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Portal 2 to get DLC this Summer
Have you seen all there is to see in Portal 2 yet? Well, prepare yourself, because Valve is hard at work on some downloadable content to extend the game.
Doug Lombardi, Valve’s Vice President of Marketing, recently sat down for an interview with Fast Company (just a warning, there are massive spoilers at that link) and revealed the developer plans to announce more details on Portal 2 DLC next week:
Fast Company: There is a comic online, but beyond that, is there more Portal coming?
Lombardi: We will be announcing some DLC for it, so folks can keep a look out for more content coming this summer. We’ll be putting more details out about that in a week or so. We’ll support that with more videos or more comics.
Amazon announces Ten Days of Free Games
Today, via their Twitter account, Amazon has announced the “Ten Days of Free Games.” The first free game available is Chicken Invaders: The Next Wave, a downloadable game that seems to be a riff on Space Invaders. Though this game seems to be nothing more than a quick casual game, you never know what might appear in the next ten days. Hopefully, more hardcore games are to follow.
Follow @amazongames on Twitter to see what comes next and go to Amazon to claim your game now.
FEAR 3 delayed again; new trailer dives into story
Are we sure Alma’s last name isn’t really “Nukem?” WB Games has delayed FEAR 3 again.
OK, maybe that’s a tad harsh. But the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 shooter will miss its May release date and instead ship to stores on June 21. This is the third or fourth delay for the game (I’ve lost count), which was originally scheduled to ship last Fall.
To soften the blow, WB Games has released a new trailer detailing the FEAR story so far (spoiler warning: Alma is a crazy spirit ghost thing).
The Witcher 2 opening level actually looks really cool
If you listen to the Warp Zoned Podcast, you’ll know I’m not a big fan of Western RPGs. So it’s saying something when even I have to admit that The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is looking pretty awesome. CD Projekt released the dev diary above, narrated by some guy with a vague European accent. Regardless, it does a great job showing off the opening sequence, as well as the character progression and variety thereof. They even give you a taste of bar-room brawling!
The Witcher 2 will be available on PC May 17, 2011.
Posted in News, PC
Tagged The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Jurassic Park delayed on PC/Mac, multiplatform launch coming Fall 2011
Last month we posted an in-depth dev diary and confirmed that Jurassic Park: The Game would have an April release date for the Mac and PC, with console versions coming later in the Fall. Telltale is scrapping that schedule, instead opting for a simultaneous multiplatform release later this year. This doesn’t seem to be an arbitrary decision, with the company genuinely wanting to make the best game possible:
We see a ton of potential in the game’s exciting mechanics and style and feel we can take what we already have in place to an even more thrilling level, so we’ve decided to continue work on the game and launch the PC/Mac version of Jurassic Park: The Game to coincide with the our multiplatform release in fall 2011.
As an apology to those who pre-ordered the first full season on Mac or PC, Telltale will refund your money and send you a voucher for a copy of any Telltale game you wish, regardless of whether you want to wait and use it for Jurassic Park later in the year.
Jurassic Park: The Game is coming to PC, Mac, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Jurassic Park
COD Black Ops goes grindhouse: Buffy, Freddy, Machete battle zombies
Treyarch promised “something special” for the new “Call of the Dead” mode included in the Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation Map Pack and they definitely made good on their promise.
Taking a page from Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse, the developer has enlisted a quartet of the biggest names from zombie films and television. Sarah Michelle Gellar (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), Danny Trejo (Machete), Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Michael Rooker (“The Walking Dead”) have all performed voicework and supplied the use of their likenesses for the DLC pack. While they’re not officially playing Buffy, Machete, Freddy Krueger and Merle Dixon, they’ve definitely dressed the part.
The best part is who Treyarch got to play the leader of the Siberian zombies that the team encounters: George “The Godfather of the Zombie Movie” Romero! That’s just too awesome!
The Escalation Map Pack will be available to download from the Xbox Live Marketplace on May 3 with PC and PSN versions following soon after.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Call of Duty: Black Ops
Portal 2 Review: Buy it. For Science. You Monster.
When Portal 2 was announced, the question wasn’t whether or not it would be good, but whether or not it would be successful. As a sequel to a short game that was added in as an extra on The Orange Box, many people wondered if it could live up to the original and if it was worth making a sequel. But Valve has done it again – they’ve given us a game rich with story and full of new and interesting gameplay. It still remains within the Aperture Science universe, and it still has that same self-contained story, but now it’s been expanded further. Portal 2 is a monumental success, and should be an example for how sequels can succeed under the right guidance and passion. (more…)
THQ renews Warhammer 40,000 license
THQ and Games Workshop have announced today that they are renewing THQ’s exclusive license to prepare video game adaptations of the popular Warhammer 40,000 tabletop war game.
The publisher has two Warhammer 40,000 games in development: PC/360/PS3 third person shooter Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine and MMORPG Warhammer 40,000: Dark Milennium Online. THQ President and Ceo Brian Farrell expressed his enthusiasm for both games, still scheduled to launch this year, saying, “our envisioning of the Warhammer 40,000 universe will continue to grow with top quality games across all platforms, including the upcoming launches of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine and Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online.”
The last big game to come out of this license, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, was a notable success among PC gamers, breathing a little extra life into the Real Time Strategy genre.
In other tabletop news, anyone wanna get in on a D&D campaign?
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Warhammer 40000: Dark Millennium Online, Warhammer 40000: Space Marine