All Articles: PAX Prime 2012

Double Fine’s The Cave is coming to Wii U too

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Andrew Rainnie - UK Correspondent

While already scheduled for release on the PC, PSN and XBLA, Double Fine finally confirmed during their PAX Prime presentation that their upcoming game The Cave will also be coming to the Wii U. The downloadable title will be a great compliment to the GamePad’s screen.

With the usual brand of humour associated with Double Fine’s Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer, the title has been described as “an adventure game so odd and compelling that it can only be described as odd and compelling.”

“The concept of The Cave has been bouncing around in my head for many, many years, and then the little voices that tell me to do things said it was time to make the game,” explained Gilbert. The game itself is said to utilise concepts from Gilbert’s own 1987 classic, Maniac Mansion, with the player able to select three playable characters (from a group of seven) including a knight, a monk, a pair of street urchins, a time traveller and a hillbilly, to enter the magical talking titular Cave. Each character will have their own personality and traits used to solve the puzzles found within.

[Source: CVG]

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Gearbox adds female characters to Aliens: Colonial Marines multiplayer

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Andrew Rainnie - UK Correspondent

Given that the Alien film series has always featured strong female roles (including Ellen Ripley, Private Vasquez or Dr. Elizabeth Shaw in Prometheus), it seemed not only sexist but basically wrong when Aliens: Colonial Marines producer Brian Burleson announced there would be no female characters in the multiplayer portion of the game. After a major online petition, signed by over 4,000 people including several associated with the Aliens film, it finally caught the attention of Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford.

Speaking to Eurogamer at this weekend’s PAX Prime, the company’s head honcho revealed that the co-op mode and online multiplayer will both feature at least one playable female character. The company released artwork of the co-op character, Private Jennifer Running, a fiery, short-haired redhead. Whether she was created after the petition, or existed all along and was only revealed early because of the outcry, we will never really know.

While it is a great result for female gamers, or those males who wish to get it touch with their female roots, should we really have been having this discussion over a game set in the Aliens universe? What do you think, readers?

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Brothers In Arms: Furious 4 will drop the Brothers In Arms name

Posted on September 3, 2012 by John Scalzo

Last month, Gearbox Software President Randy Pitchford promised that the company was still toiling away at Brothers In Arms: Furious 4. This weekend at PAX Prime, he revealed that while the game still hasn’t been canceled, it’ll no longer carry the “Brothers In Arms” name.

“I wanted to let everyone know that that game’s no longer going to be a Brothers In Arms game. It’s going to be an all-new IP,” Pitchford said.

First revealed at E3 2011, Furious 4’s comic tone was at odds with the franchise’s formerly serious structure. Instead, the co-op shooter seemed to be taking its cues from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

The all-new Furious 4 will be re-announced at a Gearbox Community Day event later this year.

[Source: The Verge]

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Check out this 11-minute Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes trailer

Posted on September 2, 2012 by John Scalzo

Hideo Kojima has invaded PAX Prime 2012 to give us a closer look at his newly announced Metal Gear title, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. The nearly 11-minute trailer above is very impressive and we now know that the game won’t star Solid Snake. Instead, the game will continue the adventures of Big Boss in the 1970s as Ground Zeroes is being positioned as a direct sequel to Peace Walker. Not only that but, according to Kojima himself, the game will serve as a prequel to Metal Gear Solid 5.

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is in development for the PS3 and Xbox 360, but no release date has been announced.

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Insomniac announces Fuse at PAX Prime 2012

Posted on August 31, 2012 by John Scalzo

Insomniac Games CEO Ted Price announced a new game during his PAX Prime 2012 keynote address. The name of the game is Fuse and Price directed audience members (and those of us watching at home) to FuseGame.com, where we were greeted by a countdown clock.

The clock expires on September 12 at 9 AM (Eastern Time). Presumably we’ll learn more about Fuse then. But if the screenshot above is any indication, Fuse is just a new name for Overstrike, Insomniac’s multiplatform “secret agents versus robots” actionfest that was first announced at E3 2011. Don’t believe, check out the official Overstrike site and compare.

Whatever you call it, we’ll have more information in a few weeks.

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Arcadecraft lets you manage an old-timey arcade

Posted on August 31, 2012 by John Scalzo

Of course, all arcades are old-timey arcades nowadays, however, that hasn’t stopped Firebase Industries from announcing Arcadecraft. The arcade management sim is currently in development for release on the PC and Xbox Live Arcade and it looks amazing.

Arcadecraft will allow players to purchase, position, and redecorate over 100 cabinets based on the 1980-1990 era of arcade games. These cabinets include a few titles clearly based on the classics including Crawlers (Centipede), Space Rocks (Asteroids), Alien Landing (Space Invaders), Gorilla (Donkey Kong), Son of Gorilla (Donkey Kong Jr.), Cybroids 1999 (Robotron 2080) and more.

Be sure to check out the trailer above and the screenshots at Firebase’s official website. As I said, they look amazing. And if you’re going to be attending this weekend’s PAX Prime expo, the guys from Firebase will be roaming the show floor as well. If you ask real nice, maybe they’ll let you have a private demo with the game.

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Torchlight II hacks and slashes its way onto online stores on September 20

Posted on August 31, 2012 by John Scalzo

Two years after it was first announced, Runic Games is finally ready to announce a release date for Torchlight II. The dungeon-crawling RPG will be available to download from Runic Games, Steam, Perfect World, GamersGate, GameFly, and GameStop on September 20.

Runic Games’ CEO, Max Schaefer is particularly proud that the company could keep their promise of a Summer 2012 release: “We worked incredibly hard to make sure we could release Torchlight II before Summer’s official end. Development will continue right up until we ship, and we couldn’t be happier to be putting the finishing touches on a great game. We want to get it to the fans as quickly as possible. Honestly, we can’t wait.”

To celebrate the release date announcement (and today’s kickoff for PAX Prime), Runic has released a new trailer, which you can view above.

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Wii U will be playable at PAX Prime 2012

Posted on August 28, 2012 by John Scalzo

Nintendo has announced that if you’ve got a ticket to this weekend’s PAX Prime expo, you’ll be able to demo eight different Wii U games during the big show.

The lines are sure to be long, but expo attendees who brave them will be able to play…

  • New Super Mario Bros. U, the latest 2D Mario game
  • The long-awaited Pikmin 3
  • The minigame collection Nintendo Land
  • The superhero squad sim from Platinum Games, Project P-100
  • The Wii U-enhanced Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge
  • Scribblenauts Unlimited, the hi-def sequel to the popular DS series
  • The Wii U-enhanced Trine 2: Director’s Cut
  • …and ZombiU, Ubisoft’s zombie epic

PAX Prime will take place this weekend (August 31 – September 2) at Seattle’s Washington State Convention Center.

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