Can you feel it? That is the cold, hard edge of fear. Fear of fear; fear of death; fear of global disaster; fear of Templars. There is no escape in the present unless you go to the past. Yea, that is right. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is nearly here!!! And this is the final developer diary for the game. So make sure to savor it, just as you savor your first kill on November 16. Don’t fear the Assassin; fear the knife!
Bon Jovi Is back, with a bunch of new songs and some pro instrument enabled ones as well. There are also a few single tracks from Deftones, New Order, and Talking Heads; all of which are pro enabled.
Of course these release on Novemebr 9th, and I’m sure you’ll be busy playing another certain game.
Bon Jovi Greatest Hits: Rock Band Edition – 1600 Microsoft Points (160 Microsoft Points each)
Single Tracks – 160 Microsoft Points each.
*80 Microsoft Points per track for a Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade
For some lucky kid out there (or over 18 young at heart) their dream of actually starring in their very own video game cameo is about to come true. Basically, yall have until next Monday (November 15th) to dress up like the main characters of The Witcher PC video game and then spam the developers. The very lucky person with the best cos-play costume, will in fact get to appear as cameo in the next Witcher Game, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings!
Now while, you must be over 18, and some of the website has been translated from German, it can be viewed in English and best of all it would appear the the contest is available to everyone from most countries with only a photo separating the winners.*
In the game, “Dopplers” are characters who can assume the appearance or identity of another character, to blend in and assassinate targets. As such contestants are urged to use some creative control over how their character looks (ie. not identical to the ones in the game). CD Projekt Red have said in a statment: “Creativity and resourcefulness are more important than exact copies of the costumes.”
Grand Prize winners will appear in the game as well as receive their own copy for PC and Windows. Yes, winners plural with two people walking away with the lot! The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is one of the highly anticipated games for PC for 2011, and will be released early with XBOX and PS3 to follow; it features nudity and violence as you assume the role of master Witch Gealt of Riva.
*There is a small chance that a) you need to be from within the target country, Germany b) they will need ou to actually appear in person as well.
Title Name: Fate of the World
Platform: PC
Publisher/Developer: Red Redemption Ltd.
Genre: Strategy
Release Date: February 2011
ESRB rating: Not yet Rated
Price: 9.99+tax for preorder
Pre order the game and get the beta at www.fateoftheworld.net
Story
Fate of the World is a dramatic global strategy game that puts all our futures in your hands. The game features a dramatic set of scenarios based on the latest science covering the next 200 years. You must manage a balancing act of protecting the Earth’s resources and climate versus the needs of an ever-growing world population, who are demanding ever more food, power, and living space. Will you help the whole planet or will you be an agent of destruction?
This is the ultimate game of the consequences type gameplay Mass Effect and Fable games are famous for. It may seem boring to some without the big booms and guns of today’s most famous games, but it does have a touch of fun factor to it that brings you back to the game to play more.
Gameplay
When I first jumped in the game I did not know how to play and I could not figure out either. I roughed it out though and soon got the hang of it. You need to send your agents to different countries. After you do that you can track the progress of emissons, natural disasters, and other things out to destroy the world and take it right from your hands. As president of the world it is your job to make sure it doesn’t fall to pieces.
For each scenario, the game gives you a budget to run with. Scenarios are things like “Oil crisis or “Global warming”. You have to deal with trying to save the world and meeting the peoples wants and needs. The game gives you some decisions on how to do this. You can jump ahead a few weeks and world events are now steam rolling toward the end of the world. It is not just choose this option to be good or choose that option to be bad. For example if a big oil company is harvesting oil from the atlantic ocean but thier way of harvesting is not very clean you have a few decisions. Shut down the plant but neighboring countries could have thier economy fall hard. Let it be and have the whale population fall into low numbers. Step in yourself and tell them to clean up their process or face impending shut down, which could get many people with money very angry and start to make your ratings fall. When world events come up it is quite unique. CNN news may do a special on what happened. An event may come up on a local newspaper. You never know what type of new form of news can come up.
There is about 10 to 15 countries you are keeping track of. Ranging from USA to India. All of them have environmental issues according to the country. For example Africa probably will not have the factory smog USA has, but USA does not have the abundant wildlife and plantlife. The game uses cards as your main way to make decisions and affecting the world. While it may be different and appealing to the eye, it can be confusing or hard to read at times. This may be my PC but a better interface could be utilized.
Everything you do has a consequence that you have to figure out if you can live with or not. You may not think one decision will come back to you, but it can have dire effects. I just wish the game was explained a little more as I was confused quite a bit at the begining.
