With Captain America: Civil War just a month’s away from release, it is no surprise that Disney have released a tie-in Play Set for Disney Infinity 3.0. The Marvel Battlegrounds Play Set is available now in stores across the country and will let you pit our favourite brightly coloured super heroes against one another in your own civil war!
Coming with a new Captain America figure (who has different abilities than the Disney Infinity 2.0 version) the Play Set works as more of a brawler or fighter than previous Play Sets, which I believe is a cool little change that will help it stand apart from the Star Wars themed Play Sets. The Play Set lets you use any of your Marvel characters and can host up to four players at any given time. Really the best way to describe it is that it is basically Super Smash Bros. with the Avengers. If that hasn’t convinced you to rush out and grab it then I don’t know what will!
Oh, and we will have a review of the new Play Set going up after the long weekend so be sure to check back for that! Until then, stay tuned to Capsule Computers for all the awesome Disney and Marvel news as it becomes available.
Following a recent leak of Pokemon GO! footage, Niantic and The Pokemon Company International have released a few high quality screenshots and some new information about how the game works including buying Poke balls, hatching eggs, leveling up and perhaps most intriguing, how Gyms work.
As in the main game, the player can acquire eggs and must walk (or bike) a certain number of steps for that egg to hatch. In Pokemon GO! players will have to walk in real life to hatch an egg that might reveal an all new Pokemon for that player. Eggs and other items such as Poke Balls can be acquired at new locations called PokeStops which will be “located at interesting places such as public art installations, historical markers, museums and monuments.”
Developer Niantic has confirmed there will be battles, but whether it will adhere to the same battle system established in the main games is yet to be seen (we are guessing not unfortunately due to the complexity of the Battle System and this games market). Pokemon GO! will also have some sort of system similar to achievements with medals. By completing a wide variety of challenges from categories such as catching Pokemon and exploring you can earn these medals which then appear in your player profile.
Evolution is also being handled differently in this game. Catching enough of the same species of Pokemon will ‘give you the opportunity’ to evolve one of those Pokemon.
Now while all those points are pretty cool in their own right, the Gym system is what has me really interested. The Pokemon Company reports that at a certain point in the game you will be asked to join one of three teams (this could be a hint the game may contain a story). Once you have joined a team, you can assign one Pokemon you have caught to an empty Gym location or a Gym that is owned by the team you joined. Now if a Gym is owned by a rival team you can challenge for control of that Gym using your own Pokemon. That sounds great and is sure to start some great rivalries between players.
A few more details on the Pokemon GO! Plus accessory were also detailed. The device connects to a smartphone via Bluetooth and notifies the player about events in the game—such as the appearance of a Pokémon nearby—using an LED and vibration. In addition, players can catch Pokémon or perform other simple actions by pressing the button on the device. Pokémon GO! Plus is said to be available soon but without a release date set in stone we can’t say how soon this will be.
Pokemon GO! will begin field testing in Japan very soon so expect to see more footage in the near future. Pokemon and Niantic stress features, available languages, design and overall appearance are not final. Pokemon GO! is due out sometime this year for iOS and Android devices.
Logitech is expanding their Logitech G gaming line with the new Logitech G900 Chaos Spectrum wireless gaming mouse. The mouse is powered by a 2.4GHz wireless connection optimized for gaming. Logitech says that with their 1ms report rate, the wireless mouse even outperforms their competitors wired offerings. With their clock-tuning technology, Logitech estimates a 24 hour battery life with default settings and up to 32 hours with lights off. The mouse can switch to a wired mode, allowing for use and charging at the same time.
Logitech’s exclusive PMW3366 sensor is used in the G900 Chaos Spectrum. The highly popular sensor can also be found in Logitech’s G502 and G303 mice. The buttons are mechanical, while the body features magnetic button covers for right and left hand use and RGB LEDs. The lightweight design is meant to accommodate a wide variety of grip styles
The Logitech G900 Chaos Spectrum will hit shelves in US and Europe in April 2016 with an MSRP of $149.99 and €179.
Bethesda is continuing to show off more of what Doom‘s multiplayer has to offer and this time around the focus is on showing off the various demons, power ups, and power weapons that will be available as pick-ups in the online mode.
The video, found below, shows off the various demons that players can transform into and devastate their opponents, the brutal power-ups they can pick up and of course, some devastating power weapons including the gory chainsaw and classic BFG. Keep an eye out for the game when it is released on May 13th for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.
