Angry Birds has been a surprise hit taking the entire world by storm with not only the games, but toys and other merchandise as well. With this success, developer Rovio has been able to put out even more games in the series and been able to combine with another one of the world’s biggest brands for Angry Birds Star Wars.
It looks like the Angry Birds train hasn’t run out of steam yet as just announced today will be a new game and sequel to Angry Birds Star Wars, this time focused on the prequel trilogy. Angry Birds Star Wars 2 sees new birds, pigs, and abilities as players play both sides of the conflict. The new trailer released today shows off a bit of the upcoming game, plus as an added surprise, new teleporting powers, called Telepods, are also being added to allow players to choose their line-up and add birds through additional merchandise.
Players can watch the trailer embedded below to see what to expect from the new Telepods and Angry Birds Star Wars 2 when it releases on September 19th, 2013 assumingly for Android and iOS (iPad and iPhone).
Ultimate Warrior fans rejoice as his presence will in fact be gracing the upcoming WWE 2K14 from 2K Games. After sorting out the whole cover art aspect it seems, WWE 2K14 will be seeing a pre-order bonus, as is it now the norm, for those that are looking to put down some of their cash before the games release. But, knowing that those looking to pre-order are tried and true fans, the pre-order bonus will be the Ultimate Warrior himself.
Those wanting to hear it straight from the lips of the Ultimate Warrior can check out the video just released where he lays it out the WWE 2K14 pre-order. Still maintaining the presence as always, he tells the fans exactly what they can expect all the while throwing corporate mooks around like Ultimate Warriors’ should.
Fans wanting to watch the new video for themselves can check it out embedded below. WWE 2K 14 is set to release in NA on October 29th, 2013 (November 1st, 2013 for EU) for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Codemasters, the team behind GRID 2, announced today that their upcoming title, F1 2013, will launch worldwide this coming autumn for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
One of the primary features of this year’s entry is a new mode called “F1 Classics.” This will give fans the opportunity to race classic cars on iconic circuits against legendary drivers – a real dream come true for any long-time F1 fan.
On top of the F1 Classics mode, this newest iteration of the franchise will also feature all of the cars, circuits, and drivers from the 2013 season, along with updated rules, remodelled handling, and more.
To check out the F1 Classics trailer released by Codemasters, be sure to watch the video below this article. You can also check out the official website here.
A few days ago, Dekko developer Portemantho told the Reddit community about the app they had recently made and submitted to the App store. This app allows you to scan an object from the real world, and then takes it and imports it right into Minecraft for iPad and other iOS devices. Now if only we could do this with the Kinect and the upcoming Xbox One Edition.
This soon-to-be app takes all the legwork out of recreating your favourite IRL things in Minecraft. DekkoScan allows the user to create a 3D rendered object via their iOS device camera and export it into Minecraft. As Portemantho explained on Reddit, DekkoScan’s technology uses the iOS devices’ live camera feed to track the patterns of objects, which means that the best type of objects to import would be simple objects with complex textures.
Based on their augmented reality racing car game, Tabletop Speed, released earlier this year, “[Dekko] thought it’d be cool to use that to export to other things, like Minecraft”. Portemantho submitted it to the App store on the 11th of July and is now awaiting approval from Apple. Following the overwhelming positive response from the Reddit community, Portemantho also stated that Dekko will eventually release DekkoScan for Android if it can build enough momentum.
DekkoScan is highly anticipated by the Reddit Minecraft community. Many believe that this app could turn out to be amazing, given enough time and funds.
Fans of the massively successful Shōnen Jump manga Nisekoi let out a cry of happiness today as the infamous studio SHAFT stepped forward with news that they would be animating its recently announced anime adaption. SHAFT is renowned for its quirky storytelling techniques and distinctive abstract art style made famous by the monumentally successful series Bakemonogatari and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The anime adaption will be directed by Bakemonogatari’s director Akiyuki Shinbo, and upon hearing the newsthe creator of Nisekoi, Naoshi Komi said that he jumped for joy, and who could blame him?
Nisekoi tells the story of the son of a yakuza gang leader called Raku Ichijou and the daughter of a rival gang, Chitoge Kirisaki. To settle a disagreement between the two gangs, it is decided that the two rival gang leader’s children will be paired together. Unfortunately, Raku has already been kneed in the face once by Chitoge by the time this has been decided. The two had grown to dislike each other while searching for a locket that Raku was given by his childhood sweetheart. However, to keep peace they are forced to put on a façade that they are in love, which proves to be a huge challenge due to multiple keys to his locket existing and Raku having a crush on another girl.
