Studio of "L.A. Noire" announces "Whore of the Orient" for PC and next generation consoles

The studio Team Bondi is back. The Australian producer, which closed after "L.A. Noire", a new project announced on Thursday (30): "Whore of the Orient", an action game set in Shanghai in 1936. The title is in development for PC and next generation consoles.

According to the description released by Team Bondi in "Whore of the Orient" the player will be part of a police force struggling to maintain peace in a corrupt city, dealing with both political manipulations of the West as Chinese nationalist Kuomintang and the repression of the movement rising labor and communism.

The theme 'mature' can already be felt in the title: "Whore of the Orient" can be translated as 'Whore of the Orient', in reference to the city of Shanghai.

Team Bondi has the participation of film producer KMM, "Mad Max: Fury Road" in development "Whore of the Orient".

The game will be distributed by Warner Bros.. Interactive Entertainment and has no release date yet.

With Fox Engine graphics engine, Konami Announces "Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes"

To celebrate 25 years of the series "Metal Gear", producer Konami announced a new episode: "Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes".

Still no platforms or release date announced, the game will use the new graphics engine Fox Engine, developed by Kojima Productions studio led by Hideo Kojima, creator of the franchise.

The demonstration ran in real time on a computer with specifications comparable to the current generation of video games and showed the hero Snake crawling, dodging spotlight, facing guards, driving a jeep up and asking for help with a helicopter in an immense landscape punctuated by rain, suggesting the game will have an open world to explore.

It was unclear, however, what version of Snake stars in the adventure: Solid or Naked, who later becomes Big Boss, very important character in the saga.

During the exhibition, the audience was allowed to film or take pictures. As the event had no live stream, yet there is no record of any kind of visual demonstration, leaving only now Konami disclose trailers and official images.

However, the first promotional image shows a game of Snake strong and costumes similar to those used by Naked Snake / Big Boss in "Metal Gear Solid 3," "Peace Walker" and other episodes set in the same period, indicating that the old soldier must return to the front of a game series "Metal Gear".

"Ground Zeroes" was not the only new "Metal Gear Solid" presented at the birthday party. For mobile phones, "Social Ops" is a 3D action game made ​​in Unity graphics engine, which borrows elements from card games and characters from all the major episodes of the series.

"Prey 2" was not canceled

Pete Hines, vice president of public relations at Bethesda, gave an interview to the Dutch division of IGN that, as a matter of translation, indicated that "Prey 2" was canceled - which, according to Hines, is not true.

"To clarify, I did not say 'Prey 2' was canceled. I gave interview in English, was translated into Dutch and translated back into English. Something was lost in translation. Only affirm what we have said is that the game will not be released this year, "said Hines.

In April this year, the developer announced that the game was delayed to 2013. The justification at the time was to give the development team more time to work on the production of "Prey 2".

"The delay is due to the fact that the development did not go as expected this year, besides not having met our quality expectations. We apologize if Disappointed our fans," explained the producer at the time.

Bounty hunter

"Prey 2" follows up the game known for introducing a system of portals and a hero with mystical powers based on the Cherokee Indian mythology. Set years after the original, the second game has the protagonist's character Tommy, a soldier who, after being abducted and lose memory, becomes a bounty hunter.

Besides wander scenarios shooting at enemies in "Prey 2" the player must also pursue, capture and interrogate enemies to get information to help you achieve the various goals that will be passed along the journey.

"Prey 2" is in development for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.