Weekly News Roundup: 8/29/2010

Games

"Commander Shepard, I recognize this silhouette. Sagat will be in Marvel Vs. Capcom 3! Or maybe it's Guy."

• Mass Effect 2's The Shadow Broker DLC will be out on 9/7. It will include the Shadow Broker intel center, new research, and five new achievements. You can finally continue your relationship with Liara if you want, or possibly have awkward conversations because of all the foolin' around you did with the other characters. For some reason the DLC will be priced $10, not the $7 the other DLC mission packs were priced at.

• A new Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 silhouette teases what might be the silhouette of C. Viper. Meh. There are many other Capcom ladies I'd rather see in the game over C. Viper.

• A pre-order bonus for Cyber Troopers Virtual On: Force is a code that allows players to select the chest size of female robots Fei Yen and Angelan. Yep, the pre-order bonus is robot boobs.

• Here's an interesting read. Sony designer Teiyu Goto has explains the design of the PlayStation and its controller. He reveals why the controller has the symbols and colors instead of letters.

• There's a DeathSpank sequel coming out September 21 (PSN) and 22nd (XBLA). Too soon? Yes. DeathSpank is a great game, but shouldn't this "sequel" have been a part of it? Were we sold one game as two?

• Two more Halo: Reach live-action trailers: Remember Reach and Deliver Hope.

• Here is the extended version of the Dragon Age II debut trailer. Before that comes out, though, you may want to play the next piece of Dragon Age: Origins DLC: Witch Hunt.

• To go along with their Top 10 Mortal Kombat Fatalities, ScrewAttack presents the Top 10 Worst Mortal Kombat Fatalities.

• This extinct turtle looks a lot like King Koopa.

• The Rockman Online trailer is cool, but the game is only for South Korea.

• The Gears of War novel Anvil Gate will tell the story between parts 2 and 3.

• What are Sam & Max, Penny Arcade, Team Fortress, and Strong Bad doing in a game trailer together? We'll find out soon.

• You really need to be a huge Mario fan to buy a Mario sweater that costs over $400.

- Shawn - 8/29/10

Weekly News Roundup: 8/22/2010

Games

Bond Man would've put Mega Man in a sticky situation.

• Did you know there was a lost Mega Man boss called Bond Man? I didn't, but thanks to Mega Man Network's article about Bond Man now I do. There was originally supposed to be eight bosses in the original Rockman/Mega Man game, but during development it was determined that only six would make it into the game. Keiji Inafune had seven bosses designed, so Bond Man got cut. And that's "Bond" as in glue, not James Bond. Inafune thought about putting Bond Man back into the Mega Man Powered Up remake for the PSP, but decided to leave him as a legend and made two new characters instead. Yeah, because that blatantly racist Oilman was a much better choice. Some fans are hoping that Bond Man will be in the upcoming Mega Man Universe.

• Atlus is making a crazy surreal game called Catherine. It has animation by Studio 4C, murder, sex, and sheep in neckties. It's looks amazing.

• This Metroid: Other M live action commercial is awesome and has Samus in her tight Zero Suit. I don't even own a Wii and I'm excited for this game.

• Resistance 3 was officially announced with a neat live-action teaser.

• How far along is Tekken X Street Fighter? There's a character model for Ryu, but he's wearing Paul's uniform. So, not very.

• A listing for a Mortal Kombat Compilation was posted then quickly taken down. Shouldn't that be "Kompilation?" As for the new Mortal Kombat, Kitana and Cyrax are returning. Neither should be surprising, but it'll be good to see them again.

• This live-action Halo: Reach short has three guys talking. That's it.

• A Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 commercial was busted for actually showing PS3 footage from the game. Ha!

• Red Faction: Battlegrounds is an overhead view car combat game. Huh. It'll be on PSN and XBLA next year.

- Shawn - 8/22/10

Weekly News Roundup: 8/15/2010

Games

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon will contain all the excitement of the previous games, but now with a single button press.

• The Ace Combat series is returning, but heading in a new direction with Ace Combat: Assault Horizon. The debut trailer shows off some new things being added to the formula: helicopter piloting, firing a gun from inside of a 'copter, and quick-time events. I don't like the idea of quick time events in AC, but hopefully developer Project Aces can make them work and the additions won't feel out-of-place. It certainly has the look of an AC.

• The next BioShock game will be quite different from the undersea city of Rapture. BioShock Infinite is taking the themes of BioShock and placing them in the sky city of Columbia. Flower power looks to be a genetic upgrade and there are some kind of Big Daddies lurking about.

• Edge has an interview with Tomonobu Itagaki where he admits that the last boss in Dead or Alive 4 was too difficult and reveals that he would be interested in entering politics. Damn, I'd vote for the guy. He'd probably have boobs on all of his political materials. As for his new game Devil's Third, it may not arrive until 2013.

• This photo of the Midway logo in the garbage makes me sad. May I have the logo, please? I'd give it a loving home on my wall.

