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Dana White President of UFC changes mind on banned fighters

April 1, 2010

UFC President Dana White has previously stated that any MMA fighter who signed up to be included in EA Sports: MMA out later this year, would no longer be welcome in the UFC, both in video game and in real life. Now he has retracted his statement about the fighters and is willing to work with those who have chosen to take part in the EA game.

The bad blood between the two companies started back when Dana White approached EA about developing a UFC video game for him. EA on the other hand stated that UFC and mixed-martial arts was not a real sport and had no following worth the making of a video game. However after the release of UFC Undisupted 2009 EA began to move forward with their own aspect of the game, after seeing the success of the UFC game. Feeling betrayed Dana White truly hates EA and had stated that any fighter seen in the EA version of the game, would not be allowed to return to the UFC.

He has also been quoted saying:

“If there’s anybody out there who is a UFC fan, you’re ******* nuts if you buy the EA game.”

It’s quite curious if this decision comes from Randy Couture’s decision to take part in EA’s game, and if White prefers to have Couture stay with his company in the real sport rather than ban him over joining a different video game.

Honestly I loved UFC Undisupted 2009 and I follow MMA in real life, so I’m glad to hear that Dana White is no longer going to ban fighters simply because of this rivalry. This would cut a wide path between who should fight and who shouldn’t fight and to punish up and coming young fighters who are looking for publicity to help them start their careers would devastate many of the younger fighters in the MMA world.

UFC Undisputed 2010 is going to be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on May 25th in America, and May 27th in Australia. While EA Sports: MMA has a tentative release date later this year, for both the PS3 and Xbox 360 as well.

MegaMan X arrives today on XBOX Live Arcade

Philip Federico

April 1, 2010

Mega Man 10 is released today on Xbox LIVE. This is the latest addition to the Mega Man series and can be downloaded across Europe for 800 MSP.

In addition to the game there is some exciting Mega Man 10 downloadable content coming to Wii-Ware, Xbox LIVE and PSN next week. Players will be able to download the new playable character, Bass and the first of the Special Stages which features Enker, a creation of Dr Wily’s who has completely devoted himself to Mega Man’s destruction.

Special stage 2 and 3 which feature Mega Man villains Punk and Ballade will be available for download at the end of April.

Add MegaMan X to your download que now click here.

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Who’s picking up this fantastic little game ?

Batman Arkham Asylum Review By Community Member: Andrenekoi

Mark Rocha

April 1, 2010

The Capsule Computers community is growing each and everyday. More and more members are starting to become more active and contributing to the site in many ways. To show our appreciation Capsule Computers will start posting reviews that are written by our members in our Forum here on the main page for everyone to see & read.

Today we have our Capsule Computers 8-bit Warrior for the month of March Andrenekoi who has reviewed EIDOS / ROCKSTEADY’s Blockbuster title : Batman Arkham Asylum. Check it out and leave a comment below. Big thanks once again to Andrenekoi keep up the great work mate 🙂

Overview

Batman Arkham Asylum was released last year and came as a big surprise.

While nearly nobody was really waiting or expecting much from the game, when the Arkham Asylum was released it turned into one of the biggest releases of 2009.

Since then Batman Arkham Asylum has been labeled as one of the greatest games ever made, not because it had on of the best super heroes in the world as the main character, but because nearly every aspect of the game was so well designed, it was a completly fresh new approach to gaming.

Graphics

Graphically Arkham Asylum takes our super hero games to a new level, darker, mature, using the Unreal Engine 3 the game showed to us what the developers (Rocksteady) were capable of, and how to create an immerse universe while maintaining all the essences from the series. The interface, the lightning, the character models, everything was spot on. The Nvidia physics system on the PC version (Physx) added some immersion too, like destructible environment, smoke, clothes, and other minor details.

Physx examples

Sound

Audio was another point which Arkham Asylum hit just perfectly, the actors did their work really well, and the soundtrack couldn’t have been better.

Gameplay

Ceretainly everyones favorite part of Arkham Asylum was the gameplay. This game is probably one of the best examples on how to create a game, the design of the levels, puzzles, how to integrate them in a way which everything works perfectly, how to create an attractive battle system, they got everything right. Oh, speaking of the battle system, I suggest playing Arkham Asylum on hard, this way the game disables the counter hints and the battle really shows how good it is, making the player work harder and evolving his skills during the game. Stealth and combat worked really well with the game too, never removing the fun.

Cons

If there is a con, I think that would be some of the game’s bosses, in some parts they were just recycled, sometimes adding one or two more to the mix. At the same time, there were some encounters, which I will not spoil for you, that were really immersive, some big and memorable moments.

