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...
Play The Secret of Monkey Island SE… RIGHT NOW!!!
May 2nd
We kid you not... For the low, low price of absolutely nothing, you too can play the first 20 minutes* of The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition RIGHT NOW, in YOUR BROWSER of all places.
Seriously, we're cutting our own throats! (oh, wait, wrong game).
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.
Knock Knock – BBC announces episodic Dr. Who games
Apr 8th
A decent Doctor Who game has been a long time coming, not least because until ~2005 the licenses owners considered it a lost cause.
Out to rectify that, the BBC have announced that 4 episodic adventures will be released free* as companions to the new series starring Matt Smith.
Developed by perennial British development house Sumo Digital (nee Gremlin Interactive), with collaboration from Charles Cecil, featuring the likenesses of Matt Smith & Karen Gillen and canon stories written by Stephen Moffat 'n' co (a first for Doctor Who, which has previously branded all-but-televised material as mere fancruft), the first episode from 'Doctor Who: The Adventure Games' (eww) is due on PC & Mac in June.
The question is, will it top Dalek Attack?
* - presumably 'free' means 'free to British TV License Fee payers'. Whether this will involve some elaborate DRM or simply an geographic IP check on the website (like the iPlayer) is as yet unknown.
Press release after 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!
Duty-Free : UK Game Industry to receive tax breaks
Mar 26th
Allistair Darling, that funny guy who lives in #11 and allegedly cultivates weevils in his eyebrows, has set out plans for tax breaks for British entertainment industries, of which the computertronic amusement industry is part.
Witching Hour – The Witcher 2 Debut
Mar 23rd
CDProjekt RED have released the debut trailer for their 'mysterious new project'... So mysterious, they even refused to acknowledge its existence despite a shareholder video demonstration leaking to the internet.
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is coming to PC (and possible console) sometime late 2010/early 2011 and is the sequel to one of the better proper RPGs to come out in recent years.
Formula Vroom – F1 2010 Developer Diary
Mar 22nd
Codemasters have released the first of [insert number here] development diary videos for their upcoming 'simu-cade' of the top level of motorsport.
Following on from F1 2009 (last years PSP/Wii game) F1 2010 signifies the first official F1 game on a Playstation since 2007, a PC since Grand Prix 4 in 2002 (ah, memories) and an Xbox since, well, ever!
Codemasters are behind the wheel (*snort*) this time - jump the waist-high turnstyle that is the cut and see what the developers have to say...
Thanks BigDownload
