Dragon Age 2 will feature an entire feature film’s worth of cutscenes. They’ll make up an impressive 103 minutes of the game.
This news emerges from the BBFC, who reveal the number in their classification notes. They’ve rated the game 18 for “strong bloody violence”.
I looking forward to getting my hands on this game.
Here is an awesome video that appeared on Newgrounds on the weekend. The review is by Axman13 about Super PSTW Action RPG.
Duke Nukem Forever has been in development for some time now and it now finally has a release date. May 3 is the North American release date. May 6 is worldwide.
“Somehow the guys at Game Informer magazine discovered Duke Nukem Forever’s launch date before I did,” joked Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software and executive producer of Duke Nukem Forever. “But I cannot imagine any better video game news source team than Game Informer to reveal the moment of truth for the most inconceivable, incorrigible and inspiring turn around story in the history of the video game industry – the coming of Duke Nukem Forever on May 3, 2011.”
“The moment fans all over the world have been waiting for is almost here,” says Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “May 3, 2011 marks Duke’s return as he unleashes his brash and brutally honest wit on the world. His return is going to be epic and one that will make video gaming history!”
Here is what weapons you can expect in Bulletstorm.
Gran Turismo 5 was planning on allowing players control races remotely through the game’s B-spec mode. However, this feature didn’t appear in the boxed version of the game, but creator Kazunori Yamauchi promises the feature will be made available in the near future.
In a Japanese Twitter post, Yamauchi says the mode is coming in early February, but that’s about it. The feature will let you control B-Spec races through your PC or mobile device as long as your console is also on.
[via GT Planet]
Here is an awesome new high level scenario of the newly launched DC Universe Online. Chris Cao, the Game Director for DC Universe Online, has kindly taken some time out of his busy schedule to take us through the Group Combat Alert on Hive Moon Base.
DC Universe Online is available exclusively to PS3 and PC and is out now.
Microsoft will release an official Kinect software development kit (SDK) and driver support for Windows-based PCs very soon. Microsoft will unveil driver support and an SDK “in the coming months”, and will allow third-party developers to create Kinect titles when the Xbox 360 add-on is plugged into a PC.
Steve Ballmer was asked about official support for Kinect use with PCs at the Consumer Electronics Show, he replied: “We’ll support that in a formal way in the right time.”
Microsoft is expected to bring gesture-based control to its next PC operating system, Windows 8.
This week, Xbox LIVE Gold members can save 33% on the popular Xbox LIVE Arcade game
Plants vs. Zombies. Normally 1200 points, it’s available for 800 points until Monday, January 24th.
Microsoft will release the Xbox 360 Silver Wireless Controller in Europe on March 4 for £44.99.
Included in the price is a Play & Charge kit.
The new pad has a silver finish and a monochromatic colour scheme, meaning the old coloured buttons are now several shades of grey. Wow, big change!
Photographer Joseph Ford has taken his love of consoles a little further than that. In a gallery called “If I were President” Ford shows gamers what some of our favorite consoles would look like as massive architectural structures.
As you can see we have the DS Lite, PS3 and NES builds below.
Leading UK retailers have started accepting pre-orders for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS. TheHut, WHSmith, Best Buy UK and Woolworths all peg the 3DS for release on 18th March if you pre-order or 25th March otherwise for an eye-watering £299.93. They each list the 3DS in blue, black and red. ASDA has the 3DS down for 18th March, but fails to offer a price.
Nintendo is yet to price or date the 3DS for Europe, although we know it’ll be released on these shores in March. The company is expected to make a raft of 3DS-related announcements at an Amsterdam event next week.
A lot of World of Warcraft players have been been complaining that the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm’s dungeons are too difficult. Blizzard has just released a comment defending the difficulty.
On the Battle.net forums, Blizzard’s Greg Street wrote:
The bottom line is that we want Heroics and raids to be challenging, and that is particularly true now while the content is new and characters are still collecting gear. They’re only going to get easier from here on out. We want players to approach an encounter, especially a Heroic encounter, as a puzzle to be solved. We want groups to communicate and strategize. And by extension, we want you to celebrate when you win instead of it being a foregone conclusion.
