For a limited time Activision has dropped the prices on Call of Duty DLC will be 50% off. The discount started in North America on July4th, and now is available worldwide. The discount is only for Windows PC and Xbox 360. The DLC discounted includes the following.
Call of Duty® : Modern Warfare® 3 Content Collection #1
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 Content Collection #2
Call of Duty®: Black Ops First Strike
Call of Duty®: Black Ops Escalation
Call of Duty®: Black Ops Annihilation
Call of Duty®: Black Ops Resurrection
So if you haven’t picked up the DLC for these 2 games now maybe the perfect opportunity as it could cost $60 rather then $120 for all 6 DLC packs, Will you be picking up the packs you don’t have or will you be taking a pass on this deal?
Namco Bandai have announced that Tales of Xillia will be coming to the West in 2013. Tales of Xillia was released last year, as the West got Tales of Grace F. Tales of Xillia 2 is coming out out later this year in Japan. Namco Bandai says that due to the success of Tales of Grace F, and Tales of Abyss 3D it was a no brainer for them to localize Tales of Xillia. So if Tales of Xillia does well, then we could see Xillia 2 in 2014 or possibly late 2013.
Tales of Xillia is the story of a medical student Jude Mathis, and the mysterouswoman Milla Maxwell. Player will be able to choose between the two when they start the game. Tales of Xillia takes place in world of Rieze Maxia, where humans and spirits live in peace,but the kingdom of Rashugal have created a device that can absorb mana from the planet. Realizing the dangers this could cause, Jude and Millia set out to destroy the device. The combat engine has changed slightly as it will now allow 2 characters to combine attacks a first for the series. Tales of Xillia will be available for Playstation 3 sometime in 2013. What do you think about Tales of Xillia being localized?
Simultaneously showing its plans for the event and confirming its presence, Kalypso Media today announced the games it would be showing off. Occupying approximately 300 square meters of floor space in both the business and consumer exhibition halls, Kalypso will be presenting its key titles for 2012 and highlights for 2013, with many titles playable on consoles and PC during the expo.
Kalypso Media will be in Hall 4.2, Stand #E19 in the business hall and game fans will find the stand located in Hall 6, Stand #A51 in the consumer area.
The line-up for Gamescom 2012 includes:
Legends of Pegasus (PC)
The Dark Eye – Demonicon (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC)
Robot Entertainment has announced a new Endless Game Mode in the impending Orcs Must Die! 2. In this new game mode, players will fight off an all-out assault from never ending waves of enemies that get more difficult the longer they’re held at bay. Playable in single-player or co-op, Endless Mode features five campaign levels and five original levels.
Players begin each Endless level with a starter allowance, and they’ll rely on clever trap placement and expert combat skills to earn more trap money and hold back the mob as long as possible. Every five waves, a golden-armored Ogre affectionately named Mr. Moneybags will rumble through the level. Players who manage to kill Mr. Moneybags before he escapes the level will be handsomely rewarded with more money for traps. Endless mode features all of the same performance and bonus skull unlocks that are found in the campaign levels. This makes Endless Mode an option for players to earn precious skulls for upgrading their traps, spells, weapons, and guardians.
Orcs Must Die! 2 begins days after the ending of the original game. With the rifts closed and the magical Order dead, the War Mage finds himself suddenly thrust into a new battle against the mindless orc mob. He has a powerful, if questionable, new companion in the Sorceress, an ex-War Mage responsible for the destruction of the Order.
Orcs Must Die! 2 will be available on Steam on July 30th, 2012.
Welcome back for this week’s iOS Game Suggestions. If you missed or are new to the suggestions, click on the link below and check what cool games you should be picking up for your iOS along with the introduction and disclaimer on how the suggestions work. (suggestions 1 has the disclaimer and how it all works)
A VERY quite week on iTunes, as always it started slow and also ended slow, but as always there certainly is a few must buy games this week in all departments, FREE, 99c and over 99c. This week i’ve suggested a total of 18 great quality titles. Break down below :
8 – FREE Games 6 – $0.99c Games 4 – Over $0.99c Games
As always for this week’s suggestions are all new titles that you should take a look at and consider spending your hard earned iTunes cash / time on. Well the Free games just below should all be given a shot as they are FREE!
For The Cheapskates – FREE GAMES
MASTERABBOTT’S OVER 99c PICK OF THE WEEK
Outwitters – Price : FREE – Publisher –One Man Left (A turn-based, multiplayer game from the minds that brought you Tilt to Live, AppAdvice.com’s Game of the Year. It’s a battle of wits against friends or strangers! Take turns maneuvering your troops in a race to destroy the enemy base. Will you side with the seafaring Scallywags, the robotic Feedback legion, or the snuggly-wuggly Adorables?) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Apptivity WWE Rumblers – Price : FREE – Publisher – Mattel (Toy meets tablet™ with the Apptivity™ WWE Rumblers® game! Simply fire up the app and place the base of your Apptivity™ WWE Rumblers® figure on your iPad screen. Special contact points on the bottom of each base allow the app to identify your figure and enable his signature moves. When you play Apptivity™ WWE Rumblers®, you’ll be facing off against some of the most famous faces in the WWE®. Find out if you have what it takes to go toe-to-toe with superstars like John Cena®, The Rock, Big Show and Caine!) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Whakan – Price : FREE – Publisher –Forever Young Studio (In the Vegetal Sanctuary of Whakan, you have been selected by your God-Elemental Ancestor to become a Keeper of the Spheres. The world of Whakan is threatened by a dark plague and your Tribe is in danger! Gear up yourself, discover magical Spheres and start a new journey to your ultimate goal. Never-seen before gameplay Whakan offers the perfect mix of Battle Card and Turn-Based animated Fights, skilfully sprinkled with a touch of RPG. Send your hero into battle against evil monsters in epic fights which will put your strategy and your reflexes to the test.) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Rolling Boil! 2: Toilet Dash – Price : FREE – Publisher –PlayHard Creative (Thanks for millions of support, Rolling Boil is back. This time you need to help the Chubby’s Family to solve another one of their basic needs, TOILET!! Simple, Addictive and Interactive. Here is your goal: Boys go to male washroom, while girls go female washroom (Of course!). Drag and drop them into the correct ones, and prevent them from getting embarrassed. You have to be fast because children cannot tolerate for over ten seconds!) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Brandnew Boy: Infinity – Price : FREE – Publisher – Oozoo Inc (Rookie doesn’t know who he is, or how he got here, but one thing has been made terribly clear: he’ll have to fight to stay alive if he wants to find out. Brandnew Boy is heart-stopping, breath-taking 3D combat adventure built on Unreal Engine 3 for an unbelievable iOS action experience. Stranded this strange and sometimes beautiful place, “Rookie” finds he has limited time to contemplate his circumstances. The natives are bloodthirsty, and Rookie seems to be the only thing they think will quench that thirst. Accompanied by a television-faced robot whose origins are no less mysterious than his own, Rookie must search for answers—if he can survive. ) on iPhone & iPad. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Battlebow: Shoot The Demons – Price : FREE – Publisher –Michael Buettner (A gate to hell has opened. Devilish creatures are rising from the abyss, looking to clear off all life from our world. Will you be able to defend against the neverending rush of demons and slay their leader, the Demonlord? Battlebow: Shoot the Demons is the perfect blend of the RPG and 2D shooter genre. Play the full game as the crossbowman for FREE! There are 3 more character classes waiting for you to be unlocked.) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Dungeon Block: Girl Rescues Knight – Price : FREE – Publisher – Gameday Inc (Once upon a time, a brave knight fought an evil demon in a volcano to save a girl. After a long, intense battle, he threw the demon into the lava. Just when he was about to escape together with the girl from the demon’s lair, a towering shadow appeared out of nowhere and dragged the noble knight with it into the darkness. The girl, mustering every ounce of her bravery, headed back into the dungeon where the shadow took the heroic knight. Now she must defend herself against the most heinous of monsters by playing rock-paper-scissors as she quests to save the romantic knight.) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
TheEndApp – Price : FREE – Publisher –Goroid (The End Begins! The world comes to an end; run like hell, collect duct tape and buy goodies for your survival camp. Once the streets are deserted, everything is covered in lava, you are alone, you hear the groove, experience the Collapse and you will know that it has begun. Run! The End App challenges your reflexes, offers infinite game play with progressive level design and multiple environments. ) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
For The Bargain Hunters – 99c Games
Hasta la Muerte – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Bulkypix (Act as the death itself in this « art game » where everything was thought to offer players a unique game experience: sound effects, astonishing graphics, out of sorts world… Your mission: accompany the souls of those whom eternal rest hour has come and thus save them from damnation. A second of inattention and this is the disaster : those souls, damned and inconsolable, will chase you relentlessly to send you back in the Limbo…) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Slash Or Die – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – PNG Inc (In the future, the mankind is faced with every threat they can imagine; Revolt of the Mechanics, Alien invasion, Rampancy of the Ghosts, Reincarnation of the Demons.
