Funimation will be releasing the anime Oni-Ai to retailers in North America this December, but instead of having an English dub the series will only be available with subtitles.
The company made this announcement last Wednesday; stating that the decision for a sub only release of Oni-Ai will give them an indication on whether to venture into more English subtitle releases in the future.
“It will inform us as to whether it is a viable option for titles in the future that would otherwise not get released at all. In other words, we’re looking into ADDING more releases, which is a good thing!”
Funimation informed their fans that they will still be releasing dubbed anime, and encourage them to support their favourite shows through the use of legal streaming sites.
Oni-Ai will be available as a DVD/Blu-ray combo and will include all 12 episodes plus all 6 OVAs. Let us know what you think about this release by leaving a comment down below.
With Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII still a ways away, Square Enix have revealed an extended version of the previously shown TGS trailer to showcase the conclusion of the XIII trilogy. The video showcases Lightning as she accepts the new mantle of “The Saviour” destined to rescue souls from the encroaching chaos and destruction. We once again see Caius Ballad, tired of life and longing for his own end. Heavy stuff. Also shown is a much darker Snow Villiers, threatening to face Lightning herself if she tries to stop him.
It has also been revealed that, in addition to her Cloud Strife attire, Lightning may choose to done the iconic pink ribbon and dress as Aerith Gainsborough. The outfit comes complete with flower basket, staff and, possibly, the ultimate white magic: Holy. The reveal trailer also shows an all too familiar scene, though in what context is unclear.
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is set to hit PS3 and Xbox 360 in Japan on November 21st, North America on February 11th, Australia on February 13th and Europe on February 14th. Waiting for the end to come…
Orborun Developer:Tiny Lab Productions Publisher:Bulkypix Platforms: iOS (iPod Touch/iPod/iPad) – Reviewed on iPad Release Date: 19th September 2013 Price: $1.99 – Available Here
Overview Robots are cool, everybody likes robots. Some have guns, some can fly, others can even transform…Orbot can do that last one. Kind of. Welcome to Orborun, to a world wherein one plucky little robot races through courses, unleashing the true potential of being a ball.
He’s really on a roll
Gameplay Roll. It’s just that simple. Tap into Orbot’s natural abilities as a spherical object and spin onwards through a number of courses. The further you progress, the more complicated the courses become. The game provides you with two control schemes to handle Orbot: tilt or touch. Allowing you to play with as much physical movement as you want, some or none.
The goal of the game is to receive the highest possible score, represented by a star based ranking system. Ranging from one star to three star rankings, collecting enough will unlock extra levels to complete. In order to build up said score, a number of coins are scattered across the courses. Also spread amidst these are special coins which gain you a higher point score. In the way of obstacles, the game gives us glass. Literal glass panes that are placed lovingly along the course. Blue coloured glass grants you points, whilst red coloured glass slows you down, damaging your finishing time.
Time to make it
Completing levels also nets you Zetium. This wonderous element allows you to purchase levels not yet unlocked. However, there is one more thing that Zetium can buy, that most longed for object: Orbots. Along with the default, the game includes two additional robot models: Jumpy Orbot and Lightning Orbot. These two forms have their own unique skills, namely jumping and speed respectively. Additionally, with the coins that you collect along the way, you can customise your own little Orbot. Along with basic white, the game provides eight different skins to spruce up Orbot.
Stay on target
Visuals and Audio The game has a fairly simple visual style. It presents a clean atmosphere, through the use of colours such as white and light blue. This notion is continued through the visuals of the environment…or lack of environment. Each track is set hovering in the centre of a very spacious cube shaped room, detailed with a simple grid pattern. The sparsity of the surroundings draws attention to the key elements of the game, namely collectables and Orbot itself, rolling ever onwards…until the end of the course. Occasionally, Orbot will mix it up a little and run for a time, showing just how much easier it is for a ball shaped robot to roll.
The soundtrack possesses a chill, techno kind of vibe. The fairly subtle sounds aren’t intrusive to the game, nor do they draw your attention from the visuals. It is, quite simply, background music. The tempo of the music doesn’t create an air of speed as much as one of casual progression. The game also a few sound effects, letting you hear a satisfying ping when you pick up a collectible, and a terrible shatter if Orbot should crash.
The end is near
Overall Orborun is a fun venture into the run and roll style. The game itself isn’t particularly stressful, being more about skill and collection than raw speed. Collect coins, gather Zetium, buy more Orbots and do the whole thing again. Though the courses themselves are fairly short, the game makes up for it in sheer numbers. Haste, the first world, has thirty levels by itself, along with six bonus levels for you to test your mettle in. All in all, Orborun is a fun game that you can pick up and play whenever you feel like rolling around.
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Prepare to head down the rabbit hole, behind the looking glass and into the magical world that is Wonderland, as Disney Interactive have launched their latest game; Alice in Wonderland: A New Champion. The game draws heavy inspiration from the recent film and tasks players with helping Alice to defeat the Red Queen in a point and click adventure-style game.
