Today Bethesda released a new trailer for The Evil Within and considering the game is set to be released next week, it is probably best that you check it out now as it not only contains tips for how to survive but also an overview of what the world of the game will be like.
As you will see in the video below, players take control of Sebastian Castellanos, a police detective that has been trapped in a world of “shifting planes and distorted reality” where exploration can be the key to survival as healing items and ammunition can be found off the beaten path. However even with all of the ammo you find, the multitude of enemies can make stealth the best option for survival.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back! After a brief hiatus to accomodate for the EB Games Expo, I am back in the anchor’s chair and ready to bring you all the hottest news out of Microsoft HQ in this week’s Xbox Newsbeat! As I shuffle my papers around I see that we have four absolutely killer Xbox One articles (head to the back of the line again Windows Phone) so instead of me waffling around with this introduction, lets get this show on the road!
Pre-Download Sunset Overdrive and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare From Today!
Ok so lets get real for a minute: the next few months are massive for the gaming industry. October – November is when all of the big guns get brought out and we gamers are blesses with almost too many choices in what to play. With that in mind, I am sure that two of the games on many of your minds are Sunset Overdrive and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Well guess what, both of these games are available for pre-order and pre-download right now so that you will be ready to pick up a controller and blast the night away from midnight of their release days.
Sunset Overdrive will be available from October 30th, and if you pre-order the game (or purchase it soon after launch) you will get the following extra goodies:
Nothin’ but the Hits– An overcharged version of the High Fidelity gun that launches limited edition, priceless, multi-coloured vinyls that do increased damage.
It’s Me! Fizzie! – Fizzie is more popular than you because he has a great marketing budget. So, why not dress up as him and get in on some of that fame?
Hardcore! Hammer– You ponder buying the Day One Edition of Sunset Overdrive. A spot check reveals that if you do, you can equip a mighty hammer made from a bat and spiked dumb-bells. You buy the Day One Edition of Sunset Overdrive.
Where-as, if you are more comfortable playing CoD with some buddies, you can pre-download the game now ahead of its November 3rd release. Not only that, but there are two special editions of the game that you can also pre-order:
Xbox One Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Day Zero Edition, available starting today for $100.20 includes the standard game, Day Zero early access, double XP on Nov. 3, two custom weapons, and the Advanced Arsenal custom bullet brass exoskeleton and EM1 Quantum directed energy weapon.
Xbox One Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Digital Pro Edition, available starting today for $150.45 includes the standard game, Season Pass, Atlas Gorge bonus multiplayer map, Atlas Digital Content Pack, Day Zero Early Access, double XP on Nov. 3, Two Day Zero custom weapons, and the Advanced Arsenal.
Check out our interview with Sunset Overdrive’s Creative Director, Marcus Smith here.
Forza Horizon 2 Mobil 1 Car Pack
Did you know that we talk about Forza Horizon 2 a LOT here on Xbox Newsbeat? I sure do! Well the game has finally released and if the 200+ cars available at launch wasn’t enough for you to live out your deepest Grand Prix fantasies, then the developers at Turn 10 have some exciting news for you! A brand new Car Pack for the game has been announced, and it will contain six brand new cars for you to drive across that finish line.
The Mobil 1 Car Pack is available now for the relatively cheap price of $6.65 (or free if you own the Forza Horizon 2 Car Pass). Not only that but all players who own the game are eligible for the free 1988 BMW M5. So head over to your game and get racing!
Final Halo 2 Map Being Re-Imagined for Halo: The Master Chief Collection Announced
What would you say was your favourite map back in the days of Halo 2? Zanzibar? Sanctuary? For me it was always Warlock, which is why I am absolutely stoked to tell you that it is the final Halo 2 map that is being remastered for the upcoming Halo: The Master Chief Collection. I mean what else can I say other than Warlock will be playable, along with a tonne of other Halo 2 favourite maps when the Master Chief Collection launches later this year.
Check out our hands-on preview with Halo: The Master Chief Collection from this year’s EB Expo.
