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Frogger turns 30 with a new release for Apple products

Darren Resnekov
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I get a little nostalgic every time I see a new Frogger game added to the franchise, as in brings back fond memories of a simpler time, setting up our first ever family PC as a kid with Frogger being the only game we had on a brand new floppy disc. Fast forward twenty five odd years from then and the franchise is still going strong as Konami announce a new member of the Frogger family in collaboration with Revolutionary studios, specifically for Apple products, in the form of Frogger Decades.

Frogger Decades celebrates the 30th Birthday of the Frogger franchise with revamped vibrant graphics and animation, as well as our favourite frog in a little bit of a dilemma. Upon return home, Frogger finds a map seemingly guiding him to the location of his huge celebratory party. Unbeknownst to him, his arch enemy has done the old switcheroo with the maps , leading Frogger on a wild and potentially dangerous adventure.

Set across five well crafted and exceptionally challenging (even for the frogger savvy) environments, Revolutionary studios have successfully recaptured the fun addictive gameplay that the franchise is known for. Taking control of Frogger is no easy feat, as you will have to guide him through snapping enemies and bulldozers as he jumps, hops, swings and dodges his way to freedom. Throughout the game players will also become acquainted with many of Froggers close friends, all empowered with unique skills to help the little frog along his way.

Frogger Decades is now available in the Apple App. store for Ipad, Ipad 2, Iphone 4, Iphone GPS and Ipod touch 3rd generation or greater running at least IOS 3.1.2 as a minimum.

Check out www.konami.com/frogger for more information regarding the frogger franchise as well as the new release and the frogger franchise thirtieth birthday celebrations.

Infamous 2: Festival of Blood gets a small cutscene trailer

Travis Bruno
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Infamous 2: Festival of Blood is about more than electricity. More like electricity and blood and apparently vampires. Sucker Punch and Sony released a bit of a teaser for the standalone PSN game, and by a bit of a teaser we mean an extremely small one. It appears that a shriveled and long dead vampire is fed Cole McGrath’s blood and is going to be resurrected by a cult of some sort.

All of this takes place in a cutscene that will likely be shown during the very beginning of the game. Currently there is no price set for Infamous 2: Festival of Blood, but it could be an interesting title, even though vampires and electricity probably don’t mix too well. Either way check out the teaser cutscene? below.

Dungeon Siege III Treasures of the Sun DLC announced

Travis Bruno
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Earlier today Square Enix and Obsidian Entertainment announced that they will be releasing the first DLC package for Dungeon Siege III sometime in October. The DLC is named The Treasures of the Sun and will have players entering the Aranoi Desert, an entirely new area never before seen. Players will be on the search for a lost Legion hero and fight through new enemies and even discover a great treasure.

The DLC will add numerous hours of gameplay as well as raise the level cap on characters up to level 35, five levels higher than previously allowed. This means that there will be plenty of new abilities for your characters to learn and unleash them on the new enemies that can be found in the Aranoi Desert. The DLC will cost $9.99 or 800 MSP on the PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360 respectively when it is released.

Call of Duty XP 2011 Completely Sold Out

Roger Ma
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Scheduled to open its doors to a mass legion of fans soon, tickets to the Call of Duty expo extravaganza in Los Angeles have officially sold out. Whilst this may not come as a huge shock to many, it however is surprising that a massive event like this took so long to finally sell out. Bearing in mind that the event is set to take place over this weekend September 2nd and 3rd, up until a few hours ago tickets were widely available for purchase on Call of Duty XP’s website.

I don’t suppose a $150 price tag isn’t asking that much considering what the expo is offering. A $1 Million Call of Duty Tournament, real-life Call of Duty paintball, live performances from Kanye West and Dropkick Murphys and of cause the first chance to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 over two massive days.

Stay tuned for more information on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 as it comes straight from Call of Duty XP.

Viz Media to bring more Anime to TV and Cinemas with T3 Networks

Luke Halliday
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Viz Media have today announced a partnership with T3 Networks Inc. in which T3 will assist Viz in getting more of their anime titles onto television  and cinema screens across America. T3 Networks, “will leverage its relationships, technologies and processes to help expand upon the television distribution landscape with selected Viz Media series.”

They named several series that they plan to market including the Naruto series, Inuyasha, Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Death Note, Reborn!, Vampire Knight and Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva.

It is unknown as of yet how T3 will go about marketing each series or when and where they will make it onto TV. However this partnership is a good sign that Viz Media are making big leaps in spreading Japanese animation throughout the United States.

What do you make of this new partnership? Leave a comment below letting us know.

Sony announces PS Vita titles for TGS as well as full line-up

Travis Bruno
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It appears that Sony isn’t going to make the same mistake that Nintendo did when they launch their PlayStation Vita handheld. Today Sony revealed the games that would be at Tokyo Game Show this year at their presentation, with a number of them already announced but eighteen of them that will apparently be revealed at the show.

The list contains 31 total PlayStation Vita titles, as well as 19 PlayStation 3 games though some are multiplatform, and 5 PlayStation Portable titles. The massive amount of PlayStation Vita titles that are set to be shown off is extremely promising, and if things go well the Vita may just quickly surpass the 3DS in games before it is even released.