The game will have a familiar cast of characters like Alice, the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat, all of whom appear in their 2010 film iterations. The game also contains some breathtaking locations like the Mad Tea Party and the White Queen’s Castle.
So get ready to solve riddles and help Wonderland survive and flourish in this exciting fame, which is available now on iOScompletely free (and coming soon to Android). You can check out the game’s trailer below, and if you need more Alice in Wonderland in your life, then check out the Wonderland Maze Toy Box that has been put out for Disney Infinity. Don’t forget to stay tuned to Capsule Computers for all the Alice in Wonderland news as it becomes available.
Since Disney Infinity’s Toy Box Submission Contest was a resounding success, the folks over at Disney have decided to do it again. This time, players are tasked with designing the best (and most extreme) sporting arena in the Disney Infinity Extreme Sports Challenge. So get your creative caps on players, and start designing the most radical (do people still say radical?) sporting arena you possibly can!
To help get the creative juices flowing, Disney have also released another five free Toy Boxes for players to download and try out. This time the Toy Boxes are;
Tron Highway – Race a Light Runner, battle enemies, navigate mazes and find hidden paths to get to the end of the broken highway.
Sugar Mania– Take King Candy’s Royal Racer for a sweet spin on a Sugar Rush-inspired racetrack.
Monster Rally – Pull off a series of tricks in a side-scrolling stunt show spectacular.
Cosmic Platformer – Compete with friends on an obstacle course that’s out of this world.
It’s a Trap!– Pay close attention to get through these puzzling rooms. Beware of traps and double jumping!
As of now, this brings the total number of DLC maps up to 25! What a huge number, and there are many more to come down the line. You can check out the other four previously released map packs here; Map Pack 1, Map Pack 2, Map Pack 3, Map Pack 4.
So will you be entering the Toy Box Challenge this time round? Let us know in the comments below, and if you haven’t done so already, check out our review of Disney infinityhere. As always, remember to stay tuned to Capsule Computers for all the Disney Infinity news as it becomes available.
A scant 60 days since Ubisoft’s Spartacus Legends has launched on consoles, and since then has become the quickest growing free to play game on consoles. However, the developers are not done, as Tournaments have now been announced as an imminent add-on for the game.
When they launch by the end of Spring, the Tournament Series will pit gladiators against one another to determine the 1 true Champion of Capua. Players who participate in the tournament will be given special in game rewards such as; gold, limited edition equipment and exclusive gladiator titles, including “Champion of Capua.
Spartacus Legends has become the fastest growing free to play game in console history, and to showcase just how impressive that is, the guys over at Ubisoft have put together a little infographic to show you the levels of violence that a game can achieve in just two short months. Check out the infographic below and remember that for all the Spartacus Legends news as it becomes available, be sure to stay tuned to Capsule Computers.
Here we are again for another round of CC Comic Zone, the place where we come to talk about all things Comic, Manga, Graphic Novel and anything within Illustrated Media. In this CC Comic Zone I want to talk about the Evil Counterparts of our favourite heroes and main characters. I’ll explain why I like the idea of Evil Counterparts within story-lines and why I feel like they should be in every, if not most, Comics, Mangas and Graphic Novels. Now without further delay, let us begin!
Every good protagonist has a fairly similar antagonist to “almost” best them in every way, I say “almost” because it’s not often that we’ll see these types of characters win against the heroes. This is an extremely old trope that you’ll notice within a great deal of western comics as a separate character that the protagonist will have to fight against, for example; Superman and Bizarro. That is the most purest form of this trope in my opinion. We see it so much yet I don’t believe audiences have gotten sick of it because writers seem to find different ways of having them in their stories without it getting to cliché or just down right annoying. I, for one, happen to like the idea of an Evil Counterpart, they’re always a lot cooler than any protagonist because essentially they’re the same but with more freedom because they’re evil, it also makes for some really cinematic fight scenes which is always a plus!
– Nega-Scott is defeated by Scott. or is he? –
Spiderman has Venom who is basically a bigger, better, more savage version of Spiderman. Now Venom never really “gets” Spidey but he does come close a great deal of the time and that’s because they’re so similar and it stands out more in this example than a lot of others. Because the symbiote we know as Venom was originally attached to Peter Parker, his Spider Senses don’t see Venom as a threat, Venom is just seen as another part of Spiderman so it makes it so much easier for the big guy to sneak up and “attempt” to take the web-slinger down. That’s a very physical example of an evil counterpart. Graphic Novels like Sharknife also use this kind of thing. Sharknife’s, basically, one and only big enemy is OrcaSword. One is red, one is black. One uses a knife, one uses a sword. It’s really fun to see because they’re equally matched which eliminates the whole “protagonist always wins” factor.
