If you enjoyed playing Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus on your PlayStation Vita when it was first released earlier this year, then you will be delighted to hear that Tecmo Koei and Team Ninja are planning on bringing Ninja Gaiden 2 to the PlayStation Vita as well in the form of Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus 2.
There is little information about the game at the moment considering it was just announced during Tecmo Koei’s Tokyo Game Show press conference today, but it is known that the game will be released sometime in early 2013 and that the game will be given the same treatment as Ninja Gaiden 1 was given for the Vita port.
You remember the game called Yaiba that we learned about last week? Well it turns out that that wasn’t the full name of the title. Keiji Inafune announced today during Tecmo Koei’s Tokyo Game Show event that the full game is actually called Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z. Are your minds blown yet?
When Inafune described the project he said that it was a “dream come true” and something he’s wanted to do since leaving Capcom. Tecmo Koei already stated they are teaming up with western developer Spark to make the title. As for that Yaiba name? Well it is the name of the new protagonist in Ninja Gaiden Z which is out to kill Ryu Hayabusa. You can check out the trailer below to see just how over the top this Ninja Gaiden will be, with robots, zombies and more.
Are you the type of player that likes card and board games, but having been liking a quality one for your tablet device? If you have then you just happen to be in luck as the League of Geeks has been designing the game for you. Part strategy, part board, and part card game Armello is a multiplayer experience set in a fairy tale animal kingdom. With a evil and mad king threatening the kingdom, four animal clans seek to claim the crown for themselves.
Involving around 15 developers, Armello was made for a fraction of the cost otherwise required as each developer is set to get their own portion of the profit. Don’t worry though as the title will be completely free to play, but still having an economy similar to games like League of Legends for those wanting more. Currently set to release in 2013 players can check out the gallery of screenshots below and the announcement trailer embedded below that.
R.A.W. or Realms of Ancient War has finally come out for the XBLA for Europe and US and the PSN for Europe, so Focus Home Interactive and WizarBox have uploaded a launch trailer for interested player to check out. While still a week out for the PSN in the US, i.e. September 25th, and a little less than a month out for PC, i.e. October 4th those players too can check out the trailer to prepare themselves and fill the wait.
R.A.W. tells the story of an evil threatening a continent already ripped apart, as the player guides one of the three characters, Fighter, Wizard, or Rogue, on a journey to find the source and save what’s left of the continent. Featuring cooperative play, so friends can join two of the three together to meet the evil, players can watch the launch trailer embedded below and check out the game on the XBLA or PSN.
Last night us here at Capsule Computers were invited down to a club in Sydney to celebrate the launch of the just released Borderlands 2. The event was full of fun and entertainment as well as an opportunity to go hands on with the game just before its launch here in Australia.
The event itself was an incredibly well decorated affair, with wanted posters of the main characters up on display, various awesome looking posters of characters from both games in the series and more. What was even cooler was that they had people dressing up as some of the bad guys from the game doing poses for everyones amusement. Better than that though, were the Borderland models. They were dressed to impress and were armed with Nerf gattling guns.
The game itself was set up on 5-6 different Xbox360 consoles and spread across the back wall of the room. What was really cool was that they were set up with co-operative multiplayer. This means that journalists and other forms of media were able to play together and experience the content more enjoyably than they would solo.
Speaking about the game, as you’d know, this is the sequel to the first Borderlands which appeared on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC devices. What’s interesting about this sequel is that whilst it’s still set on Pandora, it is the planet under a different kind of climate (from the portions I played). This gave the games already unique art-style an interesting feel to it, a way that separates it from the original whilst still feeling the same. For our full impressions of the game, be sure to check out our review when we get it up later this week.
What was quite interesting with this title was that the team have somehow been able to introduce even more weapons into the game in comparison to the first. So whilst you’ll have all of your familiar feeling stuff, you’ll also have plenty of new feeling toys to play with. This was quite cool.
The only thing that I’m disappointed with in regards to this event was that there wasn’t a PC version of the game available. As someone who rarely plays shooters on a console, I found that using a controller was really unnatural and weird. This is only a personal preference as I noticed console gamers having a much easier time with the control scheme. And honestly speaking, once I got used to the controls, they weren’t too bad.
Overall the event was an amazing time and it was incredibly cool to go hands-on with the game just before it launched. Everyone had a tonne of fun and I think that everyone at home will have as much fun as I did with this game, if not more.
Be sure to check out our gallery of images below. Right click and open in a new tab for an easier browsing experience.
While Playstation Plus members may already been enjoying Jet Set Radio in all its remade HD glory, regular Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC players can now download Jet Set Radio via PSN, XBLA and Steam respectively.
Originally released for the Dreamcast more than a decade ago in 2000, Jet Set Radio puts players in the crazy world of Tokyo-to where rollerblading graffiti gangs fight for control of the streets.
