News Highlights: Thu 16th Feb

More Civ, Assassin's in October.
Text: Bengt Lemne
Published 2012-02-16

At the end of the day we sum things up...

Rockstar have released their second trailer from the stunningly beautiful Max Payne 3. Watch it!

Sony have confirmed how cross platform products on PS Vita and Playstation 3 will work. Basically, it seems far more generous than we're accustomed to. Nice!

2K Games and Firaxis have announced the first full size expansion for Civilization V dubbed Gods & Kings. As the title implies religion is back in the fold.

GRTV brings us an update on what's going on with Battlefield Play4Free courtesy of producer John Almbecker at Easy Studios.

We're reached by the news that Maxis (Sims, Spore) are preparing an announcement at EA's Game Changer event in San Francisco during GDC.

Ubisoft have released a rather tasty CGI trailer for Far Cry 3 and the game is now confirmed for release on September 7.

Yesterday's news that Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch won't be out until the first quarter of 2013 left us sad, but today we've got some gameplay clips to cheer us up.

Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot has confirmed that Assassin's Creed III will see release on October 30 and that it has been in development for three years.

Tim Schafer has shared some additional details on the fan funded Double Fine Adventure, including platforms and the fact that there will be voices and full text localisation for several languages.

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

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