The Might Quest For Epic Loot has reached a might milestone today with Ubisoft having announced that the game has received over 1.5 million registrations since the game went into open beta just a short two weeks ago.
The 1.5 million registrations hail from 240 different countries and have collectively put in a total of 28 million hours of gameplay at the time of posting. To celebrate this monumental achievement, Ubisoft have released a brand new trailer for the game titled ‘Sir Painhammer Forever’.
Be sure to let us know what you think of this announcement in the comments section below. Stay tuned for more Mighty Quest news as it comes to light.
Overview Listen Like Thieves, Suicide Blonde, Original Sin, Need You Tonight, Burn For You. These are all hit songs from the iconic Australian rock band INXS. We all know these songs quite well and have likely heard them countless times over throughout our lives. What we didn’t know was the story behind these songs, the drama that played out behind the scenes with Australia’s rowdy rockers INXS. That is of course until now.
With INXS: Never Tear Us Apart we get a look into the band’s rise to fame and the steep drop into a very dark place which culminated in the tragic death of lead singer and songwriter Michael Hutchence. This is about as raw a retelling as you could possibly get. Whether you’re an INXS fan or just intrigued by the drama that surrounded the band, INXS: Never Tear Us Apart proves to near let you look away with its captivating recount of the life and times of these legendary musicians.
Story As far as musicians go, INXS was through and through a band of aussie blokes fronted by an eccentric and in INXS: Never Tear Us Apart we come to see that at great length. While the focus is primarily on Michael Hutchence, the eccentric in that equation, the real heart of this series is Andrew Farris, a common man if there ever was one, but a great ear for music.
Farris and Hutchence serve as the two major pillars by which all the action revolves around. Having written the vast majority of their greatest hits, the duo wind up being at the centre of the greatest highs and deepest lows for the band. Farris was always the responsible one and really kept the band together through thick and thin, Hutchence however quickly evolved into the chemical that poisoned the well. As his fame grew, Hutchence became an addict of many kinds, be it drugs, alcohol or sex, he was on them all. Hutchence found himself constantly entangled in drama both behind the scenes and on our TV screens. He was all over the news for his countless scandals and the self-destruction of Michael Hutchence was only serving to spur on the implosion of INXS.
The exploration of these people and the music they made is the real hook here. The way that their dreams took them to places they always wished to be while simultaneously destroying all that they cared about is heartbreaking to say the very least. Appropriately, Hutchence isn’t treated as a hero in any sense, rather he is conveyed as a tragic figure corrupted by fame and the world that loved him. The most talked about scene is undoubtedly his final moments and it is gut-wrenching viewing in every way. The series rightfully depicts Hutchence’s death with a careful touch, never treading too deep into the controversial circumstances of his passing. Rather it explores the effect that this man’s life had on these people and the impact his death made on not only INXS, but also the world.
Ultimately, INXS: Never Tear Us Apart is a highly engaging journey through the career of INXS and the tragic fate that awaited frontman Michael Hutchence. Hutchence drama aside, it makes for a great look at the history of the band and the inner workings that went into making them the band we know today.
Visuals and Audio In terms of visuals, INXS: Never Tear Us Apart manages to capture the aesthetic of its era to great effect, bringing the colourful 80s to life. An interesting decision from Shine Australia comes in the form of real life footage interspersed with the newly filmed footage with the actors. We get to see the real-life Hutchence performing and it only feels right that it would be so. All in all the aesthetics are solid enough and the cinematography does a good job at conveying the feeling of touring with a band all the while exploring the darkness that comes with that.
As for the soundtrack, what more needs to be said other than it features a bunch of awesome INXS songs? All of their greatest hits are represented here and some are explored in great detail. The music really feels like a character in and of itself at times. The music of INXS had such soul and that very soul is on show here honest and true.
Extras In terms of special features, this release is somewhat lacking in any extra content. The quality of the mini-series itself however is superb to say the very least and at this price point it is more than worth the purchase regardless of its lack of special features. That in and of itself speaks leaps and bounds about the quality of the series and it proves to be a memorable Australia drama for it.
Overall We all have wings, but some of us don’t know why. The same can be said for INXS, a band that despite all odds succeeded and became a global success with countless hits all around the world. They were a band that flew higher than just about any other band of their time, they all had wings, but some of them just didn’t know why. Such was the case for the tragic Michael Hutchence, a man troubled all his life, be it in love or music, he flew so high only to fall so hard. It is a tragic tale that plays out in gritty detail in INXS: Never Tear Us Apart.
