“The Best of Gamescom” award has gone to Electronic Art’s new shooter, Battlefield 3, eventhough the convention isn’t over yet. It won the distinction by a panel of press and publishers with a unanimous vote. The independent expert jury also chose the following:
Best Hardware or Hardware Accessories – PlayStation Vita
Best Console Game – FIFA 12
Best Mobile Game – Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Best Online Game – Star Wars: The Old Republic
Best PC Game – Diablo III
Best Browser Game – The Sims Social
Best Family Game – Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster
Capsule Computers congratulates all the winners! We would like to know what YOU would have picked to win?
Xbox Live corporate VP Marc Whitten summed up the new Xbox Dashboard’s Kinect focus with the following statement, “It’s not about you learning about our technology, it’s about our technology learning about you.” Yes, Microsoft truly wants to be King of your living room, and to that end, the new Dashboard allows you to efficiently search, watch and play media without having to do anything except talk. Eventhough the Kinect may not be a hardcore gamers first choice when it comes to entertainment, none can deny that the tech behind it and the possibilities for its expansion are mind boggling. We live in the future my friends. The freakin’ future where we can talk to machines and have them do the work, just like Star Trek.
Sony showcased three brand new Playstation Move games at Gamescom 2011, and we have the trailers for you down below. All of them feature family friendly fun with your glowing motion control wand of the future. Curiously, by waving that wand in your living room, you can SAVE THE WORLD, which is demonstrated in the video at the very bottom. On the other hand, Move Mind Benders features 3 games from past PSN releases, like Echochrome, Lemmings and Tumble. DanceStar Party is more or less self explanatory. Which game will you play on party night? The Capsule Computers Crew (if we can ever get together) will most likely play DanceStar, as we have heard there isn’t anything much better than watching Phil do his chicken dance.
If you were wondering where the simply amazing graphical demonstration that is Trine 2 was during Gamescom then you should know that it indeed is in attendance at the show. Or should I say Atlus and Frozenbyte have released a new trailer for the game which you can catch down below.
The trailer shows off the different benefits of playing with a co-op partner which can be done either locally or online with friends. The game play shows all of the three characters in play, which means if you haven’t seen much game play then now is the time to take a look at the Thief, Wizard and Knight in action. Trine 2 will be coming to the XBLA, PSN, the PC, Steam and Linux sometime in September.
Battlefield 3 or Call of Duty MW3, place your bets, pick your side and get ready for a back-stabbing, abusive war of the words in the lead up to two of the most highly anticipated FPS to date. And all this months before either is meant to be released on any platform. There’s no doubt that competition in any market is healthy, but one needs to know when to intelligently draw the line. Recently when responding to Activision Blizzards CEO, Bobby Kotick’s doubting of Battlefields console ports, “Activision are threatened by Battlefield” was the EA bosses only response. John Riccitello went further telling Eurogamer he wishes the franchise would “rot from the core.”
Activisions CEO of publishing Eric Hirschberg criticised the EA CEO’s comments, encouraging competitors to focus on development rather than talking negatively to the press. “Imagine if the head of DreamWorks …..Says he wants Toy Story to rot from the core.” It’s kind of hard to imagine right? We don’t hear other companies like Sony or Coke or McDonalds saying these kinds of things about their competitors. Saying that your product is superior and quoting specs is all part of the selling propaganda but comments such as these just sound downright childish. Hirschberg went on to say he wants nothing but the best for every company in the industry. He also believes the market is big enough to accommodate anyone capable of producing a great game. It’s not a fight someone has to lose for the other to win; both can benefit from each others success.
While I don’t side with either particular franchise I also don’t believe in childish unintelligent comments which are clearly motivated by greed, pride and market share.
Nothing spices up a potential handheld release like throwing some invading aliens into the mix. Or in this case it’s where the aliens already invaded and you are the resistance fighters struggling to survive against a superior force. The recently announced Resistance: Burning Skies for the PlayStation Vita has just had some screenshots released for it by Sony.
You can catch the screenshots below which if are anything to go by show how impressive the visuals on the PlayStation Vita will actually be. Of course there is always the chance these shots have been touched up a bit, but lets think optimistically for now. If you bought a Vita, would you want to get this game for it?
It’s a very merry half birthday for fans of new MMORPG on the block Rift, with developers Trion Worlds announcing a weeklong celebration to mark the first 6 months of the game’s life. Starting on August 25, Guardians and Kelari alike will be rewarded with special in game bonuses including extra XP and a (hopefully gift wrapped) surprise birthday present:
• Special Surprise Birthday Gift – Following the event, all active subscribers will receive a special in-game birthday surprise to commemorate the occasion!
• Bonus Experience – Your blood-lust is rewarded with bonus experience in both PvE and PvP
• Guild Bonus Experience – Swiftly level-up your guild with bonus XP granted for completing guild quests
• Big PvP Payouts – All warfronts and open-world PvP will grant extra Favor and Prestige
• A Plethora of Planarite – Sealing Telara’s rifts and combating the invasions will reward you with extra planarite
• Bonus Plaques & Marks – Increased chance for bonus Plaques of Achievement and Marks of Ascension in all dungeons and raids
Not a subscriber? No need to worry, there are goodies for you too. Namely one weeks free play for new or returning players, with no restriction on zones or levelling up. After the week is over Telara’s newest residents will have the option to purchase the game client for a reduced $4.99 (USD) if they pick up a subscription plan at the end of the week.
“We really wanted to do something fun and memorable for this amazing milestone,” said Scott Hartsman, RIFT Executive Producer. “What better way to say thanks than to kick the doors open and add even more rewards for our subscribers?”
It’s a great chance to check out a game that has already had over a million activations since release, and if it’s free, why not?
Konami has announced a new online service called myPES, which will allow players to upload scores and results from PES 2012 to their Facebook pages.
myPES was designed and produced with argonauten G2 (you can visit their website here), and is a Facebook application that will operate with PS3, Xbox 360, and Windows PC. Players can compare match stats, set up leagues or groups with friends on Facebook, and upload results from games played both online and offline. There are also rewards for using myPES, including in-game bonuses for specific goals being reached and also ones pertaining specifically to myPES.
The app will need to be installed via Facebook, and then connected to PES 2012 via the Personal Data settings. Unfortunately, there is no report so far that the app will come to handheld or PS2/Wii gamers.
PES 2012 is slated for release on September 27 (October 14 in Australia) for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. Wii, PSP, and PS2 will be released on November 8.
Nothing brightens up the darkness like knowing that Death is out there, climbing walls and wielding very large weaponry to kill denizens of the other world. To help make it even better, THQ has released a slew of new Darksiders II screenshots and in them we see large weapons, some combat, a zombie king and even Death jumping on his zombieish horse named Despair.
You can catch all of the sceenshots below and Darksiders II itself when it is released in the middle of next year for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and even the Wii U as the thing should be out by that point in time. No sign of the dual-wielding scythes this time however.
Many people are eagerly awaiting any news they can come upon regarding Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. It has been many many years since the original three games released on the PlayStation 2 and although there was an HD version of the titles released last holiday season, fans have been waiting to see where Sly and the gang will go from there.
At E3 we learned about the development of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time and today we have some more screenshots from the title thanks to Gamescom which you can catch below. The development team behind this one is Sanzaru Games instead of Sucker Punch, but the title still looks like it will be very similar to what we experienced in Sly Cooper 3. But we’ll know for sure when Thieves in Time is released to the PlayStation 3 sometime next year.
