When the cryptic trailer for The Phantom Pain showed up back in December, there was plenty of rumors and speculation swirling around on the internet that it was a new Metal Gear game. Those rumors have turned out to be right. The next installment in the MGS franchise will combine the previously announced Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain. The first trailer for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is below:
MGSV has been confirmed for PS3 and Xbox 36o
A trailer for EA’s upcoming Battlefield 4 has appeared online and the game is looking, expectedly, gorgeous.
Xbox Live is hoping to start spring strong with a large sale of downloadable games and expansions. The sale has the first episode of the excellent The Walking Dead game available for free with each subsequent episode available for half off (800 MSP or $10 for the entire season); the Skyrim, L.A. Noire, and Max Payne 3 expansions are marked down 50%; and select games including two Hitman titles, Just Cause 2, and Dead Rising 2 are discounted from 33 to 67% off. The entire list can be viewed at Major Nelson’s blog.
Penny Arcade On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 has its first trailer! The Zeboyd developed conclusion to the Penny Arcade Adventures will be released for PC and Xbox Live Indie Games for $5 (or 400 Microsoft Points) sometime this spring.
Deep Silver, Saints Row’s new owner after THQ’s demise, has confirmed that the next entry in the Saints Row franchise will be available for “current-gen consoles and PC on August 20, 2013, in North America.” The worldwide release will be three days later. This next installment of the franchise was built around the concept of a scrapped DLC for Saints Row: The Third, Enter the Dominatrix, while being a complete gaming experience.
Source: Joystiq
Upcoming CD Projekt Red game Cyberpunk 2077 has been confirmed to have multiplayer features. Speaking with Eurogamer, managing director of Cd Projekt Red stated that the game will have an amazing story-based single player campaign, but the developer will “add multiplayer features.” What those features will be was not stated.
Cyberpunk 2077 will be feature an open world for players to explore with their customizable player characters. As the game will not feature a pre-defined player character as CD Projekt’s other franchise, The Witcher, players will be given more freedom with world exploration and story progression. The game is expected to be released in 2015.
Source: Eurogamer
American McGee, creator of the twisted Alice games inspired by the works of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland tales, may be looking into developing a third game in the franchise. Posting on his Facebook a picture featuring a caption that asks fans if they would be interested in said game if he could get the rights from EA and if they would help fund the game on Kickstarter. As a fan of American McGee’s Alice Madness Returns, finding it to be one of the best games of 2011, I’m hoping that this is something that is followed up on and made a reality.
Source: Facebook
Square Enix is currently holding a large publisher sale on Xbox Live. The list includes nearly 50 items including games and downloadable expansions at 50% off. Live users can get Tomb Raider: Underworld, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Sleeping Dogs, and Dungeon Siege III among others for a discounted price. The sale runs until March 18. You can see all the available items on xbox.com.
Bungie has finally stepped out from the shadows to reveal their first post-Halo console project. Set in a future where Earth has been all but destroyed, Destiny places players in the boots of a soldier–a guardian of the city built beneath “The Traveler”–tasked with saving the city. What little is shown in this video looks incredibly promising, it’s great to see Jason Jones again, and Bungie will, no doubt, deliver an amazing gaming experience over the next decade. Destiny Awaits:
CD Projekt RED has announced the third installment of its The Witcher franchise. The developer claims that the game will be the largest modern RPG and will be 30x larger than The Witcher 2. This next installment will use CD Projekt’s new engine REDengine 3 and will be the first game to utilize said engine. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be an open world game said to be 20% larger than the world in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim–the map will take over 30 minutes to cross on horseback!
Wild Hunt will be the final installment of the series developed by CD Projekt RED and will be released in 2014 for PC and “all high-end platforms available.”
In related Witcher news, the first two games are currently on sale on Steam for $5 and $10 and the second game has received a permanent price drop on Xbox 360 (officially down to $30).
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