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As noted in this Pete Hines tweet, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the next game in The Elder Scrolls series was announced at last night's video game awards, as the tweet says: "For all those who have been asking, TESV, sequel to Oblivion, has been announced. Skyrim will be here on 11.11.11. Wait till you see it." The Elder Scrolls Website has a teaser trailer for the game, which also concludes with that November 11 release date. On a related note, The Elder Scrolls Facebook page invites you to join the elder council, also offering this image from the trailer. This tweet indicates the game will be using an all new engine, which we would guess is id's Tech 5 engine being created for RAGE and DOOM 4.
Mass Effect 3 was officially unveiled at the Spike VGA Awards, confirming speculation that a reveal for Mass Effect 3 was one of the surprises planned for the show. The trailer revealing the game is up on GameTrailers.com, showing
Commander Shepard some dude doing a little sniping from Big Ben in the face of an overwhelming alien invasion. The clip showing with a "Holiday 2011" release window.
Also announced at the VGAs is Prototype 2, shown off in cinematic form in this Prototype 2 trailer. The clip indicates the plot surrounds further attempts to take down Mercer in the open world action sequel by another soldier who has acquired similar powers. Word is to expect this sometime in 2012.
Though unmentioned on the Alien Arena Website, the media section for this free first-person shooter series has this remix trailer highlighting the imminent release of Alien Arena 2011. We're told the game will be released on December 16th, to feature ragdoll physics, new levels, new music, true type font support, as well as a variety of bug fixes and enhancements. This change log has details on what to expect.
The Steam Treasure Hunt rolls on, offering more achievements to build your chances of winning the 100 game prize. There are also related sales on Shatter and Left 4 Dead 2.
Here's Valve's list of the 10 bestselling games on Steam for the week:
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Sid Meier's Civilization V
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Poker Night at the Inventory
- Counter-Strike: Source
- Left 4 Dead 2
- R.U.S.E.
GamePro - Why we hate the VGAs.
The easy answer is: "The show sucks." GamePro Twitter followers had different reasons for the suck -- the jokes fell flat, the musical numbers were out of place, Denise Richards isn't as hot as she used to be, etc. But the real reason everyone hates this show is that it's a show. It's a two-hour block of television designed to entertain audiences and display commercials. Even if Spike hired Pulitzer-winning writers to pen the script and brought Johnny Carson back from the dead to host, most of you would probably still hate it. Because all the things that make the VGAs a show put another wall between you and what you really care about: the games.
- Cities in Motion on GameZone. Making Maps Developer Diary.
One of my favorite things about tackle football is that they do not postpone games due to the weather, they just play through whatever comes. And weather certainly shouldn't have been an issue this weekend for the Giants, as they were heading into Minnesota to play in their dome. Of course that was before the G-men's flight was diverted to Kansas City due to the snow in Minny, which postponed the game until tomorrow night. And that was before the Metrodome roof caved in due to snow, so now the game will be played in Detroit, which will actually give the Giants home field advantage, as you are not going to find any Lions fans rooting for the Vikings. When the Giants got to play the Saints on a neutral site after Katrina it seemed unfair, but in this case the Vikes are getting less sympathy from me, as this is the fifth time that roof has caved in from the snow, which seems a clear indictment of the judgment of using a fiberglass roof supported by air pressure to cover the field in one of the most inclement spots in the entire country.
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