News Gamers Of The Day (28/7)Thursday 28th of July 2011 07:03:07 PM
RockStar Announces DLC Myths & Mavericks for Red Dead Redemption
RockStar wore commenting for some time that it would release a free DLC for Red Dead Redemption. It has now been when the company has announced additional content entitled Myths & Mavericks (myths and forsaken in our country), which will be free for the users of the game in all the versions.
This DLC includes new multiplayer characters demanded by fans and new locations for the various multiplayer modes.
The company has also announced that as had been requested by users, they will return to its original state Apocalypsis Zombie mode.
DLC Myths & Mavericks will be available throughout the month of September.
THQ leaves the Red Faction franchise
The American publisher THQ has announced during the presentation of its latest financial results the abandonment of the series due to low sales of his latest release Red Faction, Red Faction: Armageddon.
The CEO of the company, Brian Farrell has been clear: "do not intend to go ahead with the franchise network Faction".
Members of Volition, the study to the post of the series, will be transferred to the development of inSANE, the trilogy in mind Guillermo del Toro.
The Red Faction series began in 2001 as an FPS for PC and PlayStation 2 that would be a sequel a year later. Red Faction Guerrilla appeared in 2009, and last month went on sale delivery Armageddon, which according to the company, has been a failure at the commercial level.
THQ closes its last quarter with losses
Publisher THQ has announced its latest quarterly results concluded on June 30, results with the common denominator of significant losses for the company given the low sales of some of their games.
Net losses of the company in this period are $ 38.4 million, compared with the also loss of 30.4 million in the same period of last year. On the other hand, the company's net sales totalled 195,2 million dollars compared to 149,4 million the previous year.
"We are disappointed with our financial performance in the first fiscal quarter." "Sales of Red Faction: Armageddon and games licensed for children were below expectations, and the late release of UFC Personal Trainer also negatively affect the quarter", declared the CEO of the editor, Brian Farrell.
In any case they expect that the next two quarters are closed with better results for the launch of series as well established as a Saint´s Row, WWE or uDraw will be released on the HD consoles.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is gold
Square Enix and Eidos Montreal have announced that the anticipated Deus Ex: Human Revolution has already come gold phase, i.e., is finished and ready to go into her doubled for subsequent phase released already.
"Could not be more excited that Deus Ex: Human Revolution is gold and will soon be in the hands of expectant players", says the general manager of Eidos Montreal, Stephane D'Astous.
"Eidos Montreal's first release is impossible to express how extremely proud that agree with the final product and all the hard work we devote to this creation".
Deus Ex: Human Revolutions will be on sale on August 26 on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Announced All Zombies Must Die! for PSN and PC
The creators of Geometry Wars: Galaxies, Doublesix, announced his new project entitled All Zombies Must Die!, a spiritual sequel to his previous title Burn Zombie Burn!, which was released on PSN for two years.
It is an action game where you must get high scores dispatching scattered zombies on stage.
"Following the success of Burn Zombie Burn!" "have been preparing a new ration of zombie craziness, although this is not a direct sequel", says the creative director of the Studio, Jim Mummery.
In the game there will be four characters to choose: a girl, a gamer, a mad scientist and an alien.
As well as action will allow us to improve weapons, develop character and everything through a large number of missions.
All Zombies Must Die! It is announced for late autumn in PC and PSN, although the study does not close the possibility that also appears on Xbox Live.
EPIC asks "memory" to the next generation of consoles
Epic Games appealed to console manufacturers to include more memory in the next generation of consoles, demands similar to those already indicated Crytek in due course.
The European head of Epic Games, Mike Gamble, has commented that "basically, Samaritan [technical demo] was our request to manufacturers of hardware on which we would like to be able to do", admits to the British middle CVG.
"I believe that our greatest application to any new console will always be more memory, more than anything else", says.
His partner, designer Alan Willard, adds: "Give us more memory and what we can do better". However adds that they are not supporters of photorealistic graphics, stating that "it is very problematic to do things like that." Nobody wants to go back home and sit down to play his own life. "You simply want to make the thing look good, but you don't want to see it as reality."
Nintendo results suffered from low sales of 3DS
Nintendo has just published its latest financial results concerning quarterly closing on 30 June results down.
The company has experienced a net loss amounting to 35 billion yen, with the consequent decline in its net sales to 9,400 million yen, lower figures to the harvested in the same period of last year.
This is due to sales of Nintendo 3DS, which have not fulfilled the expectations of the company with only 0.7 million laptops sold in this quarter and that has resulted in the announced cut. The results have also been affected by the decline in sales of the Nintendo DS and Wii.
