Jeff Fletcher, a Bungie employee who is in the IT department as an information specialist, was recently on the evening news. According to the Seattle news station, King 5, Fletcher was in a US Bank parking lot when he witnessed a gun battle between two men. As one man was shot, the other tried to flee the scene. Notice the key word in that last sentence: try. Mr. Fletcher pulled his own gun out, stopped the suspect and made a citizens arrest, using his retired police officer father’s handcuffs to make sure the shooter did not get away until the cops arrived. Check out the video below for more details.
Bungie IT guy applies lessons learned from Halo: Always carry a gun
Country Dance 2 Announced; 15 Tracks Confirmed…
There is no denying that the dance genre as a whole has been wildly successful on the Nintendo Wii. Last year, country music fans got their own dance title in Country Dance, and now it seems a follow-up is just months away with Gamemill’s announcement today of a sequel.
Country Dance 2 looks to utilize the same singing and dancing gameplay mechanics of it’s predecessor, but with a new “duet dancing option” that lets players dance together with each receiving their own unique set of commands.
A track list was also revealed with the announcement of this sequel, detailing the first 15 songs players can expect:
Country Dance 2 will be hitting the Wii sometime this holiday season, so get your boots dusted off and your mic tuned up for this brand new western dancing romp. You can also get a first look at the game in the new screenshots down below.
Soul Calibur 5 – A Gamescom trailer
Oversized breasts. Incredible weapons. Insane backstories. Awesome fighting. Yea, we are definitely talking about the Soul Calibur series here. Namco Bandai just released a trailer at Gamescom showing off the latest iteration of the fighting game, and it looks beautiful. In addition, it confirms the existence and return of Voldo, Maxi, Tira & Hilde. Are you ready to take your fighting game to the max? Soul Calibur 5 will require “extreme agility” and “absolute concentration.” We can’t wait to see how Project Soul has improved upon Soul Calibur 4. In addition, we need our recommended dose of playing fighting games with scantily clad girls in them.
EA to Showcase their best at GAMESCOM 2011
Electronic Arts have announced details of their upcoming showcase at the GAMESCOM 2011 event in Cologne, Germany.
EA are set to show off several of their top IP’s as well as upcoming launches and what they will have on offer for various platforms. Games included to be on display include: FIFA 12, Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Jens Uwe Intat of EA Europe had the following to say regarding the GAMESCOM 2011 showcase:
The old model of making games every few years to coincide with new hardware launches is gone. We have a very powerful set of games for today’s consoles, and now we offer that IP to players as year-round entertainment across all of their devices and platforms. We’re looking forward to our fans’ response when they get hands-on with our line-up at the show – we think they’ll like what they see.
EA is clearly trying new things in the gaming industry and with such blockbuster titles as Battlefield 3 which will feature 64 player online warfare and the amazing Star War: The Old Republic, EA may just be the company to watch come GAMESCOM 2011.
Custom Minecraft Xperia Play available on Ebay
Addicts of Minecraft and collectors alike will be thrilled when they visit this Ebay page.
Yes, that’s right. Its a $1325 Xperia Play cell phone. It will be auctioned off to benefit the charity of the Minecraft’s team choice, and another couple of the phones will be given away at Gamescom. Will you be bidding on it? You better hurry, as the bidding still has 6 days to go. Hopefully, someday, somewhere, someone will design a custom skin like that for everyone to enjoy.
The Xperia Play is an Android that can play many Playstation games. A special version of Minecraft is being developed for the phone.
Nintendo Winds out a new trailer for Pokemon Rumble Blast!
October 24th marks the first official Pokemon game on the Nintendo 3DS (aside from the Pokedex app), which is none other than Pokemon Rumble Blast. As we have mentioned before, this sequel or follow-up of sorts looks to utilize the same engine as the Pokemon Rumble WiiWare game, but with the full roster of the Unova Pokedex in tow.
Nintendo have finally released an English trailer for the game, showing off the wind-and-battle gameplay and the various bosses players will encounter. These bosses seem to be made up of larger versions of standard Pokemon, where you must use your own team’s elemental and physical advantages to overcome the said foe. You can check out the trailer in full below and once more details are released for Pokemon Rumble Blast for the 3DS, we will be sure to bring out an update.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine demo arriving August 23rd
Those who have been sitting on the fence regarding Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine may want to take and save a little bit of room on their hard drives because THQ and Relic have announced that the game will be receiving a demo before the game is officially released onto the consoles and PC on November 6th.
The demo will be available first on the Xbox 360 and PC on August 23rd and a PlayStation 3 version of the demo will be available one day later on August 24th. The demo will consist of two levels, with one level placing players against hordes of invading Orks and another which shows off the game’s Jump Pack. Sounds good doesn’t it?
Viz to Serialize Evangelion Manga Weekly
Viz Media has today announced that they will be digitally serialising the Neon Genesis Evangelion manga adaptation on a weekly basis, through their Viz Manga app for iOS and through their Viz Manga website.
Each chapter is to be distibuted digitally and will cost a small sum of $0.99 USD. Also in celebration of the launch of Viz Media’s first weekly serialized manga series, the first chapter of Neon Genesis Evangelion will be available for free preview, with chapter 2 available for purchase at $0.99 USD.
This is a great sign for what Viz may have in store for us in the future in terms of manga distribution. For now, you can check out the Viz Manga website here for more details.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent frightens 400,000 people in sales
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a scary game, no one can claim differently and those that do are unfortunately lying to themselves. Frictional Games’ has cornered the market on first person horror games and they have every right to brag a little about their game. Of course they aren’t really bragging, but Frictional Games’ Thomas Grip revealed at GDC Europe that their horror title has sold over 400,000 copies since its release.
The company previously announced that they had made nearly 200,000 sales at the beginning of the year. This was double the amount they originally wanted to sell, which makes this 400,000 sales larger than their greatest dreams. Well guys, while you are sleeping peaceful dreams of reaching 500,000 sales the rest of us will be waking up in a cold sweat after playing your game.