A real nostalgic blast from the past this, as Just Add Water announces the return of the classic Oddworld series, with an enhanced remake of the award-winning Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath exclusively for PS3. Originally released in 2005, the first- and third- person action-adventure represents the first game in the multi-million selling Oddworld series to appear on a PlayStation console since 1998’s Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus. The game will be made available as a digital download via the PlayStation Network next Easter.
JAW has been working closely with Oddworld founders Lorne Lanning and Sherry McKenna to ensure that this new version will be true to the spirit of the original game, while adding all manner of enhancements, such as stunning 720p visuals, more detailed characters, normal mapping and self-shadowing, re-mastered dialogue, support for PlayStation Move and additional bonus material still to be announced.
In the game, players take on the role of the Stranger, a rough and tumble bounty hunter who tracks down outlaws for moolah. Using a special weapons system that gives a whole new meaning to “live” ammo, players encounter strange species and hostile challenges aplenty on their travels. When Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath was first released on Xbox in 2005, it earned a Metacritic rating of 88, and was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Animation at the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences’ Interactive Achievement Awards, as well as garnering many other awards from the gaming press. Here’s Stewart Gilray, managing director of JAW, talking about the game:
“Since word got out that we’ve been working with Oddworld Inhabitants there have been many rumours circulating about what we’re working on. Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath is the first project in what we believe will be a long and fruitful relationship. Having the chance to update this great title and release it on PS3 is just a brilliant opportunity, not least for us, but for the fans too.”
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Warner Bros. Interactive has announced today that a new playable demo of Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole will be available for download via the PlayStation Network from September 8th. The demo enables players to take to the sky as they defend all of owlkind and do battle with the evil Pure Ones. As a brave winged warrior, players will learn several amazing aerial combat maneuvers and have the chance to explore the landscape in the world of Ga’Hoole with full 360-degree flight mechanics.
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole is an all-new flight action game that gives families the chance to battle against evil in the skies, and which is being released to tie in with the 3D fantasy family adventure movie of the same name from critically acclaimed director Zack Snyder. Both the movie and game are based on the New York Times children’s bestselling series, Guardians of Ga’Hoole, by Kathryn Lasky. The game’s storyline features the adventures of a young owlet called Soren who arrives at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree and tells of his escape from the evil Pure Ones, revealing a new threat to the owl kingdom. Players can take control of their favourite owl and fly around the kingdom fending off evil with their feathered allies.
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2K Games is clearly wasting no time in getting fresh Mafia II content out there. Just a few days after the full game was released, 2K has announced that more DLC, in the shape of Jimmy’s Vendetta, will be released on September 7th via the PlayStation Network, for $9.99.
In Jimmy’s Vendetta, fans will experience arcade-style gameplay with more than 30 new quests and the addition of a leaderboard ranking system. The all-new storyline gives the player an alternate perspective on The Mob through the eyes of Jimmy, the guy the other guys call when they need to finish the job. Players will get their hands dirty helping Jimmy clean up other people’s messes as they deal with the Italian and Irish mobsters that live in Empire Bay. As the player progresses, new quests will be unlocked, including assassination and timed vehicle pursuits where you can earn points for precision-timed vehicular power slides, lofty jumps and intense speed. Multipliers and combos will add bonus points to overall scores that will be immediately posted to the new online leaderboard system. Sounds good, and here’s to more Mafia II DLC in the future.
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Activision has released six fresh screenshots today showcasing Apache: Air Assault. The game, which is due for release on PS3 this autumn, is the first helicopter combat game from acclaimed flight sim developer Gaijin Entertainment, and sees players controlling a variety of lethal Apache attack helicopters outfitted with cutting-edge military weaponry. The aim of your mission is to patrol the skies and prevent terrorist attacks in the world’s most volatile warzones.
Apache: Air Assault features more than 16 multi-stage missions involving air and ground strike operations off the coast of Africa, high in the mountains of the Middle East and deep in the jungles of Central America. Each location has been meticulously created using high-resolution map data from real-world satellite photography. Apache helicopters are among the most sophisticated combat aircraft in the world, and in the game the player will get the chance to fly multiple variations, each with its own extreme weaponry and highly detailed damage modelling. Here’s Activision’s David Oxford talking about the game:
““No games on next-gen consoles have been dedicated to helicopter combat simulation, but that is about to change this autumn. Apache: Air Assault offers fun for diehard military enthusiasts and flight sim fans as well as gamers who just want to blow stuff up.”