– Spiderman VS Venom –
Yes, Western comic writers do use this a lot but that’s not to say that our friends in the East don’t do the same! A lot of Manga have these characters, so many that I probably couldn’t even recall them now, I probably don’t even know half of them. The difference, I’ve noticed, is that Manga stories seem to have Evil Counterparts that are not actually seperate characters from that of the protagonist, instead they’re like “shadow beings” or “dark versions” of the characters we love. Ichigo from Bleach is a huge example of this with his Hollow form both being part of him and part of his sword. Naruto has one too when he’s learning to use his Tailed-Beast powers correctly. These types of characters only pop up now and again and they’re used as more of a “learning” process for particular characters. It’s like the physical representation of “overcoming your demons”.
– Ichigo goes up against himself, Hollow Ichigo –
Sometimes it’s switched around, for example; jackie Estacado (from The Darkness) is the user of The Darkness which, for all intents and purposes, is an evil power, well his enemies are the Angelus. The name makes them sound real nice and peaceful and fighters for justice and all that is good but, in The Darkness, they’re the evil ones and our protagonist is Jackie who uses The Darkness. It’s a nice little “switcheroo” and it takes audiences by, not so much surprise, but interest. There are different types of Evil Counterparts though, there’s the physical opposites, the inner evil versions of a character, there are characters who are similar enough to be considered counterparts there are so many I could talk about. Hit up our comments section below this article and let me know about your favourite characters and their Evil Counterparts. I could really go on for days and days but I wont, instead I’m going to list a few of my favourite protagonists and their Evil Counterparts:
– Wolverine and Sabretooth (Marvel)
– The Hulk has The Red Hulk (Marvel)
– Scott Pilgrim has Nega-Scott as well as Gideon Graves (Scott Pilgrim)
– Goku has Vegeta and, in The Tree of Might, Turles (DBZ)
Log Horizon is a new Anime series which will be starting it’s run during the next Anime Season which will be starting in October. A video was just released which shows us a 2-minute preview of the story, characters and world that Log Horizon is based in. We’re shows the main character Shiroe and his two companions, one which is his old friend Naotsugu and the other is a lady assassin named Akatsuki. The story revolves around a computer game where 30,000 Japanese gamers have been trapped and must survive in this fantasy, MMORPG world. Shiroe and his friends are now a part of this world and, like all the other players, they must survive until they can find a way out of it. Not only has there been a video release but there has also been some awesome looking character design images released which you can see below in the gallery. To see the video itself just head down to our Featured Video section and it’ll be there waiting.
A new Promotional Video was just released for the upcoming Attack On Titan3DS Game, Last Wings Of Humanity. The video shows the more action-packed game sequences as well as some actual gameplay footage and it seems to be slowly looking better and better with ever piece of information and footage that gets released. The gameplay will revolve strongly around the use of the 3D Manuever Gear, much like in the Anime series and the Manga series. It has already been confirmed that Eren, Armin and Mikasa will all be playable characters but it has also been teased that Levi and other characters MAY be available for you to play as. It is yet to be confirmed though. The game is set for release on the 5th of December and you can see the Promo Video from the game just below:
Another small video promo/teaser that has begun streaming is one for the Attack On Titan OVA that is set for release on the 9th of December. The OVA’s story follows a soldier named Ilse. If the OVA is anything like the Manga side story it is based off of, it should follow the a Scouting Legion expedition wherein which every single member of the team was killed except for Ilse herself who comes into contact with another Titan, the thing about this contact is that she has no horse and no working 3D Manuever Gear. This story is surely going to be a heart-wrenching one. You can see THAT Video Promo in our Featured Video Section Just below.
Over the weekend there was the leak of two new Pokemon for the upcoming Pokemon X and Y games. The leaks were of the evolutions of the two fossils that feature in this next generation. Now we here at Capsule Computers wanted to make sure that these leaks were 100% legit before reporting on them because often enough leaked images or information aren’t that reliable, well it just so happens that these leaks were confirmed to be entirely true by Game Freak and, as you can see above, we’ve even been given some fantastic-looking Official Images of the evolutions. Now without further delay I’m going to introduce you to the newest members of the Pokemon X and Y roster.
First up is Aurorus the Tundra Pokemon and the evolution of Amaura. This Rock/Ice type Pokemon has the Ability Refrigerate (the same as it’s pre-evolution) and it’s confirmed moves are Aurora Beam and Freeze Dry which is said to be super effective against water-type Pokemon. “Aurorus can blast freezing cold air to damage enemies“. Next is the Pokemon Tyrantrum the Despot Pokemon and the evolution of Tyrunt. This Rock/Dragon Pokemon has the Ability Strong Jaw (the same as it’s pre-evolution) and it’s confirmed moves are Crunch, Dragon Tail and Head Smash. “Tyrantrum’s greatest weapon is its gargantuan jaws, which can shred thick metal plates as if they were paper“.
Both these Pokemon would make great additions to any team. Below are a few in-game screenshots of the two in action, they look fantastic and I can’t wait to see them first-hand once the game is released. Remember the game is set for release on the 12th of October, for the 3DS, which is only a few weeks away so if you havn’t pre-ordered your copy I suggest you head to your local game store now!
