Disney Infinity is the new toy based game that allows gamers to insert their Disney Infinity toys into the virtual realm. Monsters University received the star treatment today with the release of new screenshots,character images, and a gameplay trailer.
Monsters University is Pixar’s upcoming prequel to the hit movie Monsters, Inc. The series goes back to Mike and Sully’s time at Monsters University as they train to be the finest fear raising monsters. Like any good university, Monsters University’s rival is Fear Tech and there is a prank war going on for school pride. Mike, Sully, and Randy are planning to take Fear Tech on at their own campus. Fear Tech’s campus does not appear in the film, so game developers Avalanche Studios worked with Pixar to design Fear Tech. Along with the previously announced Toybox Mode, gamers will be able to experience Monster University for themselves by customizing the campus and pulling off pranks.
Disney Infinity is scheduled to be released on August 18th, 2013 in North America and August 20th in Europe.
Itching for those old days where arcade cabinets gulped down your hard earned quarters with reckless abandon? For the price of 200 quarters, 2000 MSP, or $49.99 USD, players can now play seventeen of Capcom’s classic arcade titles on Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace or the PlayStation Store. Fifteen of the titles have been in previous arcade packs and two are making their debut in the All in One Pack. No more visits to the change machine! Capcom has also released a new trailer to celebrate the launch of the titles.
With the announcement of the Xbox One, much news has been circulating regarding the new console, including much hype surrounding a patent Microsoft filed last November. The patent outlined an achievement system very much like that which already exists on the 360, except this time, incorporating various achievements for simply watching TV. Users could be rewarded for anything from watching a major event through to the completion of entire seasons of various shows.
Implementing this system would surely open up many lucrative advertising opportunities for both Microsoft and other brands, who would love nothing more than for their brand or product to be tied into various achievements. Interactive advertising such as this is an exceptionally powerful tool, requiring much more of the participants attention, and creating incentives for them at every step to continue utilising the service.
Aside from its appeal to achievement junkies, I cant see how the average person will be overly impressed by a system that essentially promotes excessive amounts of unhealthy behviour, and im sure the majority of us need no constant reminder of the amount of time we spend glued in front to our TV’s and monitors.
The July issue of ASCII Media Work’s Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh is set to reveal that Valvrave the Liberator mainstay Saki Rukino is set to receive her own manga series, to be titled Valvrave the Liberator: Shooting Star Valkyrie. The series, to be penned by Yutaka Ohori, is set to focus on Saki’s past and explore her time as a pop idol.
A novel project is also set for release in the July issue of Dengeki Hobby Magazine, to be penned by Yomoji Otono and illustrated by Yugen. Yet another two manga projects have also been revealed, the first to be a one-shot manga by Karega Tsuchiya in the July issue of Shueisha’s Jump Square magazine. The second project is to be drawn by Ichiya Sazanami and will begin serialisation in the August issue of ASCII MediaWork’s Sylph magazine.
Earlier in the year Chiyomaru Shikura, creator of Steins;Gate, revealed plans for his next work Occultic;Nine. Chiyomaru also specified that his debut novel is not the proper fourth “science adventure” following after Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate and Robotics;Notes, though it could be considered the fourth in the Shikura body of work. The “paranormal science” novel is set to be released August 25th and will be illustrated by Pako (character designer of Un-Go) from Overlap.
“The story follows nine idiosyncratic individuals, including a black magic proxy/medium and a dojin manga creator. Little incongruities that occur around these nine eventually lead to larger, unimaginable events that may alter what is considered common sense in this world.”
So far four characters of the nine member cast have been revealed:
Yuuta Gamon – An unkempt seventeen year old student and paranormal blogger who goes by the self proclaimed title of NEET God.
Sarai Hashioue – A nineteen year old university freshman who lives in Kichijouji. He despises useless things and demands a direct approach to all things. Hates fantasy. Goes under the online handle SARAI.
Ryouka Narusawa – A sixteen year old first-year high school studen. Dreams of producing and singing her own songs in the future. Described as being fair skinned and naïve to the world, and being a girl with big dreams.Goes under the online handle Ryoutasu.
Miyu Aikawa – A sixteen year old moe star of NicoNico fortune telling videos. Goes under the online handle Myu.