The game itself is incredibly unique, and hands down has one of the best video soundtracks ever made. And thankfully 99% of the game’s original soundtrack is in tack.
Also if you’re a massive fan of the game, you’ll be glad to know that SEGA hasre-released the game’s soundtrack featuring all Hideki Naganuma’s originals, Richard Jacques’ Everybody Jump Around and Toronto’s Electric Tooth Brush, however unfortunately does not include any other licensed tracks.
EA Australia recently held a press event for their upcoming instalment in the enduring Need For Speed franchise, a reboot of the relatively popular 2005 title Need For Speed: Most Wanted featuring the same name. Capsule Computer’s Benjamin ‘LinkageAX’ Webb got to sit down with the game’s producer Leanne Loombe to discuss the hotly anticipated racing game, as well as some more trivial things like car colours.
Q: Hi, could you tell us a little bit about who you are, your position in the company and your input on Need For Speed: Most Wanted?
A. Sure. My name is Leanne and I am a producer at Criterion Games. I produce the UI and Auto-Log for the game.
Q. How long have you been working for Criterion Games?
A. About a year.
Q. So you didn’t work on any of their classics like Burnout?
A. No I didn’t unfortunately.
Q. What exactly led you to work with Criterion? Where they always a company you wanted to work with?
A. Yeah, well I love cars and I love games so it’s the perfect job.
Q. Moving on to Need For Speed: Most Wanted. Have you played the original Most Wanted game?
A. Yes I have actually.
Q. What would you say makes this new Need For Speed: Most Wanted superior to the classic Need For Speed: Most Wanted?
A. As I said in my presentation [prior to interview] this is not a sequel at all. It is out own version, our own re-imagining of Most Wanted. We really loved the premise behind it – becoming the ‘Most Wanted.’ So we wanted to integrate that with friends. That is really important to us because of course friends is a part of everything and gaming is better with friends anyway.
So in our version of Most Wanted it is more about becoming the ‘Most Wanted’ amongst your friends. In the game’s open world you can be driving, racing, chasing, exploring and competing against your friends.
Q. With the previous Need For Speed game, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, it didn’t have as much customization in it as we were use to in this franchise. Will this game feature a deeper level of customization than Hot Pursuit?
A. Well we have a lot of gameplay customization, it is not all about visual, more about changing the way the car actually handles and such. As you progress through races, you will unlock mods for your car which you can equip. So in that way it gives a sense of ownership to the player of their actual car and obviously it can be tailored for the demands of the races as well.
The mods that we’ve got are tyres, so you’ve got offroad, track and re-inflates. Then you’ve got engine, chassis, transmission (so long gear and short gear) and nitrous as well.
Q. Yeah, cool. I recall you mentioning earlier during the presentation something along the lines of each players beginning with a different car in each race. Could you please explain why it is this way?
A. Of course. So with our version of Most Wanted we decided to throw convention out of the window and almost all of the cars available from the very start of the game. For example when you load up the game, the first car you find is going to be different to the first car that I find because you might be travelling in a different part of the world to me. Because it is an open world you can go where you want to go and find cars that you want to find essentially. So if there is a particular car you want you have to travel the world to find it.
Q. Okay. So tell us a little bit about progression in this title. Is it more linear or can you do things in your own way at your own pace?
A. Well you can do anything at your own pace and that’s what the ‘speed points’ system is for anyway. Everything that you do in the game is earning you speed points. You basically decide how you want to earn those speed points. There are all kinds of ways like collectables, destruction gameplay, going through billboards and speed cameras, getting in pursuits with cops and getting out of that, finding all of the cars and milestones in the game as well all of which get you speed points. There is also certain things you can do in the car like drifting, you know that kind of thing. Of course you’ve also got the races to get speed points with.
The single player progression side of things is that we keep 10 cars back from you in the open world. So they’re not actually available to you. They are called the ’10 Most Wanted Cars’ and you start at number 10 and work your way up to number 1. When you get enough speed points the ’10 Most Wanted Cars’ become available. You must do a one on one race with him and once you defeat him he will be released into the open world and you must go and find him and take him down. After you do that you get that car. So yes, that is the single player progression we have in there.
Q. Okay then, but is this progression part of some kind of story-line?
A. No you must defeat all of the ’10 Most Wanted Cars’ and you can become the ‘Most Wanted’
Q. So to confirm, there is no story-line at all in this game?
A. Nope. No narrative at all.
Q . Alright. With the 10 most speedy guys, which one has the fastest car? The one at the end?
A. Yes of course. So the number 1 ‘Most Wanted’ car is obviously the most desirable car. As you go through the ’10 Most Wanted’ cars they become more and more desirable as you go. Oh and they are all white.
