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Gears Of War 3 BETA for EBGames Pre-Orders

Benjamin Webb
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Gears of War 3, the third chapter in EPIC’s Gears of Wars saga, is going to be coming out later this year. In order for games to have a smooth multiplayer component at launch, many game developers include a public BETA program for people to partake, enjoy and report bugs within. EPIC are including such a scheme for all pre-ordering players who get their game from EBGames and they will be able to get into the program on April 25th.

The pre-order can be for any of the Editions of Gears of War 3 (Standard ($99.95), Limited ($129.95) and Epic ($199.95)) with the BETA scheduled to begin for pre-order players on the 25th of April, 2011. Though for the players who purchased Bulletstorm: EPIC Edition, the date is a little earlier, which is on the 18th of April, 2011.

Key Beta Dates:

  • Bulletstorm Preview, April 18-24
    Owners of “Bulletstorm: Epic Edition” are eligible for a one-week beta preview period featuring the new Team Deathmatch mode on four new maps (Thrashball, Checkout, Trenches and Old Town).

 

  • Gears of War 3 Beta, April 25-May 15

The full public beta period begins April 25. Players can look forward to special events and playlists throughout the beta period. Two additional competitive game modes, Capture the Leader and King of the Hill, will be added over the course of the beta period.

 

  • May 15 – Beta concludes.

Players of the BETA can look forward to unlocking some exclusive content to their account and/or full-game’s save file upon release, depending on their statistics based on the BETA. The unlockables are as follows:

Unlockables:

  • Beta Tester Medal – Complete one match in the beta to unlock the Beta Tester medal, which will carry over to your gamer profile in the final game. The Beta Tester title will be featured in the Gears 3 multiplayer lobby as well.

  • · Thrashball Cole – Complete 50 matches in any game type to unlock the Thrashball Cole character variant in the beta. Once unlocked, complete 10 matches as Thrashball Cole during the beta and the character will carry over to your gamer profile in the final game.

  • · Gold-Plated Retro Lancer – Show your ultimate Gears of War fandom by unlocking the Gold-Plated Retro Lancer. Complete 90 matches in any game type to unlock it for the beta, and score 100 kills with it once unlocked to carry the exclusive weapon skin over to your gamer profile in the final game.

  • · Flaming Hammerburst – Complete one match by Sunday, April 24 and unlock this weapon variant.

  • · Flaming Lancer – Complete one match during the week of April 25 and unlock this weapon variant.

  • · Flaming Sawed-Off Shotgun – Complete one match during the week of May 2 to unlock this weapon variant.

  • · Flaming Gnasher Shotgun – Complete one match during the week of May 9 to unlock this weapon variant.

Of course, the Multiplayer BETA isn’t just going to be Team-Deathmatch or some variant on it. EPIC looks to be releasing three brand new multiplayer gametypes and four new and exclusive maps to the program. Two such maps will be ‘Trenches’ and ‘Old Town’.

It should also be noted that owners of the Bulletstorm: Epic Edition will require the disc and BETA access tokens to join in on the Gears of War 3 BETA.

For more info visit Gears of War at Microsoft.

Or the Facebook page.

Maybe even Twitter.

Entering the RIFT – Gameplay Walkthrough

Benjamin Webb
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To everyone thinking of joining the world of Telara in RIFT, I present to you a series of videos. Videos designed to inform you of the basic mechanics of RIFT as well as show off some pretty graphics and gameplay. The video was recorded by me (LinkageAX) and will take you through a few core pieces of gameplay as well as the character creation process.

The Video is narrated by me, which is pretty much just me talking about what’s happening on screen, what I’m doing, what things are / do and etc. This video is not all comprehensive and there will probably be another video down the track.  Enjoy the video, leave a comment below and let us know your thoughts.

We hope that this assists in your decision as the whether you would like to play RIFT or not. It was a joy to film and I hope that it is informative, entertaining and enjoyable for all viewers.

For those who wish to contact me in-game or run a dungeon or close some rifts or some-such, I can be contacted on the Wolfsbane server by any Defiant player; I go by the name ‘Ayexe’.

Part 1 – Character creation and a little bit of early game footage.

[pro-player width=’530′ height=’253′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw0cYk1yjfM[/pro-player]

Part 2 – Early game footage with a little bit of RIFT closing footage.

[pro-player width=’530′ height=’253′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZp16akx6Pk[/pro-player]

Part 3 – Second Half of RIFT closing footage and goodbyes.

[pro-player width=’530′ height=’253′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ro1Lq6Wz4Q[/pro-player]

Musical Credits:

DJ Kukun: http://twoshiny.newgrounds.com/
NemesisTheory: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/354925

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker’s World Cup Wi-Fi Mode Coming to an End…

Dustin Spencer
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This bit of news will probably only really matter to a select few, but it is still some rather gloomy news for fans of Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker. After four years of service, Square-Enix are finally pulling the plus on the World Cup Wi-Fi function on the game, which let players’ monsters compete online with players all over the world in a tournament style bracket.

