Borderlands 2 Collector’s and Limited Edition Announced
Thursday, 17th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: 2K, Borderlands 2, collectors edition, gearbox, limited edition, Pandora, Playstation 3, special edition, XBOx 360
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Gearbox and 2K have announced both some pre-order bonuses and 2 different collectors editions for Borderlands 2. 2K will offer the game in three different versions: Standard, Deluxe Vault Hunter’s Collector’s Edition, or the Ultimate Loot Chest Limited Edition.
All three will offer full access to the Borderlands 2 Premiere Club, which will allow players to download the “Gearbox Gun Pack, a Golden Key, the Vault Hunter’s Relic, and an all-new fifth character class – the Mechromancer.”
The Gun Pack is an assortment of weapons players Keep Reading
Fans Get Pissed; Capcom Promises to “Re-Evaluate” Downloadable Content Policies
Thursday, 17th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: BBB, Better Business Bureau, capcom, DLC, Street Fighter X Tekken
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Ever since Capcom began shelling out DLC with many of its new releases, games like Street Fighter X and Dragon’s Dogma have been inciting a string of steady complaints from fans who feel they’re getting gypped.
In light of these recent events, Capcom senior vice-president Christian Svensson issued the following press release, according to DigitalTrends:
“We’ve been getting several questions, here and elsewhere about the future of on-disc DLC.
Sons Of Anarchy Getting AAA Console Title
Wednesday, 16th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: biker gang, Charming, fox, FX Network, kurt sutter, SOA, sons of anarchy, The Shield
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There have been rumors of a Sons of Anarchy game in the works for quite some time now. SOA is a gritty biker gang drama on the FX Network that has received critical acclaim over the last few years.
The show’s creator, Kurt Sutter, has been Tweeting as of late that the game is not only in the works but is now in serious discussions with major publishers to create a AAA console title based on the show (via GT).
Sons of Anarchy follows a biker gang in the fictional Keep Reading
New ‘Last Of Us’ Trailer and Character Details Are Released
Wednesday, 16th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: Ashley Johnson, Ellie, Fort Pitt Bridge, Joel, Naughty Dog, pittsburgh, The Last of Us, Truck Ambush
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After the initial reveal and a few short interviews here and there, Naughty Dog has been pretty quiet about The Last Of Us. The studio’s first PS3 title outside of the Uncharted series is a survival game set in a post apocalyptic world. Months ago now we were all introduced to the game’s main protagonists, Joel and Ellie, but we haven’t heard much since.
Today we get a look at some new footage from the game courtesy of a new cut scene (via IGN), as well as a more in depth interview with the dev team on some of the changes the game has undergone since we last saw it. Keep Reading
Fans Piece Together Halo 4′s Cover Art, Microsoft Confirms
Tuesday, 15th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: 343, 343 industries, Box Cover Art, Forward Unto Dawn, GameInformer, halo 4, Josh Holmes, master chief, microsoft, NeoGaf, November, Xbox Live
We finally get a look at the Halo 4 box cover art thanks to 32 lucky fans who pieced it together. The fans assembled the 32 fragments of the new Halo 4 image after each received a piece via email from 343 Industries and Microsoft later confirmed to Gameinformer that the image is indeed the official box art for the highly anticipated game.a It took the Xbox Live recipients of the 32 puzzle pieces only about an hour to assemble the image. After meeting in the forums, the fans put together the image, which reveals Master Chief in all his glory as well as possibly some other details about the upcoming game. The assembly of the image is credited to NeoGaf user spawn031 and then shared by monsterfracas. Keep Reading
Diablo III Has A Game-Breaking Bug, Here’s How To Avoid It
Tuesday, 15th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: battle.net, blizzard, bug, Diablo III, equip, Error 3006, Game breaking, hotfix, Templar
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With the release of Blizzard’s Diablo III there has been a ton of related news today. A report from Kotaku described a game breaking bug in the newly released title.
Players are getting kicked right off the Diablo III servers and receiving an Error 3006 message. In some cases there have been reports of players being locked out of their Battle.net accounts entirely…
Corroborated by reports from players posting on Blizzard’s Diablo III forum, as well as Eurogamer, the bug shows its ugly head when Keep Reading
How Google Has Kicked Android Gaming Directly In The Balls
Tuesday, 15th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: android, google, mobile gaming, social gaming
Business Insider recently observed that Android is “Suddenly In A Lot Of Trouble.” The reasons are numerous but it all boils down to a few things: shoddy attention to detail, poor cross platform support for apps (making development difficult) and an overall inconsistant user experience across the board.
