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This might be the third or fourth “World Premiere” trailer for South Park: The Stick of Truth at the Spike TV Video Game Awards/VGX Awards. But if you’ve ever wanted Cartman to give you a 90-second tutorial on how to fart, this trailer’s for you.
South Park: The Stick of Truth is in development at Obsidian Entertainment and will be released for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on March 4, 2014.
Remedy’s Creative Director, Sam Lake, showed up at the 2013 VGX Awards to talk about Quantum Break. Quantum Break is your typical “science gone awry” story, but Lake promises that the time powers granted to heroes Jack Joyce and Beth Wilder and “main bad guy” Paul Serene thanks to the accident at Riverport University will provide a new way to experience a third-person action game.
Quantum Break (or its live-action television show counterpart) still doesn’t have a release date, but PS4 owners should know that it is an Xbox One exclusive.
The first ever VGX Awards (formerly known as the Spike TV Video Game Awards) were held last night and the best games of 2013 were once again crowned by GameTrailers.com’s Geoff Keighley (with an assist from Community‘s Joel McHale). The general consensus among the Internetatti is that the show still doesn’t know what it wants to be and that the “intimate studio setting” (and McHale) made the whole thing feel a bit bizarre. But what about the award winners?
In what is sure to be the first of many, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V was named “Game of the Year” by the VGX Advisory Council. Rockstar’s crime saga also took home “Best Soundtrack.” But, the developer missed out on “Studio of the Year” honors. That award went to Naughty Dog for their work on The Last of Us. Their apocalyptic story was also awarded “Best PlayStation Game.” “Best Voice Actor” (Troy Baker), and “Best Voice Actress” (Ashley Johnson). Other multiple award winners include indie sensation Gone Home (“Best PC Game” and “Best Independent Game”) and BioShock Infinite (“Best Shooter” and “Best Song in a Game”).
A complete list of this year’s winners, including the remaining genre awards, “Best Xbox Game” (the surprising Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons), and “Best Nintendo Game” (Super Mario 3D World), can be found after the break.
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Here it is, your first look at the next-generation version of Tomb Raider. As we all expected, the “Definitive Edition” will include upgraded graphics and all of the previously released multiplayer DLC. Be sure to check out the trailer above, as I think Lara Croft kills something like 50 people. But classily. Because she has a British accent.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is being developed by Crystal Dynamics, Nixxes, and United Front Games and will be released for the PS4 and Xbox One on January 28.
Is this for real? Telltale Games and Gearbox Software are teaming up to bring us the episodic adventure series Tales From the Borderlands in 2014. The “World Premiere” trailer includes a scant few seconds of game footage and then a special message from Handsome Jack: “So many people are going to die.”
Spike TV’s revamped VGX Awards are set to begin in just a few hours (6:00 PM Eastern Time to be exact) and this year’s show is sure to pack plenty of surprises. In addition to our first look at Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition on the PS4 and Xbox One and a new trailer for Bungie’s Destiny, the 2013 VGX Awards will include…
A “Live Schedule” of tonight’s festivities can be found at the VGX Awards site. Be sure to cycle through it for more VGX events including an appearance by Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime, a Grand Theft Auto V-themed concert, and a lot more.
PopCap’s Jared Neuss has confirmed that Peggle 2 will be available to download through the Xbox One Game Store on Monday, December 9:
Hey, folks! I’m Jared Neuss, the Producer for Peggle 2 here at PopCap Games. We’re incredibly excited to announce that Peggle 2 will be coming to Xbox One next Monday, December 9th! The team and I can’t wait for you to meet the brand new Peggle Masters, learn their magical powers and, well, just have a great time. We’ve got tons of new levels, hundreds of objectives to complete and a whole bunch of ridiculous surprises lined up for you. We think you’ll love it.
Unless you hate joy and happiness. In that case, you’re on your own.
To get gamers in a peg-popping mood for Monday, Neuss sat down with Microsoft’s Jeff Rubenstein and answered a few Peggle 2-related questions at Major Nelson’s blog.
A banner advertisement that randomly appears on Spike TV’s VGX Awards site has confirmed that Tomb Raider will be coming to the PS4 and Xbox One early next year in a “Definitive Edition.”
The contents of the Definitive Edition are currently unknown, but its a good bet that the game’s three multiplayer DLC packs (“Caves & Cliffs,” “1939,” and “Shipwrecked”) will be included on the disc. A graphical bump to take advantage of the additional horsepower available in the next-generation systems is also highly likely.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition will be released on January 28 and the re-release’s first trailer will make its debut during tonight’s VGX Awards show broadcast at VGXLive.com.
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