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July 2011 Archive

July 30, 2011
1. Nintendo boss blames himself for 3DS woe
2. Carmack: games "reduce aggression"
3. Digital Foundry vs. Resistance 3
July 29, 2011
1. Beastie Boys DLC for Rock Band 3
2. Activision handing out $500k to indies
3. T-Mobile cuts Xperia Play price by ?360
4. Toy Story DLC for LittleBigPlanet 2
5. Games taken off shelves after Oslo killings
6. WH40K: Kill Team dated for PSN
7. Brink: Agents of Change DLC dated
8. Apple has ?46.9 billion in reserve
9. Sega sees red as sales fall
10. Free-to-play on Xbox 360 "inevitable"
11. Ubisoft announces huge EG Expo line-up
12. Download Games Roundup
13. Game restarts ?5 Play Now/Trade Later
14. Nice Touch Games talks Crazy Horses
15. Street Fighter X Tekken
16. UK Call of Duty XP Black Ops qualifiers
17. Sources question Vita RAM halved claim
18. GameStop launches UK online shop
19. Ocarina of Time first 3DS million seller
20. Nintendo stock plummets 12 per cent
21. Ono: fighting game genre won't collapse
22. Samsung manufacturing PS Vita CPU
23. EA: "very poor returns" on 3D gaming
24. Kojima: MGS: Peace Walker HD is 60FPS
25. MS: how you'll talk to AI through Kinect
26. A Rare view of the future of Kinect
July 28, 2011
1. Crytek working on new FPS IP – report
2. Langdell: judge made "almost 100 errors"
3. Cave working on Windows Phone exclusive
4. iPad 3 coming this November - report
5. Resistance 3 beta dated and detailed
6. Ubisoft: DRM strategy is a "success"
7. Nintendo to make loss on every 3DS sold?
8. Bastion tops Xbox Live Arcade chart
9. UK 3DS price to be ?150-?155 - analyst
10. Wilshere and Rooney on cover of FIFA 12
11. UK police arrest LulzSec member Topiary
12. 505 suggests PS Vita out in UK in 2011
13. PES 2012 release date announced
14. Out This Week - 29/07/11
15. Dev corroborates PS Vita RAM cut rumour
16. Terraria
17. Nintendo fears 3DS price cut backlash
18. EA: Valve removed Steam Dragon Age 2
19. Seattle Indies Expo Round-Up
20. Nintendo announces huge 3DS price cut
21. Resistance 3, Uncharted 3 at EG Expo
22. SSF4 Arcade Edition, Resident Evil sales
23. Super Mario, Mario Kart 3DS re-named
24. Sony: PSN cyber attack bill shrinking
25. King of Fighters XIII hits UK in October
26. EU 3DS price cut by "around a third"
27. PS3 Q1 2011 sales are down
July 27, 2011
1. Saints Row 3 pre-orders double SR2
2. THQ abandons Red Faction franchise
3. Level-5 ponders which titles to localise
4. Red Faction: Armageddon sales disappoint
5. Final Red Dead DLC dated and detailed
6. Book of Unwritten Tales announced for PC
7. Mario & Sonic London 2012 release date
8. Japan chart: Rhythm Heaven, 3DS on top
9. Kung Fu High Impact coming to Kinect
10. All Zombies Must Die! on PC, PSN
11. Resi HD remakes cost 1600 Points/?15.99
12. EU PlayStation Store update 27th July
13. PS3 Dragon Age 2 Legacy DLC missing
14. Worms Ultimate Mayhem announced
15. EA: Wii U can do "anything" PS3, 360 can
16. Ultimate MVC3 originally DLC
17. No save reset for Pac-Man 3DS – report
18. The future of Project Zomboid
19. TrackMania 2: Canyon
20. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 date
21. PlayStation Plus anniversary freebies
22. Wii U Professor Layton ports possible
23. Driver PC: always-on internet required
24. PS Vita's Activity "possibly" for PS3
25. BF3 dev responds to fan frame-rate fury
