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Heroes of Might & Magic collection coming to PC on 21st April

Jack Joly
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Today, Mastertronic announced the release of Heroes of Might & Magic Complete collection will be coming to PC on 21st April under license from original publishers, Ubisoft. The Heroes of Might & Magic Complete collection brings together the first five Heroes of Might & Magic titles, plus seven add-ons and expansion packs, offering great value for money with huge amounts of potential play time from 5 games, all for the price of one game.

The series is popular for its strategy battling, with a turn-based mechanic in place. Players take control of a variety of mythical themed armies, battling various characters and creatures over a fantasy setting.

For those who aren’t familiar with the series, how about a run down of each game and its expansion packs before it releases on PC tomorrow, April 21st:

Heroes of Might & Magic: A Strategic Quest
In the first title of the series, players are challenged to conquer new lands in the first venture into the virtual world of Hereos of Might & Magic. Warlords have risen to test leadership and tactics, as players carefully manage their resources, gather armies and recruit heroes as they strive for victory. Lord Morglin Ironfist is forced to flee his homeland through a magical portal, because his cousin, Ragnar, had usurped the throne after his uncle, Ragnar’s father, killed Ironfist’s father, the legitimate owner of the throne. He finds himself along with his few followers in a strange and uncharted land, called Enroth.

Heroes of Might & Magic II: The Succession Wars
Featuring twenty scenarios of challenging gameplay, players can use powerful spells to wipe out enemies, build massive armies and fight to the last man in epic battles. Lord Ironfist is dead and the kingdom is plunged into a vicous civil war by his feuding sons. At stake is the ultimate prize: control of the land and the royal thrown.

Heroes of Might & Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, with expansion packs Armageddon’s Blade and The Shadow of Death
When Erathia’s King is murdered, his daughter Queen Catherine Ironfist returns to her homeland to  discover that her father’s kingdom has been invaded. Catherine becomes the one and only hope for victory and a return of prosperity in Erathia. Recruit your heroes, prepare your spells, and fight to restore her family’s rightful reign.

Heroes of Might & Magic IV, with expansion packs The Gathering Storm and Winds of War
The story of Heroes of Might & Magic IV unfolds through the game’s six campaigns. Each of the campaigns centers on a faction leader, and tells the story of how that leader came to prominence. Choose from eleven classes of Hero, five schools of Magic and eighteen adventure-filled campaigns, with multiplayer battles available via LAN and internet.

Heroes of Might & Magic V, with expansion packs Hammers of Fate and Tribes of the East
An unexpected demon invasion interrupts the wedding of King Nicolai of the Griffin Empire and Lady Isabel, and soon the forces of the Griffin Empire are at war with the demons of Sheogh. Heroes of Might & Magic V challenges players to master 6 factions and more than 80 creatures and lead them into intense tactical combats with both turn-based and new dynamic battle system introducing real time decisions. Rage into five multiplayer modes including Ghost mode which allows you to play during the enemies turn or the Duel mode where only the most cunning prevail.

Madman presents the best of LifeStyle Channels on DVD

Kelly Teng
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Looking for a present for your mum’s birthday this June? Look no further. Madman and XYZnetworks have announced a new home entertainment partnership, which will see selected titles from the four LifeStyle channels on DVD.

Launching on June 15, the DVD releases will kick off with four releases: property show Selling Houses Australia, gardening show Garden Angels, and two cooking shows, Neil Perry Fresh & Fast and Bills Food. Future releases will include titles such as Moar Gardening (and no, that’s not internet speak for ‘more’, the dude’s last name is Moar) and travel/cooking series Tobie & Matt (Asia & Europe).

We know the mums are going to love this (pre-order the DVDs as a Mothers Day present, maybe?), and being in the good books with the mothers means more games for Christmas! Check these upcoming releases out on the Madman site here.

Atari Reving Centipede on the Wii & 3DS with “Centipede Invasion”..

Dustin Spencer
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After just pulling off a wonderful reboot with Yars’ Revenge, Atari is now out to revive another classic from their archives with Centipede Invasion. This 1980 release is now preparing to see new life with a release on both the Nintendo Wii as well as the 3DS. Now if you haven’t played Centipede before, it worked a bit like a shoot-em-up, in which the player had to destroy off every section of the arthropod and prevent it from reaching the ground. In true style, this new title will completely change what we know about the classic version with a brand new story as well as a whole new way to play the game itself.

