 | Dark Souls II release date announced Sep 19th 2013, 01:00 Dark Souls II to be released in March next year in Europe and the Americas; collector's edition details revealed. 
Open-world role-playing game Dark Souls II will launch on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on March 11 next year in North America, publisher Namco Bandai confirmed. The announcement was made during Namco Bandai's pre-Tokyo Game Show conference today. A collector's edition was also revealed and will include a soundtrack, artbook, 12 inch figurine, and a cloth map. A release date for PC was not confirmed. Dark Souls II is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Dark Souls. PlayStation 3 owners in North America, Europe, and Australasia can sign up for the beta, which begins on October 12. More news from the show can be found at our Tokyo Game Show 2013 hub. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
| | From Software details new Dark Souls II features Sep 19th 2013, 01:00 Director Yui Tanimura outlines key changes to underlying gameplay systems for upcoming current-generation role-playing game. 
Dark Souls II will feature a number of key changes to underlying gameplay systems, according to From Software director Yui Tanimura, including revamped rules for player interactions, co-op, and PVP. Tanimura explained the changes during a recent presentation attended by GameSpot. Unlike the peer-to-peer lobbies that fuel the original Dark Souls, players will now populate dedicated servers, like the spiritual predecessor, Demon's Souls, thus increasing the number of players that populate a given instance of the game. In order to encourage player interaction, blood messaging is built into Dark Souls II as a system command, negating the original game's item requirements. Summoned players--players who join the game of another character--no longer automatically exit a game upon the defeat of a boss. By utilizing different sized White Soapstone items, players gain different amounts of time for co-op play, but this allotment depletes as the summoned player defeats enemies. Players can also now summon two players at once, creating a three-player co-op experience. When a player's game is invaded, they have the chance to receive backup from fellow covenant members if they belong to the "Way of the Blue" covenant. This will make it harder for stronger players to torment low-level characters, and give players a chance to act as a savior for the weak. The final changes noted during the presentation pertained to characters with undead status. If a player dies while fighting as an undead character, their HP limits will decrease with each consecutive death. In order to recover from undead status, players now must expend a "Human Effigy" item, rather than an amount of humanity. Lastly, unlike the original Dark Souls, undead players are susceptible to invaders in the sequel. Dark Souls II will be released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on March 11, 2014. A release date for the PC version has not been announced. PlayStation 3 owners in North America, Europe, and Australasia can sign up for the beta, which begins on October 12. For more on Dark Souls II, check out GameSpot's previous coverage. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
| | MLG Columbus, IEM NYC will not feature League of Legends Sep 19th 2013, 00:09 Neither Major League Gaming's Columbus Championship nor Intel Extreme Masters New York City will feature League of Legends.  
Major League Gaming’s "Championship Columbus" event taking place November 22-24 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center not feature League of Legends. The news comes shortly after the Intel Extreme Masters announced that League of Legends would also not be played professionally at their IEM New York event, citing its proximity to Riot Games' 2013 World Championships. This will be the first MLG circuit event to not feature Riot Games' MOBA since its appearance on the 2012 circuit in Anaheim during June of that year. The last MLG event to feature League of Legends, the Major League Gaming Spring Championships, broke records, with 4.7 million unique viewers tuning into watch the event, in addition to the StarCraft II and Call of Duty tournaments. MLG recently announced that Dota 2 will be present at the event, featuring $50,000 and several world class teams that competed at Valve's The International 3. Along with League of Legends' non-appearance, StarCraft II will also not be in Columbus for the first time since the game was introduced on the circuit in 2011. MLG partnered in May with Turbine for their DC Comics MOBA Infinite Crisis, most recently holding a tournament at PAX Prime. Infinite Crisis is likely to make an appearance, while Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops II is the second mainstage game announced for MLG Columbus. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
| | Evil Dead director helming Dante's Inferno film - Report Sep 18th 2013, 23:02 Uruguayan director Fede Alvarez reportedly in talks to direct live-action adaptation of Electronic Arts' 2010 action game. 
