We have Phil calling in from Japan as we all discuss the upcoming Tokyo Game Show and what we’d like to see happen. Max Payne 3 is getting ready to be released and has everyone excited, we talk about what game franchise we’d like to remove from the face of the planet and what we’ve been playing.
Cast: Alexis Ayala, Philip Federico, Michael Marr, and Joshua Spudic
Yep, you heard correct – EA has released the FIFA 12 demo for Xbox LIVE and Playstation Network.
The Xbox LIVE version was released to fans on Tuesday September 13, with PSN gamers to receive it on September 14. Players will be able to select from a great range of teams, including Barcelona, Arsenal, Manchester City, Marseille, Dortmund, and AC Milan.
To celebrate, EA have also released a great new range of videos. The Career Mode – Form and Morale video will walk gamers through the new features in Career Mode, the Football Club tutorial will showcase the title’s new online feature, and the Action Trailer is yet another trailer to get us all pumped up about the game’s release. Check them out below.
It has been a landslide of news following Nintendo’s pre-TGS 3DS Conference and for those who were unable to watch the event themselves, you may not have seen to reveal trailer for Square Enix’s new RPG IP for the Nintendo 3DS, Bravely Default: Flying Fairy. Well your in luck, for your viewing pleasure, Square Enix have begun streaming the trailer online.
You can check out the Bravely Default trailer at their newly made official website of the game here. Alongside the trailer, the site has several details on the title as well as concept art. Also if you are lucky enough to be in attendance at Tokyo Game Show 2011, you will have a chance to get some hands on time with the title, at Square Enix’s TGS booth. Let us know in the comments section below what you think.
We previously announced that a video game adaptation of the Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan anime series was in production. Until now, we had yet to see much of the game. A trailer has been released for the yokai fighting game, known by it’s mouthful of a title Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan – Great War of a Hundred Gathering Demons or under it’s abreviated title Nura ROYC GWAHG…
Regardless of lengthy names, you can check out the similarly lengthy trailer below. It displays some gameplay and reveals some more of the game’s playable characters. So what are you waiting for? Check it out below and let us know what you think.
Following the epic conclusion to the anime series Steins;Gate earlier today was a mammoth announcement of a Steins;Gate Movie! This came as a huge shock to fans, but an extremely pleasant one at that.
So far, little is known about the Steins;Gate movie other than that it will continue on from the anime series. I personally believe it may be a cinematic adaptation of the second Steins;Gate visual novel game. But that is pure speculation on my part.
The announcement trailer has made it’s way on to the web and you can check it out below for your viewing pleasure. Be sure to let us know what you think of the upcoming Steins;Gate film by leaving a comment.
Dead Island: The Book Author: Mark Morris Publisher: Bantam/Transworld Publishers Platform: Paper Released: 8th September
In our review of the game, Dead Island was criticized for a bland and poorly explained story. With the novelisation telling the same story as the game, can this book put more weight behind the plot? It depicts that same fictional tragedy on the island of Banoi, a notably different setting for a zombie apocalypse, where the spread of the virus quickly reaches pandemic proportions and a group of individuals are thrown together for their abilities and an immunity to the virus that they have in common. They must escape from the island to safety, encountering other survivors along the way, all the while getting to the bottom of how and why the holiday resort was subject to this abomination.
Aside from a few minor alterations, it follows the plot of the game wherein Purna, Sam, Logan and Xian Mei cross paths in brief encounters, before being cast together as a rag-tag quartet of zombie killers soon after. The author wastes no time in getting down to the gory stuff, because it’s not long before detailed descriptions of spurting blood, severed limbs and decapitated heads surface, with the same levels of violence appearing in each chapter thereafter in order to completely capture the scenario. While the stomach-turning result of all this grisly combat shows it does its job, it can get a little heavy-going when Morris runs out gruesome ways for the undead to be killed or in instances where the action becomes particularly repulsive.
Some respite comes in the form of wry humour and the occasional comment bouncing off the other-worldly circumstance the characters find themselves in. A regular use of expletives is also used to convey the seriousness and the raw emotion of such a situation. Disappointingly, while clearly leaving room for a sequel, the abrupt and inconclusive ending comes as a shade unsatisfying, and means that finding out what happens to Purna and co. relies heavily on the commercial performance of the game.
With bloody dispatching of the undead and swearing throughout, Dead Island is most definitely an adult book, and even then, it could prove too strong for some adults, as the subject matter of a zombie apocalypse means it’s certainly not for the squeamish or those faint of heart. It’s a good read for those wishing to flesh out the story of the game, and the unusual setting ensures this isn’t your typical outbreak of an infectious zombie disease. However, this setting also doesn’t make Dead Island: The Book fantastic holiday reading material unless you want to be known by the other holidaymakers as that paranoid guy on the fourth floor who double-locks himself in his room all day.
