Guerrilla
Games has already announced a second map pack for the newly-released
hit Killzone 3. This new DLC dubbed “Steel Rain” will
feature two new maps, Junkyard and Stahl Arms, which have been
converted and rebuilt from the game’s campaign. Junkyard will of
course be crafted from the “Scrapyard Shortcut” chapter and will
be catered to the Guerrilla Warfare game style—supporting 16
players.
There hasn’t been a game this immature since Conker’s Bad Fur Day on the Nintendo 64. Bulletstorm is a balls to the wall first-person shooter that’s a mixture of Duke Nukem 3D and Gears of War.
It doesn’t shoot for a story that you’re going to golf clap afterwards,
and it doesn’t try to revolutionize the genre. What it does bring to
the shooter genre is something the genre long forgot this generation:
how to just have fun.
Most of us single guys out there (and
maybe even some of us with significant others) saw only one significance with
February 14th this year: Pitchers and Catchers are officially
reported. And with the crack of the bat and the smell of fresh cut grass soon to
be once again bombarding our senses, we know that baseball season is right
around the corner.
Something else that’s right around the
corner that also comes as a harbinger of the upcoming glorious baseball season
is Sony adding another chapter to their premiere baseball series MLB The Show.
Some big new releases out
this week for PlayStation 3. The main new game out in stores is Killzone 3, the sequel to one of the biggest
PS3 games of ’09. Other games out include Bulletstorm; an over-the-top
first-person shooter with signature “skill shots” that reward players for taking
out enemies in the most creative ways possible. De Blob 2, the sequel to the popular platform puzzle game, and Knights Contract which is an action
adventure game developed by Game Republic.
New to PlayStation Network is a re-release of the vintage arcade game Space Ace, the science fiction shooter Alien Breed 3: Descent,
and Days Of Thunder – Nascar Edition, which is a racer with characters
from the 90’s film.
Sucker Punch recently announced in a blog post that Infamous 2 will be landing on store shelves June 7th in North America. They also shed some light on the features of the game’s “Hero Edition”. For $99, this collector’s package of the anticipated sequel includes the full game, an 8.5” statue of Cole, a courier’s sling pack modeled after the one in the game, a DC mini-comic book, and a voucher which gives access to retail-exclusive bonus content. This additional content will also be available to those who reserve either copy of the game. The game’s soundtrack is also being offered by all participating retail stores who are selling the collector’s edition ofInfamous 2
.
Fans of RTS games may be happy to know that a new studio will be reviving the Command & Conquer franchise with a new installment. The studio, named “Victory Games”, has been created by EA to develop the next game and will have three offices. These offices will be located in Los Angeles, Austin, and Shanghai. According to Jon Van Caneghem, General Manager of the new studio, the name is derived from what players see at the end of a good match which is very fitting for the branch-off company. This news should be very exciting for fans of the iconic franchise, especially after the release of Command and Conquer 4 — which was given mostly negative reviews last year. Nevertheless, Victory Games aims to redeem the C&C name and will hopefully develop a game that reignites the genre.
Ubisoft have announced new DLC for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, which they have described as the biggest
expansion yet. The add-on content will have both single player and multiplayer aspects, and
is called The Da Vinci Disappearance. The official Ubisoft Blurb explains
the story:
