There has been plenty of rumors circulating about a sequel for Disney Epic Mickey and today it has been confirmed on two fronts. First it was revealed by Geoff Keighley via Twitter that the game will be called Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two and will be revealed on GTTV.
Then there was a huge reveal from the Associated Press where they pretty much detailed every feature of the game. Epic Mickey 2 will be released on the Wii, Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 and will feature drop-in/out co-op play with an AI taking control when there is no second player. The game will also feature full voice acting which is a nice touch.
Despite what fans may hope for, Bayonetta still hasn’t even been given the slightest teaser for a sequel, however she is going to be making a cameo appearance in the oft delayed Anarchy Reigns when it releases later this year. Also developed by Platinum Games, Anarchy Reigns will contain a guest appearance of Bayonetta. Unfortunately Famitsu’s reveal had no other information about her or in what way she will be implemented into the title.
Currently Sega in North America hasn’t revealed any information at this time, but given the bare bones information provided by Famitsu this is to be expected. Still we have reached out to Sega in an effort to learn more.
Yes, we already have Zuma on the Xbox Live Arcade, but PopCap want Revenge, and plan on dishing it out cold this summer. As of today, PopCap decided to announce Zuma’s Revenge for the Xbox Live Arcade, which will feature a price-tag of 800 points. Cool right? Well, there’s a bit more packed into this port of sorts to capture your attention, such as updated visuals, avatar awards, and online leaderboards.
A full list of features, as well as a statement from Poppy themselves can be found below:
“With well over 20 million game units sold to date, and following the successful launch of four new Zuma titles this year on several leading mobile and handheld devices, the franchise has never been more in demand,” noted Van Riker, Zuma franchise marketing manager at PopCap.
– Extend your gameplay experience in the new and exclusive Boss Rush and Weekly Challenge game modes
– Enjoy updated 2012 gameplay: No more lives, no more checkpoints and no more game over
– Discover and befriend 4 all-new Spirit Animal companions
– Earn Spirit Badges on every level and use them to power up your Spirit Animals
– Dominate your friends on a whopping 74 leaderboards
– Experience remastered HD graphics
– Unlock 20 Xbox LIVE achievements
– Flaunt 2 tiki-themed awards for your Xbox LIVE avatar
So what does this tell us? Well, not a lot considering this release was inevitable. It does however look like Zuma is following Bejeweled and Peggle though in seeing every version hit Microsoft’s download service, which is always a win-win for everyone as Zuma Blitz (my personal favorite) is sure to be next in line. Sweet addictive Zuma, welcome back.
Pendulo Studio’s upcoming adventure game for PC simply titled as ‘Yesterday’, gets a full fledged launch trailer today. This rather interesting looking PC game is now available for purchase.
This launch trailer illustrates just how dark and gruesome this game really is. The trailer sheds some light on the story and the main characters. The setting seems to revolve around young colledge students the trailer and shows off scenes of murder, torture, and some weird occult rituals. This looks to be a very frightening and intense adventure game with a rather unique art style.
Yesterday is available for the Windows platform and is available for purchase worldwide in both Europe and North America.
The Druid class has been fully revealed by the DDO staff. The Druid is a shape-shifting class (which I’m fairly certain is incorrect according to D&D rulebooks, 3.5 at the very least anyway) that can transform into bears, wolves and elementals to tank, dps or aoe opponents.
True to the original rules though, Druids are able to wield a short number of weapons. These weapons include – “staves, daggers, clubs, sickles, and more.” It seems like Druids are forgoing armour for elemental resistances –
Take the Druidic oath and get closer to nature. Shed your heavy metal armour in exchange for resistance to the harsh aspects of nature like entanglement, poison, and other natural dangers.
I Am Alive, Ubisoft’s latest survival horror game, will arrive on the Playstation Store on April 4, one month after its release on Xbox Live Arcade. I Am Alive follows an everyman’s journey to find his wife and daughter, who were lost during the “Event.” A year later, he finds Haventon, his hometown, in shambles. Buildings are destroyed, toxic ash fills the streets and society has been torn, causing inhabitants to take all necessary actions to survive.
Also available is an iOS app that accompanies the game. The app is free and includes the following:
A ‘photo mode’ that let you create your own I Am Alive-themed photos;
Original game soundtrack, including 6 tracks exclusively composed for the App;
A Street map of the main game area with exclusive hints from the developers;
List of all resources from the game detailing the level of rarity and effects on health, stamina and stamina capacity;
List of all Achievements and Trophies with check/uncheck tracking feature;
5 videos including a trailer, a making and the 3 “survivor tapes”;
Over 50 production concept arts, promotional artworks and screenshots.
For out take on the Xbox Live version of the game, check out our review.
To follow the announcement of the reveal of their latest game, Rule the Kingdom, Game Insight have released a trailer to mark the occasion. Rule The Kingdom is a city-building RPG where you as a king need to build your kingdom. The twist is that you also have an adventurer avatar that you use to go on quests around your kingdom.
Players use this avatar to recruit soldiers and adventurers to follow them in over 1000 quests across 12 campaigns within the game. Adventures can involve treasure, questing and boss battles and many more traditional role-playing elements.
For more information, be sure to check out the Official Site.
Among fans of anime, it is common place to see a brilliant series have a horribly slapdash ending come in and leave a sour after taste on what could have been an overall amazing anime. There are many series that are known for having a dud ending. But which anime have the worst?
