Grasshopper Manufacture are back and are making a title which made them famous. With Suda 51 again acting as executive director. "Killer is Dead" is set in the near future, and stars an executioner called Mondo Zappa who gets jobs from a cyborg who owns a hitman firm. I know right! Suda had this to say "it’s a personal story of a man who doesn't show himself much in the public world but still worms his way into society and mercilessly eliminates the evil dispersed in it.” Kinda reminds us of "No more Heroes" which if this game is half as good then we will surely be in for a treat. The game is due for a summer release on Xbox 360 and PS3 with Deep Silver acting as publisher. Check out the amazing trailer below:
Thursday 28 March 2013
Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain
After many months of speculation Konami has finally announced that The Phantom Pain is Metal Gear Solid V and is the same game as Ground Zero. Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima appeared on stage at the GDC to announced the truth and that Moby Dick Studio's doesn't exist - yeah like we didn't know that! Hideo later revealed via a tweet that 'Ground Zeroes’ is a prologue of ‘MGSV’. 9 years after that event will be ‘The Phantom Pain’. MGSV is constructed w/ prologue and main game ‘TPP’. The game play demo I presented today is the opening of ‘TPP’ which is tutorial that starts from crawling.'One surprise however was the fact that David Hayter who has gone on to be Solid Snake/ Big Boss in many titles along the series will not be reprising his role again himself tweeting that he was not even contacted and asked to be apart of the game. One thing which baffles us is that the game has only so far been announced on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 which surely isn't possible with how great the game is looking. Most of Hideo's GDC talk revolved around the new Fox Engine technology that powers the game. He revealed that the aim was to make the visuals as photorealistic as possible, with many of the game’s assets scanned in directly from real life.
Tuesday 19 March 2013
Dead Island: Riptide not coming to Wii U
It seems a real shame that a game that needs item management wont be on the Wii U as it would be really great to see another zombie survival horror game on Nintendo's console as we all know how awesome ZombiU turned out. Guess all the Nintendo Wii U owners can watch the trailer below and dream of what could have been.
SimCity sells 1.2 million since launch
Deus Ex: Human Revolution coming to Wii U
An amazon listing (resourced from Joystq) has all but confirmed that Deus Ex: Human Revolution is coming to the Wii U. The product description said that the game features additional content including using the Wii U GamePad with an augmentation called the Neural Hub. Square Enix is stated as publisher of the game but no developer is down as of yet.
If you can't remember how awesome this game was then check out the trailer below:
EA has one rough month!
So it turns out that gaming giant and mega publisher EA is not above having a real bad time every now and then. First of all EA comes under heavy pressure and a great deal of criticism much of it well deserved over the extremely botched launch of their latest SimCity game which left gamer's unable to play SimCity for days on end after huge server instability and failures preventing gamer's from accessing the online only game. This left EA and Maxis in a position in which they had no choice but to issue a public apology and although other areas such as the UK were not affected by this issue as much as the US EA has offered a free game to everyone world wide who registers their copy of SimCity prior to the morning of the 26th of March as part of their apology .
The list of free games that you can download from their origin service is quite a wide selection to choose from however you do have to download your free game before the 31st of March. The games in that list of freebies include Battlefield 3, Dead Space 3, Mass Effect 3, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Plants vs Zombies, and SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition. Yes Really! in a effort to apologies to customers who can not play the latest SimCity off line they are offering a previous version of Simcity which has a dedicated offline mode in it am i the only one who finds this a bit strange?
The list of free games that you can download from their origin service is quite a wide selection to choose from however you do have to download your free game before the 31st of March. The games in that list of freebies include Battlefield 3, Dead Space 3, Mass Effect 3, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Plants vs Zombies, and SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition. Yes Really! in a effort to apologies to customers who can not play the latest SimCity off line they are offering a previous version of Simcity which has a dedicated offline mode in it am i the only one who finds this a bit strange?
So that's the first headache for EA but not the last. Following the sham of the SimCity launch John Riccitiello the CEO of EA has announced that he will be stepping down from his position as CEO on March 30th. John Riccitiello has been quoted as saying. "My decision to leave EA is really all about my accountability for the shortcomings in our financial results this year." EA has decided to post Larry Probst as executive chairman while the company searches for Riccitiello's replacement. Probst was CEO of EA from 1991 to 2007 when Riccitiello took over.
So as far as things go a pretty shitty time for EA so far but there is one last kick in the teeth for the company this week. Well the say trouble comes in threes and earlier today it was revealed that a third-party security company called ReVuln was running tests on Origin EAs online game store's software when they discovered that the software had been hacked. A exploit that allows a malicious user to swap links that launch already-downloaded games with those for alternatives. For more info on this exploit click here.
So EA are not having a great time at all at the moment lets hope that there string of misfortune does not continue for much longer for their sake and the sake of the customers on the receiving end of some of these problems.
