EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: xbox360
According to the recently released NPD results, Bioshock 2 had a storming sales month in the US, which is in line with Take Two’s own comments stating that the first-person action adventure title has already sold roughly three million units worldwide.
In order to continue and spur this success, downloadable content (DLC) for the game has been released in the form of the Sinclair Solutions pack, but thanks to the eagle-eyes of some fervent 2K Games forumites, it appears as though this DLC is extraordinarily small in download size… which is extraordinarily suspicious, given the contents of the pack.
Speaking to videogame consumer site 1Up, head of Valve Software Gabe Newell has made the not inconsiderable statement that the developer’s upcoming and recently announced Portal 2 is “the best game we’ve ever done.”
If you take into consideration that this is the company that has brought us games from the Half-Life franchise, the Left 4 Dead franchise, and games such as Team Fortress 2 and the original Portal, this is one lofty comment.
Newell discussed expectations for Portal 2, after the original games stratospheric reception, and how the game may be received by fans:
Fable III got a new showing at the Game Developers Conference this year, and with it, a new set of screenshots were released by Microsoft and developers Lionhead to reveal one of the sections from the game – what looks to be an abandoned mine haunted by ghostly soldiers. Isn’t that always the way?
Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux, as usual, spilled a few more beans about the project, including the reveal that non other than British comedian and actor John Cleese will play the role of your in-game butler, in addition to the news that, in some form or another, Fable III will include support for the social messaging system, Twitter, as Molyneux says:
OK, so the video may be a little overexposed owing to the fact that it was taken by a camera off of a screen (hence, off-screen), but if you watch the below-appearing technology trailer for Crytek’s CryEngine 3 (which will power the studio’s Crysis 2 appearing at the end of the year) and don’t come away impressed… then you’re probably from the future.
CryEngine 3 currently contains enough technological and visual wizardry to make even John Carmack and Tim Sweeney jealous (… nerd joke), with fancy lighting effects, procedural deformation, procedural destruction, blend shading and some extremely advanced artificial intelligence routines, all wrapped up in what looks to be a very smart editor.
Watch all of that in action below:
Eidos Montreal has dropped a teaser trailer for the studio’s upcoming Deus Ex 3, revealing that we as mere humans are but a steppingstone towards the next stage of evolution, and that in the next entry to the venerable first-person RPG franchise, we’ll once again gain access to all kinds of organic implants and improvements to make ourselves… better… stronger… faster.
A new piece of information coming out of GDC this year is that Deus Ex won’t feature multiplayer of any kind, as the game’s director Jean-Francois Dugas says:
According to THQ’s VP of Core Games, Danny Bilson, the follow-up to 2009’s excellent Red Faction: Guerrilla will release in March of 2011, and will represent a “hybrid” between that new entry to the Red Faction franchise, and the older series entries, Red Faction 1 and 2.
Speaking to Joystiq this week, Bilson said:
Green Day, Harmonix, MTV Games and Reprise / Warner Bros. Records (phew) has announced that the group’s standalone videogame collaboration, Green Day: Rock Band, is set to release on June 8th for the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii, with pricing structures announced for each platform.
Green Day: Rock Band aims to allow players access to the full ‘Green Day experience,’ as you “step onto the stage and into the shoes of Green Day, the multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning band that jump-started the punk-pop revival and has continued to pave the way for American rock music into the 21st century.”
EA has released another batch of interesting screenshots for this year’s Medal of Honor reboot, revealing a few fellow soldiers in tense, moody situations, perhaps as they gear up and prepare for an important operation, or set out on an early morning patrol. Who knows.
With the release of the screenshots, however, comes the news that Medal of Honor will not take advantage of Sony’s newly revealed (well, the name anyway) motion controller, the PlayStation Move, as Senior Creative Director at EALA, Rich Farrelly tells videogame consumer site CVG:
If you’re playing the other contemporary conflict-branded first-person shooter, you’ve probably already succumbed to ‘mapathy,’ the feeling that you’ve been playing the same multiplayer map too many times, and the enjoyment that you once felt has been sucked from the experience.
The thing is, if you want to overcome this feeling, you have to pay for extra maps in order to inject the excitement back into that game, and regain the feeling of exhilaration you once had.
The folks over at EA and DICE want to avoid this affliction of ‘mapathy’ as best they can with their contemporary conflict-themed game, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which is why they’re offering two new multiplayer maps to VIP members for free.
From a new post on the official Bad Company 2 blog:
Lara Croft’s newly announced next adventure, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, has been priced for Xbox LIVE Marketplace, the PlayStation Network and PC, and will be releasing this Summer according to developers Crystal Dynamics.
Guybrush Threepwood will soon be setting sail again and this time his crew will be heading to the Xbox 360 and PS3! That’s the latest news from the LucasArts camp who revealed that Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge would be available on Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network and PC this summer (as well as the iPhone and iPod).
The publisher also announced that The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition would soon be available on the PlayStation Network, Mac and PC.
Activision recently announced that a third downloadable content (DLC) pack for the well received DJ Hero is on the way, ft. three mashups of six songs from Eminem and Jay-Z, continuing the title’s heavy focus on hip-hop based tracks.
The pack is set to release at the end of March on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and the PlayStation Store. Let’s check that track list:
As previously alluded to, the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 map pack has been officially named by Activision, and has been confirmed to be releasing on March 30th.
The talented and fashion conscious Lady Gaga is set to make her debut on Rock Band with a four pack of songs next week.
Lady Gaga Pack 01 will include the popular tracks ‘Bad Romance,’ ‘Just Dance,’ ‘Monster’ and ‘Poker Face.’ Xbox 360 and PS3 Rock Banders will be able to purchase the track pack and the individual tracks but Wii owners will be able to purchase individual tracks only.
After Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 was dated and detailed yesterday, a large batch of screenshots and a pair of trailers for the game have bounded obediently behind to show you what the next iteration of EA’s golfing sim looks like in motion, and in picturesque stills.
Flick through the rest of the excellent Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 screenshots, and watch those trailers, below:
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