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Portal 2 outed – In other news, Cake Lie still popular meme
Mar 13th
Valve have been teasing us with an ARG since releasing mysterious new updates to their fantastic 2007 FPP (that's First Person Puzzler for you in the back who arrived late - yes, I saw you come in) last month.
Mysterious Transmissions... Party Escort Submission Positions... BSODs during GDC presentations...
What could it mean?
Tier One Beard – Medal of Honor trailer
Mar 13th
Now it seems that Activision have culled all respect and/or skill from Call of Duty development, it's down to EA to give us innovative Modern Warfare titles... How ironic.
A new Medal of Honor trailer, entitled 'Tier One' (after the cut) shows us most of what we know, in no particular order:
- Guns
- Combat
- Beards
- Combat Beards
- Apache Gunships
- Terrorism
- Insurgency
- Stealth
- Night Vision
- Quad Bikes
- Booby Traps
- Explosions
- Afghanistan
- Sledgehammers & Scalpels (?)
GDC 2010 – Deus Ex drops ‘3′ – now ‘Human Revolution’
Mar 12th
Using '3' in the title was always a silly idea... after all, it was a prequel ffs! Whatever next, Th4if?
Anyway, some marketing bod has obviously come to his/her senses, since GDC 2010 sees a bullshot teaser for the newly christened 'Deus Ex: Human Revolution' released into the wild by Squeidosnix or whatever we're supposed to call them these days.
No gameplay, just typical pretentious exposition and CGI, it's after the cut.
Nice shades... JC would be proud!
Mass Effect 2 Review
Mar 12th
Andrew Shepard (nee Bryant) returns to give those Reapers another damn good kicking...
DLC scandal #473795 – BioShock 2 DLC already on the disc?
Mar 12th
It's happened before (*cough* Resident Evil 5) and will likely happen many many times to come, but nobody likes paying twice for what they've already paid for.
Rumour, coupled with an incredibly small download for something that 'includes' 20 new multiplayer trials and 2 new playable characters, states that the content that costs 400 Microsoft Funny Moneys might have already been included on the disc.
Those dastardly miscreants! Maybe this 'DLC' should be re-branded as 'AICBWTWBBAI' (or 'Already Included Content, But We Thought We'd Be Bastards About It')!
GDC 2010 – War for Cybertron interview
Mar 12th
War for Cybertron is edging closer and keeps looking better and better. What's more, High Moon Studios are fans of the Transformers metaverse and seem to want to do things right.
In an interview with Game Trailers at the GDC (after the cut), Matt Tieger relates the Civil War back story and the backwards-up approach taken when developing the game ('get a good game working, then stick a license on top', as opposed to 'here's some money and a license, get it working by next week').
If this works, it could be very, very good, especially when 3-way co-op, 2 distinct campaigns, class-based gameplay and transformation are taken into account.
Thanks RPS.
Shank Trailer – Bloody Marvelous!
Mar 10th
Shank has a lot of people interested...
Whether it's the Penny Arcade-esque imagery, the Streets of Rage gameplay or the metric shit-ton of violence, it just can't seem to hit our desktops/consoles quick enough. The fact it has been picked up by EA Partners is even better.
There's a trailer after the cut from the GDC. It might be loosely considered 'Not Safe For Work'.
Hard Sell – Hothead Games disappointed in Rain-Slick sales
Mar 7th
In an interview with Gamesutra about the signing of DeathSpank to EA Partners (alongside fantastic looking indie bludgeon-em-up Shank), Hothead Games Ian Wilkinson let slip his disappointment in the sales of their recent offering, the episodic 'On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness' series, developed alongside Penny Arcade.
Like Giving a Shark a SMG – Mass Effect 2 ‘Firewalker’ DLC soon
Mar 7th
Bioware have teased us with the Hammerhead for a while no... First, they left a wide empty space in the Normandy's hangar. Now Ray Muzykae & Greg Zeschuk have conducted an exclusive interview with Gametrailers TV, during which they get very excited about the Firewalker DLC.
The hovering battle tank will feature in a chunk of fast-paced new DLC due on the Cerberus Network (meaning its free for 1st-hand purchases of the game) soon and will feature missions that involve shooting lots of Geth Colossi & Armatures in their over-sized optics.
Click here to watch the video. Just incase you don't have it yet, our Mass Effect 2 review will be up shortly. Keep your eyes peeled for our thoughts on this years biggest game yet.
Source - Joystiq
Transformative Years – War for Cybertron footage
Feb 27th
The teaser trailer for War for Cybertron didn't give a lot away... The bullshot rendered movie showed everyone where they were intending to go but didn't drop much in the way of gameplay.
As a result, reservations were cast and everyone moved on, leaving everyone firmly divided into either the 'wait and see' or 'it'll be a pile of poo' camp. After all, every other attempt to provide a video game outlet for everyone's favourite Robots in Disguise has been average at best.
Well, now Activision have given us a trailer, which lives after the cut.
