During the “World of Capcom” PAX East panel, Brett Elston from Capcom made the announcement that a new Mega-Man game is on the horizon; however, later a rep explained “‘there are still discussions going on about [Mega Man] and that we won’t announce anything until something is ready. We have not confirmed there is a MM game yet'” (Destructoid). But come April 25th and May 16th, Mega-Man 4 and Mega-Man 5 will release on the 3DS eShop.
Additionally, Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara is scheduled to release in June. The game is a refined and remastered version of two games, Tower of Doom and Shadow Over Mystara, which will be available for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U.
Telltale’s episodic point-and-click adventure game, The Walking Dead, will eventually be available for the PS Vita this year. The winner of 80 awards will be receiving a second season for the fourth quarter of 2013. The second season might be impacted by a user’s previous season one decisions.
Resident Evil 6 will be available on Steam today probably by 1.00pm EST. The latest installment of Capcom’s franchise has experienced many reviews on both sides of the spectrum. The game is available to pre-purchase on Steam and has unlocked three rewards. Those who pre-purchase on Steam will receive the digital artbook and soundtrack along with a copy of Resident Evil 5 (already have it? then you can gift it to a friend), and Resident Evil 6‘s Season DLC Pass.
The PC version also includes a crossover of Left 4 Dead2 and Resident Evil. Come April 5th, The Mercenaries: No Mercy mode will be available for gamers. In addition, there’s also Survivors and Special Infected Zombies mode which includes Coach, Nick, Ellis and Rochelle. Also players will face Lepotitsa, Napad and Ogroman from the Resident Evil6.
Check out the latest footage of the crossover below.
Wizards of the Coast announced its next installment of Magic 2014. Duels of the Planewalkers 2014 will be available this summer for PC, Xbox 360, PS3, iOS, and finally for Android. The next addition to the franchise will include 10 brand new decks, 15 new encounters, and 10 new puzzle challenges.
Last year, Square Enix’s open world game received a DLC titled Nightmare In Northpoint to celebrate Halloween by letting you beat down on hopping undeads. But now in honor of the zodiac, you may now play the new DLC Year of the Snake that is available for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. Our main character, Wei Shen, is back with the police and is looking for details concerning the Cult of the Snake whom has been participating in a series of bombings. Catch a glimpse of the DLC below in the new trailer.
Gearbox’s Borderlands 2 showcased a new teaser that will introduce a sixth playable character into the mix. Looks like the mysterious character will be a melee fighter of sorts.
Today, you can pick up the brand new DLC available for Borderlands 2. Purchasable for $10 or $30 for the BL2 DLC Season Pass for all the upcoming DLC releases, Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty DLC will let you head onto a new adventure aiding Captain Scarlett to find some treasure. Check out the trailer below to learn more and happy hunting.
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The much anticipated installment of Ubisoft’s popular franchise, Assassin’s Creed III, will be releasing in exactly two weeks (October 31st for EU). Though like myself and for other PC gamers, we must wait until November 20th (NA) or November 23rd (EU) for the release unfortunately. Today marks a new trailer for the title which highlights the multiplayer aspect of the game. It also introduces a new feature of the area by incorporating co-op multiplayer assassinations. Check out the details below.
Warner Bros. has released a brand new trailer for Injustice: Gods Among Us. Additionally, the game is slated to come out next year in April on Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii U. Check out a glimpse of the Batcave, along with many of the wonderful characters of the DC Universe below.
Trine 2 will be receiving a DLC titled Goblin Menace. The brand new DLC like most DLCs will expand on the gameplay of the original game by introducing new levels along with skills available for the three classes. Check out the reveal trailer below for this new expansion which will hit in the fall for just Steam and Wii U (Trine 2: Director’s Cut). Eventually, the DLC will probably make it to the PS3 and Xbox 360, but there’s still no word on that, the release date, and price. Whatever the release date or the price may be, it looks wonderful in the vivid screenshots and is probably well worth the wait.
Borderlands 2 is almost less than one month away. With that in mind, new trailers and more details are being revealed for everyone to get excited about. Borderlands 2 features four new classes: the Gunzerker, the Siren, the Commando and the Assassin. In addition, there’s the Mechromancer, a punk girl with ponytails who has the ability to summon Deathtrap, a robot. Within the Mechromancer’s skill tree, you have the ability to upgrade your companion, Deathtrap. One of which its abilities is an explosive clap that sandwiches opponents together than has a knock-back effect afterwards. Check out the latest video below featuring Handsome Jack and remember the Borderlands sequel will be releasing on September 18th for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 and the 21st for the UK.
Deathtrap concept art
You may have noticed Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchfordspeaking out against the “girlfriend mode” nickname on Twitter.
