Square Enix have just released the E3 2010 trailer for Kane & Lynch 2, titled “She’d better be worth it, Lynch!” It shows off Lynch’s possibly misleaded desire to protect his new girlfriend, Xiu.
It also shows off a bunch of the actual gameplay. We’ll be on hand at E3 to test out Kane & Lynch 2 ourselves, and TGV’s very own Michael O’Connor will be interviewing some of the staff on the game.
Check out the trailer below.
We’re a little bit late to the party with this, but this trailer is so awesome it deserves to be seen by all of you TGV readers.
Square Enix just released the first E3 trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and it’s full of Square Enix CGI goodness courtesy of the same team that bought you Final Fantasy XIII and Advent Children’s beautiful cinematics.
Check it out below. We’ll be on hand to see Square Enix at E3, so hopefully we’ll get some face time with Deus Ex, which is due for release in 2011.
You might remember this trailer for Deus Ex 3, which didn’t really tell us much of anything about the game. In fact, there’s no gameplay in the video. There’s really nothing in the video at all, except for some abstract… Stuff.
Well, we’ve got a new trailer for you, which shows off a little more than “stuff”.
Unfortunately, we don’t get to see any combat in this trailer, either. But we do get to see what appears to be the main character having some sort of trippy, angelic dream where he flies into the sun and burns.
It’s unclear whether or not you’ll be playing as JC Denton or another clone of him like the previous titles, but the likeness is uncanny, so I feel it’s a safe bet that you play as another clone again.
We’ve got some screenshots and the new trailer after the jump.
Square Enix has announced the Limited Edition of Just Cause 2, one of the first major releases from the publisher’s Eidos arm since the acquisition early this year.
The Limited Edition is to be made available to everybody who preorders the game from participating retailers and contains a set of extras that’ll make the game a little bit easier and more fun, including exclusive vehicles, weapons and a pretty badass looking parachute known as the “Chaos Parachute.” Some of these extras come in the box, while others will come in the form of a download via the online service of your format.
In addition to the cool-looking in-game gear, you’ll also get your hands on some pretty-looking exclusive packaging and a fold-out Panauan Intel Map containing information on the game world and hotspots to cause the maximum chaos and destruction.
Sounds like a pretty good special edition, then. You can preorder the game now.
Square reported today that Batman: Arkham Asylum has shipped 2.5 million copies worldwide so far. Obviously they’re pleased.
“Batman: Arkham Asylum is one of the stand-out games this year,” said Eidos CEO Phil Rogers.
“I’ve been following the great reviews and consumer blogs and I’m delighted that gamers everywhere love playing this game as much as we do.”
Sefton Hill of Rocksteady Studios did say a sequel could be made if the first game became popular. So keep buying them, so we can be Batman again!
Something we’ve forgotten to mention before was the fact that the first piece of Arkham Asylum DLC hit the internet last week on September 17. The next will be out in a mere two days! Holy awesome for the win, Batman!
Now this is an original approach. Recently a user on the official Batman: Arkham Asylum forums reported a bug for the PC version of the game… and he was greeted with an interesting response.
“When I…jump from one platform to another, Batman tries to open his wings again and again instead of gliding,” the user wrote on the forums.
“It’s not a bug in the game’s code, it’s a bug in your moral code,” an Eidos community manager informed the frustrated gamer, who explained that the glide function was disabled in pirated versions of the game to “catch out people who try and download cracked versions of the game for free”.
The funniest part of the whole embarrassing story? The game hadn’t even hit store shelves at the time said gamer complained on the forums about this supposed “glitch”.
This is definitely a unique (and highly humorous) approach to combating piracy, and one that other companies should learn to emulate.
Most superhero games have the same bad luck as most movie based games: they usually downright suck, with some exceptions here and there. Batman: Arkham Asylum is a bold attempt at the latter category, with characterisations, locations and overall theme ripped straight from the world of the comic books. Fans of Batman can rest assured that Arkham Asylum delivers, and then some.
The game kicks off as Batman, once again, has apprehended the Joker during his latest crime spree. As he brings the Clown Prince of Crime back to Arkham Asylum, he’s naturally suspicious about how easy it was apprehending him.