Everyone knows that games are consistently the #1 selling category on mobile devices…upwards of 60-70% of all “app store sales” happen to be games – so it is logical that if you want your platform to skyrocket in popularity, you want to get games right.
Unfortunately…the reality is that games just don’t work good on Android. Keep Reading
How To Develop An Indie Game For The Hardcore Gamer (On Facebook?)
Tuesday, 15th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming, Social Media
Tags: Facebook, hardcore gaming, interview, social gaming, tankwars
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No matter if you consider yourself a casual gamer who plays a couple of times per week or if you want to make games for a living, you probably noticed this certain trend: over the past years, videogames seem to have drowned in badges, achievements and other meaningless crap.
Many of us who consider ourselves to be hardcore gamers blame the so-called social games for this trend, FarmVille, FrontierVille and the myriads of clones. In other words: anything you can play via Facebook.
But the line between hardcore and casual gaming seems to be blurring. I recently met with Arne and Helge Wieding, two german indie game developers who founded their own game studio “Yoone” a couple of years ago. They just released the open beta for their tank deathmatch game “TankWars,”and while having all the elements of a hardcore game you can play it via Facebook. Surprised? Keep Reading
What the Facebook IPO Could Mean for Games (that don’t suck)
Monday, 14th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming, Social Media
Lately the internet won’t shut up about the fact that Facebook is about to IPO. But who really cares? Unless you are a venture capitalist or current Facebook employee, it seems likely that there will not be a whole lot of money to be made for late comers. And besides, everyone knows that the vast majority of Facebook games suck…
Amidst all the talk of how Facebook will potentially generate perhaps 1,000 new millionaires, there is a silver lining of hope which hearkens back to a time long ago…1995. Keep Reading
Diablo III Collectors Edition Unboxing
Monday, 14th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: battle.net, collectors edition, contains, Diablo II, Diablo III, exclusive, game, GameInformer, unboxing
Over at Gameinformer they have received the Diablo III Collectors Edition, unlike some of our friends in Australia who were unfortunately out of luck. GI received the package this morning from Blizzard and has now posted images of its contents (below).
The collectors Edition contains everything from the game itself to exclusive in-game content like ”glowing angel wings…an exclusive banner sigil,” and “Bottled Smoke items” to a 4 GB USB Soulstone. Keep Reading
No Game Or Refund For Some Diablo III Pre-Orders, Thanks To GAME
Monday, 14th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: administration, Australia, Diablo III, game, Kotaku, max payne, receiving, Refund, stock
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On the heels of Diablo III releasing tomorrow, we get the unfortunate news that GAME, the Australian retailer, has gone into administration (bankruptcy) today and will not be receiving or carrying any copies of Diablo III.
According to a report from Kotaku AU, this will mean that pre-orders made through GAME outlets will not be fulfilled or refunded in any way.
GAME officially stated that they plan to work diligently to Keep Reading
NES Lunch Box Makes You Coolest Kid/Adult In Cafeteria
Monday, 14th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: console, gaming systen, lunch box, nintendo
I’ll admit that I haven’t brought a lunch box…well, anywhere, for a little over a year. But that might be changing right about now, given the latest creation from Etsy extraordinaire Luke Blackford.
It’d dubbed rather simply “The Nintendo Entertainment System Lunch Box” and is reportedly made out of an old console and hallowed out, so you can fill it in with your favorite lunch time cuisine.
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Angry Birds Creator Announces New Game, Amazing Alex
Friday, 11th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: Amazing Alex, angry birds, app, Casey's Contraptions, iOS, Rovio
On the heels of the massively successful Angry Birds, Finnish game maker Rovio is set to launch a new title. The new game will be called Amazing Alex and centers around the main character, a curious young boy named Alex.
Rovio CEO Mikael Hed told a Yle’s breakfast television show this morning about the new game and that it should be available for release in roughly two months time. Hed went on to say the game features a bit of an educational element to it based on the main character’s curiosity to build things. Keep Reading
Real Life Portal Turret Tracks Targets
Friday, 11th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gadgets, Gaming
Tags: MATLAB, Mechatronics, Penn State University, portal 2, Portal Gun, servo, target, tracks, turret
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An engineering student has built a real-life Portal turret for his aptly named “Advanced Mechatronics” class project at Penn State University. The turret tracks its targets using “image processing” and deals out a less than lethal blow once its locked on. This will go great with the real-life Portal gun.