So as far as things go a pretty shitty time for EA so far but there is one last kick in the teeth for the company this week. Well the say trouble comes in threes and earlier today it was revealed that a third-party security company called ReVuln was running tests on Origin EAs online game store's software when they discovered that the software had been hacked. A exploit that allows a malicious user to swap links that launch already-downloaded games with those for alternatives. For more info on this exploit click here.
So EA are not having a great time at all at the moment lets hope that there string of misfortune does not continue for much longer for their sake and the sake of the customers on the receiving end of some of these problems.
Sunday 17 March 2013
Assassins Creed Rising Phoenix Images
Yet more Assassin's Creed info has leaked this time a PS Vita release. The game is titled Rising Phoenix. A product listing has been spotted on a Spanish website Xtralife.es. The product was later to be removed and we know when that happens that it is more than likely in the pipeline. AC Rising Phoenix was listed for launch on 10th October 2013 which is three weeks before AC IV is due to be released.
Further info has been leaked in the past week. A piece of artwork picture below appeared online and then yesterday another appear on All games beta. The recent image leak appears to be in game feature whereby the resolution actually matches to the PS Vita screen size.
Saints Row 4 not coming to Wii U
Saturday 16 March 2013
Saints Row 4 release date
Saints Row is set to be launched on 20th August 2013 in the US and everywhere else on 23rd August 2013. Saints Row 4 is planned for release on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Developer Volition is still at the helm with Deep Silver publishing after the previous owner THQ went bust.
Be sure to check out the teaser trailer below:
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Bitsquid announced on PS4
Bitsquid has confirmed that its multiplatform development engine will be compatible with Sony’s next generation system the Playstation 4:
"Bitsquid is announcing that their Game Engine will soon be available for licensing on Sony Computer Entertainment ‘s PlayStation®4. "We are proud to be a part of this important event and welcome this powerful new console on which we will see many amazing new games." says Bitsquid CEO Johan Strömberg. "PlayStation" is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Although details are few and far between and all we have is the image below and a video which is situated on the Bitsquid youtube channel. Some games which are powered by Bitsquid include War of the Roses for PC and Hamilton's Great Adventure for PS3, PC, and Android which indicates how truly flexible the game engine can be considering how different each game is.
Bitsquid is a high-end game engine built from its inception to focus on performance, flexibility and productivity. Key advantages lowering cost are:
● Lean code base (estimated 10x smaller)
● Fast workflows and sub second iteration on multiple devices simultaneously
● Usable for a large variety of games and platforms"
Tuesday 12 March 2013
Double Fine say goodbye to legend
Double fine studios have said goodbye to one of video gaming's legends Ron Gilbert.
Ron Gilbert is one of the all time legends in video gaming classics. Ron is best known for his Adventure games . While working for Lucas arts Ron worked on several popular titles like Manic Mansion, Indiana Jones and the last crusade graphic adventure and the hugely popular The Secret Of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2 Le-chuck's Revenge as well as many others great titles. Two years ago Ron went to work at Double Fine studios with long time friend and work mate Tim Schafer taking the title of "Official Ron Gilbert"
Now that that games is finished Ron has decided that it is time to move on but from the sounds of it he still intends to remain in the video game development industry having wrote on his Grumpy Gamer blog.
"Now that The Cave is done and unleashed on an unsuspecting world (OK, we did do a bunch of PR, so it wasn't exactly unsuspecting), it's time for me to move on from Double Fine and plot my next move.
While he worked at Double Fine Ron co developed and released The Cave a Game that he had been thinking about making since his earliest days in Video game development.
So many games left to be designed. I want to thank all the amazing people at Double Fine for all their hard work on The Cave. It was a true pleasure to work with every one of them over the past two years. So much fun. I will miss them all. And of course to Tim for creating the opportunity to come there and make the cave."
So although it looks like Gilbert still plans on making great games its no doubt that he will be greatly missed by all the guys at Double Fine studios.
Monday 11 March 2013
Dad Hacks Donkey Kong
A gamer named Mike Mika has hacked Donkey Kong so that his daughter can play as Pauline. Mike's young daughter asked if she could play as Pauline and save Mario so Mike decided to hack the game so his daughter could do just that. Mika's Donkey Kong: Pauline Edition lets Pauline rescue Mario for a change from the clutches of Donkey Kong. Mike's daughter had been playing Super Mario Bros 2 as Princess Toadstool when she asked why couldn't do the same in Donkey Kong. So Super Dad came along to save the day!
"My three year old daughter and I play a lot of old games together," Mika wrote on his YouTube channel. "Her favorite is Donkey Kong. Two days ago, she asked me if she could play as the girl and save Mario. She's played as Peach in Super Mario Bros. 2 and naturally just assumed she could do the same in Donkey Kong. I told her we couldn't in that particular Mario game, she seemed really bummed out by that. So what else am I supposed to do? Now I'm up at midnight hacking the ROM, replacing Mario with Pauline."Check out the video of Mika's hack below.
