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OnLive to get original, exclusive games
March 12th, 2010Creator discusses cloud gaming platform’s prospects.
OnLive boss Mike McGarvey has promised consumers "original, exclusive" games for the platform when it launches in June.
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Gabe Newell: Portal 2 is “The Best Game We’ve Ever Done”
March 12th, 2010
Following this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony, we were able to grab Valve’s Gabe Newell for a brief chat about Portal 2, wherein he mentioned that he thinks it is the best game Valve has ever created. Here’s the transcript of our interview:
1UP: Was Portal 2 from the beginning always going to be a full price game?
Gabe Newell: “One of the nice things about The Orange Box was it allowed us to try out a couple of different things, and Portal really seemed to resonate. We got the signals that we wanted — this is what people liked; this is what people didn’t like. And to us, it was like, ‘OK now we know how to take this big,’ so that’s what we’re going to do with Portal 2.”
Co-op’s the name of the game in the new Lara Croft
March 12th, 2010
Crystal Dynamics was kind enough to show off a bit of Lara Croft to VG247 today, and it looks like a neat arcade game you and a pal can play together and have a bit of fun.
During the co-op in the game, there will be times when Lara is going to have to rely on Totec and vise versa.
For example, Totec can throw spears into walls so Lara can climb, he can let her jump onto his shield so she can leap off onto a previously out of reach ledge, and he is good at helping her figure out two-person puzzles.
Totec also has to rely on Lara, with one example being him needing to get across a large chasm. In order to do so, Lara will have to get over there first, and have him blindly leap in her direction so that she can catch him and pull him up with her grappling hook.
If you want to be a jerk about it, and are playing as Lara, you can just stand by and watch your pal fall. We would, and laugh about it – at least once or twice.
The game really looks vast for an arcade style game, as it uses the same engine used in Underworld – therefore, you’ll see tress and branches sway in the breeze, and all other sorts of cool environmental graphics with no loads times.
Game’s slated for late summer on PC, PSN and XBL.
We have some screens of it below. Enjoy.
GDC: Uncharted 2 Wins Big At 10th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards
March 12th, 2010
Naughty Dog’s critically-acclaimed Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was the big winner at the 10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, presented at a ceremony this evening at UBM TechWeb Game Network’s 2010 Game Developers Conference (GDC), receiving a total of five awards, including Best Writing and the coveted Game of the Year award.
Another major honoree, 5th Cell received the award for Best Handheld Game and the Innovation Award, for its creativity-fueled portable game, Scribblenauts. Zynga, creators of the wildly addictive and popular Facebook game, Farmville, received the honor for Best New Social/Online Game, marking the first winner for this inaugural category.
Other winners include Rocksteady Studios’ dark and gritty adventure, Batman: Arkham Asylum, which won for Best Game Design. The Best Debut Game went to Runic Games’ Torchlight. The Best Downloadable Game award went to thatgamecompany’s Flower, marking the second such award for the developer, following their win in 2008 with fl0w.
The Game Developers Choice Awards, which honor the very best games of the year, created for developers and voted on by developers. The finalists were chosen via a combination of open game industry nominations and the votes of the leading creators in the Choice Awards Advisory Committee.
Starting this year, winners were selected by the Game Developers Choice Awards-specific International Choice Awards Network (ICAN), which is a new invitation-only group comprised of 500 leading game creators from all parts of the video game industry.
This year, John Carmack, the technological patriarch and co-founder of id Software was presented with the Lifetime Achievement award for more than two decades of groundbreaking technical contributions, and his role pioneering and popularizing the first-person shooter genre with the groundbreaking Doom and Quake series.
The Game Developers Choice Awards also honored Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik and Robert Khoo, the crew behind the popular webcomic Penny Arcade, with the Ambassador Award.
The trio, who have also created and spearheaded the Child’s Play Charity and the Penny Arcade Expo, were awarded the honor for their work creating their genuine, gamer-friendly empire by skewering video game culture and developers while building up a following, events and an industry-leading video game charity that help epitomize the positive elements of ‘gamer spirit.’
Finally, Gabe Newell was given the Pioneer Award for his work in co-creating PC key digital download service Steam, and helping to make possible some of the most important video games of recent years — from the Half-Life series through Portal to Team Fortress and beyond.
The recipients of the 10th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards are:
Game of the Year
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
Best Game Design:
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Rocksteady Studios)
Best Writing:
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
Best Debut Game:
Torchlight (Runic Games)
Best Technology:
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
Best Handheld Game:
Scribblenauts (5th Cell)
Best Visual Arts:
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
Innovation Award:
Scribblenauts (5th Cell)
Best Audio:
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
Best Downloadable Game:
Flower (thatgamecompany)
Recipients for the evening’s special awards were:
Lifetime Achievement Award
John Carmack
Pioneer Award
Gabe Newell
Ambassador Award
Penny Arcade (Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik, Robert Khoo)
“This year has seen some incredible titles across platforms and genres — big-budget blockbusters like Uncharted 2 and Batman: Arkham Asylum and addictive online games like Farmville all made for an amazing year in games,” says Meggan Scavio, event director of the Game Developers Conference.
