Videogame Source: 07/01/11

Friday, July 1, 2011

Prop makes a sort of demo of Unreal Engine App Store

The exploration of a game development team of Yuji Naka, propane, released on the App Store a particular title that recalls very closely the famous Epic of Epic Citadel, the famous Unreal Engine 3 demo on the potential of IOS. The game - because in this case seems to be just a game - it's called PD - Prop Discoverer, and is a software built precisely on the Epic game engine that allows us to explore a vast fantasy-style setting in Japan with eclectic influences.

European date for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines

On September 9, THQ comes from an official date for the release in Europe of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines, the new shooter based on the famous setting created by Games Workshop. The game will arrive in our part of September 9, 2011, three days later than the exit plan, scheduled for Sept. 6. Both outputs are slightly delayed compared to the initial program, which provided the launch for August.

Gearbox has dropped a game on Blade Runner

Too risky to Randy Pitchford, Gearbox team boss, told PlayStation Magazine that his team has voluntarily dismissed the possibility of developing a new game on Blade Runner. The explanation is all set on economic management, not without reason: "a kind of game would cost about $ 40 million to produce and would have sold perhaps 600,000 units - and that would be our end," said Pitchford, " there is a rational choice of business that could explain such a decision.

The new game Yuji Naka IOS

It's called PD - Prop Discoverer and the new game of Yuji Naka, the creator of Sonic. It will not come to Wii, Xbox 360, PS3 or Nintendo 3DS, but rather on IOS platforms, or iPhone and iPad. Details on gameplay are still unclear but it seems that in the course of the adventure we are committed to finding "hidden objects".

IOS (Apple) (homepage) IOS (Apple) (wikipedia) Yuji Naka (wikipedia)

New Halo book coming

Halo: Glasslands is the name of the new book series dedicated to Bungie, due for release next October 25. Always Written by Karen Traviss, who by now has also found time to create the script for Gears of War 3, Glasslands is the direct sequel to Halo: Ghosts of Onyx and recount the events after the end of Halo 3.

This new book, according to the announcement, will reveal many of the saga behind the scenes never told before.

Heroes Might & Magic VI

Exclusive 50 keys to participate in the beta! Multiplayer. en, in collaboration with Ubisoft, is pleased to give away exclusively to all our readers and 50 beta keys for the Heroes of Might & Magic VI PC coming in September and which will propose a full-bodied tried next week! The first 50 users who request it and meet the requirements listed below, will be entitled to enter the key to this link and follow the steps to download the client.

Black Rock closes its doors

Black Rock Studios, a developer based in Brighton former head of Pure and Split / Second, is to be closed by Disney. A "staff reduction" had been made some time ago, leaving only 40 members operating in the original team. Just yesterday, however, Disney has announced the complete closure of the study.

An anonymous source has revealed that Disney would have to Videogame source used in a questionable way the resource provided by Black Rock, relying on outside projects that the study of Brighton could handle safely. The source also criticized the lack of publicity for both Pure Split / Second.

"Origins of 3DS Rayman will be fantastic"

The creator of Rayman, Michel Ancel, said he was excited to bring Rayman Origins of 3DS. According to Ancel unique features of Nintendo will create a great game, that perhaps even he imagined initially. "The glasses-free 3D 3DS is fantastic and fits perfectly in a game like Rayman Origins," he told Nintendo Power.

"Making a 3D game requires more time and effort, but the results obtained for all the efforts pay off." The output of Origins on PS3, 360 and Wii is scheduled for November but no date yet for the version of 3DS.

Rayman Origins (homepage) Rayman Origins (wikipedia)

Release date for Tales of the Abyss 3DS

Namco Bandai has announced that the RPG Tales of the Abyss for 3DS launches across Europe on November 10. This is the conversion eponymous title on PlayStation 2 came out long ago, and claims the support of the dual screen and 3D. Tales of the Abyss follows the exploits of the hero Luke fon Fabre, who is reluctantly involved in the classic adventure to save the world.

