Dead Island DLC delayed
A post on Dead Island's Facebook page reveals that the game's first DLC expansion, Bloodbath Arena, has been delayed because developer Techland is still busy with the game itself. More >
A post on Dead Island's Facebook page reveals that the game's first DLC expansion, Bloodbath Arena, has been delayed because developer Techland is still busy with the game itself. More >
3DS and PSP fighting game BlazBlue Continuum Shift 2 will be released on November 4, publisher Arc System Works Europe has announced. The game is the third revision of Arc's stylish anime fighter, and the handheld releases will include two new story modes, all DLC from 2010 console release Continuum Shift, and a brand new Abyss mode. More >
Japanese bullet-hell specialist Cave released a version of 2005 arcade shooter Espgaluda II for iPhone last year, but is now set to release an HD version for iPad 2. While most of Espgaluda II's graphics have been remastered in HD some, including backgrounds, remain in standard definition. More >
Nintendo Of America has released a translated version of Shigeru Miyamoto's on-stage presentation of The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword from the company's pre-Tokyo Game Show 3DS conference on September 13. More >
Unity Technologies has presented its Unity Awards at the Unite 11 conference in San Francisco tonight. The awards are presented by the game creation tools company to developers who've made exceptional use of Unity in their projects and, held in the main hall of the San Francisco Masonic centre, were the most glitzy yet. More >
1Unity Technologies has used its Unite 11 conference to confirm which of the features it announced in July will be added to Unity3D in its forthcoming 3.5 update. More >
Game tool company admits publishers are put off by Unity Web Player's low penetration.
Ubisoft's troubled survival adventure reborn as a download title, due this winter.
At an EA showcase event in Las Vegas, the publisher announced that Syndicate will be released in North America on February 21, and in Europe on February 24. More >
2Capcom's freemium hit has been downloaded more than 15 million times for iOS, and as such it's little surprise that subsidiary Beeline Interactive will kick off its expansion to Android with the release of Smurfs Village. More >
Free Realms is now available on the European PlayStation Network, Sony Online Entertainment has announced. The family-friendly, free-to-play MMOG was released in 2009 for PC and last year for Mac, and has been available on the US PlayStation Store since March. It is the second SOE MMOG to hit PSN, following the release of DC Universe Online in January. More >
Retailer's full-colour, seven-inch Android tablet due in November for less than half the price of iPad.
2Intelligent Systems, developer of the beloved strategy series Advance Wars, will release its first 3DS game, Hiku-Osu, on the Japanese eShop next week. More >
Sony Ericsson has announced a partnership with Square Enix that will see 2010 console download Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light released for Xperia Play in November, with more of the publisher's titles to follow in the months to come. More >
Sony has revamped its PlayStation 3 video on demand service, with a vastly improved AI and greatly simplified discoverability, and renamed it Video Unlimited. As before, Video Unlimited offers a selection of films and TV shows for rent or purchase, in both standard and high definition. Now, a bar on the right of the screen suggests related videos, linked by genre, setting, actors and more. More >
Gran Turismo 5's next significant content update, Spec 2.0, will be released next month, Kazunori Yamauchi, CEO of developer Polyphony Digital, has confirmed. Yamauchi revealed the news on Twitter, saying: "GT fans, thanks for waiting...The GT5 Spec 2.0 update is coming [in] the third week of October, with DLC following a week later." More >
1Skullgirls, the 2D indie fighting game that was due for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network this year, has been delayed until early 2012. In a post on the game's official blog, lead designer Peter Bartholow explains that the addition of several new features means Skullgirls will not be released until the first three months of next year. More >
Kazuma Kujo, director of cancelled PlayStation 3 game Disaster Report 4, has said that the March Tohoku earthquake was not the driving factor in Irem's decision to cancel the game. Instead, he says the team's inability to finish the project on time led to Irem pulling the plug. More >
Glitch, a browser-based MMOG by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield's Tiny Speck studio, has officially launched. The game belatedly entered beta in April - Tiny Speck had originally intended to begin public testing last year but was forced to keep Glitch in alpha while numerous kinks were ironed out - and, in July, the studio enlisted the services of Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi. More >
World Of Warcraft has been translated into its tenth language, Brazilian Portuguese, publisher Blizzard has announced. The language pack, which will be a free download to existing players, will also see a fully localised retail release in Europe. The official World Of Warcraft website will also be available in Brazilian Portuguese, as will the game's second and third expansions, Wrath Of The Lich King and Cataclysm. More >