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The Capcom Unity Blog has announced a very special edition of Dead Rising II – the High Stakes Edition, which is so exclusive it will only be available here at the Capcom Online Store. Here’s everything you can expect to find in the strictly limited-edition pack:
- Dead Rising 2 Game (Xbox 360 or PS3)
- Poker set in a black high-impact case sporting the Fortune City logo and including:
100 poker chips- 4 different colors featuring the Fortune City logo
2 decks of ‘blood-stained’ custom playing cards featuring character art
5 green dice
1 ‘blood-stained’ dealer chip
- Fortune City Visitor Map featuring the game map and ads for Fortune City locations and attractions
- Terror is Reality XVII admission ticket with redemption code for the unique Psycho skills pack downloadable content. (One Dead Rising 2 High Stakes Edition will contain the‘Golden’ Terror Is Reality XVII admission ticket, which is redeemable for Burt the Zombie, a 6’ Dead Rising 2 zombie replica)
The Dead Rising 2 High Stakes Edition pack is available to download now for guaranteed delivery on the September 28th release date.
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The wait is finally over and the stylish killing can commence pronto! Yes, snazzy open-world shooter fans should get themselves down to their local games emporium right now if they know what’s good for them (taking care to put their clothes on first, of course!), as today is the day that Mafia II hits the streets, and we mean HITS! 2K Games’ epic crime-action tale is now availabe for the PS3, and by all accounts it more than lives up to the first game.
The pistol-packed period piece transports players to Empire Bay, a fully realised and immersive urban cityscape set in America during the 1940s and 1950s. The action unfolds with white-knuckle car chases, explosive gunplay, compelling characters and an engaging narrative set against a backdrop of meticulously detailed period environments. Here’s Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K, talking about the game:
“Mafia II is what gamers want in a mob game – the marriage of a compelling story with edge-of-the-seat action and lifelike characters that immerse players in an epic entertainment experience. When you add in a setting that accurately reflects a period in history that has never been rendered so beautifully, it sets a new benchmark not just for the action-crime genre, but for any game set in the real world with a rich story to tell.”
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Namco Bandai Games Europe has today announced an exclusive Collector’s Edition of forthcoming tactical action-adventure game, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, which will be available across Europe on October 8th, 2010. The custom Collector’s Edition retail box of Enslaved will contain a hard-backed high-quality artbook featuring concept art and exclusive images documenting the development process of the game at Ninja Theory’s studios in Cambridge, UK. The package will also contain a separate CD featuring the game’s original soundtrack, written and produced by the fantastic Nitin Sawhney.
Enslaved is a cinematic gaming experience inspired by the classic Chinese novel, “Journey to the West”, and features Lord of the Rings’ Andy Serkis as dramatic co-director, and lead character, Monkey. The story comes from the pen of Alex Garland (The Beach, 28 Days Later), and takes players on a gripping, surprise-filled journey as two ill-matched characters, Monkey and Trip, form an uneasy union in order to survive their way through a perilous, post-apocalyptic America.
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Disney has released some brand new screenshots from its upcoming TRON: Evolution PS3 game which is due for this release this winter to coincide with the release of the new TRON: Legacy movie. The game is an immersive, third-person action-adventure that pulls the player into the unique digital world of TRON, where they get to explore TRON’s cities using the free-running phenomenon Parkour, navigate among unique rebel factions, and fight in an epic battle against a dictator’s relentless army, in the prequel to TRON: Legacy.
Key features of the game include action-packed combat using your light disc and a combination of Parkour and martial arts acrobatic fist-flinging movements; fast-paced light cycle racing and combat; a voiceover cast including actress Olivia Wilde as Quorra and Bruce Boxleitner as Tron; and an innovative online experience featuring persistent character progression.
The PC Tron game that was out a few years back was excellent, so hopefully this will be as good and really push the PS3 to its limits.
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If you like your PS3 games to be truly scary, dark and twisted, then you’ll be glad to hear that Konami has today revealed that Saw II: Flesh and Blood will be hitting stores on PS3 on October 19th, just in time for the release of Saw VII 3D, the seventh instalment of the popular horror movie franchise from Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures. And to help get you even more excited, and yet strangely fearful, about the game and the film’s upcoming release, Konami has also issued some new concept art that you can choose to look at from between your fingers if you’re feeling brave. The images reveal newly created deadly traps that challenge the player to think fast under pressure. Here’s Zombie Studios Producer, John Williamson, sharing his vision for the game, as revealed in the concept art:
“Just the silhouette of the character in the trap had to make the viewer uncomfortable. You had to know instantly that something bad was going to happen to this person if you didn’t get them out.”
Ulp, I think we know that already!
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Following on from last week’s story about the first ever PS3 hacking device, the PSJailbreak, MCV reports today that a hacking website (which incidentally appears to have crashed today due to the interest in this story!) has warned those tempted to use the device that they risk being banned from using their console on the PlayStation Network, possibly for good. This would of course mean that they would never again be able to use the banned console to play multiplayer games on PSN, and that they could possibly even be banned from accessing the PSN store with it. According to the report quoted by MCV on HAXnetworks, “the Backup manager game ID could be logged/recorded by Sony when logged into PSN (when online).”
