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PAX East 2010 Highlights
Mar 29th
Dead Space 2 Fun With Limbs
If you’re familiar with Dead Space, which you should be, then you should also be used to the amount of dismembered limbs that lay in waste throughout the game. Executive producer, Steve Papoutsis had a few words on how these decimated pieces of flesh will come in handy during the sequel.
“Imagine if you will,” Steve proposes, “Slice off limb, slasher blade, TK (telekinesis) the slasher blade, shoot slasher blade at the enemy, nail enemy to the wall.” Then he made bang bang noises. He’s obviously extremely excited about this. “That way if you run out of ammo, you can just go for some limbs.”
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Gears of War 3
Mar 16th
GOW III news and we don’t mean the God. Thats right the COG is quietly planning its return.
An anonymous source revealed to Edge Online that Microsoft is planning to ship Gears Of War 3 in early April 2011.
On top of that, the teaser trailer is expected to debut next month on April 8th, which is exactly one year ahead of the proposed 2011 launch date with a full reveal planned for E3 in June.
It might not have been officially announced yet, but Gears Of War 3 is already well into development at Epic apparently, and the story is said to pick up where the last game left off with mankind still struggling against the savage Locust hordes.
“Microsoft’s keen to avoid a clash with Halo: Reach and wants Natal to own Christmas. That’s why we won’t be seeing Gears Of War 3 until next year, but expect a major marketing push ahead of its release,” said the anonymous source.
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Mar 15th
Attention all Tom Clancy fans! the wait is over! it has just been confirmed by street gamer sources that there will be an exclusive demo released on the XBL marketplace to all gold XBL members on Thursday March, 18 so make sure your account is active and prepare to step into the shoes of Sam Fisher and get some revenge for the wrongful death of his daughter!
Mass Effect 2 DLC Adds 90 Minutes & New Character
Mar 13th
The first paid downloadable content for Mass Effect 2 is a heist mission. And it’s a tease. [Content spoilers in this post.]
In San Francisco, where thousands of game creators are swarming the 2010 Game Developers’ Conference, BioWare’s Casey Hudson was showing his Mass Effect 2’s first paid expansion, Kasumi’s Stolen Memory. It features a new potential ally, the 12th for the sequel, the elite thief Kasumi.
This DLC is Mass Effect’s ode to James Bond. It is an undercover slip into a formal-attire-required party at the estate of the shady Donovan Hock, mixed with a bit of schmoozing, a safe that needs cracking and then gunfire. There is a vault in this 90-minute level. It contains statues of familiar characters and two of the most popular statues from Earth: Michelangelo’s David and the Statue of Liberty.
That’s a tease, Hudson told Kotaku, of what has happened to Earth in the Mass Effect fiction, though we’re not going there in this DLC. “At some point we will go to the Earth,” he said. When? He’s not saying.
The Kasumi DLC offers this one Bond-style mission and a number of frills. Players will wind up with a new weapon (submachine gun), a new power (the ability to throw flashbang grenades), one Achievement and a new unlocked area of the player’s spaceship. Kasumi will hang out in that new area of the ship and will also be able to stick with you through the game. Her special ability, a Shade Strike that sends her, cloaked in invisibility, on a dash toward the enemy to perform a powerful attack, could prove handy. She will interact with the other Mass Effect 2 characters, according to Hudson.
Hudson described Kasumi’s Stolen Memory as the first of a series of paid downloadable content offerings for Mass Effect 2. While this new one doesn’t tweak the game’s engine he said that it is already enabling BioWare’s developers to try new art tricks and styles. He said that other DLC Mass Effect 2 projects are underway. They may very in length of quest and type of content, but they’re coming.
Kasumi’s Stolen Memory will be out next month for Xbox 360 and PC. No price announced. Players will be able to access it once they have played enough of Mass Effect 2 to attain their own in-game space-ship and/or after the end of the game’s main quest
