Rumors are flying wildly as an entry for the standalone DayZ Early Access appeared in the Steam database yesterday. The developers have been rather quiet about the state of development on their official blog and Twitter accounts as of late. But, addition to the database does not mean the DayZ Early Access could begin any time soon. However, it is a solid step closer to open testing.
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The standalone DayZ game is a continuation of the wildly popular DayZ mod for FPS simulator ArmA II. Standalone Day Z runs on a modified version of the Take On Helicopters engine, nicknamed by some as the Arma 2.5 engine. It is currently in closed alpha testing.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was a stand out game when it launched (check out our review here), and now the Director’s Cut of the game has launched. The definitive edition of Eidos and Square Enix’s futuristic, story-driven stealth shooter includes not only the game, and all of its subsequent DLC, but also features overhauled boss fights, refined game balance and combat, improved A.I., over 8 hours of developer commentary, and striking visual improvements, as well as second-screen capabilities for the Wii U version. These improvements all make sure that Human Revolution Director’s Cut is the version of Deus Ex that you NEED to own.
To celebrate the game’s release, the guys at Square Enix have put up a launch trailer which you can check out below. We will have our review up for Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director’s Cut in the coming days, so as always, for all the Deus Ex news as it becomes available, stay tuned to Capsule Computers.
Austrian indie developers Broken Rules, the team behind And Yet It Moves, kicked off their IndieGoGo campaign for their latest game Secrets of Raetikon. The open world adventure game is inspired by nature and by flight. Players will fly across a vast and colourful landscape as they encounter a vast number of animals and an ancient civilization lost to time in the Alps.
The team has created an alpha for Mac and Windows that is available to those who back the game on IndieGoGo. A Linux build of the game is in the works. The team has survived so far on a government grant, profits from And Yet It Moves, and their own personal savings. However, to complete and promote the game, the team will need another $40,000.
Backers can receive digital copies of the game, including Steam keys on release, to more impressive rewards like having the backer’s likeness immortalized in a statue in game. Check out Secrets of Raetikon at the official IndieGoGo campaign page for more information about the game.
Marvel announced yesterday that there will be a new Marvel Comics-based Anime series that will be specifically made for the Japanese market and it is to be titled; Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers, which is an odd name but, who knows, it could actually be pretty awesome.
The series will be spearheaded by The Walt Disney Company Japan and is set to begin it’s air in Spring of next year.
The series is said to directly revolve around the most mainstream Avengers being; Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Hulk but will also include others like Spiderman, Wasp and some teenage characters designed specifically for this series.
While there is no talk of release outside of Japan we can all assume that in some point in time there will be considering we’ve gotten other Marvel Anime titles like Blade and Wolverine. I’m really curious to see what they are going to do with this one and whatever they do I hope they do it well. I’m really curious to see what they are going to do with this one and whatever they do I hope they do it well.
Nintendo has put out some incredible game releases for the 3DS lately and each of the big titles has come wit it’s very own “limited edition” 3DS XL design; Fire Emblem: Awakening had one, Pokemon X and Y had two, and the upcoming One Piece Unlimited World Red also has two coming so in this day and age we’re not short on uniquely designed consoles. It has just been announced that Japan will be getting another two limited edition 3DS XL Console Colours and, although they are similar to the standard red and blue, they are looking fierce!
The glossy orange and turquoise additions to the 3DS family look fantastic with their black frames with colour matching buttons, bumpers and stylus. They are both set for release on the 28th of November and we’ll be going for $205 each. They look super stylish and if I didn’t already have a 3DS you bet I’d be excited to pick one of these babies up! Let us know what you think about the new colours/designs in our comments section below.
This Halloween, Ubisoft and Blue Byte are gathered around their bubbling cauldron, brewing up a spooky new update to ANNO Online for the holiday season. As you would expect the update includes holiday themed items and resources, but the really intriguing new feature is the mysterious new island that has suddenly appeared and the ghostly ship spotted off of the shores of the main island.
When the Halloween event emerges, players will need to assist the captain of this afflicted phantom ship in gathering loot in return for Black Beans which appear to be unusable … or are they? By using the beans as a currency, players can craft their own pumpkin farms and use their harvest to create Jack O’Lanterns. These lanterns will help you as you venture forth onto the mysterious Lantern Island and delve into the gates to the underworld that now lie open.
As if that wasn’t enough, there are a number of exclusive Halloween items available upon the completion of quests during the event. These include:
Haunted Mill: A building that produces flour 30% more efficiently
Haunted Paper Mill: A building that produces twice as much as a normal paper mill
Haunted Tree: A structure that produces amazing buffs from time to time
Pumpkin Soup (buff): A buff that quadruples production speed for a short amount of time
Beef Stew (buff): A buff that quadruples production speed for a long amount of time
Many people out there in the world of entertainment try their hand at creating a storyline based around time travel that both makes sense and doesn’t confuse the audience, some out there actually do the sub-genre of time travel a great deal of justice, while others just slip through the cracks and don’t entirely leave the proper mark. Titan Comics have recently completed the release of the four-part, supernatural, time travelling comic book Numbercruncher which seems to walk through this genre with such confidence that it almost oozes from the page. I’ve compiled all four issues into one review so as to get, and give, a better understanding of this comic as a whole.
