News Highlights: Thu 9th Feb

Another busy day at the beat.
Text: Bengt Lemne
Published 2012-02-09

The day is over and it's time to wrap up what we've been covering during the day.

The good folks at GRTV have been putting out some gameplay clips from PS Vita launch titles. Don't miss this one featuring the jungles of Uncharted: Golden Abyss, or this one that sees us taking the creation mode in Modnation Racers: Road Trip for a spin.

There were also a few great interviews going online today starting with an interview on the co-op mode in Syndicate with Roger Mattsson from Starbreeze and EA's Jeff Gamon, continuing on with a talk about the first hour of Mass Effect 3 with Bioware producer Michael Gamble, and ending up in an interesting chat with Paradox producer Shams Jorjani about the Magicka franchise, and the role of a producer among other things. To top things off there is a blog on the subject of Sleeping Dogs from Hong Kong starring our German colleague Martin Eiser and Swedish staff writer Christofer Olsson.

As far as the missing in action Killzone for PS3 goes we learned that it has been "delayed indefinitely"...

In Skyrim news patch 1.4 lands on Xbox Live, while PS3 players will have to wait a little longer. Executive producer Todd Howard spoke at DICE putting the player base over 10 million with millions having played more than 75 hours.

Activision have sent out some images and a trailer from Skylanders Giants - the continuation of the popular toy/video game concept.

In the number's game Warner Bros have revealed that Batman: Arkham City has surpassed 6 million shipped copies, while Halfbrick let out that Jetpack Joyride has achieved 14 million downloads.

And I'll round off today's news summary with a proper feel good story as it only took Double Fine just over 7 hours to get the full $400,000 pledge from fans they were asking for in order to make a new point-and-click adventure. As of right now the sum is up at $776,000 with 19,000 backers and Tim Schafer promises that all the extra funds will go into making the game and the documentary of the making even better.

That's it for today, see you back here tomorrow!

Tim Schafer quietly smiling on the inside.

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