Guillermo Del Toro revealed a teaser for his new game in the works today. The video showed that it was a production of Volition, and would be published by THQ. Called INSANE, Del Tor prefaced the teaser with a monologue explaining his longtime love of videogames, his frustrations with the movie industry and its handling of video game spin-offs, and his hopes for the game to “scare the sh*t out of you.” At the end of the video, the final text declared that the game would be “coming 2013”. More details as they emerge.
Tonight another huge announcement hit the VGAs, as Sony’s PS3-exclusive Resistance 3’s trailer was revealed. The live action video showed a soldier and an old man riding a boat. It then cut to gameplay footage, in which multiple new guns were shown, and one of the series’ signature large bosses destroyed the boat. Afterwards, it cut back to live action, implying that the previous scenes were memories, and ended with who is presumably the protagonist fighting a gang of chimera with a sledgehammer.
Tonight, Midway made a huge announcement at the Spike VGA awards. The show’s host, Neil Patrick Harris, prefaced the trailer by saying that Midway would like to silence the rumors, declaring the following footage to be PS3-exclusive. The teaser showed Scorpion and SubZero fighting before a throned Shoa Kahn. Just as the series’ ultimate villain commanded Scorpion to finish his icy foe off, Kratos from God of War pulled the defeated ninja away and attacked Scorpion, at which point the trailer ended.
With Microsoft's "Okay," there's been quite a bit of indie development going into Kinect, the results of which usually being cool tricks they were able to pull off, though none particularly applicable to games. That last bit changed when a man named Chris O'Shea got his hands on the motion-sensing peripheral. Utilizing Microsoft's Kinect by hacking into it, the man modified the camera to allow users to play air guitar, though the current prototype isn't entirely accurate.
The build up to Spike TV’s Video Game Awards this Saturday is mounting, and speculation abounds for all the teasers and announcements being made. Last month, BioWare teased that it would announce a new game at the awards, with Spike’s website describing it only as the touted developer’s “next big game.”
Yet again Sony has an announcement to make. The company recently revealed that it has over fifty 3D games in development, and twenty of them are internal Sony works. These figures were given by SCEE studio director Mick Hocking at the Develop in Liverpool conference, and first published at Develop’s website.
Or at least that’s what Frank O’Connor is telling us. The franchise development director for Halo made clear when consulting the New York Videogame Critics Circle that “There will be a Halo movie,” though we have heard this many times before. Followers of the franchise may remember the project being handed to Peter Jackson, the legendary film director, before he suddenly walked away from it. O’Connor’s side of the story is that contractual issues sent Jackson fleeing.
Early this morning, Bert Nordberg, a Sony exec hinted quite clearly at the existence of a PlayStation Phone. When asked about it in a Wall Street Journal interview, the Ericsson (Sony's phone division) Chief Executive said, "There's a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere." Going on, he said, "I haven't dug into that history, but the future might be brighter," when speaking on why Sony hadn't combined its phone and gaming hardware together by now.
Good news and bad news for Fallout fans. First the good news, there will be an expansion for New Vegas released “this holiday season” according to Bethesda Softworks, the game’s publisher. If we’re to take Fallout 3 as an example, we can assume New Vegas’s DLC will be expansive, fun and lengthy. So that’s great, right?
