Ready to see all of your favorite Final Fantasy characters join battle against one another in combat for Chaos and Cosmos. In the latest video released by Square Enix we see nearly six minutes of gameplay as we are introduced to many of the different fighters that will be doing battle in the game. Who is on which side? We’ll have to find out, though those who played the first Dissidia game may recognize some returning faces and take a guess on who is fighting with who.
Now you may recognize this trailer because it is the trailer that was released back during Square Enix’s Production Department conference. This time however it has English subtitles to go along with the Japanese dialogue.
Gameloft, creators of wholly original games, have launched ‘Starcra–‘ err… ‘Starfront: Collision’ on the iPhone.
The game features 3 playable races, The Wardens, The Myriads and The Consortium who are all at war with each other. The Consortium want to mine The Wardens primary mineral while the Wardens don’t want the Consortium to mine it. The Myriads just want to kill everyone else because they’re cool like that.
Or at least, that’s what I gathered from the trailer. The game looks like a promising Starcraft clone though and will likely keep RTS enthusiasts amused or, at the least, slightly entertained.
The game will be available (to quote gameloft) –
Available February 10th on the App Store, for iPhone & iPod touch (4G & 3G generations)
Enjoy the embedded trailer below.
–Â Special note from Gameloft Twitter account : To make sure Starfront: Collision is perfect its release date has been moved to February 18th. Be sure your patience will be rewarded!
This weekend, Thursday February 10 between 6pm and 9pm, the latest handheld from Nintendo will be playable at select stores in the country.
The 3DS handheld is a gaming device that allows players to experience video games in diorama-like 3D.
The event(s) will be the first time that Australian customers will be able to get some hands-on time with the device before it’s (*still unspecified) launch.
Gamers in both Melbourne and Sydney will be able to play the 3DS at the following locations –
Sydney:
Thursday February 10 from 6.00pm to 9.00pm at Myer Sydney City in the Nintendo Connection on the 6th floor, 436
Melbourne:
Thursday February 10 from 6.00pm to 9.00pm at EB Games, 67 Swanston Street Melbourne in the Nintendo Experience.
One (or more) of our editors may also be attending one of the events that day, so keep an eye out for us.
Each store has it’s own ‘experience’ webpage – Sydney – Melbourne.
These week we will be stacking, racers, all while enjoying some good ol’ fashioned retro shooters. TNT Racers, and Stacking are both available this wednesday, February 9th for you to purchase.
TNT Racers seems to be a pretty standard kart racer, while Stacking is a puzzle game where you you combine dolls to create traits that can help you complete puzzles. Have you decided which one to buy yet? If not you can always try the demos upon release.
As for the Deal of the week, they are quite the bargain with all the games being reduced to 400MSP, even the 1200 MSP Serious Sam games. If you haven’t picked up one or all of these titles, now would be a very good time to reach into your pocket and buy some Microsoft points.
Both XBLA are available from Wednesday, 9th February:
TNT Racers – 800 Microsoft Points
Stacking – 1200 Microsoft Points
This week’s Deal of the Week, which runs until Monday, February 14th, is themed “Retro Shooters”.
If you have an iPhone or iTouch and use it for more than just browsing the web and making calls then you are in luck. Oh and Twitter too, put that away for a second because Com2uS has another Beta that you can enter into right now for a chance to play their upcoming action arcade game Third Blade..
Now the Third Blade will place players in a journey to save somebody close to them who was kidnapped by a bunch of monsters. What monsters exactly and who was kidnapped? You’ll have to enter the Beta to find out. You will save your kidnapped companion with three different types of ultimite blades. You can check out the information below to get a look at some comic book styled beginning and how to sign up for the Beta.
Feeling a little down after hearing that Gears of War 3 wouldn’t have a special gun from Bulletstorm or Shadow Complex? Well don’t let every bit of bad news get you down, because we have a few new Gears of War 3 screenshots to help wipe away those bad memories of a game restricted by Microsoft.
In these new screenshots we see Anya (the blond) planting her foot right in the midriff of a locust and then stomping her foot down on another locusts head. All the while we even see another locust get chainsawed from behind and punched out. Also we are able to see Marcus in a bit of new gear which includes a cut off armor design, which begs the question. Does a certain amount of badassery block bullets just as good as armor does?
