Createrria, an innovative game creation app released by independent Polish developers Incuvo proves that its an app worth looking at. The iOS game was releaesed on December 5th, and in the span of 11 days, the app has accumulated over 500,000 users, 560,000 unique games created, 66,000 games that were published in the Incuvo community, and a lot more impressive numbers. The game was the #1 Adventure Game app for iPads in the United States, and was #9 on the list of top free apps in the entire world.
Createrria is a casual “game” where you construct your own mobile video game, allowing users to create any mobile game they’d like to make. Whether it’s a puzzle platformer or an action/adventure game, the app provides a host of easy-to-use tools so that users can make their dreams a reality. No prior technical experience is required to construct a mobile video game through Createrria. Make sure you check out the game here in the iTunes App Store. I highly recommend this app to anyone who likes to play games on their iPhones and iPads!
Episode 25 of CC: Animeis nowlive. Thanks to our good friends and sponsor Hanabee, we are hosting a special competition held through CC: Anime. This month, in conjunction with Hanabee we will be giving away a copy ofLittle Busters Part 1, on DVD or Blu-Ray.
To win, all you have to do is sign up on Hanabee’s official website to go into the draw to win a copy of Little Busters Part 1, a winner will be randomly selected from the pool of entries. If you are lucky enough to be selected you will have the choice of either DVD or Blu-Ray. The competition will close on the 6th of January, 2014, so get in quick.
For more details on the competition check out the latest episode of CC: Anime. If you have yet to listen to CC: Anime you can do so here.
Welcome to another episode of CC: Anime, Capsule Computers Anime Podcast! In our twenty fifth episode, the CC: Anime crew discuss the latest anime and manga news, the Kuroko’s Basketball crime spree coming to an end, licensing anime with Hanabee’s Karen Pak, the year of anime that was 2013, as well as answering your questions and tweets. We also have a prize giveaway of Little Busters Part 1 on DVD or Blu-Ray thanks to our sponsor Hanabee, find out how to enter here.
Cast: Luke Halliday, Travis Bruno, Frank Inglese, Kane Bugeja, James Mapley and special guest Karen Pak from Hanabee.
We hope you enjoy CC: Anime Episode 25, be sure to let us know what you think.
The PS3 and PS Vita titles will be available in Australia from December 25 and Don’t Starve will arrive for the PS4 on January 9, 2014. In the latter, you play as Wilson, “an intrepid gentleman scientist who has been trapped by a demon and transported to a mysterious wilderness world.” Don’t Starve requires you to use the environments and its inhabitants in order to progress and find your way back home. In DmC: Devil May Cry, face your demons as Dante in his early years. Set against a more contemporary setting, DmCmay take place in a more contemporary setting, but the reboot retains its brutal and iconic, fluid hack’n’shoot gameplay. Borderlands 2 needs no detailing, being one of 2012’s most popular shooters.
For Sony’s handheld, Soul Sacrifice has you awaken, trapped and alone, with your fate to be the next living sacrifice to the sorcerer Magusar’s dark arts seemingly sealed. Meanwhile, BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend – the latest addition to the fighting game series – introduces four brand new stories, an all-new hardcore play mode called Unlimited Mars and finally, Relius Clover as a playable character. A recap of the Calamity Trigger story will also be included so that players can catch up with recent events in overriding story arc.
A PS Plus membership is priced at AUD$69.95 for 12 months, AUD$19.95 for 3 months or AUD$9.95 for 1 month.
When they’re not powering supercomputers and gaming PCs, Nvidia caters to the more sensible. Desktop virtualisation is truly a revolutionary front on the business end of IT, allowing folk to access their resources anytime from any machine.
Nvidia has just released its GRID virtual GPU technology with Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 and XenServer 6.2, letting employees use their own notebook and portables to access all their office design applications, virtually.
As usual, Nvidia is pushing the graphics load from CPUs to the more powerful GPU and the new GRID does just that. For instance, it was previously impractical to virtualise intensive video-photo editing. Instead of being limited to one GPU accessed on a one-to-one basis with users, they can now share access on one GPU across many users.
