XBOX 360
New Xbox 360 controller announced – Happy Chibi Ken is happy
Sep 1st
The guy to the right is Ken. He fights streets or something...
He is also very happy at the moment! "Why?" I hear you ask..?
Well, Microsoft have just announced that there's a new wireless controller for the Xbox 360 on the way.
Key changes include rejigged concave bumpers, shiny chromed silver accents, fiddled analogue stick tops and silver-coloured buttons instead of the primary colours of old (no word on whether the system will recognise the new pads and change all the button prompt colours).
Oh, they've also fixed the rubbish D-Pad, meaning whenever Ken wants to hadouken in Street Fighter IV, he won't be doing any damn shoryuken like a fool.
As a replacement to the existing Play & Charge kit, $64.99 (or the equivalent) will be the asking price come mid-November in the US (February in the EU - I assume they have to translate the buttons into French or something).
Major Nelson takes us through it all after the cut...
Kinect to retail for £130, new Arcade unit revealed.
Jul 20th
Microsoft have announced that the Kinect will launch in November for a RRP of £129.99.
It comes bundled with Kinect Adventures - so the initial hit isn't too bad but it's still about £30 more than it really should have been.
Microsoft also confirmed that the new Arcade equivalent will go on sale on the 20th August and will again feature no hard drive and will come with 4GB of internal memory. It will retail for £149.99. There will also be a £250 Kinect bundle of the new 4GB Model and Kinect when Kinect launches.
“A Note from Aperture Science” – Portal 2 E3 event cancelled
Jun 2nd
Dear Subject Name Here,
Aperture Science is pleased to inform you that we have partnered with Valve to announce the gala CANCELLATION of the June 14 Portal 2 event at the Regal Theater. The event will be replaced by a surprise. And even though the cancellation of the event certainly counts as a surprise, we are pleased to further announce that the cancellation of the event is not THE surprise. However, per International treaties regarding the definition of the word “surprise”, of which both Aperture Science and Valve are signatories, the time, date and content of the actual surprise will only become available as you experience the surprise.
If you’d like to ask fruitless questions about the E3 Portal 2 surprise or, more fruitfully, schedule an appointment to attend a Portal 2 screening at the Valve booth during E3, please contact Valve’s Special Envoy to Surprises, Doug Lombardi.
Thank you for < RECORD SCRATCH!!! >
PS: The surprising record scratch is also not the surprise.
What could it mean?
Thanks RPS
Incase you missed it, the Steam for Mac/Free Portal/Portal 2 teaser is after the cut.
F.E.A.R. 3 Co-Op First Look – **Live Action Video Warning**
Jun 2nd
We know F.E.A.R. 3 is coming, the promotional box art is stupid, John Carpenter is directing live-action cutscenes and Point Man still has no name, but compensates... with a beard!
Obvious we will have to wait until release to see if the problems of F.E.A.R. 2 have been stamped out, but in the mean time, here's some footage of Data from Star Trek... ON FIRE!
No, seriously, it's the third trailer for F.E.A.R. 3, this time starring Paxton Fettel, which outlines how the two halves of the co-op experience combine - Whilst Fettel lines them up with telekinetic powers and possession, Point Man mows them down with bullets.
Fun!
Retrospective – F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
May 16th
On the eve of F.E.A.R. 3’s release, Andrew Bryant sinks his teeth into the previous entry into Alma’s world.
M0th3r = Exp3ct1ng – F.3.A.R. 4nn0unc3d 4 PS3, PC n Xb0x
May 3rd
Don't worry... It's actually officially F.E.A.R. 3... F.3.A.R. is just on the box art.
Still, when will 'marketing' learn that putting txtsp34k in our titles doesn't make the game more 'hip' or 'cool'... It just makes the people who made the decision look like fucking tools!
Anyway, F.E.A.R. 3 has been announced for Xbox 360, PS3 and Windows, due to hit towards the end of the year. Under development at Day 1 Studios (MechAssault, Fracture, the console ports of the original F.E.A.R.) with supervision by series creators Monolith and, curiously, John Carpenter.
Featuring co-op play starring Fettel and *sigh* the nameless Point Man, the game will propel games from 'generative scare' to 'generative scare' (which basically sounds like procedural generated scary quick time events too me) as they try and do something about the pregnant Alma and the impending birth of another token anti-christ.
Trailer and thoughts after the break.
More >
Vietnam(?) Black – Call of Duty: Black Ops announced, teased
May 2nd
Despite the debacle at Infinity Ward (26 employees and counting), Activision have pushed on with Call of Duty: Black Ops, in development at Treyarch.
The seventh entry in the astronomic series 'could' be set in Vietnam, the Cold War or somewhere else - We're honestly not sure and the trailer doesn't really give enough away to make a informed decision.
Judge for yourself in the teaser after the cut...
Retro Fangasm – XCOM coming back
Apr 14th
XCOM is coming back *happyface*
There is no hyphen in the name *sadface*
2K Marin are developing it with assistance from Irrational 2K Australia *curiousface*
There's a strange (almost retro) screenshot below and a press release after the cut *happyface*
It's a FPS. *over-reactingface*
More as we know it!
SOS New York – Crysis 2 Teaser Trailer *UPDATED*
Apr 9th
EA premièred a teaser for Crysis 2 in Time Square meaning, predictably, at least one of the Internet's vast contingent was available to film it and post it to YouTube, available here.
The trailer currently links to www.sosnewyork.com, which just has a timer (presumably counting down to some HD/expanded trailer goodness), but watch this space!
Lets just hope the game goes some way to explain why we've moved from tropical islands to New York!
*UPDATE* - The website is now live, with an extended HD-ified trailer, which can be found beneath the cut.
Pink Robots – War for Cybertron Multiplayer Footage/Release Date
Apr 8th
Well it seems the multi-player component of Transformers: War for Cybertron is doing what we really want of the game - allowing us to make our own shooty robots that specialise in shooting other shooty robots.
Purists may scoff at the classes being generic 'Scientist', 'Leader' and 'Scout' rather than stuff like 'Seeker', 'The One to light their Darkest Hour' and... erm... 'Scout'!
The most important fact about the trailer after the cut? 22/06/2010 is when we get to play this, making it 75 days (and counting) till we get this.
Woot!