Equipped with two servo mounts with two “hacked-up” USB powered Nerf missile guns, the turret also has an IP webcam mounted in the middle to track targets. The camera senses RBG colors connected to a laptop running MATLAB… Keep Reading
Assassin’s Creed 3 First Gameplay Trailer Unlocked
Thursday, 10th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: AC3, assassin's creed 3, gamestop, Native American, Ratonhnhaké:ton, trailer, ubisoft, Unite
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The Assassin’s Creed 3 community has “United” like Ubisoft asked and as a reward we get our look at the first gameplay trailer. The trailer does a good job of showing off several gameplay scenarios, as well more of the open vistas the frontier has to offer.
On Monday we got just a brief look, and today we again see Connor (Ratonhnhaké:ton) speaking throughout the trailer giving us some insight into his split Native American and European heritage.
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Square Enix Confirms Hitman Absolution Coming November 20
Thursday, 10th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: absolution, Agent 47, gamestop, hitman, Hitman Absolution, Richard Strong, Sniper, Sniper Challenge, Square Enix
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Earlier this week I/O tweeted about a “major” announcement coming today. Due to several leaks we already knew that the Hitman: Sniper Challenge was going to be at least apart of today’s big announcement. We also found out today the Hitman Absolution release date, November 20 2012.
Square Enix made it official today (via The Verge), confirming those who pre-order Absolution from Gamestop will receive the stand alone game Hitman: Sniper Challenge that was leaked on Tuesday. During this bonus mission players will take on the role of agent 47 once again, this time to take out Richard Strong Jr., the CEO of Stallion Armaments. Players will be tasked with taking out Richard and his bodyguards while trying to hide all the bodies, score multipliers and unlock upgrades. Keep Reading
Kevin Bacon…In Video Gaming? What Do Characters All Have In Common?
Thursday, 10th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: forumla, game development, kevin bacon, six degress, tpg
One video game development team was faced with a challenge that inevitably haunts any development team sooner or later:
How do you keep gamers engaged and interested in a video game for an extended period of time? Also, how do you make it interesting and deep enough so that users want to RE-play it?
The answer for the development team on Malevolence: The Sword of Ahkranox came, believe it or not, partly in the form of Kevin Bacon. More specifically, the ability to make plausible connections and correlations with people and ideas. Keep Reading
Dead Space 3 Alleged Co-op, New Enemies and Setting
Wednesday, 9th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: dead space 3, Drop-in, Drop-out, IGN, Isaac Clarke, Necromorphs, Tau Volantis
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Dead Space 3 was recently confirmed by EA and now there are reports from an IGN source saying there will be co-op featured in the newest iteration of the series. A first in the Dead Space franchise, drop-in/drop-out co-op is said to be featured throughout the entire campaign of the game.
If players choose, the new feature will have Isaac Clarke journey alongside another character with a “scar on his face, an engineering RIG of his own, and glowing red eyes peering from his helmet.” During single-player gameplay this character will act as a companion and a guide to Isaac throughout the story. Keep Reading
Want Free Music? EPIC GAMES Gives Away Some of Its Best Tunes To Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
Wednesday, 9th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Fans of The Jace Hall Show are more than familiar with the cast and crew over at Epic Games (lemonade, anyone?) and today we have a cool announcement from the guys themselves. To celebrate their 20th anniversary making epic…games…they are giving away some of their most popular scores available for download on their site.
They’ve hand picked and remastered a soundtrack that includes some of the 1337 originals like Jazz Jackrabbit to today’s Unreal Tournament - even a few surprise tracks that have never before been released! Keep Reading
Bioshock Infinite Delayed 4 Months Until February 2013
Wednesday, 9th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: 2K, Bioshock Infinite, Booker DeWitt, delayed, February, GamesCom, Irrational Games, XBOx 360
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This fall will be major in gaming with so many huge titles releasing, unfortunately Bioshock Infinite won’t be one of them. Previously scheduled for release this October it looks like fans of the series will have to wait until February 2013 to get hands on with Bioshock Infinite.
2K made the announcement today regarding the roughly 4 month delay saying that several “tweaks and improvements” needed to be made to the highly anticipated Irrational Games title:
“When we announced the release date of BioShock Infinite in March, we felt pretty good about the timing,” said the game’s creator Ken Levine. He later continued with, “I won’t kid you: BioShock Infinite is a very big game”.
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