Monthly Archives: November 2011

Machinarium’s PS3 version will be the “ultimate version” when it’s released, the game’s developer, Jakub Dvorský, has said.

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The second of EA Sports’ “Massive World” producer videos maps the route you’ll take through three more of the game’s regions and takes in the topography designed for your board.

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Lee Bradley finally gets his owl and signs up for racing school. Photos, videos and high-octane account within.

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The latest update to Trendy Games’ action-RPG title makes a slew of minor changes to game features and balancing along with squishing bugs that might have crept in with the free Halloween DLC. Full update notes below. Dungeon Defenders is out now via PC download, XBLA and PSN.

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Ubisoft’s North American executive director Laurent Detoc feels the reason Rocksmith was met with a less-than enthusiastic response from the gaming community along with tepid review scores is because “as much as [gamers] claim they want innovation, they don’t.”

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Dino Patti, head of Limbo developer Playdead, has delivered his verdict on the industry’s retail model and stated, “There will be discs for a long time from now, but the world has adopted download. When your mum and dad start to download things, that’s when it’s everybody who does it.”

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Major Nelson has posted the November 1-14 schedule for Xbox Live Marketplace. Have a look below the break.

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Capcom’s Tsukasa Takenaka has stressed the firm didn’t ignore Resident Evil’s horror roots in the fourth and fifth installments in series, but instead explored a more divergent horror with the addition of pulse pounding action.

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THQ has announced its free co-op DLC for Space Marine, Exterminatus, will be released on Xbox 360 tomorrow around 9am PST (noon EST, 4pm BST). Released for PC and PS3 last week, the DLC adds four-player co-op and along with the choice of three different marines: Assault, Devastator, and Tactical,  each with its own weapons and perks. More free and paid Space Marine DLC is planned for the future. Thanks, Eurogamer.

BlizzCon 2011′s Sound Panel session offered a revealing look at the work that goes into aurally caressing your ear lobes

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The voice of Nathan Drake has given his thoughts on performance capture, game and film convergence, and spoken of how he stole one of Drake’s lines from an eight-year old.

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Epic Games has updated its Unreal Development Kit – UDK – to include iOS Facebook functionality and tools for creating more attractive foliage and landscapes, so there’s no excuse for ugly trees in your creations.

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When Project Red Lime became Syndicate there was excitement; when Syndicate became an FPS there was befuddlement. Stace Harman goes hands on and speaks to EA to get some clarity.

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Red 5 Studios, developer of free-to-play team-based shooter Firefall, has spoken about the modes, character classes and art style of its upcoming title as well as how they intend to balance the oft-prickly issue of micro-transactions.

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Ahead of next week’s worldwide launch of Modern Warfare 3, IGN has a livestream taking place right now, featuring Robert Bowling, a raft of MW3 related info and competitions.

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A new trailer for Namco Bandai’s Vita RPG, Tales of Innocence R sets the scene with over a minute of anime before the in-game action kicks in from around 1:17. The remainder of the trailer is all about spells, combat and beating-up multicoloured enemies.

Tales of Innocence R launches in Japan for Vita on January 26 2012. No other dates have been announced, though Namco Bandai did recently state its intention to release more of its Tales titles in the US, so watch this space.

Thanks, Siliconera.

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A beta for multiplayer squad-shooter Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City is expected “early next year”, according to producer Mike Jones.

Joystiq reports the beta was outed at Capcom’s Gamers Day 2011 last week.

Operation Raccoon City is expected on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the first half of 2012. See the latest trailer here.

The promised release of DOOM 3′s source code is looming on the horizon.

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Here’s a Japanese -language trailer for Lord of Apocalypse, a Vita launch title from Deadly Premonition developer Access Games and sequel to Lord of Arcana. Be introduced to a number of typically hairstyled JRPG characters and baffled by their incomprehensible descriptions. No Western release has been announced, but the clamour for Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro may bring it to our fetéd shores.

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The latest Famitsu has revealed three “guest” characters in Musou crossover title Warriors Orochi, sourced from other Tecmo Koei titles.

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