TheBayonettaoriginal soundtrack is set to be released November 4 in Japan and will run about $50. That sounds like a lot, but you’re getting your money’s worth as the OST will have 150 songs over five discs. The soundtrack will also come with a booklet that includes commentary on each song by members of Platinum Games. $50 is a lot to spend on a CD, but you’re getting 150 tracks, more than your monies worth folks....
Allow me to go out on a limb here and say that many of you have no idea whatIL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Preyactually is. Don’t worry — we aren’t here to judge. The game is a combat flight sim set in World War II, which explains the funky name. As of today,Birds of Preyhas been upgraded from having merely a “fall release” to something a bit more specific. On September 15, the game will be available for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 from Gaijin Entertainment, Nintendo DS from another developer, and PlayStation Portable from a third studio....
Top Gun 2was released on iPhone and iPod Touch yesterday for those wishing to revisit that nugget of their youths when “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was but a twinkle in Bill Clinton’s eye. Political agendas notwithstanding, theoriginalTop Gunflight simulator came out a little over a year ago and Paramount has since made some notable upgrades to the game. The storyline, however, remains the same — you’re a new recruit of the U....
For those of you who haven’t purchased or played Q Entertainment’s nastily addictive puzzlerLumineson the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, Xbox Live Arcade, or mobile phone, we’ve got the thing for you:Lumineson the PC. Available today fromWild Games, the PC version ofLumineswill run you $19.99. The game appears to have skins and songs from the PSP games,Lumines 2. But if that’s not your thing, the PC version also contains a “Skin Edit” mode, which could yield some interesting results from a dedicated community....
Anthony is letting me fill in for him this week on Indie Nation. Now, on to the good news. Speweris a new puzzle/platformer from the creative team of Eli Piilonen (Stranded) and Edmund McMillen (Super Meat Boy), and it’s way better than it deserves to be. The game is available for play right now on NewGrounds viastreaming in-browserordownload. You might want to go for the download option, as streamingSpewerwill make it run just a touch slower than playing it off your hard drive, and slow-down is the last thing you want in a game like this....
We were all wondering whatH.A.W.X.was going to be about after finding out that Ubisofttrademarked the title.IGN got the exclusiveand now we know.Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.is a jet fighting game and I’m sureAce Combatfans are tenting their pants over this announcement. The game will come out for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 this fall and will contain over 50 fighter jets. There will also be four-player jump in/out co-op, and up to 16-player multiplayer dogfights....
It’s been revealed thatDead or Alive/Ninja Gaidencreator Tomonobu Itagaki is not the head of Tokyo Vikings, as was originally believed. The outspoken developer who controversially left Tecmo in 2008 has joined Valhalla Game Studios as CTO, heading up the company’s game development division. Valhalla was founded by another former Tecmo employee, Satoru Kanematsu. Despite the news, Itagaki is still refusing to shed light on any potential new projects. He has only stated that it may come to a range of consoles, and that he is interested in the PC market....
More inter-company slinging of the mud lately, as Microsoft and Sony essentially devolve the games industry into a slightly less spectacular episode ofThe Jerry Springer Show. Responding tocommentsfrom the inimitable Peter Moore that Microsoft is interested in possibly pursuing an initiative similar to Sony’sFolding@Homescheme, Tretton questioned the Xbox 360’s ability to undertake such a task, and went on to say that he’d be “very disappointed” if Microsoft are just looking for PR....
Afew days ago we wondered“What’s up withJoy Ride“? The BigPark developed Xbox LIVE game — a social racing/trick/whatever game — had gone missing from Xbox.com. It was also due for release in 2009. (Check your calendar; I’ll wait here.) NowCVG is reportingthat the title has been completely reworked as a launch title for Microsoft’s Project Natal. The game is now said to be a boxed retail title — it was previously going to be a free-to-play XBLA download — and has been worked into a “bigger, richer game than before....
Kid Icarus: Uprisingdeveloper Masahiro Sakurai has been chatting about creativity, or the lack of it, in modern games. While promising that Pit’s anticipated 3DS adventure will attempt to shake things up, Sakurai has admitted that he feels modern games and genres aren’t very creative at all, content instead to endlessly copy each other. “I’ve found that, in the established genres, the controls are always the same,” he explains. “For example, in shooting games, you find first-person-shooters utilize all of the buttons on the controller and always do the same thing — the stick is for moving, triggers for shooting and they’re always trapped in this very restricted framework for gameplay....
Today Neocore Games (Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come) debuted an assortment of art assets for their upcoming PC RTSKing Arthur. Above, you’ll also notice a teaser trailer for the game. It not only helps setting the tone of the game, but also sheds some light as to the scale of battle. King Arthurappears to be much like a traditional RTS, but Neocore is insisting it is much more. On theofficial website for the game, it is listed as a “Role-playing Wargame,” which is meant to assure potential players that several other genre-borrowing elements are at play....
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriotswas one of the most hyped and covered game releases of the year, yet funnily enough, the mastermind behind Solid Snake’s PlayStation 3 adventurehas little lovefor massive ad campaigns. Kojima’s complaints have been found in a job opportunity offer forKojima Productions. Here’s what the mad genius had to say: The creativity of video games is now on the verge of crisis. Massive advertising campaigns are executed for games before their entertainment values are put into consideration all too often, resulting in sell-off tactics happening without hesitation....
[Jim’s Note:Nick wrote this better] L.A. Noiredeveloper Team Bondi has been accused of a year-long crunch period that led to a number of developers leaving the company — at the cost of their credit for whatever work they put into the game. Over 130 former staff members are seeking recognition, with one member detailing the harsh working conditions that led to his departure. According to the anonymous developer, his sanity “depended” on him quitting Team Bondi....
