Daily Gaming News – 31/12/2012

December 31, 2012

Although 2012 is about to meet its demise, our Daily Gaming News feature will not. Yes, that’s correct: Daily Gaming News will continue into 2013. Can you believe it?

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  • NEWS: Sony has announced a date for Destination PlayStation 2013. The annual event will, once again, focus on various upcoming PlayStation products for the 2013 year. Destination PlayStation 2013 will take place between February 25th and 28th in Scottsdale, Arizona. Registration details along with the event schedule can be found here.
  • NEWS: A happy snappy has caught an image of the first major DLC pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Titled Revolution, the pack looks to add four maps to regular play (Hydro, Grind, Downhill, and Mirage), as well as one new map for Zombies (Die Rise). Revolution also advertises a bonus weapon, the Peacekeeper SMG. The pack is yet to be formally confirmed, and thus is without a release date.
  • VIDEO: First footage of Terminal Reality’s The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct has leaked onto the internet, and can be seen below. We suspect this footage is from an early version of the game.

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  • NEWS: Senran Kagura producer Kenichiro Takaki has stated on twitter, quote unquote, “I’ll wrap the world in happy boobs next year.”. Does this mean his popular busty animated action series will be heading to our shores? Maybe. Maybe.
  • NEWS: Both GAME and OXM magazines have confirmed Square-Enix’ worst kept secret: next year’s Tomb Raider will indeed have multiplayer. A quote from AllGamesBeta has revealed the multiplayer component has been developed by Eidos Montreal, the studio best known for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, along with the yet-to-be-revealed Thief 4.
  • VIDEO: Interested in Aliens: Colonial Marines‘ story? Then check out this trailer.

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  • NEWS: While we continue to wait for direct feed imagery, Platinum Games has taken an off-screen shot of their Gray Fox character suit for Raiden in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. See it in all its glory here.
  • VIDEO: Episode 2 of Crytek’s Seven Wonders of Crysis 3, titled The Hunt, is live and complete with fancy graphics and alien bad dudes.

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