Vines are nasty plants that grow all over the place. Some have stinky flowers, others have painful thorns. They can even take out entire houses! Luckily these vines are much more pleasant. Take a gander at next week’s Rockband Tracks.
The Vines Pack 01 – 680 Microsoft Points (160 points each)
The Vines – “Get Out”
The Vines – “He’s a Rocker”
The Vines – “Orange Amber” (also compatible with LEGO Rock Band)
The Vines – “Outtathaway” (also compatible with LEGO Rock Band)
The Vines – “Ride”
Sweet Billy Pilgrim single track – 160 Microsoft Points
Sweet Billy Pilgrim – “Future Perfect Tense” (also compatible with LEGO Rock Band)
These tracks will be available July 13th on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Are you enjoying Blacklight: Tango Down? Are you also enjoying the world cup? Well you can now get 2 special World Cup tags for your weapons, within the game.
Special Spain and Netherlands weapon tags are available to unlock when you follow @playtangodown on Twitter. So get on your twitter account or make one, and follow the above twitter user.
Below is the launch trailer if you haven’t already seen it. Try out the demo, you get about an hour time limit in the demo though.
I bet you thought it was over after the first HAWX game. You either were so satisfied with the first, or were extremely disappointed. Either way the game is back with a sequel and the reveal trailer is finally out.
Check out the trailer and all the dogfighting goodness below. Try not to be intimidated by the big words that keep popping up, they really aren’t that scary.
GameStop is offering the ‘Tri-Weapon Pack’ as an exclusive pre-order bonus that will be downloadable via the Xbox Live Marketplace.
The pack will consist of three experimental weapons. t=The Tri-Weapon Pack includes the Boost Machine Gun, Anti-Armour Pistol and Laser Cannon. These weapons will give players a boost in combat. The Boost Machine Gun has a similar rate of fire and about the same power as a heavy machine gun. The Anti-Armor Pistol pretty much does exactly what it sounds like. The final weapon, the Laser Cannon is a mini space warship laser that pretty much just screams “PWNAGE!”.
Vanquish will be available in the US on October 19th. Japanese release is on October 21st. UK and Europe release is on October 22nd.
I could be doing a whole post telling you all the songs available on the disc and the songs you will be able to rock out too, but in all honesty a video would be easier for both you and me.
The video below shows a bunch of the songs you will be able to play. In my own opinion it all seems kind of slow, don’t you think? This is rock!!
Aksys Games are on fire this year with new releases, and with the new title “Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors” they promise to trap you in this compelling new “horror visual novel” for the Nintendo DS.
Players will take the role of the character Junpei, who awakes on a passenger ferry, dazed and confused he stumbles around the room trying to reclaim his memories. First thing he noticed was a number roughly drawn on the cabin’s door… A bright red number 5.
Junpei’s memory then returned and he remembered what happened right before becoming unconscious! A mysterious person with a gas mask crossed his mind. He remembered the haunting words he spoke, “I’m gonna make you play the game… the ‘Nonary Game’ … the game of life or death”.
To explain the title better, Aksys posted this statement on their official website:
“We’ve decided to call 999 an ‘Adventure’ game,” say Ben Bateman, Localization Editor, Aksys Games, “but I don’t really feel that’s entirely accurate. 999 is a game that simulates life, or at least it would if your life was about being trapped on a sinking ship and forced to complete a series of incomprehensible puzzles before your practically inevitable death. It is about relationships, and how they will ultimately kill you. There is also some blood, and an ax, so if you’ve always wanted some blood and an ax in your life, there you go. But what really brings 999 to life are the people who inhabit it. You will learn to care for them; to feel as though you are there and they are your friends, and then they will die because you made the wrong choices. Just like in real life.”
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors Key Features
Nine Hours You only have 9 hours before Junpei and the other 8 kidnapped drown. Numerology, music composition and logic puzzles are just a few of the 32 + obstacles that stand in the way of their freedom. You must use everything in your environment and personal experience to get out!
Nine Persons Uncover the mystery surrounding the lives of the 9 captive characters and how their blurry pasts reveal a disturbing future. Help all the characters escape but beware! A wrong decision or careless mistake might put their lives in jeopardy. Experience all 6 + endings that are determined by the way you play!
Nine Doors Each hostage is cursed with a digital watch that displays their special number. These numbers are the keys to unlocking the 9 doors. Explore your surrounding for clues to unlock the next door by picking up and examining objects in the different environments. Create new tools by combining like objects to get out of dangerous situations and deadly door puzzles
With all of this exciting new information, this is surely a title to watch for, and I am certainly pumped to learn a release date as “999” is already showing an epic story and an interesting twist on gameplay. For more information, head to www.aksysgames.com.
People who use the Blizzard Forums are not too happy about Blizzards most recent announcement. The update will require players to show their real first and last names. Tagged along with their name will be their username. You can read the full announcement at the very bottom of this post, after some words from me.
A lot of people are not too happy about this announcement, but I never really understood why. Parents have put the idea into us that sharing our real name on the internet is dangerous, and that their are perverts out their that will track us down. Giving your real name isn’t actually as dangerous as you might think. Giving away other information on the other hand is a completely different matter.
In order to track a person down based only on their first and last name would require a lot of research and some major hacking powers. Hackers aren’t interested in some kid, and perverts don’t have the ability to hack anything. Those people that you hear about that got in trouble because they met someone online and then stuff happened is true, but the stuff only happens because the stupid kid gives out too much information. You can do a lot with a person’s Address, Social Security Number, and other things that you definitely should not give out or announce on the internet.