As reported below, the Mechromancer skill tree that helps video game newcomers is formally called Best Friends Forever. But Borderlands 2 lead designer John Hemingway referred to it numerous times as “girlfriend mode”.
“Borderlands 2 does NOT have a girlfriend mode,” Pitchford stated on Twitter. “Anyone that says otherwise is misinformed or trying to stir up something that isn’t there.
“The future DLC Mechromancer class has a skill tree that makes it easier for less skilled coop partners (any gender!) to play and be useful.”
Pitchford didn’t deny that Hemingway had said “girlfriend mode”. Instead, he labelled the term a “personal anecdote” that had been spun by the media.
“There is no universe where Hemingway is a sexist,” Pitchford added. “All the women at Gearbox would beat his and anyone else’s ass” (Eurogamer).
After E3, one of the biggest moments concerning the Assassin’s Creed series was innovation and new features. Certainly Assassin’s Creed III‘s development team has put a lot of hard work to give the fans a fresh new take on the series in the upcoming installment. Assassin’s Creed III will be releasing on October 30th for Xbox 360 and PS3 along with its sister PS Vita title, Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation. However, Ubisoft has recently confirmed November 20th as the North America release date for the PC version where as it’ll release three days later to other countries. Below is the current trailer for the newest title that obviously focuses on one of the most interesting gameplay aspects of Assassin’s Creed III, naval warfare.
Indie Royale is once again back and this time, they have Gone Fishin’. This new bundle includes six games going with the pay-what-you-want model, but with a minimum pricing of $5.52 at the moment. It offers Sol: Exodus, All Zombies Must Die!, Cubemen (first three all available through Steam), Squids, Platformance: Castle Pain, and Platformance: Temple Death. Every game except All Zombies Must Die! is available through Desura and DRM-free downloads. In addition, Cubemen and Squids are the only available games for Mac. Also upon purchasing the bundle, you’ll receive VectorGeddon, its PC debut, and Sol:Exodus‘ artbook and official soundtrack. Check out the video and official blog post below that each highlights the games included and look at the official website here. There’s still seven days left to claim your bundle now. Oh and if you pay $8 or more, you’ll receive Floex’s aka Tomáš Dvořák, who created the Machinarium soundtrack to Amanita Design’s point-and-click game, wonderful album, Pocustones.
The first bait on the hook is Seamless Entertainment’s Unreal Engine-powered 3D space-action game: SOL: Exodus now available for Windows on Steam, Desura and DRM-free. Save humanity from the dying sun by finding a new home, and blast your way through multiple missions while enjoying easy-to-grasp Wing Commander-esque controls and core gameplay alongside an involved story. Destructoid calls SOL: Exodus an “accessible, exciting spacefighter sim” and suggests that “(a)nyone looking for a good space dogfight should feel obliged to give it a try.”
If that isn’t enough to reel you in, Doublesix Games’ undead-heavy topdown shooter All Zombies Must Die! will surely tempt you to bite. Available for Windows on Steam, this game offers a smattering of role-playing and strategy features, an unexpected cartoon-like art style and witty dialogue filled with clever pop-culture references. For those who played All Zombies Must Die! on the PSN or XBLA, you’ll be pleased to note that the PC release offers relief to zombie swarming by adding a new ‘treacle’ mechanic, “which will allow players to wade through otherwise impassible zombie crowds.”
Also offered in this tempting bundle are two games from 3 Sprockets, led by Cubemen, an acclaimed tower defense title now available for Windows and Mac on Steam, Desura and DRM-free. Play out the epic battle between red and blue by placing pixel men on the board to defend your base across 35 levels. The Skirmish mode offers what Gamezebo calls “a refreshing twist on tower defense” where players get to play against the AI or in multiplayer mode across 25 additional levels. Also from 3 Sprockets is bonus game VectorGeddon available for Windows and Mac as a DRM-free standalone exclusively on Indie Royale. It’s a fast-paced Missile Command style game where players spawn missile silos around the planet, and target incoming asteroids to destroy them in order to keep the population of Earth from hitting zero.
Suitably included in this ‘fishy’ bundle is Squids from The Game Bakers, available for Windows and Mac on Desura and DRM-free. Offering a clever mix of action strategy and RPG, this game is based on saving the world of the squids from an evil black ooze that threatens to destroy civilization by building a team of heroes to fight epic turn-based battles against corrupted crabs and shrimps. Touch Arcade calls the iOS versions of Squids “kinetic, clean, charming, and particularly streamlined” and says the game “has a ton of character, fun, and unique constructs to share.”
