Today Namco Bandai has shared a brilliant looking trailer for Tales of Xillia which is set to be released on August 6th in North America and August 9th in Europe. The trailer is almost entirely cinematic featuring both anime and in-game cutscenes as they discuss some elements of the game’s story.
In Tales of Xillia, the story follows Jude Mathis, a medical student, and Milla Maxwell who is a mysterious woman who is accompanied by four invisible spirits. Players can experience the game through either Jude or Milla’s eyes as their paths intertwine to bring down a threat that will drain the world of its mana and bring it to the brink of death.
About a month ago it was announced that they would be bringing Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance to the PC but since then the company hasn’t said anything about the PC version. Well that changed today when Konami confirmed that they are indeed planning a PC release of the game and that it will be released on the PC “soon.”
No exact details were given unfortunately but the company did mention that Revengeance would run at 60 FPS on most modern PCs, though no specs have been released as of yet. Outside of that the company mentioned the basic details about the game that were already available in the console version we reviewed a few months back.
Roleplayers around the world should check out an app called Syrinscape, from Interaction Consortium, which is basically a program that allows players to enhance their roleplaying experience by adding a major ambient audio component to the experience. The app is available on the PC and Mac devices, although mobile versions are being planned.
Syrinscape, as we previously covered, is an app that essentially plays various SoundSets to enhance a gaming session. The app is initially free and comes with two free SoundSets, “Bugbear Battle” and “Witchwood”. After the initial download, players can purchase additional SoundSets at a fixed price of $3.99 each. Players can also download the Syrinscape Starter SoundSet 6-Pack, which contains a selection of SoundSets, for $20. These are listed below:
Available are the following SoundSets, priced at just US$3.99 each:
Dungeon – a disturbing environment of foreboding rumbles and distant screams…
Elven Vale Day – a luscious rich forest drenched in dappled light and knee deep in leaves and mystery (it’s perfect for meditation too!)
Elven Vale Night – the warm embrace of a peaceful night falls over the Elven forest.
Brindol Town – a thriving village with streets full of busy traders, laughing children, passing processions and strumming bards.
Dragon Battle – as the viscous creatures comes to blows, sharp claws scratch the polished stone floor and tails and wings smash chunks of stonework and rock from the walls.
Spooky – the characters stumble through a mist-choked underworld. Disoriented, they are taunted by voices that seem to float around them while half-formed faces tease them from the shadows.
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 16 great quality titles. Make sure you check them all especially… Cubemen2, Runaway: A Road Adventure, Kingdom Rush Frontiers, Titan – Escape The Tower, Scurvy Scallywags, Defense Technica, Bridgy Jones just to name a few.
Break down below :
5 – FREE Games
5 – $0.99c Games
6 – 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
MAYDAY! Emergency Landing – Price : FREE – Publisher –Reludo (Emergency Landing makes you feel like a real aircraft pilot. Face the most dangerous weather conditions and aircraft failures and fly your passengers safely home. You have just one objective: to land safely – easy to play, difficult to master. Will you make it?) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Supreme Heroes – Price : FREE – Publisher –EA Mobile (THE CITY NEEDS HEROES. Create your own superhero and engage in strategic card-style battles against fearsome foes. Your amazingly addictive comic book legend begins now. Customize your unique avatar with 1,000 costume and gear options. Evolve abilities through collectible cards and equipment. Then, unleash your alter ego to save the day!) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Space Dog + – Price : FREE – Publisher –Adictiz (The beloved dog of Facebook and Mobile users just revamped and offers new items more fun and brand new features for gaming pleasure tenfold. Discover 3 exclusives worlds: the park, the beach and the winter world! Pass the levels with your dog and unlock more than 60 new items: the destruction helmet will help you to pass through obstacles, the skateboard make you slide further and the fuse will propel you in the sky.) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Total Domination – Reborn – Price : FREE – Publisher –Plarium Global (The best MMO strategy game is now available for iOS. Over 30 million installs on the web – Total Domination™: Reborn is a standalone mobile game completely independent from the web version. Civilization has fallen, and war is now the only world-order. Rise from the ashes of the wasteland, take command, form your clan and begin your quest towards Total Domination!) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
