At 7am PST on November 18, 2011 Funcom will be hosting a Q&A event on the official Facebook page for The Secret World – their upcoming MMO featuring Lovecraftian themes. Lead Content Designer Joel Bylos and Writer Ben Schroder will be answering the questions posed by fans.
Square Enix has licensed EPIC Games Unreal Engine 3 for several upcoming titles. News on which titles will be developed utilizing the engine is forthcoming.
“It is a pleasure to provide Square Enix with an exceptional game engine that will help them bring thrilling new experiences to legions of fans all over the world,” said Taka Kawasaki, territory manager of Epic Games Japan. “Many Western games have achieved great success with the Unreal Engine, and this milestone reflects the Japanese development community’s trust in our technical prowess. We can’t wait to see how Square Enix fuses the power of Unreal Engine 3 with its beautiful characters, enthralling storylines and fantastic gameplay.”
Focus Home Interactive has released some new screenshots from the upcoming actioner, Trine 2.
Nordic Games GmbH has acquired DreamCatcher Interactive (SuperPower, Painkiller) for an undisclosed amount. This puts the number of studios under the Nordic Games umbrella at three, after JoWood and The Adventure Company.
“We are very happy that we were able to close the deal according to our internal schedule. After the incorporation of the “JoWooD” and “The Adventure Company” publishing label, “DreamCatcher” is the third and last to follow for the time being”, commented Nordic Games Holding AB CEO, Lars Wingefors. “Our approach is to assess the performance of DreamCatcher’s portfolio through back-catalogue sales, and as a consequence develop sequels to its bestselling brands and licenses, just as we did with our other two publishing labels”, elaborates Wingefors.
File this under rumor for now, but EDGE is reporting that Ubisoft Montreal developers are currently working on build computers tricked out to match the specs of the next-gen gaming console from Microsoft. According to EDGE’s unnamed source, more of these build computers should be reaching other developers prior to Christmas of this year, pointing to an Xbox 720 (or whatever it will be called) launch later in 2012. With CES coming up in early January, it is not too hard to speculate that, if another rumor is correct, we will see some sort of announcement during the Microsoft keynote.
This other rumor, recently posted at VG247, claims that the new Xbox runs a hex-core CPU with 2GB of DDR3 RAM and will utilize an AMD processor.
Looks like we will be getting a full, world-premier trailer for Konami’s upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Rising at the Spike TV Video Game Awards on December 10, 2011. They released a small teaser trailer to whet our appetites in the meantime – enjoy!
CCP Games has announced that Crucible, its 15th free expansion for EVE Online, will launch on November 29, 2011.
Activision has announced that the debut trailer for their upcoming Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will air during the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards on December 10, 2011.
Today, Codemasters announced that F1 2011 is set to be a launch title for PlayStation Vita on February 22, 2012. F1 2011 features a host of single and multiplayer options, including an additional and extensive Challenge mode is perfect for portable play, with gamers completing a wide range of objectives including checkpoint, gate and overtaking challenges.
Team Ninja and Tecmo Koei have unveiled some new screenshots from their upcoming Ninja Gaiden 3, which is due out in 2012 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms.
