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by Published on October 25th, 2011 22:27- Categories:
- Nintendo 3DS News
Oh, you're still worried about the unfortunate form factor of the Nintendo 3DS slide pad peripheral? That's old hat -- Andriasang recently uncovered an attachment which further turns the once sleek handheld into an unpocketable monstrosity: The Hori Mario Kart 7 steering wheel.
The attachment, which carries the official Nintendo seal and will cost ¥1,280 ($17), snaps onto the back of the handheld to give players who use the game's tilt-to-steer functionality a greater sense of ... realism? We guess? All we know is that it better come with a fanny pack to carry around its unwieldy frame, and then some sort of invisibility cloak to protect the wearer from being savagely beaten by everyone who sees them.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/25/he...wheel-for-3ds/ ...by Published on October 25th, 2011 22:26- Categories:
- PC News
As professional, respected, tweed-wearing writers, we here at Joystiq consider it part of our job to protect the sanctity of the written word. It's in that capacity we're staging this intervention with Funcom.
Funcom, we're sure your team was excited when you announced today that over 500,000 people have registered for The Secret World beta. But while that's a catchy name, we're just not sure you can continue to call it that with a straight face. Observe:
"I have a secret little out-of-the-way spot I like to go for lunch, it's called Hardee's."
"My secret spice? Shh, come close ... it's called salt."
"I've got a secret method for keeping my car running well: Gas."
Might we suggest "Popular World" (which unfortunately sounds a little like a Facebook game for tweens) or perhaps "Cool World" (which not unfortunately sounds exactly like Cool World)?
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/25/ov...t-worlds-beta/ ...by Published on October 25th, 2011 22:24- Categories:
- PC News
Blizzard has made the next expansion in the World of Warcraft official as Mists of Pandaria, and after conquering other planets, the Lich King, and a big bad dragon, the Horde and Alliance are headed to ... China. Well, not China per se, but Pandaria, a long-rumored, Eastern mysticism-influenced realm, where panda-based humanoids roam, brew and drink beer, and offer players the next five levels in their continuing progression.
As is often the case with this game, many players have revolted. The Pandaren have long been used as a joke in the world of Warcraft, either referred to on April Fool's Day, or showing up in the company's parodic Christmas cards. But lead quest designer Dave Kosak says players who scoff at Pandaria should think twice. "Maybe people, because they've only been portrayed as cameos or only April Fool's jokes, people think that there's nothing to this race, and that's not it at all," Kozak says to us during BlizzCon last week. "I think the Pandaren are kind of fascinating -- they work hard, they play hard, they eat hard, they drink hard, and they don't do anything half way."
The Pandaren, in addition to some of the other announced features of the new expansion, point to the next long arc of the World of Warcraft game. In the first few expansions of the title, Blizzard has cashed in on the earlier origins of the series. But with Mists of Pandaria, Blizzard seems to be setting up the world's most popular MMO for years of content to come.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/25/wo...ection-for-bl/ ...by Published on October 25th, 2011 22:23- Categories:
- Playstation Vita News
Ready to learn even more about the intricacies of Vita game saving, long before you'll ever hit "save" on a Vita game? After reporting the list of games requiring external memory card, Kotaku Japan followed up with SCEI to get more information about the save system.
Games capable of saving directly to their own cartridges, the site learned, won't offer you the option to save to an external card. That means you'll never be given the choice -- games that can save internally will always do so. The site also discovered that you'll have to have a memory card in the Vita at startup in order to operate games that require external storage.
Sony told Kotaku Japan that in addition to save data, some games may use the memory card for DLC. Got it?
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/25/vi...-memory-cards/ ...by Published on October 25th, 2011 22:20- Categories:
- PC News
The build of Diablo 3 being shown at BlizzCon 2011 last week did have a few polish updates, but generally it was the same content previously available in the beta, which we've covered thoroughly so far. Diablo 3's Technical Director Wyatt Chang agreed while chatting with me last week that the game is basically content complete, but the polish phase is far from over. "Content complete for us usually means things like voice recording, art, assets are in place, but it doesn't mean that things like the tuning, balance, and game systems are in place."
