A post-release trailer for 4A Games' post-apocalyptic shooter Metro: Last Light was the hard work of a single production artist working on the game.
Alexander "Monakh" Bereznyak, originally hired by 4A Games as a capture artist, worked on Last Light as the lead technical artist for the game's production team. All the while throughout the development, though, he was working on a promotional trailer for the game on the side.
Titled "Mobius," the trailer is a snapshot glimpse of a single moment in a raging battle as mutated monstrosities flood the tunnels of the metro quarters where survivors eke out a day-to-day existence.
In our official Polygon review, we found Metro: Last Light a rewarding experience that made it worth putting up with some nagging technical issues.
Harmonix's next quarterly instance of Rock Band music license expiration will make it impossible for players to obtain one Rock Band 3 Achievement as of June 30, the studio announced recently.
In April, Harmonix said that as music licensing agreements begin to expire, the studio won't be able to renew all of them, which will force the company to remove some songs from the Rock Band Music Store. At the time, only one three-pack of Metallica songs was affected. Harmonix's next update is scheduled for June 30, at which time the Rock Band music library will lose the following seven tracks:
Crooked X - "Rock 'n' Roll Dream"
Die Toten Hosen - "Hier Kommt Alex"
Les Wampas - "Manu Chao"
The Material - "Moving to Seattle"
Them Terribles - "Bullets & Guns"
Tokio Hotel - "Monsoon"
V...
Twitch will be broadcasting game footage, previews and interviews for upcoming titles on the E3 2013 show floor, and revealed its full schedule for the event today via press release.
Twitch's programming schedule includes video demos for titles like Saints Row 4, Murdered: Soul Suspect, Fantasia: Music Evolved and many others, including a few unannounced games which are expected to be revealed next week. All of Twitch's video content will stream live through its site and an embeddable video player. Polygon will also be on-hand at E3 all week to bring you coverage of the upcoming games in attendance.
Twitch's streaming schedule is as follows, with all times listed as PT:
Tuesday, June 11th
12:00pm - Saints Row 4 (Volition Inc./Deep Silver)
12:20pm - Dungeon Defenders 2 (Trendy...
Saints Row 4's dubstep gun is the star of both the game and its $99.99 Super Dangerous Wub Wub Edition, which publisher Deep Silver announced today.
Available in "limited quantities," the Super Dangerous Wub Wub Edition comes with a 12-inch replica of the dubstep gun from Saints Row 4, complete with a laser sight and wub wub audio. The set also features a Dubstep Doomsday Button so you can take heavy drops on the go, and an 8-inch-tall Johnny Gat Memorial Statue to pay tribute to the fallen member of the Saints.
The package, which fans voted for, also includes the previously announced Commander in Chief Edition, a free upgrade for all pre-order customers that provides them with three in-game items: the 'Merica weapon, Screaming Eagle VTOL jet and Uncle Sam outfit.
Saints Row 4's...
The latest trailer for Activision's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows highlights of the skillsets of contemplative and rational technology-tinkerer Donatello.
The video, posted above, shows Donatello's impressive ninjitsu skills, using his staff to smash enemies to the ground. Donatello may be the slowest Ninja Turtle when it comes to combat, but he's certainly not the weakest; he is a classic combination of brains and brawn, putting his smarts to use in the workshop beefing up weapons to use on the battlefield. He also has the most reach of the bunch, and can take down multiple enemies by twirling his staff.
Previously, Activision shared a trailer featuring nunchuck-wielding Michelangelo.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, the first of three titles...
Crystal Dynamics is bundling all downloadable content released for Tomb Raider into three neat single-player and multiplayer-specific packs, according to a post on the official Tomb Raider Tumblr.
The Online Survival Pack adds six weapons from action-adventure stealth game Hitman: Absolution and four playable characters to Tomb Raider's multiplayer arsenal, and costs $6.99 (560 Microsoft Points). Characters include the Scavenger Scout, Scavenger Executioner, Scavenger Bandit and Fisherman, and weapons include a Silverballer, Agency SPS 12, HX AP-15, JAGD P22G, M590 12ga and STG 58 Eline.
The Tomb Raider Adventure Pack features upgrades and accoutrements for Lara for use in single-player, and also costs $6.99 (560 Microsoft Points). Buyers can snag the Pistol Burst and Pistol Silencer...
Games journalism veteran and former IGN editor-in-chief Hilary Goldstein is joining Chair Entertainment as integrated media manager.
The Epic Games-owned company is best known for its Infinity Blade games on iOS and for 2009 Xbox 360 platformer Shadow Complex. Chair, based in Salt Lake City, says it's planning to reveal its next game later in 2013.
