Ubisoft USPTO filing reveals likely name of next installment in its tactical Tom Clancy shooter series, due out after Q1 2010. Ever since it was first revealed in January--and officially announced in April--Ghost Recon 4 has been shrouded in mystery. No details on the next installment in the Tom Clancy-inspired tactical shooter series have been revealed other than its release window, which will be sometime after March 2010. Even the game's name is a working title, obscuring whether it is a direct sequel to the last installment in the series, 2007's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2. That mystery deepened in October, when the Australian Classification Board classified a game called "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Predator." GRAW2 already ha
Capcom prepping downloadable NES-style prequel to upcoming jetpack action game, $5 title set for January release. When Capcom announced that its jetpack-powered 3D action shooter Dark Void was coming to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, owners of Nintendo systems may have felt a bit left out. The publisher is rectifying that in a way, as it has revealed that it is making a downloadable DSi prequel to the game, Dark Void Zero. How is he supposed to see where he's flying, again?Much like the company's Mega Man 9, the game is being made with an 8-bit aesthetic. But where that title took advantage of gamer nostalgia surrounding the original Mega Man series, Dark Void is an original IP with no history beyond the current game. Undeterred
Square Enix opens up registration to test PC edition of next year's MMORPG; PS3 phase TBA. Get the full article at GameSpot "Final Fantasy XIV Online beta applications begin" was posted by Tom Magrino on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:26:27 -0800
Toy maker claims publisher violated Dungeons & Dragons licensing rights by trying to sublicense projects to competitor Namco Bandai, wants out of deal entirely. Ordinarily, Dungeons & Dragons battles are determined by a roll of the dice. However, a newly surfaced licensing dispute over the brand is unlikely to end so quickly, or so cleanly. Unlike a spirited bout of legal sparring, Dungeons & Dragons Online is free-to-play.Dungeons & Dragons owner Hasbro today announced that it has filed suit against longtime gaming partner Atari, alleging that the publisher "may have" struck an unauthorized sublicensing deal with Namco Bandai for Dungeons & Dragons game rights. Currently, there are no announced Atari Dungeons &
Publisher suffers from GTAIV-less 12-month period as sales slip to $968 million, Q4 gap wider than expected; Spec Ops due before November 2011. Take-Two gave investors anything but cause for holiday cheer earlier this month when it substantially scaled back its earnings estimates for its fiscal fourth quarter. Thanks largely to a massive shortfall created by its Major League Baseball licensing deal, Take-Two trimmed $25 million from its fourth-quarter sales projections and cut earnings per share guidance by $0.25. Investors responded immediately, as Take-Two's stock subsequently shed 30 percent of its value. Borderlands probably won't be kissing anyone good-bye in the near future.With investors and analysts thus braced, Take-Two today
Classification Review Board overturns initial ban due to violent content; game will be released in Australia with no changes. The Classification Board of Australia's decision to ban Sega's upcoming Aliens vs Predator was reversed today by the Classification Review Board, who has given the game an MA15+ rating with no content to be changed or removed.The Rebellion-developed title for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC was initially refused classification at the beginning of December for high-impact violence. The Board's ruling report claimed: "The game contains first-person perspective, close-up depictions of human characters being subjected to various types of violence, including explicit decapitation and dismemberment as well as locational damage such as stabbing through the chest, mouth, throat,
Activision and High Moon Studios' prequel story ventures to metallic planet to fight in robot civil war on 360, PS3, Wii, DS, PC next year. In phoning in (literally) its 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference, Activision Blizzard announced new installments in a slew of franchises for 2010. While James Bond, Spider-Man, and Tony Hawk drew most of the attention at the time, the publisher also tipped its hand on a new Transformers game. These robots aren't particularly well disguised.Today, Activision officially announced Transformers: War for Cybertron, saying the game will be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, DS, and PC in 2010. The publisher's High Moon Studios has been tasked with development duties. The st
God of War Collection makes appearance at bottom of Nintendo-dominated top 20 non-PC game chart; Modern Warfare 2 tops PC charts despite server controversy, Aion plummets. Last Thursday, the NPD Group released its non-PC game-industry sales report for November. To the surprise of nobody, the top 10 list that accompanied it was led by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The Xbox 360 (4.2 million units) and PlayStation 3 (1.87 million) editions of the game came in first and second, followed by the month's other big debut, New Super Mario Bros. Wii (1.39 million). Assassin's Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit Plus, Dragon Age: Origins, and Mario Kart Wii also made the top 10. Four years after he first emerged, Kratos remai
Electronic Arts' PC free-to-play third-person shooter hits another milestone, releases new map to mark the occasion. It took one month for Battlefield Heroes to register 1 million players. Two months after that, Electronic Arts announced that the free-to-play PC shooter had made it to 2 million players. Today, three months after announcing the game's last milestone, EA confirmed that the userbase for Battlefield Heroes had reached the 3 million mark. Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to war we go.In a statement, Battlefield Heroes general manager Ben Cousins dropped a few usage stats on the game. Since launch, Cousins said players have collectively spent 1,300 years playing the game, with 300 million confirmed kills between them spread out over
Following id Software acquisition, Zenimax Media buys out EA's rights to release postapocalyptic shooter on Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Mac. At its 2008 Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference show-stopper, EA announced that it had acquired the rights to publish id Software's postapocalyptic action game Rage through its EA Partners program. However, this June, that deal got a bit fuzzy when the parent company of Fallout 3 publisher Bethesda Softworks--Zenimax Media--bought id, along with its properties, such as Doom, Quake, and Rage, after raising $105 million in funding. Bethesda is feeling id's Rage.After Zenimax announced the acquisition, EA said that it had retained the rights to publish Rage, which has not yet been dated for the Xb
GSC Game World's sequel to acclaimed survival shooter Shadow of Chernobyl heading stateside early next year. GSC Game World gained a following in 2007 upon the release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. The game gained critical acclaim for its immersive atmosphere, where players assumed the role of an amnesic scavenger looting rare artifacts several decades after the Chernobyl reactor explosion of 1986. In 2008, the Kiev, Ukraine-based developer released a prequel to the warmly received survival shooter, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, though it did not fare as well with critics. An irradiated shotgun can be problematic.Following the prequel's release, GSC Game World revealed that its next project would be a follow-up proper to Shadow