Hopelessly outgunned and unable to hold off, the mankind is in need of the ‘Lethal Weapon’; The immortal sword-master, ‘BLADE’!!
BLADE, who was tired of eternal life and never-ending time, once left human civilization and locked himself up in rocky mountains.
Now, excited to face new enemies, BLADE dashes out to save the world! ) runs on iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
Omega Hero – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – CrazyRock Creative (Play as a protector of the innocent, born to defend small businesses from large corporate takeovers in a side scrolling 3D brawler. In a city that never sweeps, you take control of Omega Hero in a mission to clean the streets of the rotten Dust Bunnies and their evil employer Mr. Boss.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Corn Quest – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Namco Networks America (Corn Quest brings you a farm fresh approach to tower defense! The cornfields are being attacked by a vast army of mutant bugs! You have been chosen to protect the cornfield, track down the source of the invasion, and lead your army to victory! Featuring: Instantly rewarding, real-time take on the tower defense genre. Three modes of play – Campaign, Survival, and Sudden Death. 5 unique corn units – From steadfast grunt to sharpshooting sniper. 5 incredible power-ups – From the deceptive scarecrow to the unstoppable Shuck Norris. 5 beautiful environments – From the golden fields of corn to the cold, crystalline lair of the bug Queen. ) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Jar On A Bar – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Chillingo (Get the fish to water by removing the bars below the jar! Sounds easy right? Well Jar on a Bar will test your problem solving skills—as well as your reflexes as you complete each puzzling stage. Try not to tip the jar too much or you won’t get those precious stars. Super simple, super fun, super game.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Konami (Frogger’s coin-op thrills are back and better than ever in Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition! The arcade excitement of Frogger returns in time for its 30th anniversary celebrations with updates that are sure to delight fans old and new. Join Frogger on another epic quest as he fights through more busy streets in search of thrills, chills, and, even love! Dodge cars, balance on wooden logs, and evade Contra aliens to reach the ultimate goal, the other side of the river! ) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
For The Millionaires – All games over $0.99
Bio Crisis– Price : $2.99 – Publisher – Shinx Entertainment (There is no school like the old school! And Bio Crisis is old school at its finest. The game which had won multi Indie Game Design Awards now is refined, polished, upgraded and bringing more fire power than its original version to the Appstore! Game is well build even for today’s mobile standard, dodging bullets, hide behind an object, stealth knife kill in close combat, roll through the bullet rains unharmed are just a few of what this game can bring to the table.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
EvillsBack– Price : $2.99 – Publisher – Cloud Soft (Head of Kingdom Knight Duke leads his army against the Barbarians and the undead and wins the battle. He also acquires the magic Soul Trapper. Duke wins the wars, but loses his soul to the desire. To control the power of the Soul Trapper, he sold his soul and signed a contract with devil. In order to get more power from more souls, Duke announces war against the Kingdom. The Kingdom army loses again and again in frontier. The Kingdom Council decides to send the best magic apprentice of Magic Academy to go behind the enemy hide to have the defining strike towards Duke. All army is sent out in frontier to cover this task.) runs on iPad. BUY NOW
Billy The Painter– Price : $1.99 – Publisher – Lipasto Games (Use your sense of rhythm, precise taps and quick decisions to help Billy to paint the old factory. You are thrown to the era of swinging twenties & hand-made animations before jet planes, computers not to mention mobile phones. Poor Billy has a hard job to do. He has to paint the floor of an old factory after the removal of obsolete machines. He has to paint the revealed surface exactly and he can’t spill any paint over the rest of the shiny floor. Every tap you make starts a wave of paint expanding to all directions until it hits the older, already finished part of the floor. Try to fill as large area as you possibly can before the first wave goes over the limit. More precise you are, more points you get!) runs iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
Moops – Price : $5.49 – Publisher – Moops Games Ltd. (Critters have overrun the peaceful town of Moopville and the Moops are fleeing their homes! This is your chance to help rid the land of these pests! Take control of our heroes, Flunk & Dunk (our local pest controllers) as they take to the hills and beyond to rid the land of the critter infestation.From the lush green plateaus of Meadow Canyon to the vibrant metropolis of Barrel City, explore a full 3D world and help the Moops inhabitants along the way.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
There you have it folks, these games should keep you busy for quite some time, well till next week at least. I’ll be back next week for another dose of iOS goodness, in the meantime if anyone would also like to suggest their own suggestions, please feel free to share them in the comments section below or in the iOS forum section on the site here.
