With a little over two weeks until the annual awards ceremony, the nominations for 2013’s VGX —previously known as the Spike Video Game Awards— have been announced. The selection includes some of the year’s heaviest hitters, such as Grand Theft Auto V, while recognising the talent behind the pixels with nods to studios like Naughty Dog and The Fullbright Company rounding off the list.
DreamWorks has unveiled the first full-length trailer for its upcoming cinematic adaptation of the arcade racing video game, Need for Speed. Directed by Scott Waugh, the movie brings the high-speed action to the big screen with Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul behind the wheel as Tobey Marshall, a blue-collar mechanic who was betrayed by Dominic Cooper’s sly, ex-NASCAR racer, Dino Brewster. And you can check out the explosive trailer right here:
Grand Theft Auto V will receive its first batch of additional content next Tuesday, November 19th, Rockstar has confirmed. Entitled Beach Bum, the DLC will be available to download through PlayStation Network and Xbox Live free of charge and will implement a whole host of weapons, vehicles and missions into the multiplayer mayhem; deathmatches to death-defying parachute challenges.
With the critical embargo for PlayStation 4’s launch lineup effectively ending yesterday, early reviews for Sony’s three first-party titles appeared online, and the company have responded to the decidedly mixed reaction. Speaking with GamesIndustry International, Sony’s president of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, has expressed his disappointment with the initial impressions.
According to weekly figures published by chart-tracking agency UKie, Call of Duty: Ghosts stormed into number one of the UK’s all-formats charts. In claiming the top spot, Activision’s shooter, which is the tenth iteration in the long-running series, is now the third biggest launch of 2013 behind Grand Theft Auto V and FIFA 14, respectively.
Following the announcement made by Sony just yesterday, Microsoft has also detailed the catalogue of entertainment applications that users can be expect to find when they boot up their Xbox One on November 22nd. The international list, which encompasses nineteen apps ranging from Amazon to Twitch for the United States, can be viewed in full below:
In an announcement over on PlayStation Blog, US-based publisher Xseed Games confirmed that Ys: Memories of Celceta will be localised for a Western release on November 26th. The Vita exclusive RPG, which is the fourth iteration in the long-running franchise, has been available in Japan since late September and is the first title developed by Nihon Falcom.
In a post-earnings financial call, the president of Blizzard Entertainment Mike Morhaime confirmed that Diablo III has sold 14 million copies across all platforms. The procedurally generated dungeon-crawler, which was released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 back in September, continues to maintain its strong commercial stance, after it eclipsed 12 million sales earlier this year.
With the imminent release of the next-gen consoles, it’s almost guaranteed that the Internet will be saturated with nine kinds of unboxing videos. However, in a new video published by Wired, Sony’s engineering director Yasuhiro Ootori unboxes the company’s PlayStation 4 quite literally. The footage, which you can check out in the video below, is a piece by piece demonstration of the console’s internal components.
To mark the occasion of November 7th —the annual faux-holiday for the Mass Effect series—BioWare Montreal has released several behind-the-scenes images that hint towards the development of Mass Effect 4. The photos, which surfaced online yesterday evening, provide our first look at some of the concept art and character models for the studio’s next chapter in the intergalactic universe.
