As part of Biowares Friday update initiative, the developer has revealed the newest planet players of upcoming Star Wars MMO, The Old Republic, will be able to explore is... Alderaan. A detailed look at the planet is available through the games Holonet, as well as a number of screenshots and concept art, included below.
The Imprudence project has released version 1.2 of their Second Life viewer. There are some user-interface changes this time around, the ability to backup and restore your own intellectual property, an improved radar/minimap, improved third-party simulator support, RLVa support, optional vertical IM tabs, double-click go-to and teleports, more world map data and a host of other tweaks and features.
Fans can expect eight new fighters when Super Street FIghter IV releases next spring, and a new announcement brings our total confirmed newcomer count to six. Joining the already-announced T. Hawk, Dee Jay, and Juri are FInal FIght's Guy and Cody alongside Muay Thai warrior Adon. This should be great news for fans of the Alpha series, but it's worth noting that we still haven't seen any of Street Fighter III's characters make the jump to IV
The Final Fantasy XIII tie-in beverage Elixir has its very own trailer - luckily it's not just footage of drinks and cans - it features some new tidbits of actual game footage including a CGI Chocobo!
TVGB: "A lot of magazine teases this week; First both Official PlayStation Magazine UK and Xbox World 360 tease a Dead Space 2 reveal in their December issues, and now PC Zone reveals that Splinter Cell: Conviction will have some kind of cooperative play, the details for which will also to be revealed in their December issue."
dailygamesnews.com - Whilst stereoscopic functionality has been enjoyed by some PC users for a while it is something very new for console gamers who generally tend to use televisions rather than monitors. This is very unfortunate for the impending release of James Cameron's Avatar: The Game as Cameron has apparently worked very closely with Ubisoft on making it as much a visual spectacle as the film. The issue of course is that barely any televisions in retail have the 3D capability which the games 3D option requires.
GOONL!NE writes: "Despite communication problems meaning that the first piece of DLC for Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising isn't out on PS3 yet, Ian Webster, Codemasters' Community Manager has confirmed that the 2nd piece of DLC is in development for consoles."
This developer blog from DEAD TO RIGHTS: Retribution creators Volatile Games discusses character design, in particular that of the main protagonist Jack and his dog Shadow. Expect the finished game in 2010 for Xbox 360 and PS3.
Today's featured Black Friday Video Game Deal is a great offer on a PlayStation 3 bundle. Amazon.com is offering a PS3 120GB system at the standard $299.99, but is also including inFamous and Killzone 2 PS3 games for free. Both are great games that were released in 2009. In addition, Amazon.com will also include a $10 credit on a future video game purchase.
The first promotional video of Final Fantasy XIII was aired in Japan at an unknown time recently. It's a promotional video for the Elixir beverage but still shows mainly the game itself.Today it was posted on YouTube and surprisingly it includes never before seen footage of all characters. You can watch it below or on the official site of Suntory (In the "Movie" Section):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N4JeazM1kEUpdate: We now also have the promotional video for the game itself. It's in HD and also includes brand new footage:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ0hN9-reDw
