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Wolfenstein: The New Order goose steps into stores this Fall
Doom 4 is still in limbo and no one knows what’s going on with the Quake series, but id’s other big FPS franchise, Wolfenstein, will return this Fall in an all new game.
Wolfenstein: The New Order will be available for the PC, PS3, Xbox 360, and “next-generation consoles.” The game is in development at Machine Games, a relatively new studio founded in 2009 by a few former members of Starbreeze Studios.
Wolfenstein: The New Order will be set in an alternate 1960 where the Nazis won World War II. Naturally, this doesn’t sit well with American war hero B.J. Blazkowicz and he sets off for Europe to take down the Third Reich’s war machine. And I mean that quite literally, the announcement trailer above shows Blazkowicz squaring off against a never-ending wave of goose stepping mechs.
“We are excited to bring a new chapter of Wolfenstein to gamers everywhere,” said Jens Matthies, Creative Director at Machine Games. “As fans of the series, working on this game is an honor, and our team is driven to create an unforgettable action-adventure experience that will make FPS fans proud.”
According to Bethesda, additional details about the game will be released in “a series of exclusive feature stories” on GameSpot.com beginning tomorrow.
XBLA version of Monaco will be released on May 10
After a last minute delay, Monaco is finally ready to be released on the Xbox Live Arcade. Pocketwatch Games has squashed the bugs that were holding up the heist game’s XBLA release and we’ll all get a chance to play on Friday, May 10:
Monaco XBLA launch take TWO!THIS FRIDAY, May 10, gear up for the heist of the century on XBLA! twitter.com/MonacoIsMine/s…
— Monaco (@MonacoIsMine) May 6, 2013
Rumor: Former Bizarre developers will reveal a new racing game at Next Xbox Reveal
Rumor has it that Lucid Games, which was founded in the wake of Bizarre Creations closing, is hard at work on Project Gotham Racing 5 for the Xbox 720/Durango. The developers themselves poured a little gasoline on that rumor over the weekend, with a cryptic Facebook message promising “an exciting update” in “mid May.”
We all know the “Next Xbox Reveal” is happening on May 21 and we all know that Microsoft loves the racing genre, so while this rumor doesn’t give us much to go on, I have a good feeling about the truthiness of it.
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Tagged 2K Drive, Next Xbox Reveal
PopCap will release Plants vs Zombies 2: It’s About Time in July
PopCap hears your pain. They know you want a Plants vs Zombies sequel and after announcing one last Summer, they’re finally ready to give us a bit more information. And by a bit, I mean that PopCap has confirmed the game will be titled Plants vs Zombies 2: It’s About Time and that it’ll be available in July.
That’s it. We still don’t know what platforms it’ll appear on or if it’s actually that first person shooter PopCap is rumored ot be working on. Forgive us PopCap, we’re just a little impatiens to know more.
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Tagged Plants vs Zombies 2
Disney selects EA to develop future Star Wars games
When Disney acquired LucasArts, they assured fans that they would likely be working with third-party developers and publishers to bring future Star Wars games to store shelves. Today, they’ve announced that Electronic Arts has agreed to produce new Star Wars games through a multi-year exclusive licensing agreement. The “Evil Empire” jokes just write themselves with this bit of news.
The deal, which was likely spurred on partly by BioWare’s work with Star Wars: The Old Republic, will include multiple title for the “core gaming audience.” Disney will retain the rights to create Star Wars games for mobile and browser-based platforms.
The first EA-published Star Wars games are already in development, but don’t expect a simple Episode VII tie-in here. EA internal studios DICE and Visceral Games will create entirely original games that include “all new stories” and “new experiences [that] may borrow from [the] films”
It’s unknown if either of these titles are connected to the previously announced Star Wars 1313 or Star Wars: First Assault (or Star Wars: Battlefront III, for that matter).
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Tagged Star Wars: Battlefront, Star Wars: Visceral
Shadow of the Eternals crowdfunding campaign has begun
As promised, Precursor Games has released the first details about Shadow of the Eternals and launched the crowdfunding campaign for their spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness. In a neat twist on the crowdfunding model, Precursor has decided to independently run the campaign themselves rather than going with Kickstarter or one of its many competitors.
So if you head over to the Shadow of the Eternals website, you’ll be greeted by the campaign video above and a request for $1.5 million. As we found out Friday, the developer plans to release the game episodically, and the campaign will cover the first episode, which Precursor is calling the “Pilot Episode.” If all goes well, a Summer 2014 release for the CryEngine 3-powered game on the PC and Wii U is planned.
The “Pilot Episode” will take place at Elizabeth Bathory’s home in medieval Hungary, Cachtice Castle. The year is 1610 and the “Blood Countess” has been terrorizing her subjects with abductions and ritualistic killings for 25 years. A first look at the game, with commentary from Denis Dyack, can be found at IGN.
The Precursor team is made up almost exclusively of former Silicon Knights developers. So while Shadow of the Eternals isn’t a direct sequel to the GameCube classic, it’s probably as close as we’ll ever get.
As of 3:15 PM (Eastern Time), the campaign has been active for a little over three hours with over $31,000 (or 2.1%) in pledges. So we might just get it.
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Tagged Shadow of the Eternals
Daily Scoop: May 6, 2013 – Did you survive Cinco de Mayo?
Were you able to survive Cinco de Mayo? I almost didn’t. I was taking an unshowered trip to the bookstore yesterday in my pajamas when I realized I was walking through a trendy part of town on a major day of drinking. I nearly had an anxiety attack! But I made it through and then ran home and got back to video gaming. Whew! It was a close call, all right.
Let’s see, what’s going on today for deals? Well, there are some new digital deals happening over at Amazon this week, almost all of which are Codemasters games. You might remember Codemasters from my bizarre obsession with Damnation, which you can now get for $4.99. Other deals include Dirt 2 for $4.99, Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising for $6.99, and Rise of the Argonauts for $4.49. Scoop ’em up!
A few good t-shirts for you today, y’all! (more…)
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Michael Biehn teases Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon sequel
Michael Biehn, the 80s action hero who has tangled with both Terminators and Aliens, recently sat down with Microsoft’s Major Nelson for an interview on his Major Nelson Radio podcast. During the course of their chat, the Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon star revealed that Ubisoft Montreal is considering a sequel to the well-received downloadable title:
“Dean [Evans, Creative Director of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon] was with me on the phone last night. He was pretty jacked up. He was going into a meeting today. I think he wants to turn it into some sort of franchise. He’s got a sequel in mind.”
So don’t start planning your Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon 2 party just yet, but it sounds like Ubisoft knows they have a hit on their hands. And knowing Ubisoft as I do, I’m sure they’ll ride that pony to sequel-land sooner or later.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon was released for the PC, PSN, and XBLA last week. We loved it so much that it broke our review scale.
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Tagged Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon