Activision has put out a video for the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man game-of-the-film-of-the-comic, featuring a new made up* superpower for the webbed wonder.



It's called 'web rush', and it's not all that clear what it actually does. Part detective vision from Batman: Arkham Asylum, part bullet time, it seems to allow the wallcrawler to slow down time and make better tactical decisions. British writer Paul Jenkins once wrote a Spider-Man comic in which Spidey stated that the reason he can make all his awesomely hilarious one-liners in the middle of fights is that his spider-sense speeds up his perception. So, maybe developer Beenox should have just called this 'spider-sense'. But, y'know, whatever...
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Also Nathan Drake, Sly Cooper and Cole McGrath and Snake

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is not all about the characters. That would be cynical. It's about the finely balanced game play, the cutting edge graphics, the clever use of sound. Right? It's also got Snake, Drake and Kevin Bloody Butler!


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The devil you know

“I knew that if I was going to get the girl back, I was going to have to go after them like a Man on Fire. And if I had to die doing it, well, I'd Die Hard...” That all has to be said in the graveliest possible voice, of course. Rockstar can have that one for the Max Payne 3 DLC, if it wants. It'll be a perfect fit.
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Daleks! Cybermen! Silurians! Silence! That may look like a string of SEO terms aimed to hook in squirming Doctor Who fans, but it also happens to be some of the line-up of monsters you can expect from Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock.


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Get liking it via Facebook... or lose out.

So, Facebook is hitting the world markets at around £24 per share an Ubisoft is using it to pre-load Far Cry 3 multiplayer beta entries. Is there a connection!?? No, no there isn't. Also, the interesting thing out of that is that Far Cry 3 multiplayer early beta entries are up and running.
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Following a wee but amusing hiccough featuring the Simpsons, 2K Games has made public a new dev diary for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the game due out this very autumn on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.


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Curt Schilling company in deep financial doo-doo

Kingdoms of Amalur - which we thought was, you know, okay - was developed by 38 Studios, based in Rhode Island, and now apparently totally unable to pay staff or State government.


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Two ways to play... and a boost for Vita

Sanzaru Games has confirmed that Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time will be released on PS3 and Vita simultaneously this autumn of this very year.



What the? Simultaneously? Yes. Were you not reading that just then? The equally exciting thing is also that both versions are identical and were planned to come out together so you can play cloud-saved game on either.
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Chelsea versus Bayern Munich. Blue versus Red. England versus Germany. Okay, we can agree that last one is stretching a point a bit. However, the fact that Saturday night's (not really) Champions' League final coverage also holds a battle between EA and Activision really does make it interesting.


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The blue blur is truly back!

Writing a review about a Sonic the Hedgehog game these days is much more difficult than it used to be. Once upon a time critics could simply phone in a feature about SEGA’s mascot, opening with the now clichéd witticism about the Sonic series being ‘past it’. Of course, those banging on about the spiny one being reduced to dirge have dismissed the serious upswing of quality that the games have had in the last three years.
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Yes indeedy, the next in the Forza Motorsport series is Forza Horizon. It's being made not by Turn10 but is being farmed out to Playground Studios. It's got a packshot! And a screen shot!


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Best plot either EA or Activision have ever come up with

One of the reasons that the EA vs Activision vs Zampella & West case my have gone to out of court settlement is, as I suggested this morning that opening up various business practices to public scrutiny held little appeal to any party. Most especially not Activision and its "Project Icebreaker".
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SPOnG attends a debate on the subject starring Lord David Puttnam and Tom Watson MP

The Nottingham GameCityPrize organised a debate on the point of video games in modern society. Held at the British Film Insititute (BFI) on the Southbank, London the great and good of the video game industry as well as those who are critical of the medium debated the impact video games have had on culture.
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Dave Rutter talks PES fear

Sometimes, as with EA versus Activision or Britain's Got Talent vs The Voice, it can become a little difficult to differentiate between video games companies and TV shows. Frankly, though we think that ancient and some might say "Epic" or "Mythical"battle between EA's FIFA series and Konami's PES beats them all... this week's Episiode: "FIFA talks PES".
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Wii U "lack lustre" and other companies "holding their breath".

Former Microsoft Games Studios Europe boss and Lionhead founder Peter Molyneux will be a high-profile guest on Spike TV, offering analysis of the upcoming E3 trade show in Los Angeles. But, the famed developer has questioned whether the show is already past its prime. And he called the Wii U "slightly lack lustre." Oooh, get him.
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