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It appears as though yesterday’s mystery teaser for the upcoming Spike TV Video Game Awards, featuring a CGI scene of a war in Dubai, is actually not the newest teaser in the world. Revealed back in August, the clip is said to be from upcoming 2K Games franchise reboot Spec Ops.
Originally, the title was claimed by EGM rumor mill “Quartermann” to be in development in the shuttered magazine’s July 2008 issue. 1UP claims the title to be confirmed by the 90-second teaser trailer that we’ve dropped after the break. We’d suggest checking it out simply for the fact that it contains more footage than the teaser from yesterday, but the fact that Björk is involved makes us all the more inclined to recommend a viewing. For those of you thirsting for more, your next chance to see the game will be at 2009’s world exclusive-filled VGAs. We’ve contacted 2K Games for comment and will update this post if we hear more.
Continue reading Mystery VGA teaser revealed as Spec Ops
Mystery VGA teaser revealed as Spec Ops originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 3:00pm by Ben Gilbert
Filed Under: 2k-games, EGM, quartermann, spec-ops, spike-tv-video-game-awards, teaser, vga-2009, vgas
Not to be overshadowed by
BioWare’s latest effort to depict
Mass Effect 2 in one epic cover, 2K Games has released the box art for
BioShock 2 — and it doesn’t win any points for originality
or cleanliness. Just like the first game’s cover, it features Big Daddy (this time he’s
you!) and Little Sister (not you). Only now, everything’s behind cracked, grimy glass and the logo’s covered in barnacles.
Eww.
You can lay your eyes on high-res versions of the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC covers for the sequel in the gallery below. You might want to put on some rubber gloves and grab a can of Scrubbing Bubbles before you click on ‘em, though.
[Thanks, Geoff]
BioShock 2 cover is familiar, absolutely filthy originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on November 17th, 2009 at 6:00pm by Randy Nelson
Filed Under: 2k-australia, 2k-games, 2k-marin, BioShock, BioShock 2, arkane-studios, box-art, cover, digital-extremes, take-two
A very Happy Halloween to all GamingAngels readers! Hopefully you’ll get more treats than tricks! 2K Games sent us the awesome Halloween card above that contained the following warning:
“Dear Sir/Madame,
In honor of Hallowe’en, I set forth to bake a most wonderous Chronoberry Pie. To my dismay, the delectable pie has disappeared. If you see this fabulous tart, please be DO NOT EAT IT, as even the smallest bite could cause untold chaos. Above all else, the dastardly pie thief, Mr. P.B. Winterbotom, must not get his fingers on this monstrous treat as the combination could rip the fabric of time itself.
- The Pie Baker of Bakersburg”
So watch out for certain types of pies…in the meantime we’ll be watching out for more information about The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom.
Posted on October 30th, 2009 at 3:45pm by GamingAngel
Filed Under: 2k-games, Angel Life, Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, halloween
We felt so bad for Borderlands‘ stealthy female protagonist, Lilith. While other characters’ abilities were in perfect working order, her top-tier “Phase Strike” power was, well, broken. Enemies who experienced the attack began to make fun of Lilith, referring to the maligned ability as “Phase Wrist-Slap” or “Phase Hug,” for which her cohorts constantly teased her.
Fret no more, dearest Lilith! Gearbox released a patch earlier today for the PS3 and 360 versions of Borderlands which, in addition to improving load times and fixing a number of small technical snafus (the full list of which are after the jump), also fixes your Phase Strike ability. Just make sure you savor the experience when you first use the renovated power — the surprise on your combatant’s face is going to be delectable.
Continue reading Borderlands console patches go live, Lilith gets some loving
Borderlands console patches go live, Lilith gets some loving originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on October 30th, 2009 at 12:45pm by Griffin McElroy
Filed Under: 2k-games, Bug, borderlands, fix, gearbox, glitch, lilith, patch
Scott “Lum the Mad” Jennings, well-known blogosphere participant and game designer, has recently been working on a game that is now sadly canceled. This is bad both for the natural sadness of a game having been canceled and the voyeuristic MMO fan impulse to ask, “Well, what was it going to be?” We don’t know. The only reference made was to the cryptic in-joke name of John Deere Online. In his own words: “As a condition of my severance I can’t discuss a great deal, and anything I say here will most likely be picked up by the MMO news sites (wave, wave!).”
Well, he’s right about that last part. But neither waiting for him to change his mind nor camping outside his front door has yielded any new information, so perhaps we can take a look at more pieces of information and speculate? After all, we know of at least two of his co-workers. From them and from the little which Scott Jennings himself has said, we can derive the following bits of information: that they were working for 2K Games, developing an MMO based on an existing franchise, that the game would have been strategy-based, and that it might possibly have had something to do with tractors.
Considering that Jon Jones mentions on his LinkedIn page that he “created a series of low polygon highly optimized building models with a small set of textures that can be reused across that nation’s entire series of buildings appropriate to that age,” it’s difficult to argue with the conclusion that the team was working on a Civilization MMO. But 2K Games also could mean Elder Scrolls projects… which might be pertinent, as both Jon Jones and Matthew Weigel have been working on Dungeon Runners. It’s all idle speculation, sadly, and for all we know the game really would have been a massively multiplayer tractor simulator. (In which case it might even be for the best – lawnmowers would probably have been totally overpowered against seeders in PvP.)
Filed under: MMO industry, Opinion, Academic, MMORTS, Rumors
Unraveling the mystery of John Deere Online originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on October 30th, 2009 at 10:00am by Eliot Lefebvre
Filed Under: 2k-games, canceled-games, civilization, dungeon-runners, elder-scrolls, john-deere, jon-jones, lum-the-mad, matthew-weigel, mmo-industry, pvp, rumors, scott-jennings, tractors