An brand-new IMAX exclusive poster has emerged for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. The artwork is interesting, showing a chaotic Gotham in flames while the sky shows a more peaceful and hopeful sky with the bat symbol we’ve all grown to love, setting an interesting theme for the film. Included is the tag line “The Legend Ends…In IMAX!”
The Dark Knight Rises Opens in theaters and IMAX on July 20 and will conclude Nolan’s gritty Batman trilogy, starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Morgan Freeman. It’s sure to be a very climatic and exciting conclusion!
Earlier today in a blogpost, the Battlefield 3 developers over at DICE announced their upcoming Matches content to the Battlefield 3 game. The new addition allows players renting a server to set up matches between their friends and squad members in a fully customisable manner. This feature will be available for PC, X360 and PS3 owners.
I can see this feature being utilised in the competitive arena, where an event organiser will be running a dedicated server and will be able to customise the Battlefield experience based on their competitors needs, or unique rules that competitors must obide by. The following is one of the more interesting sections from the blog –
After these preliminary decisions have been made, game settings are determined for the Match. Matches are completely customizable; an extensive list of settings including friendly fire, 3D spotting, squad-leader spawning, kill cam, health regeneration, a list of weapon unlocks that will be made available to players, and more can be set to exact specifications.
Does anyone that frequents this site run a dedicated server? Let us know your opinion on such a service.
Mahoromatic Season 1 + 2 & Summer Special Studio: Gainax Publisher:Madman Format: DvD Release Date: May 23, 2012 Price: DvD $59.95 (Buy Here)
Overview
How many of us have wanted a maid? Not just any maid, but a maid that is a cute girl, roughly the same age as ourselves and is incredibly awesome at everything? I’m pretty sure that almost everyone will have answered these questions in such a way so as to indicate themselves as wanting this to happen to them. Mahoromatic is an Anime series that focuses around the life a boy named Suguru who has just that, a maid that is incredibly cute and incredibly awesome.
However, as you learn rather quickly, Mahoro (the maid) is not quite the maid that he was expecting. Read on to find out why this is.
Story
Mahoromatic is easily one of the most hilarious Anime of all time. Everything from the plot to the characters, from the start to the finish, is a hilarious take on many of the existing tropes and cliches of Anime shows from that period.
The story follows the life of a young boy named Suguru and his newly acquired maid Mahoro. The twist of the show is that Mahoro is no ordinary maid, she is, in fact, a combat android from a secret organisation called V.E.S.P.E.R which seems like a more light-hearted version of NERV (from Evangelion). Anyway, due to reasons beyond her control, Mahoro only has approximately a year left to live and as a result she has chosen to live out her final days amongst the people of the earth that she once protected from the Aliens known as SAINT.
The first half of the series deals with Suguru and Mahoro’s growing relationship and has a number of hilarious moments within it. There are a bunch of episodes that deal with some kind of Anime trope, for example, there is a beach and a horror episode that are staples to most Anime series. I feel that often when dealing with parodies, a lot of shows are pretty hit or miss, especially when it seems like they are parodying something that they have no backing knowledge with. Fortunately, this is not the case with Mahoromatic Season 1. The writers and animators seem to have hit the nail on the head with all of their jokes, making this season one of the most hilarious Anime series ever.
The second series of Mahoromatic retains the parodic nature of the original series but turns the humour up a few notches by playing with the background story of the characters, the shows premise and the world in which they reside. One of the best examples of this is in the episode where the town hosts it’s annual fighting festival. All of the characters become cliched fighting anime tropes, the setting is freaking hilarious and all of the references just stick out so well that you just CAN NOT help bursting out in laughter add the most strangest of times. My favourite references in this episode were the Dragon Ball Z and Fist Of The North Star (Hokuto No Ken) puns. The entire episode had me laughing my sides open, but these two references were especially awesome.
The last thing about the story that I want to talk about is the shows original story as well. What I really liked is that even though the show was largely a parody of Anime in general, it also featured a pretty coherent and entertaining story. I feel that even if one was not able to understand all of the references, they would still enjoy this series based on it’s own story. However, as is with Gainax series, the ending was all ‘what?’. However, it was not as ‘what?’ worthy as, say, Evangelion or Top wo narae – Gunbuster, but it does actually fit the show quite well and I feel that it really showcased the strengths of each of the characters that were showcased in it.
Visuals
Mahoromatic is a show from the early 2000s and as a result, the Animation may not sit all that well with Anime fans growing up these days. However, for it’s era, it is incredibly well done, incredibly fluid and is quite detailed.
