It’s Puzzle Time… Again! It has officially been confirmed that Puzzle Battle series Phi Brain will be getting a second season come April 2012. This news may come as no surprise to fans of the series, but it is incredibly popular in Japan. So it is only expected that a second season was a given.
Currently the plot for the second season will revolve around the origin of the Orpheus Bangle as a new organistation of villains appear known as the Orpheus Order. As you can imagine Daimon Kaito must defeat them by solving deadly puzzles and what not.
Season 2 is currently slated to premiere on the 8th of April 2012. Will you be checking out the second season of Phi Brain? Let us know what you think in the shoutbox and comments section.
THQ have given us some much awaited information regarding Career Mode for next month’s release of UFC Undisputed 3. The mode has been solid in previous versions but lacked a bit of depth and polishing, so hopefully this year’s will take it to the next level.
One key improvement that THQ have advised is the the emphasis on fighting and not so much on the management of stats, which could get quite laborious. To achieve this, the Stat Decay has been removed and a new automated point allocation system has been implemented. 14 new training drills have been added to UFC Undisputed 3 and with less time for training and more fighting, players will need to plan their training schedules more efficiently.
Furthermore, players will be asked to choose a fighter’s background on top of their other information at the beginning of their career, providing different move sets and starting stats. Fighters will also start out with much higher stats than previous versions, giving a better chance for developing a more well rounded fighter.
Six real world camps will be included in which players will travel and train at. Fighters will also get the opportunity to join and represent the camp during their career, putting the camp’s trainer in your fighter’s corner during bouts. Some of the camps included are Greg Jackson’s, American Top Team and Wolfslair MMA Academy.
Fighters will compete in the WFA, UFC and Pride tournaments throughout their career, starting out in the WFA until you successfully capture and defend the title. Something else which should really boost the longevity of Career Mode is the ability for fighter’s to switch weight classes, meaning once you’ve dominated every fighter in your division, you can move up or down and start causing some more havoc in another class.
Finally, UFC Undisputed 3 captures in-game cutscenes in career mode with real-life footage of both fights and interviews with today’s top fighters. As a result, players will encounter videos in the same manner real world fighters experience during their career. For example, when you have your first professional fight, you’ll get to hear what other fighters were feeling when they had their first fight, and the same applies to first title shots and title reigns. With a large variety of videos, players will be able to unlock different ones throughout multiple Career Mode plays.
So there you have it folks! Don’t forget to check out the trailer down below to see Rampage Jackson giving a run through of Career Mode and sharing some personal experiences. Only a few weeks left now until you’ll be joining him in the octagon.
The cast of Soulcalibur V has seen quite a lot of chance in the 17 year time-skip since we’ve seen them in Soulcalibur IV, but they are going to see quite a lot more change with their alternate costumes. As you can see in the screenshots below a number of characters secondary outfits have been revealed today by Namco Bandai.
But more importantly they also released a fancy cinematic trailer which can be seen below. This trailer provides a small summary of the game’s storyline involving Patroklos, the son of Sophitia Alexandra. Soulcalibur V is set to be released on January 31st in North America and February 3rd in Europe.
The latest video for Square Enix’s sequel to FFXIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, has been given a new trailer and this time around viewers are able to learn about the new gameplay aspects that the time traveling mechanic has created.
As players venture around the world they will discover mysterious gates placed in towns and the wilderness. Players can activate these portals by finding hidden Artefacts with Mog’s assistance. These gates will allow the player to then travel through time to distant locations and even the same location at different time periods. This allows the player to see just how the environment of any given area has changed in the many years that have passed, or even how it looked in the past.
Check out the video below for yourself and be ready to spend a lot of time in the world of FFXIII-2 quite shortly as the title is set to be released at the end of this month for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Atlus has spent the last few weeks teasing another game that they would be bringing over to North America from Japan, and this time around the title was a game from the much wanted Growlanser series. To be more specific the game is Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time and it is set to be released for the PSP this summer.
