New Brink footage shows how the game actually plays

We didn’t have to wait long for that proper Brink gameplay footage to arrive after all; As part of their week-long coverage G4 has released a new, two-minute, Adam Sessler-narrated X-Play clip that dives into the game’s premise as well as its main attraction, the SMART movement system, and, indeed, shows plenty of proper gameplay footage as well. Just don’t mind Sessler referring to the game’s release window as “Spring” — I’m guessing the segment was simply recorded and finalized before the delay to Fall happened.

Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka leaving Konami?

Aeropause is reporting that Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka is leaving Konami, sourcing a unnamed contact from Konami Japan. Yamaoka has worked for Konami as a sound designer for the past 16 years, known best for the haunting melodies and thick industrial ambience that give the Silent Hill series its unique audible character. Anyone who’s played a Silent Hill game knows that Yamaoka and Silent Hill are like peanut butter and jelly, so even though this is still a rumor, there’s still plenty of reason to be concerned if you’re a fan of the series.

Fancy going to E3 in your underwear? Now you can! Maybe…

I’ve never been to a videogame convention before. I imagine it’s all a bit weird. Speccy nerds queuing to play FaceShooter3 and dribbling over booth babes is how I picture it

Nintendo downloads for the week of Nov. 30

What the hell, Nintendo? Two weeks of massive downloads! Is someone trying to capture the download market this holiday season? Well, you’re going to have to try a little harder.

Serious Sam: The Next Encounter getting the HD treatment in 2010

It seems that Croatian developers don’t like taking breaks. Not even a week after Serious Sam HD was released on Steam, developer Croteam has announced that Serious Sam HD: The Next Encounter will be released in early 2010.

Silicon Knights’ new game called The Box?

Too Human developer Silicon Knights’ new game could be called The Box , the CV of an ex-employee named Zhang Shao-yong reveals. The CV states that Shao-yong was with the Canadian developer from June 2005 to April 2008 and that he worked on both Too Human as well as a project called The Box , and that he was responsible for producing “visual effects, such as the application of particle and material performance of explosions, smoke, water, fire, weather and so on.” The Box is marked down as an “Xbox [360] and PS3″ game on the CV but beyond that, there’s no information about it. Though whatever it is, it could be “fresh” if Silicon Knights’ bossman Denis Dyack is to be believed, and if he is in fact talking about this particular game in the following quote

Updated / Call of Duty Classic hitting Arcade this week

Update: Activision has just announced that Classic will head to PlayStation Network this week as well — on Thursday for $14.99. Original story: Infinity Ward’s port of the original Call of Duty , titled Call of Duty Classic , is this week’s Xbox Live Arcade offering, Xbox Live’s European community manager Graeme Boyd tweets , also confirming the previously rumored 1200 MS Point price point which should scare those who bought the pricier editions of Modern Warfare 2 into looking for that redeemable code that’s tucked away somewhere in their editions. The arrival of Cpt.

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