We already had an idea that we were getting another Assassins Creed game this year, and now we know when we’ll see it come to light. Ubisoft revealed today that Assassins Creed: Brotherhood has hit 6.5 million units shipped since its release. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot had this to say at an investors call today about the upcoming title. “We will have an Assassin’s Creed this year… We are going Read More ...
Bizarre Creations will officially be shutting up shop on Friday February 18th. The developer made around 20 games over 15 years, and managed to accumulate 200 members of staff at the height of their success. The studio was officially formed in 1994 under Bizarre Creations, but industry veteran Martyn Chudley actually started the group back in 1988 under a different name. Activision has been on a rampage, with the publisher Read More ...
Looks like you’ll be reaching for your wallet once again, as Bungie just revealed 3 new maps coming for Halo Reach multiplayer goodness. The new maps bring in a fresh new set of environments for Firefight and competitive multiplayer online. However, this time around development of these maps was not from Bungie but from independent studio Certain Affinity. The map pack will also include a whole new set of achievements Read More ...
Looks like PAX East will be a lot of fun this year. The schedule was released recently and its looking like a packed weekend. Author Jane McGonigal, of “Reality is Broken” is doing the keynote this year. Check out the schedule here to use as your guide to plan your weekend of March 11th. Enjoy!
Sony Ericsson has finally officially confirmed the Xperia Play. After months of leaks (going all the way back to last August!) and some hands-on previews as well as an advert during for it during the Super Bowl, Sony has decided to make it official. The device will have Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, Qualcomm Adreno 205 graphics and a 4 inch 854×480 multi-touch LCD screen.
Sony has officially announced all of the non-secret trophies for Killzone 3. The full list is available after the jump, minus the 20 secret trophies that we will have to discover for ourselves apparently.
Activision has confirmed that the currently 360 exclusive Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike map pack will be released on the PS3 on March 3rd. It will also be hitting the PC by April, too. The DLC was purchased 1.4 million times within 24 hours of its February 1st launch on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Strong rumours suggest that Activision has killed off the Guitar Hero franchise after poor sales of the recent iterations. The publisher has hit DJ Hero developer Freestyle Games with severe layoffs and cancelled United Front’s True Crime too. An official announcement will be made just before the publication of Activision’s financial results.
Guerrilla Games has announced that the Killzone 3 beta has had 58 million kills across 350,000 games. Half a million users have appeared on the game’s leaderboards. Two gamers have managed to break the crazy one million XP milestone too. The beta has indicated some key issues with the game, mainly with connection problems. Moreover, high load caused the database to fall over, score posting was a bit everywhere, some Read More ...
It is with great regret that we unfortunately are reporting on the closing down of the Western branch for Hudson Soft, Hudson Entertainment. The development studio will close its doors at the end of February. when Konami will completely absorb the company. This all comes as an announcement from Morgan Haro, the CEO of Hudson Entertainment. Unfortunately this means that all employees at Hudson Entertainment which is located in California Read More ...
Atomic Games revealed a statement today regarding players on the Window’s PC version of Breach. Apparently gamers were experiencing extreme lag while playing and thus Atomic Games has responded by releasing this new patch for the title. The patch will also fix several bugs and finally add Dedicated Servers for the game. New features added to the Breach Dedicated Server include: - Dedicated Server no longer requires Steam to be Read More ...
2k Games has officially announced a new sequel for 2007′s, The Darkness entitled none other then The Darkness 2. The game will be coming too Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC in Fall 2011 and Digital Extremes are at the helm developing the title. It’s been two years since Jackie Estacado, now the Don of the Franchetti crime family, used The Darkness to kill the men responsible for his girlfriend’s Read More ...
Capcom has announced some post-launch DLC for Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Shadow Mode will be a series of DLC packs that will let you fight against “custom-built computer opponents, modelled after famous players and specific themed teams”. The first few batches of DLC in this vein will be modelled on Capcom’s illustrious staff members. Shadow Mode will be released sometime in March, after the game is launched on 18th February Read More ...
Ubisoft just sent us word that they have announced development of a new Call of Juarez title. The game will be the third in the series and it’s titled: Call of Juarez: The Cartel and will be hitting Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC. Here’s a synopsis of the story courtesy of Ubisoft. Call of Juarez: The Cartel is set in present day and brings the best elements of Read More ...
Trust me, I didn’t make up that topic title for today, that was all courtesy of Nintendo. This week’s Nintendo Download consists of several DSi titles yet again as well as a few demos and one Virtual Console title from the NES. Here’s the breakdown for you. Wii Ware Spot the Differences! (500 Wii Points) Demos: Lit and Urbanix (remember demos are free to download) Virtual Console S.C.A.T [NES]: (1-2 Read More ...
