Rockstar Games have given you incentives to stay glued to the console this weekend instead of partying hard into the night. From the 12th to the 14th of August, Rockstar are doing their Triple XP promotion yet again.
Every player who plays Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare in multiplayer mode will gain triple experience points from Friday afternoon until Monday afternoon. It’s definitely worth hopping on and gaining some extra XP (we like to think of it as free XP, and we here at Capsule love free stuff), but more so because everyone else in the gaming community will probably be on as well.
2K Sports have just announced the new soundtrack that will accompany our favourite basketballers as they grace the court for NBA 2K12.
The soundtrack will feature artists such as Eminem, Royce Da 5’9″, Kurtis Blow, Cee-Lo, Friendly Fires, Busta Rhymes, Yelawolf, Freddie Gibbs, and Travis Barker – all music that stays with the NBA franchise’s theme of hip-hop, rap, and rock. While the complete track list is yet to come, we can’t help feeling excited about the artists that have been announced so far.
Ubisoft have reason to celebrate, as Just Dance 2 for the Nintendo Wii has now sold over 5 Million copies. This landmark comes just months before the multi-platform release of Just Dance 3, and is surely a sign that the upcoming sequel will also have a huge launch.
Only 7 other titles have reached the 5 million mark on the platform, and this is the first time a third-party publisher has made the best-selling list.
Those titles are:
Wii Play (13.04 million)
Mario Kart Wii (10.64 million)
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (8.36 million)
Wii Fit (8.17 million)
Wii Fit Plus (7.06 million)
Wii Sports Resort (6.45 million)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (5.28 million)
Those who think Nintendo may be struggling at the moment due to the 3DS like to know that Nintendo have also stated that the Nintendo DS was the best-selling platform in July. So congrats, Ubisoft on the victory and here’s to hoping more will join this elite list in the near future.
I have never been one to actually enjoy the sport of baseball, or really any sports games for that matter aside from the Mario fare. Oddly enough, 2K Play’s Nicktoons MLB has my attention as it looks bizarrely beautiful due to the mixing of professional Major League Baseball players with new and old Nicktoons characters. Today, 2K Play dropped a lot of new info for the game, revealing the stadiums and cast of Nicktoons that will be featured within.
Check out the full list:
SpongeBob SquarePants – SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, Larry the Lobster, Sandy Cheeks, and the Flying Dutchman
Avatar the Last Airbender – Aang, Katara, Prince Zuko and Toph
T.U.F.F. Puppy – Dudley Puppy and Kitty Katswell
Planet Sheen – Sheen, Nesmith and Ultra Lord
FanBoy and Chum Chum – Fanboy and Chum Chum
Danny Phantom – Danny Phantom
Invader Zim – Gaz and ZIM
Ren and Stimpy – Ren Hoek, Stimpy, Powdered Toast Man and Yak
Additionally, Perch Perkins from SpongeBob SquarePants and GIR from Invader Zim will take residence in the announcer’s booth, as Nicktoons MLB commentators.
Baseball of this caliber can’t be played in a sandlot, so Nicktoons MLB features a unique mix of 12 authentic and out-of-this world ballparks. Iconic locations include Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs), Fenway Park (Boston Red Sox), Yankee Stadium (New York Yankees) and Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles Dodgers), along with the home fields for last year’s World Series teams, AT&T Park (San Francisco Giants) and Rangers Ballpark in Arlington (Texas Rangers). The fantastical Nicktoons stadiums range from the underwater Poseidome (SpongeBob SquarePants) to the frozen Frosty Freeze Field (Fanboy and Chum Chum), as well as Air Temple Courtyard (Avatar: The Last Airbender), Yolkus Stadium (Planet Sheen), Ghost Zone Field (Danny Phantom), and IRKEN Field (Invader Zim).
Powered Toast Man as a playable character in a baseball game. Just brilliant. I grew up with a few of these toons, so the nostalgia card and the polish Nicktoons MLB displays are definitely working their magic for myself, but honestly I can see this title being hugely popular with kids of today in general. Nicktoons MLB launches September 13th for the Xbox 360 (with Kinect support), Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. Check out the new screens below and let us know what you think of Nicktoons MLB in the comments below.
