far-cry-3 posts

A good portion of the country is in a deep freeze. All the better to stay at home and play some games with friends.

• Steam has a new beta version of Monday Night Combat available for download for people who pre-ordered the game.
• GoG.com has added the original version of Broken Sword for free when people buy the new Director's Cut version of the adventure game
• Bungie has filed for a number of trademarks to various names. Not really helpful but some people like seeing this stuff.
• More Far Cry 3 speculation hits the internets.
• A Battlefield Bad Company 2/Vietnam server patch has been released that fixes, among other things, the "invisible boat bug"
• The two Penny Arcade Adventures games are selling well on the new Mac App Store but a third installment is still not coming.
• Check out this feature-length movie made inside Grand Theft Auto IV.
• And finally: by this time tomorrow, Minecraft is most likely to have gone over the 1 million units sales mark.

Far Cry 3 has been rumored to be in development for some time and today more evidence of its existence appears. The Direct2Drive PC game download site now has a "Coming Soon" listing for the (possible) Ubisoft-published game. The listing also shows an August 1, 2011 release date.

There's been lots of internet talk that the third game in the first person shooter series has been in development for a while. Most recently a recent issue of PC Gamer's print magazine used its rumor column to state that the game's development is "in full swing now" at Ubisoft's Montreal studios. We have emailed Ubisoft for comment on this latest sighting.

Update: It looks like the Far Cry 3 page has been removed

2008's release of developer/publisher Ubisoft's open world first person shooter Far Cry 2 was met with praise from critics and solid sales. Even before the game was released there was talk of making Far Cry 3. Now a new rumor from the pages of PC Gamer's latest print magazine suggests that Far Cry 3 is in full production mode.

The magazine, in its rumor-filled Spy column, states that the game is "in full swing now" at Ubisoft's Montreal studios. According to the article the game's development is being lead by Josh Mosqueira, who previously worked over at Relic Entertainment as the lead designer for Company of Heroes. There's no word on what the game might be about although previous suggestions about Far Cry 3 stated the game would stick to Far Cry 2's African setting.

Ubisoft's Far Cry first person shooter franchise has apparently been successful enough for the publisher to give the green light a third game in the series. Computer and Video Games seems to have gotten confirmation on this matter when they asked Ubisoft's Kevin Shortt (while at a Avatar movie game event) if he was working on Far Cry 3. His reply? "No I'm not, but I know the team are and what I've seen looks pretty exciting."

The original game was developed by Crytek using their first generation CryEngine. Released in 2004, it was set in a tropical island location. The sequel, which besides the name and the fact that it wad a FPS had no other connections to the first title, was both developed and released by Ubisoft in 2008 using their own in-house graphics engine and was more serious in tone with its African setting. So will Far Cry 3 keep that location or move in yet another direction? Stay tuned.