26. There's a Dead Island book
27. Stronghold free with SH3 on Steam
28. Double Dragon II remake for XBLA
29. Rising from the Grave
30. Dragon Age 2 removed from Steam
31. MGS3: Snake Eater 3DS out in 2012
July 26, 2011
1. New Humble Indie Bundle out now
2. Crysis 2 racks up three million sales
3. First Duke Nukem Forever DLC announced
4. Langdell faces contempt of court threat
5. Xbox Live offers and release dates update
6. Garry's Mod racks up a million downloads
7. League of Legends scores 15m users
8. From Dust
9. Kinectimals Now With Bears! announced
10. Eurogamer.net Podcast #76
11. Xbox 360 wireless headset announced
12. Writer Ed Stern dissects Brink
13. Inazuma Eleven UK release date
14. RuneScape Clan Citadels expansion today
15. Order & Chaos Online
16. Eurogamer.net Podcast #75
17. Eurogamer Expo 2011 doubles in size
18. Picross E announced for 3DS
19. Single-player-only games need to change
20. PS3, Xbox 360 sales "neck and neck"
21. Watch Evo in PlayStation Home
22. Tekken Hybrid includes TTT2 demo
23. Sony details PS Vita's online modes
24. PS Vita Disgaea 3 spotted
25. Silent Hill HD Collection release window
26. Rayman Origins
July 25, 2011
1. Machinarium coming to iPad this year
2. From Dust PC release date pushed back
3. No More Heroes mobile spin-off incoming
4. Resident Evil HD remakes dated
5. AC: Revelations Collector's Ed. detailed
6. Itagaki: Japanese devs lack social skills
7. Nintendo eShop update - 28/07/11
8. Avatar Kinect out now
9. BioWare: SW:TOR to last for "decades"
10. Return to Castle Wolfenstein
11. Demo Analysis: Halo Anniversary
12. Chinese couple sells kids to play games
13. EA Sports: "Absolutely a time" for subs
14. 320GB Star Wars Xbox 360 costs ?350
15. Mobile Games Roundup
16. Ganon not in Zelda: Skyward Sword
17. Rockstar's Housers in MediaGuardian 100
18. Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition
19. Halo 4 in development for two years
20. UK top 40: Zumba's ninth week on top
21. Gears of War 3 casual mode revealed
22. Tekken Bowl free on iOS
23. Insomniac announces Global Resistance
24. Two Worlds II iPad game gains 3D-ET
25. Kinect "most accurate" analogue input
26. Mass Effect 3: vote on default Femshep
27. David Braben: Taking Kinect to Disneyland
28. New Soulcalibur V characters announced
29. DR2 save unlock for Off the Record
July 23, 2011
1. Face-Off: EDF: Insect Armageddon
July 22, 2011
1. Epic: we've neglected Unreal series
2. Bulletstorm "didn't make money"
3. Mystery AC: Revelations cinematic appears
4. Games coming to Google+ - report
5. Why Kinect Sports is Rare's priority
6. Elite IV is happening, but "very slowly"
7. The Gunstringer release date announced
8. Average price of XBLA games increasing
9. Boon explains Mortal Kombat Krueger DLC
10. Mobigame slams Langdell, Edge
11. Kinect infringes patents, company claims
12. Mafia creator founds new studio
13. Brink dev bellows Portal praises
14. Cars 2
15. Sony responds to 3D glasses complaints
16. F1 2010 iPhone edition announced
17. Download Games Roundup
18. Sony gamers' huge earthquake donation
19. PSN: Sony US faces 55 class-action suits
20. EA: Kinect won't "screw" with FIFA
21. Steam EA games activate on Origin
22. SW:TOR: EA commits to 2011 launch
23. Catherine coming to Europe this year
24. Complete Diablo lore book coming
25. Tim Langdell refutes "trademark troll" tag
