In what should come as no surprise to anyone, popular franchises and characters sell consoles. This week the PlayStation Vita received a serious boost in sales thanks to the fact that Hatsune Miku Project Diva f was released exclusively on the PlayStation Vita. In fact, the game sold nearly 160,000 copies on its own while the Vita was able to top charts with 50,070 units sold.
The fact that Hatsune Miku Project Diva f sold so well isn’t too much of a surprise as the Vocaloid has quite a following in Japan, though considering the fact that the four of the five best selling games in Japan that week were brand new, it does show the power of the virtual idol.
The top 5 selling games can be seen below courtesy of 4Gamer:
If you thought that you were going to be getting a dose of a different kind of Mass Effect soon well, looks like you’ll have to wait a month and a half longer than expected. Originally scheduled to hit stores on November 13th, the Mass Effect anime, Mass Effect: Paragon Lost, has been delayed until December 28th.
This news comes from the anime’s official Twitter, though they have still reminded people to pre-order the title despite the delay. For those interested in seeing what they can expect, a sample of the English dub and the anime’s plot can be seen in the trailer below, though the last few seconds should be ignored as they are now inaccurate.
If you happen to be a PC gamer then you likely have experienced some of Ubisoft’s DRM measures since they have incorporated them into practically every single delayed PC game they have released since they implemented the system. Well that won’t be the case any longer as Ubisoft is claiming that they have discontinued their use of this terrible DRM.
In a statement to Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Stephanie Perotti from Ubisoft stated the following:
“We have listened to feedback, and since June last year our policy for all of PC games is that we only require a one-time online activation when you first install the game and from then you are free to play the game offline.
“Whenever you want to reach any online service, multiplayer, you will have to be connected, and obviously for online games you will also need to be online to play. But if you want to enjoy Assassin’s Creed III single player, you will be able to do that without being connected. And you will be able to activate the game on as many machines as you want.”
Whether this is true or not has yet to be seen, though if it does happen to be true, this is a small gift to PC gamers who have long had to deal with multiple issues with Ubisoft over the years.
While many manga are cancelled prematurely due to lack of popularity it was particularly surprising when brand new series Barrage was cancelled from serialisation in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.
So what was so surprising about Barrage getting the axe? Well it was the fact that many had believed the series would be safe due to the fact that Viz Media had picked it up from the get go for serialisation in their digital manga anthology Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha, making it one of the fastest translated manga of all time. Two weeks after it’s original debut in Japan it was translated into English by Viz for Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha.
This is certainly disappointing news for fans of the manga, but with weeks of ranking at the bottom of Jump’s polls was writing on the wall for this series. With only one chapter left (chapter 15), Shueisha promises it will be the ‘stunning conclusion’ of Barrage. What do you think of Barrage being cancelled? Let us know in the comments section below.
If you were hoping that the next big update for the XBLA version of Minecraft would be coming soon with the “Adventure” update then you still have plenty of time to wait. Minecraft XBLA’s developer 4J Studios went to Twitter stating that update 1.8.2 is “still weeks away.”
To be a bit more specific, the company said “We’re still working on 1.8.2. A few things left to add, more work on the Creative Mode interface, then lots of test.” For those who don’t know, the Adventure update will add in NPCs, villages, strongholds and more. There will also be a Creative mode added soon which will allow players to build whatever they want without mining anything.
Remember two weeks ago when we were given information about an announcement concerning High School DxD today? Well that announcement has come and it is as we thought, a High School DxD is going to be given a second anime season.
The announcement was made with the release of the 13th High School DxD light novel and the Blu-ray Disc bundled with the release. The above image not only announces season 2, but also reveals a number of new characters that will be introduced in the second season, such as the blue-haired Xenovia and the extremely shy Gasper.
In true DxD fashion, the tagline at the bottom of the video is one that would match the main character Issei perfectly, for it says “Let’s go!! Boobs!!”
Hello Games, the UK developer that brought Joe Danger: Special Edition to the XBLA has announced that its sequel Joe Danger 2 The Movie will be releasing to XBLA September 14th this year. Set to feature even more than the original game, Joe Danger 2 will have 100 scenes and more than 20 vehicles for Joe Danger to use. A big release for the small team at Hello Games, the sequel to the hit game will feature up to 40 hours of gameplay and the ability to play against online ghosts of anyone who’s played the game.
Even better, for anyone that hasn’t downloaded a copy of Joe Danger: Special Edition, the game is now at half price or 600 MS points, in honor of the upcoming sequel. So, those looking to try out the original can do so for cheap and get a taste of what will be coming for Joe Danger 2.
