Video Games to Watch Out For in 2012 Part #5

How times change.

As it’s a start of a new year, new video games are coming out to look forward to. Over the next few days or so I will be listing nearly thirty games that you should watch out for this year.

Each part will have around six games that you should look out for. In no particular order.

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The UK Best Selling Video Games of 2011

Why is Call of Duty always top?

The following show the sales for the various platforms and overall top-selling video games. Unsurprising Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and two EA games are the top three overall selling video games of 2011 with EA’s and Activision Blizzard domination of the industry and the popularity of Call of Duty. However that’s not a good thing.

Digital sales are not counted, although they will be soon.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Patch 1.1 Notes

Dueling yourself.

I havent played Star Wars: The Old Republic but apparently it is supposed to be ok for a World of Warcraft clone. Despite what you feel about the game it can’t be argued that it is with Rift one of the best and solid massively multiplayer online game releases. Usually MMOs take about six months to get to where SWTOR is now.

This patch adds more content and bug fixes and it is due soon but Its only available on the test servers at the moment.

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X-COM: Enemy Unknown First Screenshots and Details

X-COM bases are apparently underground.

The first new screenshots and details about the new X-COM remake X-COM: Enemy Unknown have been revealed in Game Informer.

From Game Informer “The shooter takes place earlier in the fiction, chronicling the aliens’ first attacks in the United States. The strategy game we’re talking about here deals with the global response to the later full-blown alien invasion of Earth.”

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Bethesda Now Own All Rights To A Fallout MMO

Fun while it lasted.

Video gaming sites are reporting that Interplay have completely lost any rights to make a Fallout massively multiplayer online game with intellectual property rights now belonging solely to Bethesda. Interplay have been fined $2 million by Bethesda owners Zenimax as part of the deal.

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Video Games to Watch Out For in 2012 Part #4

How times change.

As it’s a start of a new year, new video games are coming out to look forward to. Over the next few days or so I will be listing nearly thirty games that you should watch out for this year.

Each part will have around six games that you should look out for. In no particular order.

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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Books #06 The Cabin in the Woods

Cabin fever.

This is a little series I am starting where I go through several books from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Number #06 The Cabin in the Woods, Volume II by Mogen Son of Molag.

This book is a tale of a soldier and a sobbing ghost. It is also similar to the 2012 horror thriller film “The Cabin in the Woods”. It is found throughout many places in Skyrim.

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Rumor: Diablo III Release Date [Update!]

Diablo would be disappointed.

According to Best Buy and Joystiq, Diablo III is heading to stores at the beginning of next month. A display spotted at a Best Buy shop shows Diablo III being advertised for a midnight launch on the 1st February. Also Best Buy’s website lists the same date.

Apparently UK retailer Gameplay is showing a 3rd February 2012 release date for Diablo III. Which means there might be some truth in the actual release dates.

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South Park: The Game Screenshots

Guns Don't Kill People, Sign Posts Do.

Some South Park screenshots have been recently released. In South Park The Game you controls a new kid arriving in South Park. This will involve journeying around and making both friends and enemies. Characters that have been discovered will be added to a social database which can be used later on. South Park: The Game has small character parties and 2D style combat with classes such as fighter, mage, thief and cleric.

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Impressive Steam Statistics

The number game.

Steam have passed five million concurrent users on the 2nd of January which was likely caused by the popularity of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and the Steam Christmas Sale. Valve have also confirmed that Steam had passed 30 million active accounts from October 2010 which has likely increased significantly since then.

More stats have been released which show some even more impressive Steam related figures.

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