Goldstein worked at IGN for ten years, before leaving in 2011. Following a stint at Wikia, he freelanced as a consultant for various games publishers and has published two comic-book series.
He told Polygon that his experience as a journalist and editor will help him to connect fans of Chair's games with the company's activities. "There's quite a bit of overlap with working for a big games site. I'll be creating the stories that people...
A hardback art book featuring the environments, weapons and inhabitants of From Software's much-loved RPG Dark Souls is due to be launched in North America in October.
Licensed and translated by Toronto-based Udon Entertainment, Dark Souls: Design Works includes interviews with game director Hidetaka Miyazaki as well as a selection of the fantasy-combat game's artists.
The 128-page full-color art book (8.25" wide x 11.75" long) will be priced at $39.99. Amazon is currently offering a pre-order price of $28.91.
Udon marketing manager Chris Butcher told Polygon, "North American gamers really connected with Dark Souls. Its dark, creepy edge appeals to people. You can see how much effort the game's creators put into making a world that players would be curious to explore."
He...
Double Fine Productions' Massive Chalice met its Kickstarter funding goal. Activision will stream a pre-E3 broadcast on Sunday focused on Call of Duty: Ghosts. Halo is going mobile with Halo: Spartan Assault. Lionhead Studios will release Fable Anniversary, an updated remake of the original Fable, this holiday on Xbox 360. Harmonix is developing Fantasia: Music Evolved, a Kinect-based spin on Disney's animated film Fantasia. We got a closer look at South Park: The Stick of Truth. Animal Crossing: New Leaf is "part sandbox, part zen garden — a combination that works swimmingly." Precursor Games pulled the crowdfunding campaigns for Shadow of the Eternals and say they will relaunch in the "near future."
Double Fine's Massive Chalice hits Kickstarter target
Call of Duty: Ghosts live...
A Russian hacker who goes by "Barabus" created an unauthorized Windows PC version of Ska Studios' Xbox 360 game The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile and released it last week, characterizing his actions as a "restoration of justice" in a comment on Indie Statik.
Ska Studios released the side-scrolling beat-em-up The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile in April 2011 for Xbox Live Arcade. Barabus wrote (via Google Translate) in the GameDev.ru forums that the "authors are not very nice to publish the game exclusively for the Xbox 360, making it impossible for PC gamers to play in such a great game."
While acknowledging that piracy "is bad," Barabus denied that his actions constitute piracy because Ska Studios have ignored the PC and that the developers therefore weren't losing money.
"On the other...
A hardback artbook featuring the environments, weapons and inhabitants of From Software's much-loved RPG Dark Souls is due to be launched in North America in October. Licensed and translated by Toronto-based Udon Entertainment, Dark Souls: Design Works includes interviews with game director Hidetaka Miyazaki as well as a selection of the fantasy-combat game's artists.
Zeno Clash 2, the first-person action game from ACE Team, will be released June 12 on Xbox Live Arcade for 800 Microsoft Points ($10), Microsoft's Major Nelson announced today.
ACE Team released the Windows PC version of the surreal brawler on April 30; it will also be available on PlayStation Network, but the studio has yet to announce a release date for that platform.
Major Nelson's biweekly list of Xbox Live Marketplace content also mentions a half-price sale on Sleeping Dogs and all its downloadable content. Square Enix originally released the open-world crime game, which was co-developed by United Front Games and Square Enix London Studios, in August 2012.
The sale brings the Games on Demand version of the title to $24.99. Discounted DLC includes the Halloween-themed...
A trailer out from Capcom marks the launch of Dontnod Entertainment's dystopian action-adventure Remember Me.
In the year 2084, memories have become something that can be removed and traded thanks to the Sensen technology that is the sole domain of the monolithic Memorize corporation. Protagonist Nilen awakes to find that her memory is wiped and is informed that she used to be one of the leading revolutionaries against Memorize, but without her memories there's no way to be sure.
Polygon's official review of the game found it an ambitious story-driven title with unique mechanics and an enthralling fiction, though the gameplay didn't always live up to the setting of Neo-Paris in the year 2084.
Remember Me is out today for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC.
Activision plans to stream a pre-E3 live show the Sunday morning before E3 kicks off to highlight new details about Call of Duty: Ghosts, the publisher announced today.
Geoff Keighley and Justine Ezarik will host the 30-minute show whiich will be broadcast on Callofduty.com, Xbox's Machinima app and other "online destinations" on Sunday, June 9, at 11 a.m. PT, 2 p.m. ET. The broadcast will feature "an exclusive first look at gameplay levels," according to the blog post on the official Call of Duty website.
In Ghosts players will be part of the remnants of the world's different special forces. Players will also have dogs as part of their squad, rendered from scans of real service dogs. The dogs can protect the team and sniff out explosives. The game also features a new A.I. system that...
