Cursed Mountain dev Deep Silver Vienna shuttered

As confirmed by parent company Koch Media to Develop , Cursed Mountain developer Deep Silver Vienna has apparently been closed. Citing “the overall economic situation” and noting “this decision is not easy for us,” the 20-person staff was recently cut and told they would receive pay through the end of March. Develop posits that the studio’s other game — Ride to Hell — will likely remain unaffected by the shutdown, as UK dev house Eutechnyx is handling development and Koch Media’s Munich offices will oversee the game’s management

Halo: Reach ‘not a Natal title,’ being made with a controller in mind

Sure, you could take Bungie’s latest foray into Mythbusters territory as full on confirmation of Halo: Reach not having Project Natal support, or you could be like us and remain skeptical of the developers still-not-straightforward wording. In a recent post on Bungie.net , the company attempted to answer a mess of “myths” about its upcoming Halo game, including “Myth: Reach is being built for Natal!” In answering, the post states, ” Halo: Reach is NOT a Natal title and is being developed expressly with the traditional Xbox 360 controller in mind.” That said, rather than outright saying, “No, there’s no support for Project Natal in Halo: Reach ,” Bungie instead chose to loosely word the answer

FFXIII development started on PS2, delayed launch by a year and a half

We’ve been wondering why it’s taken Square Enix so long to churn out another installment in the core Final Fantasy franchise, seeing as how the last game came out approximately forever ago . The answer recently came in the latest Dutch issue of Official PlayStation Magazine, which contains a revealing interview with Squeenix’s Yoshinori Kitase. According to a fan translation of the interview , Kitase said ” Final Fantasy XIII was originally meant to be a PS2 title, but we had to switch systems due to the arrival of the PS3

Visceral Games prepping DLC for Dante’s Inferno

In a recent interview with the New York Times , Dante’s Inferno executive producer Jonathan Knight responded curiously to a query about the possibility of upcoming adaptations of the other two installments in the Divine Comedy , Purgatorio and Paradiso . According to the Times, “Knight said his team was focused on the release of Dante’s Inferno as well as on additional downloadable content for that game,” though he later confessed “I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t thought about that.” We think Visceral’s missing out on a great chance to kill two birds with one stone — why not make Purgatorio and Paradiso DLC packs for Inferno

Rumor: Xbox Game Room will not feature Teen or Mature-rated titles

According to a report on GamerBytes , Microsoft has submitted the upcoming Xbox and PC Game Room itself to the ESRB for a rating, rather than have each title re-rated by the board.

Sony: iPad consumers will graduate to the PSP

We’ve already heard from Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata on Apple’s most recent handheld (spoilers: he doesn’t care about it), but the Wall Street Journal recently asked Sony’s John Koller how his company’s reacting to the device. Rather than outright dismissing it like the Nintendo prez, though, he said he’s looking to the iPad for boosted PSP sales. Seriously .

Dragon Age: Origins ‘Awakening’ DLC has a giant blue dragon

Alright, alright, you kind of already knew about the giant blue dragon in the upcoming Dragon Age: Origins ‘ Awakening ‘ expansion pack , but you hadn’t seen her (yes, her) in all her rage-filled majesty, scaring the crap out of those venturing into Blackmarsh. Between her and Skeletor , we’re getting pretty psyched for March’s DA:O content infusion. Sure, there’s that other BioWare RPG that we’re obsessively playing for now, but how long will that last before we feel the urge to venture back into the fantasy realm?

Behemoth collects over 30k for Haiti relief, extends promotion again

Since January 20, the team at Behemoth have been raising money through Xbox Live DLC sales of Castle Crashers and Alien Hominid to support relief efforts in Haiti. Over four days, Behemoth has collected $15,585.65 through DLC purchases; however, since the promise was to donate 200% of all DLC sales, The Behemoth has matched the total leaving the donation jar filled with $31,171.29! That’s great, but for The Behemoth it isn’t great enough.

White Knight Chronicles costumes coming to LittleBigPlanet

Further expanding on LittleBigPlanet ’s catalog of costumes portraying PS3-exclusive game protagonists, Media Molecule has revealed that the next set of in-game duds will come from White Knight Chronicles on February 25. According to the PlayStation.Blog post announcing the new content, the costume pack will include the garbs of four of the RPG’s legendary heroes: The White Knight, Black Knight, Dragon Knight, and ..

Mega Man 4, SNES Advance Wars on Virtual Console in February

February’s Japanese Virtual Console lineup is exceptionally small — four games in all — but all four games are high-quality. In advance of Mega Man 10 , Capcom offers Mega Man 4 , which, while one of the weaker games in the series, is still a real Mega Man game and thus pretty good. A never-localized (and probably still not to be localized) SNES Advance Wars game will be available sometime in the month, and MSX versions of the familiar Contra and the delightful scrolling puzzle game Quarth

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