Adobe, Autodesk and even the Roger Williams University are throwing their weight behind Nvidia’s GRID products, pledging to use the technology with their services and educational facilities.
Those curious to try out GRID vGPU can access a 60-day trial. For more info on Nvidia’s virtual desktop acceleration, head over to their site.
Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened Studio:OLM, Inc Publisher:Viz Media Format: DVD Release Date: December 3, 2013 Price: $19.97 – Available Here
Overview Anytime an anime series reaches a certain level of popularity a few movies are released for it. For shōnen anime these movies usually are a given and a handful of other franchises are also given a movie here and there, though a few of these tend to be recaps. While Dragon Ball Z movies were being shown on TV here in North America, the first Pokémon movie hit theaters across the nation. Since then the hype has certainly died down despite the Pokémon franchise still going strong. Regardless of that, Viz has brought the latest Pokémon movie, Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened, to North America. By featuring a Pokémon that headlined the original movie, is this one worth checking out?
Story Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened begins with a group of Pokémon travelling through an icy wasteland. These Pokémon are a group of Genesect with a red Genesect leading the others in an attempt to find their home. With the group growing tired and weak, one of the Genesect begins to lose hope and is ready to succumb to the elements when an avalanche is triggered and bears down on the group.
Psychically hearing the pleas of the despairing Genesect, a familiar Pokémon named Mewtwo appears to prevent the group from being enveloped by the avalanche thanks to its newly discovered ability that allows it to Mega Evolve (the Pokémon Y version) into a stronger form capable of stronger psychic control and the power to travel so fast that everything moves in slow motion. Despite saving the fellow Genesect, the red Genesect begins to treat Mewtwo like an enemy and attacks her.
After forcing Mewtwo to leave the Genesect move on and discover a huge city, one created specifically for this movie, where they begin to settle in and make a nest. As this happens, Ash, Iris, and Cilan arrive at the city and explore the yet to be opened Pokémon sanctuary. The night after they arrive the Genesect begin to take over the sanctuary, attacking every Pokémon in sight and building a nest which begins to interfere with the power grid of the city that, if left untouched, will cause a meltdown capable of destroying not only the park but the city itself.
Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened features a rather standard plot from thereon out as it sees Ash and the rest of the group try to find a solution for the Genesect problem while Mewtwo, after realizing that they are manmade Pokémon just like she is, returns to try and help the Genesect before realizing that more drastic measures might be necessary to put them away. Throw in some impressive action sequences between Mewtwo and Genesect, a few minor segments with other Pokémon, and the power of friendship and you have the rest of the film as it concludes in a generally solid ending.
Unfortunately while the ending may be solid, the movie itself has a number of missteps and if you happen to have watched the first movie, you likely already know what it is thanks to the gender specific pronouns used throughout the review up till now. The Mewtwo in this movie is presented as a female while the only Mewtwo introduced so far has been male, and after its creation it destroyed the facility that was used to create it.
Now it is entirely possible that another Mewtwo was produced thanks to salvaging data since obviously the gender is different with this one and it also possesses additional abilities such as the aforementioned Mega Evolution. However there are a number of scenes mirroring the first movie within this one. It is also worth noting that although the original Mewtwo erased Ash’s memories, it probably would have remembered the youth after the impression he left on the Pokémon at the end of the first movie.
While this can be seen as a simple replacement, it does hurt the movie as a whole which could easily have been seen as some sort of continuation with a few interchanges between Mewtwo and Ash, but instead Ash is more of a background character that is simply there to spout his mantra about friendship and not fighting each other, ultimately resolving everything after an intense battle, giving a solid ending but one that probably will feel rather generic to everyone but the kids.
Visuals The animation and artwork in Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened seemed to shift quite often throughout the movie. Many of the action scenes look amazing with some stellar CGI work blending together with standard animation techniques to present a great looking battle. At the same time, the slower moments suffered from some drops in quality and oddly enough, close-ups of Ash’s face had some rather noticeable banding issues.
