Fancy watching some more of the upcoming heavy metal epic Brutal Legend? Then we’ve got just what you need: a brand new trailer that explores and explains the fantasy landscape of the action adventure game. Art director Lee Petty also shows off some new concept art, factions and moody weather effects.
The game will be chopping up posers on PS3 and Xbox 360 on Rocktober 13. For the non-awesome inclined, that is October 13. A brutal demo will be released to Xbox Live subscribers this Thursday; cheapskates and PS3 gamers will get the demo on October 1. Those who brutally handed out money to preorder the game are now enjoying their time in the land of heavy metal.
Going the Dead Space route, EA today announced that they have partnered with Starz Media’s Film Roman to start production on an animated movie based on the upcoming Dante’s Inferno videogame. The film will expand on the story in the game which is due out next year on PS3 and Xbox 360.
Following the story set by the legendary epic poem, the film will explore hell through Dante’s eyes as he searches for his true love, Beatrice. The film will combine some of the best talent in the animation industry – Film Roman’s Joe Goyette (Dead Space: Downfall) is the producer on the project, Victor Crook (The Spectacular Spider-man, Hellboy Animated: Blood & Iron) is directing and Brandon Auman (Iron Man: Armored Adventures) is writing.
“This is like nothing else out in the marketplace right now – a visually stunning project based on one of the most powerful stories ever told,” notes Jay Fukuto, Head of Studio for Film Roman. “It could only happen with a partner with the vision and creativity of EA. They were great collaborators on ‘Dead Space: Downfall,’ and we expect another very rewarding experience with this new feature.”
The animated film will most probably be released alongside the game.
Writing on the official Sims 3 website, The Sims label head Rod Humble announced that The Sims 3 will feature greatly simplified copy protection with no online activation.
The game will have disc-based copy protection – there is a Serial Code just like The Sims 2. To play the game there will not be any online authentication needed.
We feel like this is a good, time-proven solution that makes it easy for you to play the game without DRM methods that feel overly invasive or leave you concerned about authorization server access in the distant future.
EA was recently criticized for its use of DRM in Spore where users had to call the company to activate their game if it was installed more than three times.
MTV Games and EA today announced that the Rock Band franchise has officially surpassed $1 billion in North American retail sales in 15 months, citing figures by the NPD Group. In addition, over 40 million paid individual songs have been sold via download through the online platform; there are a total of 600 songs available in the catalog.
Rock Band was launched back in November 20, 2007 and has sold millions of units. Its sequel was released earlier last year and built upon the original. The franchise is the first to start full album downloads on PS3 and Xbox 360, which quite a few bands have taken advantage of, including Judas Priest, Foo Fighters, Megadeth and Rush.
Harmonix seems to be a big fan of classics, as they have announced that Journey’s jukebox classic “Don’t Stop Believin’” is coming to Rock Band.
The song is coming most probably in next week’s batch of DLC, which hits March 31. It is expected to carry the traditional pricing of 160 Microsoft points ($2).
Seeing as how the Need for Speed franchise has become an annual one, what would 2009 be without a NFS game? EA sent out word that Need for Speed SHIFT, the latest entry in the series, will hit stores on September 18.
Deviating from the arcade gameplay of the series, the game will offer simulation gameplay, featuring some of the world’s most iconic racing tracks, including the storied Brand’s Hatch in the UK. It will also include high-performance cars such as the Pagani Zonda, Porsche 911 GT2 and Lotus Elise.
The game is being developed by Slightly Mad Studios in collaboration with Black Box and Patrick Soderlund. Slightly Mad consists of people who worked on the critically acclaimed games GT Legends and GTR 2.
NFS Shift is due out on PC, PSP, PS3 and Xbox 360.
To honor the re-release of Pearl Jam’s debut album “Ten”, Rock Band, MTV, MTV2, VH1 and VH1 Classic are teaming up to roll out a two-week long lineup of content that celebrates the band, its success and its debut in Rock Band as downloadable content.
