<![CDATA[Kotaku: Velvet Assassin]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Velvet Assassin]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/velvet assassin http://kotaku.com/tag/velvet assassin <![CDATA[Death To Spies 2: Moment of Truth Preview: SMERSH is a fun word to say]]> Death to Spies 2 is a sequel to a 2007 PC stealth action game that was like the Russian version of Hitman. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5305823&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Velvet Assassin Review: Lie Back And Think Of England]]> Velvet Assassin is a stealth action game that's loosely based on the real-life World War II Allied secret agent, Violette Szabo, who was captured and later executed by the Nazis. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5249198&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Frankenreview: Velvet Assassin]]> Stealthy meets sexy in Velvet Assassin, Replay Studios' World War II stealth action title based on the true story of female Allied secret agent Violette Szabo. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5245933&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Velvet Assassin Celebrates Gold Status With New Screens]]> Southpeak Games has announced that Velvet Assassin, as every single game before it, has gone gold. The publisher celebrates this accomplishment with new screens, including one of heroine Summer Violette stabbin' Nazis in the chest. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5223751&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA["Young" Velvet Assassin Trailer Feels Old, Sounds Awful]]> If you watch the new extended trailer for Velvet Assassin and feel a strange sense of deja-vu, there's a reason for that. Sadly, that reason doesn't make the trailer any better. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5201138&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Velvet Assassin Trailer Evokes Disturbing Mental Picture]]>
What was presumably meant to be a sexy and inspiring trailer for Replay Studio's Velvet Assassin instead manages to bring to mind the disturbing image of Sir Winston Churchill in a bloody nightie. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5170517&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Velvet Assassin Gets Away With Morphine In Australia]]> THQ and SouthPeak convinced Australia that the ubiquitous use of morphine in a World War II game is historically accurate — scoring an MA 15+ rating. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5164578&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Godfather II Gets April Release]]> Godfather II, originally set to hit stores around the same time as Killzone 2, Halo Wars and Street Fighter IV, is now headed for stores on April 7 in North America and and April 10 in Europe. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5151243&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Velvet Assassin Preview: Metal Gear Lite]]> Southpeak had their very own Violette Summer on hand to pose for pictures with fans. But, I was at their booth to check out their game, not the babe. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5149258&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Velvet Assassin Gets the Aeon Flux Treatment]]> Peter Chung, creator of the avant garde sci-fi cartoon Aeon Flux, is signed up with SouthPeak Games to pen a 15-page Velvet Assassin digital graphic novel. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5148542&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SouthPeak's NYCC Plans Include Real Velvet Assassin]]> The 2009 New York Comic Con is kicking off this weekend, and SouthPeak Games plans on making their presence felt, throwing everything from space bears to live-action velvety assassins at convention goers. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5144538&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Serious Take on WW II Means Sexy, Sexy Wardrobe]]> Typically when I think World War II and Nazi Germany I don't think fashion show, but Velvet Assassin reminds us that the epitome of realism is a deep closet... and at least one nightie. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5116961&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Velvet Assassin – Morphine Makes Everything Better, Seriously]]> There were several things that stayed with me long after I’d put down Velvet Assassin – the most vivid of which was the morphine. In this World War II stealth-action game, morphine acts sort of as bullet-time; when you botch a sneaking mission and your character Violette gets shot at, you can inject yourself with a syringe of the magic medicine which turns everything all orangey with little flower petals/red blood cells floating everywhere. While this is going on, Violet appears onscreen in her hospital nightie (sexy), can run super-fast, and kills people in lightning-quick shanks. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5066916&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Velvet Assassin Slinks Back To 2009]]> European gamers who fancied some 1940s stealth gaming in Velvet Assassin will have to wait until the new year. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5047566&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Wars are Won in the Shadows, New Velvet Assassin Trailer]]> Along side Mushroom Men, Gamecock is also publishing Velvet Assassin which looks utterly bad ass. I am going with McWhertor here, I hope they get this stealth gameplay right. An Assassin game set in WWII, count me in! The game will be hitting Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5041337&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Velvet Assassin Trailer Has Two Appealing Things]]> Those two things would be tight pants and Nazi killing. Looks like Replay Studios, by way of Gamecock, will be serving up both in spades, as crouch-walking and fence-scaling are ideal activities for maximizing the exposure of a caboose in taut leather. Velvet Assassin also lets you shoot Nazis in the face. You've already got our attention, Replay, so don't go screwing this up with some half-baked stealth gameplay. We don't want to have to push this one to the back of the shelf for fear of embarrassment. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023181&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Behind Enemy Lines With Velvet Assassin]]> Gamecock's upcoming Velvet Assassin, in development by Replay Studios, has an intriguing premise - the protagonist, Violette Summer, is based on the actual life of British secret agent Violette Szabo during World War II. In the game, Violette is a secret agent on her own behind enemy lines. It's slated for a Fall release on Xbox 360 and PC. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017662&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Velvet Assassin Info Dump]]> Velvet Assassin has been getting some facetime recently on various sites, but I hadn't checked it out till this morning, so forgive my surprise that the main character in a World War II shooter is a woman. How cool is that. And she doesn't have to use her moody powers to blow shit up, just old-fashioned bad-ass-atude. I see potential, but of course it's far too ambiguous to tell at this stage. Besides the whole woman as the lead character angle, the game features a nice mix of assassinations and sabotage, all set in "hyper-realistic, dreamlike settings that are modeled after actual WWII locations." WTF? I've never thought of World War II battlegrounds as "dreamlike." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=367483&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[No Ass Monsters In Velvet Assassin]]>
Replay Studios creative director and co-founder Sascha Jungnickel has some very important things to say about their upcoming stealth action game, the recently renamed Velvet Assassin. This game contains no ass monsters, or for that matter - tits monsters. While I am sure he mentions something about hiding in dynamic shadows or the atmospheric lighting, as soon as he drops the ass monster bomb the only thing I hear when watching this clip now is "Ass Monster, ass monster, ass monster." The two phrases shall henceforth be an important part of the Fahey vernacular. Thank you, Mr. Jungnickel. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=363018&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sabotage Thy Name Is Velvet Assassin]]> Game name changes can be good, especially when your original title is something as generic as Sabotage. Gamecock and developer replay studios have announced a brand new name for their upcoming World War II stealth-action game for next-gen consoles and PC - Velvet Assassin. Much, much better.
"Rather than a trite, overused, and generic working title like 'Sabotage,' 'Velvet Assassin™' captures the heart of what we're trying to accomplish," said Sascha Jungnickel, Creative Director at Replay Studios. "From the start we've wanted a game with a strong female lead that stays true to the history of Violette Szabo while pulling players into a world of dark intrigue."
Mind you I have terrible issues with the stealth genre, but I will slightly more remorse passing up Velvet Assassin when it releases this Fall than I would have not buying Sabotage. Hit the jump for a larger picture featuring the main character's leather-clad bottom. More »
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