There has yet to be a date confirmed for the release of this sure-hit anime, but when there is you can be sure you will hear about it and much more exciting anime news here on Capsule Computers.
Just over 2 years ago the world united to raise support for the families of thousands of Japanese citizens either killed or injured on the east coast of Japan in the Great East Japan Earthquake and its resulting tsunami. To help encourage the recovery of the Tōhoku region the adorable mascot Tōhoku Zunko was born. Much like the more popular vocaloids her design is based around food, specifically a zundamochi which is a sweet crafted in the Tōhoku region that is a mochi with green soybean paste. Famously Hatsune Miku is always associated with a leek and Kagamine Rin with oranges.
On 28th September 2012 a Voiceroid program featuring the voice of Satomi Satō (Ritsu from K-ON!) was released. Its tremendous popularity led to a crowd funding project to be set up for the creation of a Vocaloid voicebank for the mochi-coloured mascot and last Friday it finally reached its target of 5million yen. The company SSS who created the Voiceroid program have announced that the Vocaloid software will be released in late 2013 or early 2014.
Fun Facts about Tōhoku Zunko – Her hobbies are archery and baking cakes.
– In the future she wants to own her own café in Tokyo where she will coat her arrows in green soybean paste (Zunko) and shoot her mochi with them to create the zunkomochi she is based on.
-She is 17 years old and in her second year of high-school.
– Her headband and archery bow are both made of edamame which is a type of soybean
For more information about the Vocaloid phenomena sweeping the planet and more, head over to our Japanese Pop Culture News Centre and also the official Zunko website here.
Hope is lost and only the savage survive. In a world where the roads are paved to nowhere, what choices will you make to stay alive?
Interactive Entertainment and Avalanche Studios surprised everyone at this year’s E3 expo last June, when they announced Mad Max, but it was the good kind of surprised that got the the crowd excited. Releasing on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC, the game will follow (you guessed it) Max himself as he goes through the wasteland, proving that you don’t need to be a hero to change things.
The footage shown was exciting and felt like the old films. The only concern was that the voice actor for Max in the game did not have an Australian accent. However, through an online petition, this has since been rectified and now everyone can be excited for some sick wasteland beat-downs once again.
If that wasn’t enough to get your blood pumping, then you should also know that the game’s developer, Warner Bros. have released the first gameplay trailer for Mad Max. The trailer, titled “Soul of a Man,” shows Max walking through the deserted, sandy wilderness, and beating down some unlucky thugs while a soft female voice narrates the dire situation that the world is in. Honestly, words don’t do the trailer justice, so do yourselves a favour and check it out below.
Mad Max is still a while off being released,so be sure to stay tuned to Capsule Computers over the next few months for all the news on the game as it becomes available.
At the inaugural PAX Australia 2013 event, July 19-21, SteelSeries will be exhibiting their new H-Series of headsets – the 3Hv2, 5Hv3, and 9H – as well as the Limited Edition Siberia v2 Heat Orange Headset.
The latter has been awarded for its unique design and superior sound quality, combining the classic Siberia style with illumination, control, and features including heat orange illumination, superior sound and comfort and noise-cancelling microphone and controls. SteelSeries General Manager & Regional Sales Director in Oceania, Annabelle Woods, said;
Having PAX come to Australia is a huge deal for our gaming community. SteelSeries has globally always been at the forefront of the gaming industry and we are thrilled to now be part of the first PAX Australia.
Booth 2321 is your SteelSeries destination for all three days of the event. Drop by if you are attending and try out the headsets. There’ll also be a chance to win some SteelSeries award-winning gear! Keep it locked to Capsule Computers for our PAX Aus 2013 coverage and be sure to follow SteelSeries on Facebook and Twitter for upcoming promotions and contests.
Warframe has been going strong since it launched and now that the company has gathered over three million users since the title launched, one million more than the amount they had for the last update. To commemorate this milestone, the developers for the title have been working hard on bringing another update to the game, this time it is simply called Update 9 and features a number of new additions and fixes.
