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Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has been nominated for seven GAME British Academy Video Game Awards.
Along with Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops, Brotherhood is up for Action, Artistic Achievement, Multiplayer, Technical Innovation and Use of Audio awards. The Ubisoft title is also nominated for Best Game and Gameplay, with Black Ops also in the Story category.
That puts Black Ops at six nominations, the same as Sony's Heavy Rain, which is eligible for Artistic Achievement, Best Game, Gameplay, Original Music, Story and Technical Innovation.
BioWare's Mass Effect 2 is up for five nominations and Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Limbo are up for four awards each.
The only public voted award, the GAME Award of 2010, includes Call of Duty: Black Ops, Dance Central, FIFA 11, Halo: Reach, Heavy Rain, Limbo, Mass Effect 2, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy 2.
The full list of nominations follow:
Action
- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- BioShock 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- God of War III
- Halo: Reach
- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- God of War III
- Heavy Rain
- LIMBO
- Mass Effect 2
- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
- FIFA 11
- Heavy Rain
- LIMBO
- Mass Effect 2
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Dance Central
- Kinect Adventures
- Kinect Sports
- Kinectimals
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Toy Story 3
- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
- God of War III
- Heavy Rain
- LIMBO
- Mass Effect 2
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Cut the Rope
- God of War: Ghost of Sparta
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Professor Layton and the Lost Future
- Sonic Colours
- Super Scribblenauts
- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Halo: Reach
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
- Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
- Alan Wake
- Fable III
- Heavy Rain
- James Bond 007: Bloodstone
- Mass Effect 2
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Bejeweled Blitz
- Farmerama
- FIFA Superstars
- My Empire
- Zoo Mumba
- Zuma Blitz
- F1 2010
- FIFA 11
- Football Manager 2011
- Gran Turismo 5
- International Cricket 2010
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
- Alan Wake
- BioShock 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Heavy Rain
- Mass Effect 2
- Civilization V
- Fallout: New Vegas
- FIFA Manager 11
- Napoleon Total War
- Plants vs. Zombies XBLA
- Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Halo: Reach
- Heavy Rain
- Kinectimals
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Alan Wake
- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
- Battlefield: Bad Company: 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- DJ Hero 2
- Limbo
- Mush
- Sculpty
- Twang
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Dance Central
- FIFA 11
- Halo Reach
- Heavy Rain
- Limbo
- Mass Effect 2
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
- Red Dead Redemption
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
by Published on February 16th, 2011 21:53- Categories:
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LittleBigPlanet 2 entered the Japanese chart at five this week, but sales were well down on its predecessor.
According to the latest Media Create rundown, as reproduced on NeoGAF, the sequel to Media Molecule's DIY platformer sold 24,648 copies in its first week. In contrast, the original sold 52,000 when it launched in 2008.
Elsewhere on the chart, PSP RPG Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 came out on top, just behind PlayStation 3 button-masher Samurai Warriors 3 Z. The PS3 version of Red Dead Redemption's Undead Nightmare expansion debuted at number seven.
Here's the full top 20:- Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 (PSP, Bandai Namco) 222,068 / NEW
- Samurai Warriors 3 Z (PS3, Koei Tecmo) 208,548 / NEW
- Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (PSP, Capcom) 93,483 / 4,249,622 (+236%)
- Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth 2 (DS, Capcom) 30,910 / 163,176 (-77%)
- LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3, SCE) 24,648 / NEW
- Samurai Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends (Wii, Koei Tecmo) 22,598 / NEW
- Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare (PS3, Take-Two Interactive) 21,718 / NEW
- Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii, Nintendo) 15,971 / 806,357 (-3%)
- Kenka Bancho 5: Laws of Manhood (PSP, Spike) 14,372 / 101,350 (-49%)
- White Knight Chronicles Episode Portable: Dogma Wars (PSP, SCE) 11,229 / 51,832 (-72%)
- Pokemon Black / White (DS, Pokemon Co.) 10,433 / 5,071,867 (-3%)
- Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butouden (DS, Bandai Namco) 10,341 / 41,449 (-67%)
- Wii Party (Wii, Nintendo) 10,239 / 1,787,341 (+6%)
- The Last Story (Wii, Nintendo) 9052 / 142,952 (-53%)
- Macross: Triangle Frontier (PSP, Bandai Namco) 8409 / 63,922 (-85%)
- World Soccer Winning Eleven 2011 (PSP, Konami) 7575 / 170,477 (-19%)
- Valkyria Chronicles 3 (PSP, SEGA) 7491 / 128,196 (-58%)
- World Soccer Winning Eleven 2011 (PS3, Konami) 7379 / 442,500 (-10%)
- Ni no Kuni: The Ebony Wizard (DS, Level 5) 7267 / 474,828 (-4%)
- Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare (Xbox 360, Take-Two Interactive) 7180 / NEW
- PSP: 107,000 (up from 30,611)
- PS3: 26,766 (23,846)
- NDS: 23,111 (22,565)
- Wii: 15,028 (14,972)
- 360: 2118 (2282)
- PS2: 1665 (1897)
by Published on February 16th, 2011 21:44- Categories:
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Eskil Steenberg, the Swedish creator of bohemian MMO Love, is not impressed by Kinect. If he had to pick, he'd choose Move....
