Here’s a treat for all of you Aussie Resistance fans. The guys at Insomniac Games have put together a video of a survivor of the Resistance in the outback city of Alice Springs. For those who don’t know where the Alice is, it is basically located in the middle of the country, north of Uluru or Ayers Rock. This is following the announcement of an Alice Springs multiplayer map, which you can read here.
The survivor is Rex Eastley and he recounts on his terrifying experience with the Chimera. He reveals that he lost his family early in the fight and had to go alone until finding a group of people in the mountains. After months without Chimera contact, they finally find the hideout. Rex, instead of defending the hideout, he runs, mortally terrified of the threat. Such an emotional account of survival, isn’t it.
You can check it out on our channel or below. Resistance 3 launches this Thursday. Be sure to check out our review as well as some gameplay footage sometime next week.
Spring is in the air. The sun is out, the birds are singing and a cool gentle breeze sweeps in through the window. Honestly, who wants to be inside on a day like this? Thanks to Gameloft you can play a huge range of portable games outside and appreciate the glorious weather. Gameloft have reduced the price of eight games, yes, eight games, to the price of 99c for both the iPhone and the iPad. The following games are available at a discounted price for a limited time so get in quickly.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard – iPhone | iPad
Shadow Guardian – iPhone | iPad
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within – iPhone | iPad
Zombie Infection – iPhone | iPad
James Cameron’s Avatar – iPhone | iPad
Rogue Planet – iPhone
Action Pack – iPhone
Sports Pack – iPhone
Announced over the weekend at Call of Duty XP in Los Angeles, Microsoft is to launch a brand new Limited Edition Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Xbox 360 Console. The limited edition Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 themed console will include two custom wireless controllers, a 320GB hard drive and a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 complete with exclusive avatar items.
The console will also feature special Call of Duty custom sounds when the console turns on and off and when the disk tray ejects. Along with this, Microsoft will also be launching two other limited edition accessories, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Wireless Headset with Bluetooth and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 themed Wireless Controller.
The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Limited Edition Xbox 360 Console is available for pre-order now and will launch on the same day as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on November 8.
Back in April this year in Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine, the Gintama and SKET Dance manga both featured crossover chapters with one another. It has been announced today that in what is without a doubt a rare occurence indeed, Sunrise anime studios and Tatsunoko Productions will band together to bring the crossover to the respective anime series of both Gintama and SKET Dance.
The Gintama episode airing on September 26th will feature various SKET Dance characters and the SKET Dance episode airing on September 29th will in turn feature various characters from Gintama.
It is well known that Kenta Shirohara (creator of SKET Dance) worked previously as an assistant for Hideaki Sorachi (creator of Gintama) and are both quite good friends. So this crossover came as little surprise to fans of these series. Be sure to check out the crossover episodes when they air.
What do you think of this announcement? Let us know in the comments section below.
Assy McGee Season 1 + 2 Collection Tag Line: Crime doesn’t pay, but it sure does stink! Produced by: Madman Entertainment Run time: 220 minutes in 20 episodes Language: English Genre: Comedy, Crime Release Date: 20/07/2011 Available for purchase at Madman Online Store ($29.95)
Overview:
Adult Swim programmes are not usually known for subtlety, so it comes as no surprise that Assy McGee is about as unsubtle as these types of shows come. But does subtle always equate to comedy? No. But does it mean that not being subtle equates to comedy? No. A balance is necessary when it comes to comedy. Sometimes to obvious can be funny and likewise sometimes something that is subdued can be funny. Assy McGee goes for the obvious jokes and hits all the notes you’d expect it to hit. But does Assy stink or swim?
Story:
The plot of Assy McGee is simple, yet complicated, yet unimportant, all at once. All you need to understand is that there is an ass named Assy McGee, who is a detective at the police headquarters and hes a total ass. I mean he literally is an actual ass.
Each episode runs for roughly 10 minutes or so and follows Assy as he tries to solve a case, usually against his commanders orders. How does an ass solve crime you ask? Well he mostly just walks in a shoots everyone, then gets drunk and uhh… Yeah he kinda causes more trouble than he solves. He is definitely the worst officer of the police headquarters.
Other than that, each episode is littered with the expected ass humour. Assy often farts randomly, stinks and just does what an ass does in general. A lot of the humour is based around the fact that he is an ass. Oddly none of the characters ever acknowledge that he is physically an ass, opting to instead comment on his personality as being a total ass.
For an Adult Swim cartoon, which are known for being obvious and crude, Assy McGee is definitely memorable. Mostly due to it’s complete out of left field concept. Overall it is a quite humourous ride. But ultimately, I believe it may be a little too low-brow for a lot of people. Though, if crude humour is up your alley, Assy will certainly appeal to you.
Characters:
The cast of Assy McGee consist of the titular character who as I previously mentioned is an actual ass, that solves crime. Other than Assy, the rest of the cast aren’t particularly used for humour. They mostly play the straight man to Assy and provide something for his craziness to bounce off of.