Outside of that the animators certainly paid a lot of attention to detail as the plates on each Genesect’s back were used to denote their element type and whenever their main cannon was fired, it would match the elemental plate. The rest of the Pokémon included in the movie were similarly well animated and detailed to match their counterparts and as for the background scenes, the city appeared to by stylized to look like New York City. A number of the environments within the park look amazing, though this is sadly traded out for some generic looking indoor environments throughout the second half of the film barring the red Genesect’s fight against Mewtwo.
Audio It is interesting to note that this release does not feature the original Japanese voice track at all and only features the English dub version. That being said, the voice actors all handled their jobs nicely with the main characters retaining their roles while the Pokémon voices were standard fair for the series. As for Mewtwo and the Genesects, as mentioned earlier Mewtwo’s new female voice actress handled the character well-enough and the Genesects spoke with broken but passable English, although the red Genesect’s voice actor had some very generic ‘bad guy’ voice work.
As far as the soundtrack goes, the background music is rather standard fair for a movie such as this and a new opening theme is played while Ash and the gang enjoy the park and a new ending theme is also used for the credit sequence. Both of these theme songs work well for the film and are relatively enjoyable.
Extras As far as bonus content goes, Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened comes with only a trailer for the movie on the disc. Packed in with the disc are a few advertisements for Pokémon products as well as a Pokémon card for a red Genesect.
Overall Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened provides an entertaining story that not only sees the return of Mewtwo to the spotlight but also highlights the newly introduced Mega Evolutions. Sadly this story is hindered by missed story opportunities, fluctuations in the animation quality, and a simplistic ending that ends everything a bit too neatly. That being said, the movie is still very enjoyable as a throwaway story and younger audiences will enjoy it just as much as their family might.
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Paramount Pictures have today announced that their latest action blockbuster, Enemies Closer – starring Jean-Claude Van Damme (who recently appeared in The Expendables 2) will be available for purchase on Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital from Boxing Day (December 26th). The movie is unique in that it features father-son duos in front and behind the camera. Director Peter Hyams is joined by his son John Hyams as the film’s editor and Kristopher Van Varenberg stars opposite his father, Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Here is the film’s synopsis:
After a major shipment of drugs goes missing on the US-Canadian border, forest ranger and former Navy SEAL Henry (Tom Everett Scott) is plunged into survival mode when the drug cartel forces him to help retrieve the downed package. Trapped in the wilderness with no communication to the outside world, Henry finds himself face to face with Clay (Orlando Jones), a man with a personal vendetta against Henry who has returned for retribution. Now, the two mortal enemies must make a choice: put aside their past and work together, or die alone at the hands of the drug runners, a ruthless gang who will stop at nothing to retrieve their lost cargo.
If you need to see more of the movie before deciding if it will be thrown into your shopping trolley this Boxing Day, then check out the trailer below. Will you be picking this one up, or do you already have all of your post-holiday spendings planned out? Let us know in the comments below, and as always stay tuned to Capsule Computers for all the Paramount Pictures news as it becomes available.
Invizimals is for better or worse a franchise that kids seem to love. Now, the members of the Alliance of Invizimal Hunters are jumping through the portal once again, and landing on TV Screens across Australia in the brand new animated series from BRB International, and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. The series looks to be a part of the Invizimals: Lost Kingdom storyline, including the game’s protagonist Hiro as the leader of a youthful band of heroes that are trying their best to save the Invizimals world.
Invizimals debuted last week on Channel Eleven with a special 90-minute episode. The following 90-minute episode will air this Sunday at 6am for viewers to get hooked onto. Don’t worry if you missed out, Invizimals will be officially starting its 26 episode series from July 2014. If you want to know what to expect from the series, then check out the little trailer below. Always remember to stay tuned to Capsule Computers for all the Invizimals news, be it television or video game related.
IndieGameStand’s 12 Days of Christmas Spotlights Free Indie Games for Charity
Indie-focused service has selected the best free downloadable indie games to raise money for Child’s Play Charity
PHILADELPHIA, PA – December 17, 2013 –IndieGameStand is taking a break from its “pay what you want” deals this holiday season with a 12 day charity drive. Starting tomorrow, IndieGameStand will be spotlighting notable free downloadable indie games every 24 hours for 12 consecutive days in the hopes of raising money for Child’s Play. These games were all hand-selected by IndieGameStand to spread awareness about these amazing game developers and some of our favorite free indie games.
