It has barely been a season since its conclusion, but fans of Suisei no Gargantia were clearly begging for more because it has already been greenlit for a second season! The news comes a day after a “big announcement” was teased on the series’ official website.
This announcement, as well as the recent greenlighting of their brilliant dystopian thriller, Psycho-Pass come as an attempt by Production I.G to capitalise on the massive success of Shingeki no Kyojin and in all honesty they could definitely do a lot worse. While other companies seem to use a hit show to fund lots of lower quality anime to raise easy cash, Production I.G are beginning to really make a name for themselves as a company with a unique flair, and enough faith in their series to not back away from serious topics. Everything that they have made recently has not only looked stunning, but has been backed up with quality plot and characters that we so rarely see nowadays.
When more is known about the release date and details of this upcoming series you’ll definitely hear it over in our Anime News section!
“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying” -Arthur C Clarke
They came from the stars with a dark mission, to infiltrate, imprison, and ultimately annihilate the human race. In a struggle to combat the imminent threat, the governments of the world came together to form XCOM, an elusive organisation specialising in the research and destruction of invaders from outside our known universe.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown was a terrific game that let us take charge of all of the operations of the mysterious government agency. Thrilling rogue-like missions truly tested the mettle of gamers around the globe as they built up their crack team of soldiers and repeatedly put their lives on the line for the good of Earth. Nobody is invincible, nobody free from the alien horde, and no matter how hard you try eventually a beloved squad member will fall prey to their evil grasp.
This time around the world is again in danger, but everything has been kicked up a notch. As the trailer shows the threat now comes disguised as humans as well, bringing the fight into the base in a way Enemy Unknown never managed. As if that wasn’t enough though, now the aliens have mech suits! Check out the trailer below and see for yourself. This looks like a good one!
XCOM: Enemy Within is an expansion for XCOM: Enemy Unknown. It will be available for purchase on November 12th in North America and on the 15th everywhere else for £19.99/$29.99 on PC and Mac.
A new iOS game titled Runnercraft has been announced and released by Interstellar Games, LLC.
Runnercraft runs off the basis of the incredible popular Minecraft and it’s done successfully. With attention to details and systems, the developers have transformed the open world into a classic endless runner game.
Race your protagonist through a lovingly crafted environment replete with familiar hazards and a wide variety of collectible materials. Animals seen form the Minecraft such as pigs, cows, sheep and chickens can be dodged or harvested as you travel through the blocky world.
We also see the well-known crafting system in Runnercraft. The function can be used to create and manipulate items into useful tools and power-ups that can be than used for buffs and powers.
Yet another similarity to Minecraft that fans would recognise in Runnercraft is the complete seed generation system. Seeds guarantee that you will not only have your own personal best to contend with, but includes a feature to increase replayability and exponentially of the game, challenges are extended to a billion possible configurations that can be revisited over and over again.
Runnercraft is available now via the iTunes store for $2.99, download it here.
You read the title right, the original Power Rangers, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers will be joining forces with the Power Rangers Megaforce… Sort of. More accurately, they will be playable in Namco Bandai’s upcoming Power Rangers Megaforce game for Nintendo 3DS.
The game, which is based on the latest installment in the Power Rangers franchise will be an action-brawler, where you take the role of one of the eponymous Power Rangers, and do battle against the evil Warstar Aliens (Yep, I am that good that I knew their name off the top of my head). Although you will primarily play as the Power Rangers Megaforce, there will be unlockable skins of the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers that will change the appearance and weapons of your ranger in battle.
Are you excited to see your old favourites back in action? Let us know in the comment below, and if you haven’t done so yet, check out our Power Rangers podcast – Ranger Call here. For all the Power Rangers news as it becomes available, be sure to stay tuned to Capsule Computers.
Rockstar have been hard at work, venturing to fix the issues reported to them by early players of GTA Online. Now, they have announced the release of a title update that knocks out many of them, although they continue to make strides in ensuring GTA Online is a seamless, bug-free (at least the non-destructive ones) experience and will release further patches down the line. Below is the official statement from Rockstar in its entirety.
A new title update to address the reported issues of game progress loss in GTA Online as well as other technical fixes, tweaks and enhancements is now available for PlayStation 3, and we expect it to be available by tomorrow at the latest for Xbox 360. This title update will resolve the cause of players losing their gameplay progress except for some specific instances where players purchase a vehicle and the save does not occur due to a cloud save failure. A fix for that particular issue is being worked on and we will provide an update as soon as we know when this will be resolved.
Fixes in this title update include:
Fixes multiple issues causing character deletion or other loss of progress
Fixes issues causing infinite loading, infinite sky cams, and missing interface options between jobs
Fixes an issue causing the “replay” option to be locked out on certain jobs
Fixes an issue where a player would become stuck in the mod garage when respraying a Sanchez motor bike
Fixes an issue where the Player became stuck inside Los Santos Customs during Online tutorial flow.
