June 2012

God of War: Ascension Collector’s Edition Revealed

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Get ready to rip off the heads of your enemies with brutal force with he God of War: Ascension Collector’s Edition.  This special edition of godly proportions packs in an 8 inch Kratos Statue, steel case, in game- DLC and official soundtrack and is available for pre-order right now!

The fact that Collector’s Edition is only $20 more than the standard edition is impressive, especially when compared to other games that charge $99 – $129.99 for special editions. If you’re in the market for Krato’s next adventure against the gods, you might want to pre-order soon!

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Microsoft Won’t Have a Presence At TGS or Gamescom 2012

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Microsoft will be skipping out on both the Tokyo Games Show and Gamcom in Germnay this year in order to focus on smaller promotional events the hardware manufacturer announced today through Major Nelson’s blog.

This leaves Sony as the only big manufacturer left to attend Gamescom, which is the largest public gaming convention in the world. Nintendo confirmed earlier this year that they too would also not have a presence this year at the show. Now that I think about it, Microsoft also pulled out of CES, this year. Their keynote at the Las Vegas show was unfortunately their last after a number of years in attendance.

Does this mean that Microsoft will go the Nintendo route? – Smaller invite only events and live streaming conferences? We’ll see in the months leading up the launch of Halo 4 and Smart Glass. Surely they can’t launch both of these products without some kind of promotion.

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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Unveiled

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Andrew Minott

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, coming soon to XBLA and PC from Neocore Games, has a new batch of screenshots to show us what the game actually looks like. The game is a third person action RPG, very similar in presentation to Diablo but with a definite steampunk influence to the art direction. Neocore says the game features “larger-than-life heroism and snappy dialogues, with wry humor and various twists on the well-known Gothic cliches.”

Check after the jump for the screenshots that Neocore sent out today:

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Optimus Prime: Heart of a Leader

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Andrew Minott

High Moon Studios has released short feature for their upcoming Transformers: Fall of Cybertron featuring game director Matt Tieger and legendary voice actor Peter Cullen. Cullen, who has been the voice of Optimus Prime since the early 80’s, says about having played the role for so long, “although he’s consistent, doing a movie, and doing an episodic television series, and then doing a video game… although the character remains the same, there’s a different intensity and different approaches.”

You can check out the trailer after the jump here:

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Broken Joysticks E3 Reactions #1

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Kirk Williford

E3 is over and now it’s time for our staff to share their thoughts on the show. First up executive editor Kirk Wiliford:

Mark down E3 2012 as being one of the most boring, uninteresting and flat-out underwhelming E3s of all time. You know it’s bad when I can only recall one major new IP being announced, and although Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs looks absolutely fantastic, it wasn’t enough to save the show. From Usher concerts to TechDemoLand, there were lots of things to be concerned about going into the future of the E3 expo. Here’s just a snippet of what I thought about E3 2012, condensed into my three biggest questions:Read More

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Babel Rising Launches On Xbox Live Arcade & PlayStation Network

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Ever wanted the power to smite an entire civilization? Ubisoft grants us all this power in their latest Xbox Live Arcade / PSN title Babel Rising. The goal in tower of Babel is to prevent the people of Babylon from building the ancient Tower of Babel, and in order to accomplish this players must use their divine powers, with either the PlayStation Move or Microsoft Kinect.

The whole thing sounds like it could be very entertaining. Who hasn’t stood in front of their Kinect and asked themselves “Why can’t I hurl lightening bolts with this thing?”

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Jagged Alliance: Back In Action Announced

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

The first standalone expansion pack for Jagged Alliance: Back In Action was announced this morning. Jagged Alliance: Crossfire thrusts players into the country of Khanpaa, a peaceful place constantly under siege by mercenary groups.

Crossfire is set to offer a mix of RPG, RTS and economic management and a unique fog of war system that operates using line of sight rather than the traditional method of uncovering terrain as units move and having it constantly exposed.

Along with this announcement they released several screenshots. Check them out after the jump.Read More

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Apple Introduces New Retina Display Macbooks

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

At the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco Apple announced the latest version of their Macbook Air and Macbook Pro notebooks. Along with new hardware under the hood Apple also includes their impressive Retina displays in some of their new models.