IndieGameStand’s 12 Days of Christmas Charity event will run from December 18th to December 29th. Each day will reveal and spotlight a new indie game that is freely available on the internet. Think of it as a sort of indie game advent calendar. By donating, customers will unlock these great games in their IndieGameStand account and all proceeds will be donated to Child’s Play.
“Our goal at IndieGameStand is to serve the gaming community and spread awareness about indie games and indie development,” says Mike Gnade, co-founder of IndieGameStand. “People have been asking us about free indie games since the launch of our site, so we came up with this idea to raise money for charity. We hope that this event is successful and embraced by the gaming community so that we can continue it for many holiday seasons to come.”
IndieGameStand is committed to serving the indie gaming community exclusively, a focus that stems from the company’s love and admiration for indie game developers’ dedication and creative passion.
Founded in 2012, IndieGameStand.com provides convenient ways for indie developers to sell and promote their games. In their first year of operation, their 96-hour “pay what you want” deals have earned more than $25k for more than 30 different charities. IndieGameStand’s recent site expansion offers developers and gamers a dedicated storefront for unique indie games. Learn more at http://www.indiegamestand.com.
PlayStation Plus also provides access to PS4 online multiplayer allowing players to challenge friends and like-minded gamers from all over the world. PS4 features a significantly enhanced online feature set that delivers innovative new online gaming for all.
Enter an unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers and surprises in the PS4 title Don’t Starve. You play as Wilson, an intrepid gentleman scientist who has been trapped by a demon and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Use your environment and its inhabitants to aid your escape and find your way back home. Don’t starve will be available on PS Plus from 9th January.
Prepare to face your demons in DmC: Devil May Cry™ for PS3, which details Dante’s early years set against a contemporary backdrop. The title retains the stylish action, fluid combat and self-assured protagonist that have defined the iconic series but injects a more brutal and visceral edge.
In the PS3 action adventure Borderlands™ 2 expose the corrupt Hyperion Corporation and its evil boss, Handsome Jack, in a thrilling single player campaign. Choose from multiple character classes, including the formidable Gunzerker, whose deadly skills let him dual wield any two weapons at the same time. Discover innovative new ways to attack enemies with an almost limitless array of outrageous weapons and equipment. Both PS3 titles will arrive on PS Plus 25th December.
The incredible content continues on PS Vita as fans are invited to embark on an epic adventure to learn dark, powerful magic. Fight to free yourself from a nightmare prison and escape the clutches of an evil sorcerer in Soul Sacrifice™ available from 25th December. As you awaken, trapped and alone, your fate seems sealed: to be the next living sacrifice to the sorcerer Magusar’s dark arts. But just as all seems lost, a mysterious talking book appears and reveals the secrets of magic, drawing you into its pages and setting you on the path to relive the story of an all-powerful mage.
BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend is the latest addition to the BlazBlue series and will be available for PS Vita from the 25th December. In addition to the wealth of content provided in previous games, the newest title introduces four brand new stories, an all-new hardcore play mode UNLIMITED MARS and Relius Clover as a new playable character. A recap of the Calamity Trigger story will also be included allowing players to explore the whole story up until now!
PS Plus provides members with access to top-rated games* every month throughout the course of the membership and, in addition, if you’re already a PS Plus member your membership automatically covers PS4 as well as PS3 and PS Vita. So all you’ll need to do is simply plug in and get gaming! A membership will be required to play PlayStation 4 online multiplayer across titles.
A PS Plus membership is AUD$69.95 for 12 months, AUD$19.95 for 3 months or AUD$9.95 for a 1 month membership.
*Top-rated is based on a meta-critic rating of 70+
If you need to see more of the movie before deciding if it will be thrown into your shopping trolley this Boxing Day, then check out the trailer below. Will you be picking this one up, or do you already have all of your post-holiday spendings planned out? Let us know in the comments below, and as always stay tuned to Capsule Computers for all the Paramount Pictures news as it becomes available.