While we’ve known that North America would be getting Final Fantasy XIII-2 ever since the game was announced, we did not know exactly when other than a vague 2012 window. Thankfully that confusion has been cleared up because today Square Enix revealed that those of us in North America can expect to be getting the game in January.
This news means that Western gamers will only need to wait a month after the Japanese gamers have a chance to access the title in December. Also announced today is that FFXIII-2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dead Island and Wakfu will be available to play at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend. If you can’t make it to Comic-Con, then we have our hands-on impression of the demo of the game back at E3 last month here.
Last year The Walking Dead became AMC’s highest rated series opening in the networks history even beating out such television giants as Breaking Bad and Mad Men, also from AMC.
With such huge ratings a second season was a given and AMC has now delivered us a trailer attached to last nights Breaking Bad Season 4 premiere episode.
The Walking Dead tells the tale of Rick Grimes as he leads a ragtag group of survivors as they struggle to survive the harsh new world over-run with a zombie apocalypse. The first season was 6 episodes long in total so if you have yet to do so, go check it out before the series returns this Halloween.
Boy, oh boy, now this was a big one. This was the biggest SMASH! Convention thus far and needless to say it blew me away, there was so much amazing things going on and the guests all were brilliant. The convention as a whole was easily the best Australian con this year and perhaps in the past few years.
For those who are unaware, us crazy blokes and bladies (bladies = blokes +ladies) here at Capsule Computers were covering the event in a pretty in depth fashion. I was one of those covering the event, I was the guy cosplaying as that one guy in the background who raises his arms in the air to help Goku do the Spirit Bomb to defeat Buu. Yeah I was that random guy amongst every other person on the planet. In other words I wasn’t cosplaying and you probably didn’t notice me at all!
But you may have noticed our other awesome staff members cosplaying or just being all around good blokes, interviewing people and what not. I loved the way SMASH! handled media access with us being able to interview the guests as well and cover the event as well as enter at the price of a few articles on our site. All the staff was really friendly and it was just a great experience. Although I did hear from MasterAbbott that the Maid Cafe wasn’t so friendly, but that’s another thing altogether.
We also held a contest here at Capsule Computers, with the goal being to find Capsule Computers Editor-in-Chief MasterAbbott. Unfortunately no one found him, even his own staff struggled to get into contact on the day! We did however manage to snap a sneaky shot of MasterAbbott as he was lurking the vendors hall.
All in all I had a great day at the event, loved all the panels, loved all the cosplayers, loved all the vendors and loved covering all the news of the day for you all to see. I’m looking forward to next years SMASH without a doubt.
When you mention upcoming zombie games, two games come to mind. The remake of Dead Rising 2, and of course Dead Island which is so hotly anticipated that many are searching for any snippet of information they can get a hold of. The ESRB is of course here to give the game a rating and Deep Silver’s Dead Island certainly sounds like a game to remember.
You can catch the full rating below; which includes plenty of blood and gore as well as drug references, sexual content, bikinis and dismemberment. Needless to say the game has been given an M rating.
This is a first-person shooter in which players join a group of survivors who must battle a zombie infestation on a tropical island. Players use baseball bats, knives, axes, shotguns, and rifles to kill waves of zombies. Battles are accompanied by screams of pain, realistic gunfire, and slow-motion effects.
When zombies are knocked to the ground, players can sometimes stomp on their heads to complete kills. Large blood splatter stains the surrounding environment and players’ weapon. Players can also dismember zombies, and various scenes depict bloody torsos, legs, or other mutilated body parts.
As the game progresses, alcoholic beverages can be consumed to increase damage output, resulting in screen-blurring effects; in one cutscene, drunken characters are depicted stumbling around a party. Some sequences also reference drug use; one mission requires players to retrieve drugs for a character (e.g., “I haven’t shot up since the day before yesterday and I’m getting the chills.”).
The game also contains a handful of sexual references in the dialogue (e.g., “One rich bugger I investigated was clearly molesting his fourteen-year-old daughter.”); one scene depicts a bikini-clad woman tied to a bed and surrounded by video cameras. The words “f**k” and sh*t” can be heard in dialogue.
In addition to kangaroos, koalas, killer spiders, and MasterAbbott –a 21st century Crocodile Dundee–*, Australians also get to have the most chill Xbox promotion ever. Microsoft has rebranded their Summer of Arcade so that the Australian market is not left out in the cold. While us Americans must swelter through the blistering sun while playing through the Summer of Arcade, our friends on the other side of the world get to enjoy Bastion, From Dust, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet and Fruit Ninja while safely ensconced in their warm homes, all part of the Winter of Arcade. If you buy all 5 titles, then you will also recieve Crimson Alliance for free!
