Activision and Hasbro have announced that BATTLESHIP is releasing today for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. The game utilizes both aspects of a military strategy and first-person shooter, to take control of a naval fleet as well as Petty Officer First Class Cole Mathis, an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician.
After being trapped in a dome off the Hawaiian Islands, players will have to fight to defeat the alien attackers on land, sea, or over air. Players can use ships from Destroyers, to Aircraft Carriers, and even the USS Missouri. Attacking with air strikes, missiles, machine guns, and tracking with radar; players will try to stop the alien attack and free themselves.
The long wait is over. The next title in the Age of Monsters series, Escape from Age of Monsters, will be released by Ayopa games on April 26 for all iOS devices. The official trailer can be seen below, but before you check that out, here is some information about the upcoming title.
The game will be the first collaboration between Massive Joe Studios and Ayopa games. The game will be released in both a standard version for iPhone and an HD version for iPad that takes full advantage of the new iPad’s retina display. The game boasts some amazing hand drawn graphics, with unique animated visual created by Emmy award-winning comic book artist and animator Jeff Matsuda (of the animated Batman series). The title will also bring innovations to the genre of running games, featuring slug monster boss levels, over 60 objectives, a trophy room and a turbo mode mini-game. Both versions will be available for only $0.99 after launch, but only for a limited time. Soon after Escape HD will be raised to $1.99 so get in quick.
The free-to-play arcade cartoon shooter Battlefield Heroes, developed by Easy Studios and published by Electronic Arts, will receive new content surrounding the theme of outer space on Wednesday April 18. Leading the new content is a new map known as ‘Lunar Landing.’ Using low gravity to traverse the environment and outsmart enemies, players can jump over objects and even base jump from a vantage point to take down the enemy faction and lead their team to victory.
In addition to a new map, the space theme brings in new items that players can use on their individual heroes. These include laser-based weapons, which allow players to swap out their traditional guns and gadgets for high-powered plasma blasters to dish out damage and brand new outfits, which include a space explorer outfit and full spacesuits. To try out the new content, you can play Battlefield Heroes at www.battlefieldheroes.com. Battlefield Heroes is free to sign up and play, but it does include a microtransaction model.
EA have released a brand new gameplay trailer for NCAA Football 13, and it’s full of action, epic music, and big letters flashing on screen revealing new features.
Of note is the improved defender AI, a plethora of new options for the quarterback, and the ability to tell whether a receiver is looking at the QB when he throws the ball. Oh and the overall presentation looks absolutely fantastic. Who could have predicted that gorgeous would be an adjective attributed to college football?
Developers seem to be enjoying sounding off on Twitter profiles as of late, with the most recent being Beamdog’s Trent Oster. For those unfamiliar with Beamdog, they recently distributed MDK2 digitally through the service, which was apparently not too successful on Beamdog’s part. As a result, Oster slammed Nintendo as a whole, claiming he has no plans to use Nintendo for any future projects.
“We don’t do Nintendo development. Our previous experience with Nintendo was enough to ensure there will not be another.” said Oster on his official Twitter page. Later, he further clarified his comment with a bit more insight. “My problems with Nintendo are: requiring 6000 unit sales before payment, a certification process that took us 9 months and a 40mb limit”.
I respect his opinions as this development hell has been heard of before, but one thing that was a bit uncalled for was the little jab that came next in the continuing conversation.
“The result is a belief that Nintendo isn’t a good platform for developers. The Wii is a toy, not a console; The reason I say the Wii is a toy is the exceptionally low attach rate. You buy a Wii, Wii sports and never buy another game. Bad for devs”
This is where I fully disagree with Oster. Yes, the Wii is a casual console, but that doesn’t make it any less of a platform. There are plenty of “core” experiences on the Wii to be found and anyone who says different might as well be searching with blinders on. The Wii released in 2006, and if Beamdog didn’t understand the market for the console four years after launching, then they really have no right to throw Nintendo under the bus for their port’s shortcomings.
This may just be a smart business move to drum up sales for MDK2, as Oster even linked the WiiWare version’s detail page on his feed more recently. I however see this as a one-man pity party from a creative mind who has talent, but refuses to get up after taking a fall. With the Wii-U coming out soon, it’ll be interesting to see if there is a change of heart, as saying no more Nintendo is currently a narrow minded way to look at the future.
THQ have announced that new downloadable content will be available as well as plans for more content for UFC Undisputed 3. The latest content is available for both the Xbox 360 and PS3 to download.
The first is the International Pack, featuring UFC Fighters “The Korean Zombie” Chan-Sung Jung, John Hathaway (UK), Germany’s Pascal Kraus, Aussie fighter Kyle Noke, and Italian Alessio Sakara. This pack is available now for 400 MS points for the Xbox 360 or for $4.99 (USD) on the PS3.
The second pack is the “Ultimate Compilation”, featuring access to five classic UFC fights and is also availabe for the same price as the previous pack. The five fights are the PRIDE Final Conflict in 2003 between Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Mirko Cro Cop, UFC 125 Submission filled bout between Takanori Gomi and Clay Guida, the big upset at UFC 110 between Jon Stevenson and George Sotiropoulos; UFC 124 fight between Stefan Struve and Sean McCorkle, and finally the UFC 120 battle between Dan Hardy and Carlos Condit.
News has broke that the popular manga series about making manga, Bakuman, will be coming to an end next week after roughly 4 years of serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. The manga will end on it’s 176th chapter and will conclude the series.
An image leaked on line of the final page of the chapter which can been seen to the right. The page has a message that translates to “Thank you to all our devoted readers! Look forward to Oba-sensei’s and Obata-sensei’s next manga!” Which hints that Tsugumi Oba and Takeshi Obata may indeed be working together once again on a new manga in the future.
What do you think of the Bakuman manga coming to an end? Let us know in the comments section below.
TeePee Games, one of the leading discoverability specialists for social, smartphone, online flash and MMO games, has announced that it has formed a partnership with PageFad LLC to promote the game Premier Football.
Premier Football, the Facebook title by PageFad LLC, will now be available on the TeePee Games network. In addition to other popular sports titles, Premier Football will be personally recommended to users by TeePee Games who would be interested in the game.
Premier Football is the flagship title of PageFad and was launched in 2008 to give the community a free online football manager simulation. In the game, players can create, train and manage a football team made up of their Facebook friends, who will then compete it leagues, cups and friendlies. The game at the moment has attracted millions of fans across 150 different countries worldwide.
Matthew Alfin, Product Manager at PageFad, comments; “The Euro 2012 and London Olympics are just around the corner, so it’s going to be a huge year for sports and Football in particular. With TeePee Games fast establishing itself as the go to games discoverability specialist, there was no better time for us to reignite interest in one of our most popular titles – when Premier Football first launched it went on to become the number one game on Facebook.
“In the last 90 days, Premier Football has achieved a 210% increase in daily active users and a 260% increase in monthly active users. With the help of TeePee Games we’re confident that we can continue this terrific success and achieve even higher levels of growth in the near future.”
Anyone familiar with Berserk: The Golden Age Arc, some awesome news for you as Madman has announced that they have acquired the feature film franchise for distribution across Australia and New Zealand. For those who dont know of the series, it is an epic action adventure tale set in a dark evil European inspired Medieval world where players take on the role of Guts, a lone soul and mercenary, armed with a magnificent blade, which is famed for being as tall as the warrior himself. Guts has his mind hell bent on becoming The Black Swordsman, having to face huge foes and challenges in his journey.
The first of the films in the trilogy, the Egg of Kings introduces Guts to the mighty leader Griffith, head of a feared mercenary group The Band of the Hawk, who becomes enthralled with the young warriors skills and shows a vested interest. Griffith aims to recruit Guts into his army, but despite achieving much glory and victory, fears the leader has ulterior motives and is leading him down a path of destruction.
They will all be produced by the marvellous Studio 4°C responsible for Mindgame and Spriggan and are based on Kentaro Miura’s Berserk The Golden Age Arc Manga series, taking the franchise and adding an exciting new experience with higly detailed animation and an amazingly gripping storyline. The Berserk series has been a top selling franchise in Japan since the 1980’s and the 1997 anime series is hugely popular amongst fans of the genre.
All three films will be released late 2012 and throughout 2013. Stay tuned for more news on the Berserk films.
Despite the fact that there has yet to be an announcement for a Western release of the first Senran Kagura game, a sequel is already being announced for Japanese release. Marvelous Entertainment has revealed their plans to release Senran Kagura Burst: Crimson Girls on the Nintendo 3DS via this week’s Famitsu magazine.
The title will allow players to play as the opposing ninja faction, Viper Academy, from the first game. Players will also be able to play more of the game in 3D unlike the first game. Marvelous has stated that Senran Kagura Burst: Crimson Girls is currently 81% complete already and it is set for release in Japan on August 30th. Perhaps this announcement of a sequel will inspire a localization for the first game? We shall see.
News has broke that the popular manga series about making manga, Bakuman, will be coming to an end next week after roughly 4 years of serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. The manga will end on it’s 176th chapter and will conclude the series.
