Monthly Archives: December 2011

According to a report filed by Wired.com today, the Bioware’s Dr. Ray Muzyka said today that the next Dragon Age title will draw from the successes of other games in the genre, including Skyrim.

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Respawn Entertainment has released another new image of blurred out concept art from its website of its debut title. The project, which will be published by EA Partners,was first teased with an image back in June when the developer launched its official website. We’ve put the image below the break. It said on Twitter over the weekend the new image was inserted “a few weeks ago,” and that it would probably replace it again.

Respawn was founded in April 2010 by ex-Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella following their dismissals for “insubordination,” according to Activision, from the Modern Warfare studio.

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Sprint to your 360s fight-fans, because the UFC app has officially gone up on Xbox Live as of today. The app will have on-demand fights available for download alongside HD pay-per-view events as well.

It will also be an interactive app that includes a fight prediction game with friend leaderboards, and fight cards. The early reviews for the app were quite positive, so if you’re into the UFC go download the app and start streaming.

Via GamesRadar.

If you’ve got twenty minutes to burn and you’re a Halo fan, then you could do a whole lot worse than spending it with this Halo machinima. The voice acting can get a little spotty in place, but for a fan film with presumably zero budget this is a fantastic work. Full video after the break. More »

During an interview with Square Enix Members, Motomu Toriyama said that the follow-up to Final Fantasy XIII will have a storyline that is easier to understand, and they learned from XIII’s difficulties to explain complex concepts in the universe. More »

Siliconera is reporting today on a listing made by a Japanese retailer that seems to indicate MGS3: SNake Eater 3D will get a first-person mode as well as an over-the-shoulder camera mode.

The FPS mode has been criticized in past MGS games for making certain sections overly easy. MGS3: Snake Eater 3D is due out in Q1 2012 in North America and March 8 in Japan. The European release date is still TBA.

Dance Central fans will be getting some new content today as Harmonix is rolling out a new pack of Rihanna songs for Dance Central 2. The pack will be available on December 20 (today) for 640 MSP.

What’s My Name, S&M, and Only Girl in the World will join Rude Boy already on Dance Central 2 and will be available individually for 240 MSP each.

Via Joystiq.

The latest game from Game Dev Story creators, Kairosoft, has released for Android phones. The game is called Epic Astro Story, and tasks players with eeking out a life and building a society on an alien planet.

Kairosoft has released a number of simulation games in the year (15 months) since Game Dev Story debuted in the West. However, none of them have struck a chord quite as well as GDS. Hot Springs Story, Grand Prix Story and Mega Mall Story all had their own merits, but hopefully a galactic settlement will help spark the imaginations of mobile gamers the way creating “Mass Affect 3″ did back in 2010.

Via Pocket Gamer.

Iranian state TV networks “revealed” that an alleged confessed spy has implicated a New York game developer as a propaganda arm of the US government. More »

Scores for the HD remake of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath have gone live. The scores for the Just Add Water redeux are seemingly positive so far, with the GMA-winning Christian Donlan giving it a nine for Eurogamer previously. Get all the latest scores below the break. If you have a score to add, do so in the comments.

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Remedy head of franchise development Oskari Hakkinen has said iOS title Death Rally has seen 1.5 million units since it first launched earlier this year. In an interview with Edge on Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, writer Sam Lake said the game, which was the developer’s first ever game 15 years ago, was its “first step into that direction, and I’m sure that we’ll do something else in the future as well.”

The company’s currently developing Alan Wake’s American Nightmare for XBLA and self-publishing the PC version of the original Wake, both due in Q1 2012.

Square Enix has announced it’ll release Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance in Europe and the US next year.

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“The Xperia Play – it’s the PlayStation Suite on the developer side – is designed to allow for smaller game types, mobile game types, to include PlayStation content. Those more engaging experiences, the ones that allow you to affect the world around you and the world affects your gameplay, will only be available on Vita. The Vita is the premier product in that portfolio, where it has the biggest and best franchises, as well as the smaller pick-up-and-play games. It has so much range and diversity of content, and that’s where Vita is really going to shine.” – Sony’s John Koller, speaking to IG on why Play and Vita are on the market at the same time.

Vita launches in the west on February 22.

Ever popular UK gaming radio show/podcast One Life Left, hosted by Ste Curran, Simon Byron and Ann Scantlebury, has launched a videogame-inspired music album onto Amazon. Called One Life Left Presents – Music to Play Games By Too, the album features the Bluehearts, Last Miles of Galaxy, Decktronic, Supreme Ultimate Fist and more. You can get the album for £6.99 here, and there’s a preview below the break.

Thanks, EG.

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BioWare MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, potentially the most expensive game ever made, has gone live. Morrethiel reports from the Sith proving grounds as she begins her quest for universal domination.

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The latest issue of PC Gamer is reporting that a new Company of Heroes is in development at Relic. Work on the WWII strategy followup is assumed to be taking place at the same time as Dawn of War III, something which was confirmed to be in the making back at E3 by THQ core games boss Danny Bilson.

Thanks, Kotaku.

You can’t really miss out on this. The Steam sale may have begun last night, but Warner’s gone into bargain mode, releasing a bundle that includes both Batman Arkham games – Asylum and City with all of its DLC – plus Lord of the Rings: War in the North, Bastion, all three FEAR games and expansions, LEGO Batman and Harry Potter Years 1-4 and Watchmen: The End is Nigh. If you want to look at it another way, you’re paying £40 for Arkham City and getting everything else free. Sound good? Go get it here.

Thanks, RPS.

Sega is set to release Yakuza: Black Panther 2 on March 22 in Japan, the latest issue of Dengeki PlayStation is reporting. The download of the PSP sequel will launch for ¥5,600, while the retail version launches for ¥6,279. BP2′s release will come before the already-announced in development Yakuza 5, although when that will be shown for the first time is unknown.

Thanks, Andriasang.

Microsoft’s kicked off its 12 Days of Xbox promo for XBL leading into the New Year. The effort, which begins today and ends on January 2, will have a list of offers that’ll last thew duration of the promo and a special deal that changes every day; it’s Bastion today. The Supergiant-made, Warner-published RPG is reduced to 600 MS points from 1200 MS points. Get it here.

The rest of the deal can be found on Major Nelson‘s blog.

From Software’s released a new trailer for Armored Core V, showing off some impressive CG cut-scenery, new gameplay footage and wall-bouncing mechs ahead of the game’s Japanese release at the end of next month for PS3 and 360. Get the trailer, via Siliconera, below. No western date’s been confirmed by publisher Namco Bandai as yet.

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