Goodbye

IN THE words of Julie Andrews: ‘So long, farewell, auf Widersehen, good night’:

We’re all off. Not far fortunately. We’re moving round the corner to the ever lovely BeefJack where bovine comedy is plentiful and the living is easy…sorry. Clearly I’m in the mood for lyrics.

The content will be as grand as ever and I’ve no doubt you’ll all be happy to read the sterling work we’re conjuring up.

This however isn’t just to tell you that we’re going. It’s to say thanks to you. Yes you *points*. As clichéd as it may sound, this site would have been nothing without you dear reader. You’re brilliant.

And oi, you lovely freelancers who have written for the site over the year. You’re brilliant too and I wish you all fantastic future writing careers.

Now finish reading the lovely content that we’re ending on and wander on over to BeefJack. Pull up a chair there, have a laugh, enjoy yourself. It’s going to be an exciting ride ahead.

Jennifer Allen

(maybe some war)

THE NEXT title by Costume Quest and Stacking developers Double Fine has been announced. It’s got robots.

Trenched will be an Xbox 360 exclusive, released over XBLA, featuring lots of stompy customisable battle robots and big scary alien do-hickeys.

Players will fight as part of the Mobile Trench Brigade, combining shooty action with tower defence style play across Europe, Africa and the Pacific.

Here is a video to watch with your eyes.

No release date yet.

Brendy Caldwell

Red Dead and Minecraft are ‘good things’, GDC awards claim

WESTERN SHOOTER Red Dead Redemption and blocky sandbox building things game Minecraft are good, according to a Game-playing Developmental Conglomeration.

“Minecraft makes me want to kiss the Internet,” said one Conglomatron. “And Red Dead has horses and you can wear hats in it and everything.”

The just now made-up comments came as Red Dead won four awards at the Game Developers Choice Awards, including Best Game Design and Game of the Year.

Minecraft won five awards overall, three in the Choice Awards and two more in the Indie Games Festival, Including Best Downloadable Game, the Innovation award and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize – worth $20,000.

Nidhogg won the Nuovo Award while Amnesia: The Dark Descent was also said to be “yeah, I like that too”, winning three IGF awards including Excellence in Audio and Technical Excellence.

Well done to all them folk. Well deserved methinks.

(Via GameInformer)

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Trailers: Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword, sninkt sninkt clllngr!

THAT’S RIGHT, it’s sound effects day at Reso. What you gonna do about it? Sweet nothing, that’s what.

Shamefully, I have never played Mount & Blade. But it does look awfully fun. Doesn’t it? Here’s some trailery goodness for from Paradox Interactive et al to celebrate the Game Developers Conference, which is taking place miles away in the New World – a distant, scary place of which we know not lots.

With Fire & Sword is due out in the second quarter of 2011 for PC.

Brendy Caldwell

Trailer: Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, pfffffffneeeor!

THAT’S THE sound of a fighter jet. It’s flying through the air and it’s hitting you in the face.

“Hey, watch it,” you say, licking your fat lip.

“No, YOU watch it,” says the boisterous fighter jet in return.

And that’s just what you do. You notice this trailer and you watch it.

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is out for PS3 and Xbox 360 at a spoooookily unspecified date in 2011.

Brendy Caldwell

Eurogamer Expo tickets now on sale, dahn Lahndan innit

TICKETS FOR Eurogamer Expo 2011 are now on sale for £8 per day, Eurogamer hastens to tell everyone.

But the above price is for “early bird” tickets. So there may be an increase in price over the next few months. Panic accordingly.

The Expo will remain in last year’s nest Earls Court, London. It’ll be spread across four days, taking place September 22-25.

It’s good craic. Doubtless some Resolvers/Beefjackers will be there. Come and play games! You can buy your tickets from their website.

Brendy Caldwell

Trailer: Skulls of the Shogun, swords and angry undead

LOOKY HERE, you. I know you might be all agog with Shogun: Total War II if Japanesey war games are what you’re after.

But I’ll tell you what the Creative Assembly don’t have – zombies! I think. It’s hard to tell these days. Here’s a trailer showing off some of the game’s features.

Skulls of the Shogun is developed by Haunted Temple Studios. No news on a release date yet.

Brendy Caldwell

Obvious Jokes Inc goes into administration, final UK charts

SAD TIMES. Last week, when we said we would be with you always and forever, Obvious Jokes Inc did not foresee the great financial meltdown of two-thousand-and-now.

As a result of this unprecedented and unforeseeable crash, we are sad to announce that this will be our last instalment of the UK games charts.

Unless of course, we get a massive government bailout! No? No.

The charts.

Killzone 3 comes flying into first place atop a futuristic floating platform, sticking its tongue out at Bulletstorm, which slides along the ground into second, kicking Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 hard in face down to seventh.

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the war that just keeps on warring at number three.

FIFA 11 is football.

Just Dance 2 is back up at number five? Oh, FUCK OFF AND LEAVE US ALONE FOR THE LOVE OF KRISHNA WHO IS BUYING THIS I DON’T KNOW ANY MORE KINDS OF DANCE.

The top ten:

1. Killzone 3
2. Bulletstorm
3. CODS and BLOPS
4. FIFA 11
5. Just Die 2
6. Dead Space 2
7. Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
8. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
9. Wii Party
10. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

Brendy Caldwell

Trailer: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, get your dragon

PRETTY THINGS. We’re a fan of exciting pretty things here at Reso. Skyrim is one of those things. Here’s a trailer which seems to show some gameplay between the CG story of a delightful spat between one man and his true love (who is also a dragon).

Skyrim is due out November 11.

Brendy Caldwell

Trailer: Battlefield 3, best squaddies 4eva

NO, YOUR speakers aren’t broken. That’s just a stylish lack of sound. All the cool kids are doing it.

The game is due out in UNSPECIFIED this year for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Brendy Caldwell