Here's Why Resident Evil Revelations 2 Isn't Coming to the 3DS

 

    As we all know, Resident Evil Revelations was born on the 3DS in 2012 before moving to console the following year. So why has developer Capcom avoided releasing its sequel on Nintendo's handheld?
 
    The answer it seems, is technical. "The original game was released on home consoles a little while after the 3DS. It was called the 'Unveiled Edition' in Japan but just Resident Evil Revelations for consoles in the West," Revelations 2 producer Michiteru Okabe told Digital Spy.

    "That's where our starting point for the sequel is in a sense, the versions that were already on home platforms.

    "It's partly a technical reason. We have our own custom engine called the MT Framework, and as the mobile and home console versions are quite different technically, given that we were taking the home console versions as a starting point, it just led somewhat naturally.

    "We tried to release it on as many platforms as we could, and that later became a selection of current and next-gen Xbox and PlayStation platforms as well as PC, so that's how we ended up with that."

    While we will see Revelations 2 on one handheld device - the PlayStation Vita - that version is being handled by Sony.

    Resident Evil Revelations 2 will hit the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC and PS Vita initially in episodic installments, with the first episode due to hit February 24.

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Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden Announced for 3DS in Japan

 

    A new entry in the Dragon Ball Z: Butoden franchise is heading to the 3DS, the latest issue of V Jump Magazine has revealed.

    According to the article, Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden is being developed by Arc System Works and will sport over 100 different DBZ characters. The 2D fighting game will feature both one-on-one and team-style battles with a new "Z Assist" support feature and "Ultimate Arts" finishing moves.

    Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden is set to launch in Japan this Summer with no word yet on a Western release. The last game in the series, Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butoden, was released for Nintendo DS in 2011 exclusively in Japan.

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The Evil Within's First DLC The Assignment Coming in March

 

    Bethesda has released a teaser trailer for The Assignment, The Evil Within's first piece of DLC.

    The assignment will be released in March, and will focus on the story of Detective Castellanos' partner, Juli Kidman.

    Two more pieces of DLC, The Consequence, and The Keeper, will be released later in the year.

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Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Reaches 3 Million Copies Sold

    Capcom has announced that global shipments of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate have surpassed 3 million since its launch.

    These figures include the Japanese version, Monster Hunter 4G, which managed to sell over 1.6 million copies during its launch weekend.

    According to the press release, the shipments also include download cards and sales of the download version on the Nintendo eShop. It also states that the entire series has cumulatively sold over 32 million units to date.

DOTA 2 Hit 1 Million Concurrent Players Over the Weekend

    Dota 2 hit more than one million concurrent players over the weekend, peaking at 1,075,464 users and setting a record for the most concurrent players on Steam for one game.

    As highlighted on the Steam and Game Stats page, Counter Strike: GO followed far behind Dota 2 in second place with 433,542 players over the weekend. Steam itself already cruised past performance milestones this year when the video game service broke its own record in January with 8.5 million concurrent players. Dota 2’s boost is an inch towards MOBA juggernaut League of Legends’ concurrent player record of 7.5 million users.

    Dota 2’s milestone coincides with this year's New Bloom Festival which features the Year Beast Brawl game mode, a new Arcana for Crystal Maiden and more. We have everything you need to know about Dota 2's New Bloom Festival. You can rule the Year Beast Brawl with these tips for the Year Beast's upgrade paths, details on the Ability Point system, spell costs, and more.

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Dying Light PC Patch Resurrects Modding

 

    Dying Light received an update over the weekend that includes a patch to re-enable modding in the action survival horror.

    A patch for PC released earlier this month restricted the ability to mod the game. Patch notes for update 1.2.1 revealed that while the fix may have been designed to prevent anyone cheating by changing the game's data files, the mods were likely caught in the crossfire.

    Patch notes for the latest update, version 1.4.0, states that modded games will not work online with original unchanged versions but will work with other identically modded games. The update also fixes hardware, performance and stability issues. It addresses issues with Be-the-Zombie mode and general gameplay, such as “extremely long load times that some users were experiencing.”

    Developer Techland recently invited players to help create modding tools for Dying Light and “share their mod ideas - no matter how crazy.” The studio also announced this month that Dying Light is scheduled to get a new hard mode via a free content update sometime around the start of March or some time sooner.

     Dying Light launched on January 27, and we thought its high-speed parkour and gruesome zombie massacres made the game a blast, even if the story's just okay. Be sure to check out the next evolution of our Let's Play series, IGN Plays Live, where we will livestream Dying Light this Wednesday.

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