Heroes of the Storm is a Blizzard fan’s dream; combining some of the companies most popular characters into one big battle arena is just plain cool. Well now Blizzard have announced a Founder’s Pack for the game that is perfect for players just entering the Nexus and offers the following for just AU$49.95:
THREE SKINS: Commander Raynor, Lurkablo Diablo, and Blood Elf Tyrande
EPIC MOUNT: Golden Cyberwolf
A STASH OF GOLD: 2,500 in-game gold to help unlock additional heroes and other content
ACCESS TO THE NEXUS: Immediate access to play Heroes of the Storm
Not a bad lot of content for $50. Remember that Heroes of the Storm is only in closed beta at the moment, so you will need to get yourself a beta key or purchase the Founder’s Pack to get in. Will you be jumping in and battling side by side with some of Blizzard’s greatest heroes and villains? Let us know in the comments below.
The cast for the English dubbed version of the first episode of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, “Blue-Eyed Casval”, has been revealed. This will be the first of four OVAs. Many familiar names appear in the list, however some of the members of the dub cast are not as prolific.
Casval Rem Deikun: Karen Strassman
Artesia Som Deikun: Maggie O’Connor
Degwin Sodo Zabi: Marc Thompson
Gihren Zabi: Liam O’Brien
Sasro Zabi: Braeden Fox
Dozle Zabi: Bob Johnson
Kycilia Zabi: Wendee Lee
Ramba Ral: Kirk Thornton
Crowley Hamon: Amanda Shuckman
Zeon Zum Deikun: Marc Diraison
Astraia Tor Deikun: Veronica Taylor
Jimba Ral: Doug Stone
Char Aznable: Keith Silverstein
Both the English subtitles and English dubbed version will be produced by NYAV Post. Sunrise will be distributing the series through Right Stuf.
FUNimation Entertainment has revealed their release schedule for April 2015, which includes many releases from fan-favourite series.
Releases for April 7 include the complete series of .Hack//Legend of the Twilight on DVD, One Piece Season 6 Part 4 on DVD and an Anime Classics edition DVD/Blu-ray combo-pack of Black Butler season 1.
The complete series collection of Noir will be released on Blu-ray on April 14 as an Anime Classics release.
The releases for April 21 include One Piece Collection 12 on DVD and Freezing Vibration in a standard edition and limited edition DVD/Blu-ray combo-pack.
D-Frag will be released on April 28 in a DVD/Blu-ray combo-pack. This will be the final release for the month.
Wargaming has introduced a fourth class of ship to it’s anticipated historical ship-combat title, World of Warships. Adding to the previously announced destroyers, cruisers, and battleships, players will be able to select aircraft carriers for the action-MMO.
The new ship type will focus on more of a RTS type of gameplay, requiring more strategy and management of units. Carriers will be able to launch three types of plane squadrons, fighters, bombers, and dive bombers. Using these squadrons gives players the ability to safely scout enemy units and attack from anywhere on the map.
World of Warships will round out Wargaming’s trilogy of WWII action-MMO titles. While the tactical title does not have an announced release date yet, beta testing is well underway.
Paradox Interactive has announced that the Spanish Conquest will be coming to Europa Universalis IV. Paradox has titled this DLC as Europa Universalis IV: El Dorado and it brings a number of new features to the grand strategy game.
This expansion to Europa Universalis IVabring the politics and adventure from the European incursions into South America to life. The historical focus will explore the two sides of the conflict. As the Aztecs players much balance sacrifice and control over the Mexican plains in order to achieve victory. Europeans meanwhile will have to focus on expansion into the Amazon to find lost secrets, although they will be subject to the Pope’s commands.
Further features include the following:
– A deep Nation Designer gives you new starting options for your games, including national ideas and custom monarchs
– Experience the new Nahuatl, Inti and Mayan religions with blood sacrifices or Sun Worship
– Send your conquistadors to hunt for the Seven Cities of Gold, or your explorer on exploration missions around the world
– Gold Fleets can traffic New World wealth back to Europe, and be targeted by your privateer fleets
– Use your trade fleets to hunt dangerous pirates
– Maintain good relations with the Pope so you can get a corner of the world to call your own in the Treaty of Tordesillas
Europa Universalis IV: El Dorado will be available on Windows, Mac, and Linux next month. Check out the teaser trailer below.
Madman Entertainment has revealed the details of their first release of the Sailor Moon series on DVD in Australia. Part One of the first season will be released in under three months.
The first collection will contain 24 episodes and will be released on DVD on April 15, 2015. The episodes will be featured with Japanese audio and English subtitles and English audio. The brand new English dub has received high praise from fans, although the positive opinions about it are not universal.
The first print run of this set will include extras that will be confirmed at a later date. It is likely that these extras will include the textless opening and ending animations on one of the discs and a physical booklet based on Viz Media’s limited edition release of the first half of season one. Madman has decided to create their “release from scratch using high quality, remastered standard definition materials”. They believe that “no true HD materials are available”.