The brand new Macbook Air will come in 11 inch and 13 inch flavors featuring Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors running as fast as 2.0GHZ with USB 3.0 and up to 512GB of flash storage. If you’re looking into one of these be prepared for your wallet to get a lot lighter as they start at $1100 and go up from there.

Apple discontinued the 17inch Macbook Pro and will be instead offering the13 and 15 inch variants. The most impressive feature for the new Macbook Pro is the Retina Display capable of displaying resolutions up to 3 times as clear as the previous models. As with the Macbook Air the new Pro’s do not come cheap, starting at $2100.

Source: IGN

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Mark of the Ninja Sneaks In New Screenshots

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Andrew Minott

2D stealth game Mark of the Ninja, coming soon to XBLA from Shank 2 developers Klei Entertainment, has five new screenshots that showcase the titular ninja’s sneaky shenanigans.

From the official site:

  • Observe… your enemies from the darkness, and use your agility to gain the high ground. Plan your line of action, and execute it before they discover you.
  • Manipulate… You foes with simple yet versatile tools. Blow out lights with a bamboo dart, create a diversion with a child’s firecracker, and kill your prey with a deadly trap.
  • Experience… The tension and thril of being a ninja — powerful but fragile, quick but deliberate.

 

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Metal Gear Solid Online Uses Up All Its Rations, Being Taken Offline

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Konami announced this afternoon that the last big event for Metal Gear Solid Online, the multiplayer portion of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots will be running for the next 24 hours before the game is taken permanently offline.

Since this past April all of MGO’s expansion packs have been free for members of the service and reward shop items, which were previously purchasable by players, have been free as well. Konami issued a rather heartfelt statement regarding the games closure on their website. Check out a portion of it after the jump.

To all of those PMC Operatives who kept the game alive these past four years, we salute you.Read More

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Pre-Order Persona 4 Arena And Receive a Free Soundtrack

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Persona 4 Arena the Xbox 360 and PS3 fighting game spinoff featuring characters from the Persona series just got a little bit sweeter with the announcement of a new pre-order incentive. By pre-ordering the game for either platform you’ll receive a limited edition CD featuring tracks from the game. Persona & Shin Megami Tensai composer Shoji Meguro arranged the tracks for Arena.

Presumably this bonus will be available at all major retailers including Best Buy, EB Games/ GameStop & Amazon, who are taking pre-orders for the game but Atlus has said more information is forthcoming. Persona 4 Arena will be available on August 7th.

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Resistance Burning Skies | Review

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

When the Resistance franchise launched alongside the PlayStation 3 gamers were excited for the brand IP. Now the fifth game in the franchise comes to the recently launched PlayStation Vita. Can Nihilistic Software’s story of a firefighter thrust into an unfortunate situation show us what the Vita can do? We’ve spent a considerable amount of time with the game and unfortunately there are some causalities to report.Read More

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SEGA Shutting Down Xbox 360 Phantasy Star Servers

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

The lights will finally go out for SEGA’s Phantasy Star Universe on September 7th, just three short months from now. The Xbox 360 version of the game is actually the last of three released (the game also came out for PS2 and PC) to support online play but that is about to come to an end.

The shutdown of the PSU servers is certainly a blow for the small but dedicated community who have kept the game going all of these years. SEGA did issue a brief statement about the shutdown on their official forums:Read More

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League of Legends EU Accounts Compromised

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

We are no strangers to Riot Game’s PC MOBA title League of Legends here at Broken Joysticks. It’s disheartening to hear that the games West and Nordic European servers have been compromised and encrypted passwords & email addresses have been placed in the hands of those who would use them for harm.

The company says that no billing related information has been obtained by the hackers but if they were to un-encrypt the passwords used for the small number of LOL accounts compromised, that would be bad.

If you live in Europe and have an active LOL account it wouldn’t be a bad idea to simply login and change your password. You also might want to make sure that the same password is not used for any other online service.

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