After the huge surge in popularity surrounding the A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun series with the recent airing of Railgun season 2 it seems that another addition to the franchise is in the works. A Certain Scientific Accelerator looks to begin serialization in Dengeki Daioh starting in December as a new story within the Raildex universe. Little has been announced about the story, but it appears to follow the story of Accelerator presumably inbetween arcs, unless it is a spinoff of course.
Accelerator first appeared in A Certain Magical Index as the second scientific antagonist. Since his initial appearance in Index he has made frequent appearances in both franchises and is one of the few consistent characters bridging the two series despite being set in the same universe.
Further information on this series will hopefully come to attention when/if it is officially announced on the 27th. It will be confirmed in our Manga News section if this leak is legitimate.
Welcome back for this week’s iOS Game Suggestions. If you missed last week’s, or are new to the suggestions, click on the link below and check out what cool games you should be picking up for your iOS device along with the introduction on how the suggestions work. (suggestions 1 has how it all works)
A great week on iTunes! As always, it started slow and but ended with a bang! There are many must-buy games this week in all departments, FREE, 99c and over 99c. This week I’ve suggested a total of 15 great quality titles. Make sure you check them all especially… Cloud Spin, Asphalt 8, Little Galaxy, The Impossible Line, Jelly Splash, Smash Bandits just to name a few.
We also have gameplay video for Asphalt 8, Cloud Spin, Little Galaxy, Jelly Splash and Smash Bandits at the bottom of the article.
Break down below :
12 – FREE Games
2 – $0.99c Games
1 – Over $0.99c Games
As always for this week’s suggestions are all new titles that you should take a look at and consider spending your hard earned iTunes cash / time on. Well the Free games just below certainly should all be given a shot as they won’t cost you anything!
For The Cheapskates – FREE GAMES
MASTERABBOTT’S FREE GAME PICK OF THE WEEK!
Smash Bandits – Price : FREE – Publisher – Hutch Games (From the makers of Smash Cops – crash through America in the craziest road race to hit the App Store. Power up to faster cars, get the edge with getaway gadgets and outrun the cops as you speed to the state line. Well, almost. Whichever route you take through an ever-changing world of dirt tracks and dusty logging towns you can crash and bash your way through smashable scenery in the most intense display of destruction you have ever seen. ) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
CHECK GAME PLAY FOR SMASH BANDITS BELOW
Jelly Splash – Price : FREE – Publisher – Wooga (Connect colorful lines of Jelly to solve over 100 levels in this compelling puzzle adventure. Why don’t you jump in and make a big splash in Jelly Land? Jelly Splash is completely free to play but some in-game items such as extra moves or lives will require payment or Facebook connection. You can turn off the payment feature by disabling in-app purchases in your device’s settings.) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
CHECK GAME PLAY FOR JELLY SPLASH BELOW
Sheep Happens – Price : FREE – Publisher – Kongregate (The sheepocalypse is coming! Sheep Happens is a chaotic endless runner where you must maneuver around other runners, obstacles, and sheep falling from the sky as you chase down the swindling Hermes. Collect coins to spend in the shop and upgrade your gear or buy fashionable and powerful hats. Challenge friends to endure the chaos the longest and post the best run.) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Fluid Soccer Verus – Price : FREE – Publisher – Gray Cooper Media (Challenge your friends in a head-to-head game of tactics, on-pitch action and outrageous goal scoring rivalry. This is soccer with much more than a flick! – with a few easy swipes you can run, dribble, pass and score. ) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
The Impossible Line – Price : FREE – Publisher –Chillingo (Can you beat the chalkboard challenge? Drawing a line with your finger is about as simple as it gets, but when you include disappearing obstacles, moving objects and keys to collect you get one seriously tricky puzzle game. Take on the Impossible Line and put your skills to the test. Use your finger to draw a line on the chalkboard and reach the goal while avoiding the obstacles that vanish as soon as you touch the screen.) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
HIDE by Watch_Dogs – Price : FREE – Publisher –Ubisoft (With H_IDE by Watch_Dogs, disappear from the network and keep your personal communications off the radar! ) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Runbot – Price : FREE – Publisher –Marvelous Games (A stunning 3-D infinite runner where you’re RunBot, an advanced robotic weapon system. You’ve rejected your protocol as a killing machine and now you’ve made a brave dash for freedom – you won’t let laser towers, drone attacks, or obstacles slow you down! As RunBot, you’ll have to run, race, flip and fly around a never-ending and always changing series of obstacles. Whether it’s evading energy panels to leaping land mines, escaping to freedom is never easy.) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Real Football 2013 – Price : FREE – Publisher –Gameloft (The newest edition of the hit App Store football simulation is back to score another win for the franchise with a whole new set of moves. Take part in the most immersive football simulation and show that you are the best on the pitch. Reinforce your team by developing your club’s facilities, hiring new staff members, dealing with sponsors and more. Join football legends like our cover athlete, Falcao, on the pitch. YOU ARE FOOTBALL, YOU ARE REAL FOOTBALL!) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
War On Words 2 – Price : FREE – Publisher – Everplay(Get ready for the ultimate word battle! An exciting blend of turn-based strategy and crossword game, War of Words 2 pits you against up to 3 other players for an all-out word destruction brawl!) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Cover Orange 2 – Price : FREE – Publisher –FDG Entertainment (YOUR FAVORITE ORANGES ARE BACK! Revisit Cover Orange in this completely new and juicy sequel made by the original team. The acid rain cloud is after your oranges again! ) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Doodle Fill – Price : FREE – Publisher – DreaminGames (Four colors, hours of fun! The most brain twisting puzzle game! Color the shapes without letting the same color sharing an edge. Sounds easy, right? It is! …at first. Then comes the challenge part, and the even more challenge one when the clock is ticking! Doodle Fill is a highly addictive puzzle game that will delight and amaze you all day long. Don’t get too ahead of yourself though. The later levels will take your brain to places it has never been to. You will never look at simple shapes and colors the same way! So what are you waiting for? Start doodling! ) on iPhone & iPad. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Tiny Tycoons – Price : FREE – Publisher – The Tap Lab (Rule the REAL WORLD! Tiny Tycoons is the first location-based tycoon game on the App Store. Build your fortune, travel the globe and claim your favorite real-world places before someone else does!) on iPhone & iPad. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
For The Bargain Hunters – 99c Games
MASTERABBOTT’S 99c GAME PICK OF THE WEEK!
Asphalt 8 – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Gameloft (The best iOS arcade racing game series reaches a new turning point! Perform dynamic, high-speed aerial stunts in an intense driving experience powered by a brand-new physics engine! ) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Little Galaxy – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Bitmap Galaxy (Little Galaxy is a game inspired by a real story of a young scientist, who reached out for his dream to find a new home. We have met this boy and were touched by his story as he lost everyone and everything, we are trying to help him to build functional prototype of jumping space boots so he can start his journey.) runs on iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
Cloud Spin – Price : $1.99 – Publisher – Skytrain Studios (Take to the skies for an out of this world fantasy flying adventure! Go for the gold in addicting Tournament mode, or explore at your leisure in Free Flight mode! You play as Lucky, a fearless adrenaline-fueled rabbit trying to etch his name in the pillars of history as the greatest competitor to ever live!) runs on iPad. BUY NOW
There you have it folks these games should keep you busy for quite some time well until next week at least. I’ll be back next week for another dose of iOS goodness, in the meantime if you would also like to suggest your own suggestions, please feel free to share them in the comments section below or in the iOS forum section on the site here.
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The best of the best goes to 75% off The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings on Steam. It is a fantastic RPG that now contains a fantastic set of mod tools. For those who haven’t played The Witcher, the first game is also 75% off. For those playing The Witcher 2 for the first time, many players highly recommend using Flash’s Combat Rebalance 2 mod right off the bat.
The 20% coupon lives in a new form this week. Enter GMG20-KCDKK-H4TPB at the checkout for an extra 20% off on most GMG titles. GMG is doing something different this weekend with the best deals running for short bursts between 24-72 hours long.
Get Games is running a Ubisoft themed Get Loaded weekend. Any two of the games on the list can be purchased for $10.00. Unfortunately, North American buyers are not eligible for this deal who will have to settle for Civilization games on sale for up to 75% off.
As we’ve seen before with Colette, Namco Bandai are releasing trailers featuring specific characters from Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. The latest character to be highlighted happens to be the female ninja who was sent to assassinate Colette only to have a change of heart and assist the group in their journey.
I’m talking of course about Sheena Fujibayashi. You can check out the video below to see her in action and keep an eye out for Tales of Symphonia Chronicles when it is released in the West sometime in 2014 exclusively for the PlayStation 3.
As Tecmo Koei announced yesterday, Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate will feature 231 costumes on disc, a major upgrade from the game’s original 114 costumes. Today the Japanese branch of the company released a new trailer showing off some of the new costumes that will be in the game, which appear to be race queen outfits for the female members of the roster.
The video can be seen below while the game itself, which features not only new costumes but also more playable characters, more gameplay modes and plenty of other adjustments, will hit store shelves in the West sometime in September for the PS3 and 360.
For many of you, the name Steve Ballmer may not ring a bell. However he is the decade long CEO of Microsoft and it appears that he will now be on his way out. In a message sent to his employees Ballmer said that “There is never a perfect time for this type of transition, but now is the right time.”
Once a replacement is found, Ballmer will be leaving Microsoft. As for who will be making the decision to choose Ballmer’s replacement, a committee including Bill Gates and many others have been organized to see who will take his place. In a rather interesting sign of the times, perhaps thanks to the Xbox One’s initial issues, Microsoft’s stock actually rose a few percent as this news was revealed.
Whenever fans of a game or show like a character enough, they’ll occasionally create an outfit to cosplay as that character. However to craft your very own real-life suit of armor takes things to a whole new level. In an effort to promote Dark Souls II, Namco Bandai commissioned a professional blacksmith to create a real suit of armor based off of the armor that the warrior has been wearing in all of Dark Souls II‘s promo material so far.
The full seven minute video can be seen below. As for the game itself, it is set to be released on the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 in March 2014.
Library Wars: Love & War Volume 3 Author:Kiiro Yumi Illustrator: Kiiro Yumi Publisher:Viz Media/Madman Release Date:March 10, 2013 Price: $14.95 – Available Here
Overview Library Wars has had some teething issues with volume 1 and volume 2, but with this third volume things are beginning to click for the oddball shojo manga. The series has always been somewhat rocky in terms of balancing its high concept with its romance elements, but with this volume the balance is just right. The stakes are higher than ever and Library Wars is finally at long last kicking things into gear.
Story One thing that has hampered the last two volumes of Library Wars was the incredibly low stakes, even when we got our first taste of the titular war there was never a sense of danger or excitement. All that changes with volume three, which is finally starting to reach its potential.
Iku and Dojo’s burgeoning relationship is thrown through the ringer once more with neither being able to see the other’s perspective. The romance aspect of the first volume is revisited with Dojo taking center-stage in this volume and the story is all the better for it. Of all of Iku’s potential princes, Dojo is the one that she undoubtedly connects best with. He is easily the deepest male character in the series and is one that is still shrouded in a great deal of mystery.
The war over censorship takes a turn for the worse in this volume, with the violence being kicked up a notch, showing the murderous extent that the enemy will go to in order to censor these books and by extension the world. There is real stakes here and that is something the series has sorely needed. We have needed to feel for these characters and with this volume we are finally starting to have a reason to.
Kiiro Yumi is finally beginning to grasp the story she is trying to tell and this volume shows that things are finally beginning to fall into place now. With the wild cliffhanger this volume concludes with, the series is finally paying off for all its wheel-spinning in the first two volumes. Library Wars has just suddenly got a lot more intriguing and thank god for that.
Artwork With this volume Yumi has noticably improved with her frame-work and action sequences. In the past the action and panelling of Library Wars came off as resoundingly amateurish, however that is no longer the case as they have improved wonderfully here. There is a sense of movement to the art that the series just hasn’t had up until this point. Not only that but the detail in the art has remained consistent which is definitely a good thing. Yumi tries a few new techniques in this volume, breaking out of the comfort zone the series has been in and it is to great effect. Undoubtedly the art of Library Wars has increased in quality with volume 3.
Extra Content Much like the previous two volumes, Library Wars volume 3 features an impressive amount of bonus content throughout. Included are small comedy 4koma between some chapters, author comments placed throughout and even two full fledged bonus filler chapters. This is more than the average manga offers and it does well to add more bang to your buck for Library Wars.
Overall Library Wars takes a turn for the better with its third volume and it is a turn that has been a long time coming. The potential that the series has shown is finally close to being reached. With the cliffhanger this volumes leaves us on, volume 4 is pegged to be an interesting one to say the very least.
While the series has been a mixed bag for the early goings of its run, it is now balancing out quite nicely and finding its footing at long last. Library Wars volume 3 appears to be a turning point for the series. It is an oddball shojo series without a doubt, but it can be a lot of fun because of that. Yumi has finally found her confidence as a mangaka and this volume hints at bigger and better things to come.
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If you happen to own a copy of Dragon’s Crown, our review of which can be found here, then you may have noticed that both versions of the game now have a new patch waiting to be downloaded. Rather than simply fix bugs and tweak some of Dragon’s Crown‘s gameplay, Atlus USA has also added a few new features to the game. The full list of changes can be found below:
[Bug Fixes]
Stabilized network connectivity during online gameplay.
[New Features]
Hidden items can now be uncovered by simply moving the finger cursor over their location.
The item hotkeys can now also be accessed by holding the L1 Button (PS3)/L Button (PSVita).
Dagger and Bomb items can now be thrown diagonally by pressing Up on the Left Stick + Triangle button.
An option to fix all items at once in your bags has been added to Morgan’s item shop.
In the Options Menu, you can now select the area you wish to be matched in for online play.
[Feature modifications]
Arrow drops will increase according to how many Elf characters are in the party.
The visibility of inventory Runes while the player is near the bottom of the screen has been improved.
Other tuning and minor improvements to various gameplay elements were made.
Also to help out those who are trying to reach the pinnacle of power, the company has also released suggested skills for each class:
