Whether you’re celebrating summer or you’re hunkering down for the long winter, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is doing its best to keep you busy with some of its best titles for iPad and iPhone. This week, the following titles will be on sale for $0.99.
If you don’t own it already, be sure to purchase Bastion, an easy contender for one of the finest video games ever made. For those looking for a touch based fighting game, Man of Steel and Batman Arkham City Lockdown are the games to play. For kids, Scribblenauts Remix and the LEGO series of games are excellent recommendations. If nostalgia is more your thing, Midway Arcade is full of old school games from the glory days of the arcade.
The newest map pack comes with four new multiplayer maps, one of which is a re-imagined fan favorite. Players who pick this pack up will also receive the newest zombie experience entitled “Buried.”
The four new maps include:
“Cove,” – The stage is set for all-out conflict on this small, forgotten island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, with players battling it out amongst the wreckage of a jet that crash-landed during a smuggling operation gone wrong.
“Detour,” – The action plays out atop a destroyed suspension bridge, high above an East Coast waterway, packed with scattered vehicles, exposed iron and collapsed pavement enables head-to-head action playing out on multiple levels.
“Rush,” – Prepare for fast, close-quarters engagements in this paintball course turned full-combat arena, giving players new opportunities and challenges to use the cover to their advantage.
“Uplink,”– In this re-imagined adaptation of the fan-favourite multiplayer map “Summit” from the original Call of Duty®: Black Ops, players clash deep in the rain-soaked jungles of Myanmar, high atop a hi-tech mountain facility.
Treyarch is expanding the canon of Zombie fiction once again with “Buried.” You’ll meet up with old characters as well as new ones in an Old West mining town. It also includes a weapon so powerful it will appear in all other Zombie maps: the Ray Gun Mark II.
The Vengeance map pack is available now for Xbox Live on Xbox 360 for 1200 Microsoft Points. Other platforms will see the release of the DLC in coming weeks and months.
Today Namco Bandai announced that they have taken a step forward in strengthening their hold on the PAL region. They have done so by fully integrating their Namco Bandai Games European distribution network with the Namco Bandai Partners label.
What does this mean for you? Well with this combination the company will be able to put more strategy into their efforts to release games like Project x Zone and Tales of Xillia in these PAL territories. Namco Bandai Games Europe’s president Shusuke Takahara had this to say about the change:
“The group of companies’ new names will encompass the full dimension from both Publishing and Distribution to develop European business further and reinforce the organization in one unified team behind our logo. This name unification is the final outcome of the subsidiaries integration, concluding the full process”
It shouldn’t really be surprising anymore considering the fact that Telltale has regularly announced that their Walking Dead episodes would be coming out like… the day after a release date was announced, but they have done it again.
Today The Walking Dead: 400 Days was released onto the PlayStation Network in North America while the rest of the platforms and areas will be getting it at various times throughout the next week. To be a bit more specific, on July 3rd it will be released on PC and Mac, July 5th on XBLA, July 10th on the PSN in Europe and finally July 11th on the iOS app store.
To commemorate the first season’s DLC episode heading to the PSN today, the company has provided us with The Walking Dead: 400 Days’ launch trailer which can be seen below.
Namco Bandai and indiePub Entertainment, the teams behind Storm, have announced that their newest title, Capsized, will be released for the Xbox Live Arcade on July 5th. They’ve also said it will be coming to the PlayStation Store for PlayStation 3 later this summer.
Capsized is a fast-paced 2D action platformer. It’s set in an immersive alien world full of odd life forms, with strange landscapes done in a hand-drawn art style. Your ship has crash landed on a mysterious planet and you’ll have to navigate through dangerous locations, fighting blood-thirsty being to save your crewmates and escape the hostile world. You’ll use a grappling hook, jetpack, and more as you rescue your shipmates from the dangers of the planet.
Capsized combines elements of FPS titles with physics-based combat and classic platform games. There are more than a dozen levels with multiple modes. The Xbox version also includes three exclusive levels, online multiplayer, and online co-operative modes.
Features of Capsized includes:
Particle Packed Weapons: Sure, the grappling hook is pretty dern useful but you create awesomely explosive destruction with weapons including the Plas-Mortar, Ion Repeater, Nano-Caster and the Quasar Array (and make friggin’ black holes!).
Campaign Mode: Test your mettle against nasty baddies in thirteen levels with lush and varied terrains.
Three Arcade Modes: Fight endless waves of enemies in Survival Mode, grab oxygen to survive Last Gasp Challenges or test your survival skills in the weapons-free Armless Mode.
Lush Environments: Enjoy strange and amazing landscapes illustrated in a unique, hand-drawn style.
Intense Gameplay: Test your constitution with more than twenty hours of heart-throbbing, thumb-busting action
For more information, you can check out the game’s official website here, indiePub’s website here, and Namco Bandai Europe’s page here.
