Along with the great announcement of the Razer Arcade Stick mentioned at this years TGS 2011, Razer have also been working together with DICE to bring us the Battlefield 3 Keyboard and Xbox 360 controller.
Hilmar Hahn, product Evangelist runs us through our hands on preview on the Battlefield 3 Blackwidow Ultimate keyboard and Xbox Onza Controller. No major differences or tweaks in terms of functionalty have been made to either products apart from the lights on the Blackwidow are now changed to Orange to suite Battlefield 3 and of course the Battlefield 3 skins which look great on both the products.
Enjoy the video preview and the pics, leave a comment below and let us know what you think.
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Today we spoke to Hilmar Hahn, Product Evangelist for Razer at this years Tokyo Game Show 2011. Hilmar walks us through the Razer Ultimate Arcade Stick for the XBOX 360 and PC. The Ultimate Arcade Stick is co-developed by Razer and the arcade stick community. The Arcade stick is being developed with real pro-gamer feedback from over 200+ specially selected top-seed Street Fighter IV pro-gamers, influential modders and members of the arcade enthusaist community. Currently in prototype stage the Razer Arcade Stick, even in its early stages is looking very impressive.
Check out the video preview below with Hilmar and let us know what you think of it. Will it have what it takes to take down the other great arcade sticks out there.
Competitive gaming in the UK has never been more popular – that’s the news to emerge from the recent insomnia43 event, as organiser Multiplay unveils the show audit.
Insomnia43 took place over the August Bank Holiday weekend (26th-29th August) at the Telford International Centre. Organisers have revealed that over 5,060 gamers passed through the doors to compete for a total prize pot worth in excess of £50,000.
insomnia43 broke the world records for biggest ever Team Fortress 2 tournament (in terms of prize fund and total number of players) and the event also set a new UK record for the highest number of gamers on one network, as over 2,500 players were connected at one time.
The UK representatives for the World Cyber Games were picked for Star Craft II and League of Legends. Samayan ‘Bling’ Kay triumphed at Blizzard Entertainment’s real-time strategy game, whilst Joe ‘Moojuic3’ Hill, Mark ‘Kaution’ Dennett, Scott ‘Terrroronyou’ Musgrove, Iain ‘mrunhappy’ Sully and Ben ‘Tempestra’ Farrimond won League of Legends – all bagging-expenses-paid trips to represent their country in the European final in Poland, and the world final in South Korea.
“insomnia43 exceeded our expectations,” says Craig Fletcher, MD, Multiplay. “With over 5,000 through the door, over a quarter of a million viewers watching the live streams online and some real spikes in all-round activity, we’ve shown again there is a real hunger for a large-scale competitive gaming event. In the last 30 days alone, the insomnia43 site has had close to five million pages views, and over 1.1 million visitors. The videos from the event have already been viewed over 100,000 times.
“We’ve already announced insomnia44, which we expect to be the largest winter event of its kind.”
Insomnia43 also boasted the first ever UK consumer appearance of Battlefield 3 on PC as part of an exhibition space which included stands from Currys, PC World, Samsung, Medion, liyama, ASUS, Riot Games, Aquatuning, ESET UK, Sapphire, Anthony Nolan, Kingston, Pro Class TV, Quiet PC, Razer, Ttesports, Kustom PC and Antec, to name but a few, making it the biggest insomnia exhibition space yet.
Codemasters gave gamers their first hands on with the PlayStation Vita edition of F1 2011 at Tokyo Games Show today. It’s the first time the public has got a glimpse at the handheld build of the game, despite being told of its existence and plans to release the game sometime after the console version.
To accompany their showcase of the game, Codemasters revealed the first video for F1 2011 on PlayStation Vita entitled ‘Compete on the Go’. The first gameplay video is captured from work-in-progress footage and reveals some of F1 2011’s key features including a two vs. two co-op mode and four player competitive racing, presumably trying to focus on the fact that, although the graphics have taken a hit, the gameplay should remain as solid as ever and it is playing to the system’s strengths with multiplayer play.
