The GDCA 2011 nominations look strangely familiar

Lads, get your polite-clapping gloves ready, and shine your pearls, ladies -- finalists have been named for the Game Developers Choice Awards, and this year boasts quite the lineup. Valve, Bethesda and Supergiant Games have five nominations each for Portal 2, Skyrim and Bastion, respectively (and respectfully). Supergiant is nominated for Best Debut, alongside Team Bondi for L.A. Noire and BioWare Austin for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Batman: Arkham City, Skyrim, Portal 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Dark Souls are nominated for Game of the Year. The awards ceremony will be held on March 7. We're not going to say that the GDCA stole their entire list of nominees from a super-cool and highly regarded gaming website, but it does look familiar:

Best Game Design

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo)
Portal 2 (Valve)
Batman: Arkham City (Rocksteady Studios)
Dark Souls (FromSoftware)

Innovation

Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Toys For Bob)
Portal 2 (Valve)
Bastion (Supergiant Games)
Johann Sebastian Joust (Die Gute Fabrik)
L.A. Noire (Team Bondi)

Best Technology

Battlefield 3 (DICE)
L.A. Noire (Team Bondi)
Crysis 2 (Crytek Frankfurt/UK)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Naughty Dog)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

Tiny Tower (NimbleBit)
Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo)
Jetpack Joyride (Halfbrick)
Infinity Blade II (Chair Entertainment)
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (Capy Games/Superbrothers)

Best Audio

Bastion (Supergiant Games)
LittleBigPlanet 2 (Media Molecule)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
Dead Space 2 (Visceral Games)
Portal 2 (Valve)

Best Downloadable Game

Stacking (Double Fine)
From Dust (Ubisoft Montpellier)
Bastion (Supergiant Games)
Outland (Housemarque)
Frozen Synapse (Mode 7)

Best Narrative

Portal 2 (Valve)
The Witcher 2 (CD Projekt RED)
Bastion (Supergiant Games)
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Naughty Dog)
Saints Row: The Third (Volition)

Best Debut

Supergiant Games (Bastion)
Team Bondi (L.A. Noire)
Re-Logic (Terraria)
BioWare Austin (Star Wars: The Old Republic)
Eidos Montreal (Deus Ex: Human Revolution)

Best Visual Arts

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Naughty Dog)
Rayman Origins (Ubisoft Montpellier)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (Ignition Japan)
Battlefield 3 (DICE)

Game of the Year

Batman: Arkham City (Rocksteady Studios)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
Portal 2 (Valve)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Eidos Montreal)
Dark Souls (FromSoftware)

View the original article here

[Multi] Americas Sales Chart, Oct. 30-Nov. 5: Familiar Territory for Uncharted

GlueGun18
I bent my Wookie


Posts: 2,251
Joined: Jan 2007
Reputation: 69 [Multi] Americas Sales Chart, Oct. 30-Nov. 5: Familiar Territory for Uncharted

SOFTWARE TOP 20
1) Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (PS3) - 581,069 (581,069)
2) Battlefield 3 (X360) - 573,262 (2,320,118)
3) Battlefield 3 (PS3) - 301,858 (1,261,809)
4) Just Dance 3 (Wii) - 134,709 (492,276)
5) The Lord of the Rings: War in the North (X360) - 116,126 (116,126)
6) Sonic Generations (X360) - 98,748 (98,748)
7) Battlefield 3 (PC) - 93,349 (388,010)
8) Batman: Arkham City (X360) - 91,833 (892,586)
9) Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns (3DS) - 81,638 (81,638)
10) Batman: Arkham City (PS3) - 79,583 (794,512)
11) Kinect Adventures! (X360) - 76,977 (7,480,708)
12) The Lord of the Rings: War in the North (PS3) - 75,773 (75,773)
13) Mario Kart Wii (Wii) - 74,276 (12,896,834)
14) Fate/Extra (PSP) - 74,084 (74,084)
15) Sonic Generations (PS3) - 71,127 (71,127)
16) Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 65,902 (14,278,054)
17) Halo: Reach (X360) - 61,438 (6,761,271)
18) Wii Sports (Wii) - 60,294 (41,628,348)
19) Fable III (X360) - 52,705 (2,190,257)
20) GoldenEye 007: Reloaded (X360) - 51,601 (51,601)

