Upon it’s release, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time consistently amazed, impressed and surprised gamers, earning it a legendary status. Still today after countless ports and releases, the legend lives on and still amazes, impresses and surprises.
Around this time last year one of the most awesome videos ever, hit Youtube. Youtube user ollilord posted a video entitled: Oliver Taylor: Ocarina of Tetris. It featured a young man by the name of Oliver Taylor preforming, and I’m not making this up-the Tetris theme song in-game whilst playing Ocarina of Time. Unfortunately, the song did not make magical L shaped blocks fall from the sky. See for yourself in the video below! Apparently this is how he spent his holidays last year. How will you spend yours this year? Skyrim I’m guessing? MERRY NERD YEAR EVERYONE!
Last week Nintendo acknowledged that their big title of the year, (pretty much the only headline title for the Wii) actually had a game ending bug that would halt all progress in the story of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. The bug had to do with a certain quest that, if performed a certain way, would glitch the rest of the quest and make the game unbeatable.
Nintendo has come up with a way to fix the problem, and that is to either wait for a downloadable program they are working on to patch the save file and not know when you can continue playing if you have been affected or…. send in your broken game data to Nintendo themselves. Nintendo is offering players full shipment coverage if the player feels like sending in their SD card or Wii system to Nintendo to be fixed. At least they are working on it I suppose, but perhaps a bit more bug testing would have been more pertinent.
Those venturing into the frozen land of Skyrim today on the Xbox 360 will be introduced to the 1.3 version of the game as Bethesda has released the newest patch for the title. In this patch we will see a number of updates to the game, including fixes to the older patch of the title such as the backwards flying dragons.
The full patch list can be seen below and PlayStation 3 owners can expect to see the patch sometime in the near future for their console of choice. Just make sure not to take an arrow in the knee…
General stability improvements
Optimize performance for Core 2 Duo CPUs (PC)
Fixed Radiant Story incorrectly filling certain roles
Fixed magic resistances not calculating properly
Fixed issue with placing books on bookshelves inside player purchased homes
Fixed dragon animation issues with saving and loading
Fixed Y-look input to scale correctly with framerate
While Anarchy Reigns may seem like something that would be hard to hold back, what with all of the crazy super powered looking characters that can be played in the title, it seems that at least something must have managed to do so. Sega has announced today that the originally set for January 2012 Anarchy Reigns has been delayed until July 3rd in North America, July 5th in Australia and finally July 6th in Europe.
The only explanation Gary Knight, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Sega West was able to give for this delay was that he “can’t reveal much now, but it’s something to do with scale. Let’s just say traditional one on one or two versus two fighters will be a thing of the past …” With the massive abilities we’ve seen the characters demonstrate so far, this is going to be one hectic fighter.
Tecmo Koei has released a whole slew of new information for when we can expect to see Ninja Gaiden 3 and how players can pick them up and even give them some incentive to pick them up from certain retailers. Eager fans will be glad to see that the title will be available in stores on March 20th in North America and March 22nd in Australia for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and if they feel like dropping some extra money on the title they can also pick up the $99.99 Collector’s Edition.
The Collector’s Edition will include an art book, soundtrack CD and a “Duel of the Masked” figure. Plus the Collector’s Edition will contain a full demo of Dead or Alive 5 which will have four playable characters to try out. The Collector’s Edition is exclusive to only GameStop and EB Games and for those who don’t want to buy the extra special edition shouldn’t be too worried however about the demo as they still have a chance to play it.
Buyers of the title can pre-order from Amazon.com and receive Ayane and Hayate to battle against one another while pre-orders from GameStop will offer Hitomi and Ryu Hayabusa. Being a huge fan of Hitomi, it would be easy for me to make the decision on who to pre-order the title from, or you could still buy the Collector’s Edition and receive all four without the need for pre-order.
Just recently, Parrot held an online competition, the AR.Drone Challenges, where people from all over the world sent in their times running an AR course. The 15 finalists have been selected from all participants and will bring their top gun AR piloting grit to the city of sin, Las Vegas in January 2012 to compete in the Worldwide Grand Final held at the CES trade show. The top dog will be crowned the World AR.Drone Champion and walk away with a $5,000 USD prize, bragging rights and the ultimate tech geek cred making him (or her) the envy of all of their friends.
