Those of you looking forward to the early October release of Two Worlds 2 in North America will have to hold on for just a little while longer. SouthPeak Games has announced that the retail release of Two Worlds 2 is being pushed back to January for the North American version of the game.
A big drop this week. Dead Rising 2 and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock are probably the most notable store releases for the PS3. While on PSN there is Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, which is an isometric cooperative adventure, and could be an interesting move away from the franchises normal roots. For the PSP, the new demo of GOD OF WAR Ghost of Sparta should be worth a look.
EA have announced that there will be a delay on their new NBA franchise, NBA ELITE. The delay may be linked to the recent demo which some have criticized for being buggy. It featured a brand new control scheme that relies heavily on the analogue sticks to shoot and defend, and which received some negative feedback.
This weekend thousands of lads and lasses across the pond will attend Eurogamer Expo 2010 from Oct. 1-3 at Earls Court in London. Ever since 2004, European gaming website, eurogamer.net, has put on this self-titled event so that various developers, publishers, and gaming celebrities can gather together to show their wares and expound upon their creative processes in an attempt to wow fans and media alike. Essentially, it’s the Tokyo Game Show or Penny Arcade Expo of Europe.
Developers focused on 360 and PS3 are ready to offer up a hefty showing this year. Meanwhile, the Wii’s presence at the expo will be next to non-existent outside of showings of Goldeneye and one or two games that have already seen stateside and Japanese release, like Metroid: Other M, for instance. Fortunately, there will be at least one Wii title of note: Ivy the Kiwi, the latest creation from Sonic the Hedghog’s creator, Yuji Naka. According the Eurogamer’s event website, Naka will lead the developer’s session for Ivy the Kiwi.
Sega has announced a new launch date for the official next installment of the famous, often misunderstood, Sonic franchise. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 will release as a downloadable game on October 12, 2010 on PSN for $14.99. The episodic title will also be released on the Wii virtual console, XBLA and the iTunes App Store. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 was slated for a summer release. No word on why the game was moved up into a much more competitive market or how many episodes will follow.
The cliché of an amnesiac protagonist has long been a staple of bad video game writing. Plenty of games start out with the player awakening in an unknown place, with no name, no idea how he arrived there; the goal being to walk down the only available hallway and explore. It’s a cheap way to tell the player “There’s no story, just run down the hall and kill everything”. However, Frictional Games has taken this outdated idea, and built a brilliant story-based, intellectual game around it with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
The kind people over at Lionhead have released a new developer diary. This developer diary is packed full of the voice actors/actresses talking about their experience with the game and giving you a few tidbits of their voice work in game. Some of the actors featured include John Cleese, “Sir” Ben Kingsley, Zoe Wanamaker and quite a bit more.
