Hunted: The Demon’s Forge takes place in a dark fantasy world. But the developers at inXile Entertainment have been hard at work to create a unique environment from what we have experienced before from the genre. In an effort to keep things unique the team has spent a lot of time working on the different enemies you will be facing in the game.
Sure you can find your standard enemy that will usually be your opponent, but they are more than what they seem. Eventually you may even stumble across an infected and then you will need to change up your strategy completely, or face an assassin with its head on a staff that can teleport around the area and deal out damage. Oh and did we forget to mention that there will be minotaurs as well? I’m sure we did. Catch the video below and the game itself when it releases later this month for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
When Call of Duty’s DLC ‘Escalation’ announced it’s all star cast for zombies level Call of the Dead, pop culture fans rejoiced with glee. I would know, I was one of them screaming with excitement, and if you don’t believe me, you can see so here! Well now, the four playable characters Danny Trejio, Michael Rooker, Robert Englund and Sarah Michelle Gellar have spoken out in interviews which have appeared on gen16com’s youtube channel. Unfortunately, no interview with the antagonist, legendary God of all Zombies George A. Romero has not apparelled in an interview yet. There is also behind-the-scenes footage of vocal recordings, and motion capture footage. Yeah, thats right! To my surprise, and Im sure many of yours as well, it is revealed that the actors actually acted using motion capture, rather than animation, so players really are controlling the movements of the actors they play as, making it more authentic, and really showing off the amount of hard work put into this one, simple level! Truly impressive.
I’d also like to mention another thing I found impressive-just how enthusiastic all four of them seem in the interviews. I don’t think I’ve ever seen actors so eager to answer questions, and they all laugh the whole time like they truly are enjoying themselves, making them all very entertaining to watch! Surprisingly, they each all have stories to tell about Call of Duty from their personal lives, and the history a few of them have with each other, and how much fun they’ve had on the project. A great watch if your a fan of any of these actors, or the Call of the Dead zombies map!
It is great to see Chrono Trigger getting all of this love as of late. With the recent outing that Chrono Trigger would be hitting the PS3 & PSN soon, Square have now announced that the beloved JRPG classic will be coming to Nintendo’s Virtual Console on May 16th. This version will be a straight port of the Super Nintendo version (of course, and will be met with the usual 800 point price.
While this is fantastic news, I am now a bit curious if Square might have something up their sleeve with all of the porting that has been going on as of late for the series. A Chrono Cross/Trigger sequel would certainly be nice, or even a graphically updated version of the original. Either way though, Wii owners now have yet another fantastic addition to the Virtual Console to look forward to come next Monday and hopefully those who haven’t had a chance to try this classic will make the plunge.
Here is a bit of exciting news for fans who are kraving even more Mortal Kombat. NetherRealm & WB Games have officially announced Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection, which will include the arcade versions Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for the Xbox Live Arcade, Playstation Network, and PC. If you remember, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 was on the XBLA, but was removed when Midway went under so this Kollection couldn’t have come at a better time with the fantastic release of Mortal Kombat last month.
Ed Boon has also released a statement for this new Kollection:
“We are very excited to finally have the first three Mortal Kombat games available in one download package for long-time and new fans to play,” said Ed Boon, Creative Director, NetherRealm Studios. “With the release of our 2011 Mortal Kombat, and its return to 2D game play, players have been asking for these classic titles and we are happy to deliver them.”
While this collection will be true to the arcade releases, it will also feature online play, leaderboards, achievements and trophies, which is more fantastic news and all at a low price of 800 Microsoft Points ($9.99 for the PSN). Gamestop are also getting in on the action and will be offering Mortal Kombat Klassic Fight Sticks for $129.99 which you can pre-order now at any location or on Gamestop.com.
So who is ready for some animalities, klassic fatalities, and…Rain? It doesn’t look like all our Aussie friends will not have any trouble this time around obtaining this collection thankfully. For now anyway. Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection is set to hit all three platforms “late summer”.
In a disappointing announcement Nintendo has pushed back the launch date for the 3DS eShop. The release of this feature has already been delayed from the initial time it should have been out which brings up the question as to why this feature has been delayed so many times. Originally what should have been included in launch, the 3DS eShop will now be delayed until June 7th in Japan and June 6th in the U.S according to Andriasang.
