Duke Nukem Forever Delayed (Again) March 24, 2011
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Ladies and Gentelmen, Randy Pitchford.
Duke Nukem Forever (now) coming June 14th, 2011 to Xbox 360, PC, and PS3.
Portal 2 Investment Opportunities Videos Launch March 22, 2011
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I’ve been trying to post this up all day, and from the looks of it, WordPress finally looks like it has become active again, which is a good thing.
Valve has released the first part in what is looking to be a whole video series on different gameplay segments of Portal 2, which is coming out in April. Now these don’t show actual gameplay per se, what they do instead is show you about the new gameplay features that Portal 2 is going to have. They’re voiced by J.K. Simmons, who is going to play the voice of Cave Johnson, the head honcho of Aperture Science, and like the game, they’re just hilarious.
Portal 2 is coming April 21st, 2011 to PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
Batman: Arkham City Gameplay Trailer March 16, 2011
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The first gameplay trailer for Batman: Arkham City, the sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum, has been released. This new trailer intercuts in-game cutscenes with actual gameplay footage played over a licenced song and it is just fantastic.
New characters making their first video debuts for the game include Catwoman and Two-Face. Of course you also get to see snippets of Harley Quinn, The Joker and Dr. Hugo Strange.
The gameplay looks almost identical to how the first game played, however there is the added bonus of the larger percentage of outdoor enviroments than there were in the first game. From what I’m seeing in the trailer, Batman’s glide is more important than ever.
I combed through the trailer a few times and didn’t catch any snippets of the Riddler even though he has been confirmed to make an appearance in the game. That dissapointed me because I have heard musings that there as a Riddler teaser trailer shown to the press during PAX. If that does surface I’ll be sure to post that up too.
Batman: Arkham City is coming October 18th, 2011 for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
Prey 2 Teaser Trailer Revealed March 16, 2011
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In this live action teaser trailer for the recently announced Prey 2, you see what could very well be what was going on inside the airplane that crash landed into the Sphere in the very first game, and just how normal things were before everything went to hell.
Prey 2 is being developed by Human Head Studios and published by Bethesda. It is likely to show at this year’s E3. Prey 2 is coming in 2012 for Xbox 360, PC and PS3.
inFamous 2 Beta Signups March 15, 2011
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inFamous 2 developers Sucker Punch have announced on the official inFamous 2 website that they are taking applications for beta testing the new user generated mission tools which will ship with the game when it is released in June. The beta test has only a limited window when it does launch, but they are taking beta requests from anyone with a valid e-mail address from now until Monday on their official website.
The beta is expected to start April 12th.
inFamous 2 will release June 2011 exclusive to the Playstation 3.
Prey 2 Quietly Announced (UPDATED) March 12, 2011
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Prey was the game that rose from the ashes of time like the proverbial Phoenix. It has been originally announced in the late 1990s and was originally in development at 3D Realms around the same time as Duke Nukem Forever. However, the technology just was not right for the times and despite very impressive showings at E3, the game was eventually outright cancelled while development at 3D Realms focused on Duke Nukem Forever (we all know that story).
However, in summer 2006, Prey was released for the Xbox 360 and PC through a joint development between 3D Realms and Human Head Studios and published through 2K Games. Using the Doom 3 graphics engine, Prey was a unique story where you played a Native American who had abandoned his roots and needed to reclaim them in order to save his girlfriend after they are abducted off their reservation by aliens.
It was quite a deep story about heritage and resistance against overwhelming opposition. The powers you used were a part of the mythology which had been established for centuries by the Native Americans and was done with incredible respect to their culture and heritage.
The game ended on a classic denouement which promised it would be continued. In fact, many interviews with 3D Realms (who produced the first game) announced Prey 2 was already in development at Human Head. However, after some time had passed Human Head announced they were no longer working on the project and 3D Realms later confirmed this, although a reason was never given. 3D Realms was in severe problems by this point over Duke Nukem Forever’s development, and while it is likely that this had something to do with Prey 2 being put on hiatus, I have no direct evidence to cite for this conclusion.
The first Prey 2 preview has graced the cover of an overseas gaming magazine, along with the announcement of the game. No details have been released yet as I don’t believe the magazine has reached shelves yet however the latest details I have found is that Bethesda is publishing it.