26. Keiji Inafune's first post-Capcom game
27. Poison, Yoshimitsu in SF x Tekken
28. Kotick: "We give people freedom to fail"
29. Freddy Krueger DLC for Mortal Kombat
30. Robert Bowling talks Modern Warfare 3
July 21, 2011
1. Microsoft game division revenue up 45%
2. Limited Star Wars Xbox 360 revealed
3. Clash of Heroes HD announced for PC
4. Blur was "like bacon with cornflakes"
5. Super Meat Boy PC special edition dated
6. PopCap releases Allied Star Police
7. Codies: UK games industry in dire straits
8. Bondi cut LA Noire desks to fit Blu-ray
9. "We forget the value of ?40" – Sumo dev
10. Industry foresees free-to-play future
11. Phil Harrison discusses new Xbox, PS4
12. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
13. UFC Personal Trainer: The Ultimate Fitness System
14. The Old Republic pre-orders go live
15. PES 2012: control two players at once
16. Space Marine
July 20, 2011
1. Prototype 2 US release date announced
2. Rovio "betting everything" on Angry Birds
3. Kotick: Activision neglected Guitar Hero
4. Sony: some producing poor quality 3D
5. Fable Journey losing some black humour
6. Team Ico HD bonus content detailed
7. First Respawn title not due until 2015?
8. Rare: the new Xbox "is always now"
9. Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 confirmed
10. Street Fighter III dated for PSN, XBLA
11. Japan chart: 3DS sales double
12. God of War Master Collection sighted
13. Sega confirms Aliens: Infestation
14. Suda51 announces Lollipop Chainsaw
15. Space Marine multiplayer revealed
16. Space Marine 2 discussions have begun
17. Sony's PS Vita its most developer-friendly console
18. Aliens: Infestation is DS side-scroller
19. Singularity dev not making new Bond
20. Media Molecule: "It's time to expand"
21. GoldenEye 007 Reloaded announced
22. GoldenEye 007: Reloaded
23. LostWinds iPhone, iPad announced
24. GameCube games via WiiWare on Wii U?
25. Sony wanted LittleBigPlanet free-to-play
26. Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues
27. Darksiders 2
28. LBP: 1.5m new users since PSN outage
29. GoldenEye Reloaded in the works – report
30. BioWare: 18% play Mass Effect FemShep
31. Hulk Hogan doing Saints Row voice
July 19, 2011
1. Apple sells 9 million iPads in 3 months
2. EA: Wii U is launching at the perfect time
3. PS3 "a pain in the ass to work on"
4. The Darkness II delayed into 2012
5. Rocketbirds announced for PSN
6. SWTOR special edition detailed – report
7. Steampunk caper The Swindle announced
8. Double Eleven now exclusive to Sony
9. New Homefront DLC announced
10. UK PSP release for new Legend of Heroes
11. Angry Birds has Ice Age film aspirations
12. Wii U has "plenty of horsepower" - dev
13. Irrational co-founder sets up new studio
14. Call of Juarez: The Cartel
15. Sega confirms Crush3d, Shinobi delays
16. Race Driver: Grid ?3 on Steam today
17. ?250 Modern Warfare 3 headsets revealed
18. EA Sports foresees end of days for shops
19. Ace Combat Assault Horizon exclusives
20. Bastion PC coming, but no PSN plans
21. Bastion
22. Alienware to power Eurogamer Expo
23. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 for PC, Mac
24. Val Kilmer doing voice in new Spider-Man
25. Crysis 2: how Crytek UK beat the hackers
26. Oblivion 5th anniversary ed UK bound?
27. Auto Club Revolution beta release date
28. Microsoft "not forcing Kinect" on devs
29. SocialApps: FarmVille stole myFarm code