The eShop will offer DLC, from new titles to classic games from the GameBoy and Game Gear. Unfortunately due to this delay again the feature has been something 3DS owners have been waiting quite some time for. The fact of the matter is that the feature should have been included when the hand held was launched, and the fact that it wasn’t is a bit of a slap to the face to all the 3DS owners who wanted to buy the handheld as soon as it came out. Instead what was offered can be seen as half finished.
With it being nearly a month since the PlayStation Network was taken down after the security breach, it seems a lot of fans of Sony’s PlayStation 3 are looking to get their game on elsewhere. It seems that some gamers would rather pay for their online service and play on the Xbox 360 rather than not have any online interaction at all.
In a report from Edge Online a number of UK retailers have stated that the amount of people trading in their PlayStation 3’s for cash or for an Xbox 360 console has doubled. One store manager stated,”In the first week of downtime we did not really see any major change in sales or trades. However from the second week onwards we have seen an increase of over 200% on PS3 consoles being traded in, split almost 50/50 between those trading for cash and those taking a 360 instead.”
This also seems to be the case with a number of people bringing in their PlayStation 3 version of Black Ops or Modern Warfare 2 and trading them in for the Xbox 360 version instead. This is a very drastic move by consumers as it is obvious that eventually the PSN will come back online at some point. But there is an extremely large demographic of people who own their console simply to play online with their favorite FPS and with the lack of online support on the PlayStation 3 at the moment, the Xbox 360 is the only way to go. Though it will be interesting to see how these numbers will change once the PSN actually goes back online.
If you are a fan of Supercross then you should know who Jeremy McGrath is. If you aren’t then don’t worry, he will soon be gracing your home console with a game of his very own. Developer 2XL Games is set to release Jeremy McGrath Offroad for the PSN and XBLA this Summer but unfortunately not much else is known about the title at the moment besides it’s existence.
Being published by D3, more information for the title will be released within a month. Not at E3 mind you but at an event known as the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series in San Bernardino, CA on May 21 and 22, making it perhaps the oddest area to debut a game, though perhaps also the right environment to do so.
While Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights will not be gracing the 3DS for some time, Konami have decided to release the first developer diary labeled “Birth of a New World” for the anticipated mystery title. In the clip, Producer and Director Noraiki Okamura sets the scene for the game and explains a bit of the story and locales featured with a bit of information on Lautrec’s motives for beginning this quest as well as showing off the beautiful recreation of Paris and the underground caverns players will explore.
I know many have deemed this title to be a “Layton Clone”, which it very well might be, but I am starting to really take up interest on what is looking to be a fantastic mystery with a quite a vivid world to explore. You can check out the developer diary for yourself below. So what do you think so far, do you think Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights can stand on it’s own?
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is an RPG currently in development by 38 Studios and is being published by EA. Now at Pax East last March it was shown off to those in attendance and given a chance to try it out for themselves. Unfortunately for the average gamer there hasn’t been a whole lot said about the game yet, that is until now.
EA and 38 Studios have released a gameplay video that walks viewers through the first few minutes of the game and explains most of the basic elements of the game, including combat, chain attacks and even the Fate Shift abilities that the game will include. Lead designer Ian Frazier provides the voice over for the five minute gameplay demonstration. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning should be relased sometime in 2012 for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
SHMUSICUP, the rhythm-inspired shoot em up from Tzai Entertainment, has received quite a bit of attention lately for its custom soundtracks, music based bullet patterns, and all around badassery. That makes it even more exciting to finally announce that today SHMUSICUP has finally left its beta stage and is out for full release.
Players who pre-ordered the game can download the PC client here and get right to dodging bullets to their favorite tunes. For those who have yet to purchase SHMUSICUP, there’s no time like the present. If you head over to the official SHMUSICUP site you can still pick it up for the special pre-order price of $9.99, for now at least. The developers at Tzai have also promised that although the game is in full release status now, they will continue to support it with patches and updates according to feedback and bug reports, so make sure to speak up!
