While everybody went to bed last night expecting February 29th to be just a regular day, the Avengers movie had other plans. A new trailer for the movie has just been released, and it looks incredible.
Check out the trailer on the Applewebsite and then let us know what you think of it. Will you be going to see it on opening night, or will you wait until it comes to Redbox?
The Avengers movie has a release date of May 4, and will be coming to 3D, real 3D, IMAX 3D and regular theaters in America. Australians will be able to watch the Avengers on April 25.
Cult classic Another World, originally released in 1991, was re-released for iOS last year to celebrate it’s 20th anniversary; and from March 16th, it will also be available on Android devices. You play Lester Chaykin, escaping the alien forces that held him prisoner, picking up weapons and gadgets along the way.
The new version features remastered HD graphics and audio. You can use a d-pad as with the original game, or use the new intuitive touch controls. The game even has OpenFeint integration, and will be available in 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
StarWars: The Old Republic Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: Bioware Platform: PC Release Date: 1/3/2012 Price: $79.90 (Digital Standard), 89.90 (Digital Deluxe) – Buy Here
Overview
Star Wars: The Old Republic is the latest MMORPG set in the Star Wars universe. It is also the second MMORPG set in the Star Wars universe. We shouldn’t let this game only take first and second place though, at third place, this game is also the third video game installment of the Old Republic era in the Star Wars mythos.
Set 300 or so years after the events of Knights of the Old Republic 2, the game picks up in a galaxy far far away, with a backdrop of war and an invasion from the Sith Empire. It’s war between the Republic and the Empire and each player has a role to play in this intergalactic exchange of blasters, swords and sorcery.
Story
Star Wars: The Old Republic follows the individual tale of each player character inhabiting the game within the games universe. This means that players will get a more personalised experience from the games story, unlike other MMORPGs that seem to skimp in this department.
Using the warring galaxy as a backdrop, the game thrusts players on a personal quest that is, while similar for each class, personal to each player. I found that the story experience is enhanced by the fact that there are other players playing alongside you and that they can influence the way your story progresses (to a degree).
Take Flashpoints for instance (these are like the games version of dungeons), these can be undertaken by a group of players. In these, yours and your groups behaviours towards dialogue can have an impact on your own personal story (assuming you don’t do the Flashpoint again, or ignore your actions in subsequent visits), which gives you a greater connection to your player character on a more personal level. It’s kind of hard to describe, but it’s like ‘this is my character, and these are the actions that I have undertaken with him’.
However, the thing that will impact on your personal story the most are the actions you take during dialogue sequences on storyline missions. These missions comprise certain sections of an Act within the story and everything you do can influence the direction of an Act. However, all the Acts are static in their successive progression.
This game is incredibly interesting from a story standpoint and fans of Bioware’s story-telling will absolutely love the way the story has been integrated into this particular MMORPG. Fans of story based video-games will definitely be overjoyed with the amount of story progression available to them within Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Gameplay
Star Wars: The Old Republic plays very similarly to other games in the MMO and RPG genre. What I mean here is that a lot of the mechanics were lifted and slightly enhanced from other games, such as World of Warcraft and Single-player RPGs such as Mass Effect and Dragon Age 2.
Over the course of the game, you will be conversing with a plethora of Non Player Characters that will all be fully voiced and moderately interacted with. Whilever you are conversing with an NPC, you will be given a selection of dialogue options in a manner similar to the conversational wheel featured in Mass Effect and Dragon Age 2. However, in this game, it is a lot more streamlined and you can’t expand on a conversation as far as you could in either of those two games. While this is barely an issue (like really barely), it still would have been nice to have those kinds of extensions in most instances of conversations with Non Player Characters.
Further, in conversational periods, you will be given opportunities to make important Light and Dark side decisions for your character. For an added bonus, you can turn the games Light and Darkside hints off and on in the Settings Menu. Anyway, I often found that what I thought was the right thing to do given the situation was not always the correct (Lightside) option to take. This has left my own character down the middle path of the alignment ladder. I think that Roleplayers in particular will love this feature as it will allow them to play out their character to the fullest, and with having the hints on, they can ensure that they don’t accidentally make a Darkside mistake.
Combat-wise, Star Wars: The Old Republic plays very similarly to other hot-key based MMORPGs (like WoW), only slightly different. The main difference in the combat is that your character doesn’t sit back and auto-attack. This means that you have to keep mashing hotkeys to continuously keep on the offensive. I found that this gives you a much better flow and makes you feel that much involved with the game than sitting behind a boss and occasionally hitting Mutilate and Envenom.
The first game from Initials Video Games, Super Lemonade Factory is set for release Mid-March 2012; just a matter of weeks away. You play Andre and his wife, Liselot. Andre’s father offers them his Lemonade Factory, on the sole condition they travel through the whole factory, a task easier said than done. Along the way you’ll meet a colourful cast of characters, including the foreman, chef, food inspector, and a general looking for liquid-based supplies for his army.
