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DICE dishes details on VIP Map Pack 7; will contain original Bad Company’s Oasis and Harvest Day environments; no release date announced.
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Current CEO’s resignation is announced along with latest financial results.Andriasang is reporting that Yoichi Erikawa, who co-founded Koei in 1978, has taken over as president and CEO of Tecmo Koei Holdings.
In an earnings report today it was announced that current CEO Kenji Matsubara will resign on November 30, citing personal reasons. Erikawa will also take over from Matsubara as President and CEO of Tecmo Koei Games.
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This one’s shiny, small and clever.
Wasn’t that old PS3 Bluetooth headset big and dull? Thank goodness Sony has unveiled a new one.
This one’s shiny and 30 per cent smaller, and has noise cancellation as well as a High-Quality mode for crisp and clear sound.
Like the PS3 pads, the headset has a mini-USB socket so it can be cabled to the console – enabling charging and auto pairing (getting your PS3 to recognise the mic).
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Naughty Bear also getting a sequel from the company now known as Behaviour; upcoming titles for 3DS, PSP2 also hinted at.
Artificial Mind and Movement–more popularly known by the moniker A2M–has been busy of late. The Canadian developer has just finished the Wii port for The Sims 3, after releasing MySims SkyHeroes, Naughty Bear and the PSP version of Dante’s Inferno along with a number of downloadable titles this year. The studio, which bills itself as Canada’s largest independent developer, today confirmed sequels for the critically panned Naughty Bear, as well as 2009’s more favourably reviewed stylised third-person shooter Wet.
The company announced the new titles jointly with a new name–henceforth it is to be known as Behaviour. The studio formerly known as A2M was originally known as Behaviour in the 1990s, and latterly adopted the Artificial Mind and Movement moniker.
As well as Wet 2 and Naughty Bear 2, the company confirmed it was developing an XBLA title called Doritos Crash Course and a number of unannounced titles. These titles will be across multiple platforms, including “next generation handhelds,” though no more details were offered by the publisher. The company also has Rango in the works–a multiplatform family friendly title which is being developed for EA and Paramount Digital. Rango: The Video Game will tie in with the 2011 Jonny Depp animated film of the same name, though EA confirmed to GameSpot that Depp would not be lending his voice to the game tie-in.
It is also launching a Facebook game in November and has a “casual” massively multiplayer online game coming in early 2011. Behaviour intends to continue its work both developing its own IP as well as working on a for-hire basis for other larger developers and publishing houses.
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Generates over $300m at retail.
Bethesda’s shipped a whopping five million units of science-fiction role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas.
This, coupled with a “healthy volume of digital downloads”, generated well over $300 million in sales.
Remember, shipped means shipped, as in sent to shops and other retailers. But still, five million’s an impressive number.
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Publisher manages to reduce losses year-on-year in second quarter results.Japan-based publisher and developer Namco Bandai has posted financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2011.
The company posted a net loss of around $24 million dollars for the first half of the fiscal year, which is an improvement on losses of $74 million for the same period in 2009.
Namco Bandai’s content division, which houses games, saw Tekken 6 lead software sales with 1.07 million units shipped.
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Allegedly.
Nintendo paid Dame Helen Mirren half a million quid to advertise Wii Fit, according to a new report.
Mirren, who has more acting awards than everyone else put together, swelled her bank account by £500,000 after a whopping two days work shooting the telly ads for Wii Fit Plus, according to MSN.
Apparently Nintendo “insisted” on the 65-year-old actress for the campaign “because they believe her glamorous look and svelte figure will attract over-50s to the game”.
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Browser joined in the middle.
BigPoint is now inviting you, you and you to put Battlestar Galactica Online through its paces.
It’s a closed beta to begin with, restricted to a “hand-selected” group of people from Europe and the US. That number will increase, however, as preparations for an open beta in December ramp up.
The beta offers a tutorial mission as either the human or Cylon species. Complete that and the universe proper becomes your playground, as you tackle computer opponents as well as other testees.
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You herd.
Firefly Studios has launched a competition to find the dead animal it’ll use as ammo in PC castle building strategy game Stronghold 3.
Fans are being urged to vote for one of four dead animals on the game’s Facebook page: senile donkey; cage of rabid otters; retired dancing bear; and sack of diseased badgers. The winning entry will become ammunition for trebuchets in the game. Really.
“Medieval sieges were often just long periods of people doing nothing,” explained designer Simon Bradbury.
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“We’ve never put a release date on it.”
Kojima Productions’ slice-em-up Metal Gear Rising will be released in 2012, according to Kotaku.
While Konami issued a no comment on the story to Eurogamer this morning, it did point out that it is yet to slap a release window of any kind on the game.
Rising was announced in the summer of 2009. Players assume the role of Raiden, the divisive cyborg samurai star of Metal Gear Solid 2, and slice stuff up including human enemies with a deadly sword.
