Animus abusers unite, there is content to be unlocked! AC developers Ubisoft are currently seeking out 1,776,000 tweets, likes, shares or whatever virtual acknowledgement you can manage in order to reveal the first ever gameplay footage from Assassin’s Creed III.
If you want to get in on the mega publicity drive then a good place to start would be here , where you can also keep an eye on the progress of the campaign via a rather nifty red meter. Whilst the gaming world waits for the full trailer to be unveiled, you can get a taste of what’s to come in the small teaser attached below. It’s an interesting little clip, showing off a tweaked hidden blade and the new bow and arrow and tomahawk weapons.
Assassin’s Creed III is due for release on October 31 this year across PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and as you probably already know, is set during the American Revolution. The game is also set to make an appearance on Nintendo’s Wii U.
Fatshark, the Swedish developer behind such games as Lead and Gold and Hamilton’s Great Adventure, is getting ready to release its RPG, Krater, for Steam on PC and Mac, but they ran into a little bit of a snag. Turns out they can’t quite come up with a good name for three of the guns for the game, so they are currently called Gunnernator I, II, and III by one of Fatshark’s members.
They are asking for people to come up with any better names for the guns and submit them to the Krater webpage HERE. The three best names will be used in lieu of “Gunnernator”, so please don’t let them get stuck with it, plus you’ll get your name in the credits for aiding them in this endeavor.
Other than the contest, Fatshark announced that the game will be releasing onto Steam June 12th for PC, and for the Mac sometime in July.
SideQuest Studios and eastasiasoft have announced that the forthcoming game Rainbow Moon has now gone gold and will be releasing in a few weeks to the Playstation Network, but as of yet an official release date isn’t set. A strategy RPG set in the world of Rainbow Moon, players aid Baldren in trying to seal a gateway that is letting enemy troops ravage the once peaceful world.
Rainbow Moon is a mighty big game that features 6 playable main characters, close to 120 special skills that can be trained, and over 20 different dungeons for the characters to clear. Focusing on exploration and character development, with a turn-based battle system, the game has a story that can span more than 40 hours. Check out the trailer below to get an idea what’s going down and be sure check back for the release date when its set.
Well here’s a news story you may have missed during the week. Carlos Valenzuela, 42, was arrested in El Paso, Texas in America after he was found with three bundles of cocaine – with two of three bundles concealed inside an Xbox 360.
Police pulled over Valenzuela at a routine traffic stop, after he failed to signal a turn. According to police, Valenzuela appeared nervous and kept looking at a bag on the passenger’s seat. Police found the first brick of cocaine inside the bag along with an Xbox 360.
Police then found the two additional bricks with help from the K-9 unit, concealed inside the Xbox 360. All in all, the total weight of the cocaine was 1.8 kilograms and Valenzuela has placed on a $25,000 bond and has been charged with manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance.
If you’ve been keeping up with the Hope News Times – an in-game newspaper for Hope, South Dakota for IO Interactive and Square Enix studio upcoming Hitman: Absolution. Then you’ll know that reports have come in about a ‘shock’ death of one of its citizens.
The victim may or may not of been killed a suspiciously dressed bold man by the name of Agent 47 *Wink Wink*. But nonetheless, two new screenshots for the latest rendition of the hit stealth action game have today been released along with Hope News Times #3.
Hitman: Absolution is set to be released on Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC, and official release date is yet to be announced.
All Interactive Entertainment have recently announced that they are the company in-charge of the distribution of the upcoming game from Topware Interactive: Ravens Cry. The game is a pirates story in the action-adventure genre that promises an amazing narrative.
Raven’s Cry thoroughly immerses players in a lavishly detailed world rich with treachery and adventure. The sinister beauty of the 17th Century Caribbean is revealed in the rolling emerald waves and their secrets, kept far beneath; in the dark alleys and curved, cobbled roads, all teeming with murderous miscreants and loudly drunken braves, the prophets of the bottle, the blade, and the flintlock gun. The historically accurate architecture and in-game events will flavor the three major cities found in Raven’s Cry with the atmosphere players crave, as they traverse from the unsavory pirate holdfast of Port Royal to the elegant avenues of luscious Havana, to a lost Aztec City deep in the jungles of the Spanish Main.
The game is set to be released in Australia and New Zealand in Quarter Four of this year (2012) for the PC, X360 and Playstation 3. It will also feature many things, such as a memorable cast, special abilities, player choice, alternative endings, authentic combat and an action adventure set in the Caribbean.
Be sure to check out the trailer, embedded below for more info.
Awesomenauts Publisher: dtp entertainment AG, Microsoft Developer: Ronimo Games Platforms:Xbox 360 (Reviewed), PlayStation 3 Release Date: 02/05/2012 Price:800 Microsoft Points
Overview:
As online gaming becomes more efficient and user friendly on video game consoles and handhelds, more developers are now jumping in to create compelling and addictive online multiplayer gaming experiences. It’s reached a point where single player content often takes a backseat to a well-designed multiplayer mode in order to ensure that gamers hold on to the game for a very long time.
Independent developers have also jumped in on this opportunity by offering online intensive gaming experiences for a modest sum. The recent digital FPS download title Nexius is a good example. More recently however, an interesting new title by the name of Awesomenauts has appeared on the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network. Awesomenauts is an unique little action game that solely focuses on multiplayer.
Awesomenauts is a 2D action title that’s classified as a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) and the game takes place in the year is 3578, focusing around a battle between a group of hired mercenaries amidst an intergalactic war.
