Monthly Archives: December 2011

Those who’ve yet to purchase BloodRayne: Betrayal can now get 20% for waiting, as through PSN in the US the game will be discounted starting today. However, the sale ends on December 13, so you best hurry. Europe saw a similar sale on the game back in November.

Ronimo and dtp Entertainment have revealed the latest Awesomenauts character: Yuri, who is described as: a crazy and sadistic space monkey.

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EA has announced The Sims 3 Showtime expansion pack for PC and Mac is in development and will launch worldwide in March 2012.

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I am Johnny Cullen. I am a Persona 4 fan. And I approve this video of Chie kicking ass in Persona 4: The Ultimate. The video is shot off-screen from a location test of the arcade version to help with balancing and other things with the fighter before it gets a widespread release next year. Get the video below, via The Gaming Vault, and look at Chie kicking the P4 protagonist’s butt (mostly).

The Arc Systems fighter launches on PS3 and 360 next year in Japan.

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UK shops are reporting 3DS sales are surging, and High Street sources have told MCV the Metallic Red edition is selling out fast. Other colors are in short supply as well, and the popularity of the handhled this holiday season is being attributed to Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7. “We have high expectations for the final few weeks before Christmas,” said GAME Group’s category manager for Nintendo Iain Johnson. The price cut has also helped as well, so if you were planning on purchasing one for someone, you may have a tough go of it. Thanks, MCV.

EA’s released the first map pack for Battlefield 3, Back to Karkand, on the PlayStation Store. The map pack will contain four new maps – Strike at Karkand, Gulf of Oman, Wake Island, and Sharqi Peninsula – as well as ten new weapons, four vehicles and five new trophies or achievements, depending on the pick of the day. The pack costs £11.99/€14.99, but is free if you picked up the Limited Edition and redeemed your online pass.

There’s a video of Wake Island in action below the break. This and all future BF3 map packs, will go live on PS3 a week before PC and 360, where Karkand will arrive next week on December 13.

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Update: Or not quite: he’s tweeted this afternoon to say the release timeline of the update “has been slightly delayed. I’ll have a status update later today.”

Original Story: Nelson tweeted overnight the update for the new 360 dashboard will start appearing in the next hour. It’ll start appearing at 3pm GMT, 10am EST and 7am PST. The update will come with the Windows Phone 7 Metro look, new TV content providers, expanded voice support and Bing. You can details on what to expect from it here.

2K has announced The Darkness II will a feature narrative co-op experience titled Vendettas, which takes place parallel to the single-player story.

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Zynga’s told VG247 it has settled with Brazilian social games start-up Vostu over copyright claims that the latter infringed the company’s “creative works.”

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Good Old Games has announced it’ll bundle The Witcher 2 together with the Enhanced Version of The Witcher 1 as part of the group’s Christmas sale for £14.99, saving up to 40 percent on the offering. That particular offering will begin on Thursday, and will end on Saturday. Also on offer will be multiple old PC games, including Master of Orion 1 and 2, and Realms of Arkadia 1 and 2, throughout Saturday and Sunday. Then next Monday, there’ll be a 50% off celebration on “virtually every game in the catalogue” until January 2. Hey, that’s my birthday! HINT.

Thanks, EG.

Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart has said the call to do South Park: The Game came directly from the licensor itself, South Park Studios, rather than publisher THQ.

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Just in case you didn’t get it before, Remedy has reiterated its upcoming Alan Wake XBLA title, to be shown for the first time at the VGAs this weekend, is not a full Alan Wake 2.

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EA’s given Battlefield Play4Free players the ability to now customise weapons in the game. Not much else to say to that other than read the FAQ for it here, and watch the video on it via Joystiq below.

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The Australian Classification Board has listed Capcom as the publisher for CryEngine 3-made arena FPS Nexuiz. THQ will deliver the game for Australia, due to it being Capcom’s distribution partner in Australia. The title, developed by IllFonic for PSN and XBLA, goes without a date or pricing as yet.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Tecmo Koei’s announced via the new issue of Dengeki PlayStation it’ll release a demo of Dynasty Warriors Next for Vita at the handheld’s launch in Japan on December 17. Not too much is known on its contents other than it’ll feature three stages and eight playable characters.

TK Europe confirmed yesterday the title would release as a launch title in Europe for Vita on February 22. Thanks, Andriasang.

Square Enix has announced it’ll start billing players of Final Fantasy XIV from January 6.

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THQ is set to announce a “very exciting” new game at some point this month, THQ core mouthpiece Danny Bilson’s said.

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Namco Bandai went all out marketing Dark Souls, even enlisting indie rockers The Silent Comedy for two stunning trailers. We got the scoop from vocalist Joshua Zimmerman.

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Here’s a bit of info we missed in our new Xbox Dashboard preview: When the update hits Australian consoles today, it’ll bring with it the long-awaited voice control option for Kinect. You can shout your demands for ABC iView, SBS On Demand, YouTube, Daily Motion and Crackle, with ninemsn video content expected soon.

The voice control system went live for American and British English, Mexican Spanish and Japanese in November 2010, but took over a year to reach our delightful girted shores.

Here’s a sneak peek at the new BioShock: Infinite trailer ahead of this Saturday’s VGAs: A single, uninformative screenshot, teasingly tweeted by host Geoff Keighley.

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