This single player platformer features using the married couple’s complimentary abilities to navigate through levels and solve puzzles to reach the exit. As a whole the art style is bubbly and bright, underlying tones of labour relations and the moral dilemmas of running a business in wartime will seep into conversations, giving the title that hint of maturity about it.
There are 3 “worlds” – warehouse, factory, and office – with 12 levels a-piece, adding up to 72 total! The game also includes an unlockable “hardcore” mode and 12 extra levels available by collecting all the lemonade bottles. With 8-bit pixel-art by Miguelito, and an original chip-tune soundtrack by Easyname, Super Lemonade Factory looks to be a great, indie-developed experience!
It’s set for release Marh 2012 on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. So set your calendars!
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has revealed new details of a further update to The Lord of the Rings Online coming at a later date. The latest update to the free-to-play MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) developed by Turbine, opens up seven entirely new areas to players, including Thinglad, Parth Celebrant, Eorlsmead, Wailing Hills, Limlight Gorge, Brown Lands and The Rushgore.
Further information on each new area can be found below:
Thinglad
Story or Primary Theme:
Assist the sentinels of Lothlórien in patrolling their southern border and mediate relations between the Galadhrim and the Rohirrim of Stangard who have recently been clashing during patrols. At the same time, heroes are needed to scatted Orcs and Wargs that have moved into the area before they become a larger threat to the region.
Geography:
Thinglad is defined by its tall, grey trees with twisted, roots that drink deeply from the Great River. The forest is misty and shadowed while the skies are pale and as cheerless as the land itself.
Lore:
Once part of the Golden Wood, Thinglad has become a no man’s land between Lothlórien and Rohan in the last 200 years.
Parth Celebrant
Story or Primary Theme: Confront troubles both living and undead upon the fields of Parth Celebrant where a great treason once befell Gondor. Bring redemption to the traitorous shades so they may rest or destroy them if they are beyond aid.
Geography: The ruins of an ancient Gondorian keep, where brave soldiers once kept watch, stand at the southern edge of Parth Celebrant, overlooking the green plains.
Lore: The site of the fiercest fighting during the Battle of the Fields of Celebrant, Parth Celebrant is also the site of a terrible betrayal. Gondorian soldiers allowed their fortress to fall to the enemy in exchange for safety and Eastern riches, condemning their countrymen to death.
Eorlsmead
Story or Primary Theme: Though the soldiers of Stangard are strong and fiercely loyal to their king, the village has fallen on hard times and hope is in short supply. Lift spirits by helping with shortages of food and supplies and thinning the numbers of hostile beasts in the area. Root out the source of mistrust and discontent amongst the council.
Geography: Established on the highest rise in the rolling plains of Eorlsmead, the Rohirrim village of Stangard keeps its watch over the region.
Lore: Though many men who serve at Stangard have been sent as punishment for recent, petty crimes, the village remains fiercely loyal to Rohan and Théoden, their king.
Wailing Hills
Story or Primary Theme: Many years have passed since the height of Rohan’s strength along the Great River and Orcs and spiders have returned to the Wailing Hills. Drive out the Orcs and prevent them from allying themselves with the White Hand.
Geography: The Wailing Hills are defined by the steep, rocky outcroppings, called tors, which stretch out from the Misty Mountains like long fingers. Statues of Cirion of Gondor and Eorl the Young rise from the earth as ancient symbols of friendship but Orcs, growing bolder, have begun to defile them.
Lore: Hundreds of years ago, the forefathers of Rohan destroyed a great Easterling army in the deep valleys of the Wailing Hills to save the forces of Cirion, Steward of Gondor. The name of the land itself comes from the Rohirric word wael meaning “slaughter.”
Limlight Gorge
Story or Primary Theme: Descend into the Limlight Gorge, where an unnatural storm has cast the land into deep shadow. Hunt fearsome trolls from the Misty Mountains who wander freely, no longer fearing the sun, and investigate the mysterious grove spreading at the base of the cliff beneath Fangorn Forest.
Geography: Caught between the rugged Misty Mountains and the northern reaches of Fangorn Forest, Limlight Gorge is a dangerous and untamed wilderness. Here, the Limlight River gushes forth over falls and rapids as it flows eastward to join the Anduin.
Lore: The appearance of the unnatural storms from the North and the encroachment of Fangorn from the South gives the area an uneasy feeling as unseen forces seem to fight for dominance over the canyon.
Brown Lands
Story or Primary Theme: Contend with an invading host within the desolate Brown Lands. Here the Rohirrim struggle to keep an old foe at bay while fortifying against their enemies’ mysterious new allies.
Geography: Ravaged thousands of years ago during a terrible war, the Brown Lands are nearly inhospitable and are filled with withered scrub and stones as far as the eye can see.
Lore: It is believed that the Brown Lands were devastated by the power of Sauron himself nearly 3,000 years ago during the War of the Last Alliance. Before that, many beautiful gardens were tended here though little evidence of them now remains.
