Monthly Archives: November 2011

Flying Wild Hog has announced that a survival mode, new maps and NVIDIA 3D Vision support have been added to Hard Reset via patch 1.2.

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“Resident Evil Revelations is an all new Resident Evil title with over 20 hours of gameplay, and cutscenes beautifully rendered in fear-inducing 3D. A true console experience on a handheld device, Resident Evil Revelations is an epic title that offers both a single-player campaign for that classic survival horror gaming experience, and an additional RAID mode that can be played cooperatively or single player. To handle all of that data Resident Evil Revelations requires a 4GB cartridge [instead of the normal 2GB card], resulting in a higher price point.” – Capcom spokesperson to Kotaku on the $10 price difference to other 3DS titles.

Volition has released another Cherished Memories video for Saints Row: The Third, and in it, some pals drive around causing mayhem in their pimped out ultra compact economy car while singing Sublime’s What I Got. NOT Beck’s Where It’s At, apparently. The author of this post is old, and got confused earlier, buts rest assured, the nurse has given her meds in a paper cup, and put her back in front of the Bingo table. Anyway, the game’s video is posted below. SR: The Third is out November 18. Thanks, EvilAvatar.

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Major Nelson has posted a timeline video for Modern Warfare, which should get you caught up on the events leading up to Modern Warfare 3. For those who haven’t played the previous two games in the series, it all started with the assassination attempt of a Russian arms dealer by the British military. Unfortunately, Lt. John Price only blew the fella’s arm off instead of killing him, and it’s been hell ever since. Watch the video below. Game’s out in six days.

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Siliconera has dug up a patent application Sony filed in 2010 containing diagrams and biometric-equipped descriptions of DualShock 3, Move, and a handheld similar to Vita. The description states the controllers could monitor a player’s bio-data with various possible uses depicted such as: noting stress levels so as to adjust a game’s difficulty level, increased weapon accuracy or even an in-game character piping up to comment on the player’s state of mind at the time. The tech is similar Nintendo’s Vitality Sensor, announced at E3 2009 and yet to see a release. We’ll send a mail. Thanks, Gamespot.

Media Create has released its weekly sales chart for Japan during the week of October 24-30, and Final Fantasy Type-0 topped software with close to 500,000 units sold. 3DS stayed on top in hardware, outselling PSP 2-to-1.

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Ubisoft has announced its acquisition of RedLynx, the Finland-based creator of the Trials franchise, for an undisclosed amount.

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Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter believes the holiday sales season will be a banner one for US hardware, and Microsoft will lead the fray as it celebrated the one year anniversary of Kinect.

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Tecmo Koei has sent over 12 screenshots for Ninja Gaiden 3, showing Ryu dispatching enemies in a bloody fashion. There’s also a couple in there of his new ninpo, which allows him to turn into a fiery dragon. Nice. The game launches early next year for PS3 and 360. A Wii U version is also being developed.

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Epic Games has announced its Make Something Unreal competition has returned with Make Something Unreal Live.

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Namco Bandai’s reported revenue of ¥194.2 billion ($2.5 billion) for Q2 of its current fiscal year, which is up 11.9% compared to ¥173.6 billion ($2.2 billion) the year prior.

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Four storyboard slides all related to Thief 4 have appeared online, showing series main character Garrett sneaking through what appears to be a house. There’s a second person as well, but that about it. Get the slides here. Not much is known on the sequel besides acknowledgement on its development at Eidos Montreal, but expect information to ramp up with Deus Ex: Human Revolution now out of the way.

Sony’s announced it’s to launch its reboot of PlayStation Home tomorrow morning GMT.

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EA executive vice president Patrick Soderlund is confident the firm’s content plans will keep gamers interested in Battlefield 3, even with the deluge of titles releasing over the holidays.

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Eutechnyx has announced its gained government growth funding of up to £1.8 million. It said it will use the grant to help set up a publishing operation for Auto Club Revolution, which will provide 190 jobs that consist of posts for marketing, support and operations. The money will “allow us to continue recruiting the cream of the development & publishing talent from around the world to join the team, and to really push forward with an innovative and genre-changing online product,” according to Darren Jobling, COO of the developer.

More details at Develop.

Rovio has announced that Angry Birds has been downloaded 500 million times since its release on December 11, 2009. “It’s more than any game ever before,” said the firm’s marketing boss Peter Vesterbacka, who added that the firm’s next goal is to reach 1 billion downloads. Earlier this year, Rovio raised $42 million from venture capital firms, and has expanded the franchise into toys as well as baby and pet products. Via Reuters.

Capcom’s released brand new ‘BBQ Chef’ DLC for Dead RIsing 2: Off The Record, which gives “extra moves with various knives, extra health boosts from grilled foods, deadly attacks with condiments, bigger explosions.” We got lost at the part it said “grilled foods,” but you can get it for $1.99 or 160 MS Points. There’s a video below.

Thanks, CVG.

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Sony has updated the European end of PS Plus and the PS Store, with some nice content and discounts. Become acquainted with the updates below.

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A new piece of free Gears of War 3 DLC, the Versus Booster Map Pack, will launch on November 25. The pack will contain Gears 1 classics Swamp and Clocktower, as well as Azura, Rustlung and Blood Drive from the Horde Command Pack, which released yesterday for 800 MS points. The release of Horde Command and Versus Booster packs this month will come as part of a trilogy of DLC releases for the game before the end of the year, the final being campaign content RAAM’s Shadow on December 13 for 1200 MS points.

Following Uncharted 3′s release in Europe today and in the US yesterday, developer Naughty Dog has said future titles will have to live up to a “really high” quality standard.

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