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Angry Birds Kinect Comes To PC Via Hack
A group apparently specialising in Kinect software for Windows called KinEmote has hacked Kinect so that it plays Angry Birds on the PC. Watch it below:
EA Investors “Betting Against Old Republic”
EA investors are betting against big-budget MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, due to concerns spawned by the industry’s poor track-record at launching successful MMOs. Read more here.
Homefront Single-Player To Last Over 8 Hours
Kaos has said the single-player for upcoming shooter Homefront is to last somewhere between eight hours and a full day. Read more here.
Portal 2 To Feature User-Made Levels On All Platforms
Valve has confirmed user-made ‘Portal 2? levels will be available on all platforms, including the PS3 and Xbox 360. Read more here.
Bethesda: Skyrim To Support Modding
Bethesda will once more support creativity with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. As far as modder support for the title goes, the company’s revealed, nothing has changed from the days of Morrowind and Oblivion. Read more here.
Skyrim’s Combat Detailed, No More “Chopsticks”
Game Informer’s ongoing series of chats with director Todd Howard continues with a look at the game’s new two-handed combat system, which replaces the “chopsticks”-like efforts of previous titles. “I think if you look at our previous stuff I sometimes equate it to fighting with chopsticks – you sit there and swing them in front […]
Crytek: No Other Engine Can Match CryEngine 3
Crytek has boasted that no other current game engine has the grunt to power a game like Crysis 2, and that CryEngine 3 could be used to build “pretty much any other game” from the studio’s competitors. Read more here.
New Bulletstorm Revenge Trailer Is Crazy And Fun
Epic and People Can Fly Games have released a new Bulletstorm trailer, and it’s crazy and wacky fun at the same time. Give it a watch below:
Slim Chance Of A RAGE Demo
September 13th and 15th, the NA and EU release dates for id Software’s Rage, are less than nine months away. Sadly, between now and then, the odds of a demo are extremely unlikely. Read more here.
Dead Space 2 Producer: Visceral “Really Needed To Adjust” Dead Space’s Weapons
Visceral Games’ Steve Papoutsis has said the original Dead Space’s weaponry needed tweaking for the sequel, to make it “more fun”. “We looked at all of [the weapons from Dead Space] and we decided there were some that we really needed to adjust,” Papoutsis said, in the fourth episode of Visceral’s “Ask Steve” video question […]
Bethesda Confirms More New Vegas DLC For This Year, Remains Coy On Dead Money For PS3, PC
Bethesda’s Peter Hines has said that they will be releasing more DLC packs for Fallout: New Vegas this year. “Oh absolutely,” said the company’s VP of PR and marketing when asked if we could expect more packs in 2011. “I don’t think we’ve ever had a product where we said, ‘Yeah, we’re just gonna do […]
Test Drive Unlimited 2 Goes Gold
Word is just in that Test Drive Unlimited 2 has gone gold, the game is done and is now being stamped into retail discs. Test Drive Unlimited 2 is set for release on February 8 2011 (US) and February 11 2011 (EU) on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. via PSLS
Modern Warfare 3 Beta Picture Proof
A leaked photo shows an unnamed player participating in the Modern Warfare 3 private beta. According to this unnamed player, the game is being developed by Sledgehammer games and will, obviously, succeed the previous Modern Warfare. Click here to see the shot.
FIFA 12: EA details Improved AI, Set Pieces
EA Sports is hard at work on FIFA 12, and has detailed some of the improvements you can expect to see when the game releases later this year. “I think we did a great job with the Personality Plus feature in FIFA 11,” EA Canada producer David Rutter said, “but the the teams [AI] doesn’t […]
