EA Sports scores big with its latest soccer installement
Soccer fans came out in droves this past week. FIFA '12 was released last week on September 27, 2011 and first week sales have totaled to 3.2 million copies, making it the biggest sports launch in history and the biggest video game launch of 2011 thus far. This is a 23% increase in sales over last year's release.
Spider-Man: Edge of Time is available for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo DS as of today.
EA to tease the need for speed.
Gamers that have the need for speed are in for a pleasant surprise as EA has announced that a demo for the latest in their long running Need for Speed Series, The Run, will be up and live on XBLA and PSN on October 18th for North America and October 19th for our European brothers and sisters. Both demos will run through November 1st.
The sequel to the popular Dreamcast game will now be available in 2012.
Sega has announced the Phantasy Star Online 2's release date as been postponed. Originally supposed to be available this year, the PC game will now be released in 2012.
Valve's well-received puzzler is being expanded on next week -- for free!
Today, Valve announced that Portal 2 will be receiving DLC, titled Peer Review. Set to release on October 4 on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and Mac, the extra content will be completely free.
A super-customizable retro RPG by NIS.
I’ve never been more impressed by a title screen. Picture this: it’s a peaceful, moonlit night in 8-bit land. The pixelated moonlight is reflecting off of a pixelated island. There’s a catchy Japanese song playing (the one used in the official trailer). This one scene tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the game. It shows that NIS really understands its core fans and has put a lot of effort into making the game exactly what they want it to be.
Snake's first five games packaged together under one box.
Konami is rebuilding Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater from the ground up with a few modern additions, like achievements/trophies and updated button configurations. They will also have icons, sound effects, and fonts upgraded to HD, plus a frame rate locked at a steady 60 frames per second.
The system will be released in Japan later this year.
Sony announced tonight at their TGS 2011 conference that the PlayStation Vita will see release this year in Japan. Come December 17, Japanese players will be getting their hands on the new Sony handheld. According to Famitsu, the system will launch with Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Armies From Hell from Square Enix, but at the time of press, no other launch titles are currently known.
Come see Nintendo's 3DS-centric press conference as it happens and join the staff as they discuss the announcements as they happen.
Starting at 11PM EDT tonight, Nintendo's pre-TGS, 3DS-centric press conference can be seen here streaming live! Now that Famitsu has spilled the beans on Monster Hunter 3 G and the second circle pad attachment, it's likely these items will come up during the conference. We'll likely learn if the attachment is just for the game or if Nintendo has bigger plans for the peripheral.
With the announcement that this game has gone gold comes the announcement of its release date, it will be available this September 27 for the Nintendo DS.
