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- In 2005, games started rewiring our brains – The AV Club (2025)
Author: John Scalzo
New Releases: Remember Me, Skyrim Legendary Edition, Minecraft Xbox 360, More
Welcome to Summer! As is customary in the video game industry, the Summer is a notoriously slow time for new releases, but several new games and several big re-releases will be available in stores this first week of June.
This week’s biggest new release is Capcom’s Remember Me. The developers at Dontnod will bring their dystopian future of memory hunters and arena fighting (it’s like two great Arnold movies in one!) to the PS3, Xbox 360, and the PC through Steam.
Also available this week is the disc-based edition of Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition. Complete with all of the game’s updates, if you don’t like the idea of the Xbox Live Arcade (and considering Microsoft’s new policies, it’s understandable), now’s the best time to get Minecraft on your Xbox 360. And speaking of re-releases repackaged with tons of DLC, Bethesda will release The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Legendary Edition this week for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
Skyrim’s Legendary Edition will be joined this week by Mojang’s similarly-named card battler Scrolls (PC). It will available through their website as a “paid beta,” much like the original release of Minecraft.
Finally this week, the epic “Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness” storyline comes to an end as Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 will be released for the PC and Xbox Live Indie Games Channel on Friday.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Minecraft, Remember Me, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Capcom releases live-action Remember Me trailer
Capcom’s Remember Me is just a few days away from its June 4 release. To celebrate, the publisher has release a new live-action trailer, which serves as a prequel to the events of the game:
The latest Live Action trailer for Remember Me gives us a reflective and somber look into the final thoughts of Antoine, the Founder of Memorize, and shows Nilin being taken to the Bastille where she will wake at the beginning of the game.
Don’t you forget about it!
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Tagged Remember Me
Rumor: Dishonored developer Arkane takes over Prey 2
Prey 2 has bounced around from developer to developer for years now, but it looks like the long-delayed sequel may have finally found a permanent home at Arkane Studios. And there’s a chance it’s no longer known as “Prey 2.”
Kotaku is reporting (along with an assist from Prey 2 fan site Alien Noire) that Prey 2 has found a new home at the Dishonored developer’s Austin studio. Their tipster also revealed that Bethesda has instructed them to throw out the entirety of Human Head’s work and start from scratch, or, “just treat it like a new System Shock.” The original design for Prey 2 already differed wildly from Prey, trading in the original’s alien spaceship (complete with kidnapped humans) for a wild west-like alien planet where humans live freely.
Arkane is actually the third studio to get their hands on Prey 2. Previously, Bethesda offered the game to Obsidian, who worked on it for a few months. According to Kotaku’s source, the team isn’t happy that their parent company is forcing them to work on someone else’s game, but the fresh start will allow them to put their own stamp on it.
This developer switch will cause another delay for Prey 2 and, according to Kotaku, it’s unlikely that the game will be released before 2016.
Killzone: Shadow Fall creators want to do everything with the PS4
Guerrilla Games is the latest team to have the spotlight shone on them in Sony’s Conversations With Creators video series. Their game, Killzone: Shadow Fall, is all set for the PS4’s launch and Exeutive Producer Angie Smets, Game Director Steven ter Heide, and Technical Director Michael van der Leeuw took turn talking up the PS4’s prowess.
Smets is thrilled that only the PS4 allows them to build new locations and environments with the scale and fidelity that they want. But ter Heide admits something that I’ve long suspected about the PS4 (and the Xbox One for that matter). He states the new console won’t be a huge leap over what the PS3 already offers, but instead of having to choose one fancy graphical effect over another, the team at Guerrilla can throw in everything to make a scene look even better.
Finally, van der Leeuw talks about a PS4 owner’s ability to buy a game online and get playing before the download is finished. If the console does nothing else, you have to agree, that’s an amazing feature.
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Tagged Killzone: Shadow Fall
Nintendo Download: Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons, Mega Man X, more
This week’s Nintendo Download proves that it’s a good day to be a retro game fan.
Today, Nintendo has added The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons to the 3DS eShop. To ensure that you buy them both, Nintendo has even discounted the games to $4.99 each through June 20.
Two more classic games from Capcom were added to the Wii U eShop today. Mega Man X (originally released for the Super NES) and Ghosts ‘n Goblins (originally released for the NES) are now available to download and if you buy one, you can get the other for 50% off now through June 6.
Also available this week are two original 3DS games: quirky RPG The Denpa Men 2: Beyond the Waves and animal sports sim Gummy Bears Mini Golf.
More information on all of these titles can be found after the break. (more…)
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Tagged Mega Man X
Crysis 3: The Lost Island DLC explores the franchise’s “spiritual roots” this June
Like a crazy bearded man shouting in an airport parking lot, Crytek has announced that they’re going back to the island in this June’s new downloadable expansion for Crysis 3: The Lost Island.
Taking place on a small island in the Philippines, the same locale from the original Crysis, The Lost Island DLC will add four new multiplayer maps (“Ascent,” “Coastline,” “Creek,” and “Crossings”), two new weapons (Claw and Rhino), and two new game modes (Possession and Frenzy.
“The gameplay in the Crysis series has always been deeply connected to the unique environments in which the action takes place,” said Crytek’s CEO, Cevat Yerli. “By transporting players out of the Liberty Dome and into the Lost Island setting, we’re not only returning to Crysis’ spiritual roots, but also introducing fresh ways to play that provide Crysis 3 fans with genuinely game-changing new tactical options, game modes and weapons.”
Crysis 3: The Lost Island has been priced at $14.99 (1200 Microsoft Points) and will be available to download on June 4.
EA: Online Passes now available “free of charge”
Continuing their efforts to do away with their Online Pass program, Electronic Arts has removed the restriction from many of their EA Sports title and made the Online Pass content/multiplayer features for many other games available for free.
Speaking to CVG, an EA representative had this to say about the end of the company’s Online Pass program: “Players will see it first with some EA Sports titles, where a prompt to enter an Online Pass code will no longer appear in-game; with other titles we are simply making Online Passes available free of charge online. These are rolling updates that are taking effect over the next several weeks. We hope players continue to enjoy our games and online services for a long time to come.”
A NeoGAF user has noticed that EA Online Passes are now available as free downloads on the Xbox Live Marketplace for the following games:
- Alice: Madness Returns
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Bulletstorm
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Dragon Age II
- Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
- Mass Effect 2
- Medal of Honor
- Shift 2: Unleashed
- Skate 3
Presumably, this content will be available for free on the PlayStation Network and PC download services soon.
Limited Edition announced for Tales of Xillia
Namco Bandai has announced that a Tales of Xillia Limited Edition will be available when it’s released in the US and Canada on August 6.
The Limited Edition has been priced at $59.99 and will include a copy of the game, special packaging, two DLC costumes, a soundtrack CD, and a Character Profile Booklet. Every Tales of Xillia pre-order will be upgraded to the Limited Edition, which will be limited to the game’s first printing.
A separate Collector’s Edition, which includes the soundtrack CD, a Milla Maxwell figurine, and a Tales of Xillia Art Book, was previously announced by Namco Bandai.
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Tagged Tales of Xillia