Snagged on the showroom floor of last week’s Comic-Con. It’s…certainly looking a lot like Battlefront, which is mostly a good thing. Battlefront with arrows. A lot of arrows. And while everything looks quite lovely, we’re still a tad unsure over the choice of levels: in RotK, that battle had thousands of bad guys. This level has a few dozen. Which makes it look like you’re on mop-up duty, instead of war-winning duty.
According to Forbes, Electronic Arts is expect to report losses of $US 111 million (33 cents per share) for the quarter ending June 30th. It’s apparently not the company’s performance, but investor expectations as this is the first quarter EA hasn’t provided “financial guidance”. Speculation swirls that launching new IPS like Spore, Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge and concern whether EA can actually get them out the door on time. Because of this, Forbes states, analysts earning estimates are all over the place — from 10 cents per share to a loss of 46 cents per share. The second quarter results will be posted this Tuesday.
EA Faces A Bumpy Ride [Forbes.com]
Bionic Commando: Rearmed has been pushed back. It was supposed to be out at the end of this month, but Capcom says it won’t be. This delay has made some people sad — others disappointed. But relax! The Japanese Xbox page pencils the game in for August 13th. No idea if it’s just a placeholder. But it’s a date, and it’s on Microsoft’s Japanese site. Make of it what you will.
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Oh, he’s playing Max Payne in the upcoming movie, but he won’t be playing Max Payne in either of the games. Not even for research. Why? Because the dude has an addictive personality, apparently: I got more responsibility now than I’ve ever had with the kids and everything else. I don’t want to be spending 14 hours on the videogame and then eight hours on the set. It’s not going to work out.
Before you get all huffy, I don’t think you need to have played Max Payne to know how to prattle on in a low voice and dive sideways in slow motion. Mark Wahlberg can do that just fine already.
You familiar with Blackwater Worldwide? They’ll call themselves all kind of fancy names, but really, they’re a mercenary group. Being an American mercenary group, a lot of their manpower comes straight from the US Army, making that the perfect place to recruit from. And what’s a good way to recruit? By spreading good will. Which is spread quite easily when you plan stuff like this: Blackwater recruiter James Overton is working on packing a Microsoft Xbox video-game console, modem, TV projector and “Guitar Hero” video game into a kit that can be kicked out of a Blackwater cargo plane and dropped to troops in Afghanistan.
Ah, 21st century warfare.
Controversial Blackwater Worldwide Using Guitar Hero, Xbox 360 in Recruiting Efforts [GamePolitics]
To whip up a little fervour amongst the faithful with regards to the upcoming comic adaptation of Mirror’s Edge, free preview issues were handed out during Comic-Con. They were only seven pages long, but they still give us an idea of what to expect. And what can we expect? A visual style that matches the game fairly well and a sparsity of dialogue. Which could be a blessing or a curse.Guess we’ll find out soon enough! More pics below.
Here’s the Comic Con exclusive Mirror’s Edge mini comic [Siliconera]
Over at website Wii Fanboy, they’ve done a nice job of comparing how Dead Rising will look on the Wii versus the Xbox 360 original. While obviously it doesn’t pack the horsepower that the Xbox 360 version does (well, duh), Capcom appears to have done a nice job as making the Wii experience look as close as possible to the Xbox 360. Big props for that.
Dead Rising: Compare ’til you drop [Wii Fanboy]
Remember Slide Adventure: Mag Kid? DS game, had a unique slide controller, will never be released outside of Japan. Anyways, coming bundled with a sliding controller, and being a game for a Nintendo console, there are things you can do with the unit, and things you can’t do with it. What can you do? Well, uh, you can play with it on a card table! What can’t you do? Loads of things. You’ll want to be especially careful when using it in your Victorian manor home.
Things You Shouldn’t Do With Nintendo’s Mag Kid [Aeropause]
