Monthly Archives: December 2011

Sony’s dropped a couple of new screens from the Jak and Daxter HD Collection, show the duo doing their ‘thang. A majority of the shots seem to come from Jak 2 and 3, with only one coming from The Precursor Legacy. You can get the shots below the break.

The pack launches in February for PS3.

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Raptr has releases its inaugural Most Played Games list across various game genres, and has also detailed how gamers are spending time in each. Turns out, Skyrim leads the list with two wins: Most Played RPG and Overall Most Played Game.

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Namco Bandai’s dropped new shots of Katamari Damacy, showing the mindbogging puzzler in action for Vita. Its also detailed how players will be able to get hold of two downloadable levels. Collect fan souls – ten to be more specific – and you’ll get access to one level. If you don’t have the time to do that, you can buy a certain number of fan souls. Get one for ¥50, three for ¥130 and five for ¥200.

More details on these, as well as its Near functionality, and the screens can be found at Andriasang.

Andriasang has posted a few shots of Dead of Alive 5′s Ayane and Hitomi, and we’ve got them for you below. There’s also a few shots of Hayate going at it with Ninja Gaiden’s Ryu Hayabusa over on the site (via Famitsu), as well as the new Power Flow system. You can access those shots through here. DOA5 is now 15% complete, and its release date is TBA 2012. It will be made available on PS3 and Xbox 360.

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Warner Bros. has announced that the Batman: Arkham City Lockdown is now available on the App Store, bringing the Arkham City franchise to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Developed by NetherRealm Studios, Lockdown features several of Gotham City criminals, including The Joker, Two-Face and Solomon Grundy, as well as iOS-exclusive character Deathstroke. Lockdown uses AirPlay, allowing players to stream their gameplay on their iPad2 or iPhone 4S to their HDTV using Apple TV. It is available for £3.49 from the App Store on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

A video below, courtesy of GameTrailers, show it in action. There’s some screenshots below as well, for both iPad and iPhone.

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Sony’s announced details of the Version 1.60 update that will go live for PlayStation Home later today. The big change is the number of item placements in your space, up from 50 to 100. Also fixed is targeting in personal spaces, a new help system for new users of the service and more. You can get the full patch notes over on the US PS Blog.

Insomniac has released a trailer for the Brutality Pack released for Resistance 3 yesterday in the UK and Tuesday in the US. It’s posted below, courtesy of GamerSpawn. The pack, set in Wales, contains a new gameplay mode, a new weapon, set to music from Mastodon.

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The indie developer behind VVVVVV has released At A Distance a co-op title originally designed for the NYU Game Center’s 2011 No Quarter Exhibition. Designed to be played with two computers side-by-side, two players will go through their own stage which features various colored minimalist environments in first-person view. The game does not have instructions, but what each player experiences is linked, so it is up to the co-opers to figure out how to solve the gam’e core puzzle together. Sound trippy, and interesting. You can download the game free-of-charge for either PC or Mac through the link. Thanks, Shack.

Sony’s opened up the gates to a free two month trial of Music Unlimited for PS3 to those who have a PSN account. The offer is available now for US account holders, but SCEE’s just tweeted it’ll open the offer here in Europe on December 22. Get a trailer of how the service works below the break.

Thanks, CVG.

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Capcom’s teasing something in relation to Dead Rising. What it is, you tell us, but a post on the game’s Facebook wall through the guise of DR1 and DR2: Off The Record Frank West says he’s “getting packing for my new adventure – camera, notebook and baseball bat. What else would i need for a break in paradise?”

Dead Rising 3, innit. Or Dead Rising XBLA, Part Tres. Whatever.

inFamous 2 standalone expansion Festival of Blood was the fastest selling title on PlayStation Network in November, Sony’s said.

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NCSoft European head Véronique Lallier has left the company to head to Warner Bros as its VP of digital publishing in its international arm. Lallier became Managing Director in 2009 after joining the company in a marketing role in 2005. The company will now take a “flat management” approach, according to MCV, with Sarah Rogers in charge of sales, while PR boss Cat Channon heads up corporate communications.

Warner’s also appointed Stefan Lampinen as the company’s Managing Director in Nordic regions, where he joins from Game Advisor.

Microsoft’s confirmed that Joe Danger: Special Edition will launch next week, December 14. The charming Hello Games racer, which arrived on PSN last year, will come with new characters, levels and modes. A sequel called The Movies is in the works, but no date or platforms have been cofnrimed as yet.

Thanks, Eurogamer.

Nintendo Europe’s announced this morning it’ll release The Last Story in Europe on February 24, more than a year after it launch in Japan. The game, as well as a single-play story, will contain multiplayer modes such as Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Co-op. The Mistwalker title forms a holy trinity of Wii RPGs that have come to Europe within the past year, including Xenoblade Chronicles earlier this year and Pandora’s Tower early next year. All three have seen fan demand for a US release, but only Xenoblade has been confirmed for an American release in April.

Thanks, Nintendo Universe.

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has announced it’ll induct Epic co-founder Tim Sweeney into its Hall of Fame at DICE next year. Sweeney, who will also give a talk at the event for the first time, is the 16th person to go into the Hall of Fame, joining Will Wright, Shigeru Miyamoto and last year’s inductees the BioWare doctors, Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk. AIAS president Martin Rae said the group was “honored to add Tim Sweeney to our Hall of Fame. His unrelenting and innovative work on behalf of developers and gamers has created the imaginative games that help to drive the success of our industry.”

Thanks, Gamasutra.

German ratings body the USK has rated something called Alan Wake’s American Nightmare. Chances are that this is the name of the new standalone XBLA title that Remedy is set to unveil on Saturday at the VGAs set in the Wake universe. It was previously rumoured it would be subtitled Night Springs. Pat’s at Remedy this morning, so we’ll get him to chase it while he’s there.

Via Siliconera.

Square’s announced overnight it’ll release Chrono Trigger on iOS in Japan at least tomorrow. The release of the SNES RPG for Apple devices will cost ¥1,200. An Android version will arrive later this month. There’s a trailer of it in action below, via Andriasang.

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After a year away following the collapse of RealTime Worlds, APB’s returned online as F2P APB Reloaded. The MMO, available now on Steam, will run on a monetary items basis. If you start playing the game before December 19, you’ll get access to a Premium Upgrade Pack for ten days. There’s more on the pack here, where you’ll also get the game.

As of today, Aeria Games has taken on free-to-play racing MMO Need for Speed: World, a product of EA Black Box and EA Shanghai released last year. The game is now available worldwide in English, French, Polish, Spanish, and Portuguese, and along with Battlefield Heroes, is the second EA Play4Free title to be adopted by the network. Hit up the game’s website for more information. Aeria is also behind Heroes of Gaia, Eden Eternal, and Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine.

Eat Sleep Play boss and Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe feels an Online Pass might do the upcoming franchise reboot more harm than good.

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