IncGamers' Tamer Asfahani talks to Alex Hutchinson, creative designer on Army of Two: The 40th Day about the "tone" of the first game.According to Hutchinson, Europeans didn't seem to get the humour, and Hutchinson went on to agree that although the game sold well, it wasn't a critically acclaimed title.
MCV can reveal that 360 action title Alan Wake will be released globally in May 2010.A source close to the game told us that the Microsoft-published adventure – developed by Finnish studio Remedy – will be promoted "in the style of a Hollywood movie".MCV understands that Microsoft is aiming for a global release late in the month.
EA has already released the NTSC Box Art for Mass Effect 2, but we just obtained what should be the PAL Box Art of the game. It isn't official yet, but we think it's very likely. As you can see, the new design is less "darker" than the NTSC counterpart: we definitely like it more.
GOONL!NE: Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has given the clearest indication that we'l be seeing Final Fantasy XIII in Europe a lot sooner then previously thought.
Epic Games, Inc. has announced that the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), a free software release that provides uncompromised access to the award-winning Unreal Engine 3 toolset, has exceeded 50,000 users worldwide since its launch on November 5th, 2009. This rapid adoption of Unreal Engine 3 technology extends to approximately 130 countries and 4,500 cities across the globe.
Tekken has always been closely linked to the PlayStation brand, and for many years was the flagship fighting franchise of Sony's console family. Despite finally going multiplatform in the newest iteration of Namco's popular series, it seems the the Sony version of the game still remains the more popular of the two.
GOONL!NE: Project director for Mass Effect 2 Casey Hudson has revealed there will be DLC support for the game.The first Mass Effect only received two DLC packs since it's release in 2007, Bring Down the Sky in 2008 and Pinnacle Station only this year. But it seems ME2 will be supported much better this time in terms of DLC.
GamingShogun.com writes: "Walmart and Activision have announced that gamers who pre-order Tony Hawk RIDE from Walmart will receive a special version of the game's intriguing skateboard controller. This special board features an exclusive paint job. You can pre-order the game for $119.99 at Walmart's online store and pick the game up when it is released on November 17th..."
DiRT 2, released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 earlier this fall, is set to make its PC debut on December 1st. Not every computer's built for off-road racing, though, so you'd better check out the system requirements before you make a purchase
As we already reported, Brian Menze decided to sell some of his original Fallout 2 Vault Boy drawings on eBay. He has now posted the second batch. The auction ends on November 19.
SCRAWL: "Sega Japan has released a plethora of new screenshots for their upcoming PlayStation 3 sequel, Yakuza 4. The new screenshots detail Yakuza 4's four main protagonists Kiryuu Kazuma, Akiyama Susumu, Saejima River, and Justice Tanimura; them as well as other important characters like (prepare for a list of names) Lily, Kido Takeshi, Dojima Daigo, Takeshi Hamasaki, Sequential Sugiuchi, Arai Hiroaki, Seishiro Munakata, Goro Majima and Haruka."
"In a recent interview with Gearbox founder Randy Pitchford set for January's issue of Game Informer, the enthusiastic Borderlands creator shed some light on the developer's upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines game."
Want to see which region got what content? Look no further, as PlayStation LifeStyle has done the searching for you and compiled a list of what's new in this week's PlayStation Store Update, for all regions across the globe.
