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Mystery VGA teaser revealed as Spec Ops

Ben Gilbert — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:00:00 +0000

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.

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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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BioShock 2 cover is familiar, absolutely filthy

Randy Nelson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000

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.

Gallery: BioShock 2 box art

[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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Halloween greetings from P.B.Winterbottom

GamingAngel — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:45:13 +0000

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.

Borderlands console patches go live, Lilith gets some loving

Griffin McElroy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:45:00 +0000

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.

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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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Unraveling the mystery of John Deere Online

Eliot Lefebvre — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:00:00 +0000

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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Hands-on: BioShock 2

Randy Nelson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Having already taken a brief tour of Rapture through the eyes of a Big Daddy a few months back, we were okay with the fact that BioShock 2 looked and seemed to play very much like the original game — only this time encased in a huge pressurized diving suit. Now that we’ve played through a full area of the game, our initial assessment more or less holds up, but that’s not to say there aren’t several noteworthy — and even surprising — changes and additions to expect when the game arrives next spring.

Warning: We’ve done our best to keep what you’re about to read as spoiler-free as possible, but the extremely sensitive should tread cautiously beyond this point.

Gallery: BioShock 2 (10-29-09)

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Hands-on: BioShock 2 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aussie Borderlands fixed, requires another Steam download

Alexander Sliwinski — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:30:00 +0000

GamesonNet reports that the uncensored version of Borderlands is now available for Australian Steam users. 2K Games is asking all users who preloaded the game to delete the previous content and re-download the eight gigglebyte title. That should fix the issue of Aussie Steam users receiving the “low violence” version of the game, a laughable mistake after the OFLC granted the “high violence” edition entry into the country.

Forum users are commenting that there are alternative fixes available out there, but let’s all just agree that re-downloading the game is probably the safest and most “official” way of handling the issue. Of course, redownloading 8GB is not going to make Aussies who have a download limit from their ISP happy.

[Via Big Download]

Aussie Borderlands fixed, requires another Steam download originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Latest BioShock 2 trailer stomps around ‘Siren Alley’

Ben Gilbert — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:35:00 +0000

If you diligently avoided last week’s GameTrailers TV due to all the BioShock 2 spoilers, the trailer you see above can help provide you with some water-soaked gameplay — sans all the direct information. We feel it’s safe to tell you that 2K Games gave this clip the title “Siren Alley” because of an area in Rapture of the same name, a place that we never got to see the in the first game.

Even if you don’t watch the video above, you should take one thing from it: The “worldwide embargo” gets lifted this Thursday and a flood of information on the game is sure to follow. If you’re really trying to remain spoiler-free on BioShock 2, now may be a good time to go dark.

Gallery: BioShock 2

Latest BioShock 2 trailer stomps around ‘Siren Alley’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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