at this time”. Hopefully, they will be more forthcoming on the matter soon, because our fingers are itching at the very thought of it.

Following an overnight slipup on the PlayStation UK website that indicated something of the sorts was in the works, Sony has denied there’s a new Move peripheral in the works for BioShock Infinite.

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Amazon has announced Facebook, Netflix, Pandora, Twitter, are coming to Amazon’s AppStore, along with EA, Gameloft, PopCap, and Zynga all for the launch of Kindle Fire. Rovio is as well although that was pretty much a given, due to the Angry Birds logo which popped up on screen during the device’s unveiling. The first generation of Kindle Fire won’t have access to Google’s Android Marketplace, this news should be a bit of a reielf to early adopters. Games already announced for the tablet include: Airport Mania, Battleheart, Cut the Rope, Doodle Fit, Doodle Jump, Fruit Ninja, and Jenga. Thanks, IndustryGamers.

Media Create has released its unit sales chart for the week of October 31 through November 6, and of the nine title debuts this week, Super Mario 3D Land took the top spot, besting Uncharted 3 by 218,493 units.

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Bethesda has released a new video for Skyrim, showing the various magic spells and combat animations with the game. It also gives you a glimpse into the game’s skill tree. Before you watch it though, if you pre-purchased the game via Direct2Drive or Steam, you can now pre-load the game. Just an FYI, ya know. The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim is out Friday, a measly two days from now. Still feels like ages, though.

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