Daily Blips: More Game News from May 8th, 2009

Well, this is odd -- someone besides BioShock 2 developer 2K Marin is working on the multiplayer for the game. Odd, but good -- more time for 2K Marin to keep the single-player from sinking. Because, honestly, does BioShock 2 really need multiplayer? Would you kindly agree with us? Thanks!

News Blips:

• Developer Digital Extremes fishes up BioShock 2 multiplayer duties. The developer of Dark Sector is bringing gamers back to Rapture so they can kill each other repeatedly. Sounds fun. Except for the part where we'll be muting our headset after hearing, "Who's your big daddy?" for the umpteenth time. [Eurogamer]

• Obvious news blip of the day: Nintendo-published games sell well. The unstoppable company recently released all their million-unit sells figures for fanboys to awe at. And third-party publishers to cry at. And us to link to. Top of the list: Wii Sports with 45.7 million sold. Now if only Nintendo made us pay for it. Think of how much money they'd have right now. Actually, let's not -- we're broke. [GameSpot]

• Duke Nukem Forver will forever be remembered by leaked screenshots and concept art. Or at least until next week when it will be forever forgotten. But until that time comes, take a peek at what the game would have looked like if it actually came out. [Shacknews]

• Star Wars game has troopers in it, really. Lots of them, actually. And you can play as them, too. Amazing. BioWare, makers of the upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic, released some details about the class today. Will these troopers ever find the droids they're looking for? It's the question we ask ourselves everyday. [Kotaku]

Hit the jump for some video blips, including a trailer that may or may not be Beyond Good & Evil 2, Prototype's bloody opening cinematic, what Star Trek thinks about the future of videogames, and...more.

Video Blips:

• Beyond Good & Evil 2 might look like this. If this trailer is real. If it's not, then, shit, the game will look nothing like this.

• Japanese Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth commercial is criminally short. But worth watching if you fancy Japanese men in heavy contemplation. Who doesn't? Don't answer that, please.

• Zombies invade opening Prototype cinematic; lawns thankfully safe. Watch if you like blood, undead, and dismemberment. Could use more rainbows and butterflies, we think.

Cultural Blip:

• Star Trek: The Next Generation proves videogames turn us into killers. Someone needs to show Jack Thompson this! [Kotaku]

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Jess Regalado

May 09, 2009

Any info about Bioshock 2 is good enough for me. Thanks guys. Oh yeah... 1st! I think

Toby Davis

I wanna see Data and thanks for the heads up on beyond good an evil 2

Lance Hartzman

I think from here on out every shooter game will have multiplayer. Uncharted 2 is getting it. Why? I dunno. But people like it. I know people that have never touched the single player mode in some games (CoD4). I don't get it.

Michael Black

There needs to be follow up commentary on the 3D Realms situation, nobody seems to have jumped on this story yet, or the fact that it is now the weekend is probably not a good time to conduct an interview with any willing to talk about what happened, within the company, beyond what we heard of the developers going to Take-Two Interactive for more money.
We know some reasons as to the constant delays of the game, mostly centered around engine revamps or entirely changing the engine.
It felt that this game was a labour of love, George Broussard recently came out and said that they were cutting some things out to get the ship date moved forward; it had the appearance of a game in development.
It was nonsense that this game did not ship at the Unreal 2.0 engine stage, we could have now been witnessing the 5th Duke Nukem game being developed with idTech 5, instead we got an engine change at the turn of the century to the Doom 3/idTech 4 engine.
I really hope the enthusiast press gets some interviews going with the people who have spent the last decade or more on this game.

Jeff Voss

I like that you call yourself "The Hoe". That could be your moniker if you ever become a pro wrestler.

But yeah, BioShock 2 and The Old Republic are both looking pretty hawt.

Demian Linn

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Anthony Galindo

I can not for the life of me fathom that a person exists in the universe that thought "Hey, you know what Bioshock needs? Multiplayer." This has to be an attempt by the publisher to stop people from selling their copy of the game once they've beaten it. That's the only possible explanation for it's inclusion.