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Metal Gear, Zone of the Enders remakes also coming to PSN, XBLA
Konami got E3 off to a rollicking start last week during their first ever Pre-E3 Show. During the event, famed director Hideo Kojima announced his next two projects: Metal Gear Solid HD Collection and Zone of the Enders HD Collection. Both games will be coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360, but as the E3 Expo opens, Kojima Productions has another surprise in store for gamers on their E3 Special Site.
In addition to the retail releases, each remake package will be available to download from the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade as well. It’s unknown if the download versions will appear at the same time as the retail versions, but I’m sure Konami will announce more details about the compilations soon.
The Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, which contains Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Libery, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, will be released in November. Bluepoint Games, the same team responsible for the God of War Collection and the Team Ico Collection, will be handling the development.
Zone of the Enders HD Collection, which contains Zone of the Enders and Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner, will be released sometime in 2012.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged E3 2011, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, Zone of the Enders HD Collection
Activision announces E3 lineup; CoD Elite beta dated
The 2011 E3 Expo opens today as Activision has released the final details their Call of Duty-centric lineup. The one-two punch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and the Call of Duty Elite subscription service headline the publisher’s announcement. They’ve even announced an official state date for Elite’s invite-only public beta: July 14, 2011. According to Activision, over a million people have already registered to request a beta key.
The megapublisher plans to have a few other titles on display at E3 including the toy/game hybrid Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure, their other toy/game hybrid Wappy Dog, the game-to-movie adaptation Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the wild Prototype 2 and the Marvel-ous Spider-Man: Edge of Time and X-Men Destiny.
More information on Activision’s complete E3 slate can be found after the break. (more…)
New trailer reveals Saints Row: The Third’s November 15 release
The words “over the top” and “Saints Row” are pretty much permanently linked in the eyes of many gamers. And that definitely won’t change when Saints Row: The Third is released for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on November 15.
Check out the game’s E3 trailer above for some of the wildest action you’ve ever seen, including a rooftop shootout between the Third Row Saints and a squadron of VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) jets. Yup, I’d say that qualifies as “over the top.”
Silent Hill: Downpour trailer rains down on E3
Welcome back to Silent Hill. The perpetually foggy town will frighten gamers again later this year in Silent Hill: Downpour, but first Konami has unveiled the debut trailer for Vatra Games’ take on the horror franchise.
Downpour looks to combine classic Silent Hill scares with the escaped prisoner antics of The Fugitive (sadly lacking Tommy Lee Jones’ Gil Gerard). It’ll be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 this Fall and will be on display during next week’s E3 Expo.
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Tagged E3 2011, Silent Hill: Downpour
First Soul Calibur V gameplay trailer
A few days ahead of the game’s E3 debut, Namco Bandai has unleashed the first gameplay trailer for Soul Calibur V. Get your first glimpse of the tale of swords in the trailer above!
Soul Calibur V will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2012.
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Tagged E3 2011, Soul Calibur V
Dark Souls dated for October 4, E3 trailer released
We knew it was coming in October, but now Namco Bandai has officially slapped an October 4 release date on Dark Souls, the spiritual successor to the award-winning Demon’s Souls. The publisher has also released a new story-focused trailer for the E3 Expo, which you can view above.
“With Dark Souls, we’re able to bring the uniquely challenging and rewarding style of gameplay popularized by From Software back to the PlayStation 3, as well as to the Xbox 360 platform for the first time,” says Carlson Choi, vice president of Marketing, Namco Bandai Games America. “With its massive, seamless open world design, deep exploration, tense dungeon crawling, extreme battles, and an innovative online component that allows gamers to draw from the collective experience of the community, Dark Souls provides a gameplay experience unlike any other.”
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Tagged Dark Souls, E3 2011
Tekken added to PlayStation Store
As promised, Sony posted their second PlayStation Store update since bringing the shop back online on June 1st.
This update adds the original Tekken to the PSone Classics section. The class fighter (just check out that box art) can be had for $5.99. Also available to download is a large selection of PS3 and PSP downloads:
Downloadable PS3 Games
EA Sports MMA ($19.99)
Dungeon Explorer ($5.99)
Super Star Soldier ($5.99)
Victory Run ($5.99)
World Sports Competition ($5.99)
Armageddon Riders ($9.99)
Downloadable PSP Games
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II ($24.99)
Dungeon Explorer ($5.99)
Super Star Soldier ($5.99)
Victory Run ($5.99)
World Sports Competition ($5.99)
A complete list of the latest game downloads, game add-ons and themes can be found at the PlayStation.Blog.
More from EA at E3 including Insomniac’s Xbox 360/PS3 game
Electronic Arts already unveiled the majority of their E3 2011 lineup earlier this month. But the megapublisher wasn’t done and has a few more titles to add to their expanding slate of games.
The big news, confirmed by the developer’s Twitter feed, is that Insomniac’s PS3/Xbox 360 game will make its worldwide debut during EA’s E3 press conference (Monday, June 6 at 3:30 PM Eastern Time).
A trio of other games will also be on hand at this year’s E3 Expo including The Sims 3: Pets (3DS, PC, PS3, Xbox 360); Curt Schilling’s Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (PC, PS3, Xbox 360); and NHL 12 (PS3, Xbox 360).
More information on these games (and a full listing of EA’s E3 lineup) can be found after the break. (more…)
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Tagged E3 2011, Fuse, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, NHL 12, The Sims 3: Pets