The team is still working hard on some of the core concepts, however -- one issue that's come up lately is whether players can switch skills on the fly or not. In the beta, says Cheng, "you can play with your skill window open, and you can switch skills in the middle of the fight, which has some upsides and it's very cool in one regard, but on the whole, I think it's sort of a more negative experience, and a lot of people in the community have agreed." Just recently, the team was dealing with things like "how many Pages of Training you can have in one stack," so they are starting to dive into the nitty gritty of how the game will work.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/25/di...ease-date-yet/ ...by Published on October 25th, 2011 22:18- Categories:
- Nintendo 3DS News
A pink 3DS model will be available in Australia and Europe on November 17 and 18, respectively. Dubbed "Lavender Pink" in Oz and "Coral Pink" in Europe, the European edition will receive nintendogs + cats bundled in.
Europe will also receive another 3DS bundle, with the Ice White handheld including Super Mario 3D Land. It will be available on the same day as the pink bundle on November 18.
Neither the Ice White nor Coral/Lavender Pink 3DS models have been announced for North America.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/25/au...io-3ds-bundle/ ...by Published on October 25th, 2011 22:15- Categories:
- PC News
“The basement. Twenty one hundred. Come alone.”
It was with those cold, steely words ringing in my ears from a mystery telephone conversation earlier that day that last night I made my way down to the Intent Media basement to meet with a highly secretive Rockstar contact.
As I closed the basement door behind I was left in complete darkness. All that alerted me to the presence of another was the sound of strained breathing, the inhalation of a cigarette, the coughing of tight lungs.
My initial questions (“Seriously, how the feck did you get in the basement? And why the feck are we meeting in the basement anyway? There’s a new Costa Coffee just around the corner?”) were met with silence.
As my eyes adjusted to the dark I could see a shadowy figure staring me down from the far side of the filing cabinet. The figure had something on their head – a mask of sorts, fashioned from a paper bag. A paper bag from Costa. He knew about the new Costa, but chose to liaise in the basement anyway. My suspicion peaked.
He wore a white, buttoned shirt, worn jeans, old and well-worn brown leather shoes and a name badge that simply said “Sam – Happy to Help”.
He beckoned my to a makeshift shelter he had fashioned out of toner cartridge boxes and sheet bubble wrap in front of the MCV archive. We sat and he began frantically sketching pictures of cities and vehicles on a limestone slate with a red stick of chalk.
The chalk snapped. He grunted – I wouldn’t call it a scream – ate the chalk, and produced a fresh, unused blue stick from his shirt breast pocket.
“A new audience,” he muttered, though at first I was unsure whether he was addressing me directly or was absentmindedly talking to himself.
“New devices, new gamers,” he said more loudly, his crazed and blood shot red eye focused squarely on me now through a hole in the bag. “It’s not about the disc, it’s not about the platform. It’s about service, IT’S ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY.”
Seemingly agitated, I took a moment to compose myself before addressing Sam.
“It’s OK,” I said calmly. “It’s OK, I won’t hurt you. I’m a friend. My name is Ben. Please Sam, tell me. Tell me why you beckoned me here on this cold and dark autumn night?”
“I don’t understand,” he said, again almost as if to himself as he began to sketch what appeared to be an Xbox 360 joypad on the rear of the limestone. “They used joypads for years. They were fine. Our controller layout for GTA IV was spot on, responsive. Easy. WE SIMULATED A WHOLE WORLD USING TEN BUTTONS, TWO STICKS AND A D-PAD. Do none of them care? Does that count for nothing?”
Sam was now rocking on the spot, fingering his beard that peeked from the bottom of the bag. I leant closer and placed a hand on his knee.
“What do you mean, Sam? What is it you want to tell me about joypads.”
“TO HELL WITH JOYPADS,” came his screamed reply, his withered and filthy hands grabbing me by either side of the face. “We don’t NEED joypads. 3DS, iOS, Kinect, Move. Exclusive for those Grand Theft Auto V will be.”
I held his stare until his grip on my face eased. Realising now what was happening, that Rockstar had chosen me and the Intent Media basement to reveal all about Grand Theft Auto V. I reached for my notepad and, without any sudden movements, began to write as quickly as I could.