What I really loved about the visuals though, was how all of the male characters looked incredibly generic, while all the female characters were all drawn to be appealing to the male (and homosexual) eye. I feel that having these kinds of designs greatly added to the level of parody within the series. For instance, it is popular in harem Anime to have a generic looking male lead and having a plethora of women designed to be attractive to all kinds of personalities and to have this parodied in this show was quite entertaining.
Of course, this is a Gainax show, so this means that there are plenty of mechanical elements within it. I really liked the mechatronic designs in this series as they were quite detailed and unique. This isn’t Gundam-like mech vs. Aliens or other Gundam-like mech designs, it’s much more unique and robust. For instance, there is a robot that is like a crab. And it goes about cutting off the clothes of the various women in the show. Classic.
Audio
Mahoromatic has a fairly decent soundtrack that is quite enjoyable and fits the shows themes quite well. What I particularly like about Anime over western animation is that they tend to not dub every sound effect comedically, which is something that I feel could have happened with this show if it was handled over here. Fortunately for us, as a Japanese animation, the show does not go over the top with the sound effects, even if this show is a parody. Somehow, I just feel that having normal-ish noises makes much more sense.
The background audio is quite pleasant sounding and captures each scene so well. The opening and ending themes also portray the series’ quite well. In particular, the two ending theme songs fit the shows premise so well that I would recommend listening to them at least once each. I never actually grew bored of them so I never skipped through them. Nowadays, it feels like Anime is just a vehicle to sell the opening and closing themes.
Extras
Mahoromatic is host to a few Extra’s in the form of special features and some awesome inner cover-art. What I really liked about Mahoromatic was that the extras were not spread across every disc, but were instead hosted within, if I recall correctly, the first disc of the first season and the final disc of the second season. There is also the commentary, which was on selected discs.
The special features are as follows –
Clean Openings
Clean Closings
Art Galleries (There is a hidden ecchi gallery on the final disc)
Japanese Commercial Spots
Japanese Promo Trailers
Voice Actor Commentary
Overall
Mahoromatic is easily one of the most insanely hilarious Anime series that I have ever seen and I am actually retroactively disappointed in myself for missing this on it’s original release when I was in highschool. Not only is this a series that is a great parody of the Anime series of it’s time, but it is also a great series that has a great story even without the comedy elements. This is something that Anime fans, or Otaku, should definitely look at picking up as soon as they can.
RAMBO is a massive franchise with a tonne of bloodshed, bullets, and general awesome. There’s nothing quite like watching Sylvester Stallone go crazy with a range of weapons, and it makes it just so much awesome when you get a chance to be in the driver seat.
UK game publisher Reef Entertainment announced that the RAMBO video game will be able to be played on the show floor this year at Gamescom. Reef Entertaiment Commercial Director Craig Lewis had this to say about the game:
‘We have been quiet since we acquired the Rambo license last August. During this time we have been dedicated to creating a videogame for consoles and PC that will allow Rambo fans and gamers across the globe to really get under the skin of Rambo and wield his iconic weapon-set in battle.’
The official RAMBO game website can be found HERE, so head on over there for more information, or keep tuned to Capsule Computers as more information about the game comes out.
Rockstar has announced that players of Max Payne 3 will be given another chance to have their likeness released as a Multiplayer Avarat as part of one of the Max Payne 3 DLC packs.
Rockstar are looking for recruits from the online Multiplayer community from tomorrow, and for the rest of July. They’ll be hoeting a series of Social Club Multiplayer Event playlists across all the platforms in Soft Lock and Free Aim modes. Twice a week for the next four weeks ‘Social Club Event Playlist’ will appear in the Max Payne 3 Multiplayer menu. You just need to select the playlist, complete one full game with an account linked to Social Club, and you’ll be in the running to have your face in the game.
Each week Rockstar will reach out via email to a random group of players who participated in the playlist and will invite them to submit photos to be in the chance to be one of the new Gang Avatars. If you get an email you have to reply within 24 hours with a photo. Each week one person will be chosen, but if you aren’t picked that week then don’t worry, you can keep entering the competition by playing another session in the Social Club Multiplayer Event playlist.
Make sure that your Xbox LIVE or PSN account linked to Social Club. If you haven’t already make sure to set up a Social Club account HERE, or if you already have a Social Club account then click HERE to link your gaming network account.
The competition playlist times are below:
Check out the full details, along with terms and conditions, at the official contest page HERE.
Robot Entertainment has announced a new Endless Game Mode in the impending Orcs Must Die! 2. In this new game mode, players will fight off an all-out assault from never ending waves of enemies that get more difficult the longer they’re held at bay. Playable in single-player or co-op, Endless Mode features five campaign levels and five original levels.