MasterAbbott has a nice little surprise for you all today !! A while back when I had nothing else better to do with my free time. I created 3 short Animations entitled Ryu’s Quest. It was about Ryu trying to find his best mate Ken who had been kidnapped, along the way he meets up with a few Capcom characters from the Street Fighter and also Final Fight series. As we’re only a few short weeks away from Marvel vs Capcom 3 (BUY HERE) being unleashed upon the world, I thought I’d bring back Ryu’s Quest back out of the archives and share them with all of you.  These 3 little episodes should get you in mood for some Capcom ACTION !!
Unfortunately I did stop at Episode 3. Ryu’s Quest is far from over. If you guys like it I could go back and try and do a few more episodes. Let me know what you think of them, hopefully I can make a few of you laugh 😉
EPISODE 1 : KEN !! WHERE IS KEN !!
Ryu is invited to Ken’s Place to play some Super Street Fighter on the Super Nes.. But when he gets there Ken is not there … Where is KEN !! ??
EPISODE 2 : Cleaning Up
Ryu continues on his quest to find his friend KEN.. Along the way he meets up with Guy and helps him in cleaning up the Mean Streets of Metro City !!
EPISODE 3 : The Truth !!
Ryu pays Guile a visit to see if he tell him anything about the mysterious symbol that could be behind Ken’s dissaperance.
NOTE :: All 3 Episodes are available below. Once one finishes the next one will begin. Enjoy the show !!
Let me know what you thought of them. Which one was your favourite. Leave a comment below. If we get a fair amount of comments. I might send one of you a XBOX LIVE ARCADE or PSN game your way 🙂
Wait. What? Yes you read that right. Ubisoft has revealed that they will be making a new Call of Juarez game to make it the third of the series. It will be called Call of Juarez: The Cartel. While that isn’t surprising, what is surprising is the fact that this one will be set in a modern day Los Angeles. The previous two Call of Juarez games were set in the Wild West so it will be a big step up as far as a setting goes, but according to the boxart seen to the right then it looks like at least some of the Wild West will be retained.
More information and screenshots will be available in EGM in March as they have an exclusive look behind the scenes of Ubisoft’s upcoming game which is said to be coming this Summer in the US and Winter for you Aussies. Announcing a game and having it come out only a few months later? Talk about keeping a secret.
Adam Novickas, director of marketing for Techland/Ubisoft had this to say regarding the newest installment of Call of Juarez:
“Call of Juarez: The Cartel is an action-packed shooter game with a strong story, interesting characters and a wide variety of gameplay options. The game will bring the best elements of the Wild West into modern times with a very gritty and relevant plot.”
Bad news for people who had been twiddling their thumbs and not downloading the demo for Catherine on the PSN. Of course the demo was only available to those who made a Japanese PSN account (simple task), but now it is no longer available anywhere on the PSN. ATLUS has decided to remove the demo without much notification today. People who downloaded the demo already still have access to it of course, but for everyone else it is too late.
ATLUS released on their twitter that the download limit had been reached on the Catherine demo and this was the reason for the removal of the demo. Apparently the PSN charges fees to companies when they have a demo available for download for their game. Because of this, the fees possibly reached too high of a mark for ATLUS to find it profitable to keep the demo available. Though the Xbox Live demo is still available for anyone with a Japanese Xbox 360.
With the official U.S. release of Mario Sports Mix today, I thought I would show off a nice bit of promotional materia…cereal that Nintendo recently sent us. When it comes to throwing down in the Mushroom Kingdom on the court, nothing gets the team at Capsule Computers going more than a nice bowl of Mario Sports Mix. As you see above, this nice little mini-cereal box is being used to promote the new title, and inside the box is a small pouch of Mari-Os. I have encountered quite a bit of edible gaming swag in my time, but by far this is the most unique and clever, so a big thanks goes out to Nintendo for sending this.
Mario’s latest sports outing lets players experience Basketball, Volleyball, Dodge-ball and many other sports with the whole Nintendo charm. I have been having a lot of fun with the title myself recently and highly recommend it to any Wii owner who is craving tearing up the courts with Mario, Luigi, and many other famed Nintendo & Square characters. Our own Matt Vella reviewed Mario Sports Mix in full and gave it a 8.5 Capsules as well so you should definitely check out his detailed experience with the title by clicking HERE.