The site says that once Sony detected that someone was using the jailbreak device, they could then block the user from PSN, just as Microsoft currently blocks modded Xboxes from Xbox Live.
MCV also reports that rival devices to the PSJailbreak have started appearing online, with the makers of the initial device actually having the gall to ask customers to only buy from “authorized dealers!” A bit rich, that!
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Sega has today announced that the latest instalment in the critically acclaimed Virtua Tennis series is currently in development for PlayStation 3, featuring full PlayStation Move compatibility and 3D technology. Developed in Japan by the original Virtua Tennis Team, Virtua Tennis 4, releasing in 2011, promises a more immersive, true-to-life tennis experience than ever before.
Virtua Tennis with the PlayStation Move is about much more than just hitting the ball. It’s about the angle of the racket, the spin and speed of the ball and the power of the shot. The advanced motion sensors of the PlayStation Move precisely track both the fast and subtle movements of the controller, allowing for pinpoint accurate shots as players improve their racket skills. Virtua Tennis 4 will also support 3D technology delivering unprecedented realism to the tennis experience.
Fans can look forward to a whole host of additional features and the full player line-up being revealed in the coming months prior to the game’s release some time in 2011, exclusively on the Sony PlayStation 3.
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Engadget has a news story today that will have PS3 owners rubbing their eyes with disbelief, as someone is claiming to have finally come up with the world’s first USB modchip for the PS3, after many years of many people trying many different ways to invent something similar. Joystiq also covered the story, revealing that the device is called the PSJailbreak, with its makers OzModchips.com claiming that it enables retail PS3 games to be played from a hard drive, and that it can also block Sony’s firmware updates which would render it useless. Both Engadget and Joystiq point out that there’s really no concrete proof that it works, and the keen-eyed peeps at Joystiq have also noticed that the OzModchip guys in the video are using a debug PS3, which can run debug code, including code from a USB drive such as the PSJailbreak. Although that doesn’t necessarily mean that the PSJailbreak isn’t the real deal, in the words of Joystiq, “why use a debug system to prove functionality that already exists in a debug system?”
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Some really exciting news coming out of Gamescom in Cologne this week, in particular today’s news from SCEA that Insomniac Games are working on another Ratchet & Clank game for the PS3 – Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One. The return of the best-selling and much-loved series features a brand-new storyline, which finds our heroes in the midst of a dilemma, when Dr. Nefarious’ latest evil plan goes awry, leaving Ratchet, Clank, Qwark and Nefarious himself caught in the snare of a powerful and mysterious machine, with the end result being that Ratchet & Clank are forced to cooperate with their arch nemesis in order to find a way of escaping their fate.
Co-operation is very much the order of the day in the game, as, in a franchise first, a four-player co-operative feature has been included in the gameplay, which enables players to team up as Ratchet, Clank, Qwark and Dr. Nefarious. Fans can also expect all the usual Ratchet & Clank style humour, coupled with great cinematic style. Don’t get too excited yet though, as the game is not scheduled to be released until Fall 2011, so we’ve all got a long time to wait!
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Finally, the news that PS3 owners have been waiting for, with the announcement that Mass Effect 2 is finally coming to the PS3 in January 2011. Aside from revealing that all-important release date, EA has also announced that the PS3 edition of the game will include the full Mass Effect 2 game and hours of bonus content, providing a comprehensive introduction for PS3-owners to BioWare’s award-winning action-RPG franchise.
Previously only available on Xbox 360 and PC, the Mass Effect franchise is an epic science-fiction adventure set in a vast universe filled with dangerous aliens and mysterious, uncharted planets. In Mass Effect 2, PS3 players will step into the role of Commander Shepard for the very first time, leading a crew of the most dangerous special operatives from across the galaxy on a mission to save mankind. Featuring intense shooter action, a rich storyline, space exploration and emotionally engaging character interaction, Mass Effect 2 certainly sets the bar extra high for future action-RPGs.
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August is a very frustrating month for Formula 1 racing fans desperate to hear news of their favourite sport, as the whole championship shuts down for an enforced break at the start of August, leaving the fans without any racing excitement for almost a month. However, good news is just around the corner for the F1-deprived fans, as Codemasters has today confirmed the worldwide release dates for its hotly anticipated F1 2010 game, which are as follows: September 22nd in North America, September 23rd across EPAC countries, and September 24th in the UK. A new gameplay video will also shortly be available at www.formula1-game.com. It’s supposed to be there now, but I think someone’s forgotten to put it up!
For the uninitiated, F1 2010 is the official game of the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship, and will include all of the official teams, drivers and circuits featuring in the sport’s most exciting season to date. The game has been a long time coming, but judging by the screenshots and videos it’s going to look absolutely amazing, taking massive strides forward from past F1 games.
