Category Archives: 2K

Mark your calenders for April 30, because three new GTA 5 trailers will be released. Each will focus on one of three main protagonists in the game: Michael, Franklin, and Trevor. Again, that’s three new videos heading your way next week. Get reacquainted with things by watching the second trailer below. GTA 5 will be released on PS3 and Xbox 360 September 17.
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Yager, the team behind Spec Ops: The Line, have come from a background of limited access to hardware and software resources to arrive where they are today. Originating in East Berlin, the early days saw the team deep in East Berlin’s piracy scene due to this lack of access.
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XCOM developer 2K Marin will blow the doors off its shooter once again in a matter of days, the company has confirmed. The project was initially announced back in 2011 but was taken back to the drawing board for re-tooling. The studio confirmed that the game has “undergone an evolution” since we last saw it.

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A video suggesting that the relaunch XCOM will be revealed on April 26, or Friday if you will. A video called “What Happened in 62″ is below, and is 18 seconds long. The game may be called The Bureau, or something like that upon release if recent evidence is any indication. Thanks, Shack.

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2K has been really quiet regarding XCOM of late, until it recently went so far as to remove official videos from its YouTube channel and taking the website offline. Last month, a report from Superannuation stated that the game may be in the process of a re-brand due to domain registrations for “thebureau-game.com” and “whathappenedin62.com” popping up – so the culled assets and information seemed to indicate this. Today, Videogamer posted a video of XCOM related contents it received in the mail, proving – hopefully- that it is indeed a re-brand and not an all out cancellation. Watch for yourself below. Thanks, SplatteredHouse.

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XCOM franchise creator Julian Gollop has praised Firaxis for rescuing the property from 2K’s “schizophrenic approach” – and his own mistakes.

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GTA 5 will contain a character named Casey, although what role he plays in the story in unknown at present. Confirmation of the character appeared on an actor’s page posted on IMDB. Casey is voiced by Jeff Wincott – who backed up his role in GTA 5 on Twitter – who has played various roles on different series on television such as Night Heat, 24 and Sons of Anarchy. He has been in movies as well, his most recent being the 2010 Denzel Washington film Unstoppable where he played Chris Pine’s brother. GTA 5 will be released on PS3 and Xbox 360 September 17.Via Gameranx. Thanks, LengendaryBoss.

It appears 2K has pulled the official website and privatized the YouTube videos for its XCOM shooter.

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Bioshock Infinite will be the recipient of three packs of DLC. You know this already, especially if you are a season pass holder. Today, blank achievement slots for the content have turned up on Steam. For achievement connoisseurs, bask in the knowledge that there will be 10 to earn. Surely this made your day. Thanks, dex3108.

Brave New World features a raft of new additions and changes to one of the most compelling formulas in all of video games. The intrepid Stace Harman readies his mouse-clicking finger once more.

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Duke Nukem Forever has been voted one of the worst games released in Japan in 2012.

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892 perfect games have already been pitched since 2K opened its MLB 2K13 Perfect Game Challenge for its first week. IGN reports 300,000 gamers tackled this week’s match up, and of the successful attempts so far, many are duplicates, with just 617 unique players. This year’s competition offers 30 $25,000 cash prizes, based on a real game each week, rather than the $1 million single prize offered in previous years. Find out how you can participate, check the leaderboards and view statistics at the competition’s Facebook page.

Borderlands 2 has been updated, and with it, comes: the new difficulty mode Ultimate Vault Hunter; new items for the Black Market; new upgrades to backpack storage; upgraded bank capacity; the usual bug fixes, plus some game and mission fixes. It’s out now on Steam, and PCgamesN has the full patch notes.

Over on the Irrational Games blog, you can download and print an alternate cover for your copy of BioShock Infinite. Available alternatives include two Elizabeth-centric variants and some great enemy art, and all of the covers are stylishly text free. They’re available in all platform flavours, but be sure to read the printing instructions before loading up your best paper stock.

BioShock Infinite has stood firm at top of the UK charts this week, fending off all challengers.

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Mac port developer Aspyr has advised that it has released an update for the OS-X version of Borderlands 2. The patch adds leaderboards, achievements and “more importantly, multiplayer co-op with their Game Center friends”. Hopefully that last one means the much-touted cross-platform compatibility with PC is also back, having vanished thanks to a Gearbox update to the Windows version last year. Aspyr has also made DLC available as in-game purchases, and is offering 50% off the shooter RPG sequel on the Mac App Store.

Irrational’s Ken Levine has voiced his opinion on the violence in games subject – a subject which as cooled recently, but is still hanging around enough to warrant being broached on NPR’s On Point radio program with Tom Ashbrook.

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If you haven’t yet experienced the original BioShock and its solid if not quite as magical sequel, now is the time. Gamefly is offering both games on PC for $5, and if you use this Dealzon coupon code, you’ll pay just $4. If that doesn’t fill the hole left in your life by the ending of BioShock Infinite I am unsure what will. Probably nothing. There is only sorrow, forever.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Borderlands 2 publisher 2K Games has announced that the game’s Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack is available now on your digital marketplace of choice.

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Spec Ops: The Line writer Walt Williams told a GDC audience that violent games are “creatively too easy”, calling on the industry to produce more diverse stories.

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