Archived News:
March 6, 2012 is the official release date for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, reports Joystiq. This date for the upcoming continuation of the tactical shooter series showed up on some retailer sites, and they contacted Ubisoft, and confirmed this is when to expect the game's release.
Payday: The Heist has suffered a delay, reports IGN, saying the Windows PC and PlayStation 3 first-person shooter was planned for release tomorrow, but is now expected "later this month." They have word from Sony on why, who say, "this delay is a move to ensure players and fans of [the publisher's] promise and vision to produce high-caliber games that deliver the best quality game experience."
The Bethesda Blog has word that in addition to John Carmack's previously announced midnight visit to the Mesquite GameStop for the RAGE launch, the id Technical Director will be joined by other id employees: After long years of work, tonight the team at id Software will finally see its mutant baby RAGE running free through stores across the world. To celebrate, the team is heading down to their local GameStop midnight opening to hang with fans and sign some games.
If you’re in the Dallas area, drive on over to the Mesquite GameStop at 503 N. Galloway Avenue to join John Carmack (CTO), Tim Willits (Creative Director), Matt Hooper (Design Director) and other key members of the RAGE team. The crew will be arriving at 11pm Central — don’t be late!
The Word of Notch offers a "short response" to some criticism in an editorial on Kotaku based on the recent release of legal documents related to the court battle over the Scrolls trademark. He explains that Mojang actually offered to give up the trademark, but Bethesda seems determined to go to court nonetheless: I just saw this:
http://kotaku.com/5846111/mojang-v-bethesda-or-i-hate-it-when-mommy-and-daddy-fight
I feel the need to clarify a couple of things:
We realized we should apply for the trademark “Minecraft” to protect our brand. When doing so, we also sent in an application for “Scrolls”. When Bethesda contacted us, we offered both to change the name to “Scrolls: <some subtitle>” and to give up the trademark.
They refused on both counts.
Whatever reason they have for suing us, it’s not a fear of us having a trademark on the word “Scrolls”, as we’ve offered to give that up.
A report on Siliconera follows on their Dead Space 3 rumor from last week with more allegedly leaked details about the upcoming horror-themed shooter sequel. If these are accurate, they represent a spoiler, so you can decide for yourself if you want to read this or not.
The Diablo III Item Database is online, offering the chance to check out specs on lots of the loot in Blizzard's upcoming action/RPG sequel. As noted on PC Gamer, the Runestones section of this database shows four difficulty levels: Normal, Nightmare, Hell, and Inferno.
A pair of new gameplay videos from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 are now available, showing the game's Spec Ops Survival mode on a map set in Paris. The clips combine for about five minutes of gameplay (thanks VG247). Continue here to read the full story.
An interview on Eurogamer talks with BioWare co-founders Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk, who respond to questions about their level of autonomy since being acquired by Electronic Arts, saying they have "huge autonomy" and that it "is not actually remotely true" that EA is running the show. "We're not being forced to do anything or told to do anything. We make the decisions. We take input," Zeschuk tells them. "It's just funny when people say that, because it's not actually remotely true." Here's a bit more: "At the end of the day, we're responsible for the quality of the content and games we release, and we're committed to try and always take feedback really seriously from our fans and be humble about how we take it - use it to make the next games better," Ray Muzyka added.
"You're only as good as your next game, and that's the way we've always felt. That's still very much a philosophy at BioWare; quality in our products and delivering each game and exceeding expectations and always trying to delight and surprise our consumers. That's still what we try and do."
Paradox Interactive announces the launch of Hearts of Iron The Card Game, their free-to-play, browser-based, online Collectible Card Game set in World War II. The game is available on its official website, and here's word: In Hearts of Iron The Card Game, players take on the role of Axis, Allies, or Comintern and choose their strategies as they challenge opponents online in a browser. The game features 140 unique cards with authentic World War II vehicles, strategies and events. A deck editor also allows players to create custom decks according to their play style. Based off the popular historical grand strategy game the Hearts of Iron card game is designed to enable card commanders to strategically build and combine a lethal force to be reckoned with.