Square have now listed this statement on the official DQM:J site to further elaborate:

WILDCARD WORLD CUP INFORMATION

Notice re: Wildcard World Cup Service

Thank you for your support of Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker.
We will be concluding our Wildcard World Cup service effective as of Thursday, March 31, 2011.
We appreciate all of your support for the past four years since the launch of this title.
Please see below for the details.

Final Registration for Wildcard World Cup

Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 6:00 PM PST

Discontinuation of Service

Thursday, March 31, 2011, 7:00 AM PST

As of, 7:00am PST, on March 31, 2011, the ranking page will no longer be available for viewing.
You will still be able to enjoy the single player mode and DS Wireless Play even after the Wildcard World Cup service is terminated.
Once again, we would like to thank you for your support.

I just recently started playing Joker, so this news is a bit depressing, but the online mode should still not be a big enough of a reason for players to check out this awesome little title in the series, especially if you are a Pokemon fan as it shares many similarities such as battling and training monsters. There has been a sequel released in Japan a while back, so hopefully that will see the light of day overseas to make up for the loss of this function, but for now players will have to stick to wireless battles to put their teams to the test.

Bungie’s New MMO was a joke

Dylan Radcliffe
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Bungie’s New MMO was a joke

Hey! Don’t blame us! We journalists are only on the look out for false news when it is April 1st; Bungie was a month too early with their prank.

We covered a bit of news revealing Bungie’s Supposed new project which was an MMO. Yeah, they were making a joke that was clearly not perceived as a joke and literally every single news website out their fell for it. Once the real news came out that it didn’t exist most news sites frantically started trying to cover up their mistake; however, we are different! We point the blunder out for all the world to see. Are we sorry? No! Because it isn’t April Fools day!
A post on Bungie’s official site reads, “After the childish tears, gelatinous gibs, and acrid smoke cleared, an industrious journalist noticed the final slide from David’s GDC deck which apparently proclaimed that we were hiring for a “massively…multiplayer action game.” Ruh oh.”

“Now, in rehearsal Aldridge was convinced that everybody got the joke. It was all in the delivery, he assured us, and he was certain it was clear that he was playfully riffing off of the recent rumours. Unfortunately, most people can’t figure David out – they can’t process him. And we don’t expect them to. You can’t process David Aldridge with a normal brain. You’d need tiger blood and Adonis DNA.”

Yeah, it seems we totally missed the “subtle humor”. Were your hopes up for such a project? Well don’t fret to much, because rumours are still floating around that Bungie and Activision’s game will be a shooter entitled ‘Destiny’, which currently exists under the working codename of ‘Tiger’. Not exactly an MMO; but who knows, it may still happen.

Breast milk ice-cream & Lady Gaga – You got nothing Charlie Sheen!

J. Bradshaw
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It seems that the entire population went gaga when Charlie Sheen’s exploits were revealed.  And when he joined Twitter, news stories popped up faster than the Millennium Falcon.  Plus, he reached a total of 1,000,000 followers in near record time.

Apparently, Lady Gaga (another of Twitter’s most popular people) just couldn’t take being shunned by the press for so long a time.  I mean, come on!  A meat dress will only titillate the people of the world for so long.  So, away she went to the legal system.  Lady Gaga is now threating to sue an ice-cream distributor in London.  But wait! It gets better!

Now why would the worlds most popular pop star want to sue a company that makes ice cream?  For starters, this particular ice cream was made of human breast milk.  Yes, ‘Baby Gaga’ is an ice-cream made from human breast milk, mixed with a delightful combination of vanilla pods and lemon.

Thankfully, inspectors from Westminster council’s food standards department confiscated the remaining ice cream a few days ago, citing that “selling foodstuffs made from another person’s bodily fluids can lead to viruses being passed on and, in this case, potentially hepatitis”.

Of course, the owner of the establishment, one Mr. Matt O’Connor disagrees, saying that the donor of the milk, “is a registered blood donor. So she has been screened both by us and a clinic.”

He goes on saying that he feels like a man “wielding two spoons engaged in hand-to-hand combat.  (Lady Gaga) described me as the ‘controlling mind’ behind the ice-cream, which makes me sound like Blofeld, in a James Bond movie, bent on global domination.  A global superstar has taken umbrage at what she describes as a ‘nausea-inducing’ product. This from a woman with a penchant for wearing rotting cows’ flesh. At least our customers are still alive when they contribute to our ‘art’.  She claims we have ‘ridden the coattails’ of her reputation. As someone who has … recycled on an industrial scale the entire back catalog of pop culture to create her look, music and videos, she might want to reconsider this allegation.  How can she possibly claim ownership of the word ‘gaga’ which since the dawn of time has been one of the first discernible phrases to come from a baby’s mouth?”