HARDWARE
Xbox 360 - 169,349 (34,000,775)
PlayStation 3 - 120,688 (21,353,984)
Nintendo Wii - 115,351 (42,418,704)
Nintendo 3DS - 112,203 (2,248,938)
Nintendo DS - 51,032 (56,203,595)
Sony PSP - 23,173 (22,572,284)
PlayStation 2 - 18,115 (56,239,162)

Notes:
- Uncharted 3 sold over 1.1 million copies worldwide in its debut week, the biggest launch in the series and the 12th biggest launch ever on PlayStation 3.
- Debut week sales for Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception are up 39% over 2009's Uncharted 2.
- Sonic Generations debut sales are up 84% over 2008's Sonic Unleashed despite launching on two fewer platforms.
- 6.5 million pre-orders have been placed worldwide for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. That is up 1.5 million over last year's Black Ops and 2.2 million more than Modern Warfare 2. Expect it to become the biggest video game launch of all time next week.
- Battlefield 3 is already only the 36th Xbox 360 game to sell 2 million copies in the Americas.
- Gears of War 3 is the 19th Xbox 360 title to sell 4 million copies worldwide.
- Next week's major debuts: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PC, PS3, X360, Wii, DS), The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC, PS3, X360), Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (PS3, X360), LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (PC, PS3, X360, Wii, PSP, DS, 3DS)

Debuts:
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (PS3) - 581,069 (#1)
- The Lord of the Rings: War in the North (X360) - 116,126 (#5)
- Sonic Generations (X360) - 98,748 (#6)
- Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns (3DS) - 81,638 (#9)
- The Lord of the Rings: War in the North (PS3) - 75,773 (#12)
- Fate/Extra (PSP) - 74,084 (#14)
- Sonic Generations (PS3) - 71,127 (#15)
- GoldenEye 007: Reloaded (X360) - 51,601 (#20)
- Otomedius Excellent (X360) - 51,027 (#21)
- GoldenEye 007: Reloaded (PS3) - 34,798 (#26)
- Disney Princess: Enchanting Storybooks (Wii) - 24,084 (#44)

TOP 10 PREORDERS
1) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (X360) - 427,159 (2,813,178)
2) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PS3) - 250,276 (1,219,070)
3) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (X360) - 238,141 (1,204,558)
4) Assassin's Creed: Revelations (X360) - 111,394 (623,162)
5) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PS3) - 85,653 (436,266)
6) Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (X360) - 79,085 (554,227)
7) The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii) - 71,354 (592,854)
8) Assassin's Creed: Revelations (PS3) - 52,711 (349,701)
9) Saints Row: The Third (X360) - 50,586 (272,439)
10) Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC) - 50,321 (802,976)

Written by: Mike Glubish

View the original article here

[PAX, PS3, X360] PAX trailer for Final Fantasy XIII-2 brings back someone familiar

[PAX, PS3, X360] PAX trailer for Final Fantasy XIII-2 brings back someone familiar
And annoying. Annoying if you played the original Final Fantasy XIII that is. Feast your eyes on the new PAX trailer for the upcoming sequel and see if you can figure out who is making a come back for this game. It isn't difficult if you played the previous one.
Yeah, that's Hope. Everyone's favourite, annoying character is seemingly making a come back. Now we just need to see Vanille and we'll be set. Oh wait.

Written by: Kyran Morrison

(This post was last modified: 08-26-2011 10:38 PM by LemonManX.)

User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)

View the original article here

[3DS, Vita] 999 team's Extreme Escape Adventure: Good People Die is familiar

[3DS, Vita] 999 team's Extreme Escape Adventure: Good People Die is familiar
It is uncertain how connected 999 is meant to be to the developer's follow-up project, Extreme Escape Adventure: Good People Die (as it is being unofficially called online), but the trailer certainly showcases some similarities.
The "Nonary Game" and the associated watches return in this game if the trailer is anything to go by. In case you didn't play 999 (in which case, change that) the watches each bear a number that is assigned to each of the unknowing participants. The trailer even features Zero, the perpetrator behind the original deathtrap in 999.

The game is slated to release on both Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita, but if you have a regular Nintendo DS then track down a copy of 999, you can thank me later.

Written by: Kyran Morrison

User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)

View the original article here