This is the truest telling of the INXS story you’re bound to find. With the members of the band themselves advising on the project, what we have is an honest journey from garage band to international sensation. INXS: Never Tear Us Apart is one of the finest pieces of Australian television in quite some time. It is astonishing, remarkable television that chronicles one of our country’s most beloved musical acts. This is a must-see TV drama, a tale of a group of friends who could never be torn apart, no matter how hard they got kicked.
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Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Description
This is the “Retina Edition” of “Stranded Without A Phone”, the desert island survival game for the iPhone. A device with Retina resolution support is required.
You must use your survival skills to stay healthy and get rescued. Build shelter, find food and drink, and collect salvageable parts from the wreckage that wash ashore. Use the parts to build a space radio and call for a rescue team to win the game.
Search for natural resources, then use them to create other items using various combinations.
The Retina Edition includes several new features not found in the original game, including the ability to play as different characters, find and craft several new items, and multiple save slots.
Features:
– Familiar RPG-style inventory system.
– Over 80 different items.
– Randomly generated map with each new game.
– Day/night cycle.
– Boar hunting & trapping.
*** Reviews ***
Stranded is a well designed, fresh take on the iPhone RPG genre.
– The iPhone App Review
Overall I’m having fun with this game and am impressed with the whole setup/gameplay. Graphics and sounds are good enough. Presentation is decent. The game is interesting. A worthwhile game. I give it an 8/10.
– touchArcade
Stranded is a unique addition the offerings in the App Store… The game’s excellent graphics and sounds are noteworthy, and the controls are easy and intuitive to use.
– Game Itch
*** Hints ***
-Search dirt areas for small boulders to build a fire pit.
-Use coconuts as an immediate source of nutrition and hydration, but also find fish in shallow water.
-Boar meat provides the best nutrition and health.
-Search beaches often for useful items from the shipwreck.
Australian Nintendo fans will not miss out on Nintendo this year, as the Japanese company announced their plans for attendance at all five Oz Comic-Con events this year. They will be bringing Wii Us and Nintendo 3DSes along to Perth on the 29th and 30th of March and to Adelaide on the 5th and 6th of April, along with the three remaining stops in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney later this year.
Attendees can check out yet to be released games like Mario Kart 8,Kirby: Triple Deluxe and Mario Golf: World Tour at the Nintendo Australia booth. Additionally, remember to bring your Nintendo 3DS to get the most out of the StreetPass and multiplayer gaming opportunities.
The title Tower Of Guns is a unique piece of work where flying chainsaws, explosive bullets, and Hugbots are the norm. A twitch FPS-style game that utilizes quick reaction times, double jumping, and precise aiming to progress through levels. The game is advertised as a “lunchbreak FPS”, meaning that you can play the game at any time you want in short windows, while still allowing you to develop some progression in the form of levels and weapons. In all honesty, the rounds aren’t that short, but they are short enough for you to play during a quick break. If you wanted to unlock everything in the level and explore every nook and cranny, the rounds might take a bit longer but if you’re just in it to blow things up, you’ll be able to play a good two to three rounds during a lunch break. The game is nothing like Call Of Duty: Ghosts or any of the other new FPS titles recently created, so if you’re checking this game out, be prepared for a completely different experience.
Gameplay
The FPS nature of this game is based on a fast-paced, twitch aiming style of gameplay. The shoot-em-up feel of the game really gets the adrenaline going when you’re in the middle of a metallic chamber filled with rocket launchers, turrets, and exploding robots. There is a variety of weapons for you to choose from when you begin the game, and each of these weapons have the capabilities to upgrade. For example, there’s a weapon called the “Peas-And-Carrot Shooter” that shoots little pink bullets at the beginning. However, as you progress and pick up these little blue power-ups, your gun will upgrade itself, providing you with better damage, new effects, or some other benefit that will prove very useful. For the case of the “Peas-And-Carrot Shooter”, the gun begins to fire a larger shot, with multiple rounds in one shot. After a little bit of leveling up your guns, you can one-shot certain turrets and mobs, making the levels a lot easier, until you hit the higher tiered levels.
One of the main things that I had to remember when playing this game was that movement was one of the most important tools in this game. Jumping, or bunny-hopping, is a really important aspect of the game because of how much it affects your survivability. The game capitalizes on your movement as you try to avoid all the incoming bullets and robots flying at your face. The gameplay is incredibly fast-paced. The amount of enemy AI that tries to attack you slowly increases as you progress through the level. The beginning starts off with a few turrets and robots here and there, but as you get to the later levels, you easily have a dozen or so baddies trying to gut you per room.
An interesting part of this game is the “Secrets” of each level. As you make your way through the stage, there are secrets that can be uncovered as you crawl through the steampunk-esque floors. Sometimes the walls might be fake, and you’ll be able to walk through it. Others are hidden around a corner out of view. This system adds a new level of depth to every round you play.
Every round is also different. The levels are constantly different as you start new rounds. While the layout of the room might remain similar, the types of enemy you’ll face and where they’re located is always in new positions. As I played the round, I got used to the basic layout of what’s going on, but it still fazed me when a new robot popped up instead of a previously encountered one.
One thing that newcomers might have difficulty adjusting to is the gameplay and how to accommodate the playstyle. Not everyone is familiar with the bunny-hopping, circle-strafing FPS fun that certain gamers all know. It takes a while to understand the mechanics that the developers wanted us to utilize in order to beat the game. The game also has a pretty steep learning curve, and completing the levels takes more than a little luck to completely finish without getting close to the brink of death.
Visuals & Audio
The visuals in this game are surprisingly refreshing. The tone and atmosphere that’s set by the game completely matches the overall theme of the game. The environment that the game takes place in is a little bit dirty, loud, and dark. Also, the graphics of the bullets and the weapons all fit the bill. When you’re running around with your gun, which varies between a small little pea shooter to a huge bazooka-like firearm, it’s hard not to notice the detail of the levels and enemies.
The music is really good in terms of matching the mood of the game. The ambience of the music really helps create this atmosphere where a certain level of intensity needs to be upheld. I felt that the visuals and the audio in the game really meshed well to create a wholesome experience for the FPS lover or the casual shooter fan.
Overall
Overall, there’s nothing more you could ask for from a FPS title that prides itself on being a “lunchbreak” style game. It’s not meant to be played at long spurts. It’s a game where you can turn on when you have a small break, and still enjoy everything it has to offer to the fullest. Tower Of Guns is surprisingly addictive and extremely rewarding when you really get into it. I’m still playing it now and I’m still not close to finishing a quarter of what’s possible. If you’re looking for a FPS title that you can get into without taking too much time out of your day, make sure you check out Tower Of Guns.
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Legendary special-effects studio Visual Works have created an epic CGI cut-scene depicting the destruction of the technologically advanced metropolis Zanarkland from Final Fantasy X. The movie plays quite early on in the Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster, but you can watch it here and now. Check it out at the bottom of this article.
An iconic city within the world of Spira, Zanarkland is blind-sided by a mysterious forced called Sin during a pivotal match of the popular sport Blitzball, where it seems most of the local population are in attendance. Tidus, star player of the world-famous Zanarkand Abes and the main protagonist, is caught up in the attack, soon embarking on a journey instigated by Auron, that will change his life and determine the fate of his land.
Square Enix‘s Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster releases on March 21, 2014 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.
Welcome back for this week’s iOS Game Suggestions. If you missed last week’s, or are new to the suggestions, click on the link below and check out what cool games you should be picking up for your iOS device along with the introduction on how the suggestions work. (suggestions 1 has how it all works)
A great week on iTunes! As always, it started slow and but ended with a bang! There are many must-buy games this week in all departments, FREE, 99c and over 99c. This week I’ve suggested a total of 19 great quality titles. Make sure you check them all especially… Surgeon Simulator, Puzzling Rush, PRISONHOOD, The Sims Freeplay, Penombre and Lost Light just to name a few.
Break down below :
9 – FREE Games 2 – $0.99c Games 8 – Over $0.99c Games
As always for this week’s suggestions are all new titles that you should take a look at and consider spending your hard earned iTunes cash / time on. Well the Free games just below certainly should all be given a shot as they won’t cost you anything!
For The Cheapskates – FREE GAMES
MASTERABBOTT’S FREE GAME PICK OF THE WEEK!
