With the Halo Reach BETA now in full swing Bungie have taken a little time out to comment on there thoughts about a new IP form the studio
“we are tremendously proud of what we have accomplished with the Halo series but we fell we can eclipse it with out new IP”
Bungie community boss Brian Jarrard
“If you look at Bungie's history, each new universe we've built has gotten a little big bigger and a little bit broader - with Halo obviously being the crown jewel these days, as a studio, we wouldn't want to embark down a future path where we didn't think we'd continue to improve and eclipse our previous efforts. I mean, every project we embark on, our goal is obviously to do more than we've done before”
Activision have recently snapped up the publishing rights to the what ever it is Bungie are working on for the next 10 years.
Infinity Ward have released some information regarding the upcoming second instalment of DLC for the multi million selling title Modern Warfare 2, the “Resurgence Pack” will be hitting the XBOX LIVE Market Place on June 3rd once again apparently as an exclusive there first, which will no doubt please PS3 users as the last lot of MW2 DLC broke the PSN. Infinity Ward are also set to host a couple of double XP weekends the first on May 28th an d the second on June 4th just in time for the release of the new DLC.
Onlive the ambitious cloud gaming service has just signed a deal with BT to bring OnLive exclusively to the UK via its BT broadband service, unlike the US launch the UK will have PC, Mac and HDTV compatibility from the get go. OnLive say they have been testing in Europe since early 2009 from a base in Wales and can conform that the service works excellently as do test’s from the UK all the way to Italy and from Scandinavia down to Spain.
OnLive
“OnLive is coming to Europe in a big way”
There is still no set date for the release of the service as the company is “completely focused” on the US release later this year.
Konami have finally released Rocket Knight on XBOX LIVEand Playstaion Store, the remake-sequel is available for 1,200 Microsoft Points or £9.99 respectively.
The game will remain true to the original with classic 2D plat forming game play whilst utilizing updated graphics as you take Sparser a cross the course of the game to save his homeland from desperate wolves.
Hands up if you don’t have a Facebook account, well the few of you that just raised your hand need to go create one as Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto has just revelled that the gaming giants are set to produce a series of games exclusive for the online social network site.
“Gaming on social networks is poised to impact the traditional video game industry and is a presence that cannot be ignored. We have to make our move.”
Currently the top 2 games on the site are Mafia Wars and Farmville both made by Zynga Games for almost nothing and have currently made the tiny studio around $450 million thought micro transactions in the games, Capsom are not the first big games developer to notice the potential of a very small layout for a big return in profit via Facebook as EA brought London based playfish recently for $400 million.
Earlier on this week we reported on the release of the silhouette of the new starter Pokemon for Pokemon Black and White on the Pokemon Sunday show in Japan, well today we are able to reveal to you what those silhouettes look like.
Grass / Fire / Water
corocoro magazine scan
From left to right we appear to have the Grass, Fire and Water starter Pokemon as standard with the Japanese names Tsutaaja, Pokabu, and Mijumaru, all so the name of the new region appears to be Ishuu with you this time taking control of a slightly older trainer then in previous games.
Activision has confirmed that Call of Duty: Black Ops will see a world wide and cross format release date of the 9th of November 2010, whilst the PS3, XBOX 360 and PC versions are no surprise it is nice to see that the Wii is not being left out, all credit to Treyarch who all so released previous title’s Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: World at War on the Wii at the same time as the other main formats, not a year or so later like Infity Ward with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and not at all with Modern Warfare 2.
A head of E3 next month Ubisoft have just announced Assassins Creed: Brotherhood will be landing on both the XBOX 360 and PS3 Christmas 2010, Brother Hood the third console instalment of the award winning Assassins Creed series will see players once again play as Ezio.
The critically acclaimed single player experience of Assassin’s Creed is back and better than ever as Ezio returns in a powerful struggle against the powerful Templar Order. Now a legendary Master Assassin, he must journey to Rome, centre of power, greed and corruption to strike at the heart of the enemy. Defeating the corrupt tyrants entrenched there will require not only strength, but leadership, as Ezio commands an entire Brotherhood that will rally to his side. Only by working together can the Assassins defeat their mortal enemies.
The game will also feature an online multiplayer mode, a feature that until now was not including in previous Assassins titles.
Mark Lamia head of Treyarch studios has revelled the first details of the Multiplayer and co-op modes in the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops.
“The game's cooperative mode will accommodate two to four players and fall in line with the Cold War set deniable ops theme, which will characterise the whole game”
Locked away in an undisclosed location (although probably at Treyarch studios HQ) USA Today was recently lucky enough to try out of the new level titled “Game Hunters”
“Immediately puts you in the boots of these blacks ops soldiers and behind enemy lines”
“There were these black operations, these deniable conflicts, there was unconventional warfare that occurred”
“Underneath the surface of this cold war, there was this hot war and it was taking place between the superpowers”
Mark Lamia commenting in USA Today
“This setting, this period, was perfect for us because it allowed us this creativity. This period hasn't really been done in games and it spans a period of time. We are not getting into the exact period of time, because it is part of our story that we are going to reveal later, but it does cover a longer period during this era”
We can not lie this all sounds great a much better outing this time around by the Treyarch guys WWII was a big mistake last time.
Yet more news is coming forth from Nintendo’s recent investors meeting, this time that the forth coming successor to the Nintendo DS will not be called the Nintendo 3DS but that it is rather a working name similar to previous Nintendo console outings, anyone remember the Dolphin ???
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