A new update has been released today for Street Fighter IV: Volt Battle Protocol, and this ones a good one! Not only does it include two new characters FeiLong and Yun, but the update also includes a whopping 60 new icons and titles and a ‘GoodFight’ button to thank and congratulate rivals after fights. Best of all, a friend request button has been added and communication is no longer cut off by receiving text messages or friend requests! This is especially great news to hear as the online multiplayer has been sadly lacking, hopefully this will help improve it!
As always this update is completely FREE! Thanks Capcom! If you havn’t picked it up already, you can buy it here, or read our review here!
Soul Cailbur V is set to release Q1 2012 for the Xbox 360 and PS3, we recently sat down for a hands on experience with the game. The story and art direction are set for an overhaul, Namco Bandai for the first time collabarted with outside companies to produce the game. The developers promised a deep, diverse world, more so than the previous entries. Online mutli-player will also be available, including exclusive costumes, which are TBA.
Some of these collabarators include Cyberconnect2, Isao Takeshita (Naruto series) on the art direction, John Kurlander (sound/orchestra) whose worked on films such as LOTR and Die Hard 4.0, and a company called Force Wick for the sound effects. It seems the team are really going all out to try and make this the best Soul Calibur so far, they’re also crafting hand-drawn animation with Takeshita, instead of just full motion capture for the final product.
All the favourite characters are back, special guests are unknown and the game is set 17 years after SC4. The main character is going to be Patroklos, son of Sophitia and the central focus on story seems to be revolving around the theme of swords. We were shown a trailer, which was fairly basic production values, but it gave us a general idea of the story.
Unfortunatley single player wasn’t available for play, as the game is in early stages, but that didn’t stop me from trying out some of the new features in versus. There’s two new combo moves called Critical Edge and Quick Move, which are basically the games power up attacks that produce some flashy animation and high damage. It seemed to balance out the multiplayer nicely when we were playing, especially since everyone was learning on the fly, the fact that we were using official arcade sticks probably helped out alot as well. Just like the previous games, the controls were responsive and enjoyable. The costumes were interesting: Voldo was probably the standout (trippy looking fur) along with alot of the ladies as per usual.
An interesting tweet by Soul Calibur designer Daishi Odashima a few days ago didn’t exactly paint the best picture for the developement process, saying “We’d like to take our time to make the game but the company’s always on our back. I’m nothing more than a salaryman :(” but it’s certainly not something that showed in my time with the build I played. Check out the video below of some 1v1 with a Cameo appearance by our Editor Kyle Moore having a fingerbash, he was unbeatable! We even got some photos of the move list.
We recently sat down with Tekken Hyrbid at Namco Bandai’s Pre TGS Event, this release aims to combine a few different entries into the series, it’s a cocktail of button mashing. It’s pure fan service and I played the fan favourite Tekken Tag Tournament 2 “prologue”, multiplayer was on show and after a few rounds of losing I was easily sucked back into the world of Tekken and started winning.
First of all the game I played was in 3D, now this was an early build, so I will say the 3D wasn’t the great. Infact the 3DS version of the game almost put it to shame, which was in the same room and ran at a suprisingly solid 60FPS. Meanwhile the PS3 version was sort of dark and rough around the edges, however the game didn’t slow down. All on one blue ray you’ll get TEKKEN Tag Tournament HD, TEKKEN Tag Tournament 2 Prologue (the one I played) and the feature length 3D CGI movie, TEKKEN Blood Vengeance. As you probably know, TEKKEN doesn’t exactly have a great story, but I’m sure there’s probably a few laughs in the movie. I haven’t seen it myself, but if you’re too tired to play Tekken, I guess the idea is to just watch the movie instead.
Interesingly the soundtrack was abit different, I even heard a few dubstep tracks, yes cause that’s just what ya’ need to hear when you’re kicking someone in the teeth. Dubstep! New features in Tekken Tag Tournmanet 2 Prologue (yes it’s a mouthful) included tag combo moves with your partner, a 3D model viewer for the characters, trophie support and ofcourse the 3D. The combos were basically a grab move where your partner joined in with a random fly in move, but they could be countered by pressing triangle, which meant 4 players appeared on screen once. This was something they were keen to point out to us, probably because it was running in 3D. I’m unsure if 3D runs on the remastered TEKKEN Tag Tournament HD, but you can unlock the infamous Bowl mode, so if it doesn’t I guess they’ve made up for it.