Developed by Wayforward, this new version puts the player in a setting taking place twelve years after a nuclear war. Taking the role of an orphaned teenager hero named Max, you must now fight off mutated insects and killer centipedes as you trudge through the wasteland with an ally by the name of Maisy and try to grow new life into the rubble by planting seeds which will restore Earth’s resources once and for all.

Atari have also opened up today and elaborated a bit more on the way this re-imagining will actually play out:

Players will be swarmed by mutated spiders, beetles, grubs, caterpillars, moths, and boss insects across the game’s expansive world of seven environments and 40 stages. To defeat these mutant species and restore mankind, players will have to use an array of weaponry –Lightning Orb Gun, Nuke Cannon, Freezethrower, Mine Launcher, and more – as well as power-ups to fight through the invasions.

Like the toadstool of the original Centipede game, each insect has a unique defensive object that it can leave behind, as a ‘special’ variation.. These defensive objects are short-lived combat tools that distract, attack, or block insect assaults during battle.

Additionally, the game allows players to team up with friends to fight off even more bugs with 2 player co-op multiplayer features. Nintendo 3DS players will be able to take advantage of unique StreetPass™ features that enable them to uniquely share content between passingNintendo 3DS users. Centipede: Infestation for Nintendo 3DS will also feature gooey 3D visuals and ad-hoc multiplayer for 2 player co-op.

I have said it time and time again, but Wayforward really have a knack for creating retro-like experiences on current consoles, with the new trailer released today for Centipede Invasion, it looks like this one will go straight to the roots of the shoot-em-up genre and offer a nice, nostalgic arcade feel to the whole control scheme. Centipede Invasion drops for the Nintendo Wii & 3DS this fall and you can check out the brand new trailer for the game below.

Ocarina of Time 3D to include Boss Challenge mode and Super Guide function

Travis Bruno
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Nintendo announced today that they will be adding in a new feature to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. Besides having the “Master Quest” version which was released a few years after the original Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D will have something Nintendo is calling a Boss Challenge feature alongside a Super Guide feature.

The Boss Challenge will unlock after players reach a certain point in the game (said point not mentioned) and will allow you to fight any boss you have fought before a second time. Or you can also face each one in a back to back battle until you either defeat them all or fall in the process.

Now the Super Guide addition to the game will involve Nintendo including tiny videos that offer hints that will help players solve puzzles for first time comers or those who don’t remember how to finish a certain puzzle in a game and want to avoid being frustrated. The Super Guide will be a nice feature but thankfully will be entirely optional for those who want to keep the pure Ocarina of Time experience alive when the title releases on June 19th in the US and June 17th in Europe.

Black Ops Escalation Map Pack video released, made official

Travis Bruno
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Yay campers! is the first thought that comes to mind after watching the first trailer released to show off the upcoming DLC map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops. The map pack is titled Escalation and will feature four new multiplayer maps with one zombie map titled Call of the Dead. The zombie map did not see any video time however so if you were here for zombies then you are out of luck.

In the video we see the Hotel, Convoy, Zoo and Stockpile map shown off and detailed by the developers at Treyarch. The Zoo map is unfortunately in a completely derelict zoo so there aren’t any animals around to spice things up, of course there is a monorail you can walk across and be shot immediately. Catch the trailer after the break and the map pack itself when it releases on May 3rd for 1200 MSP. The map pack is a timed exclusive by Microsoft so don’t expect a PS3 or PC release until at least a month from now.

Sony stops PSP Go production according to various sources

Travis Bruno
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It seems that the final nail in the PSP Go’s coffin has been nailed in today. Andriasang has translated a post at a Japanese tech website and has found that PSP Go production has been stopped. You can find the (badly translated by google) website here. The problem is that there have been a number of instances that have shown that the PSP Go will be ending soon, including Amazon‘s listing for the PSP Go saying that the handheld has been discontinued by the manufacturer.

The PSP Go has struggled to see mainstream acceptance ever since it was first released. The reliance on purely digital downloads of games with no physical support seems to have been the downfall of the handheld. Sony has yet to say whether or not this is true but chances are that it will end up being so. Either way we have contacted Sony in an effort to shine some light on the subject.

