Earlier
this week Bethesda announced that Prey
2 was set for release in
2012, and that development was being handled by the original team at
Human Head Studios. It was also revealed that the game game would not
utilize the id Tech 5 engine, which is still under heavy
construction.
Valve’s
Erik Wolpaw had a chat with Joystiq recently to discuss the difficulty
questions some players had, as well as discuss minor Steam features that
will be on the PlayStation 3.
According to Joystiq, Erik Wolpaw states that “one of the things we learned after releasing Portal 1 was that there were a couple puzzles in Portal 1
that required some sort of twitchy ninja skills to actually execute the
solution.” He goes on to explain that Valve is pushing for more light
bulb clicks than frustrating controller throwing rage fits. According to
Valve, a lot of players quit “universally” after running into a few
difficult puzzles. Are they dumbing down the puzzles? Actually, they’re
not. They’re trying to rid the game of too many “ninja-ish” features. In
other words, you’ll spend time solving puzzles rather than cloning
actions found in Mirror’s Edge.
Both
Eidos Montreal and Square Enix have announced that the game will be
on North American store shelves on August 23rd. Retailers have also
announced that Human
Revolution
will be available in the UK and Australia on the 25th and 26th of August.
The action RPG Dungeon
Hunter: Alliance will be heading for PSN this April. The
game is set in the world of Gothicus where you fight the destructive ambitions
of a tyrannical Queen on your own or with friends, both locally and online.
Via the official PSN Blog,
Jen Kye, of the games publisher Gameloft, said: “Our dev team is quite focused
on making sure the gameplay is engaging enough for the hardcore audience, while
still accessible to newcomers.” “Dungeon Hunter: Alliance is focused on providing a real quest
to complete either solo or with others. This unique campaign experience spans
over 30 levels with an immense world of dungeons, villages and forests to
explore, including areas that are randomly generated. You’ll be able to choose
your class, optimize your hero’s development by assigning experience points.”
Spring Training may be in full swing, but you can jump right into games that matter as MLB 11 The Show is here! How does it stack up to previous iterations of what has become the premiere baseball franchise on the market though?
Quite simply, this is the biggest and best version of The Show yet. It’s hard to one-up yourself every year with a sports franchise, but even if all of them don’t quite work as well as Sony’s San Diego studio would like, it’ll give them something to work on perfecting then for next year.
Now that the weather is finally starting to ease
up for most of us, Sony is having a Spring
Fever Sale on PlayStation Network. The sale will feature discounts on a number of popular PS3 and PSP titles.
New in stores this week for
the PS3 are the annual updates for two of the major baseball game franchises
with both MLB 11 The Show and Major League Baseball 2K11 hitting the
shelves. There is also a game called Yoostar
2, which uses the PlayStation Eye to create Hollywood
green screen style effects to let players join in well-known movie scenes. But,
the main store release this week must be Dragon
Age II; it has been getting strong reviews and anyone who is a fan of dark
action RPG’s should take a look.
