The zombie apocalypse is coming. And I’m not just being witty, or making some reference, it seriously is. For the first time, you will be able to strap on a gun, head into an abandoned factory, and take down some zombies. Okay, so the gun isn’t real, and the zombies are trained actors in make up, but same thing.
IRL Shooter is a new company that is starting up who are embarking on an amazing project, providing the first real life, multiplayer, first person shooter, role-playing game that those of you who live in Melbourne get to enjoy on the 31st of October 2012.
What it involves is placing you in a team of six, with ultra-realistic weapons that are weighted and have recoil as well as sound and store all of your shooting info, into a warehouse that has been dressed up to look like a secret medical facility, and letting you loose for an hour and a half.
The warehouse is being fitted out with professional set, lighting and sound design, as to Film and TV industry standards. Plus with a team of writers behind the story and the script for the actors that are placed inside, and professional actors and make up, they are going for the most realistic approach possible.
It will be an incredibly immersive world, and definitely bound to get your blood pumping and adrenaline going. IRL Shooter presents: Patient 0 will have a limited run in Melbourne before moving on to Sydney, and gradually going from city to city in Australia, so don’t worry they’ll probably be coming to a city near you!
The Melbourne run of Patient 0 will commence on October 31, 2012, but make sure to register HERE as chances are the whole season’s run will be sold out in presale given the incredible amount of popularity that it is so rightly getting.
Check out the website for IRL Shooter HERE. We’ll keep you updated on any new information on this awesome new form of a shooter as it comes out.
What do you guys think? Is this something that you’re keen on? I mean, it’s not every day that you get to play a video game in real life.
Namco Bandai Games have announced that they will producing a video-game adaptation of upcoming anime adaptation of the light novel Sword Art Online. That’s a lot of adapting right? Well any ways, the game will be based upon the anime of Sword Art Online and will be for the PSP.
The genre for the game appears to be some kind of pseudo-MMORPG, minus to MMO part. Meaning the game will appear largely like an MMORPG but will be completely and entirely offline, with ‘other players’ all actually being NPCs.
What do you think of this not-so-online Sword Art Online game for the PSP? Let us know in the comments section below.
The lovely Julie Benz is known to most people for playing two prominent, very different characters: Rita, the sweet, unsuspecting wife of our favourite serial killer, Dexter, and the cunning vampire seductress Darla, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Her panel at Oz Comic Con this weekend kicked off with questions about the death of both characters during the shows. Julie discussed her reaction to Rita’s unexpected death in the final minutes of season four. Apparently, her first thought was that she’d lost her job, the second, “who’s going to look after the kids?!” While her initial reaction was disappointment, she says she later understood the creative reasons behind the decision. Dexter has grown a lot as a character in the two seasons since.
Somewhat reluctantly, Julie said she hadn’t watched the later seasons of the show, although she apparently keeps in touch with the cast and crew, and is aware of how the story arc has progressed.
Darla is no stranger to death either, having been responsible for many throughout the centuries, and finally meeting her own, at the hands of her lover Angel. And then again later, at her own hands. It’s a long story.
Julie discussed Darla’s complicated role in the show, as she went from the generic “Vampire Girl #2”, to playing a larger part, mostly as a sympathetic antagonist.
As expected, Joss Whedon was then brought up by the audience, because no panel is complete without a mention. Julie gave the standard response, i.e, that he was a pleasure to work with.
There’s always one particularly awkward question, and this was a doozy: some guy tried to ask her out, to the collective groans of the audience. No doubt used to that kinda thing, Julie laughed it off without being mean, and casually slipped a mention of her husband into the conversation. But here’s a tip for the guy: if you simply must ask out a celebrity, perhaps avoid mentioning a “food fetish” in front of a crowd of thousands.
The questions kept coming, and Julie didn’t miss a beat. She discussed her inability to watch the Saw movies, and how filming Saw V freaked her out due to the realism of the traps. And yeah, she vomited on set one day. Can’t blame her.
She explained the demise of sci-fi/comedy/drama/superhero series No Ordinary Family, in which she plays Stephanie, the mother of the family. It was in an inconvenient Tuesday night timeslot, competing against NCIS, Glee and the Biggest Loser. Those are some of television’s biggest shoes to fill, and of course, the network assumed the slow audience pickup was the show’s fault, and didn’t sign on for a second season. Which is a pity, because I watched the first (only) season, and although it was a little slow, it ramped up nicely toward the end. Most shows need more than a season to really find their feet, but unfortunately, many aren’t given the chance. It’s on DVD though, so give it a watch.
