BBC has announced that its darling, Doctor Who, will be soon receiving a new trailer for its upcoming Series 7. Series 7, as previously peeked at, will mark the departure of Amy and Rory Williams-Pond (Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill respectively) , and herald a new companion for the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith.
The Doctor Who Team on the BBC blogs announced on Monday that there will be a 90 second preview of “blockbuster excitement” that will air on BBC One on Thursday, August 2 in the evening.
While Whovians have been sating themselves on previews, convention panels, and behind the scenes photos, this is another thing to watch out in anticipation for!
Bulkypix has announced a major sale on their smartphone and tablet games from August 1st to 19th. Not all the titles in the sale have been announced yet. Each day brings a new Bulkypix game on sale!
August 1st – Pix N Love rush DX is at $0.99! No more waiting, take it now. August 2nd – Are you out of touch with the real world? Not a chance; just take advantage of Another Worldat$0.99 August 4th –My Brute: Discount on packs of potion and tools! August 5th – RPM Gymkhana Racing is at $0.99. Not need to think! It’s gonna drive you crazy! August 6th – Fruity Jelly is now free. Fruit Time!
Beyond Home Entertainment have just confirmed through their latest press release that they will indeed be releasing a special combo pack of the highly successful Pokemon: Black and White Movies exclusive to Blu-Ray.
Both Pokemon the Movie: Black and Pokemon the Movie: White will be compiled into a two disc collection, which is slated for release on the 5th of September. The Blu-Ray combo pack will retail at a price of $29.95. You can check out our review of both films here.
What do you think of this news? Will you be picking up this combo pack release of Pokemon the Movie: Black and Pokemon the Movie: White? Let us know in the comments section below.
Welcome to this past week in gaming, anime, pop culture and whatever else happened. We travelled to THQ’s Darksiders II event at Sun Studios and got to preview several new titles such a South Park: The Stick of Truth, WWE 13 (is it as glitchy as WWE 12?) and of course Darksiders II. We also headed to EA’s offices in Sydney for some hands on time with Medal of Honor: Warfighter. On the anime front we interviewed Japanese idol’s Sakura Tange and Yuko Miyamura, oh and Hetalia is getting a 5th season. What else happened? Scroll down to find out… or else!
When you get a game like Compile Heart’s Mugen Souls coming to North America, the ESRB has quite a large job on their hands. Surprisingly, NIS America’s upcoming release managed to escape the ESRB with only a T for Teen rating, though this rating came with a rather large explanation.
See what the ESRB had to say about the game below:
In this role-playing game, players control Chou-Chou, an “undisputed god” attempting to forcibly take over her universe. As players explore the solar system, they can engage in turn-based combat with human-like characters and fantasy creatures. Players choose weapon strikes and special attacks from a menu screen (e.g., Rainbow Tower, Two-Part Cut); damage is indicated by slashing sounds, light effects, and a loss of hit points.
A number of cutscenes depict female characters whose bodies are partially obscured by hot-spring mist and soap suds. During one such scene, a nearby male character suffers a nosebleed, resulting in exaggerated blood effects (e.g., “There it goes! The Red Ryuto Geyser!”).
Players can also access gallery images depicting women in revealing outfits that expose large amounts of cleavage/buttocks. The dialogue and on-screen text include several instances of sexual innuendo/references (e.g., “What if he wrote about his weird habits or sexual fantasies or something,” “CC Sadist,” “I’m just a perverted girl who likes verbal abuse. Please scold me,” and “Marina, lemme grab your boobies.”). The words “sh*t,” “a*s,” and “b*tch” also appear in dialogue.
Not much has been said about Acquire’s PlayStation Vita rhythm game, Orgarhythm, since E3 where a few pieces of gameplay footage and screenshots were revealed. Well today Acquire released a new promotional video to help prepare gamers for the title’s release on August 9th to Japan.
It’s worth noting that despite the video being released by the Japanese developer, it is perfectly comprehensible for those eager to learn more about Orgarhythm. Meaning you should probably check it out below because XSEED Games is planning on releasing it at some point in North America, though an exact release date has yet to be announced.
DRM always seems to be an issue for everyone except for the video game publishers levying such punishments on the games purchased by consumers. Today we’ve not only heard about Uplay’s plug-in allowing hackers free reign on your computer, but now people can’t even play the game’s they paid real money for.
It turns out that anyone who has picked up Batman: Arkham Asylum from Steam’s Summer Sale has actually been unable to play the game because the Steam and SecuROM services will not activate authentication keys. Destructoid reports that Warner Bros. has made a statement to people saying that they are looking into the problem though Valve is keeping tight lipped about the issue. Seems that no matter what a company tries, they are only pushing consumers to easier, less intrusive, more secure ways of playing their games through nefarious means…
When Gamescom kicks off in a few weeks on August 15 in Germany Square Enix is going to be bringing a whole bunch of stuff to show off during the four day event. First they will be showing off, for the first time ever, gameplay from the newly revamped Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. There will even be a signing session with Game Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida.
To go along with this first time reveal they are also providing hands-on experiences for Hitman: Absolution, Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs and a number of the companies’ upcoming PC releases such as Final Fantasy VII, Quantum Conundrum and Gameglobe.
The mobile line up will include the following games; Final Fantasy Dimensions, KooZac, Motley Blocks, Qwirkle, SolarRola and Mensa Academy. Not a bad looking line up on all platforms.
Dragon’s Dogma turned out to be quite a large success for Capcom, and although the title may not have done as well as they wanted overseas, it performed excellently in Capcom’s home country of Japan. As such, not only is Dragon’s Dogma getting a sequel but it is also becoming a series.
In an interview with Famitsu, series creator Hideaki Itsuno revealed that only 60% of his ideas had made it into the original Dragon’s Dogma and the game world itself was only two-thirds of what they originally wanted. As such, Itsuno has stated that due to the success of the first title, Dragon’s Dogma 2 will be able to contain everything he originally wanted and more.
If you happen to play Ubisoft games on your PC then you may have opened up a giant backdoor to your computer that will allow malicious programs to take control of your PC. This isn’t an issue with basic games either, as programmer Tavis Ormandy has stated that Ubisoft’s largest titles all have these issues with the Uplay system.
Uplay itself installs an invisible browser plug-in that websites can exploit, allowing them to gain access to private information on your PC. As such it is recommended now that anyone with a Ubisoft game do their best to find this plugin and delete it. The list of games which will forcibly require Uplay to be installed can be found below and was provided by Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Good thing that Ubisoft cares more about making sure you bought their game legally with DRM via Uplay, this way your information can get hacked freely. I mean… they already have their piece of your money why should they care about the rest?