30. Voltron: Defender of the Universe detailed
31. Capcom cancels Mega Man 3DS game
32. Jonah Lomu Rugby Challenge out Q3
33. Sony playing with virtual reality games
34. Kojima on viability of Snatcher sequel
35. Bleszinski signals more Gears of War
36. Uncharted film "going back to the game"
37. Carmack takes aim at "snooty" indies
38. Okabu
July 18, 2011
1. New Dance Central DLC tomorrow
2. Final Fantasy XIII-2 out in January
3. Sonic creators worked on Wii Play sequel
4. Meat Boy dev unveils new PC adventure
5. Avatar Kinect out next week – report
6. Orcs Must Die! confirmed for PC, XBLA
7. Out This Week - 22/07/11
8. Child of Eden PS3 to cost ?19.99
9. Retail blamed for Ghost Recon PC ports
10. Reborn Gremlin reveals iOS shortlist
11. Lara Croft was "losing relevance"
12. Halo: CE Anniversary pre-order bonuses
13. Gremlin Graphics back in the game
14. Call of Duty Elite beta PC, PS3 details
15. Nintendo eShop update - 21/07/11
16. Game: MW3 to smash pre-order record
17. Mobile Games Roundup
18. Dead Island gets ESRB Mature rating
19. UK Top 40: Zumba defeats Harry Potter
20. Activision vs. www.ModernWarfare3.com
21. Assassin's Creed Wii U isn't Revelations
22. Netflix "coming to UK early next year"
23. New Mass Effect 3 team-mate James Vega
24. Valve: DOTA 2 coming "soon" to Steam
25. AMD: Next Xbox capable of Avatar visuals
26. NeverDead
July 17, 2011
1. Epic's Gamble discusses studio closures
July 16, 2011
1. Digital Foundry: The Future of Anti-Aliasing
July 15, 2011
1. Microsoft: 360 has best first party output
2. Microsoft registers Microsoft-Sony.com
3. Jeff Minter's new iPhone game Deflex
4. Kojima too busy to make Snatcher sequel
5. Ultimate MVC3 in the works – report
6. Shadows of the Damned flops in the US
7. Child of Eden PS3 release date
8. DJ Hero devs form new studio
9. Sega was Japan's top publisher last month
10. MW3 multiplayer inspired by COD4
11. Two Worlds II: Velvet GOTY Edition
12. World of Warcraft testing Real ID Party
13. Space Marine dev helping with 40k MMO
14. Captain America: Super Soldier
15. Download Games Roundup
16. Sony's World Game Project revealed
17. Final Fantasy Type-0 nearly finished
18. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
19. Assassin's Creed: Lost Legacy canned
20. Bloodrayne Betrayal release date
21. Black Ops Annihilation PS3 release date
22. Just Dance 2 a record-breaker on Wii
July 14, 2011
1. NPD: LA Noire holds on to US top spot
2. MS planning one OS for Xbox, PC, phone?
3. Explodemon! gets a PC release
4. Silicon Knights plans next-gen 3D engine
5. APB Reloaded to get full retail release?
6. Modern Warfare 3 to permit Party Chat
7. HotD: Overkill PS3 extras revealed
8. App Store prices go up in the UK
9. COD: Elite beta kicks off today
10. Relic: leaks won't stop us loving PC
11. Resident Evil 4 HD achievements leak
12. QuakeCon forums hacked
13. PSN hack "a great learning experience"
14. Relentless' Quiz Climber free on iPhone
15. Epic: "we will never be a publisher"
16. Team Fortress 2
17. Wii U a "natural match" for Angry Birds
18. FF Versus XIII yet to enter production
19. PC exclusive cyberpunk FPS Hard Reset
20. When Call of Duty XP tickets go on sale
21. Defiance
22. New PS3s drop HD component support?
July 13, 2011
1. Free DLC planned for Ms. Splosion Man
2. Why From Dust can revive the god game
3. Section 8: Prejudice dated for PSN
