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THQ cancels Del Toro’s Insane; director retains IP rights

Posted on August 6, 2012 by John Scalzo

THQ President Jason Rubin just announced that the company has canceled Insane, the first game in a planned trilogy from director Guillermo Del Toro and developer Volition. “We have decided not to pursue further pre-production on Insane, and have returned all of our IP rights to Guillermo Del Toro,” Rubin said.

Insane was first announced during the 2010 Spike TV Video Game Awards, so the game was in development for at least two years before getting the axe. With Del Toro retaining the IP rights to the game, he would legally be able to take the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 title to other publishers if he wanted to. However, it’s likely that Volition’s contirbution to the project would stay with the publisher.

THQ never talked about Insane much after that day, but Del Toro described it as a “Lovecraftian Thing” to the MTV Multiplayer Blog before the announcement.

[Source: Joystiq]

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Do you want a new Need For Speed: Most Wanted gameplay trailer?

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Nicole Kline

Did you say no? Well too bad. This new Need for Speed: Most Wanted trailer introduces you to the Corvette ZR1, The Koenigsegg Agera R, and the Hummer H1 Alpha, just a few of the stars of the new game.

Most Wanted is not about “pristine cars sitting untouched in a showroom,” so get that thought out of your head. This game is about getting dirty and smashy, driving fast (pedal to the metal and all that), and taking on your rivals as well as the police. The open world of Fairhaven City features heavily policed freeways, downtown grids, industrial zones, tunnels, storm drains, and high-speed open roads.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted will be out on October 30 for Android, iOS, PC, PS3, PlayStation Vita, and Xbox 360.

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Daily Scoop: August 6, 2012 – What weekend?

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Nicole Kline

My weekends fly by so fast these days that it’s like I don’t even get to have weekends. In the last two days, I played something close to about 24 hours of Dungeons & Dragons. We played our regular Saturday afternoon game of Zeitgeist, and then our friend Kenny came up to play three upper-level Paragon mods with us. At this point, I am about one mod away from Emberyll Spitfire, my awesome wood elf Bladesinger, reaching Epic. With a Battle Interactive coming up, that should be no problem!

Anyway, onto the deals! Amazon’s got a slew of new deals for the week:

And now for Monday’s t-shirt round-up: (more…)

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Rise of the Triad reboot will be cheap, have free DLC, and may come to consoles

Posted on August 6, 2012 by John Scalzo

Apogee Software has been tinkering with the idea of a Rise of the Triad reboot for years and we finally got our first look at it during last weekend’s QuakeCon. If you were a teenager in 1995, this is quite possibly the best news ever. Some would even say that it’s ludicrously good news.

More good news emerged from the show floor when Apogee announced that the Rise of the Triad reboot would be priced at $14.99. Developer Interceptor Entertainment is also working on a ton of additional downloadable content for the game (including an expansion based on Rise of the Triad: The Hunt Begins) that they plan to give away for free.

Finally, Apogee and Interceptor haven’t ruled out a console port, so PS3 and Xbox 360 owners may get their hands on ROTT someday.

[Source: Destructoid]

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Metal Gear Solid 4 Trophy patch now available

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Nicole Kline

Looking for an excuse to replay Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots? Not that you need an excuse, but Konami has provided you with the perfect one: the long-awaited Trophy patch is now live in North America, Europe, and Japan. Not only does it add in Trophy support, it also removes the pesky loading screens before each chapter in the single-player campaign. If you can’t wait to get home and see the beautiful list, you can check out all of the Trophies at the PlayStation Blog.

A retail re-release of the game with the Trophy patch already installed is planned, though there’s no information on when we in North America will receive it.

[Source: Game Informer]

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Sony to release God of War Saga, InFamous Collection on August 28

Posted on August 6, 2012 by John Scalzo

It looks like the Ratchet & Clank Collection won’t be the only compilation of classic titles Sony has planned for an August 28 release. The publisher has just announced plans to package together an InFamous Collection and the God of War Saga on that day as well. Both Collections will be available for a super-low price of $29.99 each.

The InFamous Collection will include both games in the series, InFamous and InFamous 2, as well as InFamous: Festival of Blood, a formerly PSN-exclusive title. In addition to the games, “additional character costumes, power ups and weapon styles” and “extra missions” will be included in the compilation.

The God of War Saga will include five games: God of War, God of War II, God of War III, God of War: Chains of Olympus, and God of War: Ghost of Sparta. This package will also include “exclusive bonus content.”

Finally, Sony revealed that more Collections will be released this Fall.

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Way of the Samurai 4 coming to PSN on August 21

Posted on August 6, 2012 by John Scalzo

XSEED Games has announced that Way of the Samurai 4 will be available on the PlayStation Store in all of its nut-punching glory on August 21. The download-only title will be priced at $39.99 and, according to XSEED, will include branching storylines and multiple endings.

It will also include the weirdness that the Way of the Samurai series is known for, as the game’s tagline makes clear: “Be the hero Amihama deserves… or just run around like a maniac.”

Yeah, our unnamed hero obviously ain’t Batman. Though he does carry a bunch of wonderful toys…

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Rumor: This might be a screenshot from a new Prince of Persia game

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Nicole Kline

The word on the street is that this is a screenshot from an early build of the rumored Prince of Persia Zero, a brand new game in the franchise that would take place in present day. At the bottom of the photo, the text includes “POP_ZERO_2,” though of course this could just be someone’s elaborate Photoshop job. The photo was posted by a user in Ubisoft’s official forums, according to Kotaku.

Could this mean a fresh new start for the series? Based on this screenshot, the game will take place in Egypt, and the protagonist would be a black Prince, deviating from the traditional Persian theme of the games. Maybe Ubisoft is planting the image to see what kind of interest people still have in the series. That may seem laughable, but I put that right up there with people using Photoshop to troll the Internet.

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