Wii sales this quarter have been 1.56 million, compared to 3.04 million the same period of last year. 13,44 Millions of games have sold software.
In regards to Nintendo DS has sold 1.44 million consoles from the 3.15 of the same period prior. DS games during this quarter have been 12,44 million.
Nintendo will reward the initial purchasers of 3DS
Nintendo announced a few hours ago a considerable reduction in price of Nintendo 3DS at the global level, which will practically be reduced its price around 40%.
For those buyers who have now acquired the console and access the eShop by August 12, will enter directly to the so-called "Ambassador program", where Nintendo will reward them with a large number of classic games from the Virtual Console.
The classic NES Nintendo titles such as available as of September 1 and next 7 games announce Ice Climber and Balloon Fight, The Legend of Zelda may download. They may also get free games for Game Boy Advance as Yoshi´s Island, Super Mario Advance 3, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Metroid Fusion, WarioWare and Donkey Kong vs. Mario among others, available at year end. In addition, all these free games will be exclusive to these users.
Nintendo confirms the release of Super Mario Land and Mario Kart 7 3D for this Christmas
Sales and economic figures dancing and the announcement of the massive reduction of Nintendo 3DS globally, Nintendo has also dated and final name to some of their most anticipated games for 3DS for this year.
Super Mario 3DS will be called Super Mario 3D Land and will be released in November. On the other hand Mario Kart 3DS will be supposedly called Mario Kart 7 and will be launched in December. Dates for United States and Japan, although it is expected that you for Europe are similar.
On the other hand, Kid Icarus: Uprising confirms his arrival for this Christmas, but still do not give an exact month for landing.
Sony announces a drop in sales of their existing systems
Sony has been next to offer its latest quarterly financial results that encompass from April 1 to June 30, with a sales decline in widespread, possibly caused by the attack hacker to PSN.
PlayStation 3 sales have fallen by 1.8 million to 2.4 million in the same period of last year. Although on the other hand Sony desktop software has grown to 26.1 million for the previous 24.8. Total distributed units of PlayStation 3 worldwide is 51.8 million, according to Sony, hoping to sell some 15 million until 31 March 2012.
In what regards PSP, lime and sand. Hardware has grown 1.8 million compared to the 1.2 million last year, while its software has suffered a major setback down to 6.6 million in front the previous 9.2 million.
PlayStation 2 continues its generational decline, and this quarter has sold 1.4 million compared with the previous 1.6 million. Software have passed since the 3.4 million prior to the current 1.5 million.
Filtered list of games canceled by Sony
God of War, Sony Santa Monica developers were developing new IPs finally did not have the final approval of Sony, which were cancelled.
At least that arises from professional profile at LinkedIn of Steve Johnson, sound designer of Sony santa Monica, where they appear listed three as cancelled games: High Rise, Hand of God and Psynapse.
Also, also lists two games developing without announce, the rumored God of War 4 and can be one of them.
Spanish study Novarama seems to confirm the supposed cut in the RAM of PS Vita
In the month of may the French medium 01.net claimed that Sony had cut to half the initial RAM memory of PSVita, from the initially announced 512 MB to 256 MB.
The Spanish study Novarama, has confirmed to Develop the cut in the RAM memory of the system: "No, not us affect the cut." Today, it is good for the developers to work under restrictions. "In regards to PS Vita, we still have plenty of space in terms of the power of the GPU, the CPU power and RAM".
Supposedly Sony has cut the RAM to launch PSVita at a price similar to the Nintendo 3DS. The standard model will be launched into 249,99 dollars, while the 3 G model will be worth $299,99.
Saint's Row reserves: The Third bend to his predecessor
The little good news that THQ has had in its recent financial results presentation has been the Declaration of Saint´s Row: The Third doubles the reserves of his predecessor, with what appears to have ensured its success once is released.
Brian Farrell, CEO of the publishing house, said its investors over a similar period of reservations already have twice as many reservations to Saint´s Row 2, and expect that this further increase prior to the release of the game, the remaining 15 weeks to get out.
Saint´s Row: The Third launch on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 18.
The King of Fighters XIII will be released in October
The Publisher Rising Star Games has updated its list of releases for this Christmas, offering dates for the landing of some of its titles in Europe.
The King of Fighters XIII, which will appear on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, is listed to leave in October. The shooter from Cave, DoDonPachi: Resurrection, appears on Xbox Live in November.