The full 30 song track list for upcoming party game SingStar Back To The ‘80s has today been unveiled by Sony. As the name suggest SingStar Back To The ‘80s is filled to the brim with classic if-not-a-little-bit-cheesy hits songs from decade that gave us shoulder padded jackets and acid washed jeans. Included on the line up are the likes of Soul II Soul, Kim Wilde, Elton John, Beastie Boys and of cause, where would a 80s line up be without Wham!
The full set list includes (Artist/Song title):
ABC – Poison Arrow
Beastie Boys – (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)
Bros – When Will I Be Famous?
Daryl Hall & John Oates – Maneater
DeBarge – Rhythm Of The Night
Def Leppard – Animal
Deniece Williams – Let’s Hear It For The Boy
Duran Duran – The Wild Boys
Elton John – I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues
George Michael – Faith
Glenn Medeiros – Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You
Heart – Alone
Jennifer Rush – The Power Of Love
J. Geils Band – Centerfold
Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes
Kim Wilde – You Keep Me Hangin’ On
King – Love & Pride
Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Enola Gay
Pat Benatar – Love Is A Battlefield
Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder – Together In Electric Dreams
Sade – Your Love Is King
Soul II Soul Featuring Caron Wheeler – Keep On Movin’
Spandau Ballet – Gold
The Human League – Don’t You Want Me
Tight Fit – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Toto – Africa
Ultravox – Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
Wham! – Freedom
Whitesnake – Here I Go Again
SingStar Back To The ‘80s will be released later this year exclusively for Playstation 3 and just remember, it was acceptable in the 80s.
Just when you thought that Rockstar Games had finished dealing with Red Dead Redemption, the high successful and critically acclaimed open world western is getting a Game of the Year treatment. The game itself has sold over 11 million copies since its release in May last year, with a slew of downloadable content packs and its spin-off companion game Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare.
Red Dead Redemption: Game of the Year Edition pulls all of this mass content into one neat package which will include the original Red Dead Redemption with all of its free and paid downloadable content packs, all of Undead Nightmare’s single player and multiplayer components and all bonus content.
The full comprehensive package:
Original Red Dead Redemption game with a brand-new hardcore single-player mode
Undead Nightmare single-player campaign and multiplayer modes
Legends and Killers Pack, featuring additional multiplayer map locations, multiplayer characters, and the Tomahawk projectile weapon
Liars and Cheats Pack, including the Stronghold multiplayer competitive mode, Free Roam gambling games, multiplayer horse races with combat, and the Explosive Rifle
Hunting and Trading Outfits Pack, featuring two outfits with corresponding gameplay challenges for John Marston
Outlaws To The End Co-Op Mission Pack, including six co-op missions for up to four players
All original pre-order content, including the Deadly Assassin Outfit, War Horse, and Golden Guns Weapon Pack
Solomon’s Folly single-player gang hideout and challenges available for the first time on Xbox 360
Just-released Myths and Mavericks Bonus Pack, featuring fan-favorite multiplayer characters and all-new locations to battle in
Red Dead Redemption’s massive Game of the Year Edition is set to be released in North America on October 11 and internationally days later on October 14 for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
Namco Bandai’s Ace Combat series is renowned for its intense fighter jet dog fights and its next instalment in the series ‘Ace Combat: Assault Horizon’ will be no different. Players can get a taste of what’s to come in the brand new demo which features two missions, in the first players take control of a jet fighter dog fighting in Miami. And in the second, players will also be able to take control of the brand new attack helicopter – a first for the Ace Combat series.
Namco Bandai has also released an epic 10-minute trailer showing off the all new attack helicopter in action. The Ace Combat: Assault Horizon demo is available now on Playstaton Network and will soon be available for download on Xbox LIVE tomorrow for Xbox 360 gamers.
However, you will have to wait a little longer to play the full version of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon which launches on October 11 in North America and October 13 in Australia for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
Oh, Japan! is a weekly feature in which I chronicle the wierd, wacky and just plain crazy goings on in Japan. Because we all know, Japan is prone to doing things that make us Westerners say “Oh, Japan!”.
We have had video games, prank shows, music videos, game shows and now I present to you Japanese Commercials! This one is quite a doozy. The Japanese are well known for commercials that think out-side the box, to put it lightly. In this hair dye commercial, you are more than likely to end up clapping your hair back and forth than whipping it.
Check out the clip below and don’t forget; If you’re happy and you know it clap you hair! CLAP! CLAP! What more can I say besides, Oh, Japan!