Evil Dead director Fede Alvarez is in talks to direct a live-action adaptation of Electronic Arts' 2010 action game Dante's Inferno for Universal Pictures, according to Hollywood news site Deadline. Former Strike Entertainment partners Eric Newman and Marc Abraham are producing the film with EA Entertainment vice president Patrick O'Brien, according to the report. EA's Dante's Inferno is itself an adaptation of Dante Alighieri's classic Divine Comedy poem, in which Dante must traverse the nine circles of hell to rescue his beloved Beatrice. Jay Basu (The Dinosaur Project, Fast Girl) wrote the film's most recent script, according to Deadline, taking over the writing reigns from Bruce McKenna (Band of Brothers, The Pacific). For more on EA's Dante's Inferno, check out GameSpot's review. EA is also currently developing a Need for Speed movie and is reportedly working on a Battlefield: Bad Company TV show. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
| | Rockstar says "of course" it could make game with female lead Sep 18th 2013, 22:54 Dan Houser says female playable lead for GTAV "didn't feel natural," but with the right game and the right themes, "it could be fantastic." 
A future Rockstar Games-developed title could feature a female in a lead playable role, according to cofounder Dan Houser. Speaking with The Guardian, Houser explained that featuring a female lead in Grand Theft Auto V "didn't feel natural," but made clear that the company is not against the idea of introducing a female protagonist for a new game. "We didn't really think about it this time. That's not to say that we couldn't or we wouldn't," Houser said. "This character set is just what came to us: it wasn't, 'we've got X and Y so we need Z,' we weren't trying to do it off a checklist--I don't think that will ever give you something that's believable or engaging." "In the future, could we do a game with a lead female character? Of course," he added. "We just haven't found the right game for it yet, but it's one of the things that we always think about. It didn't feel natural for this game but definitely for the right game in the future--with the right themes, it could be fantastic. But for GTA V, this was the organic thing that came up, these were the characters what [sic] would display the themes we wanted to think about." Houser said previously that "the concept of being masculine was so key to this story," about GTAV's male-only protagonist roster. GTAV's three playable protagonists are Trevor, Michael, and Franklin. The game's online component, GTA Online, will allow players to create a female character. This game mode will launch on October 1 as a free update to the game. GTAV launched yesterday for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It generated $800 million in 24 hours, making its launch-day sales the strongest in Take-Two history and for the GTA series overall. For more on GTAV, check out GameSpot's review. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
| | Warhammer Online shutting down Sep 18th 2013, 22:54 Mythic's Age of Reckoning MMO closing after five years of operation following end of contract between EA and Games Workshop. 
Massively multiplayer online game Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is shutting down after five years of operation, Mythic producer Carrie Gouskos announced today on the game's website. "Games Workshop has cultivated a world class IP. We were lucky enough to play in their universe for nearly a decade, with five great long years live. However, like all things--our contract has come to an end," Gouskos said. "Both Games Workshop and Mythic agreed to part ways, despite how hard it is emotionally on us to let the game go," she added. "It has been a tremendous honor to work with Games Workshop and even though we may be parting ways, our relationship with them remains strong." The game will be officially closed on December 18. Mythic will no longer be selling three-month game codes and players won't have the ability to auto-renew their accounts going forward. Having received solid reviews following its September 2008 launch, Warhammer Online initially appeared to be on a World of Warcraft-challenging trajectory. Three weeks after launch, the game peaked at 750,000 registered users, but that figure had dwindled to just 300,000 by February 2009. In March 2009, Mythic announced that it would be taking 63 of the game's servers offline in an effort to consolidate the evaporating player base. Mythic was also reportedly heavily affected by Electronic Arts' substantial headcount reduction enacted at the end of 2009. According to unconfirmed reports, more than one-third of the studio was laid off as part of EA's 1,500-job culling. Warhammer Online may be closing down, but multiple new Warhammer titles are in development. Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade is coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 and is the third new Warhammer game to be announced since March, following a new smartphone and tablet game from the studio behind Family Guy Online, the turn-based strategy game from Slitherine, and multiple titles from Creative Assembly. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
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