Although well concieved Assy is at the end of the day, still a stereotypical asshole detective character, no matter how original his design may be. Like Assy the rest of the cast fill stereotypical roles – the sidekick, the angry police boss, unhinged priest, etc. Thankfully they are all interesting enough to base comedy upon and therefore work in their intended way.
Artwork: Assy McGee has a very unique art-style which oozes Noir and Grunge each and every frame. The series is dark, that is for sure. The fact that they opted for this art-style adds to the gritty and often disgusting crude-ness on display. It works extremely well and provides Assy with it’s artistic centre which may appeal to some and drive others away just upon inspection.
The fact that they opted for such a unique visual-style is a credit to the creators as it would’ve been just as easy to go for a straight for animation style, which would have no where near as much heart as Assy McGee ends up having.
It’s this visual flair that makes Assy stand out from the Adult Swim crowd which consists of a lot of basic styled American animation artwork. Assy McGee however contains a memorable and easily recognisable art-style that suitably looks as funny as the show is.
Audio:
The audio on display in Assy McGee is truly brilliant. Not only does it compliment the concept and characters well but it also is damn catchy. The theme song in particular will have you humming along after a few watches. The incidental music and score in general are also well concieved and make a perfect match to the show.
The voice work was all on par, however I found Assy’s voice to be a little difficult to adapt to at first. However after you watch a couple of episodes, his speech patterns become second nature and are easy to comprehend and accept. All in all it was a commendable job by the audio department.
Special Features:
Madman didn’t manage to pack a hell of a lot of special features in here, however with a nice slip-cover packaging as well as containing two entire seasons is something to be happy about to say the least. There is certainly enough on offer here to appease anyone.
Due to the episodes being so short there is much replay value in quick bursts, thus eliminating too much need for special features to get some extra life out of this collection. I believe what we got was good enough, though something a little extra wouldn’t have hurt.
Conclusion:
In closing, Assy McGee is indeed an original series. I know I certainly haven’t seen anything like it before. It knows how to bleed every possible laugh out of the viewer as it possibly can with this concept and does so resoundingly. There may be a little too much obvious jokes on display here but it doesn’t detract overall from the experience.
This series is for sure going to be very divisive. There will be those who hate it with a passion and those who love it. Whether you love it or hate it at the end of the day, Assy McGee is wildly original and doesn’t leave a single possible joke unmade by the time the final episodes credits roll. It’s predictable, but still unpredictable enough that it ultimately is a winning formula, but it is still short of an Adult Swim classic.
Battlefield 3 will be hitting shelves late October and in anticipation of it’s release EA have uploaded a trailer for the games Physical Warfare Pack. The trailer shows off the new deadly weapons which comprise the Physical Warfare Pack.
Included are the DAO-12 semi-automatic shotgun, Type 88 Light Machine Gun, flechette ammo for the DAO-12, and a flash suppressor for the SKS sniper rifle. All of which are effectively shown in the trailer.
If you are Battlefield veteran or new to the series, it’s hard to not be swept up by the fast paced, realistic warfare on display in Battlefield 3. I for one will be hitting the battlefield’s come release date. What about you? Let us know what you think of the trailer in the comments section below.
It’s been one hell of a past few months for Gundam fans. Ever since the reveal of Gundam AGE, the fandom has been privy to huge announcement after another huge announcement and you guessed it, here is another huge announcement. The cast for the upcoming Gundam AGE anime have been revealed.
Furitto Asuno played by Toshiyuki Toyonaga known for Ryuugamine in Durarara!!
Emily Amondo played by Aya Endo known for Cruz in Needless.
Dike Ganheiru played by Kouki Miyata known for Chojuro in Naruto Shippuden.
Guruudekku Einoa played by Hiroki Touchi known for Lasse Aeon in Gundam 00.
Wolf Eniakuru played by Daisuke Ono known for Sebastion in Black Butler.
Narration by Kazuhiko Inoue known for Kakashi in Naruto.
With such an amazing cast compiled for Gundam AGE, the series is shaping up to be potentially the best Gundam series yet. Only time will tell once October 9th rolls around. Leave a comment below letting us know what you think of this cast.
It’s been a huge past couple of months for the Hunter x Hunter series. Not only has the manga returned to it’s rightful place in Weekly Jump after hiatus (this time supposedly returning for good), but a new reboot anime series was announced with a premiere date of October 2nd, 2011 on NTV.
Today several new details have been revealed surrounding the upcoming adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi’s epic manga. It has been confirmed that the series has so far been slated for 45+ episodes, however NTV says that is tentative. Which clearly means that the series will be long-running but it’s nearly impossible to place an exact episode count to the entire series run. So thus far 45 episodes is a given, which should bring the series to the end of the Heavens Arena arc.
Along-side that news, it has been confirmed that Toshio Furukawa, known for his roles as Piccolo on Dragonball Z and Portgas D. Ace on One Piece, will voice Hunter examiner Satotz (who guides the examinees in the Hunter Exam arc through the first phase). It seems the cast will be comprised of both veterans such as Furukawa and new talent such as Ban (who is voicing Gon Freeccs).
