Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Leedmees preview: Like a bridge]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/26/leedmees-preview-like-a-bridge/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/26/leedmees-preview-like-a-bridge/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/26/leedmees-preview-like-a-bridge/#comments Leedmees was a nice surprise in the Konami suite at Comic-Con this week -- we haven't posted about it yet at all, and while Fruit Ninja Kinect has gotten a lot of the press as the first downloadable Kinect title, this one looks like it might be the more original.

The game describes, during a dreamy little introduction, the player wandering into a secret magical door somewhere, where little white creatures (called Leedmees, presumably) march in step from one little spinning portal to another. Like the old Lemmings games, Leadmees mindlessly walk forward, and it's up to the player to make sure they get home safely.

But there's one important twist: In Lemmings, you controlled the little creatures, using their abilities to get through the environment. In Leedmees, you are the environment.

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Telltale's garnered a reputation for building licensed games not just around a popular setting, but around strong stories and characters as well. The Walking Dead game will fit right into that tradition. It won't feature the main characters of the comic book or the TV show, however -- Rodkin said they didn't want players coming in with preconceived notions about how the game's story should play out. If the game presents you with a choice of going left or right, players may think, "'Well I've seen him turn left twice now, I saw it in the comic book and in the show, so I'm going to go left.' And as much as a designer would hope that people are going to experiment with your system, people would just want to see that story again."

Telltale's game will follow Lee, a prisoner, and Clementine, a young girl he comes across in the zombie apocalypse. And anyone with hopes of anything resembling a feel-good ending should probably check that at the door on the way in. "The Walking Dead," Rodkin said, "is not really a game about people who save the world. It's more about a story of trying to survive as people inside of this huge and horrible situation."

Gallery: Walking Dead concept art (06/08/11)

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>microsoftnamco-bandaiplaystationproject-soulps3sdcc-2011soulcalibur-5soulcalibur-vxboxTue, 26 Jul 2011 14:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Kinect Star Wars preview: Pod (racing) people]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/25/kinect-star-wars-preview-pod-racing-people/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/25/kinect-star-wars-preview-pod-racing-people/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/25/kinect-star-wars-preview-pod-racing-people/#comments At the Comic-Con panel for Kinect Star Wars earlier this week (the same panel where that R2D2 Xbox was announced), Microsoft's head of Kinect Jorg Neumann told the story of how the game itself came about. Back in 2008, when Kinect was still called Project Natal, and basically consisted of just a camera in a back room at Microsoft, Neumann and his colleagues found an engineer playing with game prototypes on the system, and one of those was a lightsaber simulator. That alone convinced Neumann and his division that Star Wars needed to be on the interface in some format.

And it turns out LucasArts didn't need much convincing either. Lead producer Craig Derrick described flying out to the Microsoft campus to see the proposal for the game, and saying among his own colleagues that all they planned to do was hold out their hand and see what happened. As soon as they pushed a hand out to the Kinect unit, said Derrick, "it knocked over a bunch of droids, and we were like, 'OK, we're in.'"

We saw the game's Force-driven droid pushing and lightsaber waving at E3, but Microsoft and LucasArts introduced a new mode to the game this week: pod racing. Anakin Skywalker's motorsport of choice is in the game as well, and I got to take a pod out for a spin later on in the week at a Microsoft preview event.

Gallery: Kinect: Star Wars (Pod Racing)

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>comic-con-2011kinect-star-warslucasartsmicrosoftproject-natalsdcc-2011star-wars-kinectxboxMon, 25 Jul 2011 13:33:00 EST<![CDATA[Gears of War 3 behind-the-scenes video (Or, 'the giant curb stomp')]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/25/gears-of-war-3-behind-the-scenes-video-or-the-giant-curb-stom/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/25/gears-of-war-3-behind-the-scenes-video-or-the-giant-curb-stom/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/25/gears-of-war-3-behind-the-scenes-video-or-the-giant-curb-stom/#comments There are two approaches to viewing the Gears of War 3 "Crescendo" video. Option one: appreciate all of Epic's insight on the development and story of the final Gears chapter. Option 2: just drink in the spectacle - like a mech curb-stomping a fallen foe. So, yeah, you're probably going with option two.