In regards to titles for Nintendo DS, Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar will be available in September with Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon. A month later it will also come to Europe for Cradle of Rome 2 puzzle DS.
RockStar wore commenting for some time that it would release a free DLC for Red Dead Redemption. It has now been when the company has announced additional content entitled Myths & Mavericks (myths and forsaken in our country), which will be free for the users of the game in all the versions.
This DLC includes new multiplayer characters demanded by fans and new locations for the various multiplayer modes.
The company has also announced that as had been requested by users, they will return to its original state Apocalypsis Zombie mode.
DLC Myths & Mavericks will be available throughout the month of September.
THQ leaves the Red Faction franchise
The American publisher THQ has announced during the presentation of its latest financial results the abandonment of the series due to low sales of his latest release Red Faction, Red Faction: Armageddon.
The CEO of the company, Brian Farrell has been clear: "do not intend to go ahead with the franchise network Faction".
Members of Volition, the study to the post of the series, will be transferred to the development of inSANE, the trilogy in mind Guillermo del Toro.
The Red Faction series began in 2001 as an FPS for PC and PlayStation 2 that would be a sequel a year later. Red Faction Guerrilla appeared in 2009, and last month went on sale delivery Armageddon, which according to the company, has been a failure at the commercial level.
THQ closes its last quarter with losses
Publisher THQ has announced its latest quarterly results concluded on June 30, results with the common denominator of significant losses for the company given the low sales of some of their games.
Net losses of the company in this period are $ 38.4 million, compared with the also loss of 30.4 million in the same period of last year. On the other hand, the company's net sales totalled 195,2 million dollars compared to 149,4 million the previous year.
"We are disappointed with our financial performance in the first fiscal quarter." "Sales of Red Faction: Armageddon and games licensed for children were below expectations, and the late release of UFC Personal Trainer also negatively affect the quarter", declared the CEO of the editor, Brian Farrell.
In any case they expect that the next two quarters are closed with better results for the launch of series as well established as a Saint´s Row, WWE or uDraw will be released on the HD consoles.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is gold
Square Enix and Eidos Montreal have announced that the anticipated Deus Ex: Human Revolution has already come gold phase, i.e., is finished and ready to go into her doubled for subsequent phase released already.
"Could not be more excited that Deus Ex: Human Revolution is gold and will soon be in the hands of expectant players", says the general manager of Eidos Montreal, Stephane D'Astous.
"Eidos Montreal's first release is impossible to express how extremely proud that agree with the final product and all the hard work we devote to this creation".
Deus Ex: Human Revolutions will be on sale on August 26 on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Announced All Zombies Must Die! for PSN and PC
The creators of Geometry Wars: Galaxies, Doublesix, announced his new project entitled All Zombies Must Die!, a spiritual sequel to his previous title Burn Zombie Burn!, which was released on PSN for two years.
It is an action game where you must get high scores dispatching scattered zombies on stage.
"Following the success of Burn Zombie Burn!" "have been preparing a new ration of zombie craziness, although this is not a direct sequel", says the creative director of the Studio, Jim Mummery.
In the game there will be four characters to choose: a girl, a gamer, a mad scientist and an alien.
As well as action will allow us to improve weapons, develop character and everything through a large number of missions.
All Zombies Must Die! It is announced for late autumn in PC and PSN, although the study does not close the possibility that also appears on Xbox Live.
EPIC asks "memory" to the next generation of consoles
Epic Games appealed to console manufacturers to include more memory in the next generation of consoles, demands similar to those already indicated Crytek in due course.
The European head of Epic Games, Mike Gamble, has commented that "basically, Samaritan [technical demo] was our request to manufacturers of hardware on which we would like to be able to do", admits to the British middle CVG.
"I believe that our greatest application to any new console will always be more memory, more than anything else", says.
His partner, designer Alan Willard, adds: "Give us more memory and what we can do better". However adds that they are not supporters of photorealistic graphics, stating that "it is very problematic to do things like that." Nobody wants to go back home and sit down to play his own life. "You simply want to make the thing look good, but you don't want to see it as reality."
Nintendo results suffered from low sales of 3DS
Nintendo has just published its latest financial results concerning quarterly closing on 30 June results down.
The company has experienced a net loss amounting to 35 billion yen, with the consequent decline in its net sales to 9,400 million yen, lower figures to the harvested in the same period of last year.
This is due to sales of Nintendo 3DS, which have not fulfilled the expectations of the company with only 0.7 million laptops sold in this quarter and that has resulted in the announced cut. The results have also been affected by the decline in sales of the Nintendo DS and Wii.
