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Air Conflict: Secret Wