European News Wrap, August 17 - What Happened Today

Ahh, Humpday: you came and went with nary a bother but with a whole load of screens and videos. Come inside to marvel at the pretty images, some of them move as though alive. Spooky.

So, today we had some nice pieces back from gamescom with a feature on Carbine's new MMO, Wildstar, and an interview with Sony software boss, Shuhei Yoshida on all things PlayStation.

Starting the day off was the AU News Wrap and to end it later on, Steph will have her US News Wrap, which just leaves the small matter of the EU version to squeeze in between. Behold!

• Carbine announces Wildstar, aims at MMO reinvention
  Pat's impressions plus lots of blue screen shots and a vid
• Gamescom 2011: Sony’s Yoshida on the PS3 cut and more
  An interesting insight to the man behind the machine
• Might and Magic Heroes VI gamescom trailer
  Complete with a suitably stirring soundtrack
• Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon gets US launch date
  Hard to be sure, but I'm pretty confident that's a made up word
• El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron reviews full of praise
  For those only interested in numbers
• Analyst: Aussies to enjoy videogame price drop “by early 2012″
• Dark Souls gamescom screens show combat, character creation
  Just a few, short weeks to go. I've never been so excited about dying in a videogame.
• Wii re-design dumps backwards compatibility
  Backwards compatibility, heh? It never lasts
• Rumour: Social games giant Zynga to acquire mobile dev Astro Ape
  What does oodles of money buy you? Oodles of developers, that's what
• Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword landing November 18
  That happens to be my brother's birthday, though I'm not sure he'll want Skyward Sword for a present. His loss
• Watch the DOTA 2 championship taking place at gamescom
  Seems a little unfair that some are competing for a cash prize when the rest of us can't even play it. *Sulks*
• Silent Hill HD Collection to appear on Xbox 360, simultaneous release intended
  Personally, I'd have liked the first game in there as well. Y'know, to round out the 'collection' bit of it
• Silent Hill on Vita will be a top-down, multiplayer experience
  Silent Hill has always prided itself on being a bit odd, but this is just, well, odd
• Quick Shots: Borderlands 2 shows off its style
  Looks purty
• Zelda: Four Swords free for all
  One for all, and any more than that would be greedy

More from me tomorrow, see you then.