The game is free to play and on signup you get:
• 3 starter deck, one for each faction
• 3 booster packs with 15 cards each
• 10 tickets for participating in tournaments with
If you sign up before October 17 you also get 3 special promo cards:
• Zavod No. 38
• Panzer Repair Shop
• Plentiful Ammunition
Wolverine Studios now offers Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2, a new installment in their hoop simulation. Word is: "DDS: College Basketball 2 builds off of its critically acclaimed predecessor by offering you an even more immersive in-game experience with expanded stat tracking and recruiting improvements taking the most realistic college basketball simulation to an all new level. In addition to improvements there are a host of all new features." Here is the list of new features: Continue here to read the full story.
2310\The Benefit Evil Website is holding a Resident Evil marathon this weekend to support Child's Play. Here's word: Benefit Evil is a 3 day fund raising event for Child's Play Charity. Benefit Evil will broadcast a live marathon featuring the Resident Evil game series. Our goal is to play through as many Resident Evil games as we can all while encouraging our audience to donate to Child's Play. If you would like to contact the Benefit Evil team you can email them at benefitevil@gmail.com.
Child's Play is a community based charity organization dedicated to donating toys, books and games to Children's Hospitals both in the U.S. and internationally. All donations made to Benefit Evil go directly to Child's Play.
Steam News announces the release of MP Supply Pack Bravo, a new DLC pack for Men of War: Assault Squad. Word is: "This downloadable content introduces 5 new competitive multiplayer maps for the Assault Zones and Combat modes, as well as for the DLC exclusive Day of Victory gamemode." On a related note, 1C Publishing announces the release of a new patch to update the real-time strategy sequel to version 1.97.7, which, in spite of the itsy version iteration, is described as "the largest patch so far" for the game, offering "a lot of changes/additions/fixes in gameplay." The incremental and full patches are mirrored on AtomicGamer and Gamer's Hell, and the patch notes have the full change list.
Battlefront.com now offers a new patch for Strategic Command WW2 Global Conflict, updating the World War II strategy game to version 1.06. The download is also mirrored on AtomicGamer and Gamer's Hell. Here are the patch notes: Continue here to read the full story.
Games
- Hamilton's Great Adventure: Retro Fever DLC on Steam.
Patches
- Space Pirates and Zombies on Steam.
Activision announces they are now accepting submissions for their second annual independent games competition, "an award program designed to foster innovation" which is open to "all independent developers with headquarters in the United States." This runs between now and the end of this year, offering $250,000 USD in prizes to the top two entries, with the grand prize winner to walk away with $175,000, while also retaining ownership of their project. "This competition underscores Activision’s commitment to fostering creativity in the independent development community," Dave Stohl, Executive Vice President of Studios, Activision, said. "Many of us began our careers as indies, so we are very proud to offer this kind of support and encouragement to a couple of the industry’s young visionaries." Official rules are to be posted on the website of the competition, though contrary to the announcement, this is not actually live yet.
A post on the BioWare Social Network has a scan of an ad from a South African retailer that seems to support long-standing suspicions that multiplayer support will be included in Mass Effect 3. The add for the next installment in the action/RPG series lists "online multiplayer pass" as one of the features of a collector's edition. Thanks NeoGAF via VG247. Just last week plans to reveal a "killer new feature" in Mass Effect in the October 25th issue of Xbox World magazine.
Arcen Games News outlines all the changes in A Valley Without Wind since the recent launch of the beta/demo for the side-scrolling action game. They list elements they've changed based on beta feedback, and some of the praise the game has received along the way.
GfK Chart-Track has their rundown of the top 20 bestselling full-price PC games in the U.K. for the week ending October 1st. This week FIFA 12 debuts in the top spot, a Game of Thrones: Genesis enters at number six, Driver: San Francisco debuts at #17, and F1 2011, last weeks number one, is down to number nin. FIFA 1 also joins the U.K. all-platforms chart at number one, which MCV says is "the third strongest launch week ever for a multi-platform release" in the territory.
Okay, the awesome news of the day yesterday was the widely reported story that new Arrested Development episodes are coming in addition to the long-promised movie based on the cult-classic sitcom. Then of course there are the cooler heads who always seek to prevail, pointing out the vague aspects of confirming a movie without a finished script or development deal and a television series without a network may make celebrating this premature. Okay, fine, if you're one of those people who are all hung up on facts. Anyway, here's hoping it all works out. In the meantime, here's a list of Ten Things You Didn’t Know About “Arrested Development”, carefully counted down from number nine(?) to number one.
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