Announcements
Trailers & Teasers
Resistance 3 Teaser
What a coincidence! The day I start playing Crysis, EA and Crytek go ahead an delay the sequel.
The announcement came through via the Q1 2011 fiscal year financial report. If I was to wager a guess, I bet the game will debut around late January and early February. (ie: Mass Effect 2 time frame). EA found lots of success by itself in that time frame, so I wouldn’t put it pass them to look for a repeat performance.
Crysis 2 will be launching for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
I guess this delay will also give me a chance to wait for a Crysis: Warhead sale.
Other publishers announced things and provided trailers of interest today as well.
Here are some choice highlights.
Announcements
Trailers
Marvel vs Capcom 3 E3 2010 Gameplay Video – PS3, 360
Release: 2010
E3 2010 is fast approaching.
While we’ve been seeing game announcements (such as Infamous 2) being made early, publishers have also decided to announce game delays. Today, we have two delays.
Take-Two is delaying Max Payne 3 (PC, 360 PS3) until sometime after November 2010 while Valve shuffled Portal 2 into sometime in 2011. However, seeing how it’s Valve and Portal, there was a cute little press release associated with their announcement.
VALVE ANNOUNCES MAKING GAMES IS HARD
June 9, 2010 — Aperture Science, doing business as Aperture Laboratories LLC, in partnership with Valve today announced the successful completion of an ethics-review-panel-supervised release date restructuring process. Portal 2, the sequel to the ground-breaking title that earned over 30 Game of the Year awards despite missing its original ship date, is now targeted for a 2011 release.
Representatives from both companies acknowledged that public safety concerns factored into the decision. They went on to say that even though Portal 2 will arrive slightly later than planned, all life on earth won’t instantaneously stop as every molecule in your body explodes at the speed of light, which is what would happen should a rip ever appear in the fabric of Valve Time.
“Also, the game will be even better,” they added, missing an historic opportunity to create the first product delay press release to mention that a product is being delayed to make it worse.
To ask questions about how close we all came to dying, or to ask futile questions about the previously announced E3 ***PORTAL-2-THEMED-FOR-GOD’S SAKE*** surprise or, less futilely, to schedule an appointment to attend a Portal 2 screening at the Valve booth during E3, please contact Valve’s delegate to the EU’s Valve Time Studies Group, Doug Lombardi.
Needless to say, I’m looking forward to both of these titles. Whenever they show up.
Announcements
Insomniac Games joins the EA Partners Program (via Ted Price video & blog)
Intel officially axes their discrete GPU, Larrabee (via Anandtech)
Robbie Bach & J Allard leaving Microsoft (via Engadget)
Steve Jobs to keynote WWDC 2010 (via Engadget)
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Congratulations to Insomniac Games on their new publishing deal with EA. But that’s not the piece of news which I was pleased to hear. I’m excited about the prospects of their games getting more development time. A Crack in Time was their last game under the old “one game per year” way of developing games and that was excellent. Just imagine what more time could yield?
Intel axing their Larrabee GPU wasn’t that big of a surprise. They’re promising to continue work on their integrated graphics processors which I think is a great idea — especially when you consider their work with the Atom platform.
So the remaining “fathers of the Xbox” are leaving Microsoft. It’s been such a long time since both Mr. Bach and Mr. Allard were part of the core Xbox team, so I doubt this will impact things very much on that front. It’s still a bit sad to see them leave the company after contributing so much.
Everyone was expecting the next Nintendo handheld to be announced at E3 2010 in June. I don’t think anyone expected Nintendo to put out a press release (for investors) announcing their intentions.
So what do we know about the Nintendo 3DS?
I’ve got to admit, I am excited for this. I’d love to experience some Mario in 3D – especially without glasses! I’m sure we’ll see more at E3 2010!
Both come from Japanese companies.
Both are destined for the PSP.
Both are slotted for the summer time frame.
Both are prequels.
Both are reasons for me to pick up my PSP again.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker was pushed back to June 8th, 2010 and will serve as the fifth installment of the Metal Gear Solid franchise despite the subtitle. There’s also a green PSP bundle with it, but I don’t think anyone cares about that. Those of you who are interested in the title should check out the latest walkthrough though.
As for Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, its release window was narrowed down to simply “summer“. I don’t know much about it, just that it is the fifth installment for its own franchise as well.
