Today Exor Studios announced a new open-world driving game for the PC where players are tasked with running down and gunning down zombies.
The game, dubbed Zombie Driver, has a look similar to the original Grand Theft Auto. Players will be able to strap on various weapons, running the gamut from miniguns to rocket launchers, to their car as they drive around a city completing missions for money. The cash you earn from missions can be spent on new car upgrades.
Zombie Drive will feature seventeen missions full of bonus objectives and subquests.
The downloadable title is slated to arrive on the PC this Nov. As of right now no price has been announced.
Today publisher Atlus announced that a “vastly enhanced and much improved” version of the indie first-person brawler Zeno Clash will arrive on Xbox Live Arcade under the moniker Zeno Clash Ultimate Edition.
Being heralded as the “definitive version” of Zeno Clash, the Ultimate Edition promises to add co-op to the Tower Challenge mode as well as “New modes, new features and added content.” According to developer ACE, there will be “a series of improvements based on fan feedback.”
For those of you who missed out on Zeno Clash, the game features a unique blend of FPS and fighting game mechanics. Players are tossed into a unique fantasy world where you are forced to make due with unconventional weapons such as: skull-bombs and bone-clubs.
At this time, no official price has been announced. We do know, that Zeno Clash Ultimate Edition is slated to arrive spring 2010.
Today developer EA DICE released a new trailer for the upcoming FPS Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
Focusing on “Battlefield Moments,” the new trailer offers a solid minute of unedited gameplay.
Slated to arrive on March 2, 2010 on the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, BF:BC2 is a direct sequel to Battlefield: Bad Company. Gamers will be pleased to know that one of the main features in BF:BC2 is an updated destruction engine. Now you can destroy whole buildings, rather than just walls like in BF:BC.
Today Ubisoft announced that the PC version of Assassin’s Creed 2 has been delayed to early 2010. Once slated to arrive along side the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions on Nov. 17, it will now arrive a little later due to unspecified development issues.
According to Ubisoft’s Twitter, “Assassin’s Creed 2 PC has moved to the first quarter of 2010. A bit more time for the dev team to deliver the best quality game to you.”
The first Assassin’s Creed had a similar delay on the PC, however when it arrived it was the “Director’s Cut” featuring new missions and content. Hopefully Assassin’s Creed 2 will receive similar treatment.
Today Valve announced that the “Crash Course” DLC for Left 4 Dead will arrive on Tuesday, Sept. 29 on both the Xbox 360 and PC.
PC gamers can snag the Versus mode focused add-on for free, where as Xbox 360 gamers will have to shell out 560 Microsoft Points ($7) for the content.
Valve described the DLC saying, “The primary goal of Crash Course is to deliver a complete Versus mode experience in just 30 minutes, resulting in a streamlined version of the game’s existing Versus campaigns.”
In a recent interview, a representative for 2K Games stated that the PC version of Gearbox’s open-world RPG/FPS Borderlands has been pushed back to Oct. 26.
According to Charlie Sinhaseni, senior PR manager of 2K Games said, “We’re optimizing the PC version which takes a few days longer than expected.”
For those of you who don’t know, Borderlands is a sci-fi FPS with a heavy focus on RPG elements. According to Gearbox, the game was heavily influenced by the Mad Max films as well as Blizzard’s Diablo.
The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions are still slated to arrive in the States on Oct. 20. The rest of the world will have to wait until Oct. 30.
Yesterday developer Creative Assembly announced that Empire: Total War will be receiving a new downloadable campaign in October.
The DLC will allow gamers to control five new Native American factions including: Iroquois, Huron, Plains, Pueblo and Cherokee across a new campaign title Warpath. The new content also includes an expanded North American map, new units, agents, technologies and objectives.
The DLC will only be made available on Valve’s Steam service. Right now, you can head on over to Steampowered.com and pre-order the new Warpath Campaign for $10.
