Dying Light shows its dark side in a new gameplay video
Techland and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released today a new gameplay video from Dying Light, showcasing the darker side of the game’s revolutionary day-and-night-cycle mechanic. The video gives a glimpse into different strategies that players will adopt depending on the time of day in order to survive.
Slow, apathetic, and easily visible, the infected are not much of a threat in daylight. A skilled courier, sure of their parkour skills and smart enough not to engage in combat with too many enemies, can effortlessly avoid larger groups of the infected or escape beyond their reach. But this relatively safe state of affairs is turned upside down as the sun sets!
At night, it is you who is at a disadvantage. Without daylight, the senses of the infected become more acute while their thirst for human flesh skyrockets. They run, jump, and climb, so there is really no place where you are safe anymore. They grow in strength, which means fighting them is not even an option. Those of them who were too afraid of light to come out during the day now swarm the city hunting for you. Still, there is something even worse lurking in the shadows…
What tactics will you use to survive the night? Will you put your trust in your agility and try to outrun the infected despite the odds? Or use the lack of light to your advantage and sneak past them? Remember, your decision determines if you will see the sunrise today!
Dying Light is a first-person action survival horror game set in a vast and dangerous open world, where players scavenge for supplies during the day as to be best prepared to survive the night. The game will launch for Xbox One, PS4, Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in 2014.
Techland is a leading Polish developer, publisher and distributor of PC and console games founded in 1991. Its proprietary Chrome Engine 5 technology is among the world’s most advanced game engines, with full PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation®3 system compatibility while its latest Chrome Engine 6 has full support for PC and the next generation consoles, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 . With a staff of over 260 specialists in three development offices in Wroclaw and Warsaw, Poland, and Vancouver, Canada, Techland is committed to delivering top-quality titles such as the Dead Island and Call of Juarez series for worldwide markets. Currently, the company is working on several high-profile titles including Hellraid and Dying Light, the latter being developed for current and next-gen consoles and PCs.
Rise of Mythos, Exclusive Mythos Cards! Available for a Limited Time Only
SANTA CLARA, CA (December 17th, 2013) – GameFuse, a leading publisher of free-to-play online games, is pleased to announce that Rise of Mythos, the #1 Strategy/RPG card game, is celebrating the Holidays with exciting new Mythos Cards and events available only at RiseofMythos.com!
Get your Holidays started right with the exclusive, mythological Medusa, Pan, Harpy, and Minotaur cards! These Mythos cards will only be available from December 23rd through December 27th, and only at RiseofMythos.com, so get them before they fade back into myth!
Each mythical character carries unique omnipotent abilities and skills that can help bring down your foes. Medusa’s toxic arrow and sniper skill allow her to strike with deadly force. Beware of her good looks too, lest you be turned to stone! God of the Wild, Pan, plays the role of the supporter, providing a faster countdown on the battlefield while the Harpy, the winged embodiment of evil, boasts the ability to fly over the heads of the enemies and slow down their movements. The Minotaur, with his mega hammer and counterattack ability, is a one man-beast wrecking crew! That’s no bull!
The festivities don’t end there! Rise of Mythos will also be holding a “12 Days of Mythos” login event that allows players to grab free in-game goodies, like rare gems, Gold, XP scrolls, and an Aphrodite card. The login event will run from December 25th to January 5th. Kick off the New Year in an Epic way!
Visit Rise of Mythos for more details on the events and new Mythos Cards.
Youtube Mythos Card New Trailer: http://y2u.be/LsutPiQtpGw
Follow Rise of Mythos on Facebook for exclusive giveaways: https://www.facebook.com/RiseOfMythos About GameFuse.com
Established in October 2012 and operated by ChangYou.com (US) Inc., GameFuse is a new online gaming destination offering free-to-play online games to both mid and hardcore level gamers. Quickly solidifying itself as one of the top online gaming destinations, GameFuse allows players to connect in a fun, competitive, and immersive environment specifically made with the players in mind. GameFuse has a number of new and popular browser titles for players to choose from, and will continue to expand its portfolio with a wide variety of free-to-play games in the future.
About ChangYou.com (US)
ChangYou.com (US) is a publishing subsidiary of ChangYou.com, Ltd. (NASDAQ: CYOU) located in Santa Clara, California. Originally started as the MMORPG business unit of Sohu.com in 2003, ChangYou.com became a separate, stand-alone company in December 2007. As a leading publisher of free-to-play massively multiplayer online games in North America, ChangYou.com (US) has published a variety of multiplayer online games, including Dragon Oath and Sword Girls. More information about the company can be found at us.changyou.com.
King Unveils First Ever Parallel World of Play for Candy Crush Saga
The world’s most-popular social game invites players to enter the magical new ‘Dreamworld’
LONDON & NEW YORK: 17 DECEMBER 2013: King, the world’s leading casual games company, today announced the first ever expansion of their global hit game Candy Crush Saga. Titled ‘Dreamworld’ and available from today across Facebook and mobile platforms (iOS and Android), this new game mode will transport players to a parallel world of dream-inspired levels, introducing a magical twist to the traditional Candy Crush Saga game.
This enchanting new ‘Dreamworld’ mode is unlocked for existing and new Candy Crush Saga players after they’ve completed Level 50 on the Saga map. Once unlocked, a new dream-like Saga map becomes available where players can experience the earlier levels of the game again but in a challenging new way.
In ‘Dreamworld’ a magical new character, Odus the Owl, introduces an additional layer of gameplay. It’s all about equilibrium – keep Odus the Owl perched on his half-moon by crushing the correct coloured candies which consequently keeps him steady and stable.
In addition, players can look forward to new mesmerising special effects including the ‘Moon Struck’ reward which introduces a new game state where some coloured candies are removed from the board, making it easier to complete the level.
“We’re thrilled to offer new and existing Candy Crush Saga players an exciting new way of playing the game” says Tommy Palm, Games Guru at King. “We hope that the new ‘Dreamworld’ mode will prove a fun twist for newcomers to the game and a tantalising challenge for our loyal fanbase. As with all our games, we endeavour to offer our valued players a regular flow of exciting new content – we hope that they will love the new map, as much as we’ve enjoyed developing it.”
With 65 ‘Dreamworld’ levels available at launch, player progression on mobile devices will seamlessly synchronise with Facebook so they can unlock new levels and access leaderboards wherever and whenever they like, without losing their progress in the game.
The ‘Dreamworld’ levels are available now on Facebook, Android and iOS devices.
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About King:
King is the world’s leading casual games company, with more than 1 billion gameplays per day globally. King offers more than 150 exclusive games in 14 languages through mobile, Facebook and the website www.king.com. The company has offices in Barcelona, Bucharest, London, Malta, Malmo, San Francisco and Stockholm. For more information, visit http://about.king.com.
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.
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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.
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.