Naughty Dog continues support for PS3-exclusive award-winner with Sidekick Skins Pack, dynamic theme available August 17.
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Atari to push back online racer release date; extra time to be used polishing console multiplayer; new beta date to be announced.
After a four-year hiatus, Atari made the surprise announcement in March that it would finally be delivering the long-awaited sequel to 2006’s open world racer Test Drive Unlimited by September this year.
Now, the publisher has revealed it will be delaying the release of the racer to Q1 2011 in order to provide developer Eden Games more time to enhance and polish the game’s connected console multiplayer experience.
Eden Games senior producer Nour Polloni said the extra time will also allow his team to take into account consumer feedback. The game’s beta has also been pushed back to coincide with the new release schedule, and will be confirmed by Atari in the coming weeks.
As consolation, the publisher announced it will reward gamers already signed up to the beta with an as-yet-unannounced exclusive in-game item.
Test Drive Unlimited 2 will see players racing in locations including the Spanish party hotspot Ibiza and the paradise island of Oahu from the original title. In addition to new vehicles, race types, and a revamped single-player mode that can be played online or off, the game will also give players the chance to build and grow in-game clubs comprised of friend networks.
Test Drive Unlimited 2 will be available on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
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Neversoft welcomes Neil Young, Arch Enemy, Tesla, Anberlin, Queensryche, others to the music game family.
In the time since the original Guitar Hero exploded onto the video game scene almost five years ago, the music-game has welcomed hundreds of artists to its virtual library. However, when Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock hits shelves September 28, it’ll come with 11 artists who have never appeared in any of the franchise’s many installments.
These artists (and the songs they’re contributing to Warriors of Rock) are:
Anberlin-”The Feel Good Drag”
Arch Enemy-”Nemesis”
The Dillinger Escape Plan-”Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants”
John 5-”Black Widow Of La Porte”
Neil Young-”Rockin’ In The Free World”
Orianthi-”Suffocated”
Queensrÿche-”Jet City Woman”
Red Rider-”Lunatic Fringe”
RX Bandits-”It’s Only Another Parsecÿ”
Snot-”Deadfall”
Tesla-”Modern Day Cowboy”
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock boasts more than 90 on-disc tracks as well as more than 500 songs for gamers to download from the Guitar Hero music store. Recently, an enthusiast gaming and music message forum got its hands on Warriors of Rock’s alleged 93-song, complete tracklist.
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is due out September 28 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii. For more on the game, check out GameSpot’s most recent impressions.
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PlayStation Store Update: 8-bit movie tie-in hits Sony’s virtual storefront; PSOne Classics welcome Crash Team Racing; Mafia II, Valkyria Chronicles II get demoed.
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Following slipping 2010 sales of MMA fighter, publisher says new franchise installments could come every 15-21 months.
THQ had a bona fide hit on its hands last year with UFC Undisputed 2009, its first foray into the nascent mixed martial arts genre. The in-the-Octagon brawler delivered a one-two combo of solid reviews and sales that exceeded 3.5 million units. Into 2010, UFC already appeared to be sagging, and THQ said yesterday as part of its anemic April-June earnings report that this year’s installment shipped–not sold–a markedly lower 2.7 million units.
To get its fighter back on track, it appears as if THQ will be taking the classic approach of simply spending more time training. As part of the company’s postearnings conference call with analysts and investors yesterday, THQ chairman and president Brian Farrell said that the studio in part attributed UFC 2010’s sales decline to the length of time between franchise installments. And while he reiterated that a new UFC title will be available next year, a 12-month release cycle may not be in the cards going forward.
“Yes, we will have a UFC title in fiscal ‘12,” he said. “The question is timing, as I said. Could it be 15, 18, 21 months. That depends on both the scope of the game, the window, and how we want to release that game. So as I said in my prepared remarks, we thought maybe a 12 month cycle might be a little quick but it will be somewhere around 18 months, give or take a few months.”
Currently, THQ plans to launch two more UFC-branded titles in the near future. The first will be a scaled-down version of UFC 2010 for the PSP, which is slated to arrive on September 7. Ushering in the New Year on January 1, the publisher plans to wade into the fitness genre with UFC Trainer, which will be compatible with Kinect for the Xbox 360, Move for the PlayStation 3, and the Wii.
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