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Author: Mike Gutierrez
Free DLC for PES 2011 coming March 15
Soccer fans, you got the best kind of DLC coming your way – the free kind. Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 will contain a free pack on March 15. Team updates include Winter transfers and movements up to the end of the January transfer window for 135 Club teams, Spain’s new team kit and Sweden’s national team’s away kit. Also included are ten new boot styles from Adidas, Nike, Puma and Umbro. Sounds like some nice free swag, compliments of Konami.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
Alice: Madness Returns gets a gameplay trailer, kinda freaky
There’s been some great trailers for Alice: Madness Retruns, but we finally got to see it in action. The beautiful art design we’ve seen in cutscenes has certainly carried over into gameplay, as American McGee’s dark take on Wonderland is beautifully rendered in the trailer above. The game is scheduled for release on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 on June 14.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Alice: Madness Returns
GK Films acquires Tomb Raider film rights, possible reboot
Hotshot producer Graham King and his GK Films company have acquired the license to prepare a film adaptation of Eidos’ (and now Square Enix’s) prolific Tomb Raider franchise. King himself and Tim Headington are planned to helm the project, with an expected release of 2013. King has worked with former Laura Croft actress Angelina Jolie on The Tourist, but people close to the project suggest it will be a reboot for the franchise, telling an origin story instead of a continuation. GK Films stated their aim is to “create daring new adventures for the young and dynamic Lara Croft.”
Like the Resident Evil film franchise, (which is also getting a new entry), the first two movies did a pretty good job of escaping the video game film curse. In addition to a new game currently in development, Tomb Raider Trilogy HD is releasing for the PS3 on March 22.
[Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
Posted in Etcetera, News
Tagged Tomb Raider
SOCOM 4 multiplayer beta details emerge, new Bomb Squad mode announced
It’s the event you may have bought a copy of Killzone 3 just to get in on: the SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy Seals beta has been officially detailed. A new phase will begin every week starting March 15th, when a small private group of individuals contacted by Zipper or Sony will be invited. Next week, PlayStation Plus subscribers will get their chance at the tactical gameplay, followed by owners of beta codes given out with new copies of Killzone 3. On April 5, the beta will be open to all PlayStation Network users. All four phases will be cumulative, so if you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber, you can play in the other phases up until the servers are taken down on April 13.
Players will be able to check out two maps (Port Authority and Assault & Battery) while playing in all four game modes: Suppression, Last Defense, Uplink, and the newly announced Bomb Squad. In Bomb Squad, the Spec Ops team escorts a heavily armored, yet indispensable technician from bomb site to bomb site as he attempts to defuse explosives before the Insurgent team can stop him.
This does seem a little cheap – Killzone 3 purchasers getting in on the second to last phase when that was such a big part of the advertising for the game. Not to mention if you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber who could’ve gotten into it anyway without a purchase. Chris Roper from Zipper explains the phasing is so they can gradually introduce a greater amount of players in each phase as a lot of people bought Killzone 3. I’m inclined to believe him, and hope the beta works out for the team when SOCOM 4 is released on April 19 for the PlayStation 3.
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged Killzone 3, SOCOM 4: US Navy SEALs
Extended Prototype 2 trailer adds in some dev commentary
GDC is ending today (but PAX is coming up!) and Radical Entertainment released an extended clip of the announcement trailer for Prototype 2. It’s mostly the same stuff we saw at the VGAs, but the most notable part is the developer commentary. It’s almost kind of depressing, where one of the lead designers proclaims how he’s not making the game for himself, he’s making this game for three, four, five million people and wants to know how to make it for them.
I guess the sentiment’s appropriate for GDC, since everyone there is asking the same question, but I would hate to play in an industry where that’s how game developers go about their job. In fact, the team in the Killzone 3 special features stated that it’s a culmination of all the cool ideas they personally wished were in games, and that turned out pretty well. We’ll have to see how the different approaches work out for each studio with the incoming NPD report for February and when Prototype 2 ships sometime in 2012.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Prototype 2
Fifth Resident Evil film coming September 14, 2012
It’s kind of ironic that the last few Resident Evil films have all had subtitles suggesting the end of the world, as the next movie in the franchise is releasing towards the end of 2012 on September 14.
The untitled Resident Evil 5 will be coming two years after the last one, the shortest wait in between installments ever for the series. It’s no wonder why, as the last outing, Afterlife, exploded at the foreign box office, grossing $236 million overseas, more than the first three films combined.
The film is expected to be in 3D, as was the last one, and currently there are no other movies scheduled for that date. The September window is the same the last three movies have all shared.
[Source: Box Office Mojo]
Posted in Etcetera, News
Tagged Resident Evil: Retribution
Sega announces Japan Game Gear lineup for 3DS
Nintendo announced so many insane features for the 3DS yesterday that some of them couldn’t even make the headline. One of the bigger surprises was that Sega Game Gear games would make it to the 3DS’ virtual console. Back in the 1990’s, this would be like Microsoft Games Studio titles coming out on a Sony handheld. It may only be Japan, but Sega has announced what the launch games will be in the land of the rising sun, and hopefully it’ll shed some light on what games we can expect over here:
– Sonic and Tails 2
– Sonic Drift 2
– Columns
– The GG Shinobi
– Dragon Crystal: Shirani’s Maze
I don’t know about you, but Sonic, Shinobi, and Columns sound like enough on their own to keep you occupied on the go for a long time.
Call of Duty: Black Ops is the best-selling PS3 game of all time
Relying on data from the NPD Group, Chart-Track, and GfK, Activision announced today that Call of Duty: Black Ops is the highest selling game on Sony’s PlayStation 3 since the console launched in 2006. The PS3 is in its fifth year on the market, and CoDBlOps managed to accomplish this feat in less than four months. The announcement came with the arrival of the First Strike DLC map pack on the PlayStation Store this week.
We recently compared the game with its immediate predecessor, Modern Warfare 2, and came out with Black Ops as the superior game. While Call of Duty isn’t necessarily the greatest series in the world, it’s nice to see Black Ops surpass the records of the last one.
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2