Monthly Archives: November 2011

Bethesda’s unveiled plans for special midnight launch events for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to be held at GAME London on Oxford Street and gamestation Birmingham on New Street.

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Dragon Age III, this definitely ain’t.

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Croteam’s released a new trailer for Serious Sam 3: BFE and it features some brutal melee sequences showing you how you can use your bare hands to rip your enemy’s heart off, and do all other kinds of nasty things. The trailer’s really gory and reminds you of vintage Serious Sam action. The game’s out on November 22 for PC, PSN, and Xbox Live. You can watch the trailer after the break.

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Valve’s temporarily taken the Steam forums offline without specifying any specific reason for doing so.

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We literally have no other words to describe this. We only merely advise you to watch below the break, via IGN. Game’s out next week on PS3, 360 and PC.

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Activision’s gone live with the console app for Call of Duty: Elite on Xbox Live, enabling some of the free features for the service. When you register the app, you’ll also be able to get two hours worth of free XP from Modern Warfare 3. Get it queued from Marketplace for free here, and have it ready for MW3′s launch tonight.

Sony’s released the third and final part of its Behind The Scenes look of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, showing Naughty Dog cinematic lead Taylor Kurosaki, Nolan North and Emily ‘Elena Fisher’ Rose discuss the TE Lawrence and Crusades aspect to the story, as well as detail Ubar, the ‘Atlantis of the sands.’

Get the video below, via the EU PS Blog. Uncharted 3 is out now on PS3. Go buy it if you haven’t already.

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Factor 5 might be dead, but so has the NDAs on canned projects, it seems. One such project, as shown to GAF recently, is a PS3 exclusive called Animal Wars. One render from the game was posted, with info saying it was “World War II themed game that played like Warhawk but war between animals.” It would also have been “way better” than infamous PS3 launch title from F5, Lair.

There’s more details on the canned projects and what’s happened to senior heads in the thread here. Factor 5 went under in May 2009.

“We were looking for a new way to reinvigorate [the series] and [our developers] came to the table with this idea of bringing physical toys to the game, and that got everyone’s imaginations firing. It took what was a smallish, moderately ambitious project and turned it into a larger one.” – Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg, speaking to Gamasutra on how it brought Spyro back with Skylanders.

Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy will return to London next year, organisers have confirmed. It was announced at this year’s event by conductor Arnie Roth over the weekend at the Royal Albert Hall that the event would return to the venue on November 17. DW London seen Roth collaborate with famed FF composer Nobuo Uematsu and Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra for musical pieces from the FF series, including famed FF8 piece Eyes on Me.

Thanks, Digital Spy.

Activision’s announced it’s to stream tonight’s UK launch party of Modern Warfare 3 live online.

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Battlefield 3, despite a 54 percent drop in sales from launch week, has managed to hold off Uncharted 3 at the top of the UK charts.

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Stace Harman takes a look at how PC gaming is inspiring developers to push boundaries, and speak to Nvidia’s Ben Berraondo about health of a much maligned and misunderstood market.

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Following the leak of the game’s internal beta on XBL over the weekend, a new 13 minute video of Mass Effect 3 gameplay has popped up, showing a majority of the E3 demo.

WARNING: Spoilers.

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Still without a proper date as yet, Square’s given details on how the beta for Dragon Quest X will work out for those applying,

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Minecraft has now sold 4 million units, according to the game’s official website this morning. The event was marked by a tweet from creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, who merely tweeted: “4milyay.”

Well done, Mojang massive. The full thing, two years after it initially went live in a basically bare state, releases next Friday.

BioShock creator Ken Levine has said he doesn’t feel the need for new hardware yet.

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French media reports 6,000 copies of Modern Warfare 3 have been stolen in transit, as pre-release copies of the highly anticipated shooter pull massive eBay prices.

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You know how The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has vampires as a bonus race? Well, it has something else, too – something Bethesda’s PR apparently doesn’t want you to know. Spoilers through the break.

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If you can’t wait the double-digit hours until Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 legitimately reaches your eager hands, watch the first 15 minutes through the break.

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