Rugby World Cup 2011 Announced

Rugby is a sport very popular in Italy. Obviously not as football, but it has its generous dose of fans, and it is they who will be pleased to know that most of the collaboration between Studio and HB 505 Games is forming permanently dedicated to rugby. Rugby World Cup 2011 will be released this summer and promises a level of realism never touched before by a similar simulation.

The World Cup, which this year takes place in New Zealand, will be faithfully reproduced in every detail and resurface all the athletes of the 20 national participants. The single-player and online multiplayer will allow all players to experience the hard way the true feelings of competition and then raise to heaven the prestigious Webb Ellis Cup For more information visit the official website at this address.

PopCap launches new label 4th & Battery

Expect all PopCap itself is already a very creative company, but to sharpen the innovative drive in it decided to open an additional label, part of the same publisher, focusing more on developing new concepts of "experimental." The idea is to create a "free zone" where you can indulge in PopCap's more, without the publisher loses its purely dedicated to the public image and similar casual.

This label is called "4th & Battery" and already has several projects under development come to a conclusion during the year. One of the first games to come out under the new label will Unpleasant Horse, laid out on iOS free download, which we are controlling a winged horse (and rather "unfortunate", it seems) pledged to destroy and kill other birds from the sky in a horse meat grinder.

Sony UK boss salutes and leaves

Ray Maguire, one of the veterans of the great family of Sony Computer Entertainment, announced his resignation after 17 years in the ranks of the company. Maguire began his work in SCE during the first launch of the PlayStation and I soon became senior vice-president of the British division. During his career he has managed the affairs of the company in Ireland and other regions of northern Europe, such as the Benelux.

Mortal Kombat is gold

Coming Soon The new Mortal Kombat is tinged with gold, figuratively speaking, at this very hour. Warner Bros. Interactive announced that the new chapter in the popular series of ultra-violent fighting game has just entered the phase of gold, or the last process of production as a prelude to the distribution in stores.

Following therefore the time planned for the development, Mortal Kombat will be available in Italian stores since April 21, 2011 in sizes PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Spotted a new DLC for Black Ops

The second map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops has a name. Escalation will be called and expected to be released next May 3. A revelation was the Australian division of the chain GAME, who has missed the digital information through a flyer posted on its website and now removed ... But not quickly enough to avoid being caught by VG247.

Apparently Escalation will offer five new scenarios: Seize the Zoo, Take the Hotel, the Secure Convoy, Raid the Stockpile and Survive the Call of the Dead. The last of five seems clearly aimed at the zombie mode of the game. In the face of the usual temporal exclusivity agreement between Microsoft and Activision, Escalation should arrive first on Xbox 360 and PS3 only appear later on.

Randy Pitchford, Dead Space 2 and the multiplayer at all costs

In particular in Dead Space 2 The head of Gearbox, Randy Pitchford, said his tendency sull'imperante application of the multiplayer in any context, arguing in an interview with Edge as is often the inclusion of this mode is a force in certain products. In particular, as an example Pitchford Dead Space 2 and its multiplayer segment, which is forcibly inserted according to the developer as a result of a logical fallacy of thinking by the authors or publishers.

Free Realms at an altitude of 100 million?

According to Sony Online Entertainment, the free MMO Free Realms could reach 100 million users, with a "virtually unlimited support from the younger audience." Currently the share is still far away but we are well advanced. Since its release on PC in 2009, Free Realms has captured the hearts of as many as 17 million users.

Just this week the game is also coming on PS3, but only in the USA. "It may take still another 5 or 6 years, but I do not see why we should not be able to reach 100 million players," said the president of SOE, John Smedley, in an interview with GamesIndustry. biz. "There are plenty of guys who can not wait to get my hands on a product such as Free Realms.