In 2007 Portal came as a huge surprise to many of us. The intelligently designed puzzle platformer was one of 2007’s most critically acclaimed that year when it was packaged in with the Orange Box. With the official announcement of Portal 2 back in the April edition of Gameinformer, many wait to see whether or not we can get that same experience in a sequel.
Ron Gilbert of Hothead Games has revealed via his Twitter page that the second part of Death Spank will be released next month. “Yes, it is true! Part 2 of #deathspank is being released next month!” DeathSpank is a hack and slash action RPG which falls somewhere in between
When Castle Crashers hit the 360 it was an instant classic for its sense of humor and simple, yet fun, gameplay. Even now it is still one of the highest rated downloadable games for the Xbox. Once The Behemoth announced that they were working on a port for the Playstation, at 2009’s Comic Con, many people have been waiting anxiously for their chance to see what all the fuss is about.
GamesCom 2010 – Konami has announced that the next installment of the Castlevania franchise, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow will be hitting store shelves October 5th in North America, and October 7th in Europe on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
In Lords of Shadow, players will assume the role of Gabriel Belmont, as he fights to bring his wife Marie back from the dead. Players will have more than 50 stages to fight through, all while wielding various weapons with a battle system that boasts more than 40 different combo attacks.
This week, is littered with trailers thanks to Gamescon 2010 which kicked off earlier today. New footage of InFamous 2 and Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One are available for free download along with Sega’s big shooter, Vanquish. Some promising demos like NHL 11 and Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 are also up for grabs. And because no one requested it, a game based off of the Top Gun movie is available for $14.99. LittleBigPlanet continues to grow its Marvel Universe with its 4th costume pack for the PS3 and even shows some love on the PSP with Western costumes.
Day 1 Studios has just talked announced that F.E.A.R. 3, originally being released October of this year, has been pushed back to 2011. There has yet to be an announcement for why it has been delayed but seeing with amount of games coming out around this holiday season it would be hard to compete with just Call of Duty and Halo: Reach alone. Not to mention all of the motion control technology coming out for both the 360 and PS3, so I can’t blame them for pushing it back because I would hate to see F.E.A.R. 3 fall to the shadow of everything else coming out since it is a strong franchise.
Insomniac Games officially announced Resistance 3 and Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One during Sony’s GamesCom press conference. Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One
Today Sony has announced via their GamesCom media briefing that they will be launching a couple of new PlayStation 3 models later this fall. Additionally, these have been confirmed for a North American, as well as a European release, though we have yet to receive a solid release date for either territory.
The first model is your standard PS3 Slim, with a 160GB HDD, retailing for the exact price of the current 120GB model, $299, but with the addition of 40 extra gigabytes. The second newly announced model will up the ante even further with 320GB of space, and will include the PlayStation Move starter kit.
During Sony’s press conference at Gamescom 2010, Guerilla had an opportunity to show off a brief, yet gory, online multiplayer trailer of their latest first-person shooter Killzone 3. In addition to ISA and Helghast forces battling on foot, soldiers will now be able to use the new jetpacks with mounted turrets from the game’s campaign.
The trailer also introduced new bipedal mechs equipped with machine guns and rocket launchers. The gameplay was similar to F.E.A.R. 2’s mech combat which was one of the more enjoyable features found in F.E.A.R. 2’s online multplayer.
The multiplayer will also utilize the unique melee combat shown on other single player gameplay trailers for Killzone 3 complete with face-stabbing and neck-breaking.
Killzone 3 is tentatively scheduled for release in North America in late March of 2011.
THQ Digital have announced a new downloadable title, set to come out on both PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. The game is called Red Faction: Battlegrounds and was confirmed at the Game Developers Conference in German. It is one of the three titles the studio is working on, and will be a top-down combat game which includes car, mech, and rovers. It will also have up to four player online multiplayer and the chance to build up achievements which will unlock new items for Red Faction: Armageddon when it is released.