Prisonhood – Price : FREE – Publisher – FEI HU Interactive (You’re a bad guy! You’re a guilty guy! And now you’re locked-up! Enter PRISONHOOD as a Rookie, establish your Reputation, and emerge as a Boss! PRISONHOOD is a unique blend of RPG elements, task management, mini games, and social play. Recruit, Extort, Fight, Buy, Sell, & Steal as you interact with more than 30 different characters. It’s about absolute power, it’s about making money, but it’s also about living by the rules of the prison. In PRISONHOOD reputation has a heavy price!) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Pocket Gunfighters – Price : FREE – Publisher –Gamevil (Get into intense shoot-outs armed with pistols, shotguns, and machine guns. Evil villains are traveling through time trying to change history, and only you can stop them. Go on a shooting spree to save the world!) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
The Sims Freeplay – Price : FREE – Publisher –EA Moble (LET THE FREEPLAY BEGIN! CREATE UP TO 32 CUSTOMIZED SIMS FROM HEAD TO TOE, AND… Design dream homes complete with swimming pools and multiple stories. Let your Sims get married, make babies, and then watch them grow from Toddler to Senior! Visit your real friends’ Sim Towns! Complete goals, form new relationships and compare your friends’ interior design skills against yours! ) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Etter Drei – Price : FREE – Publisher –Etter Studio (The mission is simple. But once again, things get in the way… Explosives, thunderstorms, completely incompetent colleagues. Oh, and did we mention gravity?) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Color Cross – Puzzle – Price : FREE – Publisher –Microids (Recreate the mysterious image hidden behind a grid by filling each square with the right color and by simply deducting it from the numbers written on either side of the grid. Thanks to the step-by-step tutorial, no more than two minutes are necessary to understand the rules of the game.) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Jump! Chump! – Price : FREE – Publisher – Scraping The Barrel(Jump and his buddy Chump are under attack! Tap the screen to avoid the enemies and keep them alive for as long as possible!) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Word Forward – Price : FREE – Publisher –AppyNation (Word Forward is an ingenious new word puzzle game you can play alone or with friends via Game Center. Can you use all of the letters in the 5×5 grid to make words? Touch and drag to spell out words, making those letters disappear. You also can manipulate the board with special modifiers that allow you to replace, swap, jumble and remove letters.) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Cat vs. Aliens – Price : FREE – Publisher – Team Chaos (Cat must remember: aim for the brains. Cat must survive. Addictive Gameplay — Use an innovative and responsive slingshot to launch telekinetic projectiles at your alien nemeses. Brain Chain — Destroy a Brain alien to start a chain reaction of nearby alien deaths that result in a super score multiplier.) on iPhone & iPad. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Dandelions: Chain Of Seeds – Price : FREE – Publisher – Thumbr (Dandelions: Chain of Seeds is an addictive ambient puzzle game where players connect dandelion seeds to solve the puzzles. The game features 3 flower worlds with a total of 60 levels of Zen. Experience beautifully surreal worlds and lose yourself in the hypnotic chimes. Enter your sea of tranquility, while you unlock new challenges and environments. Unwind by replaying levels using different puzzle-solving strategies.) on iPhone & iPad. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
For The Bargain Hunters – 99c Games
Penombre – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Bulkypix (Journey into the enchanted land of Pénombre where witches, ghosts and other creatures meet in this endless runner game. When our heroine Umbra stepped out of her house to find new spells, she never thought she’ll get lost in the Petit Woods. Now, all creatures she had befriended have turned on each other as Pénombre descends onto the land. Umbra must travel across 7 kingdoms filled with treacherous traps and dangerous creatures to find her way back home.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Microtrip – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Arthur Guibert (Microtrip is a physics arcade game set inside the body of a strange creature. Its unique soft-body physics and the procedural generated levels make the game different and challenging every time you play. The goal is simple: go as deep as possible. For completing such a task you need to dodge the monsters as well as eating the white cells that are keeping you alive. The game is punctuated by special pills that give the blob a weird yet amazing power. How far can you go?) runs on iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
For The Millionaires – All games over $0.99
MasterAbbott’s over 99c Pick Of The Week!