One downside is the lack on online multiplayer for this fun sized package, which would of been great, given the “remastered” nature of the release. TEKKEN Tag Tournament HD is a remade PS2 game, Tekken Tag Tournmanet 2 Prologue is a remade demo with only 4 characters plus 3d and the 3D film came out earlier this year. Basically when I put it like that, it sounds like what Linkin Park does with their albums, the good ol’ re-hashed fingerbash.
The game is set to release during the “2011 holiday period”, that’s all they gave us, which is something we already knew. But overall the game is looking like it’ll please the fans, rather than attracting new players. It played like any other Tekken Game, but with a few new features thrown into the mix, including “phat dubstep beatz”. It seems like more of a tease before the next TEKKEN Tag Tournament comes out, which isn’t really such a bad thing.
During a Pre TGS event which we had the pleasure of attending, Namco Bandai announced a few new games for the PS Vita. The titles have been rumoured, however this was the official announcement with some minor details revealed:
Ridge Racer
First Screenshot:
We were shown a trailer, which was quite impressive graphically and looked like standard Ridge Racer. Namco Bandai felt like the series should continue it’s traditional launch release window, which isn’t exactly a bad thing. The trailer also had the tagline “You will get a new “machine”, whatever that means, it’s pretty generic.
Shinobido 2: Tales of the Ninja
This looked like a port in the original trailer, however the trailer we saw seemed like the game has been beefed up abit, which can only be a good thing. This is the sequel to the PSP game, little details were revealed.
Katamari Damacy
Katamari will use the front and back touch screen controls of the PS Vita, Namco Bandai promised to fully utilize the motion control capabilities of the console. It might have to do with the fact that Namco Bandai merged with a mobile gaming company called DeNA, it will be called BDNA. They’re looking to grow their mobile space, along with motion controls.
They’re all scheduled to release in the launch window of the PS Vita, which isn’t an exact date, but you get the drift. More updates as they’re revealed…
If for some reason stepping across the threshold into Namco Bandai Headquarters in Tokyo doesn’t put me into the category of extraordinarily lucky, then being one of the first in the world to play the upcoming Tekken 3D Prime Edition certainly does.
While the game may have been rather limited in terms of playability and characters, the two limitations worked in favour of each other. The lack of levels meant that I could easily get through the game, in a matter of minutes. This meant that during the small amount of time to try out the game, I was able to test out a few characters. Rest assured the final product will in fact have a wide range of characters; it’s only for this build the majority of them were locked. Those who were available have some rather impressive combination manoeuvrers and special attacks.
Thanks to the limited levels I could focus purely on understanding the controls of the game. The problem with playing a fighting game on the 3DS is that combos are slightly more difficult to pull off, compared to a console based fighting game. Namco Bandai have us covered, and have utilised the 3DS touch screen, adding four touch buttons that are short cuts to special attacks.
Features not present in this build were street pass, 3DS to 3DS multi-player, and a 3D Tekken movie. Namco Bandai have stated that there will be online multi-player options for the title, and that the final product will have both the game and full length film, Tekken Blood Vengeance, on the one cartridge. Due to the image quality needed for 3D films, Tekken 3D Prime Edition will run at 60 frames per second. Due to this Tekken 3D Prime Edition has some of the best 3D I have seen on the 3DS to date.
Needless to say, Tekken 3D Prime Edition will have a strong marketing campaign behind it. In the welcome speech and announcement Namco Bandai aired a really funny trailer for the game. In the trailer, a sinister Yoshinori Ono, the producer of Street Fighter, mocks Namco Bandai for their attempt to bring their fighting franchise to the 3DS. The end result is a super powered Tekken producer, Katsuhiro Harada bursts through Capcom’s window, head butting Yoshinori Ono, getting a hit on his street pass, and casually leaving the building. Tekken 3D Prime Edition is due to be released February 2012.