Putting aside MTV and VH1’s tributes, gamers will get the “Ten” album – which has sold 12 million copies – as downloadable content in Rock Band and Rock Band 2 on March 24. In addition, Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron will sit down for a Game With Fame session on Friday, March 27 at 7pm ET. Those with a Xbox Live Gold account can go up against him by sending a friend request to “Pearl Jam GWF” and be online half an hour before at 6.30pm ET.
The “Ten” album was released back on August 27, 1991. It reached #2 on the Billboard 200 chart and sold over 12 million copies.
Starting the “Days of Arcade” promotion, EA’s donwloadable board game collection Hasbro Family Game Night has hit Xbox Live Marketplace today.
It’s a free 237MB download that offers four demos of classic Hasbro games Connect 4, Yahtzee, Battleship and Scrabble. The full version of each of these games costs $10 and requires players to download the client application.
Hasbro also promises three more titles – Boggle, Sorry! and Sorry! Sliders – which are listed as “coming soon”.
EA sent out word that a new multiplayer mode for The Godfather 2 will be released as a free downloadable patch right after the game’s release on April 7 in North America and April 10 in Europe.
Called “Don Control”, the mode will take the strategic gameplay of the title into an online environment where players build a family, command them in battle and view the action from a bird’s eye view from above. Here’s more:
Don Control introduces an additional layer of gameplay on top of the four multiplayer modes and six maps already available in the game and invites players to compete to see who is the ultimate Don of Dons. Players can now challenge one another in 16-player battles for their in-game currency from the single-player game. As a Don online, players can recruit others to join their family by giving them a cut of the profits. But if a player loses as Don, the in-game currency they wagered will be removed in their single-player campaign and their empire can come crumbling down.
The Godfather 2 is being released for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
A couple of new screenshots from NCAA Basketball 09 have been released. Check them out below.
A new trailer for Fight Night Round 4 is now available from EA. This shows off some gameplay footage from the Ali vs. Tyson fight.
The game is due out on PS3 and Xbox 360 this summer.
Having announced the game, EA has put on offer a couple more screenshots from Army of Two: The 40th Day, its upcoming fist-pumping co-op shooter sequel.
Remember how Sony touted its 10-year lifecycle for the PS3? EA CFO Eric Brown has said that the longer lifecycle for current generation of consoles will mean more hardware price cuts in the future, which can only mean better business for the companies involved.
"We’ve seen one major price drop thus far in this console cycle," said Brown, referring to the last Xbox 360 price drop. "We feel that we have a long ways to go, and a lot more of the unit sales will occur at the lower price points."
He noted that once the Xbox 360 dropped below $200 in North America, hardware sales helped the company jump ahead of its competition.
As for the future, Brown said platforms will grow due to the delivery of content digitally, but that he is “not quite sure where we go from here.”
Speaking to Eurogamer, Ray Parker Jr. revealed that he is currently working on getting the original Ghostbusters theme into Rock Band’s library of playable music.
“We were just talking about that, we’re working on it now,” he said. “I think they should have Ghostbusters in Rock Band.”
It would be awesome to play the Ghostbusters tune with a bunch of friends over.
EA has officially announced Army of Two: The 40th Day, the sequel to its co-operative shooter where two people high five each other after massacres.
“With ARMY OF TWO: THE 40th DAY, we’re pushing the tactical two-man military team into new battlegrounds offering a completely organic and rich co-op experience to deliver an action-packed co-op shooter this winter,” says Reid Schneider, Executive Producer, EA Montreal. ”As chaos blankets Shanghai, China, you must rely on your partner to survive as you weave through a broken city left devastated in a mysterious wake.”
The game will have players fighting through ravaged city districts of Shanghai, China, as they try to beat the odds and uncover the secret behind the game’s subtitle. It will feature new co-op moves and more.
Army of Two: The 40th Day will be available for PSP, PS3 and Xbox 360 this winter.
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