Gaming News Round-Up

What with ComicCon prompting a host of video game announcements, new reveals or sad confirmations of delays, it's hard to keep up with everything (even for me!), so sometimes it's best just to try and get as much of it into one place as possible. Here's my best shot at doing just that:

• Aliens: Infestation has been announced for release on the Nintendo DS. Developed by GearBox Studios alongside next year's Colonial Marines, this one takes a lighter approach to the franchise, having you play as one of nineteen marines as a special force is recruited to explore derelict spaceships in order to hunt down the galaxy's deadlist Xenamorphs, aka the Aliens. We'll get Infestation this September!
• Intriguing Batman FPS spin-off Gotham City Impostors has been given a definitive release window of Winter 2012 (the dev is clearly in no rush to get it onto the Xbox Live or PSN networks) and a projected price point of around £10.
• As predicted, some video games just aren't able to make their predicted Q3/Q4 2011 release dates or want to actually garner some sales at a later point rather than be swept up in the oncoming swarm of shooters. Amongst these are The Darkness II, a promising horror-thriller romp now set to release early next year, and Final Fantasy XIII-2, the epic Japanese RPG fantasy sequel now confirmed to hit in the UK in January of 2012. The 3DS Assassin's Creed: Lost Legacy game has now been confirmed to have been cancelled, as the initial story ideas for the spin-off were realised as being too similar to Revelations, and thus the project was ended.
• One game that will definitely make this year is X-Men Destiny: that's on it's way on September 27th. I can't really comment on how good this is looking until a demo is released or I play the full game, but critics seem to have mixed views on it right now. Take a look at the trailer below!
• A big online game for kids, Disney Universe is coming this Winter, and it's now been confirmed that one world full of activities and mini-games to try will be that of WALL-E (3.5/5), the fun Pixar animation that took robots into space back in 2008.

More games news (and being ComicCon, a lot of it) is on its way to the blog very soon!