Calorie Challenge Add-on annound for Kinect Sports

Travis Bruno
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In case you were growing a bit tired with your Kinect Sports activities you will soon be able to download a whole new addition of content that will not only provide new game modes but also new things for you to compete against. Titled the Kinect Sports: Calorie Challenge the add-on will be released on April 29th and will cost 320 Microsoft Points. Along with the new additions to the game there will be 250 more achievements added and 2 avatar awards.

The Calorie Challenge Mode will keep track of how many calorie’s you burn supposedly and how long you’ve worked out for. A variety of new foods will show up in the game as mascots to represent each goal you will have to work towards to burn off. For example the Peppy Pizza will take 302 calories while the Blazing Banana only takes 92 calories. Seems interesting at least.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Collector’s Edition announced for Europe and Australia

Travis Bruno
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Square Enix had previously announced that people will be able to buy a special edition of Deux Ex that they were calling the Augmented Edition. But now they have announced the existence of a new edition of Deus Ex though this one has the standard name of being a Collector’s Edition. This Collector’s Edition will only be available to select European countries, Australia and New Zealand however so anyone in the US is out of luck.

The Collector’s Edition will contain much of what was already announced to be releasing with the Augmented Edition you will be receiving a DVD with 44 minutes of making of footage, a stop motion comic and an animated storyboard. Alongside that is a 40 page art book and all of the DLC that you could receive from pre-ordering the title anywhere. This includes the Explosive Mission Pack, Automatic Unlocking Device, M-28 Utility Remote-Detonated Explosive Device (UR-DED), Linebacker G-87 multiple shot grenade launcher, Huntsman Silverback Double-Barrel Shotgun and SERSR Longsword Whisperhead silenced sniper rifle. Also you will receive 10,000 in-game credits to buy or upgrade your weapons.

Now the interesting addition to this edition is the Adam Jensen action figure which certainly would be a nice addition to anyone’s shelf. The current listing for this Collector’s Edition is at 100 Euros, placing it 30 Euros above the price tag of the Augmented Edition.

Mortal Kombat – the fight begins for the UK on 21st April

Jack Joly
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With just a couple of days to go before the release of Mortal Kombat on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the UK, we thought it was only right to remind you of the game’s 21st April release date in the UK, disclosing a few more details about what you can expect if you do pick it up, courtesy of publishers Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

“All of us at NetherRealm studios could not be more excited that players can finally get their hands on our all new Mortal Kombat game,” said Ed Boon, Creative Director, NetherRealm Studios. “Our goal was to deliver the Mortal Kombat game that the fans have been demanding and feel we’ve delivered that and then some!”

The game has a number of new modes and the story will incorporate elements of older games in a re-imagination of the original story. There will also be platform-specific features like PlayStation 3 owners being able to take on the powerful role of Kratos from the God of War series.

In the all-new King of the Hill mode players the chance to actively cheer on their character in the theatre, with those with the Xbox 360 version able to use their own Xbox LIVE Avatar to represent them as they cheer, throw tomatoes, and boo the fighters competing. PlayStation 3 gamers will be able to choose their favourite Mortal Kombat avatars to represent them in the theatre.

Will anyone be picking this up on launch day in the UK? Or if you live in the US, have you picked it up already?

Rabbids to Invade Just Dance 2 on April 20th…

Dustin Spencer
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Today Ubisoft announced that they would be doing a crossover between two of their most popular series with some new downloadable content for Just Dance 2. Instead of the usual standard tracks though, the Rabbids will be heading an invasion on the popular Wii dance title. The reasoning behind this odd combination is that 2011 marks the 5th year since the Rabbids launched as a franchise and of course went on to make quite a franchise for themselves with many popular follow-ups and sequels, so now it is time for the lovable white mascots to party and dance the night away.

A trailer was also released for this new Just Dance 2 DLC which shows a Rabbid slowly jamming out and approaching a television with another Rabbid acting as the in-game sprite for the dancer on the game. It really isn’t clear on just what kind of DLC this will be at the moment though as it could just be the Rabbid model replacing the dancer or simply music from the Rabbids’ series being used. Thankfully, it won’t be too long wait to find out though, as this update will be available for download as of tomorrow for any Wii owner with a copy of Just Dance 2. Check out the trailer for yourself below and we will update you once more is revealed on just what the actual content will being in this Rabbid-filled download.

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