Today during The Game Awards in Las Vegas Konami and Kojima Productions revealed that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain would have an online component simply called Metal Gear Online. No exact details about this online mode were revealed at this time, but a premiere trailer showing off what fans of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain can expect was released.
You can check out that trailer as well as some new screenshots for the mode below. As for the main game, currently no release date for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has been set.
Still holding onto Activision‘s Destiny after the game has been patched to Mars and back hoping that the first piece of DLC will add a little something to the game other than the same thing you have been doing over and over again for the past three months? Well hopefully this launch trailer for Destiny Expansion I: The Dark Below will excite you.
Launching next week on December 10th, The Dark Below adds a number of new weapons, pieces of armor, and some missions to the title while there are also three new Crucible arenas to fight in. Those looking for some more team based activities will be pleased to hear that a new Strike and a new six player Raid is also included in the DLC.
A video has just been released featuring Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma playing and discussing Nintendo’s upcoming The Legend of Zelda game for the Wii U. The two discuss a number of new features of the game and briefly discuss the upcomingMajora’s Mask remake for the 3DS.
Here is a list of the main points discussed in the video, which is embedded below.
The game features very high locations from which players can view the world and search for new places to visit.
The world will be huge and take several minutes to traverse.
The view distance is very long.
Players can set beacons at locations they want to visit which then show up on the map.
Using the game pad players can zoom in and out of the map.
Players can paraglide.
Players can ride horses. These horses avoid running into trees on their own, leaving players free to change the camera angle, swing their sword, shoot arrows or jump off of the horse and aim and shoot an arrow in slow-motion.
Bandai Namco & Slightly Mad Studios have announced that the upcoming motor sports simulation game Project CARS is to have four more tracks in new locations. The already large roster of tracks announced for the game covers some of the most iconic raceways in the world, but this seems to not be enough for the ambitious racing simulator.
The legendary Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, located in the United States, will be recreated for players to pit their mettle on. If the inclusion of this alone wasn’t enough, England’s first park circuit Donnington Park is also to be featured. Finally, the English championship raceway Snetterton will be available for players to race on, in three different layouts.
In addition to the three other new tracks added to the roster of over 20 locations, a new race is being added on it’s signature track. The harsh, grueling 55-man endurance race known as the 24 Hours of Le Mans will in the game. This race is held on the track known as the Circuit de la Sarthe. Hopefully the simulated race won’t be as harsh to players as the real life race is to both drivers and the cars!
More locations are to be announced for Project CARS, so be sure to continue to check back for those.
While we have had a very small clip mostly comprising of Shenron for the upcoming 2015 Dragon Ball Z Movie titled Revival of F, we now have about a minute of decent footage showcasing some of the characters that will be in the film and some battle action. All the Z warriors seem to back for this one including Master Roshi, Krillin, Tien, Piccolo, Gohan, Vegeta and Goku. Nearly all these characters are shown wearing new outfits including Goku who is sporting a rare new dogi. Whis and Beerus are also back from Battle of Gods but there roles are unknown as of yet. Interestingly Gohan is shown going Super Saiyan despite having access to his ‘Mystic’ form in the last film.
The trailer is entirely in Japanese, however we know Piccolo says that Frieza has come back and is now in an entirely different league of power and that he also has one more ‘evolution’. How will the Z warriors deal with this increased power Frieza? What is this new evolution? Many questions still remained unanswered but the world will know on April 18th when the film releases in Japan in both 2D and 3D. Don’t forget to watch the trailer below and leave a comment below about what you think of this new footage.
Sierra has just released the first gameplay trailer for the upcoming game Kings Quest, which is currently set for a Fall 2015 release. Developed by The Odd Gentleman, this next game in the 30-year-old genre defining series will be released on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC. This is the first official game in the series since the 1998 game Kings Quest: Mask of Eternity. It is not just going to be a point-and-click game.
The trailer, embedded below, debuted at The Game Awards 2014. There, series creator and designer Roberta Williams received high honours with fellow Sierra co-founder and husband Ken Williams. The two were awarded with the Industry Icon Award for their contributions to creativity and video game culture.
EB Games has announced that from Friday 4:00PM AEDT, the mainEB Games webpage will be down to get ready for the annual Mad Monday sale. The giant sale will start at 12:01AM AEDT on Monday December 8th, and will last for just 24 hours. With over 5000 product on sale, it promises to be a major event for the company, much like their Mad Monday Sales of previous years.
This online sale is exclusively for Australian customers.
A new feature of this sale are “30 Minute of Madness” specials, which will last for a half-hour each, or while supplies of each item lasts. EB Games states that these will include some major titles, such as the new Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire, as well as triple-A games like Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor.
From EB Game’s announcement:
Some of the top deals available throughout the day include:
Xbox One with Kinect + 7 Games + $20 Xbox Live credit for $599
PlayStation 4 Black + 8 Games for $698 GTA V Next Gen on PS4 & Xbox One $71 each – Very Limited, Save $28.95
Far Cry 4 from $53 – Save Over $30
FIFA 15 from $51 – Save Over $35
Also being offered is the guarantee that Mad Monday orders will be received by Christmas, going so far as to offer a $20 EB Games gift card should an order not make the deadline.
EB Games will also be running contents on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, using the hashtag #MadMonday.
All in, it looks to be like a promising deal for gamers and Christmas shoppers alike.
Deep Silver has announced that Dead Island: Epidemic has now entered into open beta. The arena-based combat game based on the original open-world Dead Island is available free on Steam.
Included in this announcement was a large content update as well. A new four player PvE mode titled Crossroads has been brought into Epidemic, offering increased replayability outside of the traditional MOBA combat system. In addition, the crafting system, level progression systems, loot drops, and more have all been updated. In-depth details can be found in the official patch notes.
Players interested in joining the open beta can sign up on the official site, and downloads for the game can be found on Steam. A trailer for the new Crossroads mode can be seen below.
EA and KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records announced that British blues rock/folk musician Jamie N Commons will be providing the theme song for the upcoming FPSBattlefield Hardline. The artist had this to say about the track:
“Earlier this year ‘Jungle’was featured in the first Battlefield Hardline trailer, which was a total thrill. ‘Karma,’ however, was written specifically with the game in mind. The deep melodic beats and lyrics help express the game’s theme where actions have consequences, but sometimes those consequences come back full circle. I think gamers are going to love it.”
Battlefield Hardline is the first Battlefield title from Visceral Games. The title moves away from the series’ traditional military setting to the streets of Miami, where a violent conflict is breaking out between the police and criminal elements. The game features a full singleplayer campaign and multiplayer combat. Battlefield Hardlinewill launch for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Windows in North America on March 17th, 2015 and PAL regions on March 19th.
A steam community update provided from Square Enix has announced the release date of an upcoming patch for Final Fantasy XIII (reviewed here for the Xbox 360). On its initial windows release, back in October this year, the game was fraught with technical problems. The biggest of which was the locked in resolution of 1280 x 720. It was also apparent that the in-game cinematics seemed to be heavily compressed, more so than the PlayStation 3 version which was released back in 2009.
This will soon change however, as the patch will be available on December 11th. The Square Enix representative states that the patch adds “custom resolutions (720p, 1080p…) and graphic options”. It is not yet clear what those ‘graphic options’ will be, but the possibility of playing in 1080p and higher will certainly boost the games reputation with PC players. Final Fantasy XIII is available on steam for only $15.99.
