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Clean your touchscreens… Dead or Alive 5 Plus hits stores today

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March 20, 2013

Clean your touchscreens… Dead or Alive 5 Plus hits stores today

Today fans of Dead or Alive, fighting game fans or even those who are looking for something new on the PlayStation Vita will be happy to hear that Tecmo Koei’s Dead or Alive 5 Plus is now available for purchase at retailers and is also downloadable from the PlayStation Store.

Of course if you’re concerned about the quality of the game you can always download the demo which lets players use Kasumi, Hayabusa, Eliot, and Tina in cross-play online battles with eight stages to fight on and the new touch screen first person combat.

The full game costs $39.99 and contains everything the console version of Dead or Alive 5 has to offer including cross-play with the PlayStation 3 and the aforementioned touch screen combat that allows players to fight opponents from a first person view and fight using various taps, swipes and squeezes on the Vita’s touchscreen.

CastleStorm’s Multiplayer Modes Detailed

Luke Halliday

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March 20, 2013

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CastleStorm’s Multiplayer Modes Detailed

Zen Studios have revealed the details of their upcoming title CastleStorm’s multiplayer modes. The game is a 2D real-time strategy physics-based destruction game from the people who brought us the excellent arcade pinball series Zen Pinball.

CastleStorm is filled to the brim with exciting multiplayer and co-op gameplay modes for players to sink their teeth into. Both multiplayer and co-op modes can be played both locally through split-screen play and online.

The modes available in CastleStorm are as follows:

1 vs. 1 split-screen mode: Classic deathmatch style combat with the goal of destroying your opponents castle. One side plays as the noble Knights and the other plays as the dastardly Vikings.
Survival Co-op: Team up with your friends to take down waves of enemies.
Last Stand Co-op mode: Fight off waves of enemies and stay alive as long as you possibly can.

Zen Studios have released a new trailer which details the multiplayer and co-op aspects of CastleStorm. You can see the multiplayer trailer for CastleStorm below. For more information on CastleStorm be sure to check out the official website here.

Runaway: A Twist of Fate to be Released on iOS

Jamie Laike Tsui

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March 20, 2013

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Runaway: A Twist of Fate to be Released on iOS

Brian and Gina from the iconic adventure game Runaway are returning to iOS with Runaway 3: A Twist of Fate. The game was originally released on PC in 2009 and will now see a release for iPad and iPhone. The first part of Runaway 3: A Twist of Fate will be released on March 28th, 2013 with the second part to follow soon after.

The first part of the game features over 12 hours of gameplay and follows Brian and Gina after Brian fakes his own death. Players will take the role of Gina for the first time, as she works to prove Brian’s innocence.

Runaway: A Twist of Fate is the final chapter in the Runaway saga. The first chapter will cost $3.99 USD. Check out the official trailer below.

Soul Hackers’ combat and demon fusion shown off in latest trailer

Travis Bruno

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March 20, 2013

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Soul Hackers’ combat and demon fusion shown off in latest trailer

Today Atlus USA released a new gameplay trailer for their upcoming 3DS dungeon crawling RPG, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers. In this trailer we are shown a few clips of the game’s combat system as well as some of the demon fusions that players will have to perform to strengthen their party.

Also included in the video is more of the game’s English voice work which sounds pretty decent. Currently Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers is set to be released on the Nintendo 3DS in North America on April 16th. Currently it is unknown whether Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers will be released in Europe as no announcement has been made at this time.

New Hunter x Hunter Chimera Ant Arc Visual Revealed

Luke Halliday

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March 20, 2013

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New Hunter x Hunter Chimera Ant Arc Visual Revealed

In the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump a new visual for the upcoming and hotly anticipated Hunter x Hunter Chimera Ants arc was revealed. The new visual which can be seen in the scanned image above features the character designs for all three Royals Guards and of course the Chimera Ant King himself Meruem.

The 2011 Hunter x Hunter anime which is currently airing will be finally entering the Chimera Ant arc on April 21st, 2013. The previous anime series ended before the Chimera Ants arc and thus has left quite a strong desire from fans of the Hunter x Hunter manga to see this arc animated. The arc is often touted as the best of the entire manga.

At this point there has not been any confirmation in terms of casting for Meruem, Neferpitou and the rest of the Royal Guards. It was confirmed however that legendary voice actor Shuichi Ikeda will be playing the role of Gon’s childhood mentor Kite.

With the rise of the Chimera Ants it looks like Gon and friends will surely have their work cut out for them, but its nothing Gon’s ‘Janken’ couldn’t handle right?

