SyFy has announced that they intend to release a reality TV series focused on the world of cosplay. The six episode “docuseries” will set a group of cosplayers against one another in a race to impress convention judges.
“Cosworld is a tantalizing six-episode docuseries that lifts the veil on the imaginative world of cosplay competition. The series follows some of the hottest cosplay stars as they make a splash at comic book conventions around the country. The show dives deep into their lives, following their process as they create extravagant and visually arresting costumes each week. These individuals will constantly defy odds and race against the clock to transform themselves into amazing fictional characters that push the boundaries between fantasy and reality, all in hopes of impressing the convention judges to win a cash prize and the chance to become a cosplay legend.”
Along the similar vein is a reality show which focuses on fangirl/fanboy culture.
“From the producer of Jersey Shore comes Fandemonium – a six-part docuseries that celebrates the incredibly unique, often misunderstood, and infinitely fascinating fan girl and fan boy culture. Living together in an LA apartment complex, a tight-knit group of pop culture-obsessed fans continue to find their place in the world and flourish, thanks to their passions and personalities. Whether it’s being first in line for the latest blockbuster, making a lasting impression upon getting the chance to meet their heroes, or just figuring out how to balance their passions with making a living – when these friends get together, it’s flat out Fandemonium.”
Will this kind of show be worth watching? Guess we’ll have to wait until the shows are revealed.
Greenman Gaming are running three separate sales this weekend. First up is the Zombie Week sale that knocks down zombie based titles by up to 75% off. I highly recommend picking up Dead Island: Game of the Year Edition for those looking for an excellent melee based FPS. I personally have dumped hours into this game on both Xbox 360 and PC and don’t regret any of it. Greenman Gaming is also running an excellent pre-order promotion for Dead Island Riptide. Buyers will get Dead Island Riptide, the Survivor Pack DLC and a copy of Risen. Be sure to read our preview of Dead Island Riptide.
GOG.com is running a huge Telltale weekend sale. The Sam & Max series, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures, Back to the Future: The Game, and Tales of Monkey Island are 85% off.
Get Games has the Total War collections on sale this weekend. Those new to the Total War series should check out Shogun 2 as an excellent starting point to the series. HeadUp Games is also up to 75% off this weekend. Be sure to check out Trauma, an excellent adventure game that merges interesting storytelling with fantastic visuals. Finally, the Silent Hunter series is on sale for up to 75% off.
GamersGate has Dungeon and Dragons titles for 50 to 60% off this weekend. Be sure to check out the Neverwinter Nights series if you are looking for a good way to start on the series.
Finally, saving this week’s biggest sale for last! Gamestop is running a fantastic Spring Sale. The most interesting item on sale is Skyrim’s Dragonborn DLC is half off at $9.99. This is the best price for the DLC so far and should not be missed. Be sure to also check out L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition at 75% off if you are looking for an excellent open world game.
Sentai Filmworks is gearing up for a “corrupt pure-love story” now that it’s acquired the license to the “Flowers of Evil” or “Aku No Hana” anime. The series, which will run for 13 episodes, is due out soon and you can get your fill of it through select Digital outlets if you can’t wait for the home video release that’ll be coming out later this year.
The anime will be based off of the original manga created by Shuzo Osahimi and will be directed by Hiroshi Nagahama who also did Mushi-Shi and Detroit Metal City. Aki Itami will be doing series composition and Hidekazu Shimamura on characters. Don’t forget there will be a butt-load of rotoscoping.
Sentai Press Release Synopsis:
Darkness lurks everywhere, in every human heart, and sometimes it takes just a second of weakness for it to take root. For Takao Kasuga, that germination begins when his obsession with his beautiful classmate Nanako meets the opportunity to “borrow” her used gym clothes. Unfortunately, his loathsome act of laundry theft is witnessed by Nakamura, the strange girl who sits behind him in class. Soon, Nakamura’s own dark obsessions begin to hook their twisted tendrils into Takao’s miserable existence. Blackmailed into a “contract” under the threat of having his guilt revealed to his entire class, the former bookworm who could spend hours reading Beaudelaire’s “The Flowers of Evil” now finds himself entwined in Nakamura’s growing fantasies as she leads him down the garden path to damnation. As their blossoming relationship becomes ever darker, even the seemingly innocent Nanako is pulled into the nightmare. Just what are Nakamura’s ultimate plans, and will the increasingly trapped Takao really be willing to carry them out? What you sow, you must ultimately reap, and there’s certain to be a harrowing harvest ahead in FLOWERS OF EVIL!
You don’t hear many ‘Good Guy Greg’ stories in the entertainment industry these days and even if you did this one would still stand out. Razer CEO Ming-Liang Tan has decided to honor an unauthorised 90% off coupon for thousands of UK purchases. With publishers these days getting greedier and greedier, it’s amazing to see a company to make such a kind gesture for the consumer.
Recently, an error occurred with Razer’s UK store that resulted in all orders placed to be 90% off. This was an unauthorised coupon that went viral and thousands of purchases were made. Legally, Razer has every right to cancel all of these orders as it would be a massive financial loss for the company but Razer CEO Ming-Liang Tan decided to honor the coupon with a few minor conditions. You can check out the screenshot below or see it yourself here.
