Gaming News Round-Up (23-27th August)
I’m back! So I was gone for a few days and couldn’t post any gaming news. Here is a recap on the major headlines over the past few days. Normal service resumes tomorrow!
Here it goes in chronological order:
- UK survey shows that kids play eight and a half hours worth of games a week during the summer school holidays on average
- Robert Kirkman (creator of The Walking Dead) is “quite taken with” TellTale’s video game adaptation.
- Leaked pre-alpha footage of NBA LIVE 13 surfaces.
- Halo 4 achievement list published *POTENTIAL SPOILERS*
- Behind The Scenes video of Assassin’s Creed III released.
- Alleged leaked Heavenly Sword 2 concept art.
- No plans to raise F2P level cap for WoW at level 20.
- No co-op for DmC.
- Rumour: Square Enix asking retailers to destroy copies of FFXIV. Willing to pay $16 compensation for each copy.
- Second PES 2013 demo coming on August 28th/29th.
- Peter Molyneux’s new game, Curiosity, must have name change due to conflict with NASA. Now called Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube
- I Am Alive coming to PC on September 13th.
- Angry Birds Space gets Red Planet expansion.
- US Election Hub 2012 has opened on Xbox 360s.
- Uncharted movie allegedly loses it’s second director.
- Assassin’s Creed: Initiate domains registered. Social service for AC3?
- Final Fantasy Dimensions coming to mobiles on August 31st.
- Spartan Ops DLC for Halo 4 is bigger than Halo 3: ODST.
- Modern Warfare 4 allegedly in development at Neversoft.
- Minecraft Xbox 360 skin pack 2 is now out.
- PES 2013 gets Brazilian team licenses.
- Fable: The Journey achievement list leaked. *SPOILERS WARNING*
- DICE quadrupling servers for PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of BF3.
- Media Create report says Nintendo products make up 70% of gaming in Japan.
- Dead Island Riptide will debut at PAX.
- Metal Gear 25th Anniversary announcement ‘will shake up industry’
- Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition coming to consoles on October 26th.
- BF3 Armoured Kill coming to PS3 BF3 Premium users on Sept 4th. Xbox 360/PC BF3 premium users on Sept 11th. PS3 normal users on Sept 18th. Xbox 360/PC normal users on Sept 25th.
