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Extended Prototype 2 trailer adds in some dev commentary

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Mike Gutierrez

GDC is ending today (but PAX is coming up!) and Radical Entertainment released an extended clip of the announcement trailer for Prototype 2. It’s mostly the same stuff we saw at the VGAs, but the most notable part is the developer commentary. It’s almost kind of depressing, where one of the lead designers proclaims how he’s not making the game for himself, he’s making this game for three, four, five million people and wants to know how to make it for them.

I guess the sentiment’s appropriate for GDC, since everyone there is asking the same question, but I would hate to play in an industry where that’s how game developers go about their job. In fact, the team in the Killzone 3 special features stated that it’s a culmination of all the cool ideas they personally wished were in games, and that turned out pretty well. We’ll have to see how the different approaches work out for each studio with the incoming NPD report for February and when Prototype 2 ships sometime in 2012.

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Mortal Kombat introduces the Challenge Tower, wants you to cry

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Mike Gutierrez

The newest feature revealed by NetherRealm Studios for the upcoming Mortal Kombat is the Challenge Tower. We could make a news post detailing all the insane scenarios shown and described in the trailer above (Test Your Might, Test Your Sight, etc), but you really should just see it for yourself. My favorite is when Mileena offers Scorpion a Teddy Bear, which he refuses. Frustrated at how long she spent making it, the two have no choice but to battle it out.

Mortal Kombat will be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on April 19, with a PlayStation Plus-exclusive demo planned for March 8.

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Mortal Kombat demo coming to PlayStation Plus next Tuesday

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Mike Gutierrez

Sony’s been trying really hard to get you to jump in on their subscription-based service PlayStation Plus, and today they deliver another enticing offer in that effort. Mortal Kombat will arrive on the PlayStation Store next Tuesday, March 8 for Plus subscribers only. Regular PSN users will get a chance to download it a week later. The game will be compatible with Automatic Download, so make sure you turn the feature on so your PS3 can achieve sentience and download it on its own.

The demo features Sub-Zero, Johnny Cage, Mileena, and Sub-Zero as they battle it out on two ultra-vintage stages: The Pit and The Living Forest. You can get in on these fights with both single player and one-on-one Versus modes. And, of course, Fatalities and the new X-Ray Mode are included. Finally, for all you affluent technophiles, yes, the demo will support 3D.

The PlayStation Blog invites players to experience the joy of over-gory Fatalities, which it calls “once-controversial.” I’m not so sure about that. Seeing Kung Lao pull his victims legs-first towards his spinning razor hat to be dissected like some horrible biology experiment is an image I simply can’t get out of my head. Maybe listening to the iconic theatrical theme song of the series will help me stay sane until Mortal Kombat releases for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on April 19. I hope.

WB Games has said that the Mortal Kombat demo will be released on the Xbox Live Marketplace at a later date.

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Red Dead Redemption, Minecraft clean up at GDC Awards

Posted on March 3, 2011 by John Scalzo

The Game Developers Conference continues to roll on in San Francisco, and the game industry honored their own last night with the 11th annual Game Developers Choice Awards.

Red Dead Redemption was the most honored game of the night, winning the Game of the Year award as well as Best Game Design, Best Technology and Best Audio. The developers at Rockstar San Diego had to share the spotlight with Mojang’s Minecraft, which won three awards: Best Debut Game, Innovation Award and Best Downloadable Game.

Three other games were winners at last night’s GDC Awards: BioWare’s Mass Effect 2 for Best Writing, ZeptoLab’s Cut the Rope for Best Handheld Game, and Playdead’s Limbo for Best Visual Arts.

Three special awards were also handed out. The man behind the Fable franchise , Peter Molyneux, won the Lifetime Achievement Award. Another big name among RPG producers, Yu Suzuki, won the Pioneer Award. Maybe this’ll give him the clout he needs to create the long-rumored Shenmue III.

Finally, the Ambassador Award was given to Tim Brengle and Ian MacKenzie, two early organizers of the Game Developers Conference.

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Double Fine announces Trenched for XBLA

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Mike Gutierrez

The next game from Double Fine was announced at GDC with the reveal trailer you see above. Trenched will be a hybrid tower defense and third person action game (sound familiar?), taking place in an alternate World War I. Players take the controls of mechs to fight off aliens known as the Monovision. There’s no release date, but you’ll be able to start the fight on Xbox Live Arcade sometime this year.

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Saints Row: The Third coming Holiday 2011

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Mike Gutierrez

Fans of the over-the-top, open-world crimefest that is the Saints Row series will be pleased to know the latest entry, Saints Row: The Third, will be available this Holiday season for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.

The game will take a turn for the series, as the player will begin as already being the head of a criminal organization, with all of the benefits that go along with it, instead of starting from the bottom. “There’s no delivering pizza, no shuttling family members about in a long series of taxi missions. Instead, you take all the power of the Third Street Saints and you take the world by storm,” said Executive Vice President of Core Games (what?) Danny Bilson of THQ. We could take it a step further and say it’ll take video game forums by storm, as after the last two iterations of each franchise, many hold that Saints Row has surpassed Grand Theft Auto.

More information will be available when the April issue of Game Informer hits subscribers’ mailboxes soon.

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XBLA Wednesday: Beyond Good & Evil HD

Posted on March 2, 2011 by John Scalzo

The Xbox Live Arcade House Party rolls on with Beyond Good & Evil HD, an HD remake of the 2003 game. Hailed as one of the greatest games of the GameCube/PS2/Xbox era, it’s now available to download for 800 Microsoft Points ($10). Often compared to The Legend of Zelda, here’s what gamers have to look forward to if they missed it the first time around (or want to play it again):

Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft
Genre: Action & Adventure
Beyond Good & Evil, the award-winning action-adventure game is back! This time play through this innovative thriller in full high-definition graphics. Play as Jade, a young investigative reporter, and expose a terrible government conspiracy. It is up to you and your loyal pig friend Pey’j to save your planet and its inhabitants.

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Dead Space: Ignition Review: Devilishly Puzzling

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Nicole Kline

Visceral Games has been really busy lately with the release of Dead Space 2, the port of Dead Space: Extraction, and the development of their recently released DLC entitled Dead Space 2: Severed. Back in October, they released Dead Space Ignition, which came free with Amazon pre-orders of Dead Space 2. I finally had a chance to play this devilish puzzler, and while it was short, it was enjoyable and gave yet another viewpoint of the Dead Space universe. (more…)

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