The latest expansion for Dawn of War 2, which will be in Beta form early next year, has officially dropped the Games for Windows Live support in favor of Steamworks. Dawn of War II: Retribution will make use of the Steamworks community features such as matchmaking, achievements, guest passes and chat capabilities.
If you've ever done any behind-the-scenes research on the wildly popular and legendary original Star Wars trilogy, you might know that George Lucas borrowed from many franchises for Star Wars. Pandemic did the same for Star Wars Battlefront, and the result was a die-hard fan named Jim.
In one day Halo Reach generated over $200 Million dollars in revenue. It's unclear if that number include the Reach console bundle, but either way, it's damn impressive. Along with it the game also broke the record for the most unique users on Xbox Live at one time. Though Microsoft didn't give a number, first hand accounts of Bungie's server population showed almost 800,000 people playing Halo Reach on launch day in the early evening.
THQ's latest investor report has pushed Red Faction: Armageddon back from this fall to May of 2011. The delay shouldn't come as much of a surprise to anyone following the title as news has been almost non existent. The game is scheduled to ship with a unique co-op mode outside of the main story, but details on it are still sketchy at best.
This past June we offered up a preview of Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2. Many old school fans of the classic NES game cried foul when a jump ability was announced. The whole point of the original game was the lack of a jump button. That's why developers gave the gamer a handy dandy bionic arm. It's even alluded to in the title.
The original Valkyria Chronicles is one of the finest Strategy RPGs ever made, but can the series survive a platform downgrade and still live up to our expectations? Adding co-op to the mix sure is a good start- read on to find out!
It seems like just a few weeks ago we were knee deep in Starcraft 2 news, and the launch was just around the corner. In fact, it was just a few weeks ago. Now that the long, long-anticipated title has finally hit store shelves and internet tubes everywhere, the cascade of Starcraft 2 news has died down. Today, though, we have another tiny morsel of SC2 info, straight from Blizzard.
The third downloadable content pack for Red Dead Redemption is riding into town on September 21st, and it's bringing with it a whole caravan of great updates to the popular online Free Roam mode. The list price is $9.99 (US) on the PlayStation Network, and 800 on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
We've got some fresh footage of Gears of War 3's co-op Beast Mode from the Penny-Arcade Expo. Sure it's a little late, and it might be a bit blurry and/or shaky - but it's GEARS man. Gears of Friggin War! You have no idea how many Bothans died to bring us this footage, after all, they had Mark Rein as the bouncer!
Continuing the TGS news this morning, Microsoft have announced that the Treasure's classic SHMUP Radiant Silvergun will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade. After Ikaruga's success, we heard rumors that Treasure was considering bringing the game to the platform, the title was originally in the arcades and on the Sega Saturn.
Several new Kinect games were revealed last night during Microsoft's Tokyo Game Show Press Conference and surprisingly none of them involved collecting rings while jumping around. One of the surprise games is an Xbox Live Arcade title by Phantom Dust and Panzer Dragoon game director Yukio Futatsugi. The game is called Project Draco and it looks to be a spiritual successor to Panzer Dragoon.
Toronto based developer DrinkBox Studios is working on a new side scrolling platformer: Tales from Space: About A Blob. The game is being developed for download on the PSN.
