GamesCom 2011: Konami announces Nura Rise of the Yokai Clan

Konami GC 2011 to present, which will begin in a few hours, a new fighting game based on the animated series Nura Rise of the Yokai Clan. To develop it will be a team to which they will, the Arc System Works, Guilty Gear series is famous for and BlazBlue. The game, scheduled on Xbox 360 and PS3, will be released in Japan in November, will have 16 characters and will be in 2D.

• Nura Rikuo (01/08/2011)
• Silent Hill: Downpour 'not missing out' without Yamaoka, says Vatra dev (15/08/2011)
• Konami's Champion Jockey Delivers a Shaming Dose of Realism (14/08/2011)
• No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise discounted before it's even out (15/08/2011)
• New Contra Game Teased by Konami (03/06/2011)

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Mortal Komb almost 3 Million

The fighting again at the top of Warner Bros. According to the new installment of the acclaimed franchise is close to 3 million copies sold. The new Mortal Kombat came on the market at a good time for fighting. The genus is in fact returned to the top of the charts thanks to an increased focus on the gameplay at the expense of three-dimensional makeshift solutions.

The general health of the market is confirmed by the data they see Tekken 6 over 3.5 million sold, Street Fighter IV in various incarnations is approaching 5 million copies and placed the recent Marvel Vs Capcom 3 that was purchased for more than two millions of gamers.

• Mortal Kombat sells 'close to' 3 million worldwide, has paid for itself (13/08/2011)
• Mortal Kombat Legacy headed to Blu-Ray (11/08/2011)
• Early Artwork Preview: Mortal Kombat: Legacy (12/08/2011)
• Mortal Kombat: Legacy Komes to Blu-ray This November [Mortal Kombat] (10/08/2011)
• Mortal Kombat: Legacy Comes Home in November (10/08/2011)

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EA Completes Acquisition of PopCap

Major eats indie EA has announced the completion of the acquisition of PopCap, which led the operation millionaire former independent label under the control of the giant Redwood City. The move, announced last month, has cost $ 750 million to Electronic Arts, divided into 650 million cash and 100 million stock options.

A lot of money, which also seems to be well spent, given that most analysts argue that the value of PopCap could be even higher.

• What does PopCap get out of the EA deal? (14/07/2011)
• Zynga tried to buy PopCap before EA swooped in (14/07/2011)
• EA buys out PopCap for $750 million (12/07/2011)
• EA Buys PopCap of the Day (12/07/2011)
• Peggle, Bejeweled Maker PopCap Now a Part of EA - Report (12/07/2011)

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Nintendo registers a patent for "MSOG"?

Single-Playing Massively Online Game Nintendo wants to do things his own way on the gaming market, is well known, yet this is really strange: a patent registered with the U.S. office charge refers to a "Massively Single-Playing Game Online." There was therefore a kind of opposite of MMOs, whose operation is not quite clear, given the proximity of strange concepts quite different as "massively online" and "single player".

A new video game for Lone Wolf?

Turn of the items ... For several days the site was online well-kai. com, where you can also access the fanpage on Facebook and Twitter. Mysterious sites are born every day, so why should this interest us? In the first place because of some curious enough references to the franchise Lone Wolf (Lone Wolf), born as a literary fantasy saga over the years and became a librogame, role playing and video games for home computers in the 80s and 90s .

Gears of War 3 will support 3D

Locusts in stereoscopic 3D as long, of course, to have a 3D TV The producer of Gears of War 3, Todd Ferguson has revealed that the title will support the three-dimensional view in this mode even if the title will have to sacrifice something. The team introduced a three-dimensional mode in the advanced state of development of the title and you can not work miracles.

So the 3D effect implemented through a post-processing, will force us to play at a resolution of 500 and something points instead of 720. In the future, Ferguson said, the mode will be supported better and the new development kit for the Xbox 360 already offers more advanced tools, but for Gear of War'll need to have a three dimensional view partially sacrificed.

The PC version of Rage will use Steamworks

The infrastructure will ensure the quality of Valve's online component RAGE, the highly anticipated FPS developed by id Software and published by Bethesda, will use the infrastructure Steamworks regarding the PC version. The news was confirmed by a spokesman for Bethesda on Twitter. RAGE, therefore, can be purchased on Steam and will take advantage of all features offered by piattaofrma Valve, including the anti-cheating, optimization of matchmaking and much more.