A couple of other stories gave the audience a glimpse at what Julie was like off-camera, as she told us she’d been mistaken for Christina Applegate, and took a photo with fans anyway. And how she had been so starstruck by Jack Nicholson during a scene in As Good As It Gets, that she interrupted a take by blurting out “Oh my God! You’re Jack Nicholson!” This is after being on set with him for a while, by the way. And oh yeah, don’t bother seeing Locust: The Eighth Plague. That was her one film that she hated.
She closed the panel by discussing the basic premise of the new series, Defiance, coming in 2013 to SyFy. It’s set to follow an interesting formula, with the show accompanying a third-person shooter MMO in what’s being promoted as the first major trans-media production. The game will be updated on a weekly basis to reflect what happens in the TV series, and it might follow that what players do in the game influences events in the show. It’s a fantastic idea, and one that could revolutionize the relationship between video games and other media. Defiance will be one to keep an eye on.
Free to play MMO developers Bigpoint and Artplant are currently hard at work on a free to play MMO for Game of Thrones. Bigpoint and Artplant are known for their other MMO Battlestar Galactica Online. Game of Thrones 7 Kingdoms, much like Battlestar Galactica Online will be a browser based MMO. HBO is also backing the project so we may see some of the cast of the hit TV series provide some voice over.
Game of Thrones 7 Kingdoms takes place after the deaths of King Robert Baratheon and Ned Stark and will feature PVP and siege battles. Game of Thrones 7 Kingdoms will be shown at the San Diego Comic Con in just under 2 weeks and the beta is set to begin later this year. Players can register for the beta now at the game’s website here.
Nintendo has revealed today that North American Kirby fans will be able to play Kirby’s Dream Collection on September 16th so that is a thing. In case you don’t remember what games are included in the package, it includes the following: Kirby’s Dream Land, Kirby’s Adventure, Kirby’s Dream Land 2, Kirby Super Star, Kirby’s Dream Land 3, and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.
Besides these classic titles it will feature a few pieces of extra content as well, which I guarantee will delight any fan of the pink puffball. Our own Dustin Spencer is so excited for the title he has already tried freezing himself so that September 16th will arrive faster.
The year is 2012 and many fighting games have been released now from a number of different companies, and while some companies such as Capcom find themselves incapable of creating a legitimate storyline of any kind, Atlus is busy creating a fighting game that offers between thirty and forty hours. Bravo Atlus, bravo.
Persona 4 Arena’s story mode will cover the events that happen after Persona 4 according to game director Kazuhisa Wada. To make things even better, the story will feature full voice acting as well as being written by the Persona team. Check out the trailer below which shows off a number of story segments.
If Nuketown was one of your favorite maps back in Call of Duty: Black Ops then we have some good news for you, you will be able to go back to this map when Black Ops 2 is released, barring that you pre-order the game from “participating retailers” of course. Considering Australian gamers don’t always receive the same bonuses as the rest of the world, it is a relief to know that this bonus is indeed worldwide. The map has been “reimagined” and is now being titled Nuketown 2025.
Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia stated in the announcement: “Flat out, Nuketown was a blast to play before, and we’re excited about the reimagined Nuketown 2025 in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. We can’t wait to play with everyone come this November.”
During their Anime Expo panel this weekend NIS America had some good news for fans of their video game releases. The publisher confirmed that they will be releasing an English localization of Atelier Ayesha sometime in the future. The representatives at the panel stated that fans would still need to wait about three or four months to learn more however.
Ayesha was released in Japan last week on the PlayStation 3 and featured a number of pleasing changes to the standard Atelier formula. It is worth noting that Atelier Meruru was released in under a year after the Japanese release, so perhaps Atelier fans will see the game sometime before June of next year.
While THQ has had its share of bad news lately, it seems that the company has avoided being delisted from the NASDAQ (stock market) by performing a reverse stock split. Last week the stockholders met and approveda ten to one reverse stock split. This has condensed THQ’s 70 million stocks down to only 7 million stocks, raising their value from $0.62 to $6.20.
The stock split will go into effect next Monday and it will raise the price well over the minimum $1 required. Now whether or not the company will manage to keep their stock price over $1 will be a question for the future. If you want to help out THQ well, their next game, Darksiders 2, will be released on August 14th.
It was quite a surprising turn of events last week when Seth Killian announced that he would be leaving his role as Capcom’s strategic marketing director of online and community. At the time he did not reveal where he would be going or if his next role would even place him in the video game business.
Well today it was revealed at the PlayStation Blog that Seth Killian will be taking up a roll as lead game designer at Sony Santa Monica. He will begin working on PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and with a number of other studios. Killian stated on the blog that “Fighting games are very close to my heart, and as someone that’s spent much of my life with traditional fighters, All-Stars has been a great opportunity to take a step back and rethink fighting fundamentals from the ground up.”
