Videogame Source: 04/30/11

Saturday, April 30, 2011

The developers of SSX we show the evolution of Elise in video

From good to very good team behind EA's SSX, which over the months has lost subtitle Deadly Descents, had the idea to create a series of videos that show the graphic evolution of the different characters. Watching it is understood that a search was a more realistic style, without abandoning the basic features typical of the series.

This video is visible, especially through the artwork, the evolution of Elise, female character of great charm. Please note that the game is scheduled for 2012, then for 2011 you must satisfy the real snow. Source: VG247

Fallout: New Vegas - Patch patch for Xbox 360

Now we can return to play after the problems caused by patch 1.3 to the Xbox 360 version of Fallout: New Vegas, (LINK), Bethesda has announced that it has finally settled the situation and had issued a patch working perfectly. At this point, users who had installed the patch for fear of the crash can download the update in safety, while those who had downloaded and had problems, they can download the new version 100% guaranteed to be stable.

Chaos & Order Online topped the charts in the App Store

The Gameloft off to a great MMORPG Available on Store from April 27, Order & Chaos Online has already entered the top five best-selling games for iPhone and iPad in many countries, achieving the first position of the charts in France, Germany, Spain and Italy. The game, which can be purchased at a price of € 5.49 from this link, you can choose your character from four different races (elves, humans, orcs and undead), divided themselves into two factions (Order and Chaos, of course), and using literally thousands of objects in this rich and engaging battles exploratory stages.

Unveiling the new Assassin's Creed?

The next installment of Assassin's Creed could be subtitled Revelations, at least judging from a link posted on the Facebook page of the game. "The day I've been waiting for has finally arrived! Click the link below to help unveil the new Assassin's Creed!" Reads a post on the first page. The link posted below the message leads to another page where you should click on "I Like It" to see a mysterious movie that does not reveal, for now, absolutely nothing of the game.

Some image for Beyond the Labyrinth

Since there's some fascinating labyrinth Famitsu images of the new RPG developed by tri-Ace for Nintendo 3DS, a particular dungeon crawler that promises great things at least for the atmosphere that emerges from these images. The game is currently in development and is about 60% complete, in process under the guidance of director Takayuki Suguri who has previously worked on the particular resonance of Fate.

Details of the DLC Free Portal 2

Valve has confirmed the release of a free DLC for Portal 2, which will be released on all platforms (Mac, PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360) by the end of summer. The package will include new test rooms, online rankings, a new Challenge mode for single-player and co-op ... and more. Remember that the game released a few days ago, was one of the few to win the coveted perfect score on the pages of Videogame Source.

Culture Club coming to Rock Band

The 80s pop band Culture Club a cult band Faith No More will join the family in Rock Band next week a new set of DLC. The game's official forum has also announced the release of other pieces of bands like Stone Temple Pilots, Phish and Loverboy. Here is the complete list of songs that will be available from May 3 on the Wii and Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on the next day ...

PSN allowing, of course: Each track will keep the price of € 1.49/200 canon Wii/160 Points Microsoft Points. The last four tracks of the list are also available in Pro and Pro Bass Guitar for the price of € 0.79/100 Microsoft Points Points Wii/80.

Culture Club (myspace) Culture Club (homepage) Culture Club (lastfm) Culture Club (musicbrainz) Culture Club (wikipedia)

Information about the new Tomb Raider

Some characteristics revealed several international journals published recently, notably the Spanish and French Consoles Hobby Consolas, have released several new details on Tomb Raider in the works at Crystal Dynamics. Here is a summary of what came out, which, however, some possible spoilers and advances that may not be appreciated by those who want the surprise: A Lara more human than in the past, bleeding and suffering will have to fight to survive expressions Lara and camera movement were designed to amplify the sense of the dramatic scenes Rebooting the game is accompanied by a complete reinvention of the character, which now has a different body (younger and less gushing) and is less scope for super-human action Lara Croft is just out University and is on an expedition on a ship called Endurance, which sank off the coast of Japan.

Cave Story 3D has a date

The 3DS remake of Cave Story will be released in Europe in September. The developers of the NIS have also announced that American players can get their hands on the game about a month earlier, on August 9. The gameplay will remain the same versions of the PC and WiiWare releases above, plus, of course, 3D graphics and a soundtrack renewed.

"Transforming the game from 2D to 3D was a big challenge, which allowed us to further expand the world of Cave Story," said Victor Rodriguez, CEO of the development team Nicalis.

