Here we go ladies and gentlement. UBISOFT’s Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands launch trailer. Strap yourselves in and click on the play button and see the Prince in action protecting his brother kingdoms from the Sand Armies
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (for XB360, PS3, PSP, Wii and DSi) will be available in store this Thursday, May 20 and for PC on June 10.
This first trailer shows Lara and her Mayan friend Totec going through dangerous tombs, running into puzzles puzzles and other obstacles during their journey. The game looks like fun specially with co-op, and the reports that it is going to cost 1200 Microsoft Points shouldn’t be too bad since most games are that price now anyway.
Splinter Cell: Conviction is getting new DLC in the form of new co-op material. The ‘Deniable Ops Insurgency Pack’ is set to release on May 27th, and will introduce 4 brand new maps for play within every Deniable Ops mode (Hunter, Last Stand, Face Off and Infiltration).
The new maps are San Francisco docks, a New Orleans cemetery, a prison in Portland and a secret facility in Salt Lake City.
The DLC is currently set for 800 Microsoft Points and will include 250G.
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FULL DETAILS Below :
Ubisoft announced today that the Deniable Ops “Insurgency Pack” downloadable content (DLC) for Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction™ for the Windows® PC games and the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft will be available for download on May 28th, 2010. The DLC will be available for 800 Microsoft Points.
The critically acclaimed Stealth-Action hit takes aim at Xbox LIVE® with additional content this month. The Insurgency Pack delivers brand-new missions for Archer and Kestrel on four additional maps for Deniable Ops modes. Take on challenges in Hunter, Face Off, Infiltration or Last Stand to unlock new achievements and play in settings from the docks of San Francisco to a New Orleans cemetery, a prison in Portland to a hidden research complex in Salt Lake City. Sam Fisher may have his conviction, but Black Arrow is still out there – waiting for him.
The achievements hunters will be glad to know that 250 new points can be unlocked in this DLC.
Two games are being released this wednesday on the Xbox Live Arcade. Metal Slug XX will cost you 1200 Microsoft Points and Aqua: Naval Warfare will cost you 800.
Thoughts:
Metal Slug XX is a new addition to the Metal Slug games. Already available on the PSP it incorporates 7 levels and over 70 missions. Is it worth 1200MSP though? The new trend of all Arcade games costing 1200 is taking over.
Aqua: Naval Warfare is a boat war game supposedly. Looks kind of interesting, but is it worth a purchase?
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is the \ Deal of the Week this week, and is quite a good deal at 400 Microsoft Points. You can also get your hands on the official Monkey Island Cotton Swab and LeChuck Pirate Hat for your Avatar at 50% off.
Thoughts:
Supposedly the game is a lot of fun. I’m not much into point and click games but the general consensus is that the game is good and very humorous. The avatar stuff is also on sale, but they were included in the first stock of avatar items that came out, so everyone who buys avatar stuff pretty much has them because they were the only options when first released.
ALTUS have been very generous to share with us all the ZENO Clash Ultimate Edition Soundtrack free of charge till 31st of MAY !! Hurry! This offer expires May 31, 2010!
Full Details below :
Atlus U.S.A., Inc. today released the full, enhanced Zeno Clash Ultimate Edition™ soundtrack, free of charge for a limited time. Remastered, and in some cases recomposed, every track is presented as a complete composition and a perfect reflection of the gorgeous and grotesque nature of the adventure in the world of Zenozoik. This critically acclaimed, first-person melee action adventure brawler, Zeno Clash Ultimate Edition™, is now available for your punching, kicking, and headbutting pleasure on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.
The vastly enhanced Zeno Clash Ultimate Edition features new modes including all-new online and split-screen cooperative mode for the Tower and Pit Challenges, along with new combat moves, new weapons, and a whole new Zeno Rush gameplay mode. Zeno Rush mode lets players compete against themselves and each other (via online leaderboards) in trying to complete select scenarios from the single-player campaign in the shortest times possible. All this added content, combined with a series of tweaks and improvements based on fan feedback, deliver the definitive version of the critically acclaimed game.
Zeno Clash Ultimate Edition is now available on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for 1200 Microsoft Points. Visit the official game website (www.zenoclash.com) for more information. To download the full soundtrack, visit the website and click on the ‘soundtrack’ button.
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is being released to the rest of the world on September 7th in NA, and September 10th in Europe. This PSP game has already been released in Japan by Square Enix since January, but now will be available to the rest of us. Though this game is still a prequel of a prequel of a prequel etc… Personally I don’t know how they are going to keep managing to release prequels to an already convoluted storyline. What I’m anticipating is when they finally release information on a Kingdom Hearts 3.
An excerpt from Square Enix’s press release:
A prequel to the mega-hit series, this pivotal installment takes players back to the beginnings of the Kingdom Hearts saga, long before Sora was chosen by his Keyblade. Players will explore iconic Disney worlds in a unique gaming experience that unfolds through the perspectives of three different main characters: Terra, Ventus and Aqua. Their journeys will take them through Sleeping Beauty’s Enchanted Dominion, the Dwarf Woodlands from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Deep Space from Lilo & Stitch. Additionally, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep includes four all-new multiplayer modes that allow players to enjoy the action with their friends.