"Kinect is really cool from a technical point of view but pretty worthless for most games," he told Eurogamer.
"Games that are good for it are dancing and aerobics stuff. That's what it's good for."
"If I were actually making a game I would much rather make it for Move, because you actually have a button."
"There are some good things about it," he added, "but in a way I think it's kind of a cheat.
Steenberg used the analogy of bad photographers talking about cameras and good photographers talking about emotions to sum up his feeling about motion sensing controllers.
"It's like that," he said, "you change something superficial. It's not where we're going."
What cannot be disputed, however, is Kinect's commercial success. It's sold a whopping eight million units since launch, and is the fastest-selling consumer electronics product ever.
Love, an game built by one man, involves building a base of monuments by collecting tokens found around a sumptuous watercolour world. Some of those tokens will be stolen from other players or the AI, and the world evolves, adapts, reacts and changes around you, depending on your actions.
In an interview published today, Eurogamer sat Eskil Steenberg down to reflect on four years making Love - and what lies ahead for a man some people have apparently described as a genius.
Will he work with fellow Swede and MineCraft maker Markus Persson?
You can find out more about how to play Love on the official website.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...etty-worthlessby Published on February 16th, 2011 08:30- Categories:
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news from play asia:
Chinese New Year Lucky Sales are now in full swing, to spice up the fun, here are some new items in the Sales category and a lot of products are further reduced.
Take a look again, some of the games and CDs have returned and other very special, very limited products, too have entered the section.
Large box sets such as the Call of Duty Prestige Edition get extra price cuts, now's the time to grab that Surveillance Vehicle and maps. The Tales of Graces Nintendo Wii Bundle comes with the game, the console and the classic controller, while the Taiko no Tatsujin Bundle comes with the drum which makes Taiko games all the more fun.
Take another dive in the Sales section, there is always something more going into it.
In case you've missed the old announcements about the lucky draw, here's a brief recap: all discounted products will spot a rabbit on its page, snatch it and you'll be entered into the lucky draw. To see the fabulous prizes and learn more about the event, please visit this original post.
...by Published on February 16th, 2011 08:02- Categories:
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new special offer from play asia:
From the publisher: A new era. Sophisticated and complex technologies are now contributing to the advancements of mankind. However, the world’s governments are crumbling, new corrupt powers arise and conspiracies proliferate.
The truth behind the proscribed technology could destroy the very core of humanity. Join a rogue team of agents as they fight for survival and entangle themselves deeper into the mystery.
Expand your mind’s reach by “hacking” into enemies, vehicles or civilians and enjoy the freedom to control almost any character. Each bystander becomes an active combatant in this new urban warfare.
Your “state of mind” is your only limitation!
Exciting and innovative, MindJack is available at an unbeatable bargain price of US$ 17.90 only. The Asian Xbox360™ version is region free. The game is in English and offer a variety of subtitle languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...-2rd-84-n.html ...by Published on February 16th, 2011 04:15- Categories:
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54 per cent of all illegal game file sharing takes place in France, Spain, Italy, China and Brazil, according to new research....
A report filed by US trade group the Entertainment Software Association and reported by Gamasutraasks for 33 countries to be put on a watchlist of nations not taking adequate measures to combat copyright infringement.
The ESA claimed that game piracy in the aforementioned countries had reached "extraordinarily high" levels, accounting for 78 million of 144 million unauthorised peer-to-peer connections logged worldwide.
That's more than five times the amount attributed to users in the USA, according to the study.
"Our industry continues to grow in the US, but epidemic levels of online piracy stunt sales and growth in a number of countries, including Italy, China, Spain, Brazil and France, where we see crushing volumes of infringing peer-to-peer activity involving leading game titles," commented ESA president Michael Gallagher.
Spain was singled out for special attention in the report, with the ESA asking for it to join China and Canada on a "Priority Watch List". It claimed "lax policies" in the country "have fostered a culture permissive of piracy".
It was recommended that Brazil and Italy should remain on a lesser "Watch List" as there were signs that both nations were attempting to address the issue.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...or-game-piracyby Published on February 16th, 2011 04:00- Categories:
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With over-exposure cited as one of the key factors behind the demise last week of Activision's once mighty Guitar Hero franchise, industry talking heads have now turned their attentions to the publisher's other cash cow – Call of Duty – and asked if it's hurtling towards a similar fate....
The answer? No. Probably.
A number of pundits chimed in on the topic during a lengthy IndustryGamers report, among them Wedbush Morgan's pontificator-in-chief, the irrepressible Michael Pachter. He peered into his crystal ball and saw a relatively bright future for the FPS juggernaut.
"I don't think they are comparable at all," Pach-man insisted.
"Guitar Hero is a franchise that people buy once, because the peripherals are great. As it saturated the installed base, the only buyers were people who are new console purchasers, and the 'fad' appeared to wear off at the same time. Guitar Hero was a victim of its own success.