Overview
Fate of the World puts you in the presidents shoes as you try to prevent the world from falling apart or speed up the process. President Blue decided to have some fun and speed up the process. My agents were kicked from every country and the world did not look too pretty. If only Red Redemption improved on the interface and explained what you needed to do in order to be president it would be much better. It was also quite buggy and crashed on me a few times (this will hopefully be resolved once the retail version is released). As this review is focused on the beta version of the game, crashes should be fixed and an in game tutorial should hopefully be added – ensuring that everyone purchasing this title will know exactly what to do once they fire up the game and sit in the power seat. Running the world isn’t an easy job and you’ll need all the help you can get to make sure you can make those right or wrong descisions for the benefit of all mankind or just yourself and the greedy billionairs stuffing your bank account with cold hard cash.
Fate of the World Beta gets
Game Name: Capcom Arcade
Platform(s): iPhone
Publisher(s): Capcom
Developer(s): Capcom
Genre(s): Arcade
Release Date: 4th October
Price: FREE (DLC Options)
Yesterday I gave you a brief rundown of Capcom’s latest iPhone App – Capcom Arcade. Today as promised we have a review / video walkthrough of the game in action. Capcom Arcade is very similar to Microsoft’s Games Room on Xbox Live Arcade where you can play arcade classics for a price or purchase the arcade machine and enjoy the game as much as you like.
On release Capcom Arcade has the following launch titles available : Street Fighter II, Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, 1942 and Commando. The games are near perfect ports of the originals – having gone through all four titles, gameplay will suffer in certain games due to the onscreen virtual controls. The reaction times are a little laggy and unresponsive and not 100% accurate. Hopefully with future updates Capcom can work on fine tuning the control system so that they are a little more responsive.
As explained in further detail in the video review – Capcom Arcade is FREE to download (160mb) Once you download it and fire it up you will receive Three FREE tokens that will enable you to play any of the four available games for free. Once you run out of tokens you will have to wait till the next day to receive another three more. If you’re desperate and want to play more you have the option to purchases additional tokens (coins). You can pick up 10 tokens for $1.19 AUD (.99c USD) from the options menu. Purchasing the tokens will bill your iTunes account once you’ve logged in an authorised your purchase.
Now personally buying tokens is going to add up after a while so if there is a game you truly love (for me that’s all of them), the option to buy a game’s “Arcade Machine” outright for unlimited play is also available. For only $2.99 USD ($3.99 AUD) you can own the arcade machine, which I personally recommend – these Original Capcom titles are well worth the $2.99 price tag. Purchasing these elsewhere will have you spending a whole lot more. Along with purchasing the “Arcade Machine” outright you also have the option to purchase extra features within each game that increase your abilities, give you extra strength, more lives etc. Everything comes at a price with Capcom Arcade and if you want it you’ll have to pay for it. To purchase the Arcade Machine or the special abilities within each game simply speak to the girl at counter (tap on her) and all the options appear – Buy Tokens, Buy Arcade Machine and Buy Special Moves.
Along the top of screen when you’re browsing the Arcade room Capcom have allowed ADs to appear which I personally believe degrades the overall look and feel of the game. The ADs appear over the arcade machines and are quite annoying, tacky and have no real relation to the game what so ever. Hopefully Capcom listen to what the end users have to say and remove this in the next update as it’s not needed.
Capcom Arcade is not compatible with Open Feint or Game Center so you wont be able to challenge your mates online or compare high scores which is a bit of a let down as most Capcom titles are always best played with or against your friends. What Capcom have done is introduce a “Collection” achievement / Gallery where you can unlock super cool retro wallpapers from each of the games by completing specific tasks such as playing the game for the first time, or purchasing a special move or completing the game. If you’re a die hard Capcom fan I can see good reason for trying to obtain these achievements as some of the gallery images are well worth the effort.
On the other side of the Arcade Room there’s a cool dude who lets you know that you can link up your Twitter or Facebook account to Capcom Arcade and once you unlock specific achievements it will post these to your Facebook or Twitter feeds for all your friends to see.
Thats enough reading for now, sit back and enjoy the video review.
