Yesterday Bethesda announced the release date for Dishonored‘s newest DLC, The Brigmore Witches. Continuing on from where The Knife of Dunwall left off, this newest DLC brings a close to Daud’s story. Your power, weapon and item upgrades, Chaos level and player actions from The Knife of Dunwall carry over into The Brigmore Witches through your save file.
In the up-coming DLC, after being betrayed by your lieutenant, you rely on feuding gang factions (the Dead Eels and the Hatters) to negotiate your way through the previously unseen districts of Dunwall as you find Delilah’s, the head of the Brigmore Witch coven, stronghold. Equipped with newly added whale oil-powered stun mines and Chokedust, players set out through Draper’s Ward, exploring it’s streets, hazardous sewers and rivaling gangs’ home bases. Brigmore Witches allows the player to revisit Coldridge Prison, in which you must infiltrate to free the imprisoned leader of the Dead Eels.
As you quest to thwart Delilah’s plans, players are able to approach each mission in their own style. Daud’s redemption, or turn towards darkness, depends on the player’s skills and the decisions made throughout the game. Only you can determine Daud’s final fate.
Dishonored‘s The Brigmore Witches will be available for download from August 13th. For PS3 and Steam, it will cost $9.99 and for Xbox it’ll cost 800 Microsoft Points.
Join Capsule Computers editor Joe Morgan as he recaps all of the video game and anime reviews for the week of July 7 – July 13, 2013. This feature is intended as a way to give you, our readers, a quick recap of every game we’ve reviewed on the site each week. The goal is to let you get the review information you want in five minutes or less.
Killer is Dead, the upcoming action game from Suda 51 and Grasshopper Manufacture, has gotten a new trailer. The trailer, featuring music from Jessie and The Bonez, is being released simply as “Trailer #6.”
The video, which clocks in around 4:44, is really less of a proper trailer and more of a music video with some gameplay footage spliced in. While that may not quite suit your tastes, any fan of Suda 51 will quickly see that it fits his typical stylings quite well.
The gameplay shown off in the video showcases some of the stylized combat gameplay, as well as showing off some of the characters in the game.
You can check out the video in the player below this article. Also be sure to check out their age-gated official website here. Keep your channels tuned right here for the upcoming game being published by XSEED and Deep Silver.
A new trailer was released today by Sega showing off some brand new wisp powers that Sonic can utilise in the upcoming Wii U game Sonic Lost World. The trailer focuses on the color powers that Sonic obtains when he comes into contact with a Wisp, a returning mechanic from the Wii game Sonic Colors. We also get a brief look at The Deadly Six and hear them speak, so it’s good to know they won’t be mindlessly groaning, roaring and mumbling the whole time.
The first new power shown was eagle, which allows Sonic to take the skies and dash in short bursts to collect rings suspended in the sky. The asteroid wisp is probably the strangest wisp shown yet, and turns Sonic into some sort of small floating planet with a ring of small asteroid chunks around him that presumably acts as a shield. The final new power shown was rhythm. This power turns Sonic into a pink music note that allows him to traverse pits by bouncing across these small echoing balls that send out vibrations.
We also see some returning powers, some which we were returning such as the laser power and some we didn’t know would be returning such as drill and rocket.
Sonic Lost World will be releasing for both Wii U and 3DS on the newly announced date of October 22nd. Both versions are said to be fairly different from one another in terms of level design and gameplay. Check out the trailer and screens below and leave a comment letting us know your opinion on the new Wisp powers.
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is still a ways out and even though the last trailer was focused on the pirate life in terms of gameplay, Ubisoft just hasn’t gotten out of the pirate mindset yet with a new trailer today flaunting itself in the pirate swagger. Understandably, as piracy is set to be a big part of the newest in the Assassin’s Creed series.
This trailer does it really right though, featuring seas shanties, drinking, and ship to ship combat. Assassin’s Creed IV looks to be capturing the mood and setting just right, but to see just how well it will all fit together within the open world remains to be seen when the game releases.
Those wanting to watch the trailer for themselves can find it embedded below. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is currently set to release in North America on October 29, Australia on October 31st, and Europe November 1st for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, and PC, then sometime later for Xbox One and PlayStation4.
With the release of LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval’s Journey the only LEGO game on the horizon is LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, which apparently just isn’t enough for fans to look forward to so Warner Bros and TT Games have come out and announced the next LEGO game after that. The LEGO Movie Videogame will be based on the movie of the same(ish) name and will be releasing in 2014 alongside the movie.
Obviously there is still quite a bit of time before then, so to help ease the wait a set of The LEGO Movie Videogame screenshots have been released for fans to see just a bit of what to expect. With over 90 characters inspired by the movie and 15 levels to play through as Emmet from the movie, players can probably expect much of the same LEGO gameplay, but what new elements will be coming this time around haven’t been revealed just yet.
Those wanting to check out the screenshots can click on the images in the gallery below to see them full-sized. The LEGO Movie Videogame is set to be released on a whole slew of systems from consoles Xbox One, PlayStation4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii U; handhelds PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS; and PC.
Lost Marbles Developer: Binary Takeover Publisher: Binary Takeover Platform: Mac, Windows (Reviewed) Release Date: June 9th, 2013 Price: $9.99 – Available Here
Overview
Lost Marbles is a mash up containing Marble Madness’ gameplay mixed with The Lost Viking’s three character puzzle based action. Three marbles are featured in the game, each with a unique ability. The game smartly mixes multi-part puzzles with twitchy platforming mechanics.
Story
Lost Marbles does not have a story. Simply get all three marbles from point A to point B in the shortest time possible. After all, how much of a story do three marbles made out of paper, rubber, and steel need?
Gameplay
The goal in Lost Marbles is to use all three marbles to navigate an obstacle course in the shortest time possible. Each marble has a unique ability and is vulnerable to certain traps in the game. The paper marble is the most fragile marble, but can crumple itself into a smaller size. This ability allows the paper marble to access areas unavailable to other marbles at the cost of being vulnerable to all traps in the game. The rubber marble is capable of leaping short distances and floating on top of pools of water, allowing the rubber marble to travel to hard to reach places. The steel marble in the toughest and the heaviest of the trio. It is invulnerable to almost all the traps, but can be pushed off ledges with enough force. The steel marble can get bursts of speed to launch itself off ramps or barrel through any wooden obstacle in its way. Understandably, physics plays a huge role in Lost Marbles, and the physics engine performs as expected.
The puzzles in Lost Marbles starts out simply, first introducing each marble and its respective gameplay mechanics in a few short puzzles. Then, Lost Marbles begins to introduce new concepts. Once I was able to get a hang of switching between two marbles to solve puzzles consistently, Lost Marbles threw in the third marble and began ramping up the complexity of the puzzles. The puzzles are tests of logic, dexterity, and timing.
Most of the puzzles are at an excellent difficulty level. The higher levels of difficulty mostly rests in beating levels with times above par and the brutal Hardcore mode. The mode punishes players for dying, bouncing them back to the start of the previous level, ensuring no completed level was a fluke. There are a few levels that are extremely difficult, requiring near perfect timing to complete them. Thankfully, these levels are few and far between. Lost Marbles has a good level of replayability as it features an online leaderboard for the intensely competitive, the hardcore mode, extra skins to unlock, and of course, striving to beat par.
Lengthwise, Lost Marbles is a bit on the short side at thirty levels across three chapters. Binary Takeover has promised they are actively continuing development, as the game will receive new levels through free updates. I believe Lost Marbles would benefit greatly from some sort of mod tools that would allow users to create their own levels and share them with friends. It would greatly extend the length of the game and provide tinkerers with a whole set of new toys.
Lost Marbles is controlled with a mouse and keyboard or an Xbox 360 controller. I personally enjoyed the game the most using the mouse and keyboard as it allowed me the finest controls. I found it to be a little strange that by default, the mouse is not locked to the game while in windowed mode. This results in some frustration when the cursor hits the edges of the screen and the camera suddenly stalls during extreme movements.
Visuals
Lost Marbles is presented in 3d with a cartoony touch to the visual style. The colours are bright and obstacles are visually distinct. The camera controls are generous, which lends well to the gameplay. The game does a good job of automatically making parts of the environment translucent when it is in the way of the camera, a blessing for those doing speed runs. The game scales well from small windows of 640×480 up to the full screen resolution of 1920×1080. It runs well without any sudden FPS drops. The minimum system requirements are rather low, so a lower end computer should have no problem running the game.
Audio
Lost Marbles has a small, but well laid out soundtrack. Most casual puzzles games often rehash the same tune for each level in a chapter. Instead, Lost Marbles cycles the songs, ensuring each level plays a different tune. After playing several levels, you will encounter the same song again, but at least the player will have had a short change of pace in the meantime. Although the music is not Grammy Award material, it is pleasant to listen to for long periods of game time. The sound effects feel slightly exaggerated, suiting the cartoony visuals well.
Overall
Binary Takeover has created a wonderful puzzle game with a bright outlook for ongoing developer support. It mixes smart gameplay mechanics, interesting puzzles, with a pleasant audio/visual experience. Lost Marbles is a good purchase at $9.99 for puzzle platformer fans.
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Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures have today announced a new international superstar has joined the Transformers 4 cast. Chinese entertainer Han Geng, who is most well known from his time in South Korean boy-band Super Junior has joined the ranks of the popular franchise about robots in disguise
Geng will be joining Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, Sophia Myles, TJ Miller and Chinese actress Li Bingbing for the latest Transformers film, which is being produced under a partnership with Paramount Pictures, China Movie Channel and Jiaflix Enterprises (in a similar agreement that Marvel had with Iron Man 3). Transformers 4 is set to release globally on June 27th, 2014.
Han Geng is an icon in China, and has appeared through a plethora of media; from music to television and even film, and has become one of the country’s most popular internet search topics. Although he has appeared in high-rated tv series, and films like “So Young,” (which brought in over US$115 million), this will be his first ever English language project.
It is still yet unknown what role Geng will be playing, but I am sure he will fit in perfectly with the likes of Wahlberg, Grammer, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee. We here at Capsule Computers love the Transformers series, and are eagerly following all of its developments. So, for all the Transformers 4 news, stay tuned to Capsule Computers.
In case you haven’t been paying attention, in the next Saint’s Row game you will be not just the head of some gang, but you will be the President of the United States. As such, Deep Silver has decided to launch their very own government (not so much) website that contains not only a number of humorous voting sections for fans to choose from various things such as clothing optional stores, UN members and more, but also a DMV registration to create your own ID card.
They’ve even created a fake Steelsport Scanner twitter accountto report the fictional criminal activity that occurs inside of Steelsport. The full site can be found herewhile Saints Row IV itself is set to be released on August 20th.
Today Atlus USA announced exactly when fans of Etrian Odyssey can expect Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl to be released in North America. Coming in only eight months after Etrian Odyssey IV was released in North America, Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl is set to be released both physically and digitally on October 1.
Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl is the first game in the series to have a fixed story mode where five pre-set characters will go on a journey, though there still is a Classic Mode for hardcore Etrian Odyssey fans who want to experience the same classic set-up of past games.
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