4. Capcom announces UK fight club tour
5. PopCap explains why it chose EA
6. EA founder attacks "feudal" Nintendo
7. Double Fine: Europe will get Trenched
8. THQ: next-gen will be more crowded
9. LA Noire tops Japanese chart
10. New South Park title coming to XBLA
11. Sony to invest $20m in PSN exclusives
12. UK dev THQ Digital Warrington closes
13. EU PlayStation Store update 13th July
14. Rovio values self "north of PopCap"
15. Guild Wars 2 at Eurogamer Expo 2011
16. Dead Island
17. Z The Game released on iPhone and iPad
18. Eurogamer.net Podcast #74
19. Silent Hill: Downpour
20. No German restriction for Gears of War 3
21. Nintendo 3D Classics dev problems
22. EA buys PopCap in billion dollar deal
July 12, 2011
1. Limbo on PS3, Steam: why now?
2. New Dawn of War III details emerge
3. Darkfall 2.0 may wipe current characters
4. Deadly Premonition Xbox Live price fixed
5. Stronghold 3 release date now autumn
6. Burnout Crash!
7. Zumba Fitness
8. 3DS Nintendo Video European date
9. Mortal Kombat 9 Rain DLC release date
10. Out This Week - 15/07/11
11. Microsoft: "We lost our way" with Halo
12. Trenched trademark man vows to fight on
July 11, 2011
1. Why Crash wasn't in Burnout Paradise
2. Space Invaders movie optioned
3. Resistance 3 comes with three demos
4. Mobile Games Roundup
5. Future Eve NEX goods dwarf $70 monocle
6. Tech Analysis: Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta
7. Uncharted beta gets big content boost
8. Smart Casual?
9. Bungie bids emotional farewell to Halo
10. FIFA 12
11. Dust 514's "cover charge" revealed
12. BioShock: Rapture book release date
13. BioWare has Mass Effect 3 "demo plans"
14. Mass Effect 3 delayed until Q1 2012
15. Rein: PC gaming has "shot by" consoles
16. Lovefilm on Super Monkey Ball 3D rentals
17. UK top 40: Zumba Fitness leads chart
18. Katamari Damacy creator making Glitch
19. Limbo PSN, Steam release dates
20. Dream Trigger 3D
July 10, 2011
1. Why Disney closed Black Rock
July 9, 2011
1. Sony working to fix Welcome Back issues
2. Beachside Burnout
3. Pre-Owned Mercenary
July 8, 2011
1. Irrational influenced by Arkham Asylum
2. BioShock Infinite
3. Reader Review of the Month
4. Mass Effect 3: exclusive Origin version
5. Download Games Roundup
6. IndieCity invites devs to submit games
7. Xbox Resi Evil HD remakes have 1000Gs
8. New Xenoblade Chronicles release date
9. Limitless director on Uncharted movie
10. SSFIV: AE PC patch coming soon
11. New F1 2011 details
12. Colour Blind Assist option for MW3
13. Mobile tech to overtake PS3, 360 soon
14. New James Bond game reveal this month
15. The Sims Medieval: Pirates and Nobles
16. Vita: Sony won't repeat PSP mistakes
17. From Dust PC release date
18. SOE unveils PlanetSide 2
19. Kojima announces Suda 51's Sdatcher
July 7, 2011
1. Dragon Age 2 Legacy DLC release date
2. EA makes Burnout Crash official
3. From Dust, Uncharted 3 at GameCity6
4. Dance Central dev confirms Vidrhythm
5. Lovefilm halts Resi Evil 3DS rentals
6. RuneScape user-made content coming
7. Bethesda announces Dishonored
8. Take-Two registers Rockstar Films
9. Carmack keynote confirmed for QuakeCon
10. Kinect's Second Wave
11. Marathon out now on App Store
12. 15bn apps downloaded from App Store
13. Next-gen to come with motion control
14. Free-to-play switch boosts Age of Conan
15. The Cult of Deadly Premonition
16. Last PSP Digital Comics Store update