Cave Story (wikipedia) [NC US] Cave Story - Developer's Voice (youtube)

PSN: tomorrow a conference with Kaz Hirai

The truth? Sony has announced a conference on the topic Official PlayStation Network tomorrow, held by Kaz Hirai himself. The conference will be held in Japan, at 2 pm local time, or about 7 in the morning in our country. It should therefore be extended and the first official communication about the events that occurred in recent days to an online platform for PlayStation 3, subject to intrusion by hackers (or crackers) and the subsequent theft of user data.

Cliffy B would Master Chief in Gears of War 3

But Microsoft are picky Epic's lead designer in charge of Gears of War series, which is the famous Cliff Bleszinski, has said that this idea for Gears of War 3 but was unable to realize was the introduction of Master Chief as a playable character. "I'll tell you a secret," he answered the question about the possibility that Complex celebrities taken from other series, such as Master Chief or Commander Shepard can be included as additional fighters in Gears of War 3, "I actually asked Microsoft if I could put Master Chief in the game, but those guys are pretty picky.

Contest Portal 2 - The Results

Dear Videogame Sources, judging by the amount of mail that I had the pleasure of receiving in the last week, it seems that now we are taking pleasure in participating in our contest! The number of participants in our activities is in fact increased dramatically from week to week and therefore choose the winners, has become an increasingly difficult task ...

is a dirty job but someone's gotta do it, no? We begin as always with a tribute to all those who, while standing out in sympathy and originality, are unfortunately not able to win a place in our "Top 5" - but not defeated, we will certainly at rifarvi! After this necessary introduction, here we finally reached the time to reward the ideas that we have deemed to be the best: Congratulations! In the next hours will be contacted by me to provide your personal information so that the material will be shipped as soon as possible.

Two videos for the patch 4.2 of World of WarCraft: Cataclysm

Welcome to the Firelands! The patch 4.2 for World of WarCraft: Cataclysm in the game will introduce the Firelands, a terrible and mysterious place that players will find themselves exploring with new content released by Blizzard. The two videos shown at the end serve as a preview to this effect, showing the development of a quest and a raid.

Fans of WoW, then, will still have a lot 'of adventures to be ...

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (homepage) World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (wikipedia)

Portal 2, the first DLC will be free

On all platforms! Valve has just announced that the first DLC for Portal 2 will be free on all platforms (PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360), and will contain "new test rooms for players, rankings, a challenge mode in single and multiplayer and much more. " We can therefore expect a substantial enrichment of the experience, because certainly the developers did not express the full potential of Portal 2 edition release in stores.

New trailer for Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword

Here is how to successfully manage a siege! The new trailer released by Paradox Interactive Entertainment for Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword shows us again the spectacular action of the battle personally experienced, and in this case the siege of a fortress that our character must drive in best possible way.

We will therefore let us off in the enemies, scale walls and walk them loose from its opponents, so to introduce into the enemy fortress to eliminate all resistance from within!

Mount&Blade (wikipedia) Mount & Blade: Ogniem i Mieczem (youtube)

The educational version of CryEngine 3 is used in more than 250 universities

CryEngine study with great success for the Education License of CryEngine 3, which is the version of the graphics engine from Crytek and distributed for educational research in universities. The development team said that the German deployment in 12 months were more than 250 universities that have received such a license for a wide variety of projects from architecture, art and design to computer science and cinematography.

Assassin's Creed: Revelations revealed by mistake?

Here is a picture posted on the Facebook page for a few seconds of Assassin's Creed could be a joke, of course, but April 1st is long past. Here's what happened: a member of the famous forum NeoGAF has found on the Facebook page dedicated to Assassin's Creed Ubisoft precisely the moment when he did apparirre - probably in error - the logo that you see on the side.

What's more, it was not just a static image, but an animation in Flash that contains the name of Altair written in Arabic characters, and the phrase "an exclusive look at the next game in the Assassin's Creed." Everything suggests, in short, that the image has been posted by mistake and ahead of its time, but that soon we might just have some clarification from Ubisoft.

PSN, the point of view of developers

The problem is not only the data users know the problem right now on the PlayStation Network, the violation of the system by one or more hackers and exposure to the same sensitive data like credit card numbers to customers and investigations which will hopefully lead you to discover who is responsible for this disaster.

What you just talked about so far is rather the point of view of developers, especially those who had planned to publish a title exclusively on the PSN and now find themselves at a crossroads. Just like the guys Redspotgames, who were about to release a minis entitled Rush Rush Rally Racing and that, at this point, they decided to create a survey to see if the user still has confidence in the platform or if Sony is the case of cancel the project.