ScribbleMix: Monsters University Pack – Price : FREE – Publisher – Disney(Play ScribbleMix, the hilarious and absurd drawing game played with friends! Draw and guess to earn coins and unlock treasure chests. Use your creative skills to scribble your way through the fun and challenging star map) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
For The Bargain Hunters – 99c Games
Bridgy Jones – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Chillingo (Use your bridge building abilities to help Bridgy Jones and his mangy mutt Bonner drive their locomotive safely across ravines, chasms, rivers and gorges. With a handful of tools and resources, construct a bridge that’ll support Bridgy and his cargo as they steam through woodlands, caves and over mountain ranges.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Defense Technica – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Com2us (Experience a new kind of Defense game with Defense Technica, featuring stunning 3D graphics and ground-breaking new features like path rotation, tower construction, tower upgrades, and card collection and combination!) runs on iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
Scurvy Scallyways– Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Beep Games (A musical match-3 RPG brimming with pirates, ships, loot, and more gold than you can shake your rusty hook at! Move your pirate around the board by matching 3 or more tiles. With each match, the board shifts in the direction you swiped. Collect treasure as you visit mysterious jungle, desert, ice, and fire islands to reassemble a legendary Ultimate Sea Shanty. Fight to the death with evil pirates and monsters. Or, blast them with your arsenal of handy skills!) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
TITAN: Escape The Tower – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Microids (Locked up in an 80-level tower by a mad scientist, use your brainpower to help you to escape.
Armed with your pod (a cubic robot) and a metal ball, avoid the numerous traps and try to find the way out.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Color Zen – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Large Animal Games (Color Zen is a new kind of puzzle game. One that invites you to put on your headphones, relax, and find your way through an abstract world of colors and shapes.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
For The Millionaires – All games over $0.99
MasterAbbott’s over 99c Pick Of The Week!
Cubemen2 – Price : $1.99 – Publisher – 3 Sprockets (Cubemen 2 is a fast paced, action packed, original 3D Strategy game where you use your little Cubemen units to defend and attack enemies in a range of awesome game modes including CTF, Skirmish, Territory and more.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Syberia Part 1– Price : $4.99 – Publisher – Big Fish Games (Search a mysterious estate and find a brilliant and mysterious inventor in Syberia: Part 1 and experience the first part of this incredible trilogy! Kate Walker is a young lawyer visiting France to close the sale of a large manufacturing estate. But when the estate’s owner turns up dead, Kate must search for the hidden heir.) runs on iPad. BUY NOW
Spongebob Moves In– Price : $1.99 – Publisher – Nickelodeon (Dive into Day 1 of SpongeBob’s life in Bikini Bottom! Move him into his Pineapple house, get a job at the Krusty Krab, and build your very own Bikini Bottom! As your town turns into a thriving undersea city, you’ll unlock new characters, buildings, decorations, and areas like Jellyfish Fields.) runs iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
Sparkle 2 – Price : $2.99 – Publisher – 10tons Ltd (A long time ago, five keys were created. These enchanted keys are supposed to open a lock which guards something valuable. The keys were scattered across these lands forever locked between night and day. Many have tried to search for the keys, but they still remain undiscovered. Will you be the one to unravel the mystery, or will you become yet another soul consumed by the search?) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Runaway: A Road Adventure – Price : $5.49 – Publisher – Bulkypix. (Brilliant science student Brian is getting ready to join the prestigious UC Berkeley, but his life is turned upside-down when he gets caught up in some business involving a stolen crucifix and the mafia. Runaway is now available for iOS platforms, so discover or rediscover the beginnings of this cult series and plunge into an adventure with plenty of humor and twists at every turn.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Kingdom Rush Frontiers – Price : $2.99 – Publisher – Ironhide Game Studio. (Bigger and badder than ever before, Kingdom Rush: Frontiers is a whole new level of the furiously fast, enchantingly charming gameplay that made the original title an award-winning hit. Tap your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld -all with flashy new towers, levels, heroes, and more goodies to help you crush your foes to a pulp.) runs on iPhone & 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.