“Kinect and Move will keep us in touch with our core audience, yes,” Sam continued as he started to pull roughly at his beard. “But the iOS version, yes, that’s what will bring us the mass-market. Twenty two million sales for GTA IV? That’s nothing. NOTHING. The world is ready to welcome the seven billionth member of this miserable little race, and they expect ME to be happy with twenty two million?”
At this point Sam begun to sob, assuming the foetal position.
“But mass markets? How does that tie in with a 3DS version?” I asked before I had chance to think about whether I should be provoking him or not.
“BAH!” Sam screamed before jumping to his feet, pacing back and forth across the basement.
“Reggie…” he mumbled. “Reggie. Said he’d ‘ave me if I didn’t. I had to. Didn’t want to, you understand. Got a two-man team on it. Just gonna re-size the assets of the iOS version.” A small smile and cackle emerged from his dry, cracked lips. I leapt on the chance to probe further.
“But Sam, this isn’t 2008,” I said slowly. “This is 2011. People want Call of Duty. They want CityVille. They want to play against friends on Facebook. Shouldn’t you just concentrate on your core audience?”
Sam froze where he stood. Then, with the speed of rabid cheetah, he leapt for me, grabbing my by the collar and thrusting me into the air. “FOOL!” he howled, before tossing me into the pile of old Apple keyboards and non-functioning mice.
“I’m the man who made Grand Theft Auto. GRAND THEFT AUTO!” he shouted, crouched over me as I whimpered amongst the peripherals.
“Those witless fools live to serve MY whimsy. To serve MY design. There will be DLC, you see,” he added, ...by Published on October 25th, 2011 22:12- Categories:
- Xbox 360 News
UK entertainment retailer HMV has announced that 50 of its stores will open their doors at midnight for the release of Battlefield 3 in the early hours of Friday morning.
A main event will take place at HMV’s Oxford Street store, though there will also be big events Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow and Edinburgh, Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Reading and Southampton.
Punters will also get the chance to grab one of a limited number of HMV exclusive steel book editions.
"We've seen a great run of releases lately, which gets everyone, not least hardcore gamer fans, really excited and into stores,” HMV’s head of games Tim Ellis stated.
“Midnight openings can certainly play their part in helping to generate that special sense of anticipation and momentum around a key new title."
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/hmv-a...field-3/086986
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by Published on October 25th, 2011 22:10- Categories:
- PS3 News
Battlefield 3 arrives in the UK this Friday, and GAME has announced details of the frolics it is laying on for its flagship launch event in Oxford Street.
The Gadget Show’s Jason Bradbury is to host proceedings.
Fans will have the chance to grab a picture of themselves in-game using a green screen setup. In addition, the first 100 people in the queue will receive a limited edition, military style dog tag.
There will also be a competition to win a pair of Steel Series Siberia V2 headphones.
And while MCV has been sworn to secrecy, we can assure readers that GAME’s claim that “stock of the game will arrive just before midnight in a style inspired by Battlefield 3” must certainly be seen to be believed.
“With Battlefield 3 being even more interactive and exciting than its predecessors, we wanted to give our customers the biggest and most explosive midnight launch we could create,” GAME’s head of UK PR Neil Ashurst stated.
“With over 500 GAME and Gamestation stores opening at midnight, we’re definitely on the front line for this hotly anticipated launch and are happy to be able to give Battlefield fans the chance to get their hands on it as soon as possible. We can’t wait to be open our doors and let battle commence this Friday.’’
In total some 510 GAME and Gamestation stores will open their doors at 11:45pm on Thursday October 27th.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/game-...-launch/086988
...by Published on October 25th, 2011 21:16- Categories:
- Apple iPad,
- Apple iPhone
MapleStory publisher Nexon Mobile has become the latest company to licence the Unreal Engine 3 for its new iOS title.
"Using Epic Games' cutting-edge Unreal Engine technologies, Combat Arms: Zombies will set a new standard for graphics and quality game play on mobile devices," said CEO Albert Rim.
"Combat Arms: Zombies has been a major effort for us and it will help establish Nexon Mobile as a top developer of multi-platform games."
Nexon Mobile is a development arm of Nexon Co, and its MapleStory series has seen 14 million mobile downloads in Korea alone.
Nexon recently had to take MMO Mabinogi offline after incidents of real-money trading.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...gine-3-for-ios
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