I will keep you up to date on all the details on this story as it is made available!
UPDATE: Bethesda has issued a press release on their blog with the full details. The game will be developed by Human Head (who I guess is resuming work on it because they were working on it after Prey’s completion then stopped) and will use id Software’s Tech engine. More details are expected next week.
Prey 2 is coming for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2012.
CLARIFICATION: The press release mentioned that Prey 2 will use id Software’s tech engine, and a lot of websites jumped the gun that this would mean Prey 2 will use the engine that is powering RAGE and Doom 4, this is not the case. Prey 2 is using an older id engine, likely the Doom 3 or Enemy Territory: Quake Wars engine. Doom 3’s engine powered the first Prey game.
iPad 2 Released March 11, 2011
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At 5:00pm today, the iPad 2 has been released to the public at almost every store I’ve seen. The unknown cameraman wanted one today, and we figured that the best chance we’d have to get one would be at a store that didn’t overtly flood our e-mail accounts that they would be selling one today, and that was Target.
So, here’s what it was like at my local Target. There are no Apple Stores in my area and Best Buy’s line was full by the time we got there. We were able to get an iPad at our local Target just arriving on the scene 15 minutes before 5.
My apologies for not doing an unboxing with this, I really wanted to but it was something that they were not comfortable doing. I can tell you that it includes pretty much everything an iPhone 4 came with, a USB cable, AC adapter, headphones, a quick setup guide, and Apple stickers. I did not see a dock included (which is something I think the iPad 1 did have) but since I was not permitted to see the unboxing I don’t know if it was deeper in the packaging.
Batman Arkham City Release Date March 11, 2011
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A release date for the highly anticipated sequel to 2009’s Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham City, has been announced. The first game was the sleeper hit of the summer it was released in, and offered an almost free-roaming enviroment where you could explore Arkham Asylum as the Dark Knight.
Recently it has been announced that Dr. Hugo Strange will appear in the game as one of the main villians. Other major villians that have been confirmed in screenshots include The Joker, Two Face, Harley-Quinn. There are also expected to be other appearances from other both well known and obscure characters from Batman’s long history.
In this game, Arkham Asylum has moved. The prisoners are out roaming the city, and Arkham’s walls have been expanded to keep them confined to the area of Gotham that they are inhabiting. Chaos and destruction follow in their wake, and you will have to enter that part of the city as Batman and put an end to it.
The Riddler’s challenges are also expected to get a return. In it, you’ll have to find specially marked henchmen who act as his informants. You’ll have to track these guys down to get the challenges, or you’ll be stuck having to find them yourselves.
Batman: Arkham City is coming October 18th, 2011 for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
Death Rally GDC2011 Trailer March 10, 2011
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Death Rally, the first game ever released by Remedy, who also brought you Max Payne and Alan Wake, is breaking free of DOS and coming to your Apple iPhone very soon. Here’s a trailer for it from GDC.
I remember playing the demo of this game when it was released with the Duke Nukem 1.4 Plutonium Pack CD-ROM (which hasn’t been for sale for some time). Since it was published by 3D Realms, Duke Nukem did make an appearance in the game as a competator. Since this is an updated version of the game for handheld play, Duke Nukem is likely to make a return in it, and we’ve been promised cameos from other Remedy characters, like Barry Wheeler from Alan Wake.
Death Rally is coming to iPhone this month. No specific release date or price point has been announced. You can currently obtain the original PC version of the game as freeware here.
Uncharted 3 Cutscene Released From GDC March 8, 2011
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Naughty Dog has released the first cutscene from the highly-anticipated Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. Previously they had only released teaser trailers and a little bit of gameplay, but nothing concrete has been shown about the new story, just that it would take place in the desert.
Well, at GDC this week, Naughty Dog has premered a full cutscene from Uncharted 3 in 720p HD and it is glorious. The original humor that made Uncharted the important brand it is is fully intact, as well as the deep characters we all remember in Nathan Drake and his mentor and partner “Sully” Sullivan. This scene also premeres the new character Katherine Marlowe, who will be the main antagonist of the new game, and from the looks of it, it’s a character that Nathan and Sully have some history with already.
Uncharted 3 will be released November 1st, 2011 exclusive to the Playstation 3.
Hey, Naughty Dog, when’s that second part of the Behind the Scenes video coming out?
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