Killer Instinct Season One Combo Breaker Edition Now Available in Retail Stores
You read the headline correctly! Killer Instinct Season One Combo Breaker Edition is now available. For the RRP of $29.95, players will gain access to all of the Season One characters and a physical copy of the game to put on their shelves. Killer Instinct Season 2 is just starting, and Microsoft have a couple of ways that players can get the new content:
Killer Instinct: Season 2 – Ultra Edition AUD$52.45
Eight fighters, starting with TJ Combo and Maya, and adding a new fighter each month
Select fighter costumes and accessory packs
Killer Instinct 2 Classic – a perfect port of the arcade game with full multiplayer support for intense fighting over Xbox Live
Content Early Access – Customers who buy the Ultra Edition will get early access to characters and customization items before anyone else
Killer Instinct: Season 2 – Combo Breaker AUD$26.95
Eight fighters, starting with TJ Combo and Maya, and adding a new fighter each month
Players can also purchase Season 2 fighters individually as they are made available for AUD$6.65
For fans who want to get TJ Combo early, they can purchase the Killer Instinct: Season 2 – Ultra Edition between September 23rd and October 14th. This offer not only includes instantly adding TJ Combo to the roster, but also gives fans early access to Killer Instinct 2 Classic.
Phew. Ok that Newsbeat was a lot longer than I original thought it was going to be. I guess that’s what I get for not reading my notes before starting work. So which of today’s headlines grabbed your attention the most, and why was it that Warlock will soon be playable again? Let us know in the comments below and make sure you stay tuned to Capsule Computers for all the awesome Xbox news as it becomes available.
Today Viz Media kicked off their New York Comic Con panel by revealing that they have acquired the licenses to the Tokyo Ghoul and So Cute it Hurts!! manga series. According to the prices and the listings of the slides, Tokyo Ghoul may be part of Viz’s signature label as it will cost $12.99 a volume with the first volume set to be released on June 16, 2015. As for So Cute it Hurts!!, it easily fits under the Shojo Beat label and each volume will cost $9.99 and the first volume will be released on June 2nd.
Tokyo Ghoul’s manga recently concluded at its fourteenth volume while So Cute it Hurts!! is soon to be on its eight volume. Tokyo Ghoul tells the dark story of a college student who is turned into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid while So Cute it Hurts!! is a gender-bender comedy that follows the story of twins who switch places and attend each others’ schools.
If you were hoping to at least have a physical copy of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy grace your shelves to make up for the digital only release of Dual Destinies, then you will be disappointed to hear that Capcom is only planning on releasing the title digitally in the West. The good news is, at least we now have a release date for the game as it will be released onto the eShop for $29.99 in North America on December 9th and on December 11th for Europe.
To go along with this news, Capcom released a number of new comparison images comparing the original Justice for All DS release to the upcoming 3DS release.
Although we learned that Telltale Games would be working on a Game of Thrones title sometime in the future, that announcement came almost a year ago. Well it seems that we will soon be learning more about the game as Telltale has released the above teaser image for their upcoming game. As you can see, it contains a quote from the book mentioning the Ironwoods as well as a picture of a sword within a tree, which is likely a house sigil.
While we still have no details about what the game might be about, it seems like the Ironwoods will be playing an important role in some way. Either that or this is an elaborate ruse to catch the attention of fans of Game of Thrones.
Today Natsume announced that Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley will be released in North America on November 4th for $29.99 and although no set date has been revealed yet, a European release is planned for sometime in 2015.
Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley is the first internally developed game in the series from Natsume and although it makes use of the Harvest Moon name, it is not developed by the company the same company who worked on previous releases. As such, this Harvest Moon takes many elements from past games and puts its own spin on things that allows the player to create a farm to their liking.
Those wondering about the actual game being developed by the original Harvest Moon team will need to keep an eye out for Story of Seasons from XSEED when it is released sometime later this year.
2K Games and Turtle Rock Studios have announced that they will be launching their “Big Alpha” for Evolve on October 30th and it will run through November 2nd on the Xbox One. The closed alpha test will also be available for PC and PlayStation 4 users, however it shall only run from October 31st to November 2nd.
Those who wish to have a chance to enter the beta can place this code: 08347-97365-66457 into the alpha website here followed by the referral code: EVOLVETOWIN. To go along with this announcement a number of new screenshots and a gameplay trailer were released and can be found below. For those who want to learn a bit more about the title, we recently had some hands-on time with the game and you can check out our impressions here.