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Capcom Arcade is every Capcom fan’s wish come true, being able to take with you an original near perfect copy of Street Fighter II, 1942, Commando and Ghouls ‘n Ghosts with you anywhere you go is exactly what the doctor ordered. Purchasing these arcade machines outright is the only smart choice as the token option will end up costing you way too much in the long run. Capcom have promised that new games will be added every month to Capcom Arcade so if you bite the bullet and purchase all four arcade titles right now you’ll be looking at approx $12 USD and then only an additional $2.99 each month after that. Is it worth it ? Yes if you’re a fan – No if you’re not. In the end you could always just wait 24 hours and use your three free tokens then go off and play something else, the option is yours. For me, well let’s see $12 USD already deducted from my iTunes account … Ryu made me do it !! 😉
DC Universe Online isn’t the first MMO take on the super hero theme; we’ve had City of Heroes, Champions online and a few others. The difference here is the awesome branding of DC comics and the chance to play beside your favourite characters from the universe. The basic idea is to create your own superhero to insert into the universe, which immediately makes the character creation process all the more important and vital to this game. When you’re trying to imagine an original hero to make (which most people have at some point), you’ll definitely want to make yourself stand out amongst the iconic names. And that’s the whole appeal of DC Universe Online; it could be the game that successfully allows you to access your inner child and develop a famous hero/villain. Given the rise in popularity of comic book adaptions, there couldn’t be a better time for an MMO of this flavour. The question is can it pulled off?
All signs are pointing towards yes with developer SOE Austin showing some promise. Upon release the game will offer six “specs”, which fall into three categories. It’s a pretty standard MMO affair in this regard, two tanking options, two healing options and two crowd controllers to disable targets and what not. However all specs will be able to deal damage because players spend talents on individual powers, which means no purely damaged based class. You’ll also be able to toggle between stances with zero penalties during the action, which is designed to provide flexibility when grouping. But the importance of class doesn’t become apparent until raiding begins in the later stages of the game.
This may seem like a bad thing, but the positive is that DCUO is designed so you can hit the level cap going solo or in groups, you’re given the choice as your class won’t be limited. The game is structured with open-world areas like Gotham City and Metropolis, which serve as main questing areas up until lvl 18-20. The rest of grinding is based around instances with quests leading up to them (lvl cap is currently 30). The cool thing about these sorts of quests is that in some instances high profile characters such as Batman for example, may be aiding you in finishing the mission.
The combat system plays more like a beat’em’up action game rather than a traditionally PC based MMO. Obviously the PS3 comes into the design here and whether or not it work’s on PC is yet to be seen, but you can disregard cool-downs or mana pools. The decision to go down this path makes more sense in the context of the DC universe, attacks occur in real time in relation to button pressing and the game world is largely interactive with an advanced physics system (no destructive environments though).
However the environment is open to players for lifting cars, running up buildings, flying and throwing enemies. The freedom the developers are talking about is an exciting aspect and certainly adds another dimension to the gameplay. Another interesting aspect which I mentioned briefly is player stances, no matter what spec or talent tree you’ve chosen you can use an offensive stance, defensive and support stance. They’re fairly self-explanatory, but it does cement the class situation as providing more variety to the player in earlier levels. Specialisation does become very important later in the game though, for example a healing spec will always heal better regardless of stance.
Another cool feature of DCUO grouping system is what the developers are calling “soft grouping”, which allows players to complete raids and instances together without being in a group and contributors receive experience accordingly. This game seems to take the idea of anti-social questing to another level, but it’s a nice thought to cater for the people who would rather play lone wolf style.
Finally I’d like to talk about character creation, which is vital in making or breaking this game. No one wants to look the same and the developers seem to be doing a bang up job. Equipping new items for example gives you the option to show them or not, and another cool feature is reputation. No matter which side you choose to take in DC Universe Online, you will be able to form close relationships with the many iconic characters from the DC world. Apparently you can choose to follow certain characters, and doing so will earn you rep and give you some valuable benefits. For example if you follow Batman he will craft you a custom made Bat suit, which will have its own unique set of attributes. The same applies for every other flagship DC personality in the game, which should prove a hit with hardcore DC comic fans.
Now as far as the story goes to set this up game up, I’ve provided a link to a trailer below instead of going into the lengthy discussion. I’m not a hardcore comic book fan (don’t want to get the details wrong), but I am excited about this game, which proves to you that this isn’t just for the comic dorks. One great aspect I will mention though is the fact that at the start of the game you’re given the option to choose a mentor, Heroes can pick Batman, Superman or Wonder Woman, and villains can pick Joker, Lex Luthor or Circe. I don’t know about you, but the idea of working for the joker sounds bad ass.
DC Universe Online is releasing for the PS3 and PC early 2011 and the Beta has already started, unfortunately the servers will be separated between the platforms and there will be a monthly fee of around $15. Keep watch on Capsule Computers for a more detailed insight into the game once yours truly has their hands on a Beta for both PS3 and PC.
