Justin has been a gamer since the Intellivision days back in the early 80′s. He started writing about and covering the video game industry in 2008. In his spare time he is also a bit of a gun-nut and Star Wars nerd.
Game Informer has announced that their April issue (#240) will finally pull back the curtain on Eidos Montreal's long-awaited reboot to the Thief franchise. Oh, and the best news of all: It is no longer called Thi4f.
An unconfirmed report is claiming that Electronic Arts has canceled production on Dead Space 4, and has "effectively axed the series" following weaker than expected sales of Dead Space 3.
Proving once and for all that the supply and demand curves you studied in econ class hold true in overseas markets, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan president Hiroshi Kawano has revealed that Japanese PlayStation Vita sales after the February 28th price cut jumped four-fold from the level they were at two weeks ago.
For most of last year Crysis 3 looked as if it might come to Nintendo's Wii U console. Crytek executives would often hint at the possibility -- one even went so far as to say that they were "working with Nintendo" on something -- but they would never outright confirm that a version was in development. Last January Crytek's CEO, Cevat Yerli, put an end to the speculation by stating that there were "discussions" between EA, Nintendo and Crytek to get Crysis 3 on the Wii U but there was "not enough business drive in it".
The debut trailer for Activision's first TMNT game hit the internet today, revealing that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows will launch sometime this Summer as a downloadable title on the PC, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live Arcade.
The North American PlayStation Blog adopted one of the nicer features from their European counterpart today, by changing the way they announce PlayStation Plus updates. In the past Sony would only reveal additions to the Instant Game Collection on a weekly basis. The new reporting method still allows for those updates, however, from here on out we will also get a preview at the start of each month that details all the major content (in no particular order) coming to the Instant Game Collection.
The Australian Classification Board issued a new MA 15+ rating for a "modified" version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution on March 1, 2013, indicating that we could see some kind of re-release for the 2011 action-RPG in the near future. Aside from revealing Namco Bandai as the applicant for the new classification, the actual rating page reveals very little about the modified game, and in no way mentions what any of the exact changes are. CVG is speculating that it could be something as simple as a reissue of the original game that includes its DLC, or a possible Wii U port.
Over the past month Ubisoft's planned Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag marketing campaign has sprung enough leaks to sink a whole fleet of pirate ships. The game's logo was first spotted by a random Reddit user while he was aboard an airline flight. A few weeks later Black Flag marketing materials, a screenshot, and a handful of plot details were leaked to media outlets. Ubisoft then confirmed the existence of the game, and then left the release date and platform information on a not-so-hidden page on the game's official website. Finally, the game's debut trailer and screenshots were leaked over this past weekend.
The talk around the Twitter water cooler over the last couple of days suggest that Deep Silver will be revealing Saints Row 4 in a few weeks at PAX East, and give the game a Summer launch for the current generation of consoles.
The debut trailer for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag leaked onto the Internet today, well ahead of its planned reveal this coming Monday. Ubisoft has been busy zapping the trailer from Youtube, however, we managed to grab a copy before all traces were wiped out of existence.