Modern Warfare 2’s first batch of DLC is currently “planned for the wonderfully vague time-frame of Spring”, according to Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling on his twitter today.
No details at were provided on the content and what it would be, but then, there’s not really much you can say in 140 characters.
Ah Twitter, where would us journalists be without you?
As you may recall, Adon, Cody and Guy were confirmed for Super Street Fighter IV in Famitsu recently, and now we have a video showing off the characters in all their HD, 3D glory.
Fans will no doubt be impressed with how well these characters’ moves have been translated to Street Fighter IV. As an avid Adon and Guy player myself, I’m especially impressed with what they’ve done with these two characters.
Check out the trailer for yourself, after the cut.
Remember that surprise announcement for Uncharted 2 that we mentioned earlier today? It’s a new multiplayer map called “The Fort”, based on the Fortress chapter from Drake’s Fortune.
According to Naughty Dog, the level will be a “long rectangular map with wide open spaces and excellent flank routes”. Tunnels lead into the basement, and a lonely shotgun sits in the center of the map, with an RPG in the side room of the crypt.
Alongside the new map, some new features will b added to the multi-player menu, including leaderboards and unique player cards.
Thanksgiving will also see some special celebrations in-game, apparently.
When you join a competitive Multiplayer match on Thanksgiving weekend, you’ll be greeted with a slightly different look to our Heroes and Villians. It looks like Drake and Lazarevic had a few too many helpings of turkey (or Tofurkey), green bean casserole and, most definitely, sweet potato casserole.
We also flipped a few switches and bits here and there and not only is Double Cash weekend back, but you’ll be getting 2x the cash from any and all medals you are awarded during the course of a competitive or cooperative match. The per-match limits of $50,000 are still in effect, so if you’re just that good, you’ll be maxing out just about all the time.
And hey, you can’t argue with that price, can you?
The Final Fantasy series may never be true to its title, but this trailer is – Square Enix has released the final Final Fantasy XIII trailer before the game’s release in Japan in less than three weeks time.
Us gamers in the west still have to wait until March 9th, 2010 to get our hands on this game, but that’s definitely a huge improvement on the almost year long wait we had to endure for past Final Fantasy games.
Hopefully this will tide you over until then. Enjoy!
Are you a Uncharted 2 fan? Do you enjoy the games comprehensive and sublime multiplayer mode? Then you should keep an eye on the game at the end of this week. So says Naughty Dog’s twitter.
“Things are looking up that we’re going to have something quite awesome lined up for multiplayer at the end of this week,” the devs stated.
If it’s anything like the Halloween event, where all players were compulsorily turned into skeletons for the whole weekend, you can guarantee that it’s gonna be “quite awesome” indeed.
Looks like Sony are feeling generous with its special offers on the US PlayStation Store this week, as some of its best downloadable PS3 titles will be going on sale from today until December 2nd.
Here’s the full price list. Some nice bargains here.
- Flower
Regular price: $9.99
Sale price: $4.99
- The Last Guy
Regular price: $9.99
Sale price: $4.99
This one is sure to please the Street Fighter fans. Famitsu has just announced Adon, along with Final Fight’s Cody and Guy (looking like they did in Street Fighter Alpha 3) as playable characters in Super Street Fighter IV.
The scans from Famitsu show the characters in their Street Fighter IV interpretation. and they’re extremely faithful to their original designed, but updated for the HD generation.
Check them out below.
Based on figures gathered by MCV today, Modern Warfare 2 has sold approximately 1.23 million copies on it’s first day on sale in the UK, according to GfK-ChartTrack.
The figure is impressive. Do you want to know just how impressive?
It’s double the figure of GTA IV’s day one sales (609,000). This makes making Modern Warfare 2 the fastest-selling video game in UK history, with 1,230,588 copies sold in total day one.
This roughly means that Modern Warfare 2 is in approximately one of every 24 UK homes.
Impressive would be an understatement.