SNK Playmore is continuing with their little teaser trailers for The King of Fighters XIV that reveal characters as well as provide fans some small glimpses of the game’s fighting system and overall improved look as time goes on.
This time around the teaser trailer reveals that the familiar face, Athena Asamiya, will be returning to the roster and that new brand new characters that go by the name Nelson and Luong will be joining her. You can check out the video below and as for the game itself, The King of Fighters XIV is scheduled to be released sometime this year for the PlayStation 4.
Atari Vaultis out now on Steam, bringing 100 classic titles from Atari to Windows with all the modern trappings. Atari Vault supports the Steam Controller, online and local leader boards, a modern user interface, and all the original soundtracks, cabinets, and box art. Classic IPs like Asteroids, Centipede, Tempest, Warlords, and Missile Command make their return in Atari Vault. Most of the 100 titles are Atari 2600 games with a few arcade titles scattered throughout.
“Atari Vault grants convenient access to some of the most memorable titles in gaming history, and in delivering these games in their original state, it is introducing a new generation of gamers to some of the very first video games,” said Fred Chesnais, Chief Executive Officer, Atari. “It is our hope that the same excitement people experienced in the arcades and in their homes when these titles were first introduced can now be embraced again, and that newcomers can discover what made these titles so iconic.”
Atari Vault is out now on Steam for $16.99 USD. To celebrate the launch, a 15% discount will be applied until March 31.
Back at the start of the year Inti Creates confirmed that they had found a publisher to help bring Gal Gun: Double Peace over to potential fans of the game in the West and now the publisher, PQube, has announced roughly when fans can expect the game to arrive as well as a special edition for those who want something extra.
PQube plans on releasing Gal Gun: Double Peacesometime this summer and in the game a young man named Houdai, is shot by Cupid and must survive against all of the smitten girls who declare their love to him by fending them off with a Pheremone Gun in order to find his true love.
As for that aforementioned special edition, which will be available for the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita versions of the game, it is called “Mr. Happiness” and will be sold at a currently unannounced price exclusively through Rice Digitaland include the following bonuses:
Gal*Gun Double Peace
A premium quality art book
A set of 4 DLC costumes that are EXCLUSIVE to the Limited Edition of the game: Cunning Kunoichi, Wedding Dress, Sexy Ribbons, and Sakurazaki Squad 777
Exclusive Shinobu and Maya wall scroll
Official Gal*Gun Double Peace soundtrack
Supreme, ULTRA-RARE, extra-soft Mr. Happiness “Screen Cleaner”
It is getting rather late in the month and although Capcom announced that they would be releasing the first update for Street Fighter V, the one that would add in some of the, usually standard, content to the despairingly thin game this month, it looks like they are waiting to the last minute to do so.
Today the company revealed that on March 28th the update for Street Fighter V will go live and will add in the “Challenge Mode”, the ability to have reamtches against online opponents, improve the battle lounge, and fix various issues. Then two days later on March 30th the new fighter Alex will be added to the game.
Oddly enough, the update will not add support for the paid money Zenny right off the bat so until then, Alex will be available as a trial character and to make up for the fact that the update is coming so late, Chun-Li and Ryu’s story costumes will be temporarily available for free. The company touts this concept as being “an 80,000 Fight Money value, almost the full value of a DLC character.”
Atlus USA has released a new trailer for Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir focusing on the alchemy and cooking systems that are available in the game. In this enhanced version of the game players will be able to merge existing potions to create different mixtures, something that they were unable to do in the original game. By combining different potions or food with potions their potency and variety of combinations can be increased. To top that off, players no longer need recipes to create potions and can now try and figure things out on the fly.
As for the cooking system, there are various “Rest Areas” that are scattered throughout levels and in these areas players can ask Pooka chef Maury to cook special meals for them to help recover heath and boost your experience gain.
Back in November it was announced that Falcom and Kadokawa Games would be releasing The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd Evolution sometime in the future and now the company has announced exactly when the title will be released in Japan. The game will be released for the PlayStation Vita, with PS TV support, on July 14th.
The company also announcedthat alongside the release of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd Evolution that they will be releasing special sets containing all three of the Trails in the Sky Vita games that come with a number of bonuses though at the moment no price has been announced for those sets.
