Welcome to another week of JOE’s videogame round-up. As always, we’re looking to provide you with up-to-the-minute news, download reviews, weekly charts and forthcoming release dates on a weekly basis. So if there’s anything you think we’re leaving out, or would like us to shine a spotlight on, feel free to leave a comment below.
News
Game Informer cover debuts new Lara Croft reboot
Looks like Lara Croft is returning battered and bruised in 2011
As part of an 11-page blowout cover feature from US monthly Game Informer, Lara Croft is getting the full-on reboot treatment in 2011.
Little is known thus far on what we can expect, but anyone hoping for a sequel to this year’s DLC Guardian of Light will be surprised, as a company press release announced: “Forget everything you know about Tomb Raider, we are exploring things that have never been done before in this game. This is an origins story that creates Lara Croft and takes her on a character defining journey like no other.”
‘Comprehensive’ Fallout New Vegas patch expected within days
Fallout 3 screenshot? Nope, see the ‘casino’ sign? It’s New Vegas, obviously
Tired of save-game issues, missing companions and unlockable doors in your Fallout: New Vegas playthrough, or are you even relenting on starting up a file for yourself until Obsidian tackles the problem?
Well then we have good news, as the most buggy game of 2010 is about to – finally – get fixed, after its developers have said that their Steam, Xbox 360 and PS3 patch has been completed and is awaiting approval. The patch is apparently expecting in the next few days so we can all look forward to bug-free landscape wandering this coming weekend.
Purchase/Download of the Week
Dead Nation (PSN – €15, Xbox 360 MS Pts)
That is a LOT of dead (again) zombies
Who could have predicted that zombies in 2010 would become what vampires meant to pop culture in 2008? From AMC’s The Walking Dead TV series to Dead Rising 2 to Call of Duty: Black Ops and the genius Red Dead Redemption zombie-packed DLC pack, Undead Nightmare, it seems gamers can’t get enough of the shuffling moans of the undead. A shoot-em-up played from a top-down perspective, Dead Nation requires PS3 owners to mow down hundreds of onscreen zombies, in co-op mode if they choose. With a healthy Metacritic rating of 79 as of this writing, Dead Nation sounds like an excellent purchase for those that can’t wait to give the flesh-eaters further punishment.
Friday Releases 10/12/10
Hmm… he seems angry
What a year it has been for PC gamers and what a year it has been for Activision Blizzard, who with Starcraft II‘s release this summer and Tuesday’s World of Warcraft: Cataclysm release, have never been busier. Coinciding with an uninformed and scaremongering report on ‘videogame addiction’ from BBC 1’s Panorama on Monday, Cataclysm is here to lure in many more hopeless ‘addicts’ with the promise of the biggest MMORPG of 2010 and many more hundreds of hours of bliss within Azeroth. With many a Christmas list already filled out and on its way to Santa, it’s a quiet release front for consoles, though we’re glad to see Game Boy Advance staple Golden Sun returning to handheld with Golden Sun: Dark Dusk on the Nintendo DS. Does Dragon Quest IX have a callenger for handheld RPG of the year? We’ll see…
Xbox 360
None
Playstation 3
Venetica
Wii
Crash Car Racer
Drag & Stock Racer
GP Classic Racer
Kart Racer
Rally Racer
Sniper Elite
Sprint Cars
Super Truck Racer
Truck Racer
Nintendo DS
House: The Official Game
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
Just SING!
PSP
Patapon 3
PC
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (released Tuesday)
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