Introducing ‘JoJoveller’ the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure artbook box set

Frank Inglese

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March 20, 2013

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Introducing ‘JoJoveller’ the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure artbook box set

On September the 9th of this year Shueisha will release an artbook collection box set for the incredible spectacle that is JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.

Named “JoJoveller” this box set will include the following: An artbook, two supplementary books and a two disc Blu-ray set. Not only will this book be filled with 208 pages of brilliant, full colour artwork it will also contain a brand-new cover image (specially drawn for JoJoveller) and will show a great deal of the art from the 2012 JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure exhibition in Tokyo.

The two books that come with the boxset will be a “Stand Book” which is an encyclopaedia on all of the stands from the series and a “History Book” that will include a story that has, so far, been untold!

Pre-orders for this will open on may the 7th going for roughly 20,000 yen or about US$211. A second collection, without the Blu-ray discs, will ship in spring of next year for under half the price.

The JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure official YouTube Channel is currently streaming promotional videos for the upcoming collection.

The Featured video for this page is a JoJoveller special that outlines the history of the entire franchise and it’s run. The two shown directly below are little snippets of what can be seen on the two Blu-ray discs that come with the collection.

Video Of The Tokyo Exhibition:

Video Of Araki At Work:

Voodoo Chronicles: The First Sign Coming to European PSN

Simon Wolfe

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March 20, 2013

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Voodoo Chronicles: The First Sign Coming to European PSN

Fans of hidden object games or maybe even adventure games should be interested in the fact that Voodoo Chronicles: The First Sign from developer Space Monkey International Games will be making its way to the European PSN, thanks to publisher Sanuk Games. The press release describes the game as “one of the most impressive hidden-object adventure games ever made,” and now players in Europe will get a chance to experience it for themselves on their PlayStation 3.

Voodoo Chronicles: The First Sign features more than 50 scenes to investigate with puzzles to solve and plenty of objects to find, as main character James Voodoo attempts to solve a series of attacks. The PlayStation 3 edition will also be adding HD graphics for up to 1080p and allow players to use a DualShock or PlayStation Move controller, even including co-op for two players to work together.

Voodoo Chronicles: The First Sign will be coming to the European PSN April 3rd, 2013 for €4.99 for all territories except for Denmark, Norway, Poland and Turkey; however, it will be coming to those territories, as well as America and Asia sometime later.

Origin Users at Risk from Origin Store Hack

Mari Shishido

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March 20, 2013

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Detailed in a paper by Luigi Auriemma and Donato Ferrante of ReVuln, Origin users are at risk from a fairly simple hack used in the Origin store. What is basically done is that when the player opens a game, a hacker can replace some code so that the player actually opens a malicious link. The graph below visualizes this idea.

In the paper, the authors describe how this can be done, in addition to how they can find the essential player data in order to pull off the hack.

An attacker can bruteforce the Game ID ﬁeld in the URI in order to ﬁnd a vulnerable game installed on the victim’s system […] This way,an attacker can perform a no-look attack against remote systems,without having any knowledge of the specific games installed on the remote system itself.

A proper way to prevent this is to set your browsers to prompt or disable the origin:// handler. The paper itself goes into further detail. All machines with the Origin software installed are at risk, including non window machines. If your browser supports custom URI handlers, you are at risk.

From the Creators of Bastion, Transistor Reveal Trailer

Mari Shishido

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March 20, 2013

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Transistor is the next game from Supergiant Games, the makers of Bastion. Transistor is a going to be a Sci-Fi themed action RPG with plans to be released in early 2014. The trailer boasts a wonderful song called “We All Become” by Darren Korb, while showing off a beautiful art direction. From the little you see of game play, it seems to be on par with Bastion.

To find out more details about the upcoming game, go to the Supergiant Games website, or follow them on twitter as they answer questions about the game. They will be having an FAQ up soon, so stay tuned.

Atelier Totori Plus released in English on the PlayStation Store; Dual-Audio included

Travis Bruno

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March 20, 2013

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Woah. I mean, this is great news but Tecmo Koei has really caught everyone by surprise here. Today with the PlayStation Store’s update the company has released the PlayStation Vita port of Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland in English without even saying that they were actually going to do it.

While the game was rated for release in Australia, Tecmo Koei never mentioned that they had any plans of releasing the game overseas, so this is certainly a great surprise though probably some form of marketing would have been good. The title is available for download at the PlayStation Store for $39.99 and if you buy the game before April 16th you will unlock the “Devil Bikini” and “Angel Swimsuit” costumes for Totori. It is also worth noting that early buyers of the game have stated that the game does include both the original English voice work recorded by NIS America and the Japanese voice track as well.