Capcom’s confirmed that the December 5 Resident Evil 5 demo announced for Japan yesterday will make it west, but it’s going to take longer.
“What does this mean to you, Joe Sixpack, denizen of the Land of the Free and the Home of the Collapsing Economy? Not much,” said Capcom on its blog.
“Resident Evil 5 is [...]
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Resident Evil 5 demo coming West, but later
November 27th, 2008 · Comments Off
Tags: Action · America · Horror · Hot · PS3 · Xbox 360 · capcom · demo · europe · famitsu · resident-evil-5
Resident Evil 5 comes forward a week in Japan, gets CE
November 27th, 2008 · Comments Off
Kotaku’s reporting that Resident Evil 5’s release date’s been moved forward a week in Japan. The game will now come out on March 5, apparently “due to shortened development time.”
The title’s western release is unchanged at March 13.
In addition, there’s some shots on the site of the Collector’s Edition on the site, and very snazzy [...]
Tags: Action · Horror · Hot · Japan · PS3 · Xbox 360 · capcom · collector's edition · resident-evil-5
Fiddy 2: The diamond skull? Fiddy’s idea
November 27th, 2008 · Comments Off
Awesome. Fiddy himself came up with the idea of having a diamond-encrusted skull as the central story item for upcoming you-must-buy-it shooter, Blood on the Sand.
“[The developers] were telling me the actual story, and I was like, ‘Cool,’ but I’d just got finished seeing Blood Diamond, like two years ago, and I was like, ‘Yo, [...]
Tags: 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand · Action · Hot · PS3 · Shooter · Swordfish Studios · THQ · Xbox 360
Super Stardust Portable releasing next week
November 27th, 2008 · Comments Off
This post on the US PS Blog confirms a PSP version of Super Stardust is to release next week.
The game will be available on Thursday, December 4th for $9.99 in the US.
No word on a European date. More detail through the link.
Tags: Action · America · Arcade · PSP · Sony · super stardust portable
IGN and IGN UK go high on Prince of Persia review
November 27th, 2008 · Comments Off
The IGN scores for Prince of Persia are in, with the Americans going for 9.3 and their British counterparts posting a 9.4 score.
Ubi boss said in an earnings call last night that expectations for the game were high internally.
It’s out on Xbox 360 and PS3 on December 5.
Tags: Action · Adventure · Hot · PC · PS3 · Platformer · Ubisoft · Xbox 360 · ign · prince of persia · review
Assassin’s Creed 2 set in the 1700s, says Pachter
November 27th, 2008 · Comments Off
During taping of an episode of GameTrailers’ Bonus Round, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michawl Pachter has apparently revealed that the time-frame for the now-confirmed Assassin’s Creed 2 has been moved from 1191 to “several hundred years in the future” or more specifically, “sometime in the 1700s.”
Pachter speculated, according to this Giant Bomb report, that the [...]
Tags: Action · Adventure · Hot · PC · PS3 · Platformer · Ubisoft · Xbox 360 · assassin's creed 2 · gametrailers · michael pachter
Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon PS3 cancelled due to “development issues”
November 26th, 2008 · Comments Off
THQ’s cancelled Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon for PlayStation 3, citing “development issues” as the reason.
The game was to go on sale next week, December 1, for both PS3 and 360, but will now be exclusive to Microsoft’s console.
Oops.
New video and more over at Shacknews.
By Mike Bowden
Tags: Action · Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon · Development · Hot · PS3 · THQ · Xbox 360
CoD: WaW LE owners getting double XP this weekend
November 26th, 2008 · Comments Off
According to this Kotaku report, next weekend means double XP for those owning the limited edition.
Both PC and 360 versions get the boost. The event runs from midnight PST on December 5 to December 12.
If you’ve got the 360 edition, you need to make sure it’s fully activated, and you only get the bonus if [...]
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Ubisoft: ‘working hard’ on Assassin’s Creed 2, no release date
November 26th, 2008 · Comments Off
Ubisoft’s just confirmed it’s working on Assassin’s Creed 2. If you hadn’t already worked that out for yourself, you may as well give up.
The news came from an earnings call today, in which an exec said that “we are working hard on the product,” but refused to date the game for fiscal 2010.
More on Joystiq.
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Report: Yakuza 3 gets Japanese date
November 26th, 2008 · Comments Off
Famitsu’s latest edition apparently confirms that Sega’s highly popular action-adventure game, Yakuza 3, will release on Japan on February 26.
The game will cost ¥7980 and has fighting and singing in it. What more could you want.
Rumour for now. Thanks, PS3center.
By Mike Bowden
Tags: Action · Hot · PS3 · Rumour · Ry? ga Gotoku 3 · Sega · Sony · yakuza-3