Q. They’re all white?
A. Yep.
Q. Can you recolour them?
A. No they’re all white.
Q. What do you mean they are all white?
A. They are white in colour.
Q. Okay?
A. I mean in the original Most Wanted they are called the ‘Blacklist’ and this is our ‘Most Wanted’ list which has white cars instead.
Q. So you can’t recolour them at all? You can’t drive through something and spray paint them red?
A. [Laughing] Well I guess if you want to you can. But when you are actually racing them they are white.
Q. Oh I see, I just personally prefer a red colour.
A. [Still laughing] Okay!
Q. Moving on then. We had a go of the multiplayer and it seems pretty insane. Does it vary? We just pretty much played the same 5 match types over and over.
A. Yeah well obviously that is only a small sub-section for show here, so we can only keep it in one place of the world. But in the actual game, there will be many different speed lists for you to choose from. That’s not all though you can create you own speed lists. For example if there are certain events that you really like you could have a speed list of all those events.
There are 5 events to each speed list. The events are team race, race, challenge, speed test and within challenges and speed test there are lots of different variables. It really makes many different challenges in multiplayer.
Q. So is it drop in drop out multiplayer? Is it with randoms or friends?
A. Yes it is. You can do a public or private game and of course a friends game as well. Also if you are in single player free drive you can hit up easy drive multiplayer and you can stay where you are in the world and matchmaking will just happen. We are all about leaving you in the game world and not taking you out into any menus or anything like that.
Q. Cool. Just to finish this up, do you have any final comments about the game?
A. Well I just have to say that I think it is something unique to bring to Need For Speed like having all the cars available at the start and friends connectivity. It just means you get that unique gameplay and we think that is really powerful.
Q. Thank you for your time.
A. No, thank you!
That concludes our interview with Leanne Loombe producer at Criterion Games. You can check out our hands-on preview of Need For Speed: Most Wanted on mobile devices here and our console preview here. As always let us know what you think in the comments section below.
Hey there Planeswalkers! Tired of using the same old monochromatic decks in Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013? Are you a player who yearns for the use of a deck that isn’t limited by the imagination and play strategy of a single colour? Do you REALLY hate those ‘Protection from…’ cards? Or are you looking for more card game based challenges after systematically DESTROYING every opponent in the video game?
Then good news everyone! Today, Wizards of the Coast has released the first expansion pack for the most recent in the ‘Duels of the Planeswalkers’ video game series. Outfitted with brand new multi-coloured decks, brand new opponents and brand new challenges to test your mental mettle. Check out the official announcement from Wizards of the Coast below:
Today, Wizards of the Coast released the Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 Expansion. Available on Xbox LIVE Arcade, PlayStation Network, Steam (PC) and iPad*, the Expansion builds upon the highly-acclaimed game with content that sets the tone for the upcoming Return to Ravnica block. Featuring five of the guilds of Ravnica, players can begin to get a taste for what each guild stands for and what their playing style is.
The Duels 2013 Expansion alsoincludes the following new features:
Five additional playable decks: Take on your opponents with two-color decks that correspond to the Azorius, Golgari, Izzet, Rakdos, and Selesnya guilds.
More Campaign Levels: 5 new single-player campaign levels and 5 new single-player revenge campaign levels.
Five Additional Challenges: Added puzzles to solve.
Additional persona portraits, achievements and trophies to unlock, and more!
The hard hitting game of rugby league will return to consoles quite soon as Tru Blu Entertainment have revealed the release date of Rugby League Live 2. Australian and New Zealand rugby league fans can expect the game on October 11 for both the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. The game is being developed by Big Ant Studios, who were behind Rugby League Live and AFL Live. This is the second game for the sport of rugby league.
Rugby League Live 2 will feature competitions from Australia and England, with clubs from New Zealand, Wales and France involved in those competitions. The game will also feature improvements and changes to gameplay, a 10 year career mode and commentary from series regular Andrew Voss and newcomer to the series Phil ‘Gus’ Gould. Both are part of Australian channel Channel Nine’s rugby league coverage.
Sony started off the Tokyo Game Show festivities with a press conference today, which is the day before the big event starts. During the conference, a ton of new announcements flowed out of the conference. Want to see what they were? Well, this article is all about bring all of the news together for your convenience. You can check out each article below:
In other news, the Playstation Store will be getting a change in appearance to coincide the release of the Super Slim PS3. No other details were revealed except for an October implementation. Sony also diverged into their Tokyo Game Show. In total, there will be 60 games playable: 30 PS3, 27 PS Vita and 3 PSP. The PSP will also receive a price cut in Japan, although to what price was not discussed. Gaikai, Sony’s newly acquired cloud service, also made an appearance, although not much was discussed.