Sound off below if you’re already playing it, I want details people!
For those looking for an interesting way to play a game or the perfect gift for a younger gamer in the family, Babysitting Mama is now available in stores! Like most “Mama” titles, the player must complete 40 short mini-games with Mama. What makes this one different though is the plush baby that is bundled with the title that let’s players use it as a controller. Just pop in your WiiMote to the baby and begin activities from feeding, changing and playing peek-a-boo, to racing the baby through an obstacle course.
Here is an official statement about the release from Majesco:
“We are thrilled to bring Babysitting Mama to market,” said Jesse Sutton, CEO, Majesco Entertainment. “The game represents the alignment of true innovation, strong brand, overwhelming retail support and solid marketing strategy. We can’t wait for girls to bring Babysitting Mama home this holiday season so they can share this unique experience with friends and family.”
Babysitting Mama features six unique babies, each with his or her own personality and needs, along with a range of indoor and outdoor environments that Mama and baby can play in. The plush baby also “comes to life” as cries and coos play through the Wii Remote inside the baby, making it seem as if baby is responding directly to the player’s care. The game even supports two-player mode, so friends can see who the better babysitter is! When the game is off, players can continue to play with the baby, and even use the cradle packaging as part of the play experience.
Honestly, after playing and enjoying the recent title Crafting Mama, I have a feeling this will be filled with solid gameplay as well as appeal for parents that are looking for that perfect game for the kids this year during the holidays. The whole bundle retails for $49.99 and is now available wherever video games are sold. For more information, check out the official website at www.babysittingmama.com
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How exactly do developers put people in video games? Currently there are two schools of thought: shrink rays or shrink boxes. Each of course has their own respective pros and cons. Oh, whats that? Yes, um, they are telling me that apparently actors and artists come together and use computers to make video games. Weird. I guess the shrinking stuff is only in the movie industry. Gotcha. If you wanna see our review of Enslaved, you can totally do that. You can also download the demo. Spoiler alert: It is really good!
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Oh, and here is the trailer for the new DLC coming for the game. Read here for more info on that.
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Release date : 4th November
Capcom have released Capcom Arcade where you can play your favorite Capcom arcade games in near perfect ports of the originals. The Lauch titles will include the legendary Street Fighter II, the original Ghouls ‘N Ghosts, 1942 and Commando. All games are emulated as best as possible and in their entirety for the first time on iPhone and iPod touch.
Now here is the catch. Capcom Arcade is FREE to download .. BUT … yes there is always a BUT … here is how it will work.. Once you download Capcom Arcade you will be able to play THREE TIMES every day for FREE per game.
If you’d like to play more often, additional “Tokens” can be purchased in the Capcom Arcade store for 99c which will give you an extra 10 tokens to spend and play on any game. If there is a game you truly love (for me that’s all of them), the option to buy a game’s “Arcade Machine” outright for unlimited play is also available. For only $2.99 you can own the arcade machine, which I personally recommend – these Original Capcom titles are well worth the $2.99 price tag. Purchasing these elsewhere will have you spending a whole lot more.
Here’s some extra features of Capcom Arcade:
• Play the classic arcade versions of Street Fighter II, Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, 1942 and Commando in their entirety
• New games will be added every month to the Capcom Arcade (this is what im excited about)
• Two modes of play – “iPhone” mode for more casual gamers and “Classic” mode for purists
• Special premium DLC “cheats” that unlock special abilities, upgrades and weapons (for a price of course)
We’ll have a full featured review in the next day or two. Stay tuned.
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If you’ve already downloaded and played this let us know what you think of Capcom Arcade here or in the forums below.
It’s crazy to think that Black Friday is already around the corner and ads have already began showing up on the internet. The newest from Sears reveals a brand new unannounced bundle though, so that makes this news all the more interesting. In the leaked ad (pictured above), shows off a new bundle for the DSi bundled with Mario Party DS. Even better, the bundles will have two colors, red and the brand new green which will be available for a limited time. The price-point is nice as well, leaving the two bundles set at $149.99 (US) each which is a decent deal for collectors or any gamers who have yet to pick up a DSi.
The next bundle is the PSP 3000 one which may not offer anything too exciting, but you can’t beat the price. The PSP bundle offers Little Big Planet and The Karate Kid for the Black Friday pricing of $129.99.
Nintendo is sure to make a press release soon I would imagine announcing the new DSi colors. You can check out the full ad here and if anything else pops up from the ad scene, we will be sure to let you know.
