Siren Visual have made a rather covert announcement of four new title acquisitions through their Facebook page this past week. Through several different Facebook posts Siren revealed the newly licensed anime series, but have not yet detailed their release plans for them. The following titles have been acquired by Siren:
Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales
Mawaru Penguindrum
The Book of Bantorra
Intrigue of the Bakumatsu
Siren have also posted an official announcement of these titles on their website which you can view here. What do you think of these new anime series being licensed by Siren Visual? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
In case you were having any trouble finding games from Korean powerhouse developer, Com2uS, they’ve now joined forces with German app developer HitFox.
HitFox’s debut app, Game Finder, tests, filters and recommends games for its users, as well as offering them exclusive deals. Joining the ranks of Gameloft, Kabam and TinyCo, Com2uS’ sizeable catalogue of popular games will now be suggested by the Game Finder app to players looking for a great new iOS game to kill time.
At the moment, the Game Finder app is only available on the iOS store in Germany, but HitFox assures us that it’ll be rolled out to other regions soon.
When you hear about a movie getting the video game treatment, a sigh is usually the first response that is made. When WayForward happen to be doing the project, glee replaces the doubt and a solid experience is almost always a guarantee. Yes folks, the all mighty WayForward are preparing to launch their adaptation of Hotel Transylvania for the 3DS and DS soon with the help of GameMill, and this little romp is looking quite temping thus far.
Here is a brief synopsis on what players can expect:
Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are — without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of his best friends — Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Werewolf family, and more — to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis’s 118th birthday. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem — but everything could change for the overprotective dad when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis.
Featuring a wide variety of locations, puzzles, and boss battles galore, the game creates an imaginative and fun way to interact with the movie characters.
Yeah, there is always doubt and cynicism when it comes to any licensed title, but my hype has began for Hotel Transylvania, as it looks to already have all the tools to become yet another gem from the makers of Shantae, Aliens: Infestation, and A Boy & His Blob. Hotel Transylvania is due out September 28th.
Transformers fans, prepare yourselves, as Fall of Cybertron is literally hours away from hitting shelves. As many of you know, War of Cybertron was a mega hit and loved by both hardcore and casual fans of the franchise due to it’s fluid, action packed gameplay and gobs of fan service.
Fall of Cybertron is prepared to offer even more this time around, and High Moon Studios have released yet another exciting trailer to celebrate the launch. Check out the clip below, and you can pick up your copy of Fall of Cybertron when it hits stores on August 21st.
I had to double check that this wasn’t a parody of a Japanese game, but no: Survival Penguin: Battle Royal is the real deal, the stuff that satirists hate, because it does their work for them.
Survival Penguin: Battle Royal casts players as penguins and other icy characters, aiming to knock each other off a glacier, into the freezing waters below. As the screenshots indicate, It’s unashamedly Japanese, and it’s probably fun to boot.
Even if it’s not, it’s currently free on the App store, until August 31st, so there’s not really a reason to not indulge in its unintended hilarity.
Glu announced that two of their newest games will hit iTunes this coming Wednesday, August 22nd.
Eternity Warriors 2 is the followup to the hit hack ‘n slash game Eternity Warriors. A hundred years have passed since the first Demon War, but now the demons have regrouped in a series of towers in northern Udar. Players must cleanse the Demon Towers. Eternity Warriors 2 boasts high definition visuals, fluid real time combat, dozens of new enemies and online co-op.
Ham on the Run is a one button touch running game featuring Ham the pig. Ham must avoid hazards as he collects power ups and tickets. Players will be able to use the ticket to spin the wheel and win prizes. There are over 150 missions to complete in Ham on the Run.
After so many years of warring between each other it looks like the Blue and Red factions have finally decided to put aside their differences and battle against a common enemy: the Machines. Valve’s renowned “most fun you can have online” game Team Fortress 2 Mann vs. Machine is now available as a TF2 update on Steam and ready to transform the fields of battle into junkyards. M vs. M is a 6 player Co-op game mode that throws you and 5 other friends (or random TF2 M vs. M players) against enormous waves of robot doppelgangers of our favorite mercenaries trying to plant a massive bomb on Mann Co.
The new mode includes 3 new maps (Mannworks, Coal Town and Decoy) that take advantage of the new features and allows the player to improve their abilities and weapons in-between wave breaks. It will also give players the opportunity to “earn incredible loot and unlock new achievements” in a variety of missions if the players manage to survive the coming onslaught of boss waves with even more challenging giant robots. Mostly everything is free-to-play as Valve introduced the Mann Up mode. This special mode is played on an official Mann Co. server which requires a “Tour of Duty” ticket costing $0.99 (£0.99 in the UK). All items earned in Mann Up Mode do not affect gameplay as they are for cosmetic purposes only and can be used “throughout all of TF2, and are tradable”.
Be sure to check out the trailer embedded below for more info.
US rock band Green Day are starring in a brand new episode of Angry Birds Friends, the Facebook spin-off title of the hugely successful causal mobile game.
This new episodes contain 10 Green Day themed levels with pig version of band members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool set to make an appearance in the game.
The band’s new single of their upcoming album ¡Uno! ‘Oh Love‘ features in the game along side an exclusive new track troublemaker.
The Green Day levels are currently only playable on Facebook, however there may be plans to extend them to iOS and Android versions.
Angry Birds Friends is playable for free over at Facebook. Green Day is set to release a trilogy of new albums with ¡Uno! Is set to arrive on Septerber 25, ¡Dos! On November 13 and ¡Tré! On January 15 next year.
If you were looking forward to downloading the new Scott Pilgrim vs. the World online multiplayer DLC yesterday then you may have been a bit shocked to find that this DLC was inexplicably absent from the marketplace. Well today Ubisoft has made a statement to Joystiq stating that “The DLC for Scott Pilgrim will be releasing this fall,” an Ubisoft rep told us. “The PSN version will release during that same timeframe. We’ll have more information as we get closer to launch.”
Sort of strange that the company, after two years, decided to set a release date for some DLC of this game, then for no apparent reason delay it for at least a couple of extra months. Sure it probably is among Ubisoft’s lowest priorities but they should still attempt to stay on top of things.
You remember that creepy looking Resident Evil 6 snake B.O.W. which was very briefly shown off a few weeks ago? Well today Capcom revealed their Gamescom gameplay footage, which can be seen below, to the rest of the world and in it we get to see Chris face off against said snake boss.
As one may expect, the snake attacks in somewhat predictable patterns and even tries to squeeze the life out of poor muscle-bound Chris Redfield. Those who are eager to take on this snake still have a little bit longer to wait as the game is meant to be released on October 2nd for the 360 and PS3 with a PC release sometime in the future.