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WETA's Greg Broadmore designed Dr. Grordbort's Infallible Aether Oscillators, which include the Righteous Bison and Cow Mangler 5000, two new weapons in the Victory Pack. To better acquaint players with these stellar WETA weapons, Valve has posted a comic featuring the Soldier and WETA promises special promo coupons at its booth at San Diego Comic-Con. Just watch out for the cow pies.

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Dragon Age Redemption is bringing big-screen talent to an online miniseries, including Independence Day producer Peter Winther as director, Lost's John Bartley as executive producer and Hellboy's Doug Jones acting alongside Felicia Day (who, to this crowd, needs no introduction). At the Redemption Comic-Con panel, Day revealed that each episode will run six to 10 minutes, or an hour in total. Day, who wrote the script, said she modeled Redemption after The Guild, where each episode has a beginning, middle and end.

Redemption was also confirmed as canonical within the Dragon Age universe. The series doesn't have an official host site or release date yet, although Day did say, "It should be out early this fall. Don't tweet that." Luckily for us, this isn't Twitter.

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Tekken project lead Katsuhiro Harada clearly hasn't been studying the finer points of the Street Fighter series he's currently collaborating on, as Street Fighter creative lead Yoshinori Ono surprises him with a flurry of shoryukens at multiple points in this bizarre SDCC short, promoting Street Fighter X Tekken (and vice versa, of course).

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>capcomcomic-concomic-con-2011katsuhiro-haradamicrosoftnamcoplaystationps3san-diego-comic-consan-diego-comic-con-2011sdcc-2011street-fighter-x-tekkentekken-x-street-fighterxboxyoshinori-onoFri, 22 Jul 2011 18:40:00 EST<![CDATA[Darksiders 2 preview: Death pays a visit]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/22/darksiders-2-preview-death-pays-a-visit/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/22/darksiders-2-preview-death-pays-a-visit/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/22/darksiders-2-preview-death-pays-a-visit/#comments So you have a pretty popular game, starring an interesting and original rendition of one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It sells well. In fact, it sells well enough that it gives a distraught publisher a much-needed influx of revenue and then, when the time comes to make the sequel, you decide to completely replace the protagonist everyone knows, and bring in a brand new character that wasn't ever seen in the first game.

That's what comic book artist-turned Vigil Games founder Joe Madureira did, and though Darksiders 2 definitely looks like it's turning out well, even he says he had doubts. "I still wonder if it's a smart thing," he told me at Comic-Con this week, "because usually when you're building a franchise around a character, you really try and keep the same character." Well, yeah.

"But it was a momentary apprehension. As soon as we concepted him and we had him running in the game, it was a cooler character." He says that THQ didn't have a problem with the change either: "They were like, yeah, this is a cool idea."

Gallery: Darksiders 2 (7/19/11)

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As a special Comic-Con treat, Microsoft has unveiled more than four minutes of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary footage. Narrated by 343's Dan Ayoub, the video shows off the beloved "Silent Cartographer" level, which we saw earlier this year at E3.

There's a lot to see, most notably the game's ability to switch between the original and remastered graphics on the fly. Oh and, lest we forget, the mighty pistol is in there too.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>343-Industriesbungiehalohalo-combat-evolved-anniversarymicrosoftsdcc-2011xboxFri, 22 Jul 2011 18:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Retro City Rampage playable at Comic-Con, even without a pass]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/22/retro-city-rampage-playable-at-comic-con-even-without-a-pass/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/22/retro-city-rampage-playable-at-comic-con-even-without-a-pass/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/22/retro-city-rampage-playable-at-comic-con-even-without-a-pass/#comments If you don't mind hanging out in a Hard Rock establishment, you have an opportunity to play a bunch of unreleased games, including Retro City Rampage. In case it weren't abundantly clear from our past coverage of RCR, we're big proponents of not just the game itself, but of the developer's dogged entrepreneurial spirit, so we wanted to make sure you knew about two chances this weekend to play it at Microsoft's Hard Rock-based Comic Con Xbox lounge. Extra convenient? No SDCC pass is required to attend.

In between snacking on sliders and getting your 8-bit open-world on, you may also want to check out some of the other games available to play -- everything from Orcs Must Die to Batman: Arkham City, we're told. And before you head over, why not take a look through a brand new set of Comic-Con screens for RCR, just below? Details for the weekend can be found after the break.