Fixes an issue causing the loss of guns and ammo
Fixes issues causing GTA races ending early because of players spawning too far ahead
Fixes issues in Last Team Standing where sessions would not progress past the lobby
Fixes issues with network errors when joining Last Team Standing using Quick Job
Added clarifications around when a player is using a temporary character in GTA Online during Rockstar Cloud server outages
Adjusts the monetary penalty for being killed in a One on One match
We apologize for the problems some players have been experiencing with lost characters or game progress due to this issue – please stay tuned for updates as we continue to investigate this.
In the meantime, please always remember to save your game before leaving GTA Online, otherwise you may lose any progress since your last save – this can be done by exiting back to Single Player through the pause menu. Until downloading the title update above and in order to minimize the chances of any further data loss, if at any point you receive the message “Rockstar Cloud Servers are unavailable”, please do not either select the “Retry” option or create a temporary Character to play GTA Online. Instead, you should exit to GTAV Story Mode and try entering GTA Online again through the menu in Story Mode. Please also stay tuned or subscribe to the GTA Online Status Updates article at the Rockstar Support site for the latest word on common known technical issues and fixes.
Haganai Season One Collection Studio:AIC Build Publisher: Madman Format: Blu-ray (reviewed), DVD Release Date: October 16, 2013 Price: $59.95 – Available Here
Overview
What do you do if you’re an unpopular social misfit in high school? Why form a club for others like yourself, of course. Haganai, the English abbreviated title of Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, depicts just that in its first season released by Madman for Australia and New Zealand. Adapted from a light novel and translated simply as “I Don’t Have Many Friends”, Haganai turns the anime cliche of friendly school clubs upside down. Read on to see why it’s worth stepping into this disaster zone, even if you have friends.
Story Haganai is centred around an obligatory male MC, Kodaka Hasegawa, who seems to be dead-on-arrival as the school’s newest transfer student. A combination of being late to his first class, unusual blonde hair and major miscommunication cements his status as the school’s unapproachable bancho. It’s not long before he meets a fellow classmate, Yozora Mikazuki, talking to thin air by herself. You’d think the anime’s objective of finding friends is solved as they’re on a first-name basis from day one, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Nope, no way.
Yozora’s thick-skinned personality almost warrants the term “bitch”, especially when the admired-but-still-friendless Sena Kashiwazaki enters the scene. A complete opposite from Yozora, Sena packs a huge chest and a curvy body but is plagued by a narcissistic personality and an obsession with eroge. Seeing these two at each others throats is a hilarious highlight of the show, spitting venom while poor Kodaka is trapped in the middle. It’s worth noting that Kodaka isn’t your typical harem MC. This guy is actually pretty nice, can cook and isn’t as dense as a black hole like many male leads in this genre of anime.
A nymphomaniac science girl, a 10-year old nun and a boy with some serious gender identity confusion round off the Neighbours Club, where it’s never a dull moment. The only serious aspect of the plot would be Kodaka’s flashbacks about a childhood friend who happens to be in the Neighbours Club. This comes to a head during the second last episode, the last of which being reserved for an extra OVA that was included with the last Japanese volume. It’s worth pointing out Haganai’s fan service. There’s plenty of it where it counts, including a gob smacking bare chested scene.
Otherwise, the story is limited to the group taking on all sorts of activities to learn how to make friends, such as playing co-op handheld video games. Obviously, none of these plans work much to our amusement. It’s all great fun, particularly with the inclusion of Kodaka’s younger sister, Kobato, who even has issues of her own! By the end, you would already have realised that what the Neighbours Club has been searching for was in the clubroom all along. Despite the bickering arguments and scornful vitriol, they’re all unknowingly friends.
Visuals Haganai is a very pretty show compared to most comedic and slice-of-life anime, and this really shows with the character designs. If you’ve seen Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl you will notice the stark similarities straight away. The finishing touches that the studio did on the home video release is to be commended, fixing up and improving Haganai’s initial broadcast episodes. The end result is an anime that’s bright, crisp and simply a treat to watch in high definition especially.
Audio
The sound isn’t something you notice too much of in Haganai, but it does feature some very fittingly silly background tracks along with a whacky opening and ending theme. The Japanese voice-acting is a delight to hear, with Kodaka’s voice actor nailing the naive nice guy character. Sena sounds just like a spoiled, privileged girl with a bright, ringing voice while Kobato’s laugh is a classic (kukuku) while her nervous side is conveyed perfectly.
It’s a shame the English voices aren’t as well-matched, particularly Kodaka who simply sounds bored rather than the nice and even curious tone you find with the original actor. While some voice actors do sound perfectly fine, the amount of clever banter thrown around in Haganai makes this far more humorous to watch in Japanese particularly with the amount of insults you hear.
