EA Mobile announced that they have increased on the original ten titles optimized for Amazon’s Android tablet the Kindle Fire. The original ten were released at the end of 2011 and the library has been now expanded to 24 titles. Players can now get their Plants Vs. Zombies fix in, make a run for the Super Bowl in Madden 12, or play classics such as The Game of Life and Tetris. “We have been supporting Amazon’s platforms since the beginning and we are delighted to continue this relationship by having some of our top tier games available to consumers immediately for this new device,” said Glenn Roland, VP of New Platforms for EA Social Mobile Publishing.
Konami have announced the Australian release date for Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 and it is not far away. PES 2013 will be available from September 20, beating out rival FIFA 13 by seven days (FIFA 13 will be released on September 27). These dates only concern the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game. The release dates for the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, PC, Nintendo 3DS and Wii versions are coming soon, Konami has said.
For those who love limited editions, PES 2013 will utilise their UEFA license to bring out a limited UEFA Champions League steelbook edition , which includes a copy of PES 2013, a special DLC code to redeem UEFA Champions League Match Balls used in past competitions and other UEFA goodies (which you can see below). A special digital t-shirt for your Xbox Live Avatar or Playstation Home avatar will also be included. UK fans also get a second limited steelbook edition based on English powerhouse Manchester United. These steelbook editions will only be available for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
The developer DMD Enterprise has announced the release date of Uprising44: The Silent Shadows as well as starting to take pre-orders for the game. Set to be available through digital distribution on September 15th for PC and Mac, players will get to experience the often overlooked Warsaw uprising during WWII.
Players will experience the story as a paratrooper dropped behind enemy lines, sent in to help and organize a resistance. Using third-person cover based gameplay and real-time strategy, players will combat the Nazis and hopefully do what they can to win on the occupied side.
Players can check out the trailer released in honor of now being able to pre-order below to see more about the game. The game is priced at 11.99 Euros hopefully available soon through a variety of digital distribution resources listed HERE.
Carbot Animations has just begun creating a new animated web series encompassing Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft franchise. Strictly meant to be a parody, Carbot Animations has created all animations but does not hold rights to the sounds or audio. The ending result is a short film that amuses avid StarCraft fans with plenty of inside jokes. Below you will be able to view the first two episodes created by Carbot Animations.
Episode I: Results of a Early Scouting Probe
Episode II: Zealot Rushing a Terran
Let us know what you think of this new series below, and find more updates at the twitter of @CarbotAnimations.
World of Warcraft junkies should be all over this one. On American “Football Sunday”, the first of several Mists of Pandaria ads will be unleashed during the NFL 49ers vs. Packers game (Sept. 9th @ 1:25 PT / 4:25 ET). Be ready to experience an unique rendition of Mists of Pandaria’s opening cinematic as well as some serious tackling prowess coming from Clay Matthews – so I am a little biased…
Mists of Pandaria will be released on Sept. 25th, so in the meanwhile pre-order a copy (here).
Once you check out the advertisement, come back here to share your thoughts. Let’s see if Blizzard sticks to their to repertoire and not show actual gameplay!
Earlier today us here at Capsule Computers were invited down to a preview session for the upcoming stealth / action game, Dishonored. In our interview we discuss some of the things in the game, like skills, the world and some of the levels. We also discuss some of the influences behind the art work and game itself.
In our interview we spoke with the Executive Producer of the game, Julien Roby. The interview is embedded below and we hope you enjoy it. Dishonored comes out on the 11th of October, 2012.
Here at Capsule we got a chance to give the new stealth-adventure game, Dishonored, a go and explore the old-yet-new world of Dunwall. We were given a chance at a stage that happens around the middle of the game, where you have to break into a party full of rich people, have a duel, and suss out who your target is and either dispatch her or let her escape.
The gameplay is pretty straight forward, and the game wants you to be stealthy in your approach rather than go around stabbing people in the throat. You can definitely try it, but unless you get really good at evading the chasing guards, you’ll probably end up killed. The most interesting element of the game is that there are a few ways to approach it, when you break into the house there are many ways to do it, with the standard creep along the walls and avoid guards, or even possessing other people (or animals, which is absolutely great fun and so useful) and going through like that. While guards are usually bumbling same-faced jerks who you can’t help but stab from the darkness, Dishonored also have these guards called ‘tallboys’ which are guards on high-powered stilts that make you want to hug the shadows even more. Nothing like a guard with the ability to fire missiles at you to encourage the stealth approach.