Gallery: Retro City Rampage (San Diego Comic Con 2011)

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During an interview (coming soon!) with Drew Murray, lead designer of the "spectacular" Resistance 3, we learned that the planned multiplayer beta is just around the corner. "We're doing a friends and family beta right now," Murray said. "And I think we kick off the public beta sometime in August."

That "sometime" has now been narrowed down to "the first week in August" according to IGN, reporting from the Resistance 3 panel at Comic-Con. The beta features multiplayer modes Team Deathmatch and Chain Reaction, both shown on video here, and an undisclosed number of maps. It's still not clear if owning the less-than-spectacular SOCOM 4 is the only way to access the beta.

These videos both take place on Seaside, so that's ostensibly one map we know about. And the first week in August is really a great time to spend by the sea; one last beach run before the game's September 6 release.

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Nintendo has yet to confirm the title, but we expect we'll hear official word when the company decides to make a big release date announcement. And given how much we liked the game when we played it back at E3, here's hoping that announcement comes soon.

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The date was announced during an Activision event at San Diego Comic-Con today, along with the release date of Prototype 2, though Activision already dropped that info earlier today. There was a lot to like about Beenox's first swing at Spidey with last year's Shattered Dimensions, but our review criticized the game for feeling "rushed." Is just one year enough time to make sure Edge of Time doesn't feel similarly rushed? We'll get some hands-on time with the title at Comic-Con and let you know how what our Spidey-sense says.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>activisionbeenoxcomic-conmicrosoftplaystationps3release-datesdcc-2011spider-man-edge-of-timespiderman-edge-of-timexboxWed, 20 Jul 2011 22:15:00 EST<![CDATA[Activision reveals April launch for Prototype 2, September for X-Men Destiny]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/20/activision-reveals-april-launch-for-prototype-2-september-for-x/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/20/activision-reveals-april-launch-for-prototype-2-september-for-x/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/20/activision-reveals-april-launch-for-prototype-2-september-for-x/#comments Kicking off its San Diego Comic Con announcements, game publishing giant Activision today revealed two solid, very different release dates for two hopefully solid, very different games. First up, Prototype 2 will surf victims' bodies into retail on April 24, 2012. A new trailer for next year's sequel is available just below the break, fresh from San Diego.

Additionally, a new trailer for X-Men Destiny was released, which puts a September 27 launch date on the next project from Silicon Knights. Given the origin of both pieces of info, SDCC attendees should be aware that X-Men Destiny will be playable at this week's show, while "15-minute live stage presentations" for Prototype 2 will be going off at the Activision booth.

Still here? Both trailers are just below -- follow us!

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>activisioncomic-con-2011microsoftpcplaystationprototype-2ps3q2-2012q4-2011radicalradical-entertainmentrelease-datesan-diego-comic-consan-diego-comic-con-2011sdccsdcc-2011silicon-knightsx-men-destinyxboxWed, 20 Jul 2011 19:30:00 EST<![CDATA[PSA: BioShock: Rapture novel surfaces at retail]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/20/psa-bioshock-rapture-novel-surfaces-at-retail/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/20/psa-bioshock-rapture-novel-surfaces-at-retail/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/20/psa-bioshock-rapture-novel-surfaces-at-retail/#commentsJust a quick reminder that the new novel, BioShock: Rapture, is now available from your bookseller of choice (well, maybe not all of them). Penned by sci-fi and fantasy author John Shirley, the book tells the story of Andrew Ryan and the beginnings of his underwater metropolis. If you would (kindly) like to add it to your collection, BioShock: Rapture is available in both paperback and hardcover.

In addition, Shirley will host a panel at Comic-Con this Friday. Entitled "Writing in Videogames," the panel begins at 10am in room 32AB. Shirley will also be on hand to sign copies of BioShock: Rapture at the Tor Books booth (#2707) from 12pm to 1pm.

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The company is hosting several presentations on a handful of its games -- everything from Starhawk to Uncharted 3 -- along with with the chance to play a variety of unreleased PlayStation titles. If that weren't enough, the construction of a full Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One arcade cabinet specifically for SDCC 2011 should help to get you on board. Take an early peek at the cabinet in working order just below the break.

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Along with Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dead Island and Wakfu, XIII-2 will also be playable at the San Diego Comic-Con later this week.

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