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The Heart of the Swarm Launch Event Site

February 5, 2013

It’s official! With the launch of Heart of the Swarm coming on March 12, Blizzard is gearing up by launching their very own launch event website (here). This particular site will present all of the Zerg infestations/launch parties happening around the world 24 hours prior to the title’s release.

What will take place at such infestations? As not all the events will be the same, Blizzard mentioned that each location may have eSports showmatches, box signings, special guests, and surprises which they are waiting to reveal. Here are the details for Melbourne’s own launch event:

LOCATION
Cnr. Swanston Street & Flinders Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

EVENT DETAILS
The Swarm’s global invasion begins in Australia! Join the Zerg rush to Federation Square in the heart of the city of Melbourne, Victoria. From 8 PM AEDT on Monday, March 11, you can be part of the excitement in person or via the live stream!

ACTIVITIES
Heart of the Swarm matches featuring top pro-gamers
Q&A with members of the StarCraft II development team
Cosplay Competition

EVENT SCHEDULE
8:00 P.M.
Event kicks off at Federation Square
MIDNIGHT
Stage activities end
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm available for pick up (final EB Games sales receipt required)
Blizzard autograph table opens
NOTE: One copy of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm autographed per person

Pingo Video Hoping to Score Fan Interest

Simon Wolfe

February 5, 2013

Pingo is new game that combines the basic concepts within Bingo and Poker to create an addicting puzzle that was specifically developed for the OUYA for the OUYA CREATE contest. Currently all the contest contestants have been entered, so all the developers can do right now is work on two things, the game itself and building fan reception to a video of the game, which helps to determine the winner.

In its current prototype form, Pingo has only two modes Casual and Speed Mode. Casual tasks players with building the best Poker hands in a 5×5 grid, where they match Bingo style; horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. While Speed Mode gives multiplies for quicker placement. However, there can definitely be many more ways to play in the completed game.

Pingo is being developed by 1-Pup Games whose creator and owner Eve Park, or The Girl With Blue Hair, can been seen in the video below talking about the game. Wanting those interested to share it out and help her to make the game she hopes to. Players can check out a small gallery of screenshots from Pingo below and those interested in helping playtest a web demo can find the contact email in the video too.

TMI Trivia Announced

Jamie Laike Tsui

February 5, 2013

EA Mobile announced their latest iOS game, TMI Trivia. The game is a pop culture and current events trivia game that personalizes the game to each and every player. The game will be personalized based of player’s Facebook profiles, iTune profiles, and survey answers provided by the player. TMI Trivia has content provided by Variety, SPIN, Celebuzz, and Fanhattan with more content partners in the future.

“There are three things that make TMi Trivia revolutionary,” said Jon Dean, Vice President and Executive Producer at EA All Play. “Firstly, our questions are fun because they are about topics you know and love, including music, TV, and movies. Secondly, TMi Trivia is a connected, social game, so the questions are always fresh and relevant. Finally, the game is personalized and adapted based on your interests and your friends’ interests. The more you play, the more the game gains intelligence of what you like, and it delivers content based on your past playing habits.”

The game is played with up to five players answering the same set of questions, racing against the clock. TMI Trivia will be free to download and play. The game will first launch in Canada followed by a worldwide release in the coming months. Find out more about TMI Trivia at the official Facebook page here.

Special Forces: Team X Video Blog Released

Simon Wolfe

February 5, 2013

Special Forces: Team X is coming out this week and to get out the word a little more Zombie Studios has released a video blog to give just a little update about the game. The video includes Creative Studio Head Jared Gerritzen and Andy Kipling talking just a little bit about the game, describing it as a “casual-core” third-person shooter.

Focused on team play in a variable environment featuring three parts that dynamically change between rounds for more than 100 combinations. Special Forces: Team X comes out February 6th, 2013, which the guys in the video are kind enough to remind as being a Wednesday. Interested players can check out the video blog embedded below and those interested in getting the game for Xbox 360 can download it when it releases for 1200 MS Points, or those wanting to get it for PC can pre-order it now and save 10% HERE.

New Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate screens and artwork released

Travis Bruno

February 5, 2013

Today Konami released not only a handful of screenshots for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate but also a large number of artwork and concept art images have been released as well. You can check out the images below.

For those who don’t know, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate is being developed by Mercury Steam and is set 25 years after the events that occurred during the first Lords of Shadow game and works as an in-between for the events of Lords of Shadow 1 and Lords of Shadow 2. Currently the game is set to be released exclusively on the 3DS on March 5th in North America and March 8th in Europe.

The Last of Us Gets Horrifying New Gameplay Trailer

Brad Webster

February 5, 2013

The Last of Us Gets Horrifying New Gameplay Trailer

Naughty Dog has just debuted another trailer for their enormously popular new I.P. The Last of Us. The video allows us to take a look at some more of the amazing action and atmospheric tension that has made the game so popular with fans and critics alike. Creeping through some abandoned subways in the dark may seem a bit creepy, but add in the randomly wandering, flesh-eating, fungal zombies and you have a recipe for some truly hairy moments.

The Last of Us will be released exclusively for the Playstation 3 and is set to hit stores around the world on an international release date of May 7th. Taking on the role of protagonist Joel and accompanied by Ellie (an A.I. controlled companion), gamers will be placed on the edge of their seats as they navigate a post-apocalyptic world to escape a harsh military regime and find safety from the infection.

A post apocalyptic game now with actual colour? Hurrah!

New teaser website contains Prey 2 references

Travis Bruno

February 5, 2013

Prey 2 has had a very strange history over the past few years. Two years ago at E3 2011, everything seemed fine and there were playable demo units set up at the Bethesda booth while giant screens played through the same amazing looking trailer over and over again.

However since then, news about the game has changed from trailers, hands-on and screenshots to talks about cancellations and a mystery as to what is happening with the game. Well it seems that there may be some news soon as a countdown site that contains mysterious symbols was placed online over the weekend. If you happen to check out the game’s source code you’ll see references to Prey 2 as well as Tommy from the first title. It has been said that the website will be fully revealed on March 1st, but it is currently unknown if that will remain true.

Skyrim’s PlayStation 3 DLC dated for Europe

Travis Bruno

February 5, 2013

While Bethesda has already announced when gamers in North America will finally be able to download The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s DLC for the first time ever, gamers in Europe have only had a vague release window to go on. Well today that changed when Bethesda announced the release dates for the DLC in Europe.

These dates shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, as in fact they are only one day after their American counterparts, but the Dragonborn DLC drops on February 13th while Hearthfire lands on February 20th and finally Dawnguard is to be released on February 27th.

It is worth noting that, going from Bethesda’s announcement, the French, Italian, German and Spanish versions of the game will not be able to download the DLC as of yet as they are still working with Sony to see a release date for these versions.

Full Color Dragon Ball Z Manga Covers Revealed

Travis Bruno

February 5, 2013

Today marks two announcements for the Dragon Ball Z manga. One, Viz’s digital Weekly Shonen Jump has just debuted the first color chapter of the manga, starting with Raditz landing on planet Earth. The second reveal today happened to be that the first three issues of the manga were released in Japan today and with that their covers have been revealed.

These are the first three covers to the full colored DBZ manga which is set to cover the Saiyan Saga as a whole. As for the continuation of the series, the five color volume of the Freiza Saga is currently scheduled to be released in Japan on April 4th. It is currently unknown whether Viz Media will release the physical volumes of the color DBZ manga overseas as of yet.

World Trigger manga to debut in Viz’s Weekly Shonen Jump next week

Travis Bruno

February 5, 2013

In the latest issue of Viz Media’s digital Weekly Shonen Jump it was announced that the brand new World Trigger manga by Daisuke Ashihara will be debuting in next week’s issue. Never heard of World Trigger? Well there is a very good reason for that and that reason happens to be that the manga hasn’t even debuted in Japan yet and is scheduled to make it’s debut next week in Japan’s own Shonen Jump magazine.

The debut of World Trigger will feature a few color pages and be 54 pages long and you can find Viz’s description of the series and an image of the announcement below:

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