Monthly Archives: December 2011

Crazy, man. Warner’s introduced a Chrome-supportable version of Supergiant RPG darling Bastion, consisting of a full version of the game as well as a demo for those who are decide if they’d like to buy it. Crazy bonkers this has happened, but there we go: it’s nearly 2012, after all. Get it from the Chrome Marketplace here.

Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock is now official, after an announcement by BBC this morning confirmed yesterday’s report.

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Following last night’s Wired fiasco, in which it claimed he was set to step down into partial retirement and a smaller role inside Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto has said he has no intentions of walking into the sunset yet.

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Spacetime Studios has said it’s the first studio to release MMOs that are playable across PC, smart phones and tablets.

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Microsoft is hosting a free Xbox Live Gold weekend, starting today. This means those who are Silver members will be able to jump online and play with friends, watch LoveFilm, play around with video Kinect, and other nifty new features recently implemented. According to CVG, Zune Video also has some nice deals and free content planned for the weekend, one example being 40% off select movie titles like The Hangover, The Bourne Identity and The Green Lantern. Those who log in will also get the chance to win a Xbox Christmas entertainment package which contains a Samsung TV, Xbox 360 Kinect bundle, 8,000 Microsoft Points and other niceties.

MCV’s reporting UK retailer Argo has pulled out of selling second-hand game market. The company, which started accepting trade-ins and selling second-hand titles in July 2010 for all stores following a trial scheme in March that year, has instructed retail stores to stop accepting trade-ins or sales immediately.

More details here.

Warner Montreal has said it’s working on bringing new DC Comics-based games to the market due thanks to the popularity of Rocksteady’s Batman series, and the bang-up job the studio did with the two titles.

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Next time you load up Serious Sam: BFE, you’ll get a free Santa skin for your character, which will turn multiplayer matches into something reminiscent of Silent Night, Deadly Night, as explained by GamesRadar. Should be interesting, and hopefully fun, with all those Santas running about the place.

Nintendo’s announced a partnership with Ubisoft, in which it’ll allow a remix of the Mario theme be DLC for Just Dance 3. The content goes on sale on December 15 for 250 Wii points. There’s a video on Nintendo’s website here. What else can we say about that?

Wired’s gaming editor Chris Kohler has stuck with his guns over its story yesterday Shigeru Miyamoto was to take a partial retirement and go into a smaller role inside Nintendo.

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Zynga CEO Mark Pincus has predicted the number of premium members will spike after the company’s IPO at some point before Christmas, As pointed out by VentureBeat, the company has 215 members, 2.5% to 3% of which rep its user base by buying Facebook Credits for virtual goods. “We could see that doubling,” said Pincus in a room of up to 100 potential investors, via Reuters. Zynga is expected to go public on the NASDAQ next week.

Atlus has shown off a new clip of Persona 4: The Golden for Vita. Not too much in it that fans will have already likely seen, but new character Marie does make an appearance. Get pumped for the RPG below the break, via Siliconera.

It launches in spring in Japan. A western release has not been announced.

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How much have you played Battlefield 3 or Modern Warfare 3′s multiplayer in the past month? 200, maybe 300 hours? That don’t mean shit, anymore: the bar’s been raised.

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New trailers of Mass Effect 3 and Hitman Absolution will air at the VGAs tomorrow, EA and Spike have respectively announced.

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Capcom US VP Christian Svensson has reiterated that Mega Man is still an important franchise for the publisher, teasing announcements for the series “in due course.”

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More than a year after they were initially first promised, Eden is set to finally introduce bikes into Test Drive Unlimited 2.

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This is not just a case of shiny-object-itis. The Vita is a piece of tech engineered to part Brenna Hillier from her precious cashmoney.

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According to Siliconera, Atlus has confirmed that SNK Playmore is working on a fix for troubled online multiplayer in The King of Fighters XIII. Meanwhile, if you’re an Xbox Live Gold subscriber, you can grab a demo ahead of its general release to Silver subs and the PlayStation Network on December 13.

EA and DICE have told Ausgamers that there are no plans to release PC patches for Battlefield 3 outside of Origin. After a recent 3.6GB patch, fans had requested the updates be released as stand-alone files to allow for faster, unmetered download speeds from ISP-hosted mirrors, but to no avail.

Prope, the mobile studio headed by Sonic creator Yuji Naka, has unleashed a new game on the App Store, and it is totally god damn adorable.

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