“The winners at the Game Developers Choice Awards have exhibited that they can create compelling experiences that set the bar even higher for other developers to follow. We’d like to thank all the winners and the nominees for their countless hours furthering the art of game creation, and crafting some awesome experiences for gamers the world over.”
For more information about the awards and all the recipients, please visit the official Game Developers Choice Awards website.
‘Deus Ex 3: Human Revolution’ Trailer Premieres During Game Developer Awards
March 12th, 2010
The Game Developers Choice Awards took an unexpected turn on Thursday night as its host, Warren Spector, introduced a new trailer to the latest installment to the franchise he created: “Deus Ex: Human Revolution.”
The trailer started with a crowd of Renaissance-era physicians circled around a lifeless body. That was until the spirit of the body rose up and spread a wide set of angelic wings, crashing through the ceiling of a massive dome, flying directly into the sky. The wings quickly burned up in the sunlight, mimicking the story of Icarus, and the camera pans to reveal the spirit as that of Adam Jensen, the protagonist of the game, who suddenly awakes from this strange dream in his present-day apartment. He is shown with powerful cybernetic arms and, attempting to take a swig from a glass, accidentally cracks it in his palm.
From there things take a dark turn, showing a grim, futuristic skyline and a world that has seen the effects of widespread cybernetic use.
Unfortunately we haven’t gotten a direct feed of the trailer just yet, but when we do, you can be sure I’ll update this post so you can enjoy the trailer for yourself.
PlayStation Store Update – March 11, 2010
March 12th, 2010And here we have this week’s offering from the PlayStation Store. It’s not as jampacked as I personally hoped it would be, but am guessing there’ll be more next week after all the GDC hoopla’s died down?
Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Coming to PSN
March 11th, 2010Hello PlayStation friends! We’re Telltale, and we make awesome episodic adventure games! You may know of our work – Tales of Monkey Island, Strong Bad, and Wallace & Gromit are a few of our recent titles – but we’ve never launched a game on the illustrious PlayStation 3. Until now, that is! Coming in April, Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse hits the PlayStation Store, and we couldn’t be more excited to bring the third season of our landmark episodic series to you, the PlayStation Nation!
If you’re not familiar with the rabbit/dog detective duo, the following description ripped unceremoniously from the press release explains our heroes’ new unhinged adventure:
In Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse, Max has been bestowed with a set of powerful psychic abilities from an unusual ancient source that he’ll wield against the strongest and strangest foes the Freelance Police have ever faced. Join gaming’s greatest dog and rabbit sleuths as they investigate the source of these powers, with manic Max exercising new and amazing abilities with each episode. Max’s shape shifting, teleportation, mind reading and future sight abilities prove particularly useful as intergalactic simians, eldritch gods, under-dwellers and an arcane scholar ruthlessly hunt down those powers for their own evil ends.
For the first time on the PlayStation Store, we’re teaming up with the fine folks at SCEA to offer Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse for pre-order beginning March 18. Customers who pre-purchase the five-episode comedy saga will pay $29.99 (discounted from $34.99) until the game launches on PSN. Not too bad!
We can’t wait for you to experience the first episode, The Penal Zone, next month! In the meantime, go ahead and take a peek inside the Devil’s Playhouse with the trailer below!
Dragon Age 2 out February 2011?
March 11th, 2010EA hints at release date in retail copies of Dragon Age: Origins Awakening.
Retail copies of Dragon Age: Origins Awakening include a hint from Electronic Arts that a sequel to BioWare’s RPG may be hitting store shelves on February 1, 2011.
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More Open-World Options Possible After ‘Final Fantasy XIII’
March 11th, 2010
“Final Fantasy XIII” was able to do a lot of things, like take up three Xbox 360 discs, ship 5 million units internationally and get its own 360 bundle. Square Enix left behind some traditional elements of the series, though, and sprawling villages where you can poke around and talk to people as you like became one of those sacrifices. Now that the game’s epic development phase is is complete, however, Square Enix thinks they may be able to bring such features back in their next non-MMO installment.
“The next time you see a ‘Final Fantasy,’ we might be able to pack in more of those elements that existed in the past,” “Final Fantasy XIII” director Motomu Toriyama told Gamasutra. “And I also think that a game doesn’t need to have all of those items in the future. We can create additional downloadable content for people to add, too. It doesn’t have to come with that game itself.”
