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Dark Souls II will have a banner year next year beginning with its March 2014 release
Namco Bandai has erected a giant banner on top of the Los Angeles Convention Center (the site of next week’s E3 Expo) promoting Dark Souls II. In addition to the game’s title, two scary dudes, and the PC/PS3/Xbox 360 logos, the banner also comes complete with a release date: March 2014. While the publisher hasn’t confirmed an official release date for Dark Souls II through a press release yet, a banner atop E3 is the next best thing.
Thanks to NeoGAF user Gribbix for the picture.
Metro: Last Light outsells Metro 2033 after one week
Metro 2033 built up a devoted fan following after its release in 2010. The game had captured the attention of gamers so thoroughly that when a sequel, Metro: Last Light, was finally released earlier this month, it had become one of the Spring’s most anticipated titles. But Last Light didn’t require a similar span of time to become a success as it’s already outsold Metro 2033 after a single week.
Sales figures weren’t announced by Deep Silver, but the publisher did reveal that developer 4A Games is hard at work on a series of DLC expansion packs for Last Light:
- The Faction Pack and the Chronicles Pack, featuring new, original single-player gameplay that expands on the Metro: Last Light universe and story
- The mysterious Tower Pack, a unique solo challenge to Metro veterans
- The Developer Pack, giving creative players some interesting tools with which to explore the world of Metro.
“4A Games are honored by the reception our latest project has received,” said Andrew Prokhorov, Creative Director at 4A Games. “We are a small but dedicated team who are lucky to have been given the creative freedom and support to make the kind of experience we dream, as gamers, of playing. Our work on Metro: Last Light continues with new single player DLC, and we look forward to revealing future projects from the team. We want to thank all the Metro fans for support we have received.”
The DLC packs will be available for purchased separately or as part of a Season Pass, which can be pre-ordered now for $14.99 (or 1200 Microsoft Points).
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Metro: Last Light
Tales of Symphonia collection coming to PS3 in 2014
Namco Bandai and Hideo Baba, the Producer of the Tales series, have announced that Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, a two-game Tales collection, will be released for the PS3 in early 2014. The Chronicles collection will include Tales of Symphonia, originally released for the GameCube in 2004, and Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, originally released for the Wii in 2008. Both games will feature additional content and a high definition makeover.
Baba also announced that Tales of Symphonia Chronicles is currently a working title, so it may be known as something else when its released next week.
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged Tales of Symphonia
Weekly Warp-Up: E3 2013 Countdown Edition
No, that’s not a typo. Welcome to the Weekly Warp-Up, your weekly wrap-up of the biggest and the best articles posted at Warp Zoned this week…
We’re a week away from E3 2013 and the pre-E3 news is filling up our inboxes and RSS feeds. So have a gander at what Aksys Games, Tecmo Koei, and Ubisoft have planned for the big show. In addition to those companies, Best Buy and Nintendo have released the list of Best Buy locations that will host Nintendo’s E3 2013 demo stations if you want to take a few upcoming Wii U games for a spin yourself.
Also this week, Mike Ryan took a trip back in time by strolling the aisles of The Galloping Ghost Arcade, the largest arcade in the country. And John Scalzo asked “What Did I Just See?” as he examined 5 Surprising Moments From Classic Video Games. Finally, the entire staff got together to talk about What We Played in May 2013.
You can find more great news from the week that was after the break. (more…)
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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!
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
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.
Posted in News, PS4
Tagged Killzone: Shadow Fall