Monthly Archives: December 2011

NSW deputy premier Andrew Stoner has announced a new Fruit Ninja game, outlining a number of gameplay details not yet confirmed by developer Halfbrick.

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Shoryuken has posted a tutorial showing off how to trigger a couple of interesting bugs in UMvC. By combining Morrigan and Strider’s abilities, you can end up with one character alone on screen, turned 90 degrees to face the camera. Fiddle a bit more, and you can make the screen go black, and finally, your characters will be transported to what’s being called Reverse World – all controls backwards, animations on the wrong side, and a snowy-white environment. The glitch reportedly works only on the Xbox 360 version, with the PlayStation 3 just throwing a wobbly.

Hit the break to see it in action.

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A clever would-be developer has built a playable demo envisioning a Final Fantasy VII built on the Unreal Engine.

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Picking your Vita games up online could save you big bucks, according to unconfirmed Sony comments.

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“A lot of people might assume that the way that EA might be an influence on BioWare would stem from a purely executive level, but that’s untrue. You might expect some collaboration with DICE (to do with sound) for example, but in terms of online features we liaised with the Need For Speed guys. Working with teams like that is as easy as making a phone call.”

– BioWare creative director Casey Hudson, speaking to Games Master, via CVG.

Square Enix’s core development team is working on a new action RPG for PlayStation 3 and Vita.

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Sony has thrown a dampener on plans to take advantage of the Vita’s digital focus and lack of region locking, by limiting each console to just one PlayStation Network ID.

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EA has made a number of domain registrations for an unrevealed title, Command & Conquer Alliances. Oh, hello VGAs, are you pertinent to this discussion?

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A mysterious set of teasers have appeared for a new PlayStation 3 exclusive to be unveiled at the VGAs this week.

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Ken Rolston, lead game designer at Big Huge Games, has said he feels RPGs are reaching “a boon period”, but because there’s still plenty of variety on the market at the moment, the genre isn’t tired just yet.

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Trion has said it plans to launch RIFT’s dungeon/instance finder, Instant Adventure next week.

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Zynga is seeking a $7 billion valuation for its initial public offering, which is down $10 billion from previous reports, with analysts agreeing the firm’s initial valuation was too ambitious and that the company should wait until it releases its Q4 financials. Sources state the firm will announce a price on December 15 and that the social game publisher could net around $900 million based on 100 million shares hitting Nasdaq at $8 to $10 each. If the firm hits the stock market at $7 billion as reported, it will put it in third place behind juggernauts Activision and EA, which hold a market value of $14.2 billion and $7.7 billion, respectively. Zynga is expected to hold an investor’s presentation next week. Via IndustryGamers. Thanks, Colin Gallacher.

Indie Royale has added bonuses to all previous and upcoming Really Big Bundle purchases: the Really Big Sky soundtrack, a Euflorian Selections soundtrack, and Zeybold’s text adventures Epiphany In Spaaace! and Molly the Were-Zompire. The goodies join already included niceties such as Boss Baddie’s shooter Really Big Sky, Mystic Box’s card playing RPG Runespell Overture, Omni Systems’ space exploration/strategy Eufloria (formerly known as Dyson), and Zeboyd Games’ RPG duo Cthulhu Saves The World and Breath Of Death VII.

Over 28,933 bundles have been sold so far, and it will only run you $4.06. You have less than two day to get this awesome bundle, so hurry. Thanks, IndieGames.

Bioware has released another Choose Your Side video for Star Wars: The Old Republic, this time, between the Imperial Agent and the Jedi Consular. Watch it below or through the official website. SWTOR is set for release on December 20. Not much longer now.

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Slightly Mad Studios and Eurogamer have teamed up and created a contest which would see the winner heading over to Slightly Mad’s studio to help it design a track for its free to play kart racer Project Cars. The winner will be decided through a Hot Lap competition using the Caterham R500 Superlight racer. The person with the best time around the Conneticut Hill track will be sent to the studio, and if you are based in the UK, Slight Mad will cover your travel costs.

The contest will ends on December 16. For official rules and extra details, head on through here.

Gazillion and Marvel have announced that over 1 million players have joined Marvel Super Hero Squad Online since the free-to-play browser-based game launched in April. “Thanks to our players, the world of Super Hero Squad Online is growing at an amazing rate,” stated Jay Minn VP of The Amazing Society, the developers of the game, in the press release. “We’ll keep adding new content and characters all the time, it’s truly wonderful to see the game alive with over a million registered players having fun brawling, battling, exploring and making super heroic friends.”

“I think what a single-player game is, it is a tailored experience for the single-player, and there may be publishers who are rightly aware that if you had more multiplayer stuff in it, they would have some virtues, but I know that the single-player game experience is the one that we can best tailor to the player right now and that there are technical and asset reasons why we can’t gracefully make them all go co-op player or multiplayer. So for the short term, I believe the single-player game has an unambiguously solid market. There are people who prophesise that they’re going to make their MMOs better narrative experiences. I’m sure that they’re right and I’m sure that they will only make them, say, 5% better. And that’s still not like 100% it’s all about you, Mr. Player. I’m pretty confident single-player still has a real big market. – Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning’s Ken Rolston to Industry Gamers.

Applications are currently being accepted for the Microsoft Flight beta. To apply, you must fill out the survey posted through here. There’s also a specs post through here, which lists both the low and high settings. Still no word just yet on when the revamped simulation series will be released.

Harmonix has announced that Queen is returning to Rock Band with nine new songs for Rock Band 3.

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The BBFC has outed Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition with a rating listing, and states it will be release on February 17. Formats other than Xbox 360 weren’t listed, but surely it will be released on PS3 as well. Also, considering it’s called the Komplete Edition, much to the chagrin of our spellcheker, like Eurogamer, we’re going to assume it includes all DLC released to date. We’ll send Warner a mail and ask.