FraggsCast Episode 6: GamesCom 2011

Jace – Culdcept with Aaron, League of Legends, I now hate L4D versus mode.

Aaron – Deus Ex 1

Eric – F.3.A.R., Alice: Madness Returns, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile (3D is sweet)

Just talking about Gamescom, yo.275,000 attendees, up by 21,000 from last year.
E3 2011 had 46,800 attendees, but this is not a public event.
PAX East 2011 had 69,500 people
PAX Prime 2010 had 67,600 people
The closest that came to Gamescom was Tokyo Game Show 2010 with 207,647 humans.Announcements galore!!!
Steel Batallion Kinect
Boderlands 2 (OMGZ)
Silent Hill: Book of Memories for PSVita and HD Collection for 360
WildStar, the Pixar looking Sci-Fi MMO
Trine 2, now with actual on-line co-op.
Black Knight Sword from Grasshopper Manufacture for XBLA/PSN.
Mr. Freeze reveal for Batman: Arkham City.
inFamous 2: Festival of Blood. Cole fights vampires.Holy crap, Gamescom is huge.

• PS3 Price got cut! The 160GB model is now $250, which is the launch price for the Nintendo Wii, the 3DS, and the upcoming PS Vita. There is also a $299 inFamous 320GB bundle.
• Diablo 3’s beta will begin by September. There will be an Inferno difficulty which will be way harder than Diablo 2’s hardest difficulty. In D2, Players levels maxed out at 99 but monsters maxed out at 85, broken obviously.  In D3, the level cap for players is 60 while monsters can go higher than that cap. Lastly, Blizzard is “Very Serious” about bringing Diablo to consoles in some fashion.  They are now hiring teams for a Console Diablo project. (source: http://kotaku.com/5831943/blizzard-is-very-very-serious-about-diablo-for-consoles?tag=diablo)
• Gears 3 gone gold
• The PSVita never had its RAM cut.  It in fact has more RAM than the PS3, allowing cross-game voice chat. (source: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/18/playstation-vita-has-more-ram-than-ps3-hey-cross-game-chat/)
• Xenoblade Chronicles was released in English!…in Europe.  Americans may have a chance to see this game released locally if it does well in the EU market. According to Reggie Fils-Aime “We will be watching very closely what happens in Europe,” he said. “Certainly if there are business opportunities and positive consumer uptake from some of those titles, that will be great data for us to consider as we look at what to do with these titles.” That is not confirming that Xenoblade Chronicles will have any real chance that it will come to the US, but we all like to hope.  Personally, I would like to see an HD version of the game make it to the WiiU, I’m tired of 480p.

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