Seems relatively interesting with the two other new main characters, however Ventus is somebody we already know from KH2 we learn more about his back story as well as two of his companions Terra and Aqua. However a few of the areas in which they are mentioning have already been visited in the many other Kingdom Hearts games, we shall see how it all turns out on September 7th.
5th cell has announced today that they will be releasing what is known as Super Scribblenauts. It seems that instead of simply naming the game with a number addition and being on a Nintendo platform, 5th cell is taking a page out of Mario’s book. Warner Bros. press release follows:
Available in autumn 2010, Super Scribblenauts for Nintendo DS expands the innovative elements from the acclaimed first title, offers upgraded controls and provides gamers with hours of original entertainment with ingenious, fun-filled new features. In Super Scribblenauts, created and developed by 5TH Cell, players use the stylus and touch screen to help Maxwell, the game’s hero, acquire the “Starite,” the prize earned from solving the puzzle in even more robust challenges and redesigned levels.
All-new for Super Scribblenauts, players now have the ability to write any object that comes to mind and modify it in any way they desire using adjectives to reach the goal in many levels. Adjectives can change the color, size, style, behaviours and many other aspects of the object they are describing. Multiple adjectives can be combined together to produce incredibly creative objects, such as gentlemanly, flaming, flying zombies and purple, obese, winged elephants, allowing the player’s imagination to run wild for an even more inspired and individual experience than ever before.
Looks like there will be a big new addition towards the game play now. Rather than creating a normal dingo and a normal baby, you could create a giant baby to eat your dingo. This will definitely improve the game play by making things a bit less repetitive as you can change objects and items at will with the adjectives. Also with an improved control system then the main character hopefully won’t be plummeting to his doom out of simple mis-touches of the stylus.
Look for Super Scribblenauts to be coming out sometime this Fall season. I played the first one and it was entertaining for a bit, however after enough trial and error most of the puzzles could be solved with just a few words that you could use over and over again without much fluctuation of style. With the adjective addition, it should make things much more interesting.
Looks like Bioware has finally understood what is holding their amazing Mass Effect 2 from being an enjoyable game that will be replayed many many times without tiring thanks to the choice system. We all know what it is, the planet mining system. Sure on your first play through, mining the planets is relatively tolerable as you want to upgrade everything you can. However once you reach your second or third play through having to mine the planets becomes an unfortunately necessary chore.
On Bioware’s developer forums they have announced that there will be a brand new patch coming to the Xbox 360 that will be fixing a medley of glitches and exploits within the game after recent DLC releases. But there is one bit that is up for interpretation. We do not know exactly what it will mean, whether it will become faster, more efficient, or a launch all probes at planet at once button. But we shall see after the patch. Full Details on fixes below:
- Scanning for minerals has been optimized
- Fixed an issue with marking all entries as viewed in the Journal
- Fixed an issue relating to text and the menu screen
- Fixed an issue relating to players starting a new game and loading a save
- Fixed multiple issues when loading a save containing DLC when DLC isn’t present
- Fixed an issue with ammo flashing when it can’t be picked up
- Fixed an issue with crosshairs
- Fixed an issue with Grunt’s Fortification power
- Fixed an issue with enemies and cover
- Fixed an issue where players could receive additional talent points
- Fixed an issue where squad members would overwrite ammo powers the player had assigned them
Alan Wake Cinematic Video Featuring “Haunted” by Poe. The highly acclaimed game, Alan Wake, is set to release soon in the US. Below is a video of Alan Wake Featuring Music “Haunted” by Poe.
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More Info on the video:
A series of craftly strung together cutscenes from the game Alan Wake featuring the song “Haunted” by Poe on her album released in 2001 aptly named Haunted. The video is spoiler free.
See the Capsule Computers review of Alan Wake at
https://www.capsulecomputers.com.au/2010/05/alan-wake-xbox-360-review/
Check out the first 10 minutes of gameplay from the game Alan Wake at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFuYSUeW6Ac
Alan Wake is published by Microsoft Game Studios
Alan Wake is developed by Remedy Entertainment
Video Edited and Compiled by Dylan Radcliffe
Music featured in the video is “Haunted” by Poe
Alan Wake Release Dates:
US: May 18, 2010
Europe: May 14, 2010
Japan: May 27, 2010
I bet you have never heard of the word Harlequin before. If you have, then let me look up the definition for those of use (including me) who haven’t.
–noun
) a comic character in commedia dell’arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.The first definition is probably the best for this situation. Anyway, Gamestop is offering a pre-order bonus of a Harlequin costume for use in Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. You will probably not be stuck with a wooden sword and a wand. Strike fear into your opponents as your dance towards their death, because that mask is creepy as it is.
OH! and I totally get why she is called Harley Quin now! The chances of her real name coinciding so closely is coincidental.
