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First Yakuza 5 screens released
SEGA has released the first screenshots of Yakuza 5 via the official website showing off the game’s five-strong playable cast in action. The newly-opened official website contains a bunch of screenshots – mostly of angry-looking old men – but Yakuza 5 has a twist in the playable status of Haruka, series lead Kazuma Kiryu’s adopted ... Read More»
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Anarchy Reigns Japanese launch trailer is confused about the date
Sega Japan has released a launch trailer for Anarchy Reigns, although the game is still well over a month away from release in all territories. Well, whatever; it’s four minutes of all-out action with a peek at guest character Bayonetta at the end. We’ll take it. The Platinum Games multiplayer brawler launches in in July ... Read More»
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Assassin’s Creed III E3 demo includes six cinematics
Who’s excited about Assassin’s Creed III’s playable E3 2012 demo? Ubisoft is! See the development team chat about how hard they’ve worked on the preview build, which will be the open world adventure’s first mass hands-on debut. We’ll have an agent on site to test the demo out, of course. Although details of what will ... Read More»
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Capcom Wants Future Devil May Cry Games, Other Titles To Come Out More Often
It’s taken a while for Capcom to bring the next chapter of the Devil May Cry series to fruition, but the developer hopes future titles will come much faster—another with future titles in their other franchises. “For DMC Devil May Cry, development will require five years due to the time needed to select development companies ... Read More»
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance E3 demo teased
The video below the break shows the title screen of the playable demo of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Konami will make available to E3 2012 attendees. And you know what? I’m excited about this. Tragic? Maybe a little. The short little taster is about 50% logos, and really doesn’t show any gameplay or anything, but ... Read More»
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New Soul Sacrifice shots surface on Famitsu
Famitsu has posted new shots and art for Marvelous and Inafune’s Vita title, Soul Sacrifice. Hit up the link for a look. The new images are posted along with ones you have already seen, but go have a look anyway. The Vita title’s expected to releas... Read More»
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Square Enix confirms Sleeping Dogs for Japan
In no-Sherlock news of the day, Square Enix has confirmed it’s to release Sleeping Dogs to Japan. The publisher opened a teaser site for the game, where you must make it past a guard dog to watch a local version of the live-action trailer that debuted the game earlier this year. Just to cheat a ... Read More»
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Kung Fu Superstar announced for Kinect
Kinesthetic Games has announced Kung Fu Superstar for Kinect, which features “real Kung Fu techniques.” Developed by former Lionhead staffer, Kostas Zarifis, players will don the persona of Danny Chengas he goes from being an aspiring martial artist to an international, Hollywood star. Players will use their full body or an Xbox 360 controller to ... Read More»
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Saints Row: The Third – Penthouse Pack DLC out today
THQ has announced the Penthouse Pack for Saints Row: The Third. It features Nikki Benz, Justine Joli, Ryan Keely, and Heather Vandeven which are apparently “well-dressed Pets.” You can add the ladies to your gang your gang and call them into combat anytime. “For the first time in your life, when you call Penthouse Pets, ... Read More»
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PSA: Alan Wake’s American Nightmare launching on Steam tonight
In case you need a reminder, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare launches on Steam tonight at 6pm BST. A GoG version will also be available. You can still pre-order it on Steam right now and be eligible for a 10% discount, or even a 15% discount if you bought the original Wake earlier this year. And ... Read More»
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Bat-shit crazy: Lollipop Chainsaw goes zombie-mental
As Suda51 gears up to unleash multi-coloured hell, Stace Harman sneaks a peek and speaks to Scott Warr of Warner Bros. about the not-so-niche appeal of zombies and cheerleaders. Lollipop Chainsaw – quick bites The game was originally going to be called Chainsaw and Shotgun, but Suda changed the name because it “didn’t really fit ... Read More»
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Tomb Raider delay due to “natural evolution” of original development plan
Crystal Dynamic has further explained Tomb Raider’s six month delay, hopefully quashing fan concerns over the reboot’s development. In the latest episode of the Crystal Habit podcast, Crystal Dynamics studio head Darrell Gallagher flatly denied a suggestion that the release date change came about because development had gone “horribly wrong”. “Definitely that is not what ... Read More»
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Infinity Blade 2 Vault of Tears update due Thursday
Chair has announced a free content update for Infinity Blade 2, adding new features, environments, enemies and equipment. Shack reports The Vault of Tears includes a couple of new areas; a treasure map for finding secrets; and a “hidden ally”, whatever that means. It also packs in more than 50 new pieces of gear, and ... Read More»
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Stainless to give Carmageddon talk at Rezzed
Eurogamer’s announced that Stainless Games is to give a talk on Carmageddon: Reincarnation at Rezzed in July in Brighton. Production director Ben Gunstone will give the talk on Friday, July 6 on the tough challenges the studio faced in putting together its Kickstarter campaign for Reincarnation. The Kickstarter total is currently nearly at $300,000 of ... Read More»
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How Diablo 3 gave Metacritic a giant middle finger
Diablo III sold millions of copies with no pre-release reviews, and still has a low MC score. Does this prove Metacritic’s irrelevance? It does for some games, says Patrick Garratt, and the time has come to break the mould. This episode clearly shows that the notion of giving journalists pre-release code for certain games is ... Read More»
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UK charts: Max Payne 3 pips Diablo III to number one
Max Payne 3 has beaten Diablo III to the number one spot in this week’s UK charts. The gap between the two games was by 8,000 units. It’s the first number one for the Payne series, making a return eight-and-a-half years after the Remedy-developed Max Payne 2, with MP3 outselling MP2 by a figure of ... Read More»
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Level up: Darksiders II and the Diablo 3 connection
Darksiders II has more in common with Diablo than War’s original adventure, but it took a sequel to add in the looting and RPG elements Vigil wanted to include from the off. “We were making a sequel, so the easiest thing would have been to put War in the second game. The same moves, the ... Read More»
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Square Enix registers Just Cause 4 domains
Although a third entry in Avalanche’s open-world action epic series is yet to be announced, Square Enix is prepping for the franchise’s future. As Just Cause 3 is yet to be confirmed, Square Enix’s multiple Just Cause 4 domain registrations, as spotted by Fusible, are likely to be defensive rather than confirmation of upcoming reveals. ... Read More»
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Batman: Arkham City players are still to find some secrets
Batman: Arkham City has been out for seven months, but Rocksteady has confirmed some of its secrets are yet to be uncovered. What the heck is wrong with you lot? “There are still three or four things that people haven’t seen – some of them very subtle things,” Arkham City director Sefton Hill said at ... Read More»
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Rumour – FLCL game in the works for Wii U
Falling in both the “man says something on Internet” and “oh god yes please be true” ctageories is word that Namco Bandai has a FLCL (Fooly Cooly) game in the works for Wii U. The details come from the 2001 series’s IMDB page message boards, which is not exactly a rock solid source, but what ... Read More»