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Conclusion

Batman Arkham Asylum ended up being one of the biggest candidates for the GOTY category on 2009, the game won many awards and really won us as players too. There’s a Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition release coming our way, which will have all the DLCs, new challenges, and the support for 3D glasses.

Rocksteady is right now working on a sequel for the game too, but don’t worry, they already said that this sequel is not just a way to capitalize more, they are really working on creating something memorable as the first Arkham Asylum. We can expect the return of some classic characters in the sequel, there’s some big rumors about classic bosses returning and Robin too, which leave us to some coop rumors… but thats for another time.

Rating:

Overall score: 9 Community Capsules out of 10

Thanks to Andrenekoi for the review! Keep posting reviews guys! I’ll get them up on the website ASAP!

Mark – Deathdude222 (Capsule Computers FORUM Moderator)

Screenshots

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Capsule Computers 8-Bit Warrior Of The Month – March 2010

Philip Federico

March 31, 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen this months Capsule Computers 8-Bit Warrior award goes to someone that’s worked as hard as he could possibly can from the beginning of this month. This months winner has been an active member even before this competition started and has shown a true passion to be part of the Capsule Computers Community. This months winner is :

Andrenekoi

Let’s all congratulate Andrenekoi on being the 1st Capsule Computers 8-Bit Warrior. As 8-Bit Warrior Andrenekoi now must work even harder to keep his coveted title !! There will be many challengers to his crown next month so everyone keep on doing what your doing, work hard and make sure you spread the word invite more people, become members, and fans of our facebook and twitter accounts, check out and participate in the forums. But most of HAVE FUN and enjoy all the news, reviews, interviews and cool stuff we share with you all each and every day.

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On another note. The staff at Capsule Computers have had a meeting to discuss the weekly competition. We would like to formally inform everyone that the Capsule Computers weekly competition has changed.

From today moving forward (April 1st)

1 to 5 WINNERS WILL BE DRAWN ON THE 15TH & END OF EVER MONTH ALONG WITH THE 8-BIT WARRIOR AWARD. THIS Will continue to be a PERMANENT COMPETITION !!!

On the 15th of every month 1 to 5 winners will be chosen using the same criteria we have used to pick our weekly winners thus far.

At the end of the month 1 to 4 winners will be chosen once again along with the Grand Champion 8-Bit Warrior for the Month.

Full details have been posted in the Competition Page here.

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That’s all for this month guys 🙂 Keep up the great work. Continue to have fun, post, chat, twitter, and get involved in the forums. We’ll see you at the next Competition announcement on the 15th of April. Till then continue to enjoy all the great stuff we have to offer at Capsule Computers 🙂

DAVID REEVES TO JOIN CAPCOM

Capcom

Philip Federico

March 31, 2010

Former SCEE President to become COO of European arm

London – March 31st,2010 – Capcom®, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today confirmed that it has appointed David Reeves as COO at CE Europe, the company’s European subsidiary. This role, effective from April 1st, 2010, will see Reeves responsible for overseeing all aspects of the European operation with the remit to maximise potential revenue and explore new areas for growth throughout the region.

Most recently President and CEO for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Reeves spent 14 years with the company setting up operations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and overseeing the launch of PlayStation throughout Europe.

“We are very pleased to have secured the services of someone of David’s calibre, commented Hiroshi Tobisawa, President, CE Europe. “He brings with him an unprecedented level of industry knowledge and expertise which will be invaluable as we look to grow our European operation.”

Speaking about his appointment, David Reeves said, “I established a close working relationship with Capcom during my time at Sony and have always admired its commitment to push boundaries and develop innovative titles. It is therefore a real pleasure to now join this organisation and be a part of its future successes.”

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This is a fantastic move by both parties. This will only cement Capcom’s place as one of the number one game developers in the world !!

Darksiders coming to PC in June

Dylan Radcliffe

March 31, 2010

THQ and Vigil announced that Darksiders is coming to the PC. They have only given a release window of June, but Vigil’s David Adams is promising “key features such as user-defined resolutions, interface and both keyboard and game pad control sets.”

Don’t know what darksiders is? Go check out our overview here: https://www.capsulecomputers.com.au/2010/02/darksiders/

Don’t want to read more? well, then think of it like this: “Post Apocolyptic Zelda With A Portal Gun“. If that sounds good to you, you are gonna love it!