Toriyama discussed the demands of developing a 50-60-hour RPG like “Final Fantasy XIII” for the PS3 and 360, and said that the demands they faced without more open-air environments were sizable enough. Now that they have what he calls “base technology,” completed, such things may have a better chance of showing up down the road.
If the gameplay is good enough, I can’t imagine many players quibbling if they get 60 hours of engrossing sitdown time out of “FFXIII.” Traditionalists will likely disagreement with me, though. My main concern when I sit down with it will be how much environment they sacrificed in favor of button-mashing minigames, which could stand to hurt Toriyama’s case. We’ll see what shows up.
What do you think of “FFXIII”? Do you think it holds its own against its predecessors? Share your views in the comment section below.
ModNation Racers Hands-on from GDC 2010
March 11th, 2010
ModNation Racers (PS3) is close to coming out, and while neither developer United Front or publisher Sony will say exactly when, the version I played here at GDC shows a lot of those final improvements that tell me it’s about ready.
Most importantly, the racing has come up to speed. I raced two of the 28 tracks that will come with the game and nothing interrupted the flow of the race. With the action smooth on the screen I was able to drift corners right on the line I wanted, maintain control while boosting, and fire off weapons without worrying that they’d throw me off.
The track creation tools have also come a long way. I found it much easier to select what I wanted to, move, and then position it. The simple addition of a new lasso selection tool …
PlayStation Comics Store Update
March 11th, 2010Hi Everyone – It’s time for the weekly digital comics update for the PSP. This week, we have the first ever five issues of The X-Men (1963) from Marvel. Also, Red 5 return with the first issue of We Kill Monsters – an action-comedy in which two brothers discover monsters in their sleepy town and the power to do something about it. As always, you can check out www.playstationcomics.com for more info. Enjoy!
Fat Princess released on PSP today
March 11th, 2010Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake – the PSP version – waddles out today. We didn’t see that coming. Let’s hope the formula has been trimmed down from the coincidentally bloated PS3 release last summer.
PSP owners might also consider Eye of Judgement: Legends, After Burner: Black Falcon and MYST. A bumper week.
On PS3 we find Capcom’s new but retro-styled release Mega Man 10, plus a re-release of the Resident Evil 5 demo to compliment the Untold Stories Bundle DLC.
Add-ons Dragon Age: Origins – Return to Ostagar and BioShock 2: Sinclair Solutions Test Pack are also up for grabs.
Regional availability and other fine-print details can be found on the European PlayStation blog.
PS3 Demo
Resident Evil 5
PS3 Games
Mega Man 10 (£7.99/€9.99)
PS3 Game Content
Resident Evil 5 – Untold Stories Bundle (£10.49/€11.25)
Dragon Age: Origins – Return to Ostagar (£3.99/€4.99)
Bioshock 2 – Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack (£3.19/€3.99)
LittleBigPlanet – St. Patrick’s Day Costume (free)
EyePet – Clown Styling Pack (£2.39/€2.99)
Rock Band: "Decent Days and Nights" by The Futureheads, "Hounds of Love" by The Futureheads, "Walk Away" by James Gang, "White Falcon Fuzz" by The Mother Hips (0.99/€1.49 each)
Rock Band: "Tie You Down" by Shaimus, "The Hockey Theme" by Neil Peart (£0.59/€0.79 each)
Rock Band: The White Stripes Pack 2 ("Fell In Love with a Girl", "Seven Nation Army", "You Don't Know What Love Is") – £2.49/€3.99
Guitar Hero 5: OK Go Track Pack ("Do What You Want", "Get Over It", "Here It Goes Again") – £4.39/€5.49 (£1.59/€1.99)
PSP Games
Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake (£11.99/€14.99)
The Eye of Judgement Legends (£16.99/€26.99)
Dissidia: Final Fantasy (£19.99/€24.99)
MYST (£15.99/€19.99)
After Burner: Black Falcon (£13.99/€17.99)
Platypus (£11.99/€14.99)
Rengoku: The Tower of Purgatory (£8.69/€10.99)
Spongebob’s Truth or Square (£23.99/€29.99)
Street Riders (£15.99/€19.99)
PSP Minis
Ice Road Truckers (£2.49/€2.99)
Rocket Racing (£3.99/€4.99)
PSOne Classics
Airboat Racing (£3.99/€4.99)
Jigsaw Madness (£3.99/€4.99)
Junior League Soccer (£3.99/€4.99)
Sorcerer’s Maze (£3.99/€4.99)
SuperStar Dance Club (£3.99/€4.99)
PSP Game Content
Echoshift – Ocean Level Pack (free)
Echoshift – Snow Level Pack (free)
The Tester Episode 4 Available Today
March 11th, 2010Hey The Tester fans. It’s Thursday, which means the wait is over for the next episode of The Tester.