• Sega of America has way too much time on their hands as evidenced by this video that shows them re-creating Green Hill Zone 1 from Sonic the Hedgehog on a co-worker's desk. It does look incredibly cool, though.

• This is an awesome live-action Time Crisis with actor Andy Whitfield.

• There probably won't be many returning characters in Raiden's solo adventure of Metal Gear Solid: Rising.

• GameTrailers' Pop Fiction Episode 5 deals with Aerith from Final Fantasy VII and if you can bring her back to life or not. Of course you can't! Last month's Pop Fiction episode dealt with whether Reptile was actually in the original Mortal Kombat or not. I missed that one due to the excitement of SDCC.

• This is purely a rumor, but Gearbox Software might be reviving Duke Nukem Forever. Speaking of Gearbox, the next DLC for Borderlands is Claptrap's Robot Revolution.

• The original pitch for Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game references some classic titles with a Mega Man intro, Ninja Gaiden cut-scene, and a nod to Sonic the Hedgehog.

• It looks like there might be a Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Collector's Edition that will include an art book and soundtrack.

• A rumor indicates two PS2 collections due to hit the PS3 are a Prince of Persia Trilogy and a Splinter Cell Trilogy. I'd definitely get the Prince of Persia collection because maybe I wouldn't run into the game-ending bug that caused me to never finish Warrior Within on the Xbox.

• Call of Duty: Black Ops is getting a Prestige Edition that includes a surveillance RC vehicle that has color video and audio to spy on your neighbors. Someone's going to get in trouble with this.

- Shawn - 8/15/10

Weekly News Roundup: 8/8/2010

Games

Maybe the game should be named Batman: Kinky City.

• The sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum has been named Batman: Arkham City. A section of Gotham City has become the new prison for Arkham inmates. Two-Face looks to be in the game along with Catwoman, who might be an ally by the look of the Game Informer covers. More details will be revealed in the next issue of Game Informer.

• Billy Mitchell is once again the world champion of Donkey Kong and is the new world champ for Donkey Kong Jr. He actually quit his Donkey Kong game right after beating the high score and said this choice quote: "Some say I'm being cocky. Some say I'm being lazy. I say, I'm being Billy Mitchell." Ha, what a jerk. Will Wiebe ever be back on top?

• A Fallout: New Vegas ad in Japan protests Japanese Role Playing Games. It's genius.

• Vanquish looks like a fun game, but it won't have a robot dog companion. Man, they cut out the best thing.

• The upcoming downloadable title Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will eventually have some DLC. DLC does not stand for downloadable content, however, but for Downloadable Lara Croft.

• This 23-minute video shows off every videogame system ever made.

• Some gamers fought back a group of robbers. They got punched a lot, but won in the end.

• A bunch of cool scientists are playing Super Mario Bros. with their eyes. But, even these geniuses can't get an NES to work right away.

• The King of Fighters XIII is so buggy that it needs special rules for tournaments. Wow, I hope the bugs gets fixed for the console versions.

• Namco made a bunch of robot in the 80s, which were re-discovered by Plastic Pals.

• There's a new trailer for LittleBigPlanet 2. I like the idea of Sack Bots.

• There will be a Transformers MMO out in 2011, but it won't be released in North America. Not yet at least.

• This is vaguely game-related: UFC fighter Roger Huerta, who plays Miguel in the Tekken movie, beat the crap out of a guy who punched a girl. There's video, too.

• A time-lapse video of the 1/1 scale Gundam statue.

- Shawn - 8/8/10

Weekly News Roundup: 8/1/2010

Awesome

Chewbacca riding a giant squirrel fighting Nazis. Simply amazing.

• Chewbacca rode a giant squirrel to crush Nazi oppression. It could be the awesomest thing ever. Check out more of Tyler Edlin's art on deviantART.

Games

• A talented Capcom fan made a Mega Man Vs. Street Fighter game for Capcom's World of Capcom Fan Art contest. It's like an old-school Mega Man NES game, but Mega Man fights in a Ryu-themed stage complete with an 8-bit version of the music. The boss is Ryu who performs fireballs, hurricane kicks, and dragon punches. The camera even zooms in when he performs a Super. I say this should win.

• Something called Starcraft II came out this week. I don't know about that, but it does include a shooter mini-game called Lost Viking. It has nothing to do with the old puzzle platformer The Lost Vikings, but it looks like it could be fun. Also, someone made a Lego Starcraft.

• I didn't see them personally at SDCC '10, but this Mass Effect 2 cosplay is impressive. I hope it won.

• There's a new trailer of the DS shooter/platformer Fractured Soul.

• Here are the achievements for Halo: Reach if you want to see them early.

• Movie director Guillermo del Toro will have some kind of hand in making videogames. An official announcement is expected soon.

• Designer Igor Chak made a svelte Space Invaders couch and is looking for someone to help him make a limited production run. This thing will be insanely expensive.

• See some new Street Fighter X Tekken screenshots here and here.

- Shawn - 8/1/10