Surgeon Simulator– Price : $6.49 – Publisher – Bossa Studios (You are the surgeon. Bob is the victim. Do your worst! Take urgent care of the world’s unluckiest patient, Bob, with your very own shaky hands. As the would-be surgeon Nigel Burke, perform all kinds of crazy surgeries to try to save his life — or fail hilariously in the process while poor Bob… Well, dies. Join the ranks of more than one million players who butchered Bob for the amusement of 250 million people who watched the failed surgeries on YouTube, now from the comfort of your awesome iPad, anytime, anywhere. Hospitals don’t get any better than this, really.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
First Strike Game – Price : $4.49 – Publisher – FEINHEIT (A nuclear armageddon is no one’s dream scenario. So choose your steps carefully, it’s a small path between war and peace. FIRST STRIKE is a great strategy simulation featuring snappy gameplay and an intuitive interface that makes dropping the big one as easy as ABC. But be sure to take the right measures to guarantee your people’s safety. ) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Lost Light – Price : $1.99 – Publisher – Disney (Connect and match your way through this captivating NEW puzzle adventure from Disney! Journey to the heart of an enchanted forest and help restore the light hidden away by the wicked Beasties. Enter the world of Lost Light to experience a brand new kind of matching game with a unique numbers twist!) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Puzzling Rush– Price : $1.99 – Publisher – Right Fusion (The situation in the faraway fairy land Ukron is uneasy. The evil impure force under the command of Yanyro has subdued all the lands, and there is no place free from mothers crying and children bellowing. But there are some heroes who are fighting for the just cause and who are able to rebuff this evil forces. You are at the last frontier, nowhere to run – only one will survive… ) runs on iPad. BUY NOW
Dudeski– Price : $1.99 – Publisher – Static Oceans Corp (Race down Shred Lord mountain as an avalanche chases after you. Ski between gates, dodge obstacles, discover the secrets of the mountain, and try making it all the way to the bottom.) runs iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
Glorkian Warrior: Trials Of Glork – Price : $2.99 – Publisher – Pixeljam (Help Glorkian Warrior and his trusty Super Backpack fight against an endless onslaught of alien creatures, and be prepared for anything… the Magic Robot appears when you least expect it, and might shower you with exploding basketballs… or kittens! ) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Wave Wave – Price : $2.99 – Publisher – Tom Janson (Wave Wave is a savage arcade game by Thomas Janson, with music by Danimal Cannon and Zef. Shift up and down to avoid the gauntlet of triangles. Hectic. Extreme. Addictive. Racing. Tumultuous. Blitzing. Electric. Anaerobic. Treacherous.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Doggins – Price : $4.49 – Publisher – Brain&Brain. (Doggins is a quiet adventure that follows a dreaming terrier’s battle of wits with a villainous monocled squirrel. Explore and solve puzzles on the moon as you unravel a plot to reverse the history of human invention!) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
There you have it folks these games should keep you busy for quite some time well until next week at least. I’ll be back next week for another dose of iOS goodness, in the meantime if you would also like to suggest your own suggestions, please feel free to share them in the comments section below or in the iOS forum section on the site here.
EA Mobile kicked off this week with a major content update for The Sims FreePlay. Player’s Sims will now experience life from cradle to the grave in the new content patch. Life Orbs have been introduced to the game and are passed down from generation to generation. As Sims complete life dreams, more energy is stored in these orbs, which can be used to unlock new community lots and hobbies for their Sims. Additionally, the update adds new personalities, two new community lots, and several new activities like snorkeling. The Sims FreePlay is available for free on iTunes App Store and Google Play.
The Sims FreePlay wasn’t the only game to receive an update this week. Monopoly Slots received a Las Vegas themed update that added five Sin City themed slot machines, collectables, mini-games, and Expanding WILDS. EA Mobile released a neon coloured trailer to showcase the new Vegas content update. Monopoly Slots is available for free on iTunes App Store and Google Play.
Sega and Creative Assembly have released a behind-the-scenes trailer for Alien: Isolation, called ‘Creating the Alien’. In it, members of the development team talk about the behaviour of the terrifying Xenomorph and how it was developed to be unpredictable, instilling constant fear in players for what may lurk around the corner.
You can view the trailer embedded at the bottom of this article.Alien: Isolationwill be available for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC late this year. Finally, we’ll be getting the Alien game we always wanted. That being said, I don’t do well with horror games; that silhouette in the capture above is enough to scare me!
Iceberg Interactive and Amplitude Studios (Endless Space) released a new trailer today introducing the faction known as “The Wind Walkers” for the upcoming game Endless Legend. The Wind Walkers join the Vaulters as one of the eight playable civilizations in Endless Legend.
Elves share a special relationship with nature, bonding themselves with a totem animal through an act called “The Sharing.” The act comes with a risk, as the elves can unleash the fiery savagery of their totem animal while under stress. Many elves who have been bonding with more vicious animals have even disappeared into the forest. In response to the disappearances, a group of elves known as The Wind Walkers have chosen to rebuild their civilization and abstain from The Sharing.
Endless Legend is an upcoming hero-centric 4x fantasy strategy game. Players will choose one of eight civilization to do battle over artifacts and the land of Auriga in both single and multiplayer. The game is set to launch for PC on Steam Early Access in early Q2 2014.