Game developers know that the ability to thrive in almost any situation and use creativity to problem-solve are key qualities necessary to work in quality assurance. Testers must be able to adapt and create scenarios to fully analyze a game.
So, what better way to take people out of their comfort zone and assess their creativity than with a surprise live-action role play? That’s right, things definitely get dramatic this week as the remaining 7 gamers use random props, their wits and sheer guts to entertain and impress the panel.
And to help evaluate the performances, PlayStation Home’s Katherine de Leon joins Brent Gocke and Hal Sparks on this week’s panel. Katherine oversees the creation of environments and virtual merchandise for the platform. An RPG veteran and former US Marine, she brings strong opinions and her d20 to this challenge.
Don’t miss Episode 4.
Thanks again for downloading and watching. Enjoy the show!
First Monkey Island: Special Edition Headed to PlayStation 3, Mac
March 11th, 2010Alongside word that an enhanced special edition of Monkey Island 2 is headed to PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and iPhone this summer, developer LucasArts also revealed plans to bring the revamped original to PlayStation 3 and Mac in the near future.
Fancy redrawn art or the pixelated original? Your call.
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition–released in downloadable form on PC, Xbox 360 and iPhone circa July 2009–packs two versions of the classic LucasArts adventure game, the 1990 ori…
Molyneux confirms Twitter support for Fable III
March 11th, 2010
Peter Molyneux’s confirmed during his GDC seminar tonight that Fable III will have Twitter support.
The Lionhead boss confirmed the news earlier, saying how important it was to acquire followers in the game in a similar vein to the service.
“I Twitter now and, you know, I’ve got followers on Twitter,” he said, referring to his new found love for the service.
“That’s an interesting mechanic, and we integrate that into the Fable experience.”
He didn’t quite say it would integrate into the service.
Molyneux earlier detailed some of the usage for the game featuring Natal, as well as confirming John Cleese would feature as the Butler.
New shots just went live as well.
Fable III’s due out later this year.
Thanks, Joystiq.
‘Battlefield’ studio slams ‘Modern Warfare 2′ in map pack announcement
March 11th, 2010Latest announcement on ‘Battlefield’ DLC takes shots at rival shooter ‘Modern Warfare 2.’
‘Torchlight’ Looking For A Way Onto Consoles
March 11th, 2010
“Torchlight” did a few things better than Blizzard’s “Diablo” series, and the action RPG’s makers have one more trick in mind that “Diablo” tried out on the PlayStation — transitioning onto consoles. The games’ developers haven’t ported the game yet, but it sounds like they’re pushing hard to get one out.
“We’re going to put some serious effort into it — pretty quick — getting ‘Torchlight’ onto consoles,” Runic Games CEO Max Schaefer told The Rumble Pack. “There’s a lot of really cool things about the console world, too, that would work well with our game.”
“Torchlight” is a really beautiful piece of work, but even though its control scheme distinguishes itself from “Diablo” in a few key areas, it will need some smart retooling to move smoothly on the 360 or PS3. Even a Wii edition would take some general concept tinkering, but I could see the Move and Wii Remote providing some key solutions.
The game would be worth the effort, though, so I hope they’re successful. Their work would no doubt provide a great case study for future PC-to-console ports and would give the game an increased level of exposure.
Would you like to see “Torchlight” on consoles? Do you think a console port makes sense? Share your reactions in the comment section below.
First five issues of X-Men hit Digital Comics Store
March 11th, 2010With Iron Man’s first ever appearance hitting the Digital Comics Store last week (qjnet/psp/psn-eu-digital-comics-store-update-03/04.html), another historic comic book gets digitized this week. The first five issues of X-Men from way back in 1963 are on this batch,
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 mode update hits March 30 – wuh-oh
March 11th, 2010
EA DICE has announced that anyone’s who redeemed their VIP code for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will get a mode update on existing maps in the game on March 30.
What else happens that day? Oh right: “this“.
The two maps in question are Arica Harbour and Laguna Presa, Conquest and Rush maps respectively. The update will allow both modes to be playable on both maps.
The move is part of EA’s Project Ten Dollar deal on cutting down pre-owned games. If you have a copy of the game pre-owned, you’ll have to buy a VIP code from the PS Store, Marketplace and the PC version.
Producer for the title, Karl Magnus Troedsson said the move was “‘mapathy’ without getting nickel-and-dimed”. He did not just go there, girlfriend!
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 went to number one this week in the UK after its release last week, also becoming the fast-selling game this year.
Dissidia hitting Euro PSN today
March 11th, 2010Seems like this weekend will be filled with Final Fantasy. While PS3 and Xbox 360 owners busy themselves with the fal’Cie in XIII, PSP owners in Europe can fight with the Chaos and the Cosmos by downloading