Tales of the Abyss (wikipedia)

ZeniMax records "Dishonored"... new video game?

The company that controls could be Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax Media ie, has recently registered a new trademark called mysteriously Dishonored. As reported by System Link, the title also points to several domains ever registered by the same company, advancing the hypothesis that it may be a video game.

Bethesda unlikely that there is at the forefront, having regard to the production of Skyrim in progress, as well as id Software appears already quite busy on their projects. However, there are other teams that may be at work on the mysterious title, part of the ZeniMax family, as Machinegames Sweden AB, Tango GameWorks, Arkane Studios and Vir2L Studios, as reported Joystiq, or ZeniMax Online Studios, recently founded their own label for focus on the MMO market.

The possible launch of PS games Life

PlayStation Magazine has published the magazine in its latest issue a list of titles that might be part of the launch line-up of PlayStation Life. Of course Sony has not officially confirmed but not denied, which means that many of these could really be on the shelves on Day One. According to the magazine, in the period immediately subsequent to the will instead be published Ruin Gravity Daze, and the new Dragon's Crown Ridge Racer.

Confirmed: Tales of the Abyss in November on Nintendo 3DS

On 10 November, to be precise Namco Bandai confirms the release for Tales of the Abyss Nintendo 3DS version, with regard to the PAL markets. In Europe, therefore, the new chapter in the long series of RPG Namco Nipponese license plate arrives November 10, 2011 for the portable Nintendo with 3D graphics.

This is actually not exactly a new game, but an adaptation of the title originally released in 2005 on PlayStation 2, adjustment and obviously with 3D graphics.

Tales of the Abyss (wikipedia) Nintendo 3DS (homepage) Nintendo 3DS (wikipedia)

Trailer and images for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Destroy your enemies by shooting them with your, um, magic wand As you well know, will debut in theaters in a few days our own Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, the final chapter in the saga film dedicated to the boy wizard created by JK Rowling. We could not miss, therefore, the output of a tie-in platform that seems to follow the groove (deep) track from the episode last year, with Harry and his friends engaged in what appears to all intents and purposes the reinterpretation of Gears of magic War, with chopsticks instead of the Lancer.

New images for Call of Juarez: The Cartel

A series of shots of single player and multiplayer, Ubisoft has just released a large number of pictures for Call of Juarez: The Cartel, the next installment of the Call of Juarez that will be released July 22 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The photographs depict both the single player campaign and online multiplayer, showing a variety of scenarios: from the darkness of a night club in the light of a city street in broad daylight.

Call of Juarez (homepage) Call of Juarez (wikipedia)

Square Enix that the shooter is gone

Sometimes the network gives unexpected things, such as the movie Project Dropship checked the archives without notice Square Enix. If you've never heard of this game is quite normal since it is a project (directed on PC, PSN and XBLA) now abandoned, that the team was developing Square Enix's Los Angeles some time ago.

The publisher did not disclose the reason for the deletion and the only trace that remains is this trailer.

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The details of Bungie Aerospace

Aerospace is not a new Bungie Halo game, but a platform designed to help small teams to publish and advertise their mobile games and social networks. The first partner will Harebrained Schemes, a studio founded by Jordan Weisman of Halo 2's I Love Bees. Weisman also founded company called FASA, former head of BattleTech and Shadowrun.

The game is called Crimson Harebrained and will be released this summer on the iPhone OS and Android devices. None of this will distract from Bungie "creation of the new great world action" for Activision. "Bungie Aerospace Group allows us to do with small teams to help them realize their beautiful projects while we focus on our own," wrote Bungie on their website.

BioWare will learn from their mistakes Mass Effect 3

The team will highly value the feedback from fans Mass Effect 2 is represented in many ways an improvement over the first chapter, although for its implementation have been sacrificed many of the RPG elements that characterized the series debut. For the development of Mass Effect 3, BioWare reintroduce some of these elements.

