Today in Gaming News - August 17, 2011
by Keith Sadler, posted on 17 August 2011 / 1,421 Views
Here’s lots of Nintendo news. Kirby: Mass Attack for the DS and Kirby Adventure Wii will be out before Christmas. The Last Story and Pandoras Tower will be released exclusively for Wii in Europe sometime in 2012. Mario Kart 7 will be released in the UK in December. Professor Layton And The Spectre's Call will be released in the UK and Europe in November. Super Mario 3D Land will be released in the UK and Europe in November. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins and Metroid 2: Return Of Samus will be released through the 3DS eShop before the end of the year. Super Pokémon Rumble will be released in the UK and Europe in December. The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword will be released in the UK and Europe on November 18.
Here’s The Secret World Gamescom 2011 trailer.
For those who don’t get enough history lesson in their gaming news, here’s a cool feature by Gamasutra outlining Ultima creator and MMO pioneer Richard Garriott giving a speech at GDC Europe about "Three Grand Eras of Game Development."
The world’s greatest Pokemon champion is Ray Rizzo.
Square Enix just filed a trademark for “Lord of Apocalypse” which could be either a sequel to Lord of Arcana, which seems unlikely since it only garnered .21 million in sales.
Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon will release in the U.S. August 31.
Here is the Battlefield 3 “Caspian Border” trailer.
Even more reasons to love Dark Souls are revealed in these screenshots. Character creation, more bad guys, and 10 character classes are shown.
Here’s a new SSX trailer from Gamescom.
New Devil May Cry screens and trailer also emerge from Gamescom.
Seems everybody loves El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.
Electronic Arts has purchased Bright Games, makers of freemium style games.
Leedmees, Konami's downloadable game for Kinect will be available to Japanese markets September 7.
Skullgirls gets new screens today.
Disney Universe updates to include The Lion King character “Simba” as a playable character.
Catherine is headed to Australia and New Zealand.
Sonos, a maker of internet-ready audio electronics acquires Robbie Bach, a former Microsoft executive instrumental in the success of the Xbox.
Aliens: Colonial Marines get new screenshots.
Asphalt, for the Vita, also sees new screens.
Saint Seiya: Sanctuary Battle will be available for Japanese audiences November 23, European audiences get it next year. There’s also a very expensive limited edition.
Wildstar is now a thing, and it’s a thing you’ll want to check out.
Activision just registered a whole lot of domain names for Call of Duty games.
Resistance: Burning Skies is a Vita game with more screenshots.
UK based Tiga joins the European Games Developer Federation in expressing concern over European funding of the video game creation sector.
Zynga buys Astro Ape, now Zynga NY.
Gamescom has an evil Jedi.
4 million people are playing the Smurfs Facebook game. Sigh.
Gravity Rush also has a new trailer.
Markus "Notch" Persson has proposed a game of Quake 3 to settle the Bethesda copyright lawsuit.
There’s also a new Sonic Generations trailer.
Dr. Who is now available on Android phones.
Here are some new screenshots of Ace Combat 3D.
The Silent Hill HD Collection is headed to the Xbox 360 as well as the PS3.
Need for Speed’s newest trailer features snow.
Here are some new Shinobi 3DS screens.
Quantic Dream, developers of Heavy Rain says it’s time for video game ratings to be overhauled. I agree, that one part in Heavy Rain really messed with my head.
Sims 3: Pets has horses, and a trailer showing off those horses.
Bodycount has a new trailer, and a new demo, available today.