It is hard to believe that a single news story could incite someone to hate both parties with a passion.  However, both of the people in this dispute are nothing but bone headed fools who need a good smack in the head.  Someone please call Master Chief 117 (and with that, this article has a videogame reference.)   Winning!

Source: Guardian

The 3rd Birthday Australian Release Date Announced

Roger Ma
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The 3rd Birthday Australian Release Date Announced

 

Square Enix has announced both a release date and special edition details for third-person shooter action role-playing game ‘The 3rd Birthday’, the next installment of the Parasite Eve series exclusively for the PSP. The special Twisted Edition retail version of the game will include exclusive in-game items, a copy of CTI Confidential (a 44 page hardcover artbook), two deluxe Aya Brea Lithograph art prints and an exclusive Lightning in Aya Brea costume for use in the upcoming PSP fighter Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy​. As well as a discount voucher offering 50% off the purchase of the upcoming re-release of Final Fantasy II available soon on the Playstation Network.

The 3rd Birthday is set to be released in Australia on April 7.

 

Catherine’s difficulty patch detailed

Travis Bruno
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Awhile back we mentioned that Atlus was working on a patch for the Japanese version of the game that would allow players to have an easier time accessing Catherine instead of putting it on the shelf and never playing it again/never buying it in the first place. The difficulty patch is primarily set to make easy mode even easier than it was before (it wasn’t).

The demo of Catherine was not very challenging and provided some players with a false security about the game’s overall difficulty but that has been changed according to Katsura Hashino. The easy mode will allow players to have an “assist option” to help you make it through the game’s more difficult areas and even give you more retries than was previously allowed. The patch itself has yet to make its way onto the game but players are hoping it will allow them to even make it past the first few levels without having to start over from their last save.

Dream Trigger 3D’s new trailer is Dazzling..

Dustin Spencer
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Over at this year’s GDC, a new trailer was shown for D3Publisher’s upcoming 3DS title, Dream Trigger 3D. Now if you are unfamiliar with Dream Trigger, it is an original arcade shooter which is looking to take full advantage of the handheld’s 3D aspects with plenty of colors and 3D explosions to keep your eyes busy. Dream Trigger 3D is also offering plenty of fan-service to the hardcore arcade shooter fans out there as the game looks to be as fun to play as it is to look at with over 50 varied stages.

The trailer shows the full game in action, of course as best as it can anyway since it cannot show the true 3D experience it will offer, but in my opinion this title is giving me a full vibe of the PS2/XBLA title, REZ, and that is definitely a good thing. I was actually hoping that an arcade shooter would join the system, and this one just seems to fit in perfectly in the 3D world. Dream Trigger 3D may be the cream of the crop of this year’s 3DS titles when it comes to visuals without a doubt. Check out the trailer in full below for yourself, and we will continue to bring you news on this title as more information comes forward.

Next Week’s Rockband Tracks are Bringing Depeche Mode

Dylan Radcliffe
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Next Week’s Rockband Tracks are Bringing Depeche Mode

Probably most famous from all the references to them in the Left 4 Dead series (or maybe that is just me); their music is coming to Rock Band. Depeche Mode is here, and with 3 brand new songs for you to play (Brand New for Rock Band At Least). Oh yeah, and there is also one other song that I have literally never even heard of (but maybe that is because I don’t get out much).

Check out the songs below. (I seem to have used a lot of parenthesis in this post…)

Depeche Mode Pack 01 – 440 Microsoft Points

  • Depeche Mode – “Never Let Me Down Again”
  • Depeche Mode – “Personal Jesus” *
  • Depeche Mode – “Policy of Truth”

Single Track – 160 Microsoft Points

  • Death Cab For Cutie – “I Will Possess Your Heart”

(All tracks are original master recordings) <—- MORE PARENTHESIS!!

*160 Microsoft Points each. X = 80 Microsoft Points per track for a Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade

They will be on the Xbox Live Marketplace from March 8th (WOOT!).

Double Dragon available on iPhone now!

Travis Bruno
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Are you ready to play a legend as far as side scrolling brawlers go? Because Double Dragon is now available on the iTunes store for purchase and can be played on your iPhone. For those that are to young to remember Double Dragon released in 1987 in Arcades worldwide and then in 1988 made its jump to home consoles where it took the brawler genre to new level. But today Double Dragon has been remade and features brand new artwork, music and extras.

Players will take control of either Jimmy or Billy as they try to save Marian who has been taken hostage by the Black Warriors. To save Marian they must either give up their sacred Sousetsuken scrolls or take her back by force. Guess which option they chose? Some of the newer features added besides a completely redone audio and visual experience are the control scheme which allows easy combo attacks, new attacks, bosses, in-game achievements and hidden characters to unlock. Also players can link their iPhone to their friends via Bluetooth so they can take down the Black Warriors together. At the current moment Double Dragon is on the App Store for $3.99 as promotional sale, if you wait too long however you will have to pay the $7.99 price instead.

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