Norris further confirmed that the $49.99 price tag found on online retailers for pre-order is correct, stating that “it’s the end of a console cycle- we think this price makes a lot more sense given that.”

Dead Island: Riptide was announced at E3 last week, with more information promised for later this Summer

Watch Dogs is a game that comes from Ubisoft and has been stated to be competition for GTA V.

The main protagonist, Juliet, gets sucked into an arcade game and is forced to run for her life from a terrifying Pacman abomination. After escaping that horror, she must survive an Elevator Action sequence in order to escape. The best part of all of this is that she still has her chainsaw while stuck in the arcade machine; it gets a pixelated pink makeover for the event.

Anyone found to have used hacked saves, modded games, or other exploits to gain an unfair advantage in Max Payne 3 Multiplayer, or to circumvent the leaderboards will be quarantined from all other players into a ‘Cheaters Pool’, where they’ll only be able to compete in multiplayer matches with other confirmed miscreants.

“In the event we decide to absolve any of these cheaters for their past transgressions they may re-enter play with the general public, however a second offense will result in their indefinite banishment. In either case, we will be removing invalid leaderboard entries to ensure that the players at the top of the charts have earned their spots fairly.”

The developer is most interested in “invincibility hacks, infinite adrenaline, score cheating” or “anything else suspicious”. It’s not at all interested in “legitimate tactics to which some players may object, such as camping” or in-game harassment; the latter should be reported to Microsoft or Sony.

Rockstar requests players email maxpayne3.banhammer@rockstargames.com with the following information:

Platform (PC, PS3 or Xbox 360)
Cheater’s Gamertag / ID
Description of the violation
If possible, please include concrete evidence, such as a video or a screenshot
Just a note: Blizzard also cracked down on cheaters this week. It didn’t work out so well for the cheaters.

Unfortunately we were not clear in a recent E3 press interview and things have been misunderstood. Before this gets out of hand, let me explain,” he wrote.

“In making this Tomb Raider origins story our aim was to take Lara Croft on an exploration of what makes her the character she embodies in late Tomb Raider games. One of the character defining moments for Lara in the game, which has incorrectly been referred to as an ‘attempted rape’ scene is the content we showed at this year’s E3 and which over a million people have now seen in our recent trailer entitled ‘Crossroads’.
This is where Lara is forced to kill another human for the first time. In this particular section, while there is a threatening undertone in the sequence and surrounding drama, it never goes any further than the scenes that we have already shown publicly. Sexual assault of any kind of categorically not a theme that we cover in this game.”

The scene Gallagher was defending, was described by Crystal Dynamics’ executive producer Ron Rosenberg to Kotaku last week at E3 as a defining moment in Lara’s life:

“Her best friend gets kidnapped, she gets taken prisoner by scavengers on the island. They try to rape her, and she’s literally turned into a cornered animal. And that’s a huge step in her evolution: she’s either forced to fight back or die and that’s what we’re showing today.”

Gallagher apologized for the deptiction of the scene, stating CD was “sorry” it had not been “better explained,” and that the team would “certainly be more careful with what is said in future.”

We’re still tuning prices – the costs will change according to the feedback we get on the beta – but I believe when I calculated it last, at its most high-end – if you assume that somebody came in and had to buy, with real-world money, the best gear for a serious throw down – it was like a 24-cent thing.

“That’s assuming every piece of your equipment, including your dropsuit, was purchased with real-world money, and every time you died, it was a 24-cent cost to assemble your entire fit.”

The closed beta for Dust 514 closed beta will be accepting non-EVE and non-beta testers on or around June 29.

The game will supposedly be a 2D platformer set in a three-dimensional world, and will have more colour than the monochrome Limbo. Judging from the concept art embedded above, we doubt it'll be challenging Jak & Daxter in the vibrancy department just yet. Still, we think we spy a hint of red. Maybe.
The Danish government awarded Playdead a whopping £1million to build Project 2. It began work on the title in 2010, and is expecting development to take at least “three and a half years”. That means we won’t be playing it for a while yet. Boo, hiss.