On the other hand, we don’t want you to stumble your way to victory. We don’t want you to be able to overwhelm bosses without noticing or caring what they’re doing. We don’t want healers to be able to make up for all of the mistakes on the part of the other players. While at the end of the day, dungeons may just be gussied up loot vending machines, we want you to do more than push a button to get the loot.
Ultimately, we don’t want to give undergeared or unorganized groups a near guaranteed chance of success, because then the content will feel absolutely trivial for players in appropriate gear who communicate, cooperate, and strategize.
Who ever said Sega were finished in the console war, they’re only just getting started.
The start of this year saw the new Sega Wee launched in public loo’s all over Japan, the console, which looks just like a urinal is designed to help Japanese Men, and the rest of the world soon enough I hope, enjoy themselves in the toilet a bit more.
The system – which isn’t actually called the Sega Wee, unfortunately, it’s called “Toylet” – comprises of a screen that goes on top of the urinal loaded with four games, and a sensor that goes in the urinal. ”Players” urinate on the sensor, which detects the pressure and angle of the flow.
Games include:
I Just stumbled upon this and thought that I had to share this with all of you as it is an absolutely sterling cover to the theme tune of of a sterling game. I hate to say it but they don’t make games like Monkey Island anymore… Well, apart from the… um… newer Monkey Island games. But let’s face it, It isn’t the same.
Anyway onto the vid. The clue’s in the title really so check it out and in the meantime I’ll look for a way to get a more permanent version of this.
A short cheeky list of the top selling PC games for last year. Well, the week ending January the 1st anyway. With BOTH *facepalm* the new sims titles in the top five. World Of Warcraft in the there and the latest premier manager game in the top spot. Its a good time to buy shares in Blacktivision me thinks…….
Top Ten for the week ended 1st January.
GAME has confirmed the overnight VAT increase has led to many of its products seeing price rises 
across the UK.
A quote from the guys at trade mag MCV pointed out that despite the increase on most titles GAME remains market-leading still on a number of products.
“We are working hard with our suppliers to minimise the impact of the VAT rise on product prices but from 4 January 2011, customers will see some increase in our in-store and online prices,” their spokesman continues, ”However every week, customers will also see that we have a wide range of special deals and promotions that offer a greater discount than the VAT rise and offer incredible value for our customers. These will continue in 2011 and we are confident that customers will see that we provide value and expertise that they can not find anywhere else.”
The value you will not see elsewhere includes: Halo Reach for just £24.98 and the PS3 version of Fallout: New Vegas for £19.98, both of which GAME says are the cheapest in the UK.
Rises include plenty of games previously priced at £39.99 now costing £40.99 at the retailer across the rack, while the price of a PS3 Move Starter Pack has increased from £49.99 to £52.99.
Xbox 360 hardware including the 250GB pack, last week at £199.99 now at £203.99, 4GB gone from £149.99 up a smidge at £152.99, along with a 250GB Xbox with Kinect was £299.99 has slipped upto £305.99. Only a tiny increase, well 4 more percent anyway, but enough to start putting me off slowly…….
The debut of a motion-sensing controller designed for PCs has been announced by PrimeSense, the creator of the Kinect for XBox 360 with the intention of releasing it in February of this year (2011). The company has teamed up with Asus to make the device, which is in turn creating a dedicated online store for selling compatible apps.
The controller goes by the name “WAVI Xtion,” and will enable gesture controls for media center PCs. According to PrimeSense, the focus of the device will be on multimedia control, as opposed to the gaming focus of the Kinect.
There is a definite demand for this type of controller—even without Microsoft’s blessing, many a homebrew developer has adapted his or her Kinect for use with PCs. Given that the WAVI Xtion will be optimized for media rather than game control, it sounds like it’s running the risk of falling short of functionality by comparison, though native PC compatiblity may appeal to a different subset of users.
There is no doubt that the rumour are actually facts, but will it be out on time?
