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- BioShock Infinite Behind Closed Doors E3 Demo: Watch it Here
- Celebrate 20 Years of Sonic With Retronauts Live!
- Pokemon's First 3DS Game Gets a Promo Video
- Rockstar Moving Towards Producing Movies Based on its Games?
- Uncharted Film's New Director May be Limitless' Neil Burger
- Origin to Offer Game Center Style Functionality on iOS
- Dragon Age II: Legacy, the Game's First Big Story-Based DLC, Lands This Month
- Burnout Crash and its Over-the-Top View Coming This Fall
- Castlevania: Harmony of Despair Hits PS3 This Summer
- PSN Summer Sale Drops the Price of PixelJunk Shooter 2, Pac-Man DX, and More
| BioShock Infinite Behind Closed Doors E3 Demo: Watch it Here Posted: 07 Jul 2011 11:24 PM PDT One month later, that 15-minute video has now been released for public consumption. You can watch it above (it starts at about the 4:29 mark) and begin salivating over Infinite just as those who saw it at E3 did. You'll get to see some gunplay, what it's like to travel along the Skyline, how the tears Elizabeth can open are used in combat, and get introduced to the Vox Populi and Infinite's version of the Big Daddy, Songbird. After you're done watching and have rescued your jaw from the floor, let us know what you think in the comments below. |
| Celebrate 20 Years of Sonic With Retronauts Live! Posted: 07 Jul 2011 05:59 PM PDT Tomorrow, Retronauts Live! will be celebrating 20 years of Sonic. OK, we know, we missed Sonic the Hedgehog's 20th anniversary by several weeks. In our defense, they've been a pretty manic several weeks, what with us relocating to IGN's offices in the wake of E3. Meh, excuses, right? |
| Pokemon's First 3DS Game Gets a Promo Video Posted: 07 Jul 2011 05:50 PM PDT Super Pokemon Scramble, as it's known in Japan (it'll presumably take on the name Super Pokemon Rumble if and when it's brought to North America to match its predecessor), looks to feature the same sort of button-mashing, melee-based combat that the original WiiWare title was comprised of. Pokemon Rumble was criticized for its repetition and $15 price tag, which was thought to be too high. If Super Scramble doesn't prove to have enough new content, the latter may be an issue again as it's planned as a full retail release for 3DS and will cost 4,800 yen ($59) when it comes out on July 28. |
| Rockstar Moving Towards Producing Movies Based on its Games? Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:38 PM PDT This isn't the first time the name Rockstar Films has come up. A trademark for the name was originally filed in 2004 and was described as providing "entertainment services in the nature of a live-action and/or animated television program series." Rockstar Games -- through Rockstar Films -- was credited as executive producer on two films, The Football Factory and Sunday Driver. The latter was a documentary on a California-based car club that was included with the Special Edition of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Rockstar has a small section of its website devoted to it here. The new trademark sounds more expansive. It was filed this past December and was then picked up on recently by SystemLink Alt (via Game Informer). It has not yet finished going through the registration process and won't officially be published in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's official weekly journal until July 19. |
| Uncharted Film's New Director May be Limitless' Neil Burger Posted: 07 Jul 2011 03:01 PM PDT Burger's most recent film, Limitless, starred Bradley Cooper and Robert de Niro, the latter of which was a possible actor for Russell's Uncharted. Limitless was fairly well received, garnering a 70% average rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Burger's previous two projects were The Illusionist and The Lucky Ones, which have 74% and 36% ratings, respectively. Mark Wahlberg was set to play the leading role of Nathan Drake for Russell, with whom he's worked on a number of movies. According to Variety, there is no word on if he's still interested in moving forward with the movie, giving hope to the many fans who hoped Nathan Fillion would get the part. |
| Origin to Offer Game Center Style Functionality on iOS Posted: 07 Jul 2011 02:09 PM PDT The demonstration centered around showing Origin on iPad. Your friends list shows not only friends on iOS, but also on PC, so you can see a friend playing Battlefield or any other Origin-enabled title on PC. Origin also allows you to launch iOS games from right within the app without having to jump back out to the listing of all your apps. The demo showed the ability to do this with Need for Speed: Shift 2, which will be available soon. Origin handles leaderboards and can send notifications to friends to alert them of things like a record-breaking time you've set in Shift 2. As there are already similar services on iOS (Game Center and OpenFeint, namely), Origin means you've got another list of friends, high scores, and so on to manage. To encourage users to adopt Origin, one thing EA will do is offer Shift 2 players additional tracks and in-game money for using it. |
| Dragon Age II: Legacy, the Game's First Big Story-Based DLC, Lands This Month Posted: 07 Jul 2011 01:57 PM PDT Dragon Age II: Legacy will be on display at San Diego Comic Con later this month, though EA demoed the game for the crowd at its Summer Showcase today. BioWare said the DLC will go deeper into the Hawke family story, particularly that of the father. Legacy will take players to new areas (including an ancient Gray Warden prison) where they'll fight brand-new enemies and encounter an enemy so powerful that it's been kept a secret by the Gray Wardens for thousands of years. EA also announced a release date for Legacy -- it'll be out on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 on July 26 for $9.99 (800 BioWare/Microsoft Points). |
| Burnout Crash and its Over-the-Top View Coming This Fall Posted: 07 Jul 2011 01:16 PM PDT Crash first showed up on a ratings board listing, and has since been further detailed, albeit unofficially. An ESRB listing said it would have an over-the-top view that we can now see in the screenshots EA released today. The game is coming to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network this fall as a dedicated version of the Crash mode seen in older Burnout titles. It includes a form of Autolog, the system first introduced in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit that allows players to compete against friends without being online at the same time. It's being developed by Criterion, the same team responsible for Hot Pursuit and the Burnout series. |
| Castlevania: Harmony of Despair Hits PS3 This Summer Posted: 07 Jul 2011 12:55 PM PDT HD was previously an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive. It came out as a part of last year's Summer of Arcade promotion in August and subsequently saw the release of quite a few DLC packs. Before its release on XBLA, producer Koji Igarashi said we might see a PSN version if the XBLA version sold well enough. "Right now I'm focusing on Xbox Live Arcade," he said last June. "But there might be a possibility with that. I hope this one sells, and then we can think about PSN." |
| PSN Summer Sale Drops the Price of PixelJunk Shooter 2, Pac-Man DX, and More Posted: 07 Jul 2011 12:28 PM PDT Summer Sale 2011 will see the price of 11 PS3 games dropped by 30% on July 12 through July 19. PlayStation Plus subscribers -- which, depending upon when you signed up to get your PSN Welcome Back goodies, should include most people -- will get an even better discount at 50% off. There are some great games included in the deal, such as Chime, PixelJunk Shooter 2, and Pac-Man Championship Edition DX. The full list of included games and their discounted prices follow below. |
At its Summer Showcase today, EA demonstrated iOS support for Origin, the name for the 
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