On 12 January 2012, 3 French, 3 Japanese, 2 Chinese, 2 Canadian, 1 Portuguese, 1 German, 1 Russian, 1 South African and 1 American will compete during one day on the AR.Drone Flying zone located Central Plaza, Las Vegas Convention Centre.
Schedule:
· From 9.30am to 3.00pm: Qualifying rounds
Duel between pilots, giant slaloms in a fanciful city, time trial.
· 3.00pm: The Grand Final
Final stage & prize award ceremony.
While Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City may offer plenty of squad based combat against the survivors of the Raccoon City outbreak and tons of zombies to kill, what about an online multiplayer mode? Capcom has just revealed that they will be including a multiplayer mode in the game called Heroes Mode which will bring back a multitude of favorite characters and pit them against one another.
As you can see in the trailer below, as well as the image above, we will be seeing plenty of memorable characters returning besides Leon, such as Claire Redfield, Jill Valentine, Hunk, Ada Wong and Carlos returning as playable characters in the multiplayer mode that appears to be a 4 on 4 team deathmatch.
Thanks to votes from its fans, Mass Effect 3 recently won the Most Anticipated Game award at the Spike Video Game Awards, and to thank the community support, Bioware have released an all new screenshot of the game, featuring Ashley Williams in her shiny, new Spectre armour (above).
Prior to the release of the screenshot via social networks, fans were rabidly clamouring for a picture of the character after she was confirmed to being a squadmate in the game. You can also head over to the Mass Effect 3 Facebook page to caption the picture for the chance to win some, and I quote, “cool swag”.
Mass Effect 3 hits Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC on March 6, 2012. A singleplayer and multiplayer demo will be released sometime in January.
Dates have been announced for the 2012 Pokémon Video Game National Championships in Europe, where players can compete for an invite to the World Championships in Hawaii. Tour dates take place from March 3rd through to April 1st in 2012, and will be stopping in five major cities through Europe including Birmingham, United Kingdom; Essen, Germany; Paris, France; Madrid, Spain; and Milan, Italy. For the first time this year, players can build their teams using Pokémon from the National Pokédex and must play using the Pokémon Black or White versions. There will be three age divisions based on year of birth, and a total of four top finishers will be selected from each age division. Winners will get travel and accommodation to the 2012 Pokémon World Championships held on August 10th-12th in Hawaii, U.S.A. Players under the age of 18 will also receive travel and accommodation for one accompanying adult-how cool is that?!
2012 Pokémon Video Game National Championships, European Dates and Locations are as follows:
Saturday 3rdMarch—UK, Birmingham, NEC, Hall 11
Saturday 10thMarch—Germany, Essen, Messe Essen, Halle 1A
Saturday 17thMarch—France, Paris, Espace Champerret, Hall C
Saturday 24thMarch—Spain, Madrid, IFEMA, Pabellón 5
Sunday 1stApril—Italy, Milan, Centro Congressi Milanfiori, Strada 1
Players will compete in one of three age divisions, based on their dates of birth:
Junior Division—born in 2001 or later
Senior Division—born in 1997, 1998, 1999, or 2000
Masters Division—born in 1996 or earlier
For more information about the Pokémon Video Game National Championships, including full conditions of entry, tournament locations, dates and times, prizes, and more, please visit: www.pokemon.co.uk/vgc.
Go to www.pokemon.co.uk/vgc to review caps on the number of entrants at the National qualifiers for the 2012 Pokémon Video Game Championships.
EA Games has announced a brand new game in the Command & Conquer Tiberium universe, Tiberium Alliances.
The free-to-play game will put players in a massively multiplayer online strategy setting, from which they can form strategic alliances, and battle against other players and hordes of mutant enemies. Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances will be an entirely portable, cross-platform MMO, as players will be able to access it not only from their web-browser, but also their mobile devices. The game promises to use real-time social and news-update feeds to create a completely interactive and dynamic experience, wherein players can react and plan according to moment-to-moment events.
Interested in the game? The closed beta starts today, so sign up here, and check out the announcement trailer below.