Of Orcs and Men has released a new video, but don’t be expecting more gameplay footage or a more in-depth look into the game’s story. This time around the video is focused on the music of the game and includes a who’s done what throughout the music’s progress from composition to implementation.
The trailer, whose audio solely features the game’s music, gives a very good impression of what the game is going to sound like when it finally releases, and also shows off some of the folks who have been working on it, from the recording engineer, to the musicians in the Boston Cello Quartet. Players interested in checking out the video and hearing what the game has to offer in terms of sound can find it embedded below.
Of Orcs and Men is slated to release in October 2012 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
Last night, us here at Capsule Computers were invited to attend a ghost tour in celebration of the latest Sims 3 expansion pack: The Sims 3 Supernatural — and to play around with the game some more. The event was held at a somewhat famous haunted bar here in Australia called The Hero of Waterloo, where a woman was apparently killed after being pushed down a flight of stairs. Spooky.
The event started with people arriving at around the time of the events start. Us gaming media and journalists started filling the room one after the other over a short period of time. It was a more intimate deal than an overly crowded one, I estimate there was about 10 people in presence all up, including the staff with EA.
I wont talk too much about how The Sims 3 Supernatural plays, as this version was identical to the version we previewed a month or two ago, but I will say that it was interesting participating in this scenario that I had set up for myself. Basically, with this one goal that I had set, I had to take my fairy girl that nobody seemed to like and get her to seduce some rich guy in order to become her sugar daddy. Yes, she was poor – I think the repo man took some of her stuff – but this was definitely a challenge that I could achieve… right?
Nope. Wrong. In all of the over an hour of gameplay that I had sunk into the game, I was nowhere near close to picking up a dude. The closest that I had gotten was a few Sims hating on me and this one guy in a labcoat who was at a much more minor level of red. It’s like they knew. Damn them.
After a while of playing the game and having some media dressing up in lame costumes, it was time for the ghost tour of spookiness. We all headed down stairs and kind of lost the tour initially, as we do (who reads the Dungeon Map?), but we eventually found the guides, who were just around the corner. From there we filled a room that was reminiscent of a jail cell and were told a spooky tale about how this pub owners wife was murdered by her husband via a flight of stairs.
After the story we had a bit of a poke around and took some photos. No we did not meet any ghosts, nor were any of us spooked or scared. I did break a laptop though, so that’s something.
Be sure to check out the photo’s of the event below or on our Facebook page.
There is roughly a month to go until the EB Expo invades Sydney Olympic Park in all it’s gaming glory. Well if you hadn’t made up your mind on whether or not to be apart of it all by attending the event, perhaps the line up of playable titles at the event will make it a done deal for you?
So far confirmed to be fully playable at the EB Games Expo are huge titles such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Halo 4, Assassin’s Creed 3 and Medal of Honor: Warfighter. Also playable will be God of War: Ascension, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Injustice: Gods Among Us and Tomb Raider. The full list of confirmed titles is as follows:
Call Of Duty®: Black Ops II (multiplayer)
Farcry 3 (Single & Multiplayer)
Halo 4
Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Aliens Colonial Marines
Epic Mickey 2
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
WWE’13
Forza Horizon
Lost Planet 3
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Rocksmith
God of War: Ascension™ (single player)
Tomb Raider
Skylanders Giants
XCOM Enemy Unknown
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Pro Evolution Soccer 2013
Silent Hill Book of Memories
PlayStation® All-Stars Battle Royale™
NBA2K13
Dragon Ball Z Kinect
Kinect Nat Geo TV
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Borderlands 2
Wonderbook™: Book of Spells
Assassins Creed® III: Liberation (PS Vita)
Assassins Creed® III (Single & Multiplayer)
Nike + Kinect Training
Resident Evil 6
Dance Central 3
Fable the Journey
FIFA 13
Kinect Sesame Street TV
F1 Race Stars
Just Dance 4
Ghost Recon Future Soldier
LEGO: The Lord of the Rings
Injustice – Gods Among Us
Hitman Absolution
Surely the chance to play these games before they even hit stores in Australia is an enticing offer that you cannot refuse. If you can’t resist anymore you can purchase your tickets to event now at the official EB Games Expo website here. The EB Expo is set to take place from the 5th of October to the 7th of October in what amounts to a 3 day gaming extravaganza. Be sure to let us know what you think in the comments section below.
