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Radical Entertainment and Dark Horse comics have announced a digital comic series set in the Prototype universe.

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Activision has released new screens and concept art from Radical Entertainment’s April actioner, Prototype 2. If you head on below the page break, you’ll become privy to some renderings of Father Guerra, a Catholic priest living in a cathedral in the Yellow Zone who is an ally of Heller’s. There’s also a couple shots of Dana Mercer, Alex Mercer’s sister, and one piece of concept art. Finally, you will notice some new shots of James Heller, and a few illustrations depicting his cool jacket and tendril tattoo. Prototype 2 will be released on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 at the end of April.

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Radical Entertainment and Activision have releases new screenshots for Prototype 2, showing Alex Mercer, the first game’s anti-hero, who helped increase the deadliness of the Blacklight Virus by 1000% when he was a scientist for Gentek. In Prototype 2, his goals for both Sgt. James Heller and the human race “remain shrouded in mystery,” but we’ll find out soon enough what he has in store for humanity when the game releases on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 April 24.

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“We started off with an amalgamation of Hugh Jackman and Clint Eastwood, and the resulting render looked remarkably similar to James Marsden – so we were like ‘Okay, scratch that one out’. As we were going, there was something about a concept sketch of some ethnicity or other that wasn’t just the the generic Caucasian guy and we were all drawn to it. We started riffing on that character and ended up with Heller. It’s more about conveying the stature, the position and swagger of a hero. Skin colour is obviously involved and that’s where we ended up but it’s not where we started”. – Radical studio head Ken Rosman and Activision’s MacLean Marshall to OPM.

As is becoming fashionable, Prototype 2 developer Radical Entertainment has released a ‘Previously on Prototype’ style video to get you caught up on the storyline, ahead of the sequel’s release next April.

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Activision and GameStop are holding a Get in the Game pre-order promotion for Prototype 2, and you have to do to enter is pre-order the game and go online between now and September 1.

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Radical Entertainment has released a short developer diary on the use of tendrils in Prototype 2, and we’ve posted it below the break for you. In it, the team discusses how when using the tendrils, you can grab bits of the environment such as cars, and pull them in towards an enemy and smash him. That’s just one example of the many ways you can use this feature. Watch for yourself. Prototype 2 is out in 2012.

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You would have to be absolutely insane to miss out on the deals Steam’s put up for its summer sale tonight. Left 4 Dead 2′s gone up for £3.74, Far Cry 2 for £2.49, Prototype for £7.49 and Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY for £3.74. Big deal, though, has to be Grand Theft Auto IV and its two episodes – The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony – for £6.24. There’s more deals here.

Radical has sent over a developer diary for Prototype 2, and in it, the team discusses the reason why Alex Mercer is now the enemy instead of the hero, with a few clips of pre-alpha footage thrown in for good measure.

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It’s time for another regret-fuelled journey into what might have been, today starring Rare’s shelved Perfect Dark Core for the N64.

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James Heller is feeling Irish today, like most of the world.

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Sony’s CES 2011 press conference was light on new product reveals, but the Japanese giant did take the lid off an astonishing prototype: a personal 3D display headset.

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Open-world superhero romp Prototype is now available on 360′s Games on Demand, and will be releasing on PSN tomorrow.

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A third VGA zombie-related teaser has shown up, and it’s looking more like the Activision teaser Murder Your Maker, a sequel to the 2009 open-world superhero game Prototype.

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Singularity’s out on June 29, and to get you even more excited for the time-traveling shooter, for a limited time you can get Prototype free as a purchase incentive.

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Update: Activision has confirmed some of the lay-offs. The response we were given is below.

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A report by EEDAR has Prototype outselling inFamous by almost 90 percent — thanks, of course, to the fact that Prototype is a multiplatform title, while inFamous is a PS3-exclusive.

However, on PS3, inFamous’ electrically charged superheroics have outdone Prototype’s all you-can-eat approach by about 35 percent. EEDAR adds that, because exclusives tend to have longer sales curves, that number could climb to 50 percent.

So, if you ever wanted to see superheroes duke it out not through building-demolishing punches and kicks, but through numbers, now you’ve seen it. Personally, we preferred Yahtzee‘s method of alternative superhero combat.

Thanks, Gamasutra.

If you hadn’t guessed after reading the headline; Fight Night Round 4 sits top of the tree in this week’s serving of UK chart action.

It’s punched Prototype off top spot which in turn has pushed The Sims 3 to third.

Full top ten here:

Update: Worth a mention: GI points out that this is the first time a boxing title has hit the number one in the all-format charts. So congrats to that.

PS3 owners who had issues with installing Prototype can use a workaround provided by Activision.

Apparently, an error comes up saying that players have insufficient hard drive space. Until a patch is released to fix it, here’s what you can do:

• Change the available space on your hard drive by 700 MB even if you have enough memory and delete nonessential items.
• Once you have made the necessary change to your Hard Drive space insert the Prototype disc back into your PS3 and it should now install.
• The goal of this is to change the available space on the hard drive. You may need to try a combination of things.

More information, including how to clear HD space, can be found here.

Via Joystiq.

Activision has revealed via its forums the system requirements for its gruesome open-worlder, Prototype.

No more messin’, here they are:

• Windows® XP (with Service Pack 3) and DirectX® 9.0c or (Windows Vista® with Service Pack 2)
• Video Card: 256 MB 3D hardware accelerator card required – 100% DirectX® 9.0c with Shader Model 3 support*
• Processor: Pentium(R) Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ or better
• RAM: 1 GB of RAM for Windows ® XP / 2 GB Windows ® Vista systems
• Hard Drive Space: 8 GB of uncompressed hard disk space (Plus 500MB for swap file.)
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 –compliant sound card
• DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM

Peripheral:

• 100% Windows(R) XP/Vista – compatible mouse, keyboard and drivers
• 100% Windows(R) XP/Vista – compatible 4X DVD-ROM drive or better (600
  K/sec sustained transfer rate) and drivers

*Supported Chipsets for Windows(R) XP and Vista

• All NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7800 256 MB and better chipsets
• All ATI® Radeon™ X1800 256 MB and better chipsets

Radical Entertainment’s super snadbox game is out next week for PS3, 360 and PC.

Thanks, D’toid.