Story
It is quite a complex comic and any explanation I can give would prove to be, just about, useless but I am going to try my best to take you all through the important parts without giving too much away. First of all let’s set up the world that this comic takes place in: Earth is exactly the same as it is in reality, what is different is the afterlife which, despite what people think, is not all rainbows and fluffy clouds. It is, in it’s simplest form, an accountancy where everything revolves around numbers, calculations, algorithms and “circulation”, this includes the spirits of those who have passed on. This “entity” is lead by the “Divine Calculator” who I can basically describe as a crusty old man who, in this universe, takes the place of God. The Divine Calculator has a great deal of “employees” who are also souls that have passed on, these employees are tasked with collecting the souls of the dead alongside making contracts with those who wish to, possibly, live again. Souls who are connected by contract to these workers, if they chose to, will live another life in the real world but once they have died a natural death they will take the place of their contractor and their contractor will be recycled back into the mix of the undead, not zombies, just people.
Now that that is out of the way, let me introduce you to Richard Thyme and Bastard Zane: Dick is a genius mathematician who is separated from his lover by death, he longs for her so deeply that he makes a deal with the Divine Calculator to live another life and it just so happens he gets the toughest, meanest and most devoted worker to hold his contract; Bastard Zane. They’re both in for one hell of a cat and mouse chase but Richard knows that, in this race, he is the tortoise while Zane is the hasty yet clumsy hare. This is where I am almost forced to stop because anything I tell you from here on wont exactly “spoil” anything for a future reader but it will dampen the experience a fair bit. You can only imagine the types of twists and turns to come out of a time travel story and you’re probably right in what you’re thinking but you’ll need a bigger imagination to hit the nail on the head. The story of this comic is downright fantastic, simple as that, I actually cannot find a better way to express this than to jus outright say it.
It is all about love, the chase and the chance to overthrow a God and each of these elements blend so greatly as to make for an incredible narrative. What I found worked well was the fact that no characters other than Zane spoke that much yet we got the same sense of depth to a character like Richard who barely talked to a character like Zane who narrated the entire series. God knows how the writers did it but they did it well. While reading Zane’s english accent got incredibly annoying and sometimes a bit hard to understand you, kind of, bypass it just to see the rest of the story unfold. It being a story revolving entirely around reincarnation and, somewhat, travelling through time through the recycling of souls you’d think that somewhere along the line the writers would confuse themselves and trip up but…no, they did it perfectly. Each life that Richard lived had a purpose, it had an means, it had an ending and, in the end, it had an impact greater than you could imagine. I’m being very vague but I have to be, all I’m going to say now is that this is the most perfect example of time travel that I’ve ever seen and yet it’s not even traditional time travel, it’s skewed and twisted and it works on so many levels.
Artwork
The illustrator, P.J. Holden did an awesome job with the art in Numbercrucher. What stuck out the most for me was the use of colour and sketching depending on where the story took place: When the characters were in the “afterlife” the style of illustration was sketchy, black and white, almost like it was just drawn with pencil for some sort of preliminary designs yet obviously more detailed. When the characters were placed in the living world it turned colourful, yet still very dark, and into something that seemed very traditional, like reading a Marvel comic. This contrast and comparison really showed the difference between both worlds. The use of numbers as images was also very well done and was placed in fantastically; gunshots explode into a flurry of numbers, people evaporating into a cloud of equations, it was just a really nice touch to an already great looking comic. It never got boring and the characters all looked great for what they were and who they were and I can’t honestly say anything bad about it.
Overall
The comic is down right fantastic and, as I did, should be read all together. While it is great to read the comic issue by issue, reading it in it’s entirety just hits you so much harder than it would reading it month to month. The characters are all great and, while there really isn’t much dialogue and what not, they all belong in their places within the comic and it’s story and without any of them the comic would not have been the same. The art immerses you into the comic and allows you to be taken away by it all. It’s just an all around fantastic comic and I couldn’t recommend it more.
Just when you thought there couldn’t be any further avenues for Attack on Titananime fans to explore for parodies, a genius Japanese fan has recreated the opening theme video using his horde of feline friends.
It was only a matter of time before Attack on Titan crossed paths with the internet’s favourite animal in a kawaii mash-up for the ages. You can check out the cute and funny Attack on Titan vs Cats parody video below.
Be sure to let us know what you thought of this ingenious bit of parody in the comments section below. What is more frightening, a horde of cats or titans?
Fans of Platinum Game’s femme fatale heroine Bayonetta have reason to be excited. Studio Gonzo have just released the first trailer for the upcoming anime film adaptation of the popular Bayonetta game.
The film itself is titled Bayonetta: Bloody Fate and will feature an original plot featuring the colourful cast of characters from the game. Interestingly the original voice cast will not be reprising their roles in the film. Instead an entirely new cast will take on the roles.
The trailer features what is set to be the film’s theme song ‘Night, I Stand’ by Mai. You can check out the trailer below for your viewing pleasure.
With Halloween being celebrated all around the world, Joymax has decided to join in on the fun by releasing a huge Digimon Masters Online event to celebrate the time of the year where everything gets just a little more spooky! If you’re already a player of the hit MMO/RPG game now is the time to head over to the DATS Center in the Digital World where you’ll meet Pumpkinmon who will give you a new weapon to add to your arsenal: Pumpkin Bombs. Pumpkin monsters will appear all around the Digital World and it is your “duty” to use the pumpkin bombs and destroy them. Destroying them will earn you candy that can be traded in for high-class items such as Burst Accelerators and Digi-Soul Buffing Sweets.
Soulmon will also join the celebrations during this event. This guy loves sweets and by looting “Ghost Cookies” from fallen enemy Digimon you can then trade them to him for a number of different Halloween Gift Boxes which include items like Backup Discs, Ecoluters, Mysters Mercenery DigiEggs, Mystery Reinforced Mercenery DigiEggs and Pure White Mystery DigiEggs so there really is no reason to ignore the event considering how much you have to gain by taking part. The Halloween Event will be running from today until the 26th of November so you’ve got just a little over a full month to enjoy all that this spooky event has to offer. Head to the Official DMO website here to get started!