To help you out you also have special abilities, and thankfully we were placed at a stage in the game when he had all these fancy powers at his fingertips. Favourites, not only with us, but with Dishonored’s Executive Producer Julien Roby, are Blink and Posession.
Blink gives you the power to teleport short distances in front of you, which can be super handy if you’re trying to get yourself out of trouble. Posession was definitely my favourite, because there are just so many fun things you can do with it since you are not only possessing someone else, but your whole body seems to go into theirs for that amount of time, until you’re done or the spell expires and you are violently ripped back out. It unlocks so many doors that you wouldn’t usually have access too, being a small vermin animal definitely has its perks when there are a bunch of tallboys hunting you down. There is also the ability to slow down time, which does come in handy, but is nothing new to most games with powers.
There are some choices that you make within the game, though I’m not sure how far the consequences of those decisions reach, but this follows the trend that most games are taking with the whole moral choices. Of course with a game that is titled ‘dishonored’ it sort of encourages the less honourable choices to be made.
The abilities/weapons on the different hands is reminiscent of Bioshock, but it will take a bit more to get used to. In one example, I was having a duel (which is as cool and old school as it sounds) and I was given a pistol, which was held in his left hand because I guess my character liked to keep his knife hand for knifing, and when it came to crunch time instead of shooting the other guy I knifed the air. Because the left hand is controlled by the left trigger, and the right hand by the right trigger. Which sounds logical now, but when your automatic reaction to shoot is to pull the right trigger, well it might get a bit awkward.
All of that aside, it was great fun, had a really interesting storyline and the degree of freedom while still being a straightforward game means that there will be a degree of replayability not present in other games.
Dishonored is coming out on PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 11, 2012. For more information on the game keep tuned to Capsule Computers and make sure to check out our interview with the Dishonored Executive Producer Julien Roby.
With the release of Persona 4: Golden growing closer, Atlus USA has chosen today to release a slew of new English screenshots for the game. Each of these screenshots can be seen below, with a few of them focusing on some brand new content, including the new tsundere girl Marie. Though you may want to avoid the final picture down there, it contains some minor nightmare fuel.
In case you have forgotten, Persona 4: Golden also has a special premium edition version of the game which will come with a number of Persona 4 themed attachments for your Vita. Currently the title is listed for a release on November 20th, though this date may still change.
If you happen to remember Shank or Shank 2 then you probably are familiar with a certain company known as Klei Entertainment. Well if you aren’t familiar with them you should be, because their latest release will be hitting the XBLA tomorrow and will be available for purchase for 1200 MSP ($15). Those of you checking this out after the game has been released can purchase it here.
This title happens to be Mark of the Ninja and if you don’t know anything about it, you should check out the game’s launch trailer here. In this trailer we are shown some new ninja weapons as well as a few alternate costumes that will be available within the game.
Only a few weeks after the intial release of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, High Moon Studios have already announced new downloadable content packages. While day 1 character DLC packs have already been made available, the newest multiplayer update to the game, affectionately named the “Dinobot Destructor Pack” is set for release in only a week! Featuring the entire cast of Dinobot’s included in the campaign of FoC as multiplayer mod packages, this package will be a must have for fans of the original Transformers cartoon, or for people who just like the idea of rampaging robot dinosaurs. Check out the official news release from High Moon Studios below:
Now that fans have experienced the epic single-player campaigns and multiplayer modes of TRANSFORMERS: FALL OF CYBERTRON, we wanted to let you know that the team at High Moon Studios listened to fans and have been hard at work on exciting downloadable content to support the growing Fall of Cybertron community.
We are thrilled to announce that the legendary DINOBOTS will be playable in online multiplayer modes with the “Dinobot Destructor Pack,” set to launch next week for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
The DLC pack will include the following characters, which includes their full body + individual body parts for use in the multiplayer character creator.
