Square in their ongoing attempts to appeal to the western market have announced Gun Loco. A more grotesque take on Twisted Metal character designs, a Manhunt like setting and premise, and some Mirror’s Edge jumping and sliding all combine in what looks to be a truly horrible game. IGN has the awful trailer here. The game is currently an Xbox 360 exclusive, oh joy.
Double Fine has announced the first of their new smaller downloadable titles Costume Quest. In a move rarely seen outside of free flash games they’ve made it a holiday themed game, that holiday being Halloween. It’s described as an adventure/RPG, hopefully not to Diabloesque there’s been a quite few of those lately. You play a kid out for a night of trick or treating, and you battle imagined monsters using your imagined powers in a quest to save your little sister. Sometimes you will have help from your friends whose imagined selves are also defined by their cute kid costumes.
Costume Quest is planned for release this Halloween on Xbox Live Arcade, and the Playstation Network
ArenaNet put up their MMO Manifesto trailer for Guild Wars 2 here. This game is truly setting itself apart from the crowd with it’s character designs, and atypical environment design. The world is far less flat than your average WoW clone or World of Warcraft itself for that matter.Plus that whole no monthly fee thing is a nice plus.
Irrational Games continues to tease their new title on whatisicarus.com slowly revealing this image in a flash video.
Looks like an infinity symbol to me, but no need to keep guessing, Ken Levine today made it clear that we will be seeing their new game August 12th.
On Thursday, August 12th, at 1:45 Eastern Daylight Time, we will launch the trailer for our new game at Whatisicarus.com. Our hope is that you all will see it PRIOR to reading any news in the press (which will start to come out around 15 minutes later).
Sony dropped some screenshots from the upcoming Move edition of Heavy Rain. It looks like these will just be the equivalent of waggle instead of a button press, it doesn’t seem like they’ll be using the full range of motion the Move is supposed to offer, but that’s to be expected for a patch to an already released game.
Also, a small tidbit, but this is the first I’ve seen the trigger button on the Move controller referred to as the T button.
Sony released the “Adventure Trailer” for Little Big Planet 2 on their blog.
It looks like a worthy successor to the original. Hopefully they make good on their promises of proper online functionality this time, and make the single player a bit more fleshed out.
Nintendo of America has announced that the wonderful DSiWare downloadable series Art Academy will be compiled into a full retail DS cart release in America. Best of all it will only cost 19.99!
Art Academy launches in the US October 25th.
According to Blizzard Starcraft 2 sold more than a million copies on launch day, which according to them makes it the best selling PC game of the year already. Blizzard also stated that SCII went on to sell 1.5 million in the first 48 hours.
This was of course a worldwide launch, and Blizzard didn’t release a breakdown of sales by region. The original Starcraft is notoriously popular in South Korea where it’s treated like a sport including televised matches, and player betting scandals.
For those of you into the goofy, and impotent DC Comics characters, here’s the goofy DC Universe Online trailer you’ve been waiting for.
Superman falls for that kryptonite trick every time.
Disney showed off a bit more of Epic Mickey at Comic-Con. 1up did a terrible job at capturing it off screen so that you only see the top half of the opening sequence, and G4 got SOME of the footage in direct feed quality, but don’t watch their video for too long or it will cycle to a clip of Morgan Webb telling Adam Sessler how much she hates anything cartoony, because it’s not cool enough for a grisled grrrl-gamer vet/maxim ho like her.
Oh What A Knight level is stunning.
Update: YT saves the day: