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Game of Thrones , the latest RPG from Cyanide, is set to take over the UK and Ireland on June 8 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. Based on the world first penned by George R.R. Martin, players guide two playable characters through locales both new and familiar to the series
Electronic Arts and BioWare’s social soiree in Ferelden will be coming to an end on June 18, 2012, according to the official Dragon Age Legends website . E-commerce for the title ended yesterday, meaning that while the game it still active for the time being, it’s no longer possible to convert your real-life dollars into fake Dragon Dollars crowns for use in Ferelden’s many shops.
Space combat invigorater SOL: Exodus is heading to European boxed retail this summer and all digital distribution systems shortly. Developer Seamless struck a deal with publisher Iceberg Interactive to the bring the game to physical shelves in the UK , Ireland, Scandinavia, Benelux and other territories beginning June 22. ” SOL has definitely been a labor of love for us, and we can’t wait to hear from fans and players from around the world.” Seamless Studio Director Dan Magaha said, “As a small indie developer working in the town where Wing Commander was born, it’s been an enormous honor to build our homage to the classic space games we loved when we were young, and we hope that passion comes through in the quality of our work.” SOL: Exodus launched on Steam earlier this year and, for whatever hiccups it may have as an indie project (many smoothed since launch), it’s still totally worth it for $10
A prequel to 2010’s straight-to-video/Netflix Tekken film has been announced by Crystal Sky Pictures CEO Steven Paul during this week’s Cannes Film Festival in France. Tekken: Rise of the Tournament is set to be directed by Prachya Pinkaew of Ong-bak and Chocolate fame – a martial arts pedigree that bodes better for the franchise than Tekken director Dwight H. Little’s resume of slasher flicks and Free Willy sequels
Way, way more Master System and Genesis games are on the way to PS3 and Xbox, including the long-awaited release of Monster World IV . Sega announced the next few “Vintage Collections,” which will be sold individually on PSN and in bundles on XBLA.
Double Fine’s Ron Gilbert has revealed another character from his puzzling new title, this one called “the time traveler.” She is one of “three playable characters” that Gilbert has unveiled in three days on his personal gaming blog, Grumpy Gamer. Yesterday and the previous day Gilbert revealed the monk and the hillbilly .
UFC prez Dana White previously said he’d blacklist any fighter who signed up for EA’s upcoming mixed martial arts game, EA Sports MMA . And now, Kotaku reports that White is willing to play nice with defectors who chose to be in EA’s game — despite his remaining distaste for the game’s publisher. When asked whether White would still ban those fighters participating in EA’s game, he told Kotaku he would not.
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions will get its amazing, noir web-slinging on this September. The game’s story, written by Marvel’s Dan Slott, finds four different wall-crawlers working across parallel universes to put together the Tablet of Order and Chaos, which sounds like a rejected item name from the Zelda universe. The latest issue of GamePro has some more details on the game and, for those who’d like to wear their spandex suits in public while checking out Shattered Dimensions, also the San Francisco WonderCon should be showing off the game this weekend.
Just a quick reminder: Mega Man 10 has finally made its way to Xbox Live Arcade. You download the game — right now — for the price of 800 ($10). Also, don’t worry if the last entry in the series, Mega Man 9 , made you throw your controller into the blender in a fit of blind fury
Of the many, many games that GameStop sold in 2009 (not to mention the millions of dollars it made ), we were left wondering where the lion’s share of the game retail juggernaut’s capital went in terms of product that the company was actually buying for its stores. And in a recent SEC filing for the last financial year, the company an unsurprising leader: Nintendo took the top spot, with 23 percent of GameStop’s “new product purchases” in fiscal year 2009.
This is one of those cases where we really want to share something magical with you, but fear the tremendous weight the Joystiq Biomass carries will crush the life out of the magical thing in question. Still, though we don’t want to bring Nintendo’s attention to this, we couldn’t not share this incredible, homemade Advance Wars board game with you — especially since you can print out all the assets and start playing it with your fellow tabletop enthusiasts immediately.
What’s up Home-bodies?!?! This week brings more of what you’ve come to expect from our weekly updates over at PlayStation Home . And by “more of what you’ve come to expect” I mean “awesome game content, compelling community events, and free media, all served up in a dynamic social environment that is only possible on the PS3 .” To start, we are celebrating the arrival of spring in the only way we know how – by throwing a huge event smattered with the irreverent humor you’ve come to know and love. This Friday, April 2, all of you action movie fans will want to log into PlayStation Home to partake in our Easter City Huntdown event.
While previewing the competitive multiplayer mode of Lost Planet 2 yesterday, we confirmed with Capcom that the game’s multiplayer demo ( available now to some ) will feature an exclusive weapon, the “MG SP,” which will carry over to the final retail version of the game on Xbox 360 and PS3, provided there’s a save file from the demo on the system. Playing the demo will be the only way to unlock the gun.
