VG247: Prototype may have been delayed out of 2008, but there's a silver lining: Alex punching enemies to death on the game's sidewalks has now been polished to the level of "quadruple-awesome," up from a mere "double-awesome" last year.
VG247: The bad: Radical's open-world, anti-superhero blockbuster Prototype has been heavily delayed. The good: it's now been polished to buggery and pulled back to a more manageable "vision".
VG247: Radical's Tim Bennison has confirmed that Prototype will have no multiplayer component, instead focusing solely on you, and you alone. Makes you feel special, don't it?
Spanish website HardGame2 writes: "After a few delays, we have an official launch date for Prototype, the new game of Radical Entertainment, which has raised major sensations in the different events we've seen it. In this case, Activision, its new producer, has confirmed it will launch on June 19 for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on Europe".
Activision has stated plans to bring Prototype to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in June along with the new Wolfenstein on the same formats title in Summer. Both dates aren't to be taken as definite.
"Publisher Activision Blizzard will launch a total of three new intellectual properties in 2009, according to Activision publishing president Mike Griffith.
Activision UK's confirmed a "June-July timeframe" date for Prototytpe this afternoon, telling VG247 that the June date announced last week is for the US.
Joystiq writes:
New details on the upcoming Wildstorm comic book version of video game Prototype were revealed today. The book will be written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, and illustrated by Darick Robertson. Palmiotti and Gray have worked on DC's Jonah Hex, as well as many other fine comic titles. Robertson illustrated Transmetropolitan.
At the end of the CES trailer it revealed something that we have been waiting for, for sometime now, but what was it? It's the release date target for the upcoming game Prototype.
Joystiq loves Radical Entertainment President Kelly Zmak, his excitement is infectious. One might even go so far as to say that he, himself is radical ... or at least tubular. To give you a sample of Zmak, here's a bon mot he dropped on them as he showed Prototype earlier today on the showfloor of CES.
Game companies have been announcing holiday products for the last few weeks and today marked the first day that PWN or DIE started receiving our virtual Christmas cards from the various games.
A quick hit before your weekend starts: over on the Prototype website, there's a countdown clock in full effect. As of writing this article, there's a little over 19 days until something happens with this game featuring a leaping shapeshifter in a locked down New York. No other details are on the site, but that countdown would be ending right around the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas.
GamingShogun writes, "It looks like news is stirring regarding the upcoming game 'Prototype'. After being sold off to Activision-Blizzard by Sierra, the game went underground for a while until some new footage of the game was leaked on the Activision teaser site.
talkplaystation.com "Prototype got delayed until 2009 a month or two back and here's why.
Speaking to videogaming247, Radical Entertainment executive producer Tim Bennison has said that the developer is "evaluating" Prototype's multiplayer: it may make the game after all.
Word on Sierra's open world action game, Prototype, being delayed until April 2009 originally came via online retailer GameStop, but the firm has since confirmed the news as true. See, these online retailers don't always make things up."Sierra Entertainment and Radical Entertainment have made the decision to shift Prototype to launch in 2009," a company spokesperson told IGN in the US. "Since its announcement, Prototype has been ...
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Sierra confirmed today that Prototype has been pushed back from its original fall 2008 date until 2009 in order to give Radical more time "to deliver the game the team initially set out to create."
Sierra Entertainment and DC Comics will be bringing Prototype to life in another medium: comic books. The videogame and comic book publishers will be delivering the Prototype comic book series starting in August 2008, from DC's WildStorm.