This week’s Release Roundup is sure to please Xbox shooter fans. This is because Halo 3: ODST hits stores this Tuesday.
Considered to be a standalone expansion for Halo 3, ODST puts gamers into the shoes of “the Rookie” an unnamed member of The UNSC’s elite special military unit, Orbital Drop Shock Troopers. The game takes place during the events of Halo 2 and Halo 3 with players exploring the besieged city of New Mombasa in Africa. Halo 3: ODST comes with Halo 3’s multiplayer contained on a separate disc and features 24 maps including the original 11 from Halo 3, the Heroic map pack, the Legendary map pack, the Cold Storage map, and the Mythic map pack as well as three new maps. There is also a new co-op mode called Firefight which functions as a survival mode with players fending off waves of increasingly difficult baddies to see how long they can last.
Enough about Halo 3: ODST, the games coming out this week are:
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The value of the PC as a modding platform is unparalleled. Just to hammer the point home, StalkerUKCG on the Eidos forums has posted a number of custom skins for Batman: Arkham Asylum on PC. See a few great examples below.
Click for bigger version. (L-R: Tim Burton's Batman, Batman Begins suit, The Dark Knight suit, Batman Beyond suit)
As we reach mid-September, the holiday release season is upon us and games are finally getting good again ™.
Two long-awaited titles, Need For Speed: Shift and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, hit this week. Shift, particularly, has been getting rave reviews around these interwebs for bringing the NFS series to simulation-minded gamers.
Without a doubt, Batman: Arkham Asylum is a huge success. Gamers everywhere are enthralled with the absolute badassery that comes with taking control of the Dark Knight. Eidos knows this too, which is why the publisher is releasing two batches of DLC over the next two weeks.
Dubbed “Insane Night” and “Prey In The Darkness”, the two pack respectively arrive on Sept. 17 and Sept. 24. According to SCEE’s Mike Kebby, “Insane Night” will arrive on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC for free. No word has arrived on whether or not “Prey In The Darkness” will be free.
As of right now, details are slim as to what in contained in the two DLC packs. What we do know is that they are not repackagings of the pre-order exclusive DLC, “Dem Bones” and “Crime Alley.” As soon as more details arrive, you can be sure that I’ll post them here on The Wire.
As for L4D2, things seemed balanced and ‘tight’ and did not feel like a rushed job. While we were visiting their offices we personally witnessed what can only be called a small army of artists, coders, mappers hard at work, which explains the rapid transformations in artwork that we’ve all seen…What we can say with confidence is that the quality of gameplay in Left 4 Dead 2 is not in question; and it will only get better (from what we understand, almost daily testing of game builds by most of the staff at Valve).
Ultimately, however, Walking_Target and his friends promise they won’t stop the boycott until their “individual concerns are addressed.”
Today publisher Atlus announced that a “vastly enhanced and much improved” version of the indie first-person brawler Zeno Clash will arrive on Xbox Live Arcade under the moniker Zeno Clash Ultimate Edition.
Today Ubisoft announced that the PC version of Assassin’s Creed 2 has been delayed to early 2010. Once slated to arrive along side the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions on Nov. 17, it will now arrive a little later due to unspecified development issues.
Today Valve announced that the “Crash Course” DLC for Left 4 Dead will arrive on Tuesday, Sept. 29 on both the Xbox 360 and PC.
In a recent interview, a representative for 2K Games stated that the PC version of Gearbox’s open-world RPG/FPS Borderlands has been pushed back to Oct. 26.
Yesterday developer Creative Assembly announced that Empire: Total War will be receiving a new downloadable campaign in October.
This week’s Release Roundup is sure to please Xbox shooter fans. This is because Halo 3: ODST hits stores this Tuesday.
Without a doubt, Batman: Arkham Asylum is a huge success. Gamers everywhere are enthralled with the absolute badassery that comes with taking control of the Dark Knight. Eidos knows this too, which is why the publisher is releasing two batches of DLC over the next two weeks.