Wii sales this quarter have been 1.56 million, compared to 3.04 million the same period of last year. 13,44 Millions of games have sold software.
In regards to Nintendo DS has sold 1.44 million consoles from the 3.15 of the same period prior. DS games during this quarter have been 12,44 million.
Nintendo will reward the initial purchasers of 3DS
Nintendo announced a few hours ago a considerable reduction in price of Nintendo 3DS at the global level, which will practically be reduced its price around 40%.
For those buyers who have now acquired the console and access the eShop by August 12, will enter directly to the so-called "Ambassador program", where Nintendo will reward them with a large number of classic games from the Virtual Console.
The classic NES Nintendo titles such as available as of September 1 and next 7 games announce Ice Climber and Balloon Fight, The Legend of Zelda may download. They may also get free games for Game Boy Advance as Yoshi´s Island, Super Mario Advance 3, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Metroid Fusion, WarioWare and Donkey Kong vs. Mario among others, available at year end. In addition, all these free games will be exclusive to these users.
Nintendo confirms the release of Super Mario Land and Mario Kart 7 3D for this Christmas
Sales and economic figures dancing and the announcement of the massive reduction of Nintendo 3DS globally, Nintendo has also dated and final name to some of their most anticipated games for 3DS for this year.
Super Mario 3DS will be called Super Mario 3D Land and will be released in November. On the other hand Mario Kart 3DS will be supposedly called Mario Kart 7 and will be launched in December. Dates for United States and Japan, although it is expected that you for Europe are similar.
On the other hand, Kid Icarus: Uprising confirms his arrival for this Christmas, but still do not give an exact month for landing.
Sony announces a drop in sales of their existing systems
Sony has been next to offer its latest quarterly financial results that encompass from April 1 to June 30, with a sales decline in widespread, possibly caused by the attack hacker to PSN.
PlayStation 3 sales have fallen by 1.8 million to 2.4 million in the same period of last year. Although on the other hand Sony desktop software has grown to 26.1 million for the previous 24.8. Total distributed units of PlayStation 3 worldwide is 51.8 million, according to Sony, hoping to sell some 15 million until 31 March 2012.
In what regards PSP, lime and sand. Hardware has grown 1.8 million compared to the 1.2 million last year, while its software has suffered a major setback down to 6.6 million in front the previous 9.2 million.
PlayStation 2 continues its generational decline, and this quarter has sold 1.4 million compared with the previous 1.6 million. Software have passed since the 3.4 million prior to the current 1.5 million.
Filtered list of games canceled by Sony
God of War, Sony Santa Monica developers were developing new IPs finally did not have the final approval of Sony, which were cancelled.
At least that arises from professional profile at LinkedIn of Steve Johnson, sound designer of Sony santa Monica, where they appear listed three as cancelled games: High Rise, Hand of God and Psynapse.
Also, also lists two games developing without announce, the rumored God of War 4 and can be one of them.
Spanish study Novarama seems to confirm the supposed cut in the RAM of PS Vita
In the month of may the French medium 01.net claimed that Sony had cut to half the initial RAM memory of PSVita, from the initially announced 512 MB to 256 MB.
The Spanish study Novarama, has confirmed to Develop the cut in the RAM memory of the system: "No, not us affect the cut." Today, it is good for the developers to work under restrictions. "In regards to PS Vita, we still have plenty of space in terms of the power of the GPU, the CPU power and RAM".
Supposedly Sony has cut the RAM to launch PSVita at a price similar to the Nintendo 3DS. The standard model will be launched into 249,99 dollars, while the 3 G model will be worth $299,99.
Saint's Row reserves: The Third bend to his predecessor
The little good news that THQ has had in its recent financial results presentation has been the Declaration of Saint´s Row: The Third doubles the reserves of his predecessor, with what appears to have ensured its success once is released.
Brian Farrell, CEO of the publishing house, said its investors over a similar period of reservations already have twice as many reservations to Saint´s Row 2, and expect that this further increase prior to the release of the game, the remaining 15 weeks to get out.
Saint´s Row: The Third launch on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 18.
The King of Fighters XIII will be released in October
The Publisher Rising Star Games has updated its list of releases for this Christmas, offering dates for the landing of some of its titles in Europe.
The King of Fighters XIII, which will appear on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, is listed to leave in October. The shooter from Cave, DoDonPachi: Resurrection, appears on Xbox Live in November.
In regards to titles for Nintendo DS, Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar will be available in September with Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon. A month later it will also come to Europe for Cradle of Rome 2 puzzle DS.