Cars is still one of Disney’s highest selling film franchises (seriously, you should check the amount of Cars merch that still gets sold) and now the House of Mouse have teamed up with Gameloft; one of the world’s leading mobile game developers for a brand new racing title set in the Cars universe – Cars: Fast as Lightning.
The game put players in control of a massive amount of Cars characters as they compete against the computer and one another in super-fast races. Also Owen Wilson has reprised his role as Lightning McQueen specifically for the game! As a special treat we even have a short trailer below for you to check out the game in action.
Cars: Fast as Lightning is available for a free download now via iTunes and Google Play, and will be coming soon on Windows Phone (still currently unavailable, but link will update when the game goes live). Will you be checking out Cars: Fast as Lightning, or do you prefer your Cars games on console? Let us know in the comments below and for all the Disney news as it becomes available make sure you stay tuned to Capsule Computers.
Every year, TT Games and Warner Bros. release a new Lego videogame that utilises one of its many licensed properties. From the original Lego Star Wars games to last year’s Lego The Hobbit, each new game adds new features and tidies up the graphics and are pretty typically solid gaming experiences. One of the more prominent series that Lego puts out is without a doubt Lego Batman, and as a huge Bat-Fan, I was more than excited to get my hands on the upcoming Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham and see how it fared.
Firstly, I can say that I was… whelmed. Neither underwhelmed or overwhelmed but just whelmed. Every time I load up a new Lego game, I always know to expect the same fundamentals but with a twist. Unfortunately the small section of Lego Batman 3 that I played lacked any new twist or nuance to separate it from its predecessors (aside from the intergalactic setting) so I was left, yeah, whelmed.
For the demo I played, the stage opened up to a new take on the old-school Gradius-style shooter games. I was piloting the Bat-Wing (at least I think it was the Bat-Wing) left, right, up and down in an attempt to blast enemy ships out of the sky. This part of the game felt a lot like last-year’s Resogun, playing almost identical to the PS4 exclusive but with of course severely decreased difficulty to accommodate the younger audience. This part of the game was fun, but felt like it went on way too long and by the end of it, I was beginning to wonder if it was ever going to end.
After making my way through the Gradius/Resogun section, it was all smooth sailing and that traditional Lego gameplay that we have all come to love. Two characters are on screen at any given time, and the player(s) need to utilise their individual skills to combat enemies and solve the puzzles in their way. I couldn’t really find any differences in the way the game had controlled between this title and 2012’s Lego Batman 2. Granted this is to be expected considering the Lego games have pretty much stuck to the same control scheme for every game. The controls themselves are still really solid and easy to learn and grasp.
Every Lego videogame manages to bring something new to the table, be it the full voice acting and open world setting that Lego Batman 2 introduced or the light RPG elements that came as part of The Lego Hobbit. However the demo for Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham wasn’t long enough or comprehensive enough for me to figure out what made this game stand out from Lego Batman 2. The demo just felt like a continuation of that game, and while I’m sure the full game is rife with additional features, I just didn’t see them.
Over the past few months, Warner Bros. have been announcing new characters left, right and center including characters from the 1966 Batman TV series, Batman Beyond and at least one lantern from each of the DC Universe’s Lantern Corps, so we know that there will be a huge variety in the powers, abilities and gameplay when the final game launches so I guess it is a little disappointing that this demo was just “more of the same.” Regardless, my eyes are squarely set on November 26th when we will be able to check out Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham in its entirety.
For the rest of our 2014 EB Games Expo coverage including hands-on previews and interviews, click here.
The Brazil Game Show (BGS) is currently underway in São Paolo, and Brazilian “Soccer” fans should be ecstatic at the news that, not only will Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 feature 21 Brazilian Teams, but local announcers Silvio Luiz and Mauro Beting have once again recorded commentary in Portuguese for inclusion in the final release, this November.
Luiz, a radio and television host and soccer referee, and Beting, also on the radio, a journalist and book author, have lent their voices to the franchise since 2011. Tomohiro Uesugi, President of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., commented;
PES captures the realism of soccer like no other video game on the market, and we continue to do this through signature elements like the legendary Brazilian commentary team for Portuguese PES players throughout the world. With our latest trailer, we’re giving Brazilian console game players, and those throughout the rest of the world, another reason to celebrate the incredible experience.
Check out the announcement trailer below. Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 releases on November 13 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (first time in the series’ history), as well as the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.
