Monthly Archives: November 2011

PlayStation Access TV, the new program from the team behind FirstPlay at Future, is the most downloaded free item from the PlayStation Network, Sony has said. SCE’s Ian Vinten told MCV that the show, named from the same community event held by Sony, had also amasssed 14,500 Facebook fans when Access took over from FirstPlay in the fall. There’s more details at the link.

Deathspank creator Ron Gilbert’s shown off two pieces of concept art from his upcoming, unannounced game. The art, which consists of a female doctor and a man in a suit, comes from a collaboration being made at Double Fine with Gilbert’s old Monkey Island partner, Tim Schafer. Posting on his website Grumpy Gamer, Gilbert said the game comes from “an idea that has been in my head for a long, long, long time,” since before Monkey Island. More news on it “will follow later.”

Get the pieces of art below.

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Crackdown 2 developer Ruffian Games is hiring for “a number of as yet unannounced projects with some of the biggest publishers in the games industry.”

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Ubisoft Montreal currently has 200 people working on Rainbow Six: Patriots, according to the studio’s director of comms Cedric Orvoine. The fact comes in a video tour of the Ubisoft flagship studio by Game Informer as part of the magazine’s exhaustive coverage on the Clancy sequel. You can watch the video here.

R6: Patriots launches in 2013 for PS3, PC and 360. A ton of new details popped up on it yesterday.

Team Meat’s Edmund McMillen has claimed the two-man dev squad is now formed of “arrogant, jaded fools,” speaking in an anniversary voiceover for Super Meat Boy’s birthday.

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Dragon Shout is a new app that features a fully zoomable map of Skyrim, and includes drop markers for loot and areas for alchemy recipes. Upcoming features will include being able to share map markers, a chat function and uploading pictures.

The app will be available for free on iOS devices in the coming days. Thanks, Touch Arcade.

Capcom’s released a brief TV spot for Asura’s Wrath, revisiting the whole “massive finger prodding earth” premise. Watch it below. The Capcom rage-actioner releases in Japan on February 23 and February 24 in Europe for PS3 and 360.

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Square Enix’s Hajime Tabata has said he wants to make a sequel to third Parasite Eve game the 3rd Birthday, but work on a potential follow-up to Final Fantasy Type-0 may come before it.

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Nintendo’s announced it’ll release a new 3DS hardware in the US ahead of the Christmas, mainly consisting of Nintendogs + Cats. The pack will contain a pink console, as well as either French Bulldog and New Friends or Toy Poodle and New Friends. It’ll cost $169.99.

Thanks, Engadget.

Activison Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has questioned EA’s ability to turn profits from Star Wars: The Old Republic, warning only a “small number” of companies have ever succeeded in the MMO space.

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Assassin’s Creed Revelations is to lend one of its costume designs to Final Fantasy XIII-2, Square said this morning.

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According to an Andriasang report, Famitsu’s debuting a massive Square Enix RPG in its latest issue.

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Ubisoft’s oft delayed, on-again-off-again digital survival title is finally ready to emerge into the light of day. Stace Harman takes a look to find out if we welcome it or run for cover.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the first western title to get a full score from Famitsu. The incredible Bethesda open-world RPG is the 17th game in the publication’s 25 year history to get a 40/40 in the magazine’s latest issue, according to this Japanese site via a tweet from RPGSite‘s US Editor, Erren Van Duine. Still not enough indication it’s not going to sweep every game of the year award on the planet, though (note: of course it will). Go nuts, Japanese-reading massive.

Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has tweeted a picture that appears to show hand-drawn concept art of Tekken x Street Fighter. The art, which shows Ryu and Chun-Li, gives an indication of how Street Fighter characters will fit in with the full 3D world of Tekken. Get the picture below the break.

Street Fighter x Tekken, set in the former’s 2.5D universe, launches on PS3 and 360 in March, with Vita and PC versions also due. Not much has been said on Namco’s effort so far.

Thanks, Unity.

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Japanese sales of Microsoft’s motion control system show significantly weaker performance than in international markets.

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The inevitable next Resident Evil looms surprisingly large thanks to a less-than-watertight credits list.

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“We were, at any given point, using 100% [of the PlayStation 3's power]. We were using everything we possibly could. There is always room where you find something where you can do the processing in some different way to find more power. There are all of these different ways to squeeze more power out of the box.”

– Justin Richmond, game director on Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, speaking to VentureBeat. Naughty Dog famously made the same claim about Uncharted 2 – and then optimised further.

This new trailer highlights some of the ways Call of Duty: Elite can make your gaming life better, while mysteriously failing to mention how not screaming abuse into the mic would definitely help.

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An image has surfaced evidently pointing to what is claimed to be a new version of the PlayStation Network.

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