Thor, Captain America games coming in 2011

The wait for Sega’s Captain America and Thor games has been seemingly interminable. Originally announced in April of 2007, the two games will arrive alongside their movie counterparts in the summer blockbuster season of 2011, according to Marvel’s latest quarterly financial report.

Thor will debut in May 2011, giving the golden-haired god of thunder his first starring game role. The film will be directed by Kenneth Brannagh (Hamlet, Frankenstein), with Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs, Nixon) as Odin and Chris Hemsworth (Captain Kirk’s father in this year’s Star Trek) in the title role.

Captain America will follow his fellow Avenger into theaters and onto game shelves in July 2011. A cast for the film–currently titled The First Avenger: Captain America–has not yet been announced. While Thor will be starring in his own game and movie for the first time, the star-spangled supersoldier has been there before, albeit not for decades. The much-reviled 1990 film Captain America was released direct-to-video in the United States, while the following year’s arcade game Captain America and the Avengers fared much better, spawning ports for the NES, Genesis, and GameBoy, among others.

Source: Gamespot

Batman: Arkham Asylum Ships 2.5 Million Units

Batman: Arkham Asylum has enjoyed good sales, critical buzz, and even a world record. Signs don’t seem to indicate that its popularity will slow, either, as word came from Eidos today that they’ve shipped a total of 2.5 million units. This is only in terms of units shipped, of course, so it’s not a concrete sales number at retail. Still, it shows retailer confidence in the product and marks an impressive debut for a game less than a month old. The game had a notable showing in the August NPDs at around 600,000 units in only a week. That means that even if only half of the Eidos’ shipped units sell through at retail this month, the game will be looking at almost a full million when the September numbers come in. While individual SKUs of the game might be split and beaten out by heavy-hitters like Madden NFL 10 and Halo ODST, we’re almost certain to see Batman appear somewhere in the top five next month.

It’s also worth noting that nVidia will now be shipping Arkham Asylum with their cards!

Dead Space Extraction - Wii Exclusive

only gets worse for the USG Ishimura in the upcoming Wii-exclusive Dead Space Extraction from EA’s Visceral Games development studio. This platform-exclusive survival horror game functions as both a prequel and side story to the acclaimed Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 original.

Check out the Gamespot Exclusive video for this:

Quake Live adds support for Mac, Linux

id announced on Tuesday that support had been added to the game for Linux and Mac users. While this is at best ‘meh’ for me…I think the growing community of  Mac and Linux players were feeling a litle left out. Currently, Mac players are limited to playing through Safari, though id says that the Firefox/Mac combo will soon be a workable configuration.

Also interesting to note, that it might be going the paid route soon. John Carmak in one of this interviews said that the money received from ads within the game is well just not enough.

PS3 Slim Revealed

Getting straight to the point…The new PS3 slim measures 33 percent smaller, 36 percent lighter and consumes 34 percent less power. It’ll also pack a 120 GB hard drive as a middle ground between the current 80 GB and  the 160 GB SKU. The 120 GB size will also put it head-to-head with the Xbox 360 Elite.

Besides the new hardware, perhaps the biggest news is that the PS3 Slim will also bring with it a much slimmer price tag of $299, or 299 Euros, or 29980 yen.

For those of you who’ve been on the fence about buying a PS3, does this new hardware and price do it for you? Also note, that the new PS3 Slim is no longer PS2 backward compatible.