The update includes the Nova Warframe, which is the first one designed by the community, a Design Council forum that allows special privileged users to have some influence with how things happen in the game and a chance to see all Warframe news before anyone else. To see what other type of additions and modifications have been made in the latest update, as well as a chance to see this online co-op shooter in action, you can check out the video below or read the full info about the patch here.
Hey there, everybody! I’m Frank Inglese and welcome to the first CC Comic Zone! Obviously you have no idea what CC Comic Zone is yet so here we go: Basically each week I will be talking about different aspects of Comics, Mangas, Graphic Novels and pretty much everything that is drawn. I’ll go through what I feel works in a Comic and also what I feel does NOT work. This week I’ll be talking about the “Relatable Protagonist” and why I think that it’s one of the most well-used element in illustrated media.
“Just a slob like on of us…”
A “relatable Protagonist” is an odd one to define because relatable has such a large spectrum; the main character could be smart, he/she could be an idiot, he/she could be rich, he/she could be poor and no matter what he or she IS there’s always a guarantee that they will relate to someone who is reading the Comic. We’ve had so many protagonists over time that are just lovable dorks that remind us of ourselves, the number 1 example is Peter Parker/Spiderman, he’s a bookworm and science geek turned superhero yet he retains his teenage angst, smart-arse attitude and lightning-fast quips. He’s like one of us and that’s why we love him.
Western Comics are full of characters who were once normal people and it’s what gets us hooked in. I think that if there were to be a main character who was already great, who already had the power, the money, the ladies/men, and the attitude we really wouldn’t like them as much, we definitely wouldn’t be able to relate to them so it makes for a bad first impression and they always say that first impressions last. I feel like that’s why Spiderman is loved by a vast majority of Pop Culture lovers, even if he’s not your favourite he’s still very much up there on the list.
A web-slinger needs some good friends ya’ know?
Even a lot of these more violent Comics, Graphic Novels and Manga have characters that are, or were once, just normal people turned evil or at least turned bad. One such Comic that comes to mind is The Strange Talents of Luther Strode which, if you don’t know what that is, is about a young boy who just constantly gets bullied, he’s lived a fairly hard life, he pretty much has just the one friend and he spent a lot of his childhood watching his Father beat his Mother yet when he’s introduced in the first chapter he is a well-spoken, kind, young man. That right there is a good start.
He then orders a book through a magazine that is said to make anyone substantially stronger both mentally and physically, well, Luther buys this book and after a couple days of reading and meditation he becomes this incredible human being who is agile, strong, smart, the whole deal BUT that is where the trouble starts. I’m not going to give too much away but the coming events force Luther to use his new “talents” to become a monster like no other. By the end of the series audiences would have seen Luther rip apart many, many people in the most brutal way but I guarantee nobody who had read the Comic would have hated Mr. Strode and I believe that is because of his initial introduction as an all around nice guy and the type of person we could see ourselves being.
This LAN party went so wrong so quickly…
Scott Pilgrim is another great example of a killer main character. He’s so naive and so lazy and is just all round…US. He has his friends, he has his annoying family, he has his gay room-mate, his story is fairly mundane until he falls in love with a girl that he THINKS he saw in his dreams but it turns out she’s a little more than just his “dream girl”. That’s where the story gets weird and wacky but every reaction, every decision, every choice is one that, had we been in that situation, we would have done the same.
A perfect example in Scott Pilgrim is, now if you havn’t read all the books just be warned this is a very slight spoiler, during one of the last Volumes it turns out that one of Scott’s friends, Steven, is gay. Now although scott as just fought 6 evil ex boyfriends (and one girlfriend) for the sake of his love Ramona he is still utterly shocked by this because although he’s going on these wild adventures into the world of fight-dating he is still a normal guy living in a normal world that, yes, would be taken back by something like finding out one of your friends is gay. It’s so simple but it just works.
A normal reaction to a normal situation.
In end I think we all read Comics because we want to escape into the world of the Comics, it’s the same reason people who are lost in love watch romantic movies it’s to escape into a world that you will enjoy and it’s through the relatable main characters that you can easily do that. It’s this element that also makes games where you can make your own character so popular, it’s because it almost forces you to be that character, it’s also the same element that drives you to tell your friends about the Comic your reading because you know they’re like you and if the character is like you and you are like them it’s only natural to want to connect. It’s that simple, it’s that easy,and it works.
