As announced earlier today, the long-in-development L.A. Noire is now officially a 2011 title. But why? Speaking on publisher Take-Two’s earnings call, executives shed a little light on the crime title’s slip; delivering a groundbreaking A+ game can, wouldn’t you know it, ‘take a while’. Aussie developer Team Bondi is “pushing the envelope”...

Ubisoft is set to change things up a bit with its new IP. No more shall they just be associated with the creepy crawly Sam Fisher, the creepy crawly Altaïr/Ezio, and the wall crawling Prince. Now it’s on to the finer things — first-person shooters and clowns. Details are limited, but Ubisoft has announced that Bloody Good Time is set to hit Xbox...

LucasArts has thinned its ranks, the company has confirmed. While not specifying the number, sources of Kotaku say an estimated 60 from development and an additional 25 from external production and QA have been let go. “LucasArts is reorganizing its teams to better address the needs of the internal studio,” said the company in a statement. “Unfortunately,...

That $50 per year PlayStation Plus subscription is about to start paying off; an early access demo of Kratos’ latest killing spree, the Ready at Dawn-developed God of War: Ghost of Sparta, will next week be made available to Plus subscribers and Plus subscribers alone. No word on what to specifically expect but blood and guts all over the floor is...

Here’s a quickie: the OfficialBFBC2 Twitter feed (and blog) have announced that the Medal of Honor multiplayer beta is as of now available to all of those who own Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on Steam. Just download it through your games library and get the action going. And no, there’s still no word on the Xbox 360 beta.

Word is out that Maxis, the famed EA studio behind the The Sims, Spore and Sim City, is hiring a Development Director for an “unannounced next-generation Online simulation game.” The ever so observant superannuation speculates that it might be a Facebook game, which could make sense except we’re not sure we would label a Facebook game as a “next-gen”...

PC Gamer’s recent report on Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s cooperative Onslaught mode making its way to the PC has proven to be inaccurate. “The article published by PC-Gamer is not accurate,” tweets DICE’s Battlefield community manager. The developer is still “researching” if Onslaught could be made available for PC though, the tweet also...

We’ve all seen Dead Rising 2’s nifty little limited edition for Europe and Australia, but the set that North America gets quite frankly blows it away. Titled the Zombrex Edition, this version packs in a pen in the shape of a syringe, a safety information card, a notepad, and a brochure. There’s also the standard steelbook, ‘making of’ disc,...

The NPD Group’s North American sales numbers for the month of June are in, and there’s no slowing down Red Dead Redemption on the software end. The Rockstar westerner remains the best-selling title for the second month in a row with its Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions taking the first and third spots, respectively, and none other than Super...

Denise Kaigler is set to return to the game industry. The former vice president of corporate affairs at Nintendo of America is joining 38 Studios. According to Gamasutra, Kaigler has taken up the role of marketing officer at the Massachusetts-based outfit. Kaigler left Nintendo in November of 2009 to work closer to home. 38 Studios is based in New...