February 2013

Metal Gear Rising Will Be Wonderful On Your Dark Days

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Eric Bastelak

Konami has released a wonderful new Metal Gear Rising trailer. It reminds me that regardless of financial difficulties I need to buy this game. Because no matter how dark the world seems there is something serene about hacking enemies to pieces. Call it morbid, call it whatever you want. Games are an interactive medium that help us gamers blow off steam. In my experience something like Rising will allow me to reduce stress, therefore causing less anger. What I love about this trailer is it shows just how much Konami gets this side of gaming culture. Right on Konami!

 

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Get Entire Gears Trilogy With Pre-order of Judgment At Wal * Mart

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Rae Michelle Richards

Gamer’s who pre-order Gears of War Judgment at Wal * Mart will be given vouchers for not only the original Gears of War but also the rest of the games in the trilogy – 2009’s Gears of War 2 and 2011’s Gears of War 3. For new players that is a hell of a deal, allowing them to play through all four titles for the price of one!

A demo version of the new Overrun mode for Gears of War Judgment will be released to the public on March 19th through the Xbox Live Marketplace. That’s also the same day that the game comes out, so perhaps there will be some people who will be on the fence on launch day.

Are you looking forward to Gears of War Judgment? Let us know in the comments

Source: Joystiq

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Injustice Battle Arena Wk2: The Joker and Lex Luther Face off

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Rae Michelle Richards

Following up on today’s news surrounding the first results of the Injustice Battle Arena, WB has revealed that the week will feature a battle of villainous proportions. Superman’s archrival, the ever resourceful Lex Luther faces off against Batman’s longtime nemesis, the clinically insane Joker.

Alongside a YouTube video, which we’ve embedded below, WB Interactive also reminds us that fan votes cast via Facebook and Twitter will determine the victor. To find out how each of these vile combatants compare and contrast make sure to check out their latest video.

Injustice: Gods Among Us will be released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on April 16th in North America.Read More

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Injustice Battle Arena Week 1 Results And Shazam Confirmation

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Broken Joysticks

We mentioned last week about the Injustice Battle Arena site where fans get to vote who would win in a battle. The first week battles are over (Batman vs Bane and Wonder Woman vs Harley Quinn). The next week battles have been confirmed and Shazam, who was leaked a few week back has been confirmed as a playable character as he is matched up in the second week taking on The Flash. With Billy Batson’s inclusion this completes the list of characters from DC who were in Mortal Kombat vs DC (minus Darkseid). Also for week two The Joker will be squaring off against Lex Luther. You can vote at the official site here and being one of the first to cast your vote usually nets you a free item so take advantage. Below you can find the result videos of week 1 as well as the week 2 announcement which shows Shazam as a playable fighter. Injustice: Gods Among us is out April 16th.Read More

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Codemasters Gives Us a Sneak Peak at GRID 2 With New Teaser

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Rae Michelle Richards

Get your wheels spinning with a bit of a tease for Codemaster’s GRID 2. A very brief glimpse of gameplay was released on the company’s official YouTube channel with a promise of a full trailer next week, on Feb 14.

The new trailer only gives us a brief 44 second look at the game. We do see some pretty neat effects in action, including some rather convincing smoke effects – which at least impressed me. Honestly, it’s hard to tell with all of those fades to black going on. Sigh, I guess will just have to wait for the full trailer to really see what is going on under the hood!

GRID 2‘s selection of cars include handpicked icons from the last 40 years of automotive history. Players will race all over the world from Chicago to Paris to Abu Dhabi.

Grid 2 will ship to retail on May 28th in North America and will be available for the PlayStation3 and Xbox 360. Check out the teaser trailer after the jump.Read More

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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon to have DLC on Launch

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Jason Nason

Nintendo announced on Thursday that when the latest Pokémon title is release on March 24th that the game will have downloadable content ready for purchase on a regular basis. The downloadable content includes new Mystery Dungeons to explore, new items to collect and new Pokémon to interact with.

