Saturday Shorts: Analysts, Magicka, Mythos, Severed shots, Pink emails, 3DS barfing, Portal 2 Achievements
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It's Saturday, and it's early. You are too sleepy to read anything overly taxing. Read these shorts instead.
- Gamespot has posted 129 screenshots of Dissidia 012: Duodecim Final Fantasy.
- A patch for Magicka has been released on Steam. It also includes the Mea Culpa DLC as a free gift to all owners.
- Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia believes strongly that Activision should purchase Take-Two. He feels it would be a win-win for both companies. Doesn't mention gamers.
- IGN has posted some screenshots for Dead Space 2's Severed DLC. Look 'em over here.
- The open beta for Mythos will begin on April 12. Eurogamer has more on this for you.
- Watch Shannon Elizabeth take on, umm well, watch her play Call of Duty: Black Ops over on Funny or Die or YouTube.
- Superbrothers has released a new trailer for Sword and Sorcery, promising the game will be released "around the vernal equinox." That's March 22 to those of you who aren't Druid or Wiccan.
- We got a strange hot pink email today from Atlus, asking if we still like them. So did D'toid. Is it Catherine related? We sure as hell hope so.
- Kotaku has posted a "guide" on how to keep your "barfing and eye-melting" to a minimum using 3DS.
- Company of Heroes Online has two new maps: Carpiquet, a two player airfield map, and the eight player Hedgerow Siege. THQ shuts down CoHO on March 31.
- Blizzard has added nine new maps to StarCraft II, and has removed other multiplayer maps from ladder matches. Get the full thing on BigDownload.
- GameFront has a list of 50 Achievements for Portal 2, worth around 1,000 points. There may be spoilers. You have been warned.