The official Japanese name for the game was Growlanser IV: Over Reloaded and it is a tactical RPG that was remade on the PSP last year. Unfortunately for fans of the JRPG genre, the title will only be given voices through the anime cutscenes, because Atlus apparently has had issues with the licensing restrictions of the Japanese voice track. Though why they aren’t putting the effort in to provide their own English voice track is a question that has so far gone unanswered.
Yakuza: Dead Souls is quite a unique take on the whole zombie genre as a whole, because not only do the zombies invade an entire town rather than a mall, but this time around the zombies have to deal with the even more terrifying yakuza. While Yakzua: Dead Souls is set to be released on March 13th in North America, the 15th in Australia and the 16th in Europe, we have yet to hear about what pre-order bonuses would be available for those who just can’t wait to put their money down on this zombie thriller.
Well if you live in the UK and pre-order the title at select retailers will receive the Densetsu DLC pack which includes 8 new unlockable weapons, 14 new weapons for your lovely female friends and 8 new hostess outfits and a whole slew of new items to help the player out against the zombies.
Those who live in France will be able to pre-order the title at Micromania and will receive a special Steelbook Edition that will also come with the aforementioned Densetsu pack and a Tattoo sleve. Germany on the other hand will receive the same exact thing, minus said tattoo sleeve. Those in Spain will simply receive a Limited Edition that includes the Densetsu pack and that is all.
North American pre-orderers will receive the aforementioned Densetsu DLC pack if they pre-order exclusively at Gamestop and they will also end up receiving the “God Bless America” DLC pack. The God Bless America package will feature bonus costumes for each of the main characters and bonus karaoke modes for Majima and Kiryu, a few bonus items for casinos and even new cutscenes. What are you waiting for? Get out there and pre-order this because these bonuses are too big to pass up.
Unfortunately for fans of classic first person shooters, DOOM was pulled down from the Xbox Live Arcade over a year ago due to “expiring rights.” Well it has taken some time but Bethesda and Zenimax have finally placed the game back up for download on the XBLM.
The game will be available for the paltry sum of 400 MSP and it features both co-op and an online versus mode. What are you waiting for? DOOM isn’t called one of the grandfather’s of FPS for no reason, the game can be downloaded here. Or if you just happened to delete the title since it has been removed from the XBLA, you can re-download it now for free.
While some people just love to watch cars race around a track or race through the streets, other people simply watch cars going fast so that they can see the disastrous crashes that will likely happen at any given moment. For those type of people there is a game coming to the PlayStation Network just for you.
On February 9th Version 2 Games will be releasing Smash ‘n’ Survive, a game where players will be able to choose from 30 “brutal concept cars, including muscle, agile, monster, buggy and SUVs,” and do combat on ten different maps and attempt to destroy each other with plenty of fancy weaponry including flamethrowers. It will include a number of different game modes including a few team modes and something called “plant the bomb.” The title will also include a campaign mode, two player split screen and a six player online multiplayer that will be available in April 2012 as free DLC.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has had a very rough time in development. At times it was thought to have been canceled and at one time it nearly was until Platinum Games chose to step in and handle the development instead. As such it appears that Platinum is handling the title much better than Kojima Productions because in an interview with Famitsu, Hideo Kojima has revealed that Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance will have a playable demo available at E3 this year.
This is big news as many fans are quite interested in seeing how this title turns out, especially since there is absolutely no stealth element in the game now that Platinum has taken over, in fact it was the first thing removed said Platinum CEO Tatsuya Minami.
A very interesting title has appeared on our radars, and that is an upcoming XBLA title named Deadlight. However if you were to ask us much more about the title we would unfortunately be unable to give you much of a response because the title has just been announced by developers Tequila Works and publishers Microsoft Studios.
Supposedly the title is meant to be released sometime this summer and Tequila works has described the game as an “original cinematic puzzle platformer.” The game focuses on the journey of a man named Randall Wayne who is one of the last survivors on the American West Coast after a pandemic in 1986 wiped out the rest of the population. Color me interested.
