What do Drs. Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuck have in common with Shigeru Miyamoto, Will Wright and Peter Molyneux? On Febrauary 10, the good doctors – creators of Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Baldur’s Gate and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic – will join these esteemed game creators as member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Science’s Hall of Fame (via 1up.com).
The year is 2027. The world has suffered a decade-long energy crisis, and economies have crumbled. Reduced to a mere shadow of the super power it once was, the United States became the target of a North Korean takeover. American malls, suburbs and city streets are now battlegrounds as the civilian resistance fights for freedom. Featuring a compelling single player story crafted by John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn), Homefront immerses gamers in an interactive and cinematic FPS experience where they will assume an infantry role or take command of a wide variety of aerial and ground vehicles. In addition to the single-player experience, Homefront will deliver a robust multiplayer experience. In a land stripped of freedom, the brave will fight for their home.”
As if waiting for 8 years for a proper prequel to the revolutionary Deus Ex franchise is not enough, Square Enix will insist that you wait a little bit longer. The highly anticipated prequel Deus Ex Human Revolution was originally scheduled to release on March 8, 2011 but has been delayed for Square Enix to give it an extra coat of polish. As of now Square Enix has not announced a release date. We could possibly see this game creep into the 2011 holiday season to possibly help Square Enix increase their ever shrinking profit margin.
Section 8: Prejudice, announced a few months back, has now received a “ludicrously low” price.
“There may be something strange in the water down here in Texas, or perhaps TimeGate Studios’ CEO, Adel Chaveleh, has gone completely mad, but the award-winning independent developer and publisher has revealed that Section 8: Prejudice,a sequel to the full-priced Section 8, will be available exclusively as a digital download on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC for just $14.99 / 1200 Microsoft Points. No joke.
Re-imaginings and re-releases are the name of the game this week at Xbox Live Arcade. Old school FPS fans have the hot-blooded violence of Quake Arena Arcade to warm them up this winter while party gamers have Bomberman Battlefest, which supports 1-4 local players and an online mode for up to 8 players. And old school arcade gamers get to enjoy this week’s most anticipated release, the six player X-Men arcade game. Also new this week is The Path of Go, a video game take on an old Asian board game.
This week also saw the release of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on Games on Demand as well as WWII flight combat game Blazing Angles. Kinect Sports also gets six new mini games courtesy of the free Party Pack.
EA has dropped a new trailer for Dead Space 2. This is the kind of trailer that sells games, providing hype and excitement but not really too much of an insight. The trailer is disjointed and makes no connections. There’s alot of necromorphs, some death, guts and blood. So, pretty much standard fare for the series. The free fall section totally reminds me of the free fall sections in Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions.
The trailer depicts the unnamed soldier from the teaser image attacking unseen foes from a clock tower. As the camera pans out it’s revealed that the soldier is inside
Bethesda showed the world premier trailer for their next Elder Scrolls game at Spike TV’s Video Game Awards on Saturday, Dec. 11. A release date of Nov. 11, 2011, was also announced.
The trailer, introduced by Bethesda Softworks’ Todd Howard, revealed very few details on characters, plot and gameplay. It looks as if dragons will play a big part in the game as the trailer was mostly comprised of an unseen character providing narration while a camera panned around a series of stone carvings of the winged serpents, one of whi
Rockstar San Diego’s open-world western, Red Dead Redemption, won top honors at Saturday night’s Video Game Awards, which aired on Spike TV.
It was far from a clean sweep for the game, though, as the only other awards it won that night were for music, one for “Best Original Score” and another for “Best Song,” which was given in recognition of the track “Far Away” by Jose Gonzalez. Red Dead Redemption was also nominated for Studio of the Year (Rockstar San Diego), Character of the Year (John Marston), Best PS3 Game, Best Action/Adventure Game, Best Graphics and Best Performance by a Human Male (Rob Weithoff as John Marston).
At Saturday’s VGAs, film maker Guillermo del Toro revealed the name of his mystery game – and not much else.
Titled “Insane,” the game is being published by THQ and developed by Volition, the studio behind the Saint’s Row series, Red Faction: Guerilla and its upcoming sequel, Red Faction: Armageddon. The trailer accompanying the announcement mainly displayed the game’s title, as well as a release date 2013.
