Xbox 360 Game News: South Park RPG Has Turn-Based Combat, Silent Hero
Posted by G4TV on Dec 05, 2011 | Leave a Comment
We first heard about Obsidian Entertainment’s South Park RPG last week when Game Informer revealed the focus of its January issue’s cover story. The mag is already going out to subscribers, so it probably won’t surprise you to hear that some key details about the game emerged over the weekend via a NeoGAF poster.
The South Park RPG is built on Obsidian’s Dungeon Siege 3 engine, though it sticks with the TV series’ 2D style of animation. Your player character, a new...
Kinect Games: Real or Fake?
Posted by IGN on Dec 05, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Oh Kinect, we had such high hopes. While you continue to tantalise us with promises of being the ’future of gaming’, and tease us with the potentially-good Kinect functionality in games such as Forza Motorsport 4 and Mass Effect 3, the reality is that a lot of the industry’s Kinect-focused output has been questionable to say the least. And it doesn’t look like it’s going to get drastically better any time soon.
So, in the spirit of poking fun at Kinect’s recent...
Tuesday’s Update Bringing Big Changes to Xbox 360
Posted by IGN on Dec 05, 2011 | Leave a Comment
This Tuesday marks the official launch of the new Xbox 360 Dashboard, which will bring with it a bevy of new features, including improved Kinect support, a slick new UI, and a ton of new content from myriad providers. We were given a look at the new changes coming on December 6, and were pretty impressed with what we saw.
Kinect users will definitely get the most out of the changes introduced in the update. Nearly every panel, option and menu selection is navigable with using Kinect, either through...
Report: Alan Wake’s Sales Closer to 1.5 Million Units
Posted by IGN on Dec 02, 2011 | Leave a Comment
According to a story posted by IndustryGamers, Remedy’s 2010 Xbox 360 exclusive Alan Wake sold much better than originally thought. While NPD sales figures currently peg the game at 330K units sold in the US to date (with the number closer to 500K worldwide), those numbers apparently do not factor in digital download sales.
Digital sales matter because a downloadable code for the game was included in a holiday console bundle last year, packaged with a disc copy of Forza Motorsport 3. This year...
Master Chief Will Change in Halo 4
Posted by IGN on Dec 02, 2011 | Leave a Comment
343 Industries has confirmed that we won’t see the same old Master Chief in Halo 4. In a new interview, Halo franchise director Frank O’Connor has confirmed that Chief’s armor will undergo some changes in the new game.
“There’s some fairly radical modifications to his armor,” O’Connor said. “Some of those are an artistic evolution, but some are connected to the story. We just can’t talk about it yet. He’s been in space for a long time.”
Halo...
The EFF Wants Console Modding and Jailbreaking Deemed Legal by the DMCA
Posted by 1UP on Dec 02, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Just over a year after winning several exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anti-circumvention provisions (which saw jailbreaking cell phones acknowledged as fair use), the Electronic Frontier Foundation is now trying to expand those exemptions. This time around it’s interested in gaining something similar for those who want to mod their videogame consoles.
A request for this, along with three other issues, was filed this week. Exemptions are considered by the Copyright...
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition’s Ver. 2012 Update Detailed
Posted by 1UP on Dec 02, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Version 2012 is a very long title, no doubt, but what it is not is the name of yet another re-release of Street Fighter IV. As previously announced, it’s a huge patch being released — for free! — for the Arcade Edition of the game.
Arcade Edition was the third version of Street Fighter IV released following SFIV itself and Super Street Fighter IV, and is the only version this patch is being released for. It is said to be the final version...
Minecraft Creator Moving on to New Projects
Posted by 1UP on Dec 02, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Markus Persson, better known to fans of Minecraft as Notch, has stepped down from his role as lead developer of the sandbox building game.
This move comes just a few weeks after the first-ever MineCon, during which time the game finally reached a final version 1.0 state. That is not to say updates for the game are done — there is still much to be done, it’ll just be handled by Jens Bergensten, who is taking over as lead developer. Persson says Bergensten, who is going to be working...
Xbox 360 Game News: Bungie’s Marathon Trilogy Is Now Free For All PC Platforms
Posted by G4TV on Dec 02, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Before there was Halo, there was Marathon. The sci-fi FPS for Xbox that catapulted Bungie Studios into the game biz limelight wasn’t exactly a follow-up to the studio’s Marathon games, but you can feel the DNA of Master Chief’s adventures woven into the fabric of the earlier releases. Now, anyone with a computer can find that out for themselves, as all three Marathon games are available as free downloads.
The release is possible thanks to the efforts of an open-source developer...
How to Make Tomonobu Itagaki in Saints Row: The Third
Posted by 1UP on Dec 01, 2011 | Leave a Comment
You might remember us applauding the Tokyo Game Show 2011 news of Ninja Gaiden (Xbox) creator Tomonobu Itagaki being a playable character in Saints Row: The Third. Though, now with the benefit of hindsight, it seems that the news was less, “he is an in-game persona you can interact with,” and more, “you can create him with SR:TT’s crazy character creator.”
Yet we also noticed that while the trailer THQ provided of SRTT’s Itagaki had some of the details of how...
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