General gaming |
- Watch 1UP Play the Battlefield 3 Beta
- Vanguard Bandits the Next Working Designs Game to Show Up on PSN
- Review: Renegade Ops is Too Good For Its Generic Name
- The Incredible Tale of How The Gunstringer Came to Be
- First Dead Space 3 Details Leaked - Report
- Rage Has an 8GB Install on PS3, Uses Three Discs on 360
- Original Crysis Plays Better On Consoles
- Sony Teaser Video Contains References to All Sorts of PlayStation Games
- I Am Alive Gets an ESRB Rating
| Watch 1UP Play the Battlefield 3 Beta Posted: 26 Sep 2011 05:07 PM PDT The Battlefield 3 Beta goes live for the entire world on Thursday, but a handful of individuals (including those who pre-ordered the game on Origin) are getting early access starting on Tuesday. 1UP will be playing the Beta starting at 11 AM PST and you can check out the game, and get our impressions live right here. Hop into the UStream channel to ask questions (or point out how much we suck at the game). You can also contact us on Twitter via @1UP. To reiterate: What: 1UP plays the Battlefield 3 Beta two days early. |
| Vanguard Bandits the Next Working Designs Game to Show Up on PSN Posted: 26 Sep 2011 04:51 PM PDT Working Designs was a publisher that focused on introducing Japanese games to a western audience that otherwise wouldn't have gotten to experience them in English. It's a much more common practice nowadays, but years ago WD made a name for itself in that business. It was also well known for the liberties it took in localizing some games. Posting in a NeoGAF thread about the release of Alundra and Arc the Lad, Ireland stated that Vanguard Bandits is the next port coming up. It'll likely be out in either October or November on the North American PlayStation Network. Unlike Alundra and Arc, which cost $5.99 each, Ireland described Vanguard as "a difficult re-license." In other words, it'll cost more than usual; he pegged "$8.99 or so" as a possible price. |
| Review: Renegade Ops is Too Good For Its Generic Name Posted: 26 Sep 2011 04:30 PM PDT The beauty of Renegade Ops, a downloadable game from the creators of Just Cause 2, is that it manages to capture all the over-the-top action-movie glee of Just Cause 2. But it does it within the confines of a top-down twin-stick shooter saddled with the most hopelessly generic name this side of Counter Strike. Renegade Ops' special sauce consists of RPG elements, wide-open levels, lots of gloriously destructible stuff, nifty multiplayer, and a control scheme that feels more like a physics-based driving game than a twin-stick shooter. You'll start off bouncing around jungle villages, and plowing recklessly through huts. Sorry, locals! Hopefully some NGOs will be along shortly to help with the reconstruction. |
| The Incredible Tale of How The Gunstringer Came to Be Posted: 26 Sep 2011 02:52 PM PDT Twisted Pixel chief creative officer Josh Bear has shared the amazing way The Gunstringer came together in an interview with Joystiq. Bear and CEO Mike Wilford visited Microsoft to pitch a game for Kinect, and upon seeing what was then called Natal for themselves they realized it would be impossible to do the game they had envisioned. "It was really cool, but it didn't have the fidelity to do what we wanted, it couldn't really track finger movements," Bear said. "I was like 'Oh shit, we're going to pitch this whole thing and they're gonna know that it's not possible with the hardware.'" |
| First Dead Space 3 Details Leaked - Report Posted: 26 Sep 2011 02:20 PM PDT Electronic Arts has yet to officially announce the game, but after the success of Dead Space 2 and EA's interest in establishing DS as a big franchise, it's inevitable. An Israeli news show recently showed footage of an EA office where a Dead Space 3 sign could be seen, and now a source has filled Siliconera in on the first details about the next game in the series. Rather than be set on a spaceship, Dead Space 3 takes place on Tau Volantis, an icy planet that Isaac crash lands on. He finds he isn't the only survivor on the planet and learns that Ellie Langford is alive and has left for another location with a group of people. Isaac eventually meets a new character named Jennifer before facing enemies that were called "the hive mind" by the source. |
| Rage Has an 8GB Install on PS3, Uses Three Discs on 360 Posted: 26 Sep 2011 10:46 AM PDT The PC version, as we already know, requires 25GB of space on your hard drive to install. Luckily the benefits of Blu-ray allow all of that to fit on a single disc, but it also comes with a drawback: there is an 8GB install you'll be faced with before playing. "Sony was great. Kudos to Sony for letting us do that. They don't allow every game to do that. So definitely, hats off," Willits told Eurogamer. "What we were able to do is install all the textures to the highest level. What is nice about the PS3 platform is that it's just one platform. Everyone has one Blu-ray drive, one hard drive, it's all the same. Some of the other systems you have... should I install it on my 360? Should I not install it? So yes, it's very nice." |
| Original Crysis Plays Better On Consoles Posted: 26 Sep 2011 10:15 AM PDT I loved Crysis on the PC, and I think I might actually like it more on the consoles. After playing around with a preview build for thirty-minutes or so, I'm astounded that Crytek managed to fit the controls and powers from the original game onto a gamepad in such an intuitive way. By mapping the armor and stealth abilities to shoulder buttons à la Crysis 2, and integrating other powers like speed and power jumping into their respective functions -- e.g. you hold jump button longer to jump high instead of switching to a special mode to do so -- Crytek has smoothed out the slightly clunky controls of the original. It's actually easier to switch between powers now. Crysis plays better on consoles, but given the graphical reputation of the original, the real question is "how does it look?" The short answer is that sometimes it looks better and sometimes it looks worse. Which is actually rather frustrating, because it's the best playing version of Crysis, and sometimes it's the best looking version of Crysis, but it doesn't meet that last criterion often enough to be the hands down ultimate version of the game. It's not like the original game featured horrendous controls, it's just that the new console ones arebetter. |
| Sony Teaser Video Contains References to All Sorts of PlayStation Games Posted: 26 Sep 2011 09:56 AM PDT You may not notice anything on your first viewing; these things are subtle. At the 23-second mark, you can see Sweet Tooth's truck from Twisted Metal on the left side of the screen, the guns and armor seem to be from either Resistance and/or Killzone, at the 27-second mark you see the Metal Gear Mk. II, and some people claim to see God of War's Kratos just as the video comes to an end. The video's name on YouTube states "See More 10/5/11," so it looks something else -- probably another video -- will be released next Wednesday. |
| I Am Alive Gets an ESRB Rating Posted: 26 Sep 2011 08:54 AM PDT Listed for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 (so the game doesn't seem to be pulling an Alan Wake and abandoning PC), the game got a Mature rating, as one would expect. The description sounds very similar to what we've previously heard -- it's a third-person action game where you have to stay alive while trying to save your family in a post-apocalyptic world. It talks about using a machete to kill enemies and using finishing moves (complete with quick-time events) like impaling, pistol whipping, and throat slashing to take enemies out. Beyond that, there isn't much in the way of new details; a good chunk of the description talks about sexual mistreatment of women, which should help to set the mood for what the game is all about. |
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