But will it be a first person shooter?

Movie tie-in games usually suck anyways. I'm glad they are taking the time to try to make the game good instead of just putting an Avengers label on anything they can.

The Captain America game was pretty fun I thought.

I didn't play the others though.

All kinda shit.

With a 60 at Metacritic and 63 at Gamerankings (360 version, didn't check the others), it seems almost universally hated. Now, I wouldn't let ratings stop me from enjoying a game, but it always turns my head when a game gets that low a score.

What was the last "good" movie tie in game? Spider Man 2?

Wolverine's last game was really fun. Same with Toy Story 3.

It's funny, I think most of the praise for the Wolverine game was greater than that for the movie.

That game was brutal and hype.

The legal case involving the rights to the DOTA name between Valve and Blizzard has been decided as the courts sided with Valve over the ownership of the name.

Blizzard did gain rights to use the DOTA style for their upcoming game but have been forced to rename their game from DOTA to now All-Stars.

Blizzard tried to use the same tactic done against Mojang during the "Scrolls" case but this time a court did not accept Blizzard's claim of "DOTA" being seen as an identity and trademark of the Blizzard style in terms of consumer perspective.

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Daily Recap:
1) The reboot of Tomb Raider has been delayed from its original Fall 2012 release date to now an early 2013 release date (Jan. to March) with the official reason being Crystal Dynamics needs more time to work and polish the game.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/tomb-r...-to-2013/4144/

2) Gamestop announces they are discontinuing selling PSP merchandise starting this week and affecting 25% of all their stores nationwide.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/game...hasing-out-psp

3) Jade Raymond, head of Ubisoft Toronto, states gaming needs to "grow up" in the sense of being more diverse with games and not falling into the idea of every game being similar to a Micheal Bay-esque film.
http://kotaku.com/5910064/splinter-c...mes-to-grow-up

It's that low? I thought it was in the 70s when I checked it last fall which to me sounds about right. It wasn't anything special, but it was fun for what it was. Same with the Green Lantern game, it got a little repetitive at times, but it wasn't as bad as most made it out to be in my opinion.

Although I did find it odd that there was no difference in the 3 difficulty levels in the GL game. I played it through on all 3 and you didn't really get any more XP or receive more damage or anything on hard than you did on easy. You didn't really die that often either.

Damn, was looking forward to the new Tomb Raider.

Partially due to the less than expected sales of Street Fighter X Tekken and as a way to ensure future games don't get hurt in terms of sales potential, Capcom announces they are considering reevaluating their entire on-disc DLC policy.

None of the changes will be made immediately or even potentially affect the rest of the games planned for this year like Dragon's Dogma which has been confirmed to contain on-disc DLC. The company instead will use the rest of this year to look into ways of pleasing and lessening the growing amount of complaints from the company's fanbase.

In regards to Dragon's Dogma, the decision to add DLC into the disc was made right at the start of development with the standard excuse of it being done to make downloading more convenient for users. Resident Evil 6 already has Day 1 DLC planned but it won't be until E3 before it becomes clear if its on-disc or as a separate package.

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http://www.giantbomb.com/news/capcom...c-policy/4147/
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Daily Recap:
1) The RPG game of South Park: The Stick of Truth has been delayed till next year due to THQ's financial mess since they are publishing the game.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/thq-de...together/4149/

2) EA borrows more from the Call of Duty model as Battlefield 3 will now offer a premium "Elite" service for those who subscribe with special in-game goodies to be available to members only.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...mbat-cod-elite

3) Sales for Street Fighter X Tekken have fallen a lot shorter than Capcom expected with the official blame being placed on too many fighting games recently released instead of their own mistakes in regards to DLC or themselves over-releasing games.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...s-cannibalism/

Great, now we can download the DLC for a fee anyway. Nothing changes, except for some complications come DLC launch.

I love Capcom's excuses.

My favourite is still "We can't do couch co-op online because it's not possible on the 360." despite MK9 doing exactly that. Anyway, that became "We wanted to do couch co-op online but Microsoft wouldn't allow it" which became "We never said it was going to be on the 360 version" which became "We wanted to, guys, we just didn't have time...no, that doesn't mean we'll put it in later".

We're grow ups, though you wouldn't know judging by some people online, and I'd much rather they had just been honest and said "We made a deal with Sony to do A, B & C exclusively. So no A, B or C for the 360. Sorry."

Sonic 4: Episode 2 is out now. I've only got the demo and I've already found something that could be "game breaking". Hold X and Sonic & Tails do a tag team spin dash. This turns the game into God mode as you plow through enemies and go so fast that you pretty much just sail over pits and up even totally vertical ramps.

lol

New details in regards to the upcoming Tony Hawk HD set was revealed with the game expanding to include stuff from Tony Hawk 3.

Originally the plans were to only to use the first two games in the series as the source for the HD remake but Activision recently approved parts of Tony Hawk 3 to be added to the game.

Only levels from Tony Hawk 3 and supposedly the ability to revert will be added to the HD remake from the game. The levels will not be available once the game is released but instead as part of a post-launch DLC pack.

Similar to how the levels for Tony Hawk 1 and 2 were selected for the remake, Activision will allow voting to be done for Tony Hawk 3 tracks on the official Facebook page for the game.

No status on the soundtrack was revealed but Activision did hint weeks ago they are working on trying to get some of the classic songs descended for the game.