Well, that didn’t take too long. Modern Warfare 2 has only just been released, having had its street date broken, and The Daily Mail is already digging its tabloid claws into it.
One of the most clear criticism from the article is the scene from the first chapter of the game, that allows you to kills innocent civilians if you so choose to.
“Among the most controversial is a situation where the gamer must decide whether to kill unarmed civilians at a Russian airport in order to infiltrate a terrorist group.”
Not surprisingly, the politicians have already come out of the woodwork (in this instance Labour MP Keith Vaz) and promised to save our children from these vile and socially destructive video games…
“I am absolutely shocked by the level of violence in this game and am particularly concerned about how realistic the game itself looks,” Vaz stated, and promised that this would be brought to light in parliament this evening.
Could British politicians be any more out of touch with society? Seriously?
Thanks to VG247 reader Dannybuoy Twitpicced his copy of Modern Warfare 2, we can confirm that GAME has broken the Modern Warfare 2 street date, a day before the title is due to go on sale.
Many more reports from around the country seem to indicate that retailers all over the UK and US have broken the game’s street date, including GameStop.
Activision has said that it “has not given any retailer permission to sell Modern Warfare 2 prior to the Nov. 10 street date.” Looks like they didn’t listen!
In an interview with Critical Gamer, Media Molecule has dismissed the possibility of a LittleBigPlanet 2.
But don’t be sad Sackboy lovers; the opinion of Level Designer Danny Leaver is that making a second game would be ‘counterproductive’, as it would more than likely fragment the well-established LBP community, so they do have our best interests at heart.
We think you’ll agree the post-launch support in terms of DLC and software updates has been absolutely first rate, and Producer Martin Lynagh says ‘that’s the way it’s going to continue’, which makes us very happy indeed.
Rumour has it that a fifth Dead or Alive game could be in-the-making, according to an article published on Go Fanboy yesterday.
Apparently, European retailers are being informed via distribution channels that a follow-up to Xbox exclusive Dead or Alive 4 is ‘in the works’, and it looks like it will be going multi-platform. Immediately the PlayStation 3 springs to mind as a potential candidate.
Nothing is definite at this time, as we have little more than Go Fanboy’s word to go on. However, we’re going to keep our ear to the ground on this one.
Being a massive Tekken fan, I would be interested to see, should rumour become reality, whether Tecmo’s Team Ninja can sway me from Namco’s prestigious fighting franchise.
When we weren’t busy eyeing up Sony’s impressive booth at the Bullring Centre in Birmingham, England, another impressive show of force by Sony caught our eye – Nathan Drake is making his face known in style!
Take a look for yourself.
It’s rather impressive.
The GameStation store in the Bullring Centre is the largest games store in the UK (in terms of floor space), and Sony clearly hasn’t wasted any time in getting Nathan Drake’s face out there where people will see it.
The console industry is a huge and competitive market, Sony aren’t sitting on their laurels, and they’ve taken the fight to the Bull Ring.
The Bullring Centre in Birmingham, England, is one of the largest shopping centres in Europe. Imagine our surprise when we pop into the centre, only to see Sony had come out in full force to promote the PlayStation name to the public, with a truly impressive display.
A bird's eye view of one of the most recognisable symbols in gaming today. It's certainly a smart way to make people take notice of your brand logo!
The giant PlayStation logo above was only the start.
As if almost 1,000 licensed cars and 70-odd circuits wasn’t enough to get racers excited about Gran Turismo 5, a spokesperson at developer Polyphony Digital has confirmed to Everything for Gamers – officially, so it seems – that the final product will feature a comprehensive track editor:
‘Yes [the game] will have a track editor. You will be able to rebuild a track from scratch or edit the tracks that are already put in Gran Turismo 5.’
Unfortunately, representatives were not so loose-lipped when asked about territory release dates, responding with ’sorry, we can’t give out any of that information at the moment’.
You can imagine our surprise when we read that, can’t you?
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