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Portal 2 soundtrack now available for download
Can’t get enough Portal 2? Well, lucky for you, Volume 1 of the game’s soundtrack, Songs To Test By, is available at the official Portal 2 website as a free download.
Just wait, there’s more. Valve has also promised two additional volumes in the Portal 2 soundtrack series will be released sometime in the future. The soundtrack is pretty impressive and currently dominating my iPhone, so for my fellow lovers of Portal 2, enjoy!
For science!
Street Fighter X Tekken: Julia is New Challenger #3
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s that time again to receive yet another obvious character tease announcement for Street Fighter X Tekken.
If you haven’t figured it out, it’s Julia from the Tekken series . Other characters that have been added to the roster are Sagat and Cammy. Is it just me or are these character reveals not as exciting as the ones for games such as the Marvel vs. Capcom series and Smash Bros Brawl series? Perhaps this is because we know for a fact that the only characters in this game will be from either Street Fighter or Tekken and that Capcom is not afraid to release a fighter with a 56-character roster list. Because Capcom has not released any word of the character roster limit, we may very well see almost every character from both the Street Fighter and Tekken universes.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Street Fighter X Tekken
New Releases: Hunted, Sims 3 Generations, BlazBlue Continuum Shift II, More
The month of May didn’t start with many big releases and it comes to an end in much the same way.
There’s Bethesda’s co-op action-adventure Hunted: The Demon’s Forge for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360; the latest Sims 3 expansion, The Sims 3: Generations; and the 3DS/PSP conversion of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II. That’s pretty much it. See you in June.
Check out the full list of the rest of this week’s new releases after the break. (more…)
David O. Russell leaves Uncharted movie
In a development sure to please many gamers, David O. Russell has stepped away from helming the upcoming film adaptation of the Uncharted series. Variety reports that while Russell is leaving his writing and directorial duties due to creative differences, the split is amicable. Sony is expected to look for a new writer and director to take on the project.
Russell said a lot of things about the project that made many gamers worry, from Mark Wahlberg starring as Drake, to the film focusing on Drake’s family, reimagined as a secret society of international art police. Whoever leads this thing, let’s just hope it’s somehow related to the game series.
UPDATE: Collider.com is reporting that Sony fired Russell from the project because his story ideas strayed too far from the game. Way to go Sony!
Posted in Etcetera, News, PS3
Tagged Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Mortal Kombat “Klassic Costumes” trailer is Toasty!
As if the Mortal Kombat reboot didn’t already feel like it came straight from 1993 comes this trailer highlighting the “Klassic Costumes” DLC pack. See Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Reptile and Ermac in their matching ninja outfits. See Kitana and Mileena get klassy with more fabric than they’ve worn in years. Jade doesn’t just get a klassic costume, but she changes her race as well (the character was originally white in Mortal Kombat II).
Other than “Koming Soon,” NetherRealm Studios is still not talking about a release date or pricing details for the DLC pack.
UPDATE: NetherRealm has revealed that the pack will be released on Tuesday, June 7 for $4.99 (400 Microsoft Points). Let’s hope the PlayStation Store is back up by then.
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Tagged Mortal Kombat
House of the Dead: Overkill gets extended on PS3
Holy ****! Agent G and Detective Isaac Washington bring their grindhouse antics to the PS3 for the first time in The House of the Dead: Overkill – Extended Cut. And just for ***** and giggles, the pair plans to add Move support, two exclusive levels, high definition graphics and eye-popping 3D gameplay.
Thankfully, all of the ****ing naughty language (which there was a lot of) and bullets (which there was more of) return as well.
“The House of the Dead: Overkill – Extended Cut on PlayStation 3 will send players to the shrieking mad heart of mutant mayhem. This time we went further, faster and bloodier than before. We extended everything, even the title,” said Gary Knight of Sega.
The House of the Dead: Overkill – Extended Cut will be released on October 25, just in time for Halloween. But Sega won’t make us wait that long to learn more as the game will be shown at E3. You can also get an eyeful of the first four screenshots after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged E3 2011, The House of the Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut
Resistance 3 pre-order bonus lets you play as Nathan Hale
Wait, what?
That’s right…you can run around in multiplayer as needs-his-medication Nathan Hale in the final hours of his life. That is, if you pre-order Resistance 3 from Best Buy. The multiplayer skin features Hale looking awfully haggard, struggling through his final hours of being a human…and, it turns out, being alive. This whole paragraph is making me weepy.
The PlayStation Blog has a full list of pre-order bonuses (shout out to the awesome David Bull!). Amazon is giving you a No. 60 Air Fuel Grenade, while Wal-Mart’s offer is five custom name titles – including the elite Sentinels. I’m going to have a terribly hard time choosing between playing as Hale in multiplayer… or pre-ordering from GameStop, which is offering a replica of the necklace Joseph Capelli wore. Yeah, I’m referring to the necklace of Chimera teeth.
I guess I’ll have to make my decision before September 6th, when Insomniac Games finally lets this beast out into the wild.
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged Resistance 3
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations teaser trailer unveiled
Ubisoft plans to close the book on Ezio Auditore this November with the release of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Yesterday, Ubisoft released the game’s first teaser trailer, which you can check out above. The publisher has also promised to release more news on Revelations, sneakily like an assassin, at the 2011 E3 Expo.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Assassin's Creed: Revelations