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Shogun 2: Total War now called Total War: Shogun 2

Dylan Radcliffe
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Shogun 2: Total War now called Total War: Shogun 2

The Total War franchise name is now jumping on top and finally assuming its role as the main franchise name. Shogun 2: Total War, announced this past summer, will now be called Total War: Shogun 2. A Sega rep states, “Both Creative Assembly and Sega have intended to invert the Total War naming convention for some time … We wanted to identify all of these as one series using a more obvious naming convention for players.”

But now a long history of Total War games will be jumbled among the ones that don’t have the names correctly placed. New purchasers won’t be able to tell previous installments easily anymore. The whole world will crumble under an unending reversal of positions. Total War will Erupt due to this Total War fiasco (see what I did that? Hahahaha!).

I have one question for you Sega, “Was it worth it?” No really, was it?

Next Splintercell Title in development, says Jade Raymond

Dylan Radcliffe
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Next Splintercell Title in development, says Jade Raymond

Ubisoft Toronto Managing Director, Jade Raymond,  has recently confirmed the development of the upcoming Splintercell title. Ubisoft Toronto is working on Splinter Cell 6 (the one that takes place after Splintercell Conviction).

Raymond in a promotional video talking about the new studio stated, “We’re working on Splinter Cell 6, the next iteration of the blockbuster franchise and we’re doing it entirely here in Toronto”. She continued by saying, “We’re working on two products, There’s actual game production going on already”.

I just have to applaud to them for starting already, considering that the studio just recently stoo up off the ground.

According to Raymond, they are well on track to hit their target of 800 staff in the next 10 years; they already have 83 people working there, from concept artists and animators to audio directors and people working on gameplay.

*NOTE* the image above is from a previous splintercell game, and is in no way related (aside from the whole splintercell deal) with this new splintercell title.

NFS: Hot Pursuit PC Patch coming soon

Dylan Radcliffe
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NFS: Hot Pursuit PC Patch coming soon

The development team has been going through the code for the most recent Need for Speed game and they are hard at work ironing out all the pesky little bugs that got through. They are also adding some features while they are at it, talk about multitasking. The Patch for these fixes and updates is planned to release sometime next week on the PC.

The patch is supposedly going to fix issues with multi-core CPUs, some problems with rain and snow effects, and a few other crashes and problems. Hopefully none of you have been bothered by any of these problems while escaping the police! If you keep getting caught, it probably just means your car really sucks.

Sonic 4’s Leaderboards reset

Dylan Radcliffe
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Sonic 4’s Leaderboards reset

Due to some cheating, Sega has decided to reset Sonic 4’s leaderboards to get rid of all the highly impossible 0’00″00 times. Instead of finding an actual fix for the broken leaderboards they have just decided to wipe them and make everyone do everything all over again. Don’t think that is depressing enough? They still don’t have a fix, so don’t get too attached to all those awesome times that you redo, once the cheaters come back to play the leaderboards will probably be wiped again.

This is a fair warning to everyone. If you are actually still playing the game, just assume all those awesome times you are making don’t actually exist.

Die in Tale of the Last Promise and die for good

Travis Bruno
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In most RPGs if a party member dies it isn’t a permanent thing, most of the time the game doesn’t even call it death. They are either knocked unconscious or pass out or fall, but most games rarely mention the fact that your characters may have just kicked the bucket. But that won’t be true when it comes to Tale of the Last Promise.

In the developer’s blog for the game, Producer Yosuke Uda explained that when any character in your party dies, they will be gone for good. This will create a high tension game that forces players to make tough decisions and play cautiously or risk losing fighters forever. The game itself will be focusing on the war between the magic kingdom of Yggdra against the armored Savi Shantie soldiers trying to destroy them.

While this type of gameplay element is rare, it is not unheard of as the hit series Fire Emblem often has this factored in. If a character is to lose all of his health in the middle of a battle then they will disappear, and afterwords have a short conversation with the main character saying that they are two wounded to continue and must leave the group. We are currently unsure of how the permanent loss of the characters will be handled quite yet but it looks to definitely raise the difficulty of the battles when it comes to health and losing fighters.

Source: Siliconera

Watch a Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit trailer and get free cars

Travis Bruno
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Feel like getting something for free? Well what if you have to work for it along with 999,999 others? Still interested? Good, because Criterion is planning to release a free DLC pack that will contain the Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible, the Lamborghini Murcielago LP 650-4 Roadster, and the Dodge Viper SRT10 Convertible Final Edition if they happen to get 1 million views on their trailer by December 12th 2010.

What this means is that while the viewer list is currently only in the 150,000 range there are still two weeks left to go to get this pack of cars for free. There hasn’t been any word if the cars will be released for a price if the 1 million mark isn’t reached so better watch the trailer. We’ve placed it below so it will be even easier for you to watch the trailer. Anyways whoever said that free things are truly free? Then again all you need to do is click one button and spend a minute and a half of your time and you could be getting something in a few weeks.