As a special treat for fans, the first piece of downloadable content, the Poké Forest Mystery Dungeon, will be free to download from launch day until April 30th. Three additional downloadable Mystery Dungeons will be available to purchase when the game launches, and additional content will launch regularly throughout April.Read More

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February 7th Nintendo Download

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Jason Nason

The Wii U gets a new game this week with the release of Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2 while the Nintendo 3DS sees Mega Man II arrive on the Virtual Console. The latter also sees a slew of full game downloads with four full games, including the new Brain Training game from Nintendo. Also for those RPG fans out there (ahem Les) you can download a demo of Atlus’ new release Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan! Finally Circle’s latest game Ah! Heaven also arrives on DSiWare this week.

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New Metal Gear Rising Weapons Trailer Released

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Rae Michelle Richards

Do you want an early look at some of the badass weapons that can be unlocked in Metal Gear Rising Revenageance? Of course you do! Konami’s latest trailer gives up the goods.

The bosses in the Metal Gear franchise have always had access to insane weaponry. Whether it is Sniper Wolf’s rifle or Vulcan Raven’s gatling gun or Crying Wolf’s railgun, there have always been some awesome weapons of mass destruction at our disposal.

We already knew about the devastating polearm, as we unlocked it at the end of our one hour demo of Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, last month. But did you know about the Pincer Blades or Tactical Sais? Each of these weapons can be upgraded and expanded upon using an in-game currency, as we already have detailed.

Check out the new trailer after the jump and don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel where will be adding new trailers regularly.Read More

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Is the Next Xbox Anti-Consumer?

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Joshua Rust

It’s not often that I like to express myself on rumors; with that being said, this one has floated around for a while: the elimination of used games. Now before you go grabbing your pitchforks and go on a witch hunt (keep them at arms reach though), this has not been confirmed by either Sony or Microsoft that it’s true.Read More

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J.J. Abrams Plans Half-Life and Portal Movies

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Jason Nason

Director J.J. Abrams, who is wrapping up the new Star Trek movie and will be working on a new Star Wars movie after that has two video game projects in his sights.

The producer-director plans to work closely with Valve to adapt the games Half-Life and Portal into films. Abrams made the announcement to a gathering of videogame creators at the D.I.C.E. Conference in Las Vegas.Read More

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Travel Back To Base Camp In This Tomb Raider Video

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Joshua Rust

It’s officially less than a month until the release of one the most anticipated games on my list: Tomb Raider. While I’m not overly thrilled with the inclusion of multiplayer to a single player franchise, I won’t completely off it until I’ve played it.

In this new video that was released today from Square Enix & Crystal Dynamics, Lara will show you how upgrading your stats and weapons will allow further exploration into the island. As well as detailing what Base Camp offers you in means of interacting with other characters and upgrading Lara herself.

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Are you as excited as we are? Tomb Raider launches on March 5th for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

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Ubisoft and McFarlane Partner for Assassin’s Creed Toys

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Jason Nason

McFarlane Toys in partnership with Ubisoft announced today a licensing agreement to bring toys based on the Assassin’s Creed series to store shelves.

McFarlane Toys’ Assassin’s Creed series 1 will consist of seven figures including the characters of Connor and Haytham Kenway. Connor will come as two action figures – one in his Assassin’s Creed® III traditional Assassins garb and the second, as Ratonhnhaké:ton in the upcoming “Tyranny of King George” storyline. Each figure will be sculpted in the hyper-detail the award-winning McFarlane is known for with collectors and fans.Read More

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Rumor Has It The Next Xbox Will Have Always On DRM

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Rae Michelle Richards

Rumor has it that Microsoft will require a constant connection in order to use their next generation gaming console. Internet connections are almost ubiquitous now-a-days, as we live in an age where you can browse your favorite websites and play online multiplayer games at broadband speed through your phone. If these rumors are accurate then Microsoft will be taking an aggressive stance against not only piracy, but second hand games sales with the constant connection requirement in the Xbox Durango.

Edge Online brings us these latest tidbits about Redmond’s yet unannounced console. Some of this stuff we’ already knew or assumed – like the existence of a Blu-Ray drive in the console or the fact that the system will be a multi-core processor clocked at 1.6GHZ, designed by AMD. Also as speculated, the console will ship with a second generation Kinect Sensor. With rival Sony poised to fire the first shot in the next-generation race, tech specs and reports seem to be leaking from both companies at a brisk pace.Read More

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