17. Ubisoft "extremely limited" by PS3, 360
18. Gears of War 3 Xbox bundle Game exclusive
19. Torchlight blazes past 1 million sales
20. Wii U a "really cool stop-gap" – Gearbox
21. Valve dangles early Left 4 Dead 2 DLC
22. Why you can't buy Crysis 2 from Steam
23. Will the 3DS work as a Wii U controller?
24. Mass Effect movie is alive
25. L.A. Noire: The Team Bondi Emails
July 6, 2011
1. Square Enix suing Deus Ex leakers
2. Nintendo details Wii U online
3. Age of Conan "the best-looking" MMO
4. Civilization World open beta begins
5. PS Plus has given ?700 worth of content
6. Solatorobo: Red the Hunter
7. RSG: don't buy Deadly Premonition on XBL
8. EU PlayStation Store update 6th July
9. Play FFXIII-2 at Eurogamer Expo
10. MS hopes for Kinect boost in Japan
11. Bethesda: Brink was "polarising"
12. Tour de France 2011
13. Eve Incarna multiplayer "this year"
14. Can Eve live without non-vanity goods?
July 5, 2011
1. Eurogamer.net Podcast #73
2. Sony redesigning PSN – report
3. More iPhone 5 rumours emerge
4. Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D
5. Sky Player becomes Sky Go tomorrow
6. Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3
7. Average UK gamer plays on 3.9 platforms
8. BioShock Infinite
9. Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad
10. Riot defends League of Legends EU split
11. Sony most valued brand in Asia
12. Uncharted 3 beta goes public today
13. Final Fantasy VII costumes for LBP2
14. TDU2 developers form Blossom Minds
15. New Final Fantasy Type-0 information
16. Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
17. "Noisy" PS3 ads get Channel 5 in trouble
18. Rockstar's "disdain" for LA Noire dev
19. DOTA 2 gamescom reveal evidence builds
July 4, 2011
1. Play Mass Effect 3 at Eurogamer Expo
2. Out This Week - 08/07/11
3. In Theory: PlayStation 4 in 2012
4. SSFIV: Arcade Edition PC out this week
5. Crytek discussed going MS first-party
6. The Pokemon Masters
7. Mobile Games Roundup
8. EU Nintendo eShop update 7th July
9. Capcom: Resi Evil save system a one-off
10. Uncharted 3 Drake's Deception: Beta Impressions
11. Kojima will never be completely satisfied
12. Warhammer 40k Space Marine EU date
13. Edge's Langdell returns with Edgebobby2
14. PlayStation 4 in 2012, report claims
15. Why Xperia Play isn't the next N-Gage
16. UK top 40: Zumba conquers all
17. Hunters: Episode One updated to ver 1.1
18. Eve Online: Emergency summit reports
19. Epic combating leaked Gears of War 3
July 3, 2011
1. Retro: The Good Old Naughty Days
July 1, 2011
1. Minecraft passes 10 million users
2. Microsoft to merge GFW and Xbox.com
3. Zynga: "Games should be free"
4. Capcom announces Ixion Saga
5. Codemasters working on new racing IP
6. Final Fantasy Tactics iOS delayed
7. FIFA 12 pre-order swag detailed
8. DC Universe adds micro-transactions
9. First Crysis coming to consoles – report
10. Split/Second dev Black Rock to close
11. Black Rock's final project revealed
12. Nintendo to spend ?127m on R&D facility
13. Wii U: Nintendo kept own devs in dark
14. Download Games Roundup
15. MM "stepping away" from LittleBigPlanet
16. Rage playable at Eurogamer Expo!
17. Face-Off: Dungeon Siege III
18. Gearbox discarded Blade Runner IP
19. Home users "the most hardcore" on PS3
20. 3DS Tales of the Abyss release date
21. Steam's 2011 Summer Sale begins
22. Backbreaker Vengeance