While Ubisoft’s Child of Eden has been out on the Xbox 360 for over a month now, PlayStation 3 owners have been sitting high and dry without being able to experience the journey that is Child of Eden’s gameplay. That is until September because Ubisoft announced today that they will be releasing the game on the PS3 on September 20th in North America and September 23rd everywhere else.
The game itself will sell for the same price as that of the Xbox 360 version, meaning $49.99. Personally I found Child of Eden to be an amazing experience with the Kinect so it will be interesting to see how well the Ps3 version does in sales, since the Xbox 360 version has been doing poorly since release, only selling 34,000 copies last month.
Square Enix is a company that likes to release special limited edition versions of consoles and handhelds when they work on a big named title. For example they made a special Xbox 360 for the release of FFXIII and countless special DS versions for Japan. Now they are doing the same with the 3DS by creating a limited edition version of the handheld to go along with their Heroes of Ruin title.
The limited edition is so limited however that they won’t be selling them in stores, instead the publisher is going to be holding contest to give these handhelds away to fans. You can enter the contest here after you register and by the end of July you should know if you won or not. I’d have to say that this Heroes of Ruin 3DS far outshines the current two color choices we’ve been given, although still primarily black in color.
Those attending ComicCon later this week have a reason to stop by Nintendo’s booth as they will be bringing quite a few Wii, DS, and 3DS titles to the event. Today all of the planned festivities were announced, and by the looks of it, the centerpiece of Nintendo’s showing will be the highly anticipated Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which will for the first time be playable by attendees.
Other titles that will be playable include:
3DS:
Super Mario
Mario Kart
Kid Icarus: Uprising
Star Fox 64 3D
The Legend of Zelda™: Ocarina of Time™ 3D
Pokédex 3D
METAL GEAR SOLID Snake Eater 3D from Konami
Shinobi from SEGA
Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition from CAPCOM
RESIDENT EVIL: THE MERCENARIES 3D from CAPCOM
DEAD OR ALIVE Dimensions from TECMO KOEI
Wii:
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Kirby Wii
Rhythm Heaven
Fortune Street
Captain America: Super Soldier from SEGA
Just Dance 3 from Ubisoft
Nintendo DS:
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2
It doesn’t end with playable titles though! Nintendo also are out to continue Zelda’s 25th Anniversary with a large chalk drawing on display for Skyward Sword, created by an artist that was commissioned by Nintendo just for this event. This piece will be detailed as the event is happening so visitors can check in on the progress throughout, watching a masterpiece unfold over time.
Pokémon fans will also be pleased to know that there will be plenty for them as well, as a special meet-up will take place from 4-6 p.m. on July 21st where Pokemon Black & White owners can do battle and trade. Also on hand will be a a giant AR marker of the legendary Poke, Reshiram. Pokémon fans also will be able to get in on giveaways, including a set of three Pokémon AR marker cards, pins, Pokémon cinch sacks and Pokédex 3D T-shirts, all of which will be limited so those who want the freebies should pay a visit to the Nintendo Lounge early on.
Visitors to the Nintendo Gaming Lounge can also take advantage of other fun activities and daily giveaways (while supplies last) such as collectible Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Cards, posing for 3D photos in an oversized AR Card gallery, sharing StreetPass data with other Nintendo 3DS users and downloadable treasure maps for Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies.
Nintendo seem to be ready to pull out all the stops at ComicCon this year (Playable Skyward Sword!). It is interesting to see the Wii-U absent from the equation, but even at that, there is no doubt Nintendo’s booth is sure to be a popular one.
Nintendo Gaming Lounge for Comic-Con attendees will be located in the San Diego Ballroom at the Marriott Marquis & Marina at 333 W. Harbor Drive, adjacent to the San Diego Convention Center (booth #5135)
If you’ve been following Ignition’s El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron then you should have known that the game was meant to be released at the end of this month on July 26th, but unfortunately that won’t be the case anymore. After discovering that the game had been listed for August 16th on GameFly‘s rental schedule we contacted the company as to why this could be.
They responded saying that the game has indeed been pushed back to an August 16th release and the reason for it was that they had encountered “Unforeseen logistical issues.” This news is a bit surprising for a full delay, considering the game was only two weeks from release. Those in Europe will be happy to know however that the release date for the PAL version of the game is still set for September 9th and they shouldn’t experience any delay.
If you were hoping that one of the game’s that Ubisoft is working on for the Wii U was going to be a port of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations then you will soon be disappointed because Yves Guillemot, head of Ubisoft says that it isn’t going to be that.
Swedish website AftonBladet.se had an interview with Guillemot and in this interview Guillemot says that the Wii U Assassin’s Creed title is “not Revelations” but something different. He simply says that it will be something in “the future” which could mean that they are going to be working on the next Assassin’s Creed already. Maybe we will finally see an Assassin’s Creed 3 instead of more iterations of 2.