Sentai Filmworks has just announced their acquisition of The Familiar of Zero: Rondo of Princesses, the third season in the series. This is a direct sequel to the second season, Knight of the Twin Moons, which is set to be released on DVD and Blu-ray in North America on March 10, 2015. Rondo of Princesses, which “continues the adventures of Saito and Louise as they face a new dilemma that up to now has been an unknown”, will be available soon on home-video.
Based on the upcoming release of the second season, the release of this season will likely also be a subtitled-only release. Season three,produced by J.C. Staff, initially aired in Japan in 2008 and has remained unlicensed in the US until now.
Ubisofts‘ massive open world racer The Crew has received it’s first DLC pack and it comes with three new cars for those willing to shell out some cash as well as a great deal of free content for everyone. The three new paid cars are the smooth and extremely rare Aston Martin V12 Zagato, the ferocious 2013 SRT Viper GTS and the zippy Abarth 500. Anyone with a Season Pass would have had access to these car’s one week earlier.
Now for the stuff everyone gets! Four new faction race missions have been added, all with an ‘EXTREME’ theme (if anyone’s seen Harold and Kumar you know how I’m saying that). In “Vertigo,” players outrun their opponents in a high speed and high stakes race along the Colorado River. “Rollercoaster” tasks players to race to the top of a mountain and fly down it full speed. Fans of driving on ice and snow can push the pedal to the metal and on a treacherously icy route to secure the fastest time possible in “Slip and Slide” and lastly, “Hurricane” with have players jumping on a demanding stunt-filled course located in a construction site with plenty of tricky jumps to land. Check out the new cars and races in action in the trailer below.
Besides new missions, five previously available cars have acquired new specs. These are:
Dodge Ram – Dirt Chevy Silveradro – Street Hummer H1 – Dirt Mini Cooper – Circuit Ford Focus – Raid
Lastly new “animal” and “nature” stickers were added to the tuners decal options. There are over 50 new stickers players can purchase and put on nearly any car from there out. I logged in this morning and the new content is definitely there. The new vinyls for your car are amazing with some fierce looking dragon and big cat decals. Definitely check it out if you are still playing The Crew.
I have an extreme soft spot for Club Nintendo. Over the past six years, the program has rewarded consumers for doing nothing more than redeeming a code and taking a thirty second survey, where the prizes have been games, digital releases, and even some nice merchandise featuring some of the favorite characters of the brand. Sure, some have debated the quality of what Nintendo has put out, but free is always free and most have no reason to argue as you never bought the codes, they were just a nice gesture for loyalty.
All good things must come to an end though, but with the end of Club Nintendo comes a new beginning. On March 31st, members will no longer be able to enter codes on the website. You then have until July 1st to run out and spend your coins on offerings put up on the service. Right now, the digital rewards are nearly all that is left, but more games will be added next month and all members will receive a free code for Flipnote Studio 3D as well. Those who hit platinum or gold will also be rewarded with a digital selection later this year, so fret not if you have already earned that rank. You can read all of the rules here, and if you had old surveys, get to doing them now before time runs out.
**UPDATE POST INFO** Details written by Kyle Roberts
Nintendo Australia and UK has just announced that they will be discontinuing their Club Nintendo rewards programme in Australia, New Zealand and UK. A new membership programme will be launched later this year, and anyone who signs up to the new programme at launch will be able to download Flipnote Studio 3D to their Nintendo 3DS at no cost. Read on for more details of the discontinuation.
From April 1, 2015, product registration cards will no longer be included in packaged products however members can continue to register cards included in copies of games released before this date. The New Nintendo 3DS and New Nintendo 3DS Xl may not be registered in Club Nintendo.
From April 20, 2015, digital products downloaded from the Nintendo eShop will no longer be added to Club Nintendo accounts. Surveys for digital products will also be unavailable from this date. Post-play surveys will be still be available until the discontinuation of the programme.
All Stars in Club Nintendo accounts will expire on September 30, 2015. More items will be added to the Stars Catalogue over the next few months, so members will have plenty of options when it comes to using up their Stars. Current items are available for a reduced amount of Stars. Any Stars not redeemed by the end date will be forfeited. New accounts can still be made until this date.
As the resident tabletop and strategy game geek at Capsule, it is my duty to inform you that Exodus Wars is receiving a video game adaption by Membraine Studios called Exodus War: Fractured Empire which will receive a full release on February 2nd of this year. The indie, strategy title looks like it will be a faithful translation of the tabletop game from analog to digital.
The game will feature a sci-fi storyline which contains a galactic, idealistic (but somehow feudal) empire fighting against inter-stellar merchants as well as in-depth strategy to match. Players will be able to customise their armies to their hearts content with each side presenting their own options and challenges to overcome. The gameplay employs an interesting mechanic to break up turn-based simplicity by allowing for a side to develop ‘momentum’ and continue activating units more than just once per turn, with subsequent activations becoming harder to pull off.
If you’re interested, you can check the game out yourself via steam or the game’s page here. It’s currently in Early Access, with the devs eager to hear your feedback and willing to give a 50% discount for buying in early.