Check out Sony’s Tokyo Game Show line-up below:

PlayStation 3

Battlefield 3
Dragon’s Dogma
Asura’s Wrath
Street Fighter X Tekken
Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends
Ninja Gaiden 3
Pro Evolution Soccer 2012
Metal Gear Solid HD Edition
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker HD Edition
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Binary Domain
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
ICO
Shadow of the Colossus
Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One
God of War Origins Collection
Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds (PS3 the Best)
Happy Charlie and the Flying Carnival
Ni no Kuni: Queen of the Holy White Ash

PSP

Frontier Gate
Final Fantasy Type-0
Black Panther 2 Yakuza: Asura Chapter
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva extend
Over My Dead Body

PlayStation Vita

BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend
Dynasty Warriors Next
Asphalt: Injection
The King, Demon King, and the Seven Princesses: New King Story
Mahjong Fight Club
Shinobido 2
Virtua Tennis 4
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Gravity Daze
Hot Shots Golf Next
True Kamaitachi
Disgaea 3 Return
Ridge Racer
As well as eighteen unannounced Vita titles

UFC Undisputed 3 Cover Star Poll is Now Open

Jonno Weiss
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The polls are now open to vote for which of the five athletes you want to appear on the cover. In case you missed it, click here to view the cover star candidates. .

THQ are now releasing promo videos for each athlete to showcase their talents. So far they’ve released one for Anderson Silva and Cain Velasquez, with the other three set to be up in the next few days.

Also, if you’re over 21 and living in the States or Canada you can go into the running to win a UFC trip to Las Vegas, so even more reason to vote now.

The Anderson Silva video is below, you can find Velasquez’s on the UFCTHQ YouTube channel and keep checking back there to see the other ones.

UFC Undisputed 3 will be out in January 2012 and we’ll have some more juicy details on the game in a few weeks time, but for now, go forth and click here to vote!.

Red Dead Redemption’s free Myths & Mavericks DLC arrives on September 13th

Travis Bruno
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Red Dead Redemption may not be a game that most of us play anymore, due to the fact that is over a year and a half old at this point. But regardless of that, Rockstar still loves us. At least enough to provide the free Myths and Mavericks DLC to everyone on September 13th regardless of whether you play on the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.

This free DLC package will contain a heap of new multiplayer maps as well as a number of new characters that you can play as in multiplayer modes. You can check out the entire list of new features below. Will this be enough to dust off your copy of Red Dead Redemption?

New Maps/Modes

  • Cochinay – Gold Rush, Shootout, Gang Shootout, Stronghold
  • Nekoti Rock – Gold Rush, Shootout, Gang Shootout
  • El Presidio – Gold Rush, Shootout, Gang Shootout
  • Plainview – Gold Rush, Shootout, Gang Shootout
  • Gaptooth Mine – Shootout, Gang Shootout
  • Pike’s Basin – Shootout, Gang Shootout
  • Perdido – Hold Your Own, Grab the Bag
  • Benedict Point – Hold Your Own, Grab the Bag
  • Beecher’s Hope – Stronghold
  • Torquemada – Stronghold
  • Armadillo – Stronghold
  • Chuparosa – Stronghold
  • Rio Bravo – Shootout, Gang Shootout
  • Tumbleweed – Stronghold
New Multiplayer Characters
  • Landon Ricketts
  • Vicente DeSanta
  • Drew MacFarlane
  • Deputy Eli
  • Deputy Jonah
  • Javier Esquella
  • Nastas
  • Uncle

One Piece: Pirate Musou is Namco and Tecmo’s teaser site title

Travis Bruno
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A little earlir today, Namco Bandai updated their teaser website where they are partnering with Tecmo Koei. They had placed in the words that the game they are planning to announce would be produced by Omega Force, the company behind the Dynasty Warriors: Gundam games. It seems however that it won’t be another Gundam title but instead one focused on Monkey D. Luffy.

A leak from Jump has revealed that the teaser website is for One Piece: Pirate Musou. The game will be similar to a Dynasty Warriors title in style and will contain the characters from the One Piece anime and manga series. The game will be shown off at Tokyo Game Show later this month and will be released to the PlayStation 3 when finished. Let’s just hope this game is localized for Western release shall we?

Square Enix responds to calls of Deus Ex: Human Revolution racism

Travis Bruno
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There has been a little bit of controversy following the release of Eidos Montreal’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The controversy is due to a homeless black woman known by the name of “Letitia” and the way she speaks and sounds. As you can see in the video below Letitia can be seen as a stereotypical black person, with an odd voice and obvious lack of education due to her speech patterns.

Square Enix responded to calls of racism saying the following:

“Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a fictional story which reflects the diversity of the world’s future population by featuring characters of various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. While these characters are meant to portray people living in the year 2027, it has never been our intention to represent any particular ethnic group in a negative light.”

I mentioned in my review that there was one character who could be seen as racist, but only by some. Letitia is a homeless person that is digging through the trash, and there are countless homeless in the world of Human Revolution. There are also a number of other black characters that are well spoken and intelligent. Would it have made better sense and helped with immersion if Letitia was wearing a fancy dress and spoke like a college professor? No it wouldn’t have.

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