Visuals and Audio:
Awesomenauts is a pure 2D sprite-based video game with some 3D effects thrown in. Almost everything is sprite-based, and it looks very nice since it’s all pretty much high resolution 2D with some fluid and consistent cartoon-like animation. The particle effects look nice too and mix well with the 2D look. The art style is pretty cool too, and although the character designs are nothing unique or special, they still have comic book style and personality to them. The backgrounds however, are a bit simplistic in nature and don’t have much artistic flair to them. There is nothing to write home about in terms of the game’s audio. It’s pretty much serviceable as the explosive sound effects and tunes compliment the crazy action-packed sci-fi nature of the game.
Gameplay:
When you first start playing Awesomenauts, the game opens up with what seems like a story-based mission. It has an intro where this space cowboy is sent by his alien employer to destroy an enemy base. You quickly realise that the mission is nothing but a tutorial to simply run you through the basics and get you prepared to what the game is solely about…the multiplayer.
It’s a bit of a shame that the game lacks a compelling single player quest, because as you’ll see in the rest of the review, the game has all the right elements and components for a very enjoyable single player quest. A proper story mode would have been great, as the gameplay mechanics really could have allowed for a compelling experience.
Awesomenauts is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game where two teams of mercenaries battle it out, and to win a team must destroy the opposing team’s ‘drillcore’. So in a way, it’s like a tower defense game with heavy emphasis on 2D action.
Players can chose between one of six mercenaries, and work with other human players as a team against others. Each mercenary offers a unique 2D action experience, with their own set of abilities and vast number of upgrades. There are more characters to be added to the game in the future but for now the selection is good enough. The characters range from a space cowboy who handles a lot like Megaman, and this lizard like alien who uses close range combat techniques.
You work with other human players and at times A.I bots in frantic battles that also include weapons like battle droids and turrets. You also collect coins with which you can purchase numerous new upgrades and weapons for your character from the store during battle. The game can get very strategic, as it requires careful use of each character’s play style and working well with your team members to take down the opposing team’s base. As well as careful utitlisation of the droids and turrets, and even use the layout of the map to your advantage.
The mechanics actually work really well, and it essentially feels like a 2D action platformer in a somewhat similar vein to the Megaman games, but of course the focus is one team based combat instead of actual action platforming, although the general feel of that genre is present.
The online functionality works really well, allowing up to six players to play against each other in teams of three. At this stage it’s very easy to find the right number of human players for an online session, and it allows players to basically drop in and out of a battle at any time. The game also supports local multiplayer.
While the multiplayer mode is a lot of fun, it’s still a case of where it’s forcing players to just play online and nothing else. It makes the game feel rather limited and some more content would have helped in familiarising players with the wealth of weapons and upgrades that this game has on offer, before forcing them to jump straight to online multiplayer.
Overall:
Awesomenauts is really good at what it does, and offers a surprisingly deep and strategic team -based gameplay that makes interesting use of traditional 2D action platformer mechanics and conventions. The variety in characters and their play style, as well as the wealth of un-lockable skills and upgrades for each, makes it a very enjoyable experience. That being said, it would have been great if more single player content was added to benefit from these mechanics and features. As is the case with most multiplayer-only titles, Awesomenauts survival is contingent upon a consistently active community, and one can hope that this unique multiplayer title can reel players in with enough content and community support to keep them hooked.
It’s no secret I’ve been addicted to The Binding of Isaac. It started during Steam’s huge Christmas sale, when I picked up the game for $1.50 – and then spent 75+ hours on it over the following months. At 2 cents per hour of entertainment I’ve gotten out of it, you simply won’t find a better deal than that.
Except, you will. Come May 28, a measly three dollars will expand the game’s already-abundant content by an extra 50%.
Co-creator Edmund McMillen detailed the upcoming expansion, Wrath of the Lamb, via Twitter, before his Twitter account mysteriously shut down. The details are still doing the rounds though, having been saved and spread by fans, so hopefully the info is still reliable.
Apparently, McMillen stated that the expansion will add more than 100 new items, an extra 10 bosses, 20 enemies, 4 chapters, 1 character, 6 rooms, 40 “unlocks”, 4 music tracks, 5 cards, 4 pills, 5 ultra-rare pickups, 7 unspecified “random happenings”, 10 challenges, a metric “buttload” of new achievements, and a new, supposedly final ending.
Seriously, I’m not going to have any time for any other games after this. If you haven’t played the game at all yet, give it a go. It’s a fantastically addictive, randomly-generated RPG with a dark, humourous style to it. Check out the expansion’s announcement trailer below, for an idea of what to expect.
There are some that say that video games need to tone it down a bit. And there are some who respond by shouting obscenities, chainsawing the naysayers in half and speeding off on a jetpack drill.
Sega and Arkedo Studio’s upcoming title, Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit, looks set to feature all that. And blood. Lots of blood.
Little was known about the game besides its obsession with excessive violence, but a new gameplay trailer has revealed a bit more about how it will play.
This is one we can’t help but keep an eye on – the game simply won’t let us ignore it.
Not everyone wants their beautiful iPhone encased in a thick bulky battery case or maybe you tote around an iPhone and an iPad but don’t want to use two separate external battery cases for both device. LUXA2 has solved your problem with their new P1 external battery. The P1 sports a 7000 mAh battery with two USB ports meaning you can charge two separate devices at the same time. Compare that to the 1500 to 1700 mAh most external battery cases sport these days! 7000 mAh is enough to fully recharge the iPhone battery three and a half times. The P1 is just a little bigger than an iPhone 4/4s and extremely light weight. It takes eight hours to fully charge the battery and has four LED lights so you always know how much juice is left. The battery pack also comes with an Apple authorized 30 pin dock connector so you can leave one cable at home attached to your computer and still have one to travel with. No word on pricing, but the P1 will soon be available at a store near you.