Last on the fishing lure are two PC debuts from Magiko Gaming: Platformance: Castle Pain and Platformance: Temple Death, both devious side-scrolling ‘masocore’ platformers available for Windows on Desura and DRM-free. Originally developed for Xbox Live Indie Games, these games are tough as nails but satisfying to beat. Platformance: Castle Pain stars a heavily armored knight who must overcome various challenging platform goodness to save the princess. Also debuting is Platformance: Temple Death, which is based on saving famous starlet Grace Belly by navigating though traps and challenges as an adventurer with a hat and whip. Indie Gamer Chick notes that the series is “pretty to look at, sound wonderful, and (…) offers a legitimate challenge without going out of their way to be unfair.”
Finally, those who pay $8 USD or their currency equivalent during the Gone Fishin’ Bundle will get ‘Pocustone’ the debut album from Floex (aka Tomas Dvorak), the Czech musician who created the lauded Machinarium soundtrack. This critically acclaimed album bridges relatively isolated genres such as nu-jazz, electronic and modern contemporary music, and appears in a bundle for the first time here.
Ubisoft has officially announced that Assassin’s Creed III for PC will in fact be out a month later. After at least a month of speculation after an image caught by one of Eurogamer’s counterparts, Assassin’s Creed III will be available on November 2oth for North America and the 23rd for the rest of the world for PC. Hopefully, the extended date will allow for more features to be placed into the game to make it as polished and excellent as it can be. Also in recent news, the PlayStation 3 edition will receive an hour long exclusive content like in the past release of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood where PS3 players received the Copernicus Conspiracy mission. There is still no details on what the exclusive content entails yet.
Grid 2 will be released sometime in 2013 on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. The brand new installment will take players around the world from Chicago to Paris to Abu Dhabi. Additionally, it will be using the latest engine, Codemasters Racing’s Ego engine. The game will be playable at Eurogamer Expo 2012. Check out the announcement trailer and screenshots below.
There’s been a lot of Sleeping Dogs‘ trailer coming out, well here’s another one that shows off the gunplay in the game, featuring bullet-time and its aggressive-cover system.
Check out the brand new trailer for Assassin’s Creed III which highlights much of the new improvements and features in the upcoming installment. The game is also utilizing Ubisoft’s newest Anvil technology, AnvilNext Engine. The previous three Assassin’s Creed games used the Anvil Engine, but for the next title, Ubisoft is really highlighting the amazing standouts of the game which includes, but not limited to changing weather according to the seasons, naval warfare, combat and movement based on Connor’s heritage, as well as 2000 NPCs battling in one sequence.
Resident Evil 6 will feature a campaign for Ada Wong that will be unlocked after completing the main game. Additionally, you’ll be able to control a monster in an attempt to invade another person’s game and kill their character. This new concept is known as Agent Hunt mode. For more information about the game and its campaigns, check out this article from Eurogamer. Below is a trailer for the Ada Wong campaign as well. Get ready to wield a crossbow in the newly announced single-player campaign.
Bethesda Softworks is nicely highlighting the unique options their upcoming game, Dishonored. In this trailer, it shows off three different ways to escape: The Long Jump, Sleep Tight, or Chain Possession. The game is scheduled to release on October 9th for North America, 11th for Australia, and the 12th for Europe on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Darksiders II will release in less than month on August 14th for North America and August 21st for Europe. The game will launch on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. Eventually, there will also be a Wii U version available later in the year. Check out the brand new trailer.
Despite recent articles, Final Fantasy Versus XIII is in fact still in production, according to a recent tweet by Square Enix’s CEO Yoichi Wada. Originally announced over six years ago, the Final Fantasy Versus XIII production has been well-kept under-wraps. It was perceived from anonymous sources of Kotaku that the production died and Square Enix was not formally going to announce that the game was canceled. Instead, they would let it slip away from people’s minds.
Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead will be available on iTunes for just $14.99. Each episode is will be available for $4.99 each, but the $14.99 includes them all so you’ll save yourself $10 in the long run. If you have an iOS device, you’ll be able to play it on the following ones: iPad 2, the new iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and 4th Generation iPods and above. I picked up the game during the Steam Summer Sale and definitely think that it’s a great game, despite not realizing that it was solely a point-and-click game. The story is engaging and overall, does a nice job with the whole make-a-decision-now and its consequences concept.
Sleeping Dogs will soon be available for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. Come August 14th (that’s just two weeks, six days, and less than 19 hours), you’ll be able to roam the streets of Hong Kong. Check out the new gameplay which highlights the realistic mixed martial arts combat style the developers placed into the game, as well as driving portions of the game. You’ll be able to jump from a vehicle onto another in order to hijack a car. Sounds neat, right? Check it out below.
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