The transition of Obsidian Entertainment's South Park: The Stick of Truth from failed publisher THQ to its new home at Ubisoft appears to be going smoothly. The side-scrolling role-playing game starring the foul-mouthed kids of South Park is just as crudely hilarious and designed to offend those who find scatalogical jokes distasteful as ever.
At a recent hands-off demonstration of The Stick of Truth, Obsidian played through a battle that takes place in South Park Elementary, where humans, elves and goths are waging a grade school war. The player, in his role as the new kid in town — christened "Commander Douchebag" by Cartman, the Grand Wizard of the humans — adventures with South Park's Butters as they navigate through the school.
Douchebag and Butters have a deep library of...
Murdered: Soul Suspect tells the story of detective Rowan O'Connor and his search from the afterlife for the hooded man who killed him, as seen in a new trailer released today by publisher Square Enix.
Described as a detective who got his hands dirty and perhaps crossed a few lines in the process, O'Connor is in a fistfight with an unknown suspect in the top floor of a house. In a dreamlike sequence, he finds himself at street level approaching a body in the street, with the hooded figure crouched over it — only to discover that the body is his own, and that the other man pushed him out the house's window.
O'Connor makes that discovery when he touches his killer on the shoulder and has a flashback to his own murder. In Murdered: Soul Suspect, which takes place in the famous...
Fable Anniversary, a high-definition remake of the original Fable, will be available on Xbox 360 this holiday season, announced Lionhead Studios' Ted Timmins on Major Nelson's podcast today.
Lionhead teased the HD remake earlier today. The studio is remastering Fable: The Lost Chapters, the expanded edition of the game that was released in September 2005 on Windows PC and Xbox and in October 2008 on Mac. The original Fable, a role-playing game designed by Peter Molyneux, launched in September 2004 exclusively on Xbox.
"We're really excited to be bringing a remastered version of Fable: The Lost Chapters to the Xbox 360," said Timmins, who is serving as the lead designer of the remake and was a tester on Fable, on Lionhead's website. "It's been one of the biggest community requests as...
Fantasia: Music Evolved was recently shown at a pre-E3 event where Disney Interactive's executive producer, Chris Nicholls, explained that the game is about putting "the power and magic of music in the player's hands ... so rather than sit quietly in a dark theater and admire the creativity of others, now we allow you to step into Mickey's shoes and learn to wield the power of music."
Players take on the role of the sorcerer's apprentice, who has been tasked to perform and transform songs in order to bring life to worlds created by the sorcerer Yen Sid. In one of the levels Polygon played, we were taken under the sea into a quiet and abandoned ocean environment devoid of music. It was our job to unlock musical interactions by using gestures and, in doing so, bring life and music back...
Konami revealed today PES 2014, which will be powered by an enhanced version of Kojima Production's Fox Engine.
This next installment in the series will include six new features which work to mimic real-world players, the psychology behind team support, as well as bring other overall improvements to the series.
The first, TrueBall Tech, will allow players to trap or knock the ball on a pass using the analog stick, while a barycentric physics system will determine the weight shift of the player along with the height and speed of the pass. According to Konami, the player's body will shape to receive the ball, allowing for it to be chested or nodded past the opposing team.
Similarly, the Motion Animation Stability System will bring different animations to the game based on bodily...
Earlier this spring Burger King launched a device in Puerto Rico for the intrepid multitaskers: a device that holds a burger so you can eat and do other things at the same time.
The device is a feedbag for the modern age, a way to make sure you get the nutrients you need during those marathon gaming sessions. It holds the burger in front of your mouth and frees up your hands to do other things, much the same way a harmonica holder allows a musician to strum and toot simultaneously.
The device looks like it could hold other similarly-shaped sandwiches and foods if burgers aren't your thing, but soups and salads may be a little harder to finagle. Although the gamer at the 1:09 mark looks like he's enjoying himself.
Check out the music video above, which launched with the device in May,...
Several iconic Halo 4 weapons received a tune-up today as part of the Weapon Tuning Update, along with other Matchmaking updates, according to a post of the Halo Waypoint blog.
Weapons affected include the battle rifle, magnum, SAW, suppressor, storm rifle, assault rifle, DMR, light rifle, carbine, and the Mantis and Warthog chain guns. For instance, the battle rifle's rate of fire has been decreased and two bursts of fire followed by a melee will now kill an enemy. The carbine's damage and accuracy has been increased but its red reticule range has been decreased.
Additionally, the suppressor is now capable of killing in three less rounds and player speed has been increased by 10 percent for all multiplayer modes and playlists.
Matchmaking tweaks include assault rifle load-out in...
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