All Articles: Comic-Con 2011

Final Fantasy XIII-2 to be released in January 2012

Posted on July 18, 2011 by John Scalzo

Emily Shoji, the Assistant PR Manager at Square Enix, has revealed (via Twitter) that Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be released this January:

FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 is slated for a January 2012 release for North America. Be excited!

And we are! If you can’t wait until January, Square Enix will have a playable demo of Final Fantasy XIII-2 on display at this weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con.

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Nintendo brings first publicly playable demo of Zelda: Skyward Sword to Comic-Con

Posted on July 18, 2011 by John Scalzo

Nintendo’s Comic-Con 2011 presence will include the first publicly playable demo of the Wii’s swan song, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. In addition to Link’s latest adventure, Nintendo will showcase playable demos of more than a dozen upcoming games including Super Mario 3D, Mario Kart 3DS, Kid Icarus: Uprising and Kirby Wii. All of these games will be on display at the Nintendo Gaming Lounge, which will be located in the San Diego Ballroom at the Marriott Marquis & Marina across from the San Diego Convention Center, home of this weekend’s Comic-Con.

Hit the jump for the complete list of playable games. (more…)

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Dead Island shambles into stores September 6; Comic-Con panel includes zombie experts

Posted on July 13, 2011 by John Scalzo

After months of teasing, Deep Silver has finally announced an official release date for Dead Island. The first person zombie game will be available for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on September 6.

To help celebrate the game’s pending release, Deep Silver plans to hold a master class at Comic-Con to explore “society’s fascination with the Zombie genre as a whole, and demonstrate how creative talent are harnessing medical science to define and explore horror entertainment in more realistic (and therefore more frightening and engaging) ways.” The panelists represent some of the foremost experts in the field of zombology and will surely provide a lively (so to speak) discussion:

  • Max Brooks, universal zombie expert and author of The Zombie Survival Guide, World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
  • Haris Orkin, writer of the anticipated video game, Dead Island
  • Steve Schlozman, M.D., author of The Zombie Autopsies and assistant professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
  • Bradley Voytek, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow: Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco
  • Andrew Groen, freelance journalist and editor of GamePro Magazine’s “Real Science” column
  • Bruce Geryk, M.D., Resident Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, University of North Carolina Hospitals

The panel, titled “The Science of Zombies,” will be held at the San Diego Convention Center – Room 8 on July 22 at 7:30 PM.

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New James Bond game to be announced at San Diego Comic-Con

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Mike Gutierrez

Activision confirmed a new 007 title was in the works for 2011 during a quarterly financial call last May, then registered a bunch of Goldeneye-related domains last month. Now, the revelation of the next James Bond game is mere days away.

Destructoid reports getting an invite to an Activision event at San Diego Comic-Con on July 20 where several titles will be shown off, including Prototype 2, X-Men: Destiny, Spider-Man: Edge of Time (that’s a lot of superhero games!) as well as “a new 007 title.”

Activision hasn’t done nearly as well as EA in creating games under the license, but hopefully that will change. What kind of Bond title do you want to see? Another GoldenEye? The long-rumored Raven Software third person shooter? None at all? Let us know in the comments.

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