But wait that is not all, details of the structure of the adaptation have also been announced. In particular it has been revealed that Kite, the Hunter who inspires Gon to become a Hunter in chapter 1 of the Manga shall not appear until later on in the anime, in order to lessen the gap between his first appearance and reappearance during the Chimera Ants arc.
This wouldn’t be the first time a backstory character such as this has been revealed later on in an anime in comparison to the manga. Take One Piece for example, it took several episodes before the original chapter of the manga was adapted as an episode revealing Red-Haired Shanks as having inspired Luffy much like Gon is inspired by Kite.
Another change is that the level of gore seen in the manga will be lessened. Gore will still be present, but will be lightened, to accomodate to the child demographic of the air-time on sunday mornings. Also the character of Hisoka shall have his perverted side lessened, making his excitement more regarding the thrill of fighting then a sexual desire as is sometimes referenced in the manga.
Other than that, the series is set to follow the manga to a tee. For the first episode I personally predict that they will show Gon leaving Whale Island and meeting allies Kurapika and Leorio on the boat to the exam island. However that is still unknown as of this point.
What do you think of this news? Leave a comment below letting us know!
Personally if I was a young boy and a fairy turned me into a knight I wouldn’t be too fussed with transforming back, I mean the knights get all the girls right? Anyway, in a magical land far, far away, a boy does just that. He manages to scatter all a fairy godmother’s magical muffins throughout the land and she gets a little annoyed (but not a lot) so she sends him out to retrieve them all. The game has a distinct feel and sound of childhood fairytale but with a Shrek-like twist on all the characters making it a great comedic romp for all ages.
Gameplay
The gameplay is easy to pick up in a few seconds, a bit harder to manage to pull off well. You’re on a small level, avoiding creatures and trying to gather as many muffins as possible. With each muffin you turn into another character with another attack mode, although the order is random and some of them you may dislike while others are awesome and you won’t want to lose.
The controls for Muffin Knight are fairly simple, even for me, given that I tend to see the word ‘platformer’ and get nervous. Platformers’ grasp on physics has left me scarred in the past. Will my little avatar jump too short or too far? Oh no I double-jumped and over-compensated and now I’m watching him/her burn alive. Damn it! Now I have to do the whole thing again. Muffin Knight didn’t have this problem, primarily because the platforms themselves are quite simple; the game is less based on the platforms and more on your tactics and how you get to know the character’s special powers.
The powers range from shooting in front of you, to swiping at people around you, to laying little rainbow traps (unicorn poos), and finally nuking the whole damn map. It seems that you are granted characters at inopportune times sometimes, like getting a damn ‘Z’ piece for Tetris. Then it just becomes a giant race to the next transition. That said, the goal is to collect as many muffins as possible, not about killing the small furry things that run at you, although that earns you XP, it isn’t worth nearly as much as a muffin.
I know that my favourite was the unicorn, because I basically just set up a whole bunch of mines (poos) around the map and then went about my business without too much concern. In my opinion it was so much better and easier than spamming arrows or lightning bolts and basically gave me a whole bunch of breathing room. That said, the fact that you can’t choose your character was good because it made me try different characters and made me learn how to use them. And if I had been left to my own devices I would have used the unicorn constantly and where would the fun be in that?
I did have an issue with lag in the beginning of the game, and usually just in the menu screen. Although I’m not sure if it was just my phone deciding that life was too hard. However, since it didn’t affect the gameplay once I got into it, it wasn’t that much of a problem.
There are currently six levels but more are promised soon. The amount of levels don’t impact the game too much though, you can play pretty much any level you want to collect all the muffins and XP you can, they just get more platforms and a higher XP multiplier the higher you go.
You can also upgrade your lives, which costs ten points, which means you either save up a crapload of muffins or you buy points in game. I tend to not buy anything in game with real money, but for those of you out there who don’t have the patience or time to save up this would be a good option.
Visual
Visually Muffin Knight makes me long for simpler times when the television was my God and food was something that magically appeared in front of me. It’s all cartoony and cute but also mature (but not too mature, cos that would be gross) and the developers have obviously spent time and effort on the levels and backgrounds to make it a really great looking game.
Audio
The soundtrack matches the visuals, its what you’d expect from a kids show but then the sound effects remind you that this is no usual kids game. Every time you transition the fairy godmother says what creature you’ve turned into in her little old lady voice. Plus the sound of a unicorn pooing is enough to remind you that this ain’t no land of Oz.
Conclusion
This is a really enjoyable game, the controls are simple enough to grasp but require talent and practice to really get going on which comes with time and patience that is quite easy to have with this game. It’s cute as, and very addictive.
Get geared up for the release of Gears of War 3. Recently, a new transmission from has been released calling for all surviving COG forces. Colonel Victor S. Hoffman reports there are codes placed amongst the world that hold valuable COG gear. It has become our duty as the last remnant to find these pieces and attain the valuable material contained within to prepare for the final fight.
Acquire the codes by your everyday communication devices. Look on your Xbox email, Xbox LIVE, and Xbox social networks. Find the codes and reap the rewards.
I put my faith in you comrades. Find the codes and share them with your friends. Trust me when I say, “You cannot be Geared enough!”
