I haven’t checked the thermometer yet today (out of fear, mostly), but judging by my walk from my car to the building where I work, it’s pretty damn hot out. While I regain a slightly less fluid form, I figured it would be prudent to get a Gamer Pulse up, just in case I melt at some point today. As I’m sure you’re well aware, San Diego Comic Con is this weekend, so I’m sure there’ll be a ton of info about the fall lineup pouring out of the convention center. In the meantime, let’s take a look at what happened in the industry this week.
- It gives me such great pleasure to say this: Comic Booked broke some exclusive Batman: Arkham City news this week. In an interview with Batman’s longstanding voice actor, Kevin Conroy, our own Will C. Franklin discovered that there will be a future lineup of downloadable episodes for the upcoming title. This also comes hot off the unveiling of the Arkham City Collector’s Edition bundle. It’s a great week to be a Batman fan.
- In other Collector’s Edition news, a special bundle for the Bioware’s upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic was leaked this week.
The bundle comes with a host of special items (both physical and digital), as well as a 30-day time card. There’s a bit of confusion over the price-point, though. IGN speculates a roughly $220 price tag, while Amazon has it listed at$300. Other sites have it listed as low as $149.99. There’s bound to be some clarification out of SDCC this weekend, so stay tuned. It’s also important to note that no official release date has been given for the The Old Republic yet, though the following hypothetical situation is currently fueling me nightmares (lovingly borrowed from the gaming sub-reddit).
- The previously-reported on Call of Duty Elite service will not be available for beta-testing to PC gamers. This means that PC fans of the franchise will have to cold-purchase the service when it launches with Modern Warfare 3 in November.
- A bit of sad news for you Mega Man fans: the latest installment in the franchise, Mega Man Legends 3, was officially cancelled this week. Capcom claimed that the title did not meet “the required criteria” that would have warranted full production of the game. They also confirmed that, at this time, there are no plans to revisit the project in the future.
- Gaming in Australia may suck less now. This week, the Australian state and federal governments (with the exception of New South Wales) reached a tentative agreement to establish an R-18+ rating for games. This is good news, not only for Australian gamers (who have been receiving some overly-censored [albeit rather hilarious] versions of games for years now), but for game developers as well.
- 1…2…Freddy’s coming for you, Sub-Zero. Freddy Krueger was officially unveiled as the fourth downloadable fighter for the recently-released Mortal Kombat reboot. Officially due out August 9th, players can expect a frenzy of claw-slashing and nightmare-inducing moves from the iconic villain.
That’ll do it for Gamer Pulse this week. We have a bunch of team members out on the floor at SDCC, so stay tuned to Comic Booked for all kinds of coverage from the event!
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