Metro: Last Light delayed

February 3, 2012

metro LL Metro: Last Light delayedOrig­i­nally sched­uled for a Sum­mer 2012 release, Metro: Last Light has been delayed until 2013, THQ has announced. So, you know, if you were eagerly antic­i­pat­ing play­ing this game dur­ing the dog days of sum­mer, you might need to make other plans.

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Dragon’s Dogma set for May 22nd release

February 1, 2012

289499 Dragons Dogma set for May 22nd releaseOne of the games we’re keep­ing an eye on here at Steel Gecko is def­i­nitely Dragon’s Dogma, the upcom­ing action RPG from Cap­com. While it had ini­tially been slated for a March 2012 release, it’s now been pushed to May 22nd. Sweet­en­ing the pot a lit­tle, though, is the news that included with the game will be a demo for Res­i­dent Evil 6.

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Nintendo had a rough 2011

January 26, 2012

Nintendos Mario Nintendo had a rough 2011From Techcrunch.com…

3DS sales have picked up lately, but Nintendo‘s finan­cial num­bers are still weak. Big N today released another set of dis­ap­point­ing results for the first nine months of its fis­cal year (April to Decem­ber 2011). The com­pany lost a whop­ping US$630 mil­lion, com­pared with a profit of US$635 mil­lion in the same time frame last fiscal.

Nin­tendo pres­i­dent Satoru Iwata also announced that the com­pany will begin phas­ing out the Wii and start focus­ing on the Wii U, which will be released by the end of 2012.

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Mass Effect 3 Demo Coming Soon

January 19, 2012

masseffect3large Mass Effect 3 Demo Coming SoonOn Feb­ru­ary 14th, a demo for the eagerly-awaited Mass Effect 3 will arrive for PC, Playsta­tion 3 and Xbox 360 users. If the past two ver­sions are any indi­ca­tion, the single-player mode will be great, but this is the first Mass Effect to fea­ture mul­ti­player, which will also be a part of the demo.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Gets Patched

January 18, 2012

sentinel Star Wars: The Old Republic Gets PatchedEarly this morn­ing, Patch 1.1 for BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Repub­lic went live, and based upon ini­tial reports, it sounds as though play­ers on the Repub­lic side are tak­ing a beat­ing. The patch was intended to make PvP in the high-level world Ilum a bit more attrac­tive to play­ers. To do so, BioWare made it so that the daily and weekly mis­sion objec­tives now require killing play­ers of the oppos­ing faction.

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