Monday, February 23, 2009
Quake goes Live tomorrow
id Software has announced that it will begin the open beta phase of Quake Live tomorrow, giving anyone who wants to play a chance to get stuck into the game.Ostensibly, Quake Live is a streamlined version of Quake 3: Arena that runs in a browser and is available for free. id Software is hoping that the entire game can be financed by advertising around the game, thus negating a need for microtransactions or subscription fees.
In preparation for the open beta launch, all player accounts that were started in the closed beta phase are going to be wiped though. All current statistics from accounts not active in the last month will be wiped, according to Eurogamer. Player names and settings will remain though and id Software has pledged this is the last time it'll happen.
id Software is hoping that the low-end requirements for Quake Live, as well as the fact that it's based on Quake 3 (by far the most popular multiplayer game in the series) should mean that the game becomes a resounding success with cheap gamers who fancy some free frags.
Anyone interested in Quake Live, which was originally titled Quake Zero, can find extra information on the game, as well as open beta applications, over on the official website.
Via: bit-tech
Street Fighter Athlete Sets New Guinness World Record
Zak Bennett Beats 108 People in a Row in less than 4 hours London, England– 23rd February– Guinness World Records confirmed today that UK’s premier Street Fighter player Zak Bennett has broken into the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition for the most consecutive wins on Street Fighter™ IV - with a whopping 108 wins unbeaten.
The successful record attempt took place in London on Friday afternoon. Official Guinness World Records representatives were present to adjudicate the feat, which is now shortlisted for inclusion in next year’s Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition.
Challenger Hatim Habashi beat Bennett after 28 consecutive wins, but in his second record attempt Bennett raised his game and managed to defeat 108 challengers in succession.
Editor-in-Chief of Guinness World Records, Craig Glenday, said:“We congratulate Zak on his extraordinary achievement and welcome him into the Guinness World Records family. It’s always great to see gamers showcase their talent while making a mark in the record books.”
Street Fighter IV brings the legendary fighting series back to its roots by taking the beloved fighting moves and techniques of the original Street Fighter™ II and infusing them with Capcom’s latest advancements in next generation technology to create a truly extraordinary experience that will re-introduce the world to the time-honoured art of virtual martial arts.
Via: mcvuk
Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena has a date
Atari have just let us know that Assault on Dark Athena, which is the original Chronicles of Riddick game remade in HD plus a brand new expansion, will be released on the 24th of April across Europe (and two weeks earlier in the States), with Xbox Live and PSN Demos coming in March, although we don’t know which areas will be in the demo yet.
Renowned developer Starbreeze Studios has effectively combined stealth, vicious hand-to-hand combat and ferocious gunplay in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, creating an irresistible game with something for all fans of action gaming. For more information visit the game’s official website at http://atari.com/riddick/.
Via: thesixthaxis
Team ICO’s Fumito Ueda Speaking at GDC 09
Don’t get your hopes up for any kind of megaton game announcements, but the Game Developers Conference website confirms (via VG247) that Fumito Ueda, the head of Team ICO and the man behind ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, will be joining quite a distinguished panel that’ll cover the future of game design. Titled “Today and Tomorrow, East and West Game Design,” Ueda will be accompanied by Grasshopper Studio’s Goichi Suda (aka Suda51), Bethesda’s Emil Pagliarulo (lead designer on Fallout 3), and 8-4Ltd executive director (and old friend of 1UP) Mark MacDonald. The panel will cover “the most important recent trends in modern game design,” and “how they see them affecting the industry both in Japan and the West” (a topic of some popularity these days).
Ueda is known to be working on a mysterious new title for the PlayStation 3 (the first game that’ll come out of Team ICO since 2005’s Shadow of the Colossus), and naturally, Ueda’s appearance at GDC will spark hope that some kind of new info on it will be revealed. Again, we caution not to get your hopes up too high (it’s unlikely any big announcements will be made at a multi-participant panel), but then again, what is life without any hope at all?
Via: ninjabattle
Resident Evil 5 completed in 7 hours
Xbox World 360 Magazine has responded to claims they finished the long-awaited horror sequel in just 7 hours - considerably shorter than the "20+ hours" promised in US publications."As previously stated our first completion time, minus cut-scenes, was seven hours, thirty-six minutes and one second," the mag posted on its blog, even posting screenshots as proof. "For reference purposes, the total length of all the game's cut-scenes clocks in at 80 minutes.
"This time was achieved in single player and on the normal difficulty. This was not a speed-run, nor were we pressured for time, and was not, as suggested, merely the time to complete the first three chapters of preview code."
As the mag points out, this makes Resident Evil 5 considerably shorter than its predecessor - though you can't see everything in the new game that quickly.
"We wish to stress that you cannot see all there is to see in Resident Evil 5 in under ten hours - something which the review makes very clear. There are plenty of extras to unlock and reasons to keep playing. But the fact remains that the first run-through of the campaign is brief; especially when compared to 4's.
"We can only suggest that those citing 20+ hour completion times need to brush up on their gaming skills. :-)"
Read our summary of XBW's review here. Resident Evil 5 is out on March 23.
Capcom Announce Lost Planet 2 via XBOX Live
Download the video - wmv 339.07 MB 1280x720Capcom have announced Lost Planet 2 through an exclusive teaser on XBOX Live. Despite the nature of the announcement, we expect the game to be multiplatform due to the original Lost Planet getting an eventual PS3 port and Capcom’s current multiplatform stance. GameZine are reporting a potential online co-op component for the sequel.
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