Razer are currently the official sponsor of the Capsule Computers primary podcast, CC Unplugged. Make sure you check it out here as well as we usually include some pretty awesome giveaways!
The next game in the Ace Attorney series has received a preview trailer showcasing the characters transition from traditional 2D style, into the 3D graphics of the 3DS. The trailer shows Phoenix Wright, once again the protagonist, along with his new assistant Kokone Kizuki, a rookie defence attorney and psychologist, involved in a case regarding an explosion at the courthouse. Apollo Justice is also set to return as a playable character.
The end of the trailer also hints at a new character, revealed by Famitsu to be Jin Yugami. Having been accused of murder, Jin is nominated to serve out his sentence as prosecutor. The image shown depicts him as saying “Heh, in order to cut someone in court, you need a sword called evidence!”
Ace Attorney 5 will be available in Japan July 25th, with plans for Capcom to bring it to the west at an, as of yet, unspecified date.
Developer Eugen Systems and publisher Focus Home Interactive’s upcoming game, Wargame AirLand Battle has already shown off the English and German units, but today they focus on the largest military force in Europe, France. Some might wonder what France could possibly offer to their NATO allies, but even a quick glance over the new screenshots will reveal the number of vehicles they can provide.
New units for the sequel include the AMX-13 Harpon (Harpoon), the AMX-30B2 Brennus, and variants of the VAB. Though it isn’t just the French Army that will be aiding NATO against the Warsaw Pact as the French Air Force will be lending their speed and might from the recon helicopter Alouette III; to the myriad of Mirage variants like the Mirage 5F, Mirage 2000C, Mirage III, and Mirage F1; to the Super Étendard.
Players can view the full sized screenshots by clicking on them in the gallery below to get a good look at what they will have at their disposal and against them when Wargame AirLand Battle releases for PC in May.
Indie Royalereleased their newest Steam Greenlight based bundle. The Debt 2 Bundle features six titles vying to be Greenlit on Steam. Nyu Media’s hack and slasher Croixleur, Goodhustle’s first person boxer Beast Boxing Turbo, Wraith Entertainment’s loot based space sim Dawnstar, Key17Games’ 2d RPG Battlepaths, MiniBoss’ puzzle platformer Out There Somewhere, and Tricktale’s random dungeon crawler Diehard Dungeon. Those who pay more than $8.00 will receive Bright Primate’s album The Reality Chiptune Love Industry.
Buyers can name their own price, as long as it is above the current minimum. The titles are available as DRM free downloads and Desura keys. Buyers will receive Steam keys as the titles are Greenlit.
Tiger & Bunny Part 1 Studio:Sunrise Publisher:Siren Visual Format: DVD (Reviewed), Blu-Ray Release Date:March 21, 2013 Price: $49.95 – Available Here
Overview:
Reading the name “Tiger and Bunny” really doesn’t do this series justice, it seems a little sissy and possibly like this is NOT an anime about Western-like superheroes who compete with each other to save lives in incredible ways, knowing anime though it could’ve been about a Tiger and a Bunny living happily together…this is NOT that. Tiger and Bunny is a “once in a million years” type of anime that seems to slide into western culture well and fit like a glove, well, read on and I’m sure you’ll get all the info you need.
Story:
Based in the city of Sternbild Tiger & Bunny mostly revolves around Wild Tiger, a veteran hero who’s starting to become more of a memory than anything else, and his new teammate Barnaby Brooks Jr. (Bunny), who’s an up and coming hero that has taken the hearts of all the citizens of Sternbild. They take place in a competition where different heroes are given points for doing certain things for example making an arrest gives a hero +200 points. The aim is to be King of Heroes while also keeping the city as safe as possible and with 7 or 8 heroes on it’s site it tends to stay pretty safe…until.
The most constant thing in the series is the relationship between Kotetsu (Tiger) and Barnaby (Bunny), neither like each other yet have to work together, typical buddy cop situation, and it kind of works really well. They start off just fighting and more so competing with each other than in the actual competition which, obviously, causes trouble while on missions and leads to a fight or some kind of yelling but over the series you do see this great development of friendship and trust. Tiger and Bunny shows you the development, crumble and rebuild of a friendship and it seems to do it a lot better, and in a more subtle way, than a great deal of animes I’ve seen. It even gets to a point where the tables are turned and it’s Tiger who can no longer rely on Bunny which is such a big flip from, let’s say, the first episode where they have to work together. They just did this so well.
Another thing I loved was the build in relationships with all the other heroes. This happened throughout the story very, very slowely but from competing against each other for their certain sponsors they actually came together to fight a common foe but it’s not even that, you get the feeling these people are becoming friends long before the big complication happens and they’re forced together. Antonio who is another hero (Rock Bison) has a very odd relationship with Kotetsu, he seems to know much about his past and constantly asks Kotetsu to come and drink with him to which he denies yet they still back each other up in battle when they truly need it, it’s just that which shows, in it’s most basic form, the different types of relationships in this show.
