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Official site, YouTube trailers for XCOM FPS taken offline
2K’s successful reboot of the XCOM franchise, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, brought many new fans to the series when it was released last year. The title’s classic turn-based gameplay was combined with modern production values to procude an exciting game that appeared on multiple Game of the Year lists.
But what a lot of people have forgotten is that 2K originally resurrected the series with the announcement of a 2K Marin-developed first person shooter, simply known as XCOM. But like 1984 Ministry of Truth, it seems that the publisher is trying to shove their seven-years-in-the-making game down the Memory Hole.
The XCOM official website and two YouTube videos on 2K’s channel have been removed. Rumors abound that the game has undergone a stylistic shift at 2K Marin, but we’ll have to wait and see if that’s true or if the entire game has been scrapped.
[Source: Digital Trends]
State of Decay lurches onto XBLA in June
State of Decay, Undead Labs’ open-world third person zombie survival simulation, has been a long time coming. And after viewing the brand new trailer above, we now know it’ll be available on the Xbox Live Arcade this June.
The end is here. Life as you know it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world. You choose where to make your stand, designing and fortifying your home base, performing daring raids for food and ammunition, and rescuing other playable survivors with unique talents. The open, sandbox world develops in real-time, dynamically generating content based on your choices and the ever-increasing zombie threat.
Just don’t let the armless zombies get you… they’re the worst!
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Tagged State of Decay
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition retail version delayed until June
Microsoft has delayed the release of the retail disc version of Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition. The game was previously scheduled to hit stores on April 30, but has been pushed back to add in “the very latest content.”
FYI: In order to include the very latest content, the retail version for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition has been delayed until June 4 (US)
— Larry Hryb (@majornelson) April 12, 2013
The “very latest content” likely includes the upcoming “Title Update 10,” which will fix most of the bugs introduced in “Title Update 9.” With the delay, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition will now be available in stores on June 4.
Injustice: Gods Among Us launch trailer comes out punching
With literally days to go before Injustice: God Among Us flies into stores, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has unveiled the final trailer that will be released for the title.
Injustice: God Among Us launches on the April 16 in the US then April 19 in Europe on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and the Wii U.
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XBLA Today: Twisted Pixel Games Bundle
Microsoft is getting into the Xbox Live Arcade bundle business and added the Twisted Pixel Games Bundle to their download service today.
The Twisted Pixel Games Bundle includes all four of the developer’s previously released XBLA games: The Maw, Splosion Man, Ms. Splosion Man, and Comic Jumper. Best of all, it’s available for the low, low price of 800 Microsoft Points ($10). If purchased separately, you’d need $45 to buy all four games. So the Bundle is a pretty great deal.
We reviewed Ms. Splosion Man when it was released back in 2011, so be sure to check it out if you’re interested in the bundle. Twisted Pixel’s next XBLA game, LocoCycle, will be released sometime this year.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Comic Jumper, Ms. Splosion Man, Splosion Man, The Maw
Project X Zone’s first English language trailer is appropriately wild
For the first time ever three publishers have teamed up to bring you “the ultimate cross over.” Namco Bandi, Capcom, and Sega have put their resources together to give us the ultimate strategy RPG.
Project X Zone is a follow up to 2005’s Namco X Capcom (which never made it out of Japan). It has a roaster of over 50 characters to choose from, featuring the likes of Mega Man X‘s X and Zero, Devil May Cry‘s Dante and Demitri Maximoff, Resident Evil‘s Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, Vitura Fighter‘s Akira Yuki and Pai Chan, and Tekken‘s Jin Kazama and Ling Xiaoyu.
Project X Zone will be available only for the 3DS on June 25 in North America, followed by a July 5 in Europe. The game is already available in Japan.
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Free-to-play Ridge Racer: Driftopia coming this year to PC, PS3
Namco Bandai has unleashed the first details of Ridge Racer: Driftopia, the next installment in their infamous Ridge Racer series.
Driftopia will be a free-to-play title and will be available on the PS3 and PC later this year. As the name suggests, Driftopia is all about the skilful art of drifting, and looks like it’s set within Unbounded’s Shatter City (which makes sense, seeing as how Bugbear Entertainment is also handling development duties on Driftopia).
“At Namco Bandai Games we are committed to embracing new business models alongside the still vital traditional retail sector,” said Olivier Comte, Senior Vice President of Namco Bandai Games Europe. “Free-to-play is playing an increasingly important role, so it’s very exciting to be bringing one of our most successful franchises to the free-to-play space for everyone to enjoy.”
Like all free-to-play titles, Namco Bandai will be adding microtransactions into the game. Driftopia will give the player the option to pay for car upgrades to drift ahead of the competition.
Dark Souls II gets a second trailer
From Software and Namco Bandai have released a new trailer for Dark Souls II, its second since the title was announced at the Spike TV Video Game Awards back in December.
This trailer includes some gameplay footage (sort of), and you can get a general idea on how the game is going to look during gameplay. It also doesn’t give anything away about what you’re going to be doing while playing the game. But, we’re sure that it’s going to get you excited, as it did us.
Dark Souls II is set for a 2014 release on the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
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Tagged Dark Souls II