So what if I went to these forums and signed up. We will see my name, plus my username. Dylan Radcliffe — Radical Dylan. That is pretty straight forward, I’ve been using my first name in my username for a very long time. Now let us do a basic google search on both of my names.
Googled Dylan Radcliffe
We get my Twitter account straight off the bat, and then 2 myspace accounts and 2 facebook accounts which aren’t even mine. Followed by a whole bunch of junk that has absolutely no relevance to me. Continue on to page 2 and you get some more stupid stuff (supposedly I have made a game) and then Capsule Computers information and posts. Go to images, and Dylan Sprouse, Bob Dylan and Daniel Radcliffe fill the images. There is my Twitter Image up their though. WOO!
Now We google Radical Dylan:
Again we have some twitter stuff, and some posts I’ve made on other sites. In the images we have my Xbox Live info image and my twitter image again.
Very little of anything that has to do with me, and this is coming from a person who has attempted to make himself extremely famous on the internet. Did it work? No! But all this goes to show, that their are 6billion people in the world, most of which use the internet. There is no way, that your name alone will ever be a dangerous thing to give out online.
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Recently, we introduced our new Real ID feature, a new way to stay connected with your friends on the new Battle.net. Today, we wanted to give you a heads up about our plans for Real ID on our official forums, discuss the design philosophy behind the changes we’re making, and give you a first look at some of the new features we’re adding to the forums to help improve the quality of conversations and make the forums an even more enjoyable place for players to visit.
The first and most significant change is that in the near future, anyone posting or replying to a post on official Blizzard forums will be doing so using their Real ID — that is, their real-life first and last name — with the option to also display the name of their primary in-game character alongside it. These changes will go into effect on all StarCraft II forums with the launch of the new community site prior to the July 27 release of the game, with the World of Warcraft site and forums following suit near the launch of Cataclysm. Certain classic forums, including the classic Battle.net forums, will remain unchanged.
The official forums have always been a great place to discuss the latest info on our games, offer ideas and suggestions, and share experiences with other players — however, the forums have also earned a reputation as a place where flame wars, trolling, and other unpleasantness run wild. Removing the veil of anonymity typical to online dialogue will contribute to a more positive forum environment, promote constructive conversations, and connect the Blizzard community in ways they haven’t been connected before. With this change, you’ll see blue posters (i.e. Blizzard employees) posting by their real first and last names on our forums as well.
We also plan to add a number of other features designed to make reading the forums more enjoyable and to empower players with tools to improve the quality of forum discussions. Players will have the ability to rate up or rate down posts so that great topics and replies stand out from the not-so-great; low-rated posts will appear dimmer to show that the community feels that they don’t contribute effectively to the conversation, and Blizzard’s community team will be able to quickly and easily locate highly rated posts to participate in or to highlight discussions that players find worthwhile.
In addition, individual topics will be threaded by context, meaning replies to specific posts will be grouped together, making it easier for players to keep track of multiple conversations within a thread. We’re also adding a way for Blizzard posters to “broadcast” important messages forums-wide , to help communicate breaking news to the community in a clear and timely fashion. Beyond that, we’re improving our forum search function to make locating interesting topics easier and help lower the number of redundant threads, and we have more planned as well.
With the launch of the new Battle.net, it’s important to us to create a new and different kind of online gaming environment — one that’s highly social, and which provides an ideal place for gamers to form long-lasting, meaningful relationships. All of our design decisions surrounding Real ID — including these forum changes — have been made with this goal in mind.
We’ve given a great deal of consideration to the design of Real ID as a company, as gamers, and as enthusiastic users of the various online-gaming, communication, and social-networking services that have become available in recent years. As these services have become more and more popular, gamers have become part of an increasingly connected and intimate global community – friendships are much more easily forged across long distances, and at conventions like PAX or our own BlizzCon, we’ve seen first-hand how gamers who may have never actually met in person have formed meaningful real-life relationships across borders and oceans. As the way gamers interact with one another continues to evolve, our goal is to ensure Battle.net is equipped to handle the ever-changing social-gaming experience for years to come.
A listing from BradyGames on GameStop had revealed some information that a lot of people may like. The listing is for a “Borderlands GOTY Official Strategy Guide.”
In these days a GOTY edition usually signifies a game that has all the DLC included with it. For Borderlands this DLC would include, “The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned,” “Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot,” and “The Secret Armory of General Knoxx.”
The date on the listing is September 7th, so this could mean we will be seeing a GOTY edition of Borderlands around the same time. It could also just be a guide that includes the DLC without any actual game, but the odds of that is extremely low.
So if you haven’t bought Borderlands yet, you are in luck! This GOTY edition will help you in convincing your friends to join you on Pandora.
So that’s all for this week. Anyone interested in some of these or was eagerly awaiting one of these game’s release? There doesn’t seem to be any particular gems this week, with the most stand-out title being Toribash. It’s an online fighter on WiiWare over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, in which you can create your own moves, a concept that sounds intriguing, and might be worth a look for some of you.
Rumors have been floating around that the Test Drive Unlimited servers would shut down around January 2011 in order to give more server space for the sequel, Test Drive Unlimited 2.
Luckily for those of you who still plan to play the first game when the sequel hits, atari has stated that they will not be removing the servers. A representative recently stated that “they are not dropping the servers at all,”. That seems pretty straight forward. The Rep did say that the servers may be moved a bit but it really shouldn’t effect anyone.
If something goes wrong though (which they always do) the servers should go down for a few hours or maybe even days.
