Bits of the below trailer may seem familiar to you, but chunks of video are scattered through out the trailer that was only seen by Press during the EA press conference at E3. It is now available in the below trailer for your viewing pleasure.
Front Mission Evolved – Dev Diary
This Developer Diary, some of the central members of the dev team at Double Helix Games and Square Enix explain the new features of Front Mission Evolved’s wanzers. They show the different classes and features to look forward to when the game launches.
Enjoy the Dev Diary Below, and Front Mission Evolved will currently be released September 2010.
Next Week’s Tracks for Rockband
I could do some terrible pun here about how these guys don’t Nickel and Dime you, but that wouldn’t be very professional. If you are a Nickelback fan you are going to love next weeks tracks. A bunch of Nickelback songs just for you!
Nickelback Tracks – 160 Microsoft points each
- “Burn It to the Ground”
- “Figured You Out”
- “Never Again”
- “Photograph”
- “Rockstar”
- “This Afternoon”
Also available as Nickelback Pack 01 – 800 Microsoft points
They will be available June 29th on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
El Shaddai – Story Trailers
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (man that is a long title maybe it should just be , ES:AM or ES:ATM) is pretty, and the trailers telling the story of the game are pretty as well. Enjoy the trailers below. Sure the trailers are in a different language, but there are subtitles.
Overall the game looks like a pretty stunning game but seems to be a simple Hack and slash. We will have to see from future details.
Dragon Age: Origins ‘Leliana’s Song’ DLC Details
BioWare’s senior writer, Lukas Kristjanson has been releasing some Dragon Age: Origins’ details on the upcoming DLC ‘Leliana’s Song’. Check out some of the information as you wait for the DLC to release in July. The below information further explains some of the details for the DLC, check out Travis’s original post regarding ‘Leliana’s Song’ here.
Leliana’s Song is a prequel for the character, that will have you playing through the “chaos of Leliana’s life as a bard and assassin”. This DLC is a standalone game and is told by Leliana herself. Since the DLC is a standalone chunk of game it won’t change the main Dragon Age story at all. Luckily the bonus item that you can earn will be carried into the main game. Leliana’s Song DLC will also be fully-voiced, which is a first for Dragon Age.
That reward item will be “a powerful new item for rogue characters” according to Kristjanson, and will appear in your Grey Warden’s inventory. Kristjanson wouldn’t reveal exactly what the item was though: “You’ll have to wait and see. Sorry, that’s a jerk move, I know”, he said.
The DLC is fast and concise. The DLC starts Leliana and her party at level 10, which enables players to be flexible with abilities and equipment. There will also be achievements specifically for Leliana’s Song, but Kristjanson wants to “let players discover the details” for themselves when the new DLC hits the Xbox Live Marketplace on July 6th.
Slim 360 disassembled
So we’ve all seen what the Slim xbox 360 looks like on the outside. There may even be some of us who own one already. However you may not want to see what is in the inside of your own 360 for the fear of losing it forever. Well wait no more as PC Watch has taken the chance to tear apart the new slim 360 for you. Prepare for quite a lot of pictures in the gallery below.
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Source: PC Watch
SingStar The Wiggles – Review
| Developer | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| Publisher | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| Platforms | PlayStation 2, Playstation 3 (via SingStar disk-swapping method – requires ownership of a PS3 SingStar game) |
| Release date | May 27, 2010 |
| Buy | Wiggles Singstar Buy NOW |
Do you have a hankering for hot potatoes? How about some cold spaghetti? Or maybe some mashed banana?
If you’re from Australia or have a small child you know exactly what I’m talking about… but if you don’t meet that criteria I’m sad to say there is probably very little for you to enjoy in SingStar The Wiggles, the latest edition in the long-running console karaoke series.
For people who ARE in the target audience though, this game is better than deep-fried gold. SingStar The Wiggles features an extensive playlist going all the way back to the very early days of the Wiggles. No yellow-washing of their history here, Greg features in all of the songs you’d expect him to, with Sam only appearing in the more recent songs.
Looking at it from my son’s perspective the 20-song tracklist has most of his favourites: “Hot Potato”, “Fruit Salad”, “Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car”, “The Monkey Dance”, and much more. The tracklist is very Greg-heavy, with only a few Sam-era songs appearing (“Dr Knickerbocker”, “Hot Poppin’ Popcorn”, “The Shimmie Shake”). My only complaint about the tracklist is that it doesn’t feature enough of the newer songs – I would have been happier if there were more songs from “Hot Poppin’ Popcorn”. There are no songs at all from “The Wiggles Go Bananas”, which is disappointing. That said, trying to please everybody 100% with a tracklist is impossible!
Gameplay is exactly you’d expect from a game in the SingStar series, with the songs inserted into the same engine that players of past versions will be familiar with. One change is with the scoring/accuracy; it seems that the scoring points aspects of play have been scaled back a lot to accommodate the presumably younger target audience of the game.
Parents be warned – unless your children are old enough, this is not a game you can set up and then leave. In some ways I think that for a lot of the Wiggles fanbase (children under 4 years old) this game will be used more by parents performing songs for their children. The karaoke aspect is certainly not going to come into play for that age group as they won’t be able to read the lyrics!
Overall, this game really requires two ratings – one for the general public, and one for parents of small children. So with that in mind, I would award the game 2 out of 10 for the general public. If there were more recent tracks to balance out the catalogue of songs, SingStar The Wiggles would be a perfect 10, but as it stands I award it a solid….
Even more images of Makoto in Blazblue
Remember yesterday when I mentioned that that Makoto Nanaya will be arriving in DLC form? We have even more screenshots of her now thanks to Aksys. As one can expect due to her tonfa style weaponry she will have to be fighting close up and fast, which will fit well for her squirrely nature. So she will definitely be a favorite for those who enjoyed Taokaka’s fighting style.
With her addition in the DLC, there is also a bit of a strategy guide included, with a Challenge mode add on. Plus if you were to face her online, it would not cause a problem if you do not have the DLC. Expect to see some squirrel girl achievements as well!
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Kinects playable at Microsoft Stores
Microsoft Store’s twitter has announced that anyone who wishes to have a chance to demo the Kinect before November, will have the chance to now. They have also stated that Kinectimals will be playable now too.
If you happen to live near or in any of these four cities; Scottsdale, AZ; Mission Viejo and San Diego, CA; and Lone Tree, CO, you have the option to get a hands on, better yet a hands off, preview of the Kinect in person. The device is available for customers to play if they come in at the Microsoft Stores in these cities. Unfortunately these cities themselves are the only ones that have a Microsoft Store.
This is a bit unfortunate as this is far from a nationwide preview, being that only the western coast is being provided these Microsoft Stores and thus the Kinect. The rest of us will have to wait and see closer to November for every bit of extra information we can find about how this Kinect will turn out.
Source: Microsoft Store’s Twitter
MDK2 is making a comeback on Wii and PCs
The classic action from the MDK series is making a comeback with the re-release of the great MKD2. Interplay Entertainment Corp. and Beamdog partner to bring MDK2 to the Nintendo Wii and MDK2 HD to the PC.
“It is a great pleasure to announce that we are returning to the adventures of Kurt Hectic, Dr. Hawkins and the 6-legged gun-toting robotic dog Max,” said Hervé Caen, CEO of Interplay. “MDK2 was a great title to work on and we’re happy to have some of the original team working on these new versions,” seconded Trent Oster, co-Founder of Beamdog.
MDK2 for Wii is expected for the coming Winter and is planned to be released on the WiiWare. MDK2 HD will follow on the PC initially through the Beamdog digital distribution platform. More details are expected for the following days.