Next are the names that humans with extraordinary powers are given, each of the heroes is a next and it doesn’t really get brought up too much, at first. I liked how, although many people had these powers, the heroes were just heroes, although Next, there was no discrimination towards the heroes because they saved lives but as the story went on and showed the development of Next as another race and something unlike human beings that’s when things got muddy. While watching the show you forget about the entire understory of the Next race and instead focus on the Heroes, well, that is until the problem of the Next becomes extremely predominant but that’s later in the story.
As the show goes on we start to see more of the dark side of Barnaby Brooks Jr. All through the series he has his own little side projects, which you don’t see much of, which appear as something bigger later on in the story. This was done very well because it never threw this in your face, it alluded to it, then he spoke about it, then something came up where questions had to be asked, then action needed to be taken. It built up so well throughout the first half of the series. For an action packed anime like Tiger and Bunny it definitely has great story telling capabilities and so many, somewhat, hidden undertones that really make the story worth investing in.
Visuals:
Alongside the Audio, the Visuals are possibly the best parts of the whole series. Tiger and Bunny is one of those animes that mixes traditional animation and CGI animation together and it actually works. Both types of animation are as fluid as each other and compliment each other really well. Traditional animation is used for mostly everything and the CGI is used for when the characters are in their Hero Suits so most fight scenes are done in CGI which I’m so glad they did because it worked so damn well, it’s incredible. The characters and costuming were fantastic. Finally an anime where the boys aren’t drawn prettier than the girls! Barnaby was drawn somewhat feminine because, in the story, he’s supposed to be this young heartthrob so it makes sense as to why he’s kind of pretty. The cityscapes were beautiful looking and the way they designed the city, even by just looking at it, seemed extremely cluttered and pack full of people, like a metropolis is supposed to be.
Audio:
I’ve seen this series twice now, once in Japanese and once in English and I have to say, while the Japanese Dub is mostly the way to go when it comes to anime, the English Dub really blows it out of the water like you wouldn’t believe. There was not one over/underplayed role nor was there a character whose voice was so annoying that it made me physically mad. It was doe so well that I actually laughed when they called for a laugh, the banter between each of the characters is hilarious, not to mention Kotetsu’s smart-ass attitude. In intense situations you definitely knew they were intense, the voice actors did a really good job on this one. The music in Tiger and Bunny was something else not to look past, every song fit perfectly and the use of trumpets, an underrated instrument, really made this feel like an old superhero movie; uplifting and triumphant. They used some opera, and a lot of genres you wouldn’t hear in a modern anime, when in disastrous flashbacks and times of suspense, you felt it all and it really doesn’t get better than that.
Extras:
Siren Visual really brought out the big guns on this one! Well done to them because opening up the DVD case was like opening up a Christmas present. So it comes with the standard on-disc content which is the clean versions of the opening and closing theme songs/movies and an “Inside the Studio” piece which is exactly how it sounds. Pretty standard. It’s what’s not on the disc that’s awesome! First of all it’s not set out like a normal DVD, it has a DVD sleeve with awesome artwork on the front and the DVDs are held in a tri-fold case which has an extremely detailed picture of Sternbild splayed across it. It also comes with 4 small, replica volumes of “Hero Weekly” the magazine from the series which has a bunch of information on characters and design notes inside but put together like a magazine. It also has, and this is my favourite extra, 4 Hero Card Replicas from the show! It’s safe to say the the extras from Tiger and Bunny out do any standard anime purchase I’ve seen before!
Overall:
I truly think Tiger and Bunny is for anyone with a vivid imagination, honestly. It’s definitely not boring, it’s not overplayed or over acted and it doesn’t make you cringe. The female characters do just as much, if not more, than the male characters so it’s in no way sexist. It has humour and action and it just looks incredible! Obviously if you’re not at all a fan of anime it’s going to be a little hard to get into but I would recomend it with everything I have and I truly consider this to be one of those Gateway Animes, much like Cowboy Bebop, which will get you hooked to the anime style and, for sure, it’ll get you hooked on this show. This is one of my favourite shows and I hope it’ll become one of your favourites too!
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Atlus released their hellish new co-op shooter God Mode to Steam and Xbox Live Arcade today. The game places four players who have all died in Hades to fight their way out against waves of the the undead and demons. The game features old school pick up and play mechanics wrapped up in a modern 3d shooter. Players will be able to customize their character’s outfits and their arsenal of weaponry.
Tests of Faith will challenge players by throwing in random modifiers in the game that can either benefit a lucky player or provide a near impossible challenge.
God Mode costs $9.99 USD or 800 Microsoft Points. PlayStation 3 owners will have to wait til April 23rd to download their copy.
Back in April 2012, it was announced that Shinji Mikami would be working on a survival horror game that would be published by Bethesda. Since then, “Project Zwei” as it was called, has been silent. That changed today when Bethesda and Mikami announced that Project Zwei is now called The Evil Within and will be released on the Xbox 360, PC, PlayStation 3 and next-gen consoles sometime in 2014.
To go along with the game’s announcement, the company released a scary two-minute teaser trailer which you can check out below. According to Mikami, the game will be a “perfect blend of horror and action” though if this teaser is anything to go by, it seems to be almost all horror right now.
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