Xbox Live Black Friday specials; today only!

Travis Bruno
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So you have braved the cold weather and probably spent more than you should have on all of the different deals that happened at the retail stores today. Then you turn on your Xbox 360 only to find out that there are even more deals happening right on the XBLA. Yep that is right, for today only Xbox Live members are going to be getting some pretty severe deals on a handful of different games. There is even one deal that isn’t a game at all.

The full list of deals can be seen below; I do believe that these deals are for the United States only unfortunately as a warning stated that these deals may not be available in all regions.

Xbox Classic Games

DLC

Avatar Items

Xbox Live Arcade Games

Now keep in mind that these deals are for today only so better hurry up and give them a download if you want them!

Bioware reveals Dragon Age II party member Aveline Vallen

Travis Bruno
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Bioware reveals Dragon Age II party member Aveline Vallen

It’s always nice to know who you may meet on any journey especially one that will place the fate of the world in your hands. Thankfully Bioware has been willing to give us this information with character reveals and have just revealed a brand new party member named Aveline Vallen.

From the looks of her character bio on Bioware’s website she will be filing the roll of soldier and taking the place of Alistair from the first game. You can read her full bio below:

Aveline Vallen is a soldier, a master of sword and shield, and a tireless guardian… to a point. The daughter of an exiled chevalier, Aveline is not the knight her father wished her to be. Although fully trained in chivalrous combat, she was raised in the shadow of a lost life and will not lose another for the sake of honor. Protecting her adopted home of Kirkwall becomes a chosen duty, not a privileged calling. The people she stands for will not be wasted on lost causes or protecting the foolish from themselves. Pride can be bandaged like any other wound—when threats are dead and everyone is safely home.

There is no news if she will be one of the characters that players will be able to pursue a romance with like in the first game, but we will see when Dragon Age II comes out on March 8th on the PC, PS3, and 360.

WiiWare/DSiWare releases for this week ending 26th November

Jack Joly
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Here are the latest DSiWare and WiiWare games coming out. There is even a Virtual Console release this week: 

  • Flowerworks: Follie’s Adventure (WiiWare: Nocturnal, 500 Wii Points)
  • Blood Beach (WiiWare: Coresoft Inc., 500 Wii Points)
  • Faxanadu (Virtual Console: Nihon Falcom, 500 Wii Points)
  • Need for Speed Nitro-X (DSiWare: Electronic Arts, 800 Nintendo DSi Points)
  • DodoGo! Challenge (DSiWare: Neko Entertainment, 500 Nintendo DSi Points)
  • Frenzic (DSiWare: Two Tribes, 200 Nintendo DSi Points)
  • Music on: Electric Guitar (DSiWare: Abylight, 200 Nintendo DSi Points)

As you can see, there are quite a lot of releases this week. To avoid the DSiWare missing out on the frenzy of ‘Hot Pursuits’ that has come amid the release of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit on consoles, EA have provided a Need for Speed offering on the DSi. Some of you may want to check it out. It is only 800 points which shouldn’t break the bank.

The Virtual Console upload this week is Faxanadu which is an action-RPG, originally published by Nintendo and developed by Hudson on the NES.

Two new games from Chillingo!

Joey Liew
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Two new games from Chillingo!

Chillingo, a sub-division of Electronic Arts, has just launched two new games on the App Store just in time for Thanksgiving. (Now you have more games to purchase to spend your Thanksgiving night :P). They are one of the leading publishers that have various chart-topping games at their disposal, including Cut the Rope and Angry Birds. Doodle Invasion, a doodle defense game and Agents!, a puzzle adventure game are now available on the App Store for $0.99 and $1.99 respectively. There is also a lite version for Doodle Invasion, available for testing purposes. Check them out at an App Store near you, and purchase them if you like it!

Doodle Invasion (BUY NOW!): Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a gigantic space ship and it’s dropping a big green DoodleInvader into the ocean…oh great. Use your doodling skills to create breakers to stop the evil spawn of the giant green alien from reaching Doodle Bay in this addictive and challenging doodle defense game! You’ll need to use your brains as well as your fingers. Draw the breaker across the screen to catch as many aliens as you can, once you do you have to steer them into the paths of the ships that helpfully suck them up. Be careful though, you can only draw one breaker at a time and there are going to be a LOT of Invaders.

Agents! (BUY NOW!): Infiltrate, investigate, and escape. Step into the world of a super sleuth in this espionage puzzle-adventure. You have accepted a mission to save the world from the threat of a top secret super weapon. An engrossing single player campaign and ultra competitive multiplayer gameplay await you in Agents! Explore offices and secluded country estates to find hidden information about the nature of your enemies…or even your friends. Leave no stone unturned and no filing cabinet unchecked as you work your way around the map. Find the documents, then find the exit-but be careful, you may not be the only spy on a mission. Will you complete your mission and remain undetected?

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