Extras Unlike Funimation’s beefier release, Madman is releasing this in their standard Blu-ray and DVD cases. Interestingly, this is almost identical to the former’s release right down to the FBI warnings and Region A+B format. You do get a few extras in the form of episode commentaries by the staff, commercials, promotional videos and textless songs though.
Overall
While seemingly not extraordinary and without a meaningful narrative, Haganai comes out of left field proving to be one of the funniest, raunchiest school club anime I’ve seen recently. If you’re looking for friends, this probably isn’t the best place to start. But it sure as hell makes for a what-not-to-do lesson. There was hardly an episode that didn’t make me laugh at the sheer, unadulterated antics of the Neighbours Club. Each character in Haganai is unique with serious social issues in one form or another, all coming together in a dysfunctional melting pot of hilarity.
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Hey there comic fans! Are you ready for your latest dose of comic book awesomeness provided by Titan Comics? Well strap yourselves in, cause we have two books to tell you about today!
Firstly is Chronos Commandos #4, written and drawn by Stuart Jennet. We spoke about Chronos Commandos #3 a month ago, but if you still aren’t 100% sure what it is all about, then allow me the pleasure of telling you:
The Sarge and his team battle a vicious Nazi time squad who’ll do anything to turn the Allied heroes into fossilised raptor-chow! Plus – the rules of time travel are pushed to the limit, as Einstein crosses his own timeline in order to prevent the extinction of the universe, when a Chronosphere goes critical at the Commandos’ base!
Pretty awesome right? If you like war stories, sci-fi or dinosaurs then you don’t want to miss this one! Next up we have the third issue of the Dan Boultwood penned It Came! It Came! is a b-movie sci-fi book in the vein of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Here is the synopsis for you to check out:
After the terrifying discoveries made in our last astonishing issue, space scientist Dr. Boy Brett and his lady assistant Doris Night are now trapped inside an honest-to-goodness flying saucer, along with a robot that aims to capture them alive!
What role does this monstrous, monosyllabic automaton play in the extra-terrestrial invasion plan? And what do drooping upper lips have to do with the fate of Britain – AND THE WORLD?!
That’s two great books for comic book fans out there, so if you are hankering for something to read then head down to your local comic book shop and pick up either Chronos Commandos #4 or It Came! #3. If you still aren’t sure if either of these books are for you, then we have attached a preview gallery of each below. As always, for all the Titan Comics news as it becomes available, be sure to stay tuned to Capsule Computers.
You know what is awesome? Marvel movies. You know what else is awesome? Lego. What happens when you combine the two? You get a totally sweet Lego poster for Warner Bros’ upcoming game; Lego Marvel Super Heroes. The poster, which you can check out below is inspired by the theatrical poster for the upcoming film Thor: The Dark World
In addition, to coincide with the release of the movie, there will be a special DLC pack available for Lego Marvel Super Heroes. The pack will titled The Asgard Pack, and contain 8 characters, all of which will feature in Thor: The Dark World. Thor will be out in cinemas on the 31st October, while Lego Marvel Super Heroes will be available on November 13th on all current gen consoles, with next-gen versions launching alongside their respective consoles. We recently went hands-on with Lego Marvel Super Heroes, and you can check out our thoughts here. As always, for all the Marvel news as it becomes available, be sure to stay tuned to Capsule Computers.
Namco Bandai has announced that Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures for the Nintendo 3DS has moved up its launch date to November 5th, 2013. While Pac will be back on the 3DS sooner than planned, the 3DS launch will still follow the HD console release of the game on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U and Steam, set for October 29th.
The situation is really heating up
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures is a bustling and bonkers world of adventure, wackiness and charming characters built for a whole new generation of gamers. And now, players can look forward to fast-paced side-scrolling action with unique power ups in the 3DS game in less than a month. Not only that, Pac fans will be able to enjoy all-new multiplayer ghost chase modes and retro arcade-style mini games in the HD console game even sooner.
A dish best served cold
In anticipation of the return of Pac, Namco Bandai also announced an exclusive Gift offer with each purchase of Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures for all available platforms. Customers will receive a ghoulishly exciting glow-in-the-dark poster (as seen above) that will be packed with game units while supplies last.
This fight might drag on a little…
Be sure to check out our hands-on with the console version to get in the Pac-Mood. If you’re anywhere near New York Comic-Con, feel free to check out the multiplayer demo at the Namco Bandai booth. Waka waka waka.
Call of Duty fanatics will be pleased to see Eminem‘s brand new music video for his song ‘Suvival’ which will serve as the game’s official theme song. The song is said to embody the intensity and rush of the Call of Duty: Ghosts experience and in particular the way you must survive by not getting shot and dying.
Call of Duty: Ghosts is slated for release on November 5th, 2013 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and Wii U. Next gen versions of the game will be released later in the same month. You can check out the music video for Eminem’s ‘Survival’ song below. Eminem raps faster than a bullet that came out of a gun in the Call of Duty: Ghosts game, he is truly a suited rapper to perform this theme song.
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