Mass Effect 2 on sale on Amazon

Dylan Radcliffe

March 31, 2010

I shouldn’t have to tell anyone this, because everyone already owns Mass Effect 2. If for some reason you don’t, then keep reading. If you do own it, like I suspect everyone does, you may continue on your merry way.

Amazon has both the Xbox 360 ($40) and the PC ($30) versions on sale and even the special edition for the PC ($38). So if you are still reading this, it means you don’t own the game, and you should click the corresponding link below to order it NOW!!

Xbox 360
PC
PC (special edition)

Metroid: Other M Gameplay Trailer

Dylan Radcliffe

March 31, 2010

Looks like a fun game, the controls will be different from the normal Wii integration which makes me sad, because Wii controls on Metroid: Corruption was a lot of fun.

What does everyone else think?

The Morning after Stimulus..

duraroc

March 31, 2010

Well the Modern Warfare 2 Simulus Package is out and not without a few hiccups.. if you can call it that.

Here we are last night, all waiting in anticipation for the maps to be released, 11pm rolls by (was reliably informed that they would be out 11pm Sydney Time) – no maps.. grrr.. so we play some more and every couple of games check for the maps.

Just after midnight they show up! woohoo lets download! 329mb slowly comes down. OK lets play!

Sorry, we can’t play, Microsoft forgot one little thing.. to play the maps MW2 needed the Title Update. Going into MW2 at this point was really slow, hanging the Xbox, black screens or just no go. We ended up playing some Private Matches Free-4-All on Rust. How many times did I shoot KingRoc in the back.. anyway that story is for another day.

Then we see the twitter updates coming from MajorNelson – these are over a 4-5 hour period.

“The Stimulus Package needs a Title Update and it didn’t go out properly. We’re pushing it out now – it won’t be long. #MW2 (via @thevowel)”

“I’ll have another update in about 30-mins. Until then, you may see some weirdness if you try to d/l the map pack or update.”

“If ur getting “Can’t download the update” that’s us putting the latest update in place. Excuse our dust, we’ll be done ASAP.”

“The MW2 Title Update is now live! It may take a few minutes for everyone worldwide to get it – our apologies for the delay. #MW2”

Title update is live and can be downloaded, but wait there is more… Matchmaking is now totally broken! MajorNelson fills us in again via Twitter..

“Matchmaking is in a bad state on Xbox LIVE right now. We’re working on it and will resolve it as quickly as we can. #xboxlive #mw2”

then finally..

“#XboxLIVE matchmaking and #MW2 are in a much better place now and I see many of you playing. We’re still cleaning up a few loose ends.”

FYI RT @XboxSupport: Matchmaking across #XboxLIVE is fixed! You may still have trouble purchasing and we’ll let u know ASAP when fixed.

I went to bed way before this, though it was still 2am, so I woke up this morning, turned on, Title Update came down and…. Oh look it’s Overgrown! Let’s see if this matchmaking fix has worked.. checking <50 ping, checking <60 ping, checking <70 ping, checking <80 ping, checking <90 ping.. and so it went – took about 3 minutes or so to find a match – granted it was 7am, so hopefully when more Aussies are on this arvo and tonight, that should be fixed.

The ping checks are a bit crude, but if it works who I am to complain – a bit of waiting is way better than one dirty red dot!

So that was the night of Stimulus! You would think that MS would know better with such a massive release – this DLC will be the fastest and most downloaded in Xbox history by a long way – but considering there have been other major releases in the past (GTA4 anyone?) – you would expect alot better from MS. It’s all fixed now, so all good.

So notes on my limited playtime on the Stimulus Package.

1. Overgrown is really overgrown this time round and the foliage is much more lush! 😀

2. There are only 2 playlists for the Stimulus package and in those, the game type is random. This has to change, I am not a fan of Search and Destroy and Capture the Flag. I hope this changes in the future.

3. Double XP is only on the Stimulus playlists.

Have fun everyone! You know what I will be doing tonight. Msg me if you want to play tonight, you can join the Capsule Computers crew as we head deep into Stimulus and Double XP!

@DuraRoc

** NEWS FLASH **

FourzeroTwo has just posted an update that the Stimulus maps and Double XP will be integrated into all playlists tomorrow!

Splinter Cell: Conviction Launch Trailer

Dylan Radcliffe

March 31, 2010

It is almost here! April 13th US & 15th for AU is quickly aproaching, get those pre-orders in while you can. Gamestop is offering a silenced shotgun if you pre-order from them. (Though if you actually try to do that in modern warfare 2 you would know that it doesn’t work too well)

There is also a special edition Xbox you can get with the game.

Check everything out here.

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