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Daily Recap:
1) THQ announces Darksiders II will arrive on August 14 with the company's entire well-being for the year resting on the sales for this game.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/dark...s-release-date

2) Rumor Wednesday:
* Bad Company 3 and Mirror's Edge 2 rumored to be worked on soon - http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ar-on-resumes/
* Saints Row 4 rumored to be in development for current gen consoles - http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...tion-3-and-pc/
* Deus Ex 4 rumored to be in development soon and for next gen consoles - http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...new-platforms/
* Supposed partial list of vehicles for Grand Theft Auto V found buried within Max Payne 3's disc - http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-payne-3-disc/

They announced SR4 before SRTT was even out. Of COURSE it's in development.

THQ's fate rest in the hands of Darksiders 2, huh.

Kinda wanna go buy it just so I can say "I tried to keep them afloat".

Gonna be all over that Tony Hawk HD. I was thinking that I'd like for Revert to come back and BOOM. Insta-Buy.

So, apparantly, Max Payne 3 contains files from GTA V. The files being an uncomplete list of cars. We know the list is incomplete because it only lists one plane when the trailer showed three.

We know it's GTA because it features a lot of names GTA uses for cars and Max Payne 3 wouldn't use those names because it's another universe.

I've not read the whole list but it does seem to have some vehicles that sound quite exciting. Not because of the vehicle itself but because those particular vehicles make it sound as if the game could have certain features or locations.

It's got the opposite effect on me.

Really hope the next Deus Ex has a new game+ this time around.

In fact, all rpg's should have new game+.

Yeah, same. I was hoping they'd pull through with UFC 3, but since the online is broken when they expect me to pay $3 to make my create a guy have stats better than like 70, when the average real fighter's stats are like 83, they can go fuck themselves.

New game plus? Scott Steiner : HEH?

Part of the lawsuit involving Activision and the former bosses of Infinity Ward was settled today as Activision settles the part of the lawsuit involving EA.

EA was brought into the lawsuit after it was discovered they were actively trying to get the former bosses and employees to break away from Infinity Ward after the release of Modern Warfare 2. The main issue involved unpaid bonus money and trying to gain rights of the franchise away from Activision.

The terms of the settlement were not revealed while the remaining lawsuit against the former bosses is still scheduled to occur once the court hears the case on May 29.

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Daily Recap:
1) Telltale Games announce they have sold over a million copies of the first episode from the Walking Dead series.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/the-wa...episodes/4156/

2) Epic Games is making one last push to ensure the next Xbox and PS4 will be very expensive in order to ensure the Unreal 4 engine gets top priority for the next generation.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...more-powerful/

3) Bioware is asking for fan input towards the development of Dragon Age 3 as a way to improve on the complaints from Dragon Age 2 and to prevent another Mass Effect 3 fiasco.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-dragon-age-3/

I want my fucking sword back the Antivan Crows stole from me at the end of Awakening.

If anyone in the UK is interested in the Stan Lee bonus for The Amazing Spiderman, it's GAME that has that bonus inthe UK, not Amazon.

You have to scroll a bit further down to get it, after you search the GAME site. They have a preorder with and without it, for some reason.

Fuck epic games with a rusty knife.

I'm convinced Epic Games wants to secretly kill the game industry.

I'm convinced their CEO is trying to be Michael Patcher.

Epic Games released the first screen shots from their Unreal 4 Engine with the emphasis on the vast upgrade in power and graphics possible in comparison to the Unreal 3 engine.

It is also part of the huge push the company wants console and mobile makers to consider when developing the next generation of devices with Epic hoping at least the next Xbox and PS4 go all out with the tech for the console market.

According to Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, last year's Samaritan demo was only meant as both a teaser for the next engine and what a maxed out Unreal 3 engine was capable. The true possibility of the Unreal 4 engine wasn't shown off in the tech demo.

The first game to use the Unreal 4 engine is expected to be released later this year by Epic Games at the earliest with more details probably being revealed during next month's E3 expo.

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http://kotaku.com/5911115/unreal-eng...y-mind+blowing
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Daily Recap:
1) Brothers in Arms: Furious Four future is in huge doubt after rumors of a trademark dispute involving Ubisoft and Gearbox has jeopardized the status of the project.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...us-4-gone-mia/

2) Pre-loading has been recently added to PSN which works in the exact same way Valve's Steam allows games to be pre-loaded before becoming officially available to buy.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...pcoming-games/

3) EA attempting a new plan to lure developers and games away from Steam by offering developers who have their projects funded on Kickstarter up to 3 months of free distribution on Origin with no fees owed to EA.
http://kotaku.com/5911567/ea-offers-...tion-on-origin

Photos of the pad make it look really big. It's only when you see someone holding it that you see it's a lot smaller than it looks.

I'm more concerned with how it feels when you hold it. Both in terms of size and comfort. I mean, I don't expect it to be 90 lbs, but how will it feel when I've been playing for five, ten or thirty minutes?

Tablets are at least simplstic. When you add a lot of buttons, you have to hold it a certain way to access them.

Doesn't seem like its changed at all in terms of actual size but if its anything like the E3 model, then the general feeling would still be the tablet is very comfortable to hold and use. Everyone who's held it always mentions the hand grips and pictures being very deceptive to the tablet's actual size.

Kotaku is saying the only things changed was a new button being added and start/select being moved to a new spot.

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Reading this makes me draw the conclusion they plan for a RDR sequel. I really hope so.