Earlier this week Activision announced their Call of Duty: Ghosts – All-Access, a live, 30-minute broadcast that will open up Call of Duty’s E3 2013 presentation. It will feature a first look at gameplay from the title as well as behind the scenes footage with interviews of Infinity Ward.
Here are the ways you can tune in on the program:
Live on DIRECTV (also available for on demand streaming through the DIRECTV Everywhere platform, as well as on demand through DIRECTV on Demand)
Tune into Callofduty.com for the livestream
The Machinima app on Xbox 360
It will start airing on June 10, 4am AEST (June 9, 11am PT) where we will see both old and new things.
Australian anime distributor Madman Entertainment has announced special One Day Only Screenings for Berserk: The Golden Age Arc II – The Battle for Doldrey. It is part of a new series of one-day REEL Anime Specials available to see on the big screen for the first time.
Here the cities, dates and times for the screenings:
Melbourne. Cinema Nova. July 7, 7pm
Sydney. Dendy Newtown. July 7, 3pm
Canberra. Dendy Canberra. July 7, 3pm
Brisbane. Dendy Portside. July 7, 3pm
Adelaide. Nova Palace East End. July 7, 2.30pm
Perth. Luna Leederville. July 17, 7pm
Avoca Beach Picture Theatre, July 7 — Screening Time TBC
The second animated Berserk movie continues the Golden Age Arc established in the first film, The Egg of the King which was screened at REEL Anime 2012. Similar to Evangelion’s Rebuild movie series, these films retell the events of the classic TV anime. The Battle for Doldrey promises to be a darker, more brutal affair than its predecessor.
If you’re still unsure, just watch the trailer below!
Since LocoCycle was announced last year, Twisted Pixel and Microsoft have been very hush-hush on the chaotic title aside from a few tidbits, not saying much about a console or a release date. Today however, that has changed and a new trailer was released, along with news that the game would be launching with the Xbox One.
The trailer is about what you would expect from a Twisted Pixel romp, with a lot of color, discord, and insanity, as our dear driver tries to survive hooked onto the LocoCycle itself. Check out the clip below, and once we get more information on LocoCycle from E3, we will be sure to bring even more updates and news.
Square Enix and Eidos are of course bringing back Thief with Thief 4, and everything about the game has looked beautiful thus far. Today, a new trailer was released just ahead of E3, and I must say the mouth is starting to water more.
As you would expect, this clip is more cinematic – showing off the main protagonist and giving us a tease of what to expect. You can expect more news about the now, simply self-titled sequel, to rise soon, and the game to eventually land on the Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC. For now, check out the slick clip down below.
Zombie Studios have been hard at work on Daylight, their new psychological horror game coming to the PC and PS4 sometime next year. Today – and just ahead of E3, the developer has released a new trailer showing off the game, and I must say it is chilling.
Imagine a world that resets itself everytime you restart, a world that gets inside your head by being procedurally generated in order to keep you on edge. That is what Daylight is all about. With the game running on the Playstation 4, there is a good chance we will see something special with this one. For a nice tease, watch the clip down below, and stay tuned, as there is sure to be even more news on Daylight ahead of it’s launch next year.
Club Nintendo is a great thing, and finally – Australia is getting some love due to the “Great Games” Promotion. This little offer gives buyers of the original 3DS a chance of their own to strike gold, with a handful of games being given away for free as long as the system is bought between now and July 31st. After that, you simply have to register your system through the service by September, and pick out Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Luigi’s Mansion 2, Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land, New Super Mario Bros. 2, and nintendogs + cats: Toy Poodle & New Friends.
Sounds great, right? Well, it is nice to see Nintendo try to continue the giving to those who want that smaller handheld, and while XL buyers may feel shafted, this promotion seems to only benefit rather than take away.
