Speaking in a recent interview with CVG, Sega boss Mike Hayes revealed that the House of Sonic intends to show off a Project Natal “prototype” at E3 in June, with more games currently in the pipeline for the motion capturing games controller.
“We asked our Japanese studio to create something for [Natal] which we’ll show off at E3. They had a brilliant prototype up and running within six weeks. I mean a genuinely entertaining prototype you could just play.”
“As publishers, what we want is a very close early relationship on these devices. And all credit to Microsoft and Sony, they’ve given us early development kits,” he said.
Monkey Ball Natal, anyone?
The first expansion for Dragon Age: Origins, Awakening, is now available through the Xbox Live Marketplace.
The download clocks in at a hefty 2 GB download and will cost you a pretty penny – 3200 Microsoft Points, to be exact. If you’re not familiar with the conversion, that’s $40.
You can grab the expansion here.
PC and 360 retail versions will be available this Friday, and the PS3 version will be digital download only in Europe, but will be getting a retail version as well in the US.
Valve boss Gabe Newell told 1UP that Portal 2 would allow the studio to take the concept and apply it on a much larger scale.
“One of the nice things about The Orange Box was it allowed us to try out a couple of different things, and Portal really seemed to resonate,” Newell said during his GDC spot.
“We got the signals that we wanted – this is what people liked; this is what people didn’t like. And to us, it was like, ‘OK, now we know how to take this big,’ so that’s what we’re going to do with Portal 2.
“It’s the best game we’ve ever done,” he added.
While the original Portal was fairly short (clocking in at about three to four hours), Portal 2 will be an standalone full-fledged game.
Portal 2 is due out this holiday season for PC, Mac and Xbox 360.
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.
Fans of Lara Croft won’t have to wait long before being able to go on yet another adventure with the sultry archeologist.
GDC is well under way and Joystiq met up with developer Crystal Dynamics in order to discuss the upcoming title. The game will launch this summer as a download only, being released for PC, 360 and PS3. The full price of the game will be $15.
As confirmed last week, the game will be a top-down isometric, arcade-style co-op game, vastly deviating from the Tomb Raider series regular third person action perspective. Players will take control of Lara Croft and a Mayan spearman named Totec. Together the two will solve puzzles, destroy enemies, platform and, presumably, raid tombs.
Square Enix has just announced that Final Fantasy XIII has shipped over 5 million units worldwide, with at least 3 million of those accounting for US and Europe figures, as reported by Andriasang,
The game has shipped at least 2 million units in Japan since its launch back in December, and by all accounts it looks like it’s going to easily eclipse that success here in the west.
This figure brings sales of the franchise as a whole to a whopping 96 million units in 20 years. Not too shabby.
Our buddies at PALGN already got their hands on the most recent Game Informer and courteously scanned and uploaded the delectable pages about Portal 2.
Not only that, we’re provided with some tasty offerings regarding the game.
Avast, ya scurvvy landlubber! Be ye a fan of t’ scallywags at LucasArts, ye be knowin’ them as the buccaneers who pillaged an’ looted yer coin purse with their adventurin’ games!
Landlubbers got t’ experience being a mighty poirate in t’ enhanced version of Monkey Island in 2009, an’ those greedy buggers from LucasArts arrr lookin’ to loot and pillage again, wit’ t’ sequel!
Treasure maps close to those brigands at t’ isle of Kotaku claim a refurbished Money Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge be on t’ horizon for t’ good ships Xbox 360, PS3, iPhone an’ PC.
Arrrrr! Time to hoist t’ main sales and prepare for plunder me hearties!
Take Two confirmed that Borderlands has hit the 2 million units sold mark and still climbing! Good news, because Borderlands is an awesome game and is only more awesome because of the multiplayer aspect.
Not only that, more DLC is on the way! What’s that? More DLC? After three new add-ons already?
You betcha!
If you haven’t gotten Borderlands yet, go get it! It’s a sweet game, and with The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, and Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot as add-ons, there’s plenty of hours to invest in the game.
Lucky European folks who haven’t bought Batman: Arkham Asylum are about to get treated to a Game of the Year Edition on March 26th.
And the kicker?
It’s going to have 3D capabilities which you can play on your standard or high-definition televisions.
On-disc there will be the game itself plus all the DLC Challenge Maps, including Crime Alley and Scarecrow Nightmare, too.
The game will be available for across three PAL platforms – 360, PS3 and PC.
Check it out March 26th!
Just Cause 2 demo is now available on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.
WHAT’RE YOU WAITING FOR?
There’s 35 square miles to explore! Get crackin’!
Demo weighs in at about 1GB of download, so you might be waiting a while. Also, no sign of a PC demo on Steam yet, but likely it’ll be up pretty soon.
Full game’s out for all three platforms on March 26th!
Look like those of you looking forward to Red Dead Redemption’s release in April are in for a bit more of a wait. Red Dead Redemption has been delayed until May 18th in the US, and May 21st worldwide, according to VG247
“We’ve also taken important steps to improve the efficiency of our business and align our corporate cost structure more closely with our current goals,” explained Chairman of Take-Two Strauss Zelnick. “Our updated outlook for 2010 underscores a prudent approach toward what we still believe to be a challenging year ahead.
“We remain committed to creating long term value, and continuing to improve upon our execution and efficiency.”
We’ll be patient Take-Two. Just because you make awesome games and we love you.
The new Halo Reach trailer went live today, showing off the much hyped new game modes.
But nobody cares about any of those! You know why? Because Halo: Reach’s online multi-player will come with… wait for it… jet packs!
Bundles, bundles, bundles, bundles. With the huge amounts of greatly anticipated games coming in 2010, Special Edition Bundles seem to be coming out of the woodworks.
Microsoft announced today an Xbox 360 Splinter Cell Conviction Special Edition Bundle. Try saying it five times fast.
The bundle will be available in North American, Europe, Australia and New Zealand for $399 in April. It contains a standard edition copy of Splinter Cell: Conviction, a 250Gb hard drive and two Wireless Controllers.
This was confirmed by the good Major himself
Harmonix and MTV announced that more awesome tracks are on their way to Rock Band and Rock Band 2, including a three-pack from heavy rockers Disturbed, and singles from TRUSTcompany, The Mother Hips, and Silversun Pickups.
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