Monthly Archives: December 2011

Just in case you thought the full E3 rumour of Platinum doing Metal Gear Rising was going to come to fruition, you thought wrong. While the Bayonetta developer is now confirmed to be part of the project, Bayonetta boss Hideki Kamiya, initially thought to be involved, has confirmed he isn’t part of its development. In a tweet, he said: “Hey everyone, I said 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times that I have nothing to do with Metal Gear Rising.”

More details on Rising will drop today and tomorrow.

That does look a lot like Ellen Page in The Last of Us. Safe to assume she’ll be voicing the female character? No.

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The 2011 Spike VGAs were meant to celebrate the year’s best games and hype future releases. Instead, Johnny Cullen argues, they played to stereotypes in the worst possible way.

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Sony’s investment in thatgamecompany really paid off, producing two of the PlayStation Network’s top performers.

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Besthesda has reiterated it intends DLC for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to be chock full of content, and tailored around player feedback.

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If you weren’t tuned into the VGAs this weekend, you might have missed this new Darksiders 2 trailer, which aired during a commercial break. Blood, drama and lovingly realised living skeletons through the break.

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“I think our favorite [user made video] really is putting the buckets on the heads. It was like day two, and we went, what? Do we fix that? Our lead programmer is pissed and wants to fix it, and I said I’m not sure we should. That’s one of those where maybe we leave it in.”

– Bethesda’s Todd Howard admits to Joystiq that he has a fondness for one of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s more amusing emergent techniques.

Want to shoot robots while trying to manage a squad full of teammates likely to abandon you mid-mission if you perform badly or ask them rude questions? Binary Domain has you sorted. The shooter boasts a cyberpunk plot, an extensive voice command library which extends to conversations, a gameplay-rooted consequence and relationship system and extensive multiplayer. It arrives on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in February; check out a new Japanese trailer through the break.

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“There’s no dudebros in it. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, right? Creatively for the team, Gears has been amazing for us. But it’s fun to kind of stretch our wings and do something that’s a little different from the usual. It was a project that was pitched internally. I was a staunch supporter of the idea, because the game is just like a no-brainer – I was like yes.”

– Cliff Bleszinski, lead creative on Gears of War, tells Joystiq his feelings on Epic’s very different new project, Fortnite, which was revealed at the VGAs this weekend.

Darwinia developer Introversion has given a first look at its next project, Prison Architect.

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Following Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance’s surprise VGA re-reveal, Kojipro has given a few more details and cleared up some misconceptions.

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Gleefully return to Supergiant’s indie darling this week thanks to its first piece of DLC.

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Gaslamp Games has announced an expansion to its light-hearted rogue-like Dungeons of Dredmor. Called Realm of the Werediggle, the new content goes on sale “sooner than you imagine, unless you’re a very imaginative person indeed,” and adds in a new batch of the dungeon crawler’s trademark skill trees. Shoot eye lasers, polymorph into a bat, and transform into a werediggle. Check out a trailer through the break.

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Activision released the debut trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man during the VGAs this evening. The video showed rouge Oscorp robots taking over NYC in a very destructive manner, and Spider-Man fighting the metal maniacs as best he can before a massive worm-robot enters the scene. All was shown as though it was being broadcast on the local news, giving the player a third-person perspective on he situation. The Amazing Spider-Man is slated for a summer 2012 launch alongside the film of the same name, and is currently in development at Beenox Studios.

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IO Interactive released a new Hitman: Absolution trailer during the VGAs pre-show, featuring Agent 47 going into a hospital with guns a’ blazing. You can watch all the carnage for yourself below. Hitman is due in 2012 on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

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Activision’s released the first trailer for Transformer: Fall of Cyberton during the Video Games Awards 2011 and it reveals the “beginning of the end”, as the autobots are shown fighting for survival in the last moments of their homeworld – Cyberton. The trailer’s all CG and features no gameplay footage. The High Moon studios developed title will be releasing in 2012 for PS3, and Xbox 360. You can watch the trailer after the break.

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Tekken Tag Tournament 2 has been announced for a release in 2012. What for, we actually kinda don’t know, as the video doesn’t actually say. We assume it’s for consoles, though: we were told an announcement on TTK2 was coming this week. Still, here we go. Video’s after the break.

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Bioware released a new video for Mass Effect 3 tonight, which received its world premiere during the VGAs. In it, Commander Shepard is trying to escape being obliterated by a Reaper when a Thresher Maw bursts onto the scene, inadvertently saving his life. It’s pretty intense to watch, and you can do just that below the break. There’s also a few screen grabs through here. Mass Effect 3 is out in March on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. A demo is set for release in January, with Battlefield 3 players getting the first crack at it.

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Airing tonight at the VGAs, Ubisoft’s shown a brand new trailer of Rainbow Six: Patriots, showing a top banker pushed to his death while a bomb strapped to him detonates on the citizens of New York. No doubt this is taking on the current events in the world economic situation.

The Ubisoft Montreal shooter launches in 2013 for PS3, 360 and PC.

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Blizzard’s released a new trailer which shows the full opening cinematic of Diablo III, which aired during the recently concluded Video Game Awards 2011. The trailer gives you an idea about how it all started and what kind of forces you’ll be facing throughout the game. It looks pretty good. Diablo III is due out sometime in 2012 exclusively for PC. You can watch the trailer after the break.

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