The old Vampire shooter/ slasher game franchise Bloodrayne is getting a 2-D revamp (Sorry for the pun) as a side-scrolling downloadable arcade game this summer. A new batch of screenshots came out recently giving us a taste of what’s to come.
Microsoft is kicking off the Xbox Live Summer of Arcade with the Action RPG Bastion this Wednesday, and it will be followed by another high-profile downloadable title each week, with a special bonus to gamers who buy all five games available in the promotion. To celebrate to the launch of the game and the start of the Sumer event, the developers have released a launch trailer showing off some gameplay and revealing a little about the story.
ModernWarfare3.com is not what it seems! Activision owns
that right? Actually it would appear that EA has acquired the domain in order
to have it redirect viewers to the Battlefield website. On July 12th
when Modern Warfare 3 fans clicked on the domain, it would redirect them to
the page of their “battlefield” enemies. This URL was made in 2009 with no
indicated owner. Could this simply be a prank or is it more than that?
Calling all Call of Duty hackers and glitchers,
Infinity Ward is hiring! We all know that the Call of Duty series has its share
of hackers who jump through hoops and leap over all obstacles just to find a
glitch to gain an advantage when they are playing the game. Well now Infinity
Ward has actually gone as far as to fly out a handful of well-known game
hackers to Infinity Ward studios in order to have them test Modern Warfare 3. The primary purpose of this is for these individuals to find any glitch
in the game that they possibly can in order to provide quality game play for honest players.
CD Projekt Reds latest action RPG, The Witcher 2, was both a critical and commercial success, selling more than 400,000 copies. Soon after this news, CD Projekt Red announced an Xbox 360 version was in the making. There are still problems for the Polish developer however, as CD Projekt has confirmed that they are being sued by Namco Bandai, the European distributors of The Witcher 2.
An article on Teknylate has claimed that Microsoft is planning to integrate Xbox 360 software with their next computer operating system, Windows 8. In other words, Windows 8 will allow users to play Xbox 360 games on their PCs, at least according to Teknylate’s anonymous source.
The highly anticipated Battlefield 3 has already begun its quest to
become the best first-person shooter. According to GameStop insider HipHopGamer, Battlefield 3 has a higher number of pre-orders than that of Call of Duty: Modern
Warfare 3. Both have gamers on the edges of their seats awaiting their arrivals. Each of
these games can also be arguably considered the best and most popular first-person
shooters to come out in a long time. Developers of both do not deny that the other is a good game, but sales and the gamers themselves will be what
really determines the best game. Battlefield
may simply have more pre-orders because of its earlier release date.
As every grizzled space marine knows, July 7th is Bungie Day! The Halo Developer is fascinated on the number seven. Every year on July 7 they celebrate. This year, Bungie Day is extra special because it is Halo Developer’s 20th anniversary, and Halo’s 10th anniversary. Throughout the day, Halo Reach will have special events and prizes.
On July 7th Criterion games and Electronic Arts announced the release of Burnout Crash. For those of you that don’t know, Burnout is a racing game with a twist. You can choose a wide variety of vehicles to race, ranging from heavy ones to light ones. The lighter vehicles are obviously faster but can get thrown into the air a lot easier. In this game, the primary goal is to make your opponent go flying into the air and crash in many different ways.
Bethesda Softworks is having quite a year. So far they’ve released Brink and Hunted, with RAGE and Skyrimon the horizon too. Now they’ve revealed yet another game called Dishonored a first-person action title being developed by Arkane Studios, the folks who brought us the Xbox game Arx Fatalis.