"According to many fans, the options for customization of weapons were cumbersome. For this we have eliminated in Mass Effect 2," said producer Jesse Houston Wired microphones during E3 2011. "The problem is that we may have gone overboard in this direction." "One of the things we're trying to do now is to give players more choices," continued the producer.

Second development diary for Deus Ex: Human Revolution

God of cittàaaaaa In the second episode of the series of dev diary Behind 2027 for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the developers talk about the city where we will be moving during the adventure, many efforts have been made to make as much as possible "live" and convincing, and the design choices made. The influence of such classics as "Blade Runner" is evident as regards the production of environments, with the substantial difference represented by the colors used for the Eidos title, which insists on the alternation of yellow and black.

Limbo confirmed for PS3 and PC

The game will be available on digital platforms PSN and Steam After the recent rumors about the development of a version of Limbo and the PlayStation 3 a while ago that talked about a PC version, the official finally arrives: the excellent title will Playdead "soon" on both PlayStation Network on Steam.

To confirm this, the authors are their own, discussing a publication in a short time while not setting any specific date. The realization of both conversions will be curated by Playdead and not entrusted to external teams, however. There are no details about the possible presence of extra content than the XBLA version, but promises to provide Playdead more news soon.

The MMO Funcom becomes free-to-play Age of Conan: Unchained

Each of us can break free from their chains, as announced in late May, Funcom has transformed the popular MMO set in the universe of Conan the Barbarian in a free-to-play entitled Age of Conan: Unchained. Available for download at the official site, the new version of the game replaces the previous one, which had sold 1.4 million copies worldwide.

Players can choose to access in a free way to experience or become premium member, with all the advantages of the case. For a system will be available to purchase in-game that will buy new weapons and mounts. "Go to the free-to-play has been fantastic for the team working on Age of Conan, because it will allow the game to reach a wider audience," said executive producer and creative director Craig Morrison.

Lionhead working on a secret project

The developers of Fable have on site a "second super-secret project" and the title Kinect Fable: The Journey presented by Peter Molyneux at E3. As reported by GamesIndustry. biz, the visionary game designer would announce the news during the Gamelab of Barcelona, but did not disclose further details.

Molyneux, however, has taken the opportunity to disclose some information on Fable: The Journey, revealing that the game in question will use "most" of the technological elements of the infamous demo of Milo & Kate. Just to be safe, then repeated for the umpteenth time that the game will not be "on track" and that can be played while sitting comfortably.

Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions later this month on the App Store

Originally announced in 2010, the project finally sees the light initially expected by the end of 2010, the IOS version of Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions has been postponed continuously: first there was talk of spring 2011, then the month of June, then the end of July. It will be the right time? According to the information on the Facebook page of Square Enix, developers are now very few days to complete the work, which therefore will be available on the App Store before the end of the month.

Puzzle Agent 2 available on PC and iPhone OS

The sequel to Agent Puzzles, puzzles developed by Telltale in 2010, is now available on the iPad, iPhone, Mac and PC. This game sees the return of the agent in the snow Tethers Scoggins, Minnesota, to solve new puzzles in Professor Layton style.

This time Telltale promises "more tactile puzzles." The original chapter was rather interesting. We invite you to wait until our review of this intriguing sequel to find out more.

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Red Dead Redemption, New DLC Incoming

The saga of John Marston seems to know the word "end" According to statements of the developers, it seems that the spectacular Undead Nightmare is not the last DLC for Red Dead Redemption, and that the title Rockstar will see the release of new short expansions. Published in 2010 and the critically acclaimed epic adventure set in the Far West, John Marston has so far seen the release of five additional content, the last of which saw precisely the wily gunslinger dealing with hordes of hungry undead human flesh.

THQ will show the game at Comic-Con Voltron

Finally, we will discover something more about the project announced a few months ago, the elusive video game dedicated to Voltron will be shown to the public during the Comic-Con in San Diego, the largest American comic book fair this year will take place July 21 to 24. Users of the old guard definitely remember the eponymous cartoon, which aired in Italy in the mid 80s after reworking the traditional "Made in USA" that led to the modification of names and part of the storyline.