Footy aficionados fancying themselves some world class football will get just that in EA's newly announced spinoff, FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa. Simultaneously releasing on Xbox 360, PS3, PSP and Wii, this special installment -- only once every four years people! -- in EA's ongoing franchise features all of the 2010 World Cup's 199 qualifying round national teams and all ten of the official South African event stadiums. There's also an online-enabled World Cup Mode, where you can take any national team (dibs on Brazil!) and progress from the qualifying rounds right up to the final match.
Wii players will get "an art style that celebrates the cultural vibrancy of the first FIFA World Cup to be held in Africa" (so, pretty much, it'll look like a cartoon) and their own special game mode in Zakumi's Dream Team, where players create custom teams and take their virtual squads on the road against the 32 participating World Cup teams. No specific PSP version features have been revealed.
FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa is being developed by EA Canada in Burnaby, B.C. and is scheduled to hit the pitch on April 27 in the US and April 30 in Europe and Asia.
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Based purely on gameplay mechanics, the new Xbox Indie Game from Kydos Studio, titled Soul, is simple. The goal: Guide a dead man's soul to heaven. You do this by moving the soul through corridors while avoiding the walls and various hazards. It's the background art and atmosphere that make the game freaky, however. The game is filled with disturbing imagery and pop-out scares, like some kind of nightmarish game of Operation. Check out a trailer after the break and grab the trial version using the link below.
Shortcut: Download the trial version of Soul [via Xbox.com]; the full version is 80 ($1)
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Konami has revealed the solution to the puzzle that is "Piece Walker," and it's ... more puzzles. The "Piece Walker" teased last month on the Kojima Productions page is an "online jigsaw puzzle battle" game. Of course, being Kojima Productions, there's still more counting down to be done even after the reveal of the game. It'll be available tomorrow at 3PM "Japan Time" (1AM EST).
The "online battle" part makes it sound like it'll be a competitive multiplayer ... jigsaw puzzle game, and we're sure you'll get some kind of bonus for successful play, like wallpapers or something. At the very least, it's a way to stare at Snake's steely visage before Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker's March release.
[Thanks, Matthew Floratos!]
These Deux Wednesdays seem to be coming up faster with each passing week. Time flies when you’re…working hard?! I think I’m just getting old, and getting there quick. If only I could slow down time to enjoy it more!
Speaking of enjoying your time, that’s what I hope you do with Deux! [...]
01.27.2010 – Bloober Team (www.blooberteam.com) today has unveiled Facebook page for its upcoming action-adventure horror, Last Flight, along with three new screenshots showing the game in action.
On http://www.facebook.com/pages/Last-Flight/152113657076 gamers can connect with other fans of the game, request features and stay updated on everything Last Flight. The page will be updated with every bit of [...]
Yeah, I don’t think eating turkeys you found in garbage cans is going to be a way to get you back to health. I think it might do the opposite…and you’d be lucky to survive!
Order Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars and the Wii Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Arcade FightStick together, by 2/6/10, and save 15% off the price of the FightStick. Offer valid when shipped and sold by Amazon.com, while supplies last.
Considering that an entire game's worth of content was supposedly cut from Final Fantasy XIII, one could imagine there's a veritable gold mine of content waiting to be polished and released as DLC. Apparently not, however, as producer Yoshinori Kitase has allegedly indicated, "at present we're not considering [DLC]." The quote is said to originate from a brief interview featured in an Ultima Guide for the game (via FFReunion), and Kitase apparently added that DLC is still "possible," but it's just not something Square Enix is working on right now.
Kitase cited the team's drive to create a complete experience in the final retail game as one of the contributing factors to putting DLC plans aside. He also pointed to the game's exceedingly long development time and the developers' focus on getting the game finished as soon as possible. Clearly, "asap" has a different meaning in Japan.
[Via Andriasang]
Remember awhile back when we told you that MTV was looking for video game ‘addicts’? Now we see the fruits of that labor! How did the show portray gamers? I think you already know the answer to that one. Hit up the link below to check out some clips from the [...]
Eggman and Sonic need to stop fighting each other over these things. Clearly someone else managed to sneak them away while those two were going at it! Thanks to Johnny2900 for the heads up!
The Dragon Age: Origins DLC "Return to Ostagar" was delayed at the eleventh hour, then mysteriously appeared on Xbox Live on January 13, before disappearing once again. In an interview with PCGZine, BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka assured readers that "Return to Ostagar" will return to availability sometime soon. "We have a big investment planned for Dragon Age with more DLC coming in the next week or so," Muzyka said.
Muzyka's explanation for the botched DLC launch echoed that of community manager Chris Priestly, with both citing complications from a title update that had launched simultaneously with the Xbox Live release. "I don't know if it was a communication error with our distribution partners or what happened there," Muzyka said. "If they were released in order it would have been fine but it created a bug which prevented progression and obviously that wasn't acceptable so we pulled it down."
Is it cynical to suggest that you wait a few days to download the DLC even after the "real" release?
I had to use a legitimate Korean social security number that was over 18 and younger than 20 that wasn't already taken and find a Korean proxy server that wasn't banned.
Here's some encouraging news for those hoping that the PlayStation Motion Controller (pleaseannouncethenamealready!) will give a reason to knock the dust off your old PlayStation Eye. According to a Nikkei report spotted by Andriasang, the device, which pairs with the Eye, will have "around 10 or so games" by year's end, including sports and pet raising titles.
We've been disappointed by the game support for the Eye so far, outside of the ability to construct extensive scrotum-centric LBP sticker libraries. Here's hoping that these promised releases can take all the Eyes sitting on our shelves from novelty to necessity.
