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Assassin’s Creed Multiplayer Beta Goes Live

27 Sep

Despite having been delayed for several days, the multiplayer beta for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has gone live on Playstation Network today. The beta is currently only available to subscribers to the Playstation Plus service, but will be available to all users some time next week.

The multiplayer beta contains two different game modes, “Alliance” and “Wanted”, and two different maps. These maps are set within the city of Rome and in Castel Gandolfo, which lies roughly 15 miles outside Rome.

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood continues the story of Ezio Auditore, the protagonist of Assassin’s Creed II and will be available for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 19th. The PC version of the game was recently delayed, and is expected to be released somewhere in 2011. (more…)

Chris Nolan Looking into Inception Game

27 Sep

“Inception”, the biggest summer blockbuster of 2010 (grossing over $700 million worldwide) has placed one universal idea into the minds of its audiences: this would make a great video game. Christopher Nolan, the film’s director, doesn’t think the notion is that far from probability, and hasn’t stopped looking into the possibility of developing one. Variety reported the director speaking on the subject at the film’s Roman premiere earlier this month. Its easy to overlook the fact that “Inception” isn’t a stranger to the world of video games, as the maze game Mind Crime was a form of viral marketing for the feature in early 2009.

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Rumor: Playstation Getting in Bed with Android?

27 Sep

The latest in possible hardware revolutions revealed through a job posting, Sony’s London Studio is looking for an employee with very specific experience. While potential Senior Server Engineer with “mobile development” are highly desired, the listing originally cited Android mobile phone OS work as a major plus. The posting was changed shortly after the story began hitting the internet, leading some opinions to cite the edit as indicating a major interest in the OS on Sony’s side.

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Capcom Confirms Level-5 Collaboration

27 Sep

Capcom’s Global Head of Production, Keiji Inafune, recently confirmed a collaboration with the famed developers at Level-5 (Dark Cloud, Professor Layton franchise) to Diamond Online, a Japanese business website. More specifically, the studio head was eager to discuss work with Akihiro Hino, the brain behind Layton. No details of the actual collaborative project were given.

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