The perpetual spit quickly hits the fan as Joker breaks free from his shackles, beats up some guards and promptly takes over the entire Asylum, with a little help from Harley Quinn and his goons newly shipped in from Blackgate penitentiary. Police Commissioner Jim Gordon, as well as the asylum’s warden, Quincy Sharp, are kidnapped and it’s up to Batman to rescue them, defeat the Joker and find a way to survive among the rest of his rogue’s gallery in the veritable hellhole that is Arkham Asylum.
Earlier today some rumours began floating around the Eidos forums that news on a demo of Batman: Arkham Asylum would be “coming next week”.
And now it’s been officially confirmed by Eidos that the demo will be released this Friday, August 7, for all formats. Unfortunately there’s no word on which part of the game will be playable. Our hopes are on the first opening act, complete with Invisible Predator gameplay.
Either way, a demo on the game many describe as the greatest superhero game of all time is undoubtedly made of awesome.
Full game’s out on August 28.
Eidos owners Square Enix has decided to form a new European entity called Square Enix Europe, which will be headed up by the current Eidos CEO Phil Rogers, with the Eidos publishing brand being “vaporised”.
Yeah, you’re not the one surprised by this decision.
“Unfortunately we are expecting some jobs to be impacted directly by this in both Europe and North America,” read a statement from the company. We are hoping to minimise this wherever possible and offer support and advice to any employees directly affected.”
In the US, marketing and distribution is to be transferred from Eidos Inc to the region’s Square Enix office, which will be headed up by John Yamamoto.
Apparently, the current Eidos development studios will still carry the Eidos brand, Eidos itself will simply not exist as a publishing division, and this priority will be handled by Square Enix Europe.
You can find more information on GI.
I honestly don’t know what else to say except the fact that the Man who Broke the Bat is in the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum.
This game will truly be absolutely awesome!
Eidos has uploaded a photo of the Batman: Arkham Asylum Collector’s Edition on the game’s Facebook page. Eidos promises that Arkham Asylum is the closest thing they’ve ever come to a perfect game, but considering their track record that’s not difficult to accomplish.
Here’s what you’ll get:
If this doesn’t get your nerd erection on, I don’t know what will.
The following video is the first in-game footage from Rocksteady’s Arkham Asylum.
Those with any kind of doubts about this game being too linear can leave those thoughts by the door as Batman takes down a number of thugs with various violent and Batman-esque techniques.
The video was enough to give me a nerdgasm personally. If you’re not impressed by this, you should embarrassed to call yourself a gamer!
Batman: Arkham Asylum will be available in a Collector’s Edition at a retail price of $100, $40 more than the old regular kind of edition.
The package will contain a 12″ Batarang, a DC Custom Encyclopaedia, DLC Pack One, a Bonus DVD and a soundtrack.
The content information was provided by GameSpot, but Kotaku says the listing has since changed to: “Final contents of collector’s edition are to be determined.”
Honestly, I think I’d buy this just for the Batarang.
Eidos has just released a new trailer for their upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum, entitled “Invisible Predator” showing us the first gameplay footage from the game.
Batman uses his grappling hook, batarangs, cape, and not to mention his fists to get around and beat the living crap out of the Joker’s henchmen.
This title is shaping up to be the only true Batman game in existence once it’s released.
UPDATE: It appears the bid has been accepted. This should be interesting.
In a move that will surprise many who still view them as a distinctly Japanese company, Square Enix announced today that they have made an official £84.3 million bid for British developers Eidos.
The Eidos board has stated that it has agreed to recommend the offer to its shareholders, which is worth 32 pence per share.
“Eidos is a talented developer and publisher of interactive entertainment products with a broad portfolio of highly successful mass market franchises, led by Tomb Raider, one of the most successful videogame franchises of all time,” said Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada.
“Eidos maintains a strong reputation for high quality development and proven expertise in creating characters and storylines that appeal to consumers. Eidos’ products are highly complementary to our business and will accelerate our aggressive expansion into Western markets.”
“We believe that wide range of both companies’ quality products encompassing major genres will enable us to meet diversified customers’ expectations upon a global basis.”
