Machinima released an exclusive playthrough of Hitman: Incept… I mean Hitman: Absolution. Check out the full 16 minute playthrough of the game below.
Source: Machinama
Hitman: Absolution playthrough
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Silent Hill: Downpour delayed to 2012
According to a post by MCV, Silent Hill: Downpour won’t be making its November release date. Instead, the game is slated to be released Q1 2012.
Konami hasn’t officially stated the new release date or explained why the game was delayed in the first place, but hopefully they will let us know soon.
I’m just going to assume that the delay has something to do with the looming Silent Hill HD collection. Maybe Konami wants us to experience Silent Hill in HD before we play their newest game?
Source: MCV
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record trailer
In Dead Rising 2: Off the Record the player will once again be in control of Frank West and will face off against new enemies and have access to even more combo weapons.
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record will be released in North America October 11, 2011.
Dark Souls to last many years
Dark Souls is looking to be one of the hardest games out there, but also one of the most rewarding. Lee Kirton, Namco Bandai UK’s marketing director, told VG247 that although the game will be unrelenting in it’s difficulty it will rewarding for those that stick with it. He goes on to say, “I think that this is a game that everyone should try. It is incredibly rewarding and we’ve kept a lid on a lot of story and gameplay. One of the most rewarding video game experiences ever made, I’d say.”
I can’t wait to get my hands on it. Dark Souls will be released October 4, 2011 in North America and October 7, 2011 in Europe and will be on both PS3 and Xbox 360.
Ban hammer? No, flood the game with phantoms!
From Software answered the age-old question (or at least the question that arose this week): What do you do with people who are playing your game before you want them to? Send insanely high-level phantoms after them, of course.
In response to people who were somehow able to play Dark Souls before its official Japanese release, From Software decided to flood the early players’ world with Black Phantoms. The Black Phantoms are level 145 mobs with 1900 HP and all abilities maxed out at 99. Edge Magazine offered a comparison of these stats with that of their reviewer’s character, which has almost 60 hours of play-time: Level 43, 1001 HP, and abilities ranging from 8 to 30.
I actually think this is an ingenious way to deal with the early players. Why bother banning them when you can make not playing the game their choice.
Source: Edge Magazine
Review: Bastion makes me love indie arcade games even more
Games like this make me wonder if XBLA and PSN are going to be the preferred outlet for new games, especially since independent game developers can distribute them so much easier. Games like this also remind me that there are more to games than hyper-realistic graphics and expansive sandbox environments—something quite a few indie game developers understand.
Games like Bastion make me happy.
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Dark Souls Complete Prologue
The last part of the Dark Souls prologue has been released. And instead of showing the fourth one by itself, you get all of them lumped into one video.
Dark Souls Prologue part 1 and 2
Dark Souls released part 2 of their prologue videos. And since we didn’t post part 1, you get both videos in one article! Lucky you.
Breaking Bad shows off Id’s RAGE, kind of
Here is Jesse Pinkmann.
He’s had a really crappy four seasons of amazing television. See, Breaking Bad is arguable the best show on TV, and Jesse is a great character to watch, but Jesse’s life sucks. He’s addicted to meth, deals meth, produces meth on a scale unheard of outside any TV drama, and he’s dealing with being a murderer while other people are planning on murdering him. Jesse’s life is miserable regardless of the quality of his television show—which, again, is amazing.
You could say Jesse is full of rage, or it would seem that’s the intent of Breaking Bad’s creative team. What do you do when you’re an angst-ridden youngster who is experienced in drugs and violence? Well, if you’re a teenager in the mid 90s, you play Doom. If you’re 20 something Jesse Pinkman, you play RAGE—the not real, on rails, never to be released version shown in this video.
Peanut Butter and Chocolate. Strawberries and Cream. Breaking Bad and Id Software.
Dark Souls kills its own producers more than even Demon’s Souls killed me
The spiritual successor (can we just say sequel?) to Demon’s Souls should be difficult, but this is ridiculous. In case you didn’t find Demon’s Souls difficult enough, Dark Souls will end your life, several hundred times over in Kei Hirono’s case. Hirono, one of Dark Souls’ producers, tallied over 250 deaths while equipped with hacked cheater gear on day one of gamescom alone.
Dark Souls is meant to be even more difficult than Demon’s Souls, and the designers’ goal is to cause players to think of retreating first. Masochists everywhere may now rejoice.
Source: 1up
