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Thursday, January 13, 2011

2 Alan Wake also WP7?

In the past few hours, we reported the news of the launch of iPhone formats Death Rally by Remedy, the developers of Alan Wake. Videogame Source contacted the company to see if in the future of Remedy will be playing a greater commitment to the device IOS. "No," replied Oksari Häkkinen, "it is just a test that will allow us to fully understand the platform and use the screen of mobile devices in the future for our major projects for the console." "IPad iPhone and have recently had considerable success and it is our job as developers explore new platforms.

Through a firmware update to the last episode of the Nintendo heading "Iwata Asks" there is a brief passage in which the president seems the big N to make a direct reference to the ability to record video in 3D with the camera, Nintendo 3DS. In a time of the interview, in fact, Iwata claims to be considering the possibility to evolve the application to make 3D photos into one that can also record video.

According to the website of freelance artist, Patrick Delmastro, there is a HD Arcade Mortal Kombat Kollection (thank Mortal Kombat Online). Further confirmation comes from the website of the retailer GAME. For a certain period of time, even GameStop hosted on its website a description of a collection that would include Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, plus the demo of the new chapter.

Size matters, as we know, Mass Effect 2 for the PlayStation 3 version will be published simultaneously in physical and digital, the latter to purchase and download via PSN. Grace Chen, Senior Manager of the PlayStation Store, did not provide further details about the release of the game on the digital pages of the PlayStation Blog.

First, the download size will be about 12 GB. Secondly, the PlayStation Plus subscribers can download a trial version full game (lasting 60 minutes, then) on launch day.

Mass Effect 2 (homepage) Mass Effect 2 (wikipedia)

PSP2: a PlayStation 3 in miniature

According to MCV, PSP2 will arrive in stores before Christmas 2011. The console also would have been defined by Sony itself as "equivalent to PS3" in terms of performance. The same source, Sony would begin to differentiate themselves from competitors pushing developers to build "richer and deeper." Rumors match with what has emerged in recent months.

Various sources have noted the high performance of new handheld and the will of the U.S. manufacturer to market a product primarily aimed at gamers so-called "hardcore". Sony should present a successor to the PlayStation Portable later this month, during an event dedicated to Tokyo. According to MCV, the company will show Japan's new monster laptop during the Game Developers Conference and E3 2011.

PlayStation 3 (wikipedia)

New DLC for Bioshock 2 for PC?

2K Games seems to have thought a couple of months ago, 2K said he did not want to run the last two DLC for Bioshock 2 in the PC version "due to weather and technical problems." The DLC in question are The Trials Protector is completely based on the multiplayer mode, and Minerva's Den, but that adds body and substance to the single player game.

Well, it seems that the developers have somewhat changed their minds, and they are put to work precisely because the two see the light of additional content on PCs in March.

BioShock 2 (homepage) BioShock 2 (wikipedia)

Missile Command becomes a movie?

With just thirty years of delay, the news is indeed curious, but it seems that at that Hollywood is moving us to make a film of Missile Command. The classic Atari 1980, not known for having virtually no plot, then become a live-action and is said to be written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, author of the forthcoming Dracula Year Zero.