Yesterday (July 2, 2013) Joymax welcomed former Digidestined and girly-girl fashionista Mimi Tachikawa to the online MMORPGDigimon Masters Online. If you don’t know who Mimi is she appeared in the very first Season of the Digimon TV series and subsequently in the second series alongside the next generation of Digidestined. She’s a lovable young lady who is always out to look stylish and is always up to date with fashion, she loves her friends and she loves her Digital partner but she’s always been a little bit selfish and, somewhat, irresponsible which is probably because of her childhood where she lived on “easy street” with her wealthy and regal family.
Players of Digimon Masters Online will have their chance to earn Mimi in a new event that started on the 2nd of July and will run all the way up until July 30th which is at the end of the month. Mimi the “exchange tamer” will be awarded to all ranked members of each server so keep training and battling, always getting stronger so you too can snag Mimi before the event is over.
For more information and to actually download and play the game head to the Digimon Masters Online site here. Keep an eye out on the site to see any and all Digimon Masters Online updates, as well as so much more, and don’t forget to hit up our comments section to drop us a line. Check out some of the awesome images of Mimi in action in the Gallery section just below.
Might and Delight, the developers that brought last year’s Pid, has slowly been releasing more information about their newest game Shelter. Where the last bit of news was to show early gameplay footage, the news this time around is a full development diary with Creative Director Johannes Wadin and Lead Designer Andreas Wangler.
Shelter is looking to be far removed from Pid, instead featuring a much slower pace and completely lacking human elements. Tasking players to play as a mother badger protecting her children, the game’s levels take place during different times of day during Autumn.
Players looking to find out more about Shelter and what Might and Delight were thinking as they came up with the game can watch the Dev Diary embedded below. Shelter is itself currently set to release much like its setting in Autumn of this year for both PC and Mac. Players can also check out Shelter and offer support on Steam Greenlight.
Back during E3 2013, the developer and publisher of the hit free to play game World of Tanks, Wargaming announced that their next game World of Warplanes would be hitting open beta on July 2nd, so now the day has come and those looking to see what it’s like in the cockpit have their chance.
With planes from America, to Germany, to Russia, to Japan; World of Warplanes pits players against each other in games of 15 vs 15. But, players shouldn’t worry about being dumped into action as new pilots will get to practice in a tutorial to learn the controls and features including crews, crew skills, consumables and the varied ammunition available.
Players looking to join the World of Warplanes open beta today on their PC can do so for the North American and Russian regions, while Europe will receive the open beta on July 4th. Players can find access to the North American site HERE and the European site HERE.
Exato Game Studios and Reverb Publishing have today announced a new feature that demonstrates the sheer level of creative possibility available in the recently Greenlit and highly anticipated Guncraft. The new Smithing feature (which was revealed in the latest teaser trailer – see below) allows Guncraft players to design, construct and tailor their own unique, signature weapons – brick by brick.
A variety of variable weapon properties will be available to players for experimentation, which includes rate of fire, ammunition type, explosive damage, custom sights and even the weapon’s size. Each individual feature itself can also undergo deep customization. Players can literally craft anything from futuristic miniguns or even something as outrageous and entertaining the infamous grenade launching catgun from PAX East. The only limit here is the player’s imagination, and perhaps time.
The in game Gun Smithing feature is the very same tool set used by the Exato Game Studios development team, so no half measures here. Players can look forward to unleashing their awesome and explosive creations when the title officially launches for Windows PC on July 11, 2013.
John Getty, Executive Producer and Lead Game Designer of Exato Game Studios, spoke recently regarding the title’s recent Greenlight victory:
“We are so thrilled about being Greenlit, it is a dream come true. We literally couldn’t have done it without the support from our amazing fans[…]Being Greenlit on Steam is really going to unlock the full potential that Guncraft has to offer. Expect a lot of epic things to come in the future.
Players can pre-order Guncraft now through Desura, GOG, Green Man Games, Rain Digital Games, Gamefly and of course, the Guncraft Website.
EA Game’s upcoming fourth installment in the incredible first-person shooter franchise, Battlefield 4features one of the gaming industry’s most impressive gaming engines – Frostbite 3. This remarkable game engine has undergone a great deal of evolution and to highlight the power and capabilities of Frostbite 3, EA has launched a brand new trailer for Battlefield 4 detailing the engine and what it means to Battlefield.
The trailer features many of the brilliant minds behind Frostbite 3 as they explain the engine’s abilities and what benefits it provides to gamers playing Battlefield 4. Also discussed is what this engine means for next-generation consoles such as the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It is truly a compelling video that really dives into what makes Frostbite 3 tick.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the Frostbite 3 engine is the way it allows game designers to develop for all many of devices be it an iPad or a next-generation console. The flexibility and power behind the engine has seemingly endless possibilities and with the ability to create near seamless reality inside of a video-game, it seems as though things are only going to get more exciting with games like Battlefield 4.
You can check out the trailer for Battlefield 4’s mind-blowing Frostbite 3 engine below. Battlefield 4 itself is scheduled for release on October 29, 2013 in North America, October 31, 2013 in Australia and November 1, 2013 in Europe for PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
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