Monthly Archives: December 2011

Waveform has all the hallmarks of the next big thing. Get on board right now as we chat with its creator.

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A French court has ruled in favour of Namco Bandai in a suit the publisher initiated over the distribution rights to The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.

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Bethesda has suggested a number of workaround tips and tricks for PlayStation 3 owners suffering memory-related issues in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Suggestions include freeing up 2GB of memory on your consoles’ hard drive; disabling auto-save; and waiting or resting for up to 30 days to help clear the effects of your actions on the game world. A few advanced options using the console’s safe mode are suggested too, but don’t come highly recommended.

The publisher has indicated the PS3 issues are a priority and may be part of the next patch.

Nintendo has denied its legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto is to step down from his current role inside the company and take partial retirement.

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Streaming games service OnLive has expanded its hardware horizons to support mobile devices, complete with a wireless controller and custom touchscreen controls.

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You can customise your ninja, unlock special moves, commit hara kiri and engage in bloody four-way slicefests in Ninja Gaiden 3′s multiplayer mode, according to these images.

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“We could knock out a Fruit Ninja 2 in a couple of months and it would probably sell gangbusters, but we wouldn’t be satisfied with that. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves. Even when we were working on licensed titles we were determined to make the best games we could possibly make. We want to make really fantastic games and keep building Halfbrick as a company that people identify as making quality, interesting, unique titles.”

– Halfbrick’s Luke Muscat, speaking to Kotaku. Fruit Ninja is available for iOS, Kinect, Windows Phone 7, and is part of the Android Marketplace’s rotating selection of 10 cent apps today, so no excuses.

Here’s the third episode in a series of animated shorts for Gotham City Impostors, Monolith’s mental multiplayer take on the DC canon. Check out the first and second parts, too. The game is expected on PC, the PlayStation Netwok and Xbox Live Arcade in January, and kicks off a beta test this month.

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Pre-orders for Star Wars: The Old Republic will give players a week long headstart on the rest of us.

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The website for soon-to-be-revealed PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last of Us has been updated. You can now grab a wallpaper which is listed as a screenshot on the site. Thanks to an URL exploit discovered by NeoGaf users, you can also see a second one, which shows a newspaper mentioning a quarantine and “millions feared dead or infected”. The famous ant video has also been extended by several seconds with rather disturbing results.

The next update is due on December 10. The mysterious title will debut with an in-game trailer at the VGAs this weekend.

Legendary Ultima designer Richard Garriott has finally unveiled Portalarium’s latest project, which he once described as an “Ultima-style game for the social space“.

It’s a Facebook game about going to garage sales.

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Ninja Gaiden 3 will launch on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in March, Team Ninja lead Yosuke Hayashi told journalists including Joystiq yesterday. The studio has since followed up with confirmation on Twitter. The latest entry in the famously difficult hack-and-slash series will also appear on Wii U when the system launches next year, and a Vita game is expected in February.

The bottom of the ocean isn’t what makes BioShock what it is, according to creator Ken Levine.

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Gears of War developer Epic Games doesn’t feel the need to appear on every bit of hardware available.

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THQ has updated its outlook for Q3 2012 ending December 31 by 25%, due to lower than expected sales of its uDraw tablet for PS3 and Xbox 360.

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Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick isn’t interested in pursuing a number of tactics adopted by rival publishers.

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Deep Silver has announced its to publish Egosoft’s X³: Albion Prelude on PC and Mac via Steam. The game takes place between the old and the new X Universe which is to be depicted in X Rebirth.

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Trade outlet MCV has invited the games industry to its annual salary survey, which tracks the state of remuneration in the UK, Europe, North America, and beyond. The survey also polls working conditions, job security and satisfaction, and the results are important to both employers and employees, as well as providing a good measuring stick for the health of the industry as a whole. If you work in development, publishing, distribution, PR, media, retail or some other realm associated with gaming, head on over to the survey. The deadline is January 6.

Media Create has released its weekly sales chart, and unsurprisingly, Mario Kart 7 is king of the software chart with 423,619 units moved. It also contributed to almost a doubling of 3DS sales over the prior week.

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Major’s announced this evening the surprise release of an iOS app for Xbox Live. My Xbox Live will allow to read and send messages, add and manage your friends list, view and compare your achievements and more. You can get it from iTunes here for free for all iOS devices. A companion app for Windows Mobile 7 handsets is also out now.