The Rushgore
Story or Primary Theme: Within the murky marshland of the Rushgore, ruthless brigands, once only a nuisance, have become a threat to the region. Pursue these brigands to reclaim priceless relics of Rohan and Gondor and extend aid to woodsmen who have found themselves overwhelmed while travelling north and now cannot leave.
Geography: A treacherous marshland, the Rushgore serves as the buffer between the fields of Parth Celebrant and the bleak Brown Lands. The eastern end of the Rushgore is one of the few places at which the Anduin can be crossed without the aid of boats.
Lore: Little is now known of the Rushgore and was known has been lost to time.
Ayopa Games have graciously knocked down the price of their third person shooter for the iPhone and iPad, M.U.S.E. to a low 99 cents. How can they possibly go lower that $0.99? By adding new levels to the title! M.U.S.E now features the following upgrades:
– Two new levels
– New Oil Rig environment
– Two new boss battles
– Mountable chain guns in the final boss battle
– New “Massive Chain-gunner” enemy
– Across the board performance increase for all devices
To get an idea of what M.U.S.E. is like now that it has been revamped with new levels, check out the latest video from Ayopa Games below. Or you can just click here to buy the game while it’s on sale.
Koch Media today revealed four aircrafts of the upcoming action flight simulation Jane’s Advanced Strike Fighters, in build up to the games imminent release. During the campaign, the players can take a seat in the cockpit of more than 30 different aircraft types, including the Soviet fighter jets MiG-21 and MiG-29 as well as the American fighter jet F-4 Phantom II and the stealth versatile fighter aircraft F-35 Lightning II.
The supersonic jet fighter aircraft MiG-21 is also known under his NATO nickname “Fishbed”. The airplane was first brought into service in 1959 and it was used by more than 50 countries. Since World War II more than 11.000 units of the MiG-21 were produced – that makes the aircraft one of the world’s most used fighter aircrafts.
The MiG-29 “Fulcrum” was as well produced by the Soviet aircraft company Mikojan-Gurewitsch. It was developed as an counter piece for the American aircrafts F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon. Amongst other things it is used to defend airports and cities.
The American F-4 Phantom II is an all-weather, long-range, supersonic fighter jet with fighter bomber abilities. It was used by the USA between 1961 and 1995 and is still used by other countries, for example Germany. The F-4 Phantom II reach a top speed of more than 2.300 km/h and carry up to 8.400 kg.
The F-35 Lightning II is an improved version of the experimental aircraft X-35, the winner of the “Joint Strike Fighter Progam” of the Department of Defense of the USA. It is considered as the first stealth multirole fighter.
Jane’s Advanced Strike Fighters offers 16 missions and a territory of 65,000 square kilometers with mountains, deserts, and urban landscapes, as well as 30 detailed fighter jets from the USA, Russia, Europe, and China. In extensive multiplayer arenas, players can set battle conditions such as the number of rounds and available aircraft for themselves. The title will be released for the Xbox 360, Windows PC, and PlayStation 3 on March 9th, 2012
The second DLC Expansion pack for Neverdead has been released for PS3 and Xbox 360. In volume 2 players get to combat new hazards and get through some even more grueling challenges while trying to keep an eye on all of your limbs. You can also enhance your online playing experience with a new playable character, National Anti-Demon Agency (NADA) Chief Sullivan, three new challenges in the expanded Sewers level and two additional online costumes for Bryce Boltzmann, just in case you want to spiff him up a bit.
The sewers level also includes an egg hunt, where you go around collecting items to deliver them to ‘Score Zones’, as well as a competitive race through a number of checkpoints, and unlock sewer levels by defeating enemies.
This new DLC is sure to keep you on your toes, just make sure that you keep a hold of all of your limbs as well! Neverdead DLC Volume 2 is available NOW, make sure to head on over to XBLA or PSN to grab yourselves the DLC for some body-part-separating-fun!
Atari, everyone’s favourite classic gaming giant created one of the first ever games, Pong. Two players control their own paddles on the left and right of the screen, bouncing a ball between them and trying to score a point by getting the ball past their opponent. It’s simple, but it works.
But now Atari is looking for an overhaul of the classic title. They are setting up a competition looking for innovative new concepts for the franchise. Fans of the game and Atari itself will be able to vote for their favourite concept, and the best idea will be taken all the way to market, it’s creator recieving $100,000 US. That’s a lot of money! For not all that much work! So get on it!
Nexuiz, the next title in the Xbox Live House Party promotion, has launched today on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360. It has gone on sale for the price of 800 MSP and is available to download now.
The arena-based FPS is a fairly big download, sitting at just over 1000MB, though this must be because it uses CryEngine3, giving it impressive graphics for an XBLA title. Players will be able to wage war online or against bots across 9 different maps using any number of other-worldly power-ups and weapons.
The PC and PS3 releases of the game will be coming later this spring.
To add Nexuiz for Xbox 360 to your download queue, visit Xbox.com here.