The TBS network’s official site for Infinite Stratos 2 announced on April 24th that the series is slated for a fall release. The Infinite Stratos All Night Festival previously confirmed the release of a second season as a part of Overlap‘s “Infinite Stratos Reboot Project”.
Continuing from the first anime series, 8-Bit will be the studio behind the series, with Yasuhito Kikuchi once again directing. However, Kumi Horii will now be handling the changed character designs,taking over from previous designer Tomoyasu Kurashima. The main Japanese voice cast of the first season is also slated to return and reprise their roles.
In November 2012 the legendary creator of the Fable franchise, Peter Molyneux unveiled and released his newest project – Curiosity. Curiosity was a mobile game where players from all around the globe simultaneously removed “cubeletts” from a larger overall cube to eventually discover what was hiding inside. As each layer of the cube was removed, more and more information and teasers were revealed. Finally, after almost six months and more than 25 billion broken cubeletts, the game is over and we finally have the answer to the eponymous question “what’s in the box!?”
Bryan Henderson of Edinburgh, Scotland was the player who broke the final cubelett, reached the centlre of the cube and discovered the secret of Curiosity, a secret he has decided to share with the world. Turns out the secret of “what’s in the box?” is a secret that pertains to Molyneux’s 22Cans studio and its upcoming game: Godus. In a video from Molyneux himself which was unlocked when the final cube was broken, Henderson discovered that he had won the right to be God in the upcoming game, being able to add to and change the rules of the game as he sees fit. OH! And he will be getting paid for it with a small percentage of the game’s total profits.
The video that was unlocked was shown to Bryan, and Bryan alone but he has decided to share it with the world. You can check out the video below and be sure to stay tuned to Capsule Computers for all the information about Godus as it becomes available.
A movie adaptation of the hit television Anime “K” (K Project) has been Green-lit.
It was announced at the “K-Who is the next-” event on Sunday. No cast has been revealed nor any other info actually though one thing we do know is that the movie is set for premiere in theatres sometime in 2014. We will definitely be getting more info on the movie within the next few months.
The anime premiered last October with Shingo Suzuki both as the director and character designer. Viz Media streamed the Anime in North America as it aired in Japan and also announced that it has the master license to the series.
Be sure to keep an eye out on the site for any more information on the movie to come.
One of Sunrise Studio’s Newer Animes: Tiger and Bunny
Listen up, Studio Sunrise Fans, because we’ve got a pretty cool little nugget of sweet info for you that’ll get you pretty excited for what’s to come.
Masayuki Ozaki (Studio Sunrise) revealed on Saturday at the Anime Boston event that his company is in talks with both Sentai Filmworks and FUNimation with the sole intention of, eventually, releasing and distributing former Bandai Entertainment titles in the West.
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There is not a great deal of information about what particular Series’ are going to be released with this deal but Ozaki has shown that Sunrise is extremely keen to get this up and running.
Keep an eye out on the site for more information on this topic and don’t forget to hit up our comments section below to tell us about what you think.
At Anime Boston on Saturday the North American Anime distributor FUNimation Entertainment announced, at it’s panel, the English dub casts for
both High School DxD and Future Diary. Pretty exciting stuff for fans of both of the Series. The two lists below has all the dub-related information on these two Series.
High School DxD, originally a light novel series by Ichiei Ishibumi, follows the story of Issei Hyodo who is a “dim-witted“, second-year high school student who is killed by a girl on their first date, he is then reincarnated as a low-level devil and from that day forward he serves as the underling of Riassu who is a high-level devil who just so happens to be the prettiest girl at school.
FUNimation Streamed the 12-episode series as it aired in Japan and a sequel called High School DxD New will premiere some time in July.
Future Diary, originally a Manga series by Sakae Esuno, follows the story of Yukiteru Amano an odd, loner who spends a great deal of time writing things in the diary he keeps on his phone or talking with his imaginary friend, Deus Ex Machina the God of Time and Space. One day Deus gives Yuki a new diary and mentions something about a game. The new diary has entries for 90 days ahead of time, entries about the future which actually eventuate. Deus then forces Yuki into a battle-royal with people who also have these diaries. The contestants must fight and kill all others within 90 days and the one that survives is said to be able to prevent the apocalypse and become the new God of Time and Space.