"Call of Duty, on the other hand, has a vibrant online community that keeps growing. When a new version comes out, the 'network effect' kicks in, and many people buy it because their friends have done so. The risk to the franchise is competition, not people tiring of the gameplay.
"Call of Duty won't fade unless Activision opens the door to competition by making a bad game," he concluded.
Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital Markets toed a similar line, reinforcing that Call of Duty's future was dependent on the quality of the finished product.
"I think music games were a fad - just like fitness games were at one point, and maybe dance games are today. But after years of franchise growth, I wouldn't put Call of Duty in the same category.
"Could Activision mess it up? Sure, but if they focus on maintaining high game quality, fresh story-lines, and online multiplayer, then I don't see an obvious reason for the franchise to decline."
Mike Hickey of Janco Partners, took a slightly more fatalistic stance, though speculated that Guitar Hero's grisly end was sped up by its status as a flash-in-the-pan social phenomenon.
"All entertainment experiences have life cycles; an accelerated cultural burn will likely extinguish the cycle faster than a gradual iteration philosophy. Ultimately, it's the development studio and collective culture that defines greatness, not Wall Street or the executive teams managing toward a linear path of growth.
Only Billy Pidgeon of M2 Research struck a more cynical note, calling out Activision's lucrative but destructive "strip mining" strategy but adding that the publisher seemed to be getting better at it in recent years.
"Guitar Hero and other former franchises may appear to be publisher failures, but the truth is that strip-mining franchises is a successful, risk-averse strategy. ATVI made good money on GH. Sequels were produced quickly and cheaply.
"The hit it and quit it model - carpet-bombing the market with sequels and then slashing the assets - pays off big in the short term, so ATVI's shareholders are happy. ATVI is learning to execute this strategy with greater efficiency each go-round."
"There is an alternate strategy," he continued, "but it's more risky as it requires careful investment and isn't necessarily as lucrative. Publishers can attempt to keep a franchise going for a longer period of time by spacing out sequels.
"In either scenario, the trick is to keep the franchise selling for as long as possible before it (or the developers) burn out. The endgame is always ugly because layoffs are typically involved."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...tar-heros-fateby Published on February 16th, 2011 03:29- Categories:
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An all platforms patch for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will launch soon, Infinity Ward has announced....
It will address "security issues that have affected online play", community man Robert Bowling said on the game's official forum.
The patch, which has finished production and is now going through internal quality assurance, will release for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
"Modern Warfare 2" and "security" have enjoyed a strained relationship following the release of hacker George "GeoHot" Hotz's PS3 jailbreak code onto the internet.
Last month Bowling, aka fourzerotwo, took to the official Infinity Ward forum to blame PS3 Modern Warfare 2 hacks on the console's compromised security.
"Sony has recently acknowledged a breach in security on the PS3 which resulted in games to become exposed to exploits and hacks," Bowling said.
"Modern Warfare 2 is no exception to this security exploit and we understand that some of you have experienced problems with stats and other issues associated with this."
Apparently PS3 Modern Warfare 2 players are susceptible to hacks that affect their statistics and, in some cases, delete their progress.
According to Bowling, Infinity Ward was powerless in the matter.
"Games rely on the security of the encryption on the platforms they're played on, therefore; updates to the game through patches will not resolve this problem, unless the security exploit itself is resolved on the platform," he said.
Was he wrong?
Following that controversial post, Bowling followed up with another that revealed Infinity Ward was working to resolve hacking issues.
The studio's "main focus" was on "preventing hackers from affecting legitimate players" and "addressing users who have already been affected", he said.
The patch will also address a "small geo exploit on the map Fuel". Players exploited it to get inside a rock on the outskirts of the map, apparently.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...h-nearly-readyby Published on February 16th, 2011 01:19- Categories:
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Building on its Airsync feature that lets users wirelessly keep their media (pictures, music, movies) library synced between computer and mobile device, DoubleTwist's new AirTwist feature lets your Android powered phone stream them to any Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. Assuming you've already paid for the $4.99 AirSync add-on, all users need to do is get the most recent version of the app from the Android market, join the same network as one of the consoles wirelessly and authorize it within the app. While PS3 and Xbox 360 are the only devices officially listed, we didn't have any problem pulling in a few songs on a connected Google TV device since it's built on DLNA and should work with any device using the standard. Of course, Skifta does pretty much the same thing (with the exception of streaming to the Xbox 360) and it's free, so choose carefully.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/15/d...a-to-xbox-360/ ...by Published on February 14th, 2011 23:40- Categories:
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[Harishankar] has posted a video on his blog demonstrating the ability to control devices using the Microsoft Kinect sensor via IR. While controlling devices with Kinect is nothing new, he is doing something a little different than you have seen before. The Kinect directly interfaces with his Mac Mini and tracks his movements via OpenNI. These movements are then compared to a list of predefined gestures, which have been mapped to specific IR functions for controlling his home theater.
Once the gestures have been acknowledged, they are then relayed from the Mac via a USB-UIRT to various home theater components. While there are not a lot of details fleshed out in the blog post, [Harishankar] says he will gladly forward his code to you if you request it via email.
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