Bethesda Game Studios reveals the sequel to Oblivion, the role-playing game known as Skyrim, via short teaser. The game is also given a release date — November 11, 2011. [HD trailer]
BioWare’s next shooter space opera is formally announced as a battle for Earth and given a release window of Holiday 2011. [HD trailer]
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Naughty Dog brings back Nathan Drake for another adventure, this one set in the desert and beyond. The PlayStation 3 game also gets a release date of November 1, 2011. [HD trailer]
EA unveils its next SSX, in which video game snowboarders “explore the story of a team who seek to be the first to descend the faces of the most treacherous mountain ranges on the planet.” [HD trailer]
We get our first peek at gameplay in Resistance 3 and a release date for the PS3 game, September 6, 2011. [HD trailer]
Director Guillermo del Toro teams up with THQ and Volition Inc for inSane, a horror game that’s quite far off. The teaser trailer definitely looks like a game that won’t hit until 2013. [HD trailer]
Developer Radical Entertainment officially unveils the next Prototype game. It won’t go head to head with Infamous again, because Prototype 2 won’t be released until 2012. [HD trailer]
The God of War joins the fray in a PlayStation 3 exclusive. Kratos wins! [HD trailer]
Batman Arkham City’s New Bad Guy
Dr. Hugo Strange knows Batman’s biggest secret in Arkham City, which delivers a cool new trailer. [HD trailer]
Forza Motorsport 4
The Xbox 360 racing series doesn’t have much to show, with a mostly-live action teaser trailer formally announcing its existence. [HD trailer]
Portal 2
Valve releases a new Portal 2 trailer. It looks like a Pixar movie. [HD trailer]
Thor: The Video Game
Hey, there’s a Thor video game! [HD trailer]
Cannon de Rosnay
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 8:52 AMFew titles here that I’m really interested in.
Mostly Mass Effect 3, Portal 2 and Prototype 2.
Liking the concept that Prototype 2 will have you hunt down Mercer, interested in looking into that further.
Haven’t played ME2, since I didn’t enjoy ME as much as others. But a few friends have been lauding it, so will give it a try.
And Portal 2.
I mean, come on. A sequel to Portal.
Who wouldn’t want to give it a whirl?
Braaains
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 9:55 AMMy only concern with a sequel to Portal is that one of the brilliant things about the original was that it was a very small, short game (which is why it was released as part of The Orange Box rather than a full price retail product on its own).
That was a masterstroke, as it meant they didn’t have to pad it at all to extend it out to some minimum length to justify a full retail price. The game never lost momentum, never lost focus and didn’t hang around long enough to wear out its welcome.
So yeah, I just worry that by making Portal 2 a full-scale release it might end up being a somewhat diluted experience compared to the original. But hopefully it won’t work out that way.
Sergei
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 1:23 PMI didn’t enjoy the first ME much, but I stuck with it and ME2 was the reward.
Portal 2 looks to have a lot of variety if you check out some of the puzzles. I can’t see it losing its creative steam even in a full title.
Jon
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 8:54 AMNo mention of the upcoming Assassins’ Creed: Brotherhood (PC) then?
Fenixius
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 11:41 AMLook out for a sneaky / afterthought press release from Ubi in January. PC doesn’t warrant headline act status unless it’s from Blizzard; the market’s just not there to justify the cost.
Braaains
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 11:55 AMIt’s taking them longer than expected to get their new DRM up and running. It takes a while to top what they did with ACII.
They’re recruiting for it now, though. Apparently if you buy the game they’ll actually have a person come round to your house and physically sodomize you every time you attempt to play it.
Jon
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 12:33 PMgeez, they’re taking realism to an all new level.
you serious though about DRM stalling the PC release?
Braaains
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 1:36 PMNo, it was sarcasm.
Or at least I hope it was.
Mr Waffle
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 2:30 PM“you serious though about DRM stalling the PC release?”
Considering GT5 was held back so Sony could load it up with the latest PS3 security fixes, I wouldn’t put Ubisoft past it either…
Mr Waffle
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 2:29 PMDid anyone else notice that out of that list of 12 games, only 2 are original, and the rest are sequels (many 3+)?
Braaains
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 5:38 PMAnyone notice what’s missing from that list of some of 2011′s biggest, most interesting games?
That’s right. Not a single game doing anything remotely interesting with Kinect or Move. And the less said about Wii the better.
Nickolai Dyska
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 10:05 AMDiablo 3 where are you :’(