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No sooner has the dust settled on the final downloadable content for BioShock 2, than 2K Games has announced that a new game in the BioShock series, BioShock Infinite, is currently in development at Irrational Games, the studio behind the original BioShock. Set in 1912, BioShock Infinite introduces an entirely new narrative experience that for the first time takes the player away from the underwater confines of Rapture, and rockets them to Columbia, an immense city in the sky.
Columbia is a floating city, that is sent to foreign shores as an endeavor of hope, but this being a BioShock game, you know that those good intentions are bound to come a cropper, and they soon do when the city mysteriously disappears. In the game, the player takes on the role of former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt, who is sent to the lost city to rescue Elizabeth, a young woman who has been imprisoned there since childhood. The pair join forces and try to escape the doomed city together. Here’s Ken Levine, creative director of Irrational Games, talking about the game:
“When it came to begin work on BioShock Infinite, we only had one rule: No sacred cows. This game is both true to what people love about the series and unafraid to question every assumption. In order to explore the floating city of Columbia, we needed an entirely new engine. To bring Elizabeth to life, we had to build brand-new animation and AI systems. To create wide-ranging indoor and outdoor firefights at 30,000 feet, we had to rethink, rebuild and expand the BioShock arsenal. The only thing gamers can be certain of is this: the rules of the BioShock universe are about to change.”
And if all this sounds so good that you can’t hardly wait, well unfortunately you’ll have to wait until 2012 for the game’s release!
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The second downloadable content for Red Dead Redemption has been released by Rockstar Games for download via the PlayStation Network today. The Legends & Killers Pack doubles the amount of competitive multiplayer territories, with nine new map locations that have been weapons-balanced specifically for multiplayer, and packed full of free-for-all and team-based challenges. New locations include the foggy riverside at Thieves’ Landing and the modern metropolis of Blackwater. Eight classic personalities from 2004’s Red Dead Revolver also return as multiplayer characters, including the likes of Red Harlow, Jack Swift, Annie Stoakes and Shadow Wolf.
Fans can also expect to get their hands on a brand new weapon, the Tomahawk, which will be available in competitive multiplayer, free roam and single-player modes, and the pack also offers new Trophies to earn. Here’s Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games, talking about the new content:
“With Legends & Killers we wanted to provide a wealth of new content for fans of Red Dead Redemption. We took care to pick out areas that were unique and exciting and then polished them to provide the best possible multiplayer experience.”
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The Cartoon Network’s all-new television series, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, is about to make its debut on the major consoles, including PS3, according to developers D3Publisher. Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction, the latest game in the multi-million selling Ben 10 game franchise, is due to be released this October, and will put players in the shoes of 16-year-old Ben Tennyson and 16 powerful alien forms. Together they will embark on a thrill-packed mission to the four corners of the globe, on the hunt for an ancient artifact that could save humanity from a mysterious cosmic storm and ultimate destruction.
In the game, fans will get to wield the power of the all-new Ultimatrix, the strongest Omnitrix to date, using it to transform Ben into more powerful, hyper-evolved ultimate alien forms. Fans will also be excited to see new alien heroes Armodrillo, WaterHazard, AmpFibian, Terraspin and NRG featured in the game. Some of the many new powers that this quintet of alien heroes brings to the game are the ability to tunnel through enemies, unleash water blasts and emit radiation beams. A unique experience system also enables the new heroes to upgrade alien abilities.
Other new enhancements featured in the new game include Quick Switch, which enables you to switch alien forms quicker than ever before, and Quick Time Events, designed to provide a cinematic experience that guides players through tough boss battles and challenging puzzles. And as an extra special bonus, PlayStation 3 owners will get their own exclusive alien, the freakishly strong Fourarms.
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SEGA has released brand new screenshots and a gameplay trailer from epic sci-fi third-person action shooter Vanquish, which is due to be released on the PS3 on October 19th in North America. Gamestop is currently holding an exclusive promotion, whereby anyone who pre-orders a copy of the game with them will have access to a three-weapon pack, available via the PlayStation Store. The Tri-Weapon pack, as it’s called, contains a Boost Machine Gun, Anti-Armor Pistol and Laser Cannon, all of which will help to give the player the edge in surviving the fierce battles on board the vast space station setting of Vanquish.
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To look a little more closely at the three weapons in the pack, the Boost Machine Gun is an early experimental weapon that can spit out rounds with all the power and rapid-fire pace of a heavy machine gun. The Anti-Armor Pistol fires a special penetrative shell to make light work of enemy armour, and the third weapon, the Laser Cannon, is a miniaturised space warship laser, and more powerful than any other weapon available for infantry. Sounds good! Enjoy the trailer and screenshots in anticipation of the game’s October release.
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