Recently we reviewed Althi Inc.’s iPhone jump game, Little Dreamer. If you are still unsure whether to make the jump into purchasing the title, Althi Inc. have today released a free version of the game, Little Dreamer Lite.
Little Dreamer Lite, is intended to give you a taste of what is in store for you, should you purchase the full version of Little Dreamer.
Alongside this news is the announcement of a competition from Althi Inc. The competition requires you to simply like their Facebook page which can be found here. Once you’ve done that you are in the running to be one of the lucky 20 people to win a full version of Little Dreamer for iOS. Althi’ Inc’s official announcement follows:
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You can download the Little Dreamer Lite version here and check out our review of Little Dreamer here.
Just a couple days ago, it was revealed that Nippon Ichi was working on a few new games that they weren’t ready to reveal much about at that time. Now at an Akihabara event being held in Bellesalle, Nippon Ichi decided to give everyone there, including both fans and the press at hand a glimpse at a character in their upcoming action RPG.
The character itself is a piece of concept art and apparently the Disgaea series illustrator Takehito Harada and the composer Tenpei Sato are taking part in this project. You can see the piece of artwork below. Unfortunately Nippon Ichi has yet to reveal what the game’s name will be nor what platform it will take place on. I’m going to take a swing at this one and suggest it will be a Sony platform.
In what could only be described as a massive waste of money that has ultimately proved only to fill the pockets of their lawyers, Sony and LG have come to an agreement ending their patent dispute. As mentioned in previous articles, the issues arose last December when Sony accused LG of patent violation regarding its mobile devices, filing a complaint with ITC and launching a federal case. LG consequently retaliated in February with a civil suit regarding Blu ray patents and the PS3 console.
Come March and European customs officials were seizing PS3 shipments after LG won a temporary injunction order halting the consoles shipping across much of Europe. The two electronics giants have come to a cross-licensing agreement and agreed to drop their respective lawsuits. Why they didn’t just do this from the start is anyone’s guess. Pride perhaps, lawyers needed a new boat, who knows? Whatever the reason these companies need to stop whinging when their games don’t sell if they are spending half the franchises budget in a courtroom.
You know after the massive amount of effort Peter Molyneux put into his stance that Fable: The Journey would not be an on-rails game, this is the exact opposite thing to say. In an interview with OXM he stated that there would not be melee or gun usage in the game as there was no feedback provided to the player when they are playing with the Kinect.
Molyneux says that the human brain itself is “encoded to expect recoil from those things” and that he hates melee and guns because of this. Instead he says that when he “swing a sword and I hit something on screen, the visuals and the sound isn’t enough. We could have done what Zelda did well on Twilight Princess, where it doesn’t really matter what you do, what happens on-screen is the best thing. But I wanted people to feel powerful, to feel power, and that’s all about you.”
Instead he says that there is a unique factor when it comes to magic, mostly that “the thing about magic is there’s nothing encoded in your mind about how it should feel. So no guns, and no swords.” I’m not entirely sure what Molyneux is thinking to be honest, as saying this means that The Journey is nothing more than an on-rail shooter with magic instead of bullets…
Activision’s Rezurrection DLC package is for the zombie killing lover in all of us as they said in the latest behind the scenes video for the game. In this behind the scenes look we are given our first gameplay footage of the “Moon” zombie map which sounds quite fun because not only did they take everything that they learned from past zombie maps, but there is really low gravity.
The movement speed and control of the characters the players will be handling will be changed and everything will be floating and honestly Moon is probably the best zombie map ever, simply because of the fact that there are zombies on the moon! You can catch the behind the scenes video below and the Rezurrection DLC later this month on the Xbox 360 first with a PS3 and PC release later.
Despite the best efforts from fans, Xenoblade has yet to be confirmed in North America for a release of any shape and or form. Nintendo of America’s president Reggie Fils-Aime had a bit of an interview with IGN today and he said that despite the fact that Xenoblade has already been translated into English and released in Europe, they are simply going to watch closely.
To be more exact he said that Nintendo of America “will be watching very closely what happens in Europe. Certainly if there are business opportunities and positive consumer uptake from some of those titles, that will be great data for us to consider as we look at what to do with these titles.” You know what the best way to gauge the worth of a game? Look at the massive amount of support and outrage that Wii’s users are displaying for the game and stop hating money.