For sake of those who just can’t stand spoilers, I will warn you now, this article will spoil the endings of 5 series. Now that we got that out of the way, let’s dive into this list of the bad, the sad and the just plain ugly endings that left us disappointed.
Without further adieu…
5. Dragon Ball Z
How many of you actually remember the ending of Dragon Ball Z? Goku defeats Buu, but then what happens? Well, it’s not exactly the most fitting end for a series as cherished as this.
In an admittedly odd turn of events, we skip forward in time and see that there is another World’s Martial Arts Tournament. It is then revealed that Buu reincarnated as a good guy named Uub (somehow?) and is competing in the Tournament. After fighting for a bit with Uub, Goku decides to train him. The series then abruptly ends with Goku flying off to train Uub, making for an absolutely disappointing and flat finish to what was a grand journey.
Maybe the ending is why Toei Animation decided to make GT?
4. Soul Eater After 51 episodes of build-up Soul Eater fans were without a doubt pumped to see the way it all ends in the world of weapon meisters, only the have everything fall apart in the last episode.
After weeks of build up we get to the battle that would put things to an end. In the final episode going against everything we knew about the show we suddenly have the main character completely defying the laws of the series universe and having the main villain defeated by a mere punch. It was cheesy, over the top, confusing as hell and above all disappointing.
Why was this ending so bad? Well because the manga it’s based on wasn’t far enough ahead and they had to go with an anime only ending. I guess after hours trying to figure out how to end this thing, one guy in the board room punched a hole in the wall and the Director just went with it.
3. High School of the Dead Here is a case of catching up to the manga having a different effect. After 12 episodes, High School of the Dead had already caught up to it’s source material and instead of deciding to create and semblance of a conclusion, they just end it. That’s right, they abruptly end it right in the middle of all the action.
To make matters worse, they then went on to release an OVA, anyone thinking that the series would get an ending of some kind would be instead subjected to a random fan-service heavy episode that also did not bother to resolve anything.
Fans can only hope that some day, when the manga decides to come off it’s lengthy hiatus and get’s far enough ahead, that this anime could one day be concluded. But chances are that it won’t.
2. Mawaru Penguindrum Now this is an anime that wasn’t great through the majority of it’s run but featured an ending so bad that it just had to be mentioned.
Mawaru Penguindrum as it stands is a generally bad anime series, mostly for it’s poor pacing, weak characterisation and asphyxiation on stunning visuals over substance. It goes without saying that Penguindrum looks great, but it never truly grasps what makes for a good story.
After spending 24 episodes stumbling back and forth with plot twists thrown about haphazardly, the series reaches it’s final episode. This episode could be the moment the series redeems itself, this could be the moment it all makes sense. Instead it amounts to absolutely nothing, sloppily resolves some hanging plot threads and completely forgets the others, in exchange it decides for the final time that style is more important than substance and because of that everything in the entire series up to that point, amounts to nothing.
1. Neon Genesis Evangelion + End of Evangelion The epitome of the ‘bad ending’, Neon Genesis Evangelion and by extension The End of Evangelion. The ending of this popular mecha series is well documented. GAINAX the studio producing the anime blew their budget and the final two episodes were completely within the mind of the protagonist. Both episodes were compiled of pseudo philosophical nonsense and were heavily criticised by fans for being nothing but an down right cop out of an ending.
So in order to correct the ending, GAINAX commissioned a film that would serve as the true ending of Evangelion. That film was none other than the aptly title End of Evangelion. People wanted a proper ending and boy did GAINAX give them one.
In what is without a doubt the worst anime ending of all time, Evangelion concludes with the world ending, everyone dying, the main protagonist literally wanking over his unconscious love interest’s comatose body and ultimately ends with him trying to strangle that same love interest besides a sea of blood. GAINAX, you need help man.
That concludes my Top 5 Worst Anime Endings. What is your Top 5? Let us know in the comments section below.
A Dangerous Method has an excellent pedigree. Directed by David Cronenberg (A History of Violence, The Fly), starring man of the moment Michael Fassbender, frequent Cronenberg collaborator Viggo Mortensen (Oscar nominated for his work in Cronenberg flick Eastern Promises) and Keira Knightley, there’s not much more you could ask for when it comes to names on paper.
The film follows the relationship of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, looking in particular at how their relationship resulted in the creation of psychoanalysis (that’s lying on a couch and being told that all your problems stem from childhood and your unconscious mind). Two new clips from the movie have just been released to Australia, one focusing on this primary relationship between two of psychiatry’s most prominent figures, and the other giving a very brief introduction to Keira Knightley’s character – Sabrina Spelrein.
Mistwalker, the creators of the extensive JRPG for the Nintendo Wii, The Last Story, as well as other titles such as Blue Dragon, have recently announced that they are working on three new iOS Games. It may not come as a surprise to some, after all, Hironobu Sakaguchi was the executive producer on a number of Final Fantasy games, some of which have made their way on to iOS devices. So far, the only information comes from Mr. Sakaguchi who says, “I’m working on three new games on iOS. I’m planning to post updates on my Facebook as making progress.” Mistwalker will be releasing more information via Facebook as they develop the games further. For now we can only speculate what the game will be like – hopefully it involves chop-sticks and a strange, yet delicious, snake creature.
