Missing Titles at GAME

High-street retailer GAME has confirmed to VG247 that they won’t be stocking Ubisoft’s PS Vita launch titles: Raymans Origins, Lumines Electronic Symphony, Michael Jackson: The Experience, Asphalt Injection and Dungeon Hunter Alliance.  No further comment has been made on behalf of GAME.

GAME have also apparently cancelled pre-orders of The Last Story Limited Edition (via VG247) and Tekken 3d Prime Edition (via Eurogamer).

This follows recent reports that GAME were struggling to raise credit insurance and acquire other stock, and were in talks to secure lending.  They are expected to make an £18 million loss this year.

Mass Effect 3: Take Earth Back

BioWare have released a cinematic trailer for Mass Effect 3, showing the beginning of the War for Earth..

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The demo is available now, on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, with both singleplayer and multiplayer sections.  The full game will be available on the 9th March.

Our impressions of the single-player demo can be found here.

The Humble Bundle Mojam is Finished!

The Humble Bundle Mojam livestream event is now finished, with 80,000 copies of “Catacomb Snatch” sold and over $450k raised for charity!

Catacomb Snatch is a steampunk Egyptian themed RTS shoot ’em up game; the theme and genre were decided on by votes on the Mojang blog, ahead of the livestreaming event.

Two more games were being developed during the Mojam.. they are as-yet-untitled games by Oxeye Studio and Wolfire Games, who also livestreamed some progress over the weekend.  They’ve been added to the bundle too.. which you can still pick up!  It’s pay what you want, and all proceeds go to charity: Child’s Play, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, charity: water and the American Red Cross.

The Humble Bundle Mojam is Live!

Mojang have teamed up with HumbleBundle.com to create a new game this weekend.. with a livestream of their progress available on the Humble Bundle site!

Fans have been voting on the genre and theme of the game during the week, with the most and least voted categories being combined; the Mojam game will be a RTS Shoot ’em Up, with a Steampunk, Ancient Egypt theme.

So far, over $16,000 has been donated by fans, with all proceeds going to charity: Child’s Play, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, charity: water and the American Red Cross.

Max Payne 3 – Official Trailer

Rockstar have revealed the new trailer for Max Payne 3.. which begins with the kidnapping of Rodrigo Branco’s wife from under Max’s protection.

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Max Payne 3 is to be released on May 18th in Europe for Xbox 360 and PS3, with a PC version to follow on June 1st.

Another Indie Gala Bonus

Another Indie Gala bonus has unlocked for all those who have purchased the Indie Gala 2!

The bonus is Robot Science’s album “Good Luck”, which was a part of the first Indie Gala bundle.

The Indie Gala 2 is still available for purchase, with this and previous bonuses included for those who pay the minimum price per bundle level.  The levels are: Carebear, with four games and four albumsl The Big-Saver Bundle, with six games and eight albums; and the Epic Gala Bundle, with twelve games and nine albums!

Civilization V: Gods & Kings

Civilization V is due to receive a new expansion pack late this spring: Gods & Kings.

This expansion pack adds more techs, units, building and Wonders, and more Civilizations: the Netherlands, Celts and the Mayans.  The combat system has been reworked to emphasise balanced army composition, and add melee naval units.

It will also add one of the most-requested additions to the game: religion.  You will be able to found your own religion, using the new ‘Faith’ resource, and spread it across the world.  New City-States will also be added, which may react to your religion, too.

Espionage will also be added to the game, allowing you to spy on rival civilizations and steal technology as well as establishing embassies and gaining influence with City-States.

More information can be found here.

Possible Kickstarter for Wasteland 2

Brian Fargo, founder of Interplay and creator of post-apocalyptic RPG Wasteland, may soon be using Kickstarter to fund a sequel to the game.  Wasteland was the precursor to the Fallout series, which was actually only made because Fargo and his team didn’t have the rights to Wasteland.  They now have the rights back from EA.

In an interview with IGN, Fargo notes that the fans were the first to get in touch about crowdfunding for a Wasteland sequel, following the success of the Double Fine Kickstarter.  If Fargo and the rest of inXile do go on to make the game, it would be “top-down, probably isometric, party based, skill based”, and rather than having to create the game to fit in with publisher demands, they would be able to create the game as they wanted.

Fargo hopes that a Kickstarter will go live in the next month, and notes that he thinks it will take at least a million dollars to complete the project.

Far Cry 3 – Stranded Trailer

Far Cry 3 is a survival shooter by Ubisoft Montreal, set on a tropical island where protagonist Jason Brody has been stranded..

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Beyond the limits of civilization lies an island, a lawless place ruled by piracy and human misery, where your only escapes are drugs or the muzzle of a gun. This is where you find yourself, trapped in a place that’s forgotten right from wrong, a place that lives by the principles of violence. Discover the island’s bloody secrets and take the fight to the enemy; improvise and use your environment to survive. Beware the beauty and mystery of this unexplored paradise and live to outwit its roster of ruthless, desperate characters.
You’ll need more than luck to survive.

Far Cry 3 is available for pre-order now, for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Assassin’s Creed 3 Due in October

Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed 3 will launch on the 30th October, 2012.

This game is the fifth in the Assassin’s Creed series, and is said to conclude the story of protagonist Desmond Miles.  Assassin’s Creed 3 will be released on PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U.

Via Eurogamer.