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Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut gets Website

The release of Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut is drawing closer and closer and while sadly today is not that day, those that are looking forward to the game do now have a new hub to find everything they could want about it.  Now the official website for the game has come online, so players can check out everything from screenshots, to video, to information on what all makes it a director’s cut.

With additional content in the form of improved graphics, additional story, and exclusive DLC.  Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut is the release of the cult game, with cults, for the PlayStation 3 for Europe and North America as its original release didn’t quite make it out of Japan on anything besides Xbox 360.

Players that are interested in Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut, that haven’t done so yet, can also pre-order the game through the new website, so be sure to check it out HERE.

Raptr Offering Defiance Codes

Raptr has teamed up with Defiance developers Trion Worlds to provide players with a chance to not only gain access to the Defiance Beta, but digital copies of the game for PC as well.  They will be giving out a total of 10,000 codes to get players into the Beta to check out what the upcoming game will have.

Starting today players will be able to get these codes, so be sure to check out the details for how to qualify for one yourself HERE.  Defiance the game will be interconnected with the Defiance TV series starting on SyFy next month, with both impacting the other.  So getting a chance to play the Beta now is a great chance to learn more about the game, but the entire world it’s set in.

The Defiance game will be releasing April 2th, 2013 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, while the the Defiance TV series will be starting April 15th, 2013.

New Inazuma Eleven GO Game Announced

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A brand new Inazuma Eleven GO game for the Nintendo 3DS has been officially announced through the latest CoroCoro magazine. The game will be titled Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy and will revolve around the revival of the legendary Inazuma Japan team.

The game will focus on the revived Inazuma Japan team passionately try to reclaim the title of best soccer team in the entire world. You can see a scan of CoroCoro magazine up above which displays the entire Inazuma Japan team that will be part of Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy. It seems that this game will tie-up the Inazuma Eleven GO series.

What do you think of Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy? Be sure to let us know what you think in the comments section below.

New Gintama Movie details and poster revealed

Gintama-Final-Chapter-MovieNew details have come to light on the upcoming 2013 Gintama film through the latest Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. The film now has an official title of Gintama the Movie: Final Chapter – Be Forever Yorozuya.

Also revealed was a poster for Gintama the Movie: Final Chapter which can be seen to the right. The film will feature an original story written by Gintama creator Hideaki Sorachi an will be released July 6th, 2013 throughout Japan.

The Gintama anime series is rumoured to be once again ending due to a new anime titled Aikatsu! being slated to be taking over Gintama’s time-slot on April 4th so it would make sense if this film is intended to truly be the ‘Final Chapter’ of the series.

Be sure to let us know what you think of Gintama the Movie: Final Chapter – Be Forever Yorozuya in the comments section below.

Loveshack Entertainment Formed

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Three former Firemint senior developershave formed a new game studio called Loveshack Entertainment. The team announced their fist game entitled Framed, a noir comics inspired puzzler that gives players a chance to control the narrative of the story.

“Josh and I really clicked when we worked together on SPY mouse. But we were also both finding that whilst we loved working at Firemint, we wanted to stretch our creative muscles outside of a larger company,” said Adrian Moore, co-founder of Loveshack Entertainment. “With Ollie joining the team, we’re now ready to unleash our love on the world.” The team will be focused on more creative game projects at their new digs in Melbourne, Australia.

Check out Framed’s concept video below. The game will be released for tablets and PC in late 2013.

DD Fist of the North Star trailer released, Ken gets super-deformed

dd-fist-of-the-north-starFans of the Fist of the North Star franchise will be delighted to see that as part of the 30th anniversary celebrations for the series a brand new Fist of the North Star spin-off anime will be airing this year, but not quite in the way you’d expect.

DD Fist of the North Star takes the franchise into super-deformed chibi comedy territory, something the franchise has never seen before. A brand new trailer for DD Fist of the North Star can be seen below.

What do you think of DD Fist of the North Star? Be sure to let us know in the comments section below.

Super Tower Rush hits IndieGameStand

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IndieGameStand’s latest 96 hour deal is Super Tower Rush. The game  is a competitive platformer set in a special tower that granted wishes. Unfortunately, to get your wish granted, two people must race down the tower and the winner gets their wish. Single player and split screen multiplayer is currently supported. Online multiplayer will be implimented in a future update. The game is currently in alpha status and is beign developed by a co-creater of previously featured game Pixelry and the creator of Antipodes. All buyers will receive all updates to the game for life. Those who beat the average will receive the official soundtrack and 14 wallpapers.

The game comes as a DRM free download or as a Desura redeemable key for those who pay more than $1.00 for the game. 10% of the profit will go to support Open Source Ecology. Check out the game here.

Three Games Added to Humble Bundle for Android 5

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Humble Bundle sweetened the deal on Humble Bundle for Android 5 by adding three new games. Those who have beaten the average price for the bundle will now also get Capy’s game Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Cipher Prime’s puzzler Splice, and Kloonigames’ puzzler Crayon Physics Deluxe. The games three new games are available on Android, Linux, Mac, and PC. In addition, the soundtrack for Crayon Physics Deluxe and the complimentary album for Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery are included.

A portion of the profits go to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child’s Play Charity. Check out the Humble Bundle with Android 5 here.

Blazing Souls – Accelate Released for iOS

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The latest installment of the Spectra Souls series was released to iTunes. The tactical JRPG was originally released on PlayStation 2 in 2006 and has been ported onto several platforms since then. The iOS releasewill provide gamers with 100 hours of gameplay, high resolution graphics for use on TVs via AirPlay or Retina displays, and a revamped battle system. The game is a sequel to Spectral Souls – Resurrection of the Ethereal Empires and features over 80 playable characters, 900 skills, and 200 unique items.

Blazing Souls – Accelate is a universal app  and costs $13.99. The game weighs in an a hefty 1gb. It is available on iTunes here.

Bitsquid engine coming to PlayStation 4

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More and more PlayStation 4 announcements are being made, even before Microsoft have made a single announcement involving the new Xbox.

The engine behind PlayStation Network and Steam puzzler Hamilton’s Great Adventure is coming to the PlayStation 4. Bitsquid have announced that their self-titled Game Engine will soon be available for licensing on Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation 4, this signifies a promising flexible production platform for developers.

CEO Johan Stromberg has said

“We are proud to be a part of this important event and welcome this powerful new console on which we will see many amazing new games.”

The high end game engine is built to focus on performance, flexibility and productivity. It is expected to be usable on a large variety of games and platforms.

This software joins other middleware solutions such as the Unreal Engine 4, PhysX, Geomerics and Xaitment, all of which have said they will support the PS4.

Samples of the game engine can be seen here.