Activision has announced The Amazing Spider-Man, a video game due out in the Summer of 2012. Set in New York City, The Amazing Spider-Man game is being developed as an epilogue story set after the events of the upcoming SONY film of the same name. Fans can check out the WORLD PREMIERE EXCLUSIVE TRAILER for The Amazing Spider-Man video game during Spike TV’s Video Game Awards, airing live on Saturday, December 10 at 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT.
Author - Jerry Paxton
Eutechnyx has released a ton of new screenshots from the Closed Beta Test phase of free-to-play online racing game and car community, Auto Club Revolution. Available today, the update includes 14 new cars to drive, 3 new race tracks and sees the introduction of the performance upgrade shop.
Executive Producer, Doug Wolff said, “The core philosophy of Auto Club Revolution’s design is the ability to allow players to customise their experience, so the release of the performance upgrade shop into the closed beta is particularly exciting for the team. In addition to the release of this feature, we’ve also unveiled more new cars and tracks which allows us to expand the scale of this phase of the beta test.”
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Paradox Interactive has announced that they are now accepting applications for the closed beta test of their upcoming turn-based strategy game, Warlock: Master of the Arcane. The game is due out on the second quarter of 2012 on Windows PCs.
You can apply for the closed beta over at their official beta sign-up page.
Deep Silver and Egosoft have, in a surprise announcement, said that “X3: Albion Prelude”, the bridge between the “old X Universe and new X Universe”, will be released on December 15th, 2011 for Windows PCs. It will also be released on Mac PCs sometime after.
Feature overview
- A new plot throws you into the power struggle between corporations at a time of war.
- More than 30 new ships and stations
- New Stock Exchange feature allows advanced investment strategies
- Improved graphics quality setting for high end machines
- Improved UI introducing charts to visualize economic developments
- Support for head tracking
Trailer
Bethesda Softworks has announced that the demo for their popular shooter, RAGE, is now available on the PlayStation Network in North America and will hit European PSN customers later today.
Turtle Beach has announced that they have been named the “Official Headset of Spike TV’s 2011 Video Game Awards”. The Video Game Awards airs on Spike TV this Saturday – December 10th, 2011. Turtle Beach and its products will be integrated into all the category nominee pages that tie back to gaming audio. These include Best Song in a Game, Best Shooter and Best Original Score.
“The Spike TV Video Game Awards showcases the best and the brightest advancements of the gaming industry,” said Bob Picunko, Turtle Beach’s Chief Marketing Officer. “As audio plays an increasingly important role in video games, from game audio design and soundtracks, to communication during online play, it was natural that as a gaming audio pioneer, Turtle Beach would support the recognition of the industry’s best.”
2K Games has announced a new gameplay mode in their upcoming actioner, The Darkness II, called “Vendettas”. Vendettas are co-op (up to four players) missions where gamers take on various missions which run parallel to the game’s main, singleplayer campaign.
Gamers will be able to chose between the following four wielders of dark power:
- Inugami: Wielding the mythical Kusanagi samurai sword rumored to have killed ten thousand innocents, Inugami is a dark and mentally unstable character with revenge-driven motives against The Brotherhood and their allies for the slaughter of his entire family. He can also use a swarm of miniature demons to attack and immobilize his enemies.
- Shoshanna: Shoshanna is an ultra-efficient agent for Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence Agency, who was sent to New York to combat a spike in Brotherhood activity. Her obedience and devotion to her superiors makes her a perfect operative, and she harbors a passion for hunting and destroying evil in the world as part of her legacy. Shoshanna wields the Arm of the Night, a powerful weapon fueled with Dark essence and the power to fire multiple rounds of gunfire at one time.
- Jimmy Wilson: A product of inner-city Glasgow, Scotland, and a notorious alcoholic, Jimmy believes The Brotherhood is simply another form of the Hated English that persecuted his family in the past, and he travels to New York to torment them to the fullest extent. He wields the Dark Axe, and has the ability to summon Darklings that he commonly refers to as “Little Jimmys”.
- J.P. DuMond: A former doctor from New Orleans, DuMond is burdened with guilt for using a form of Louisiana Voodoo to heal his patients. The use of dark magic drew the attention of The Brotherhood, an organization which J.P. is now forced to combat in order to halt their pursuit of evil relics. J.P. wields the Midnight Stick and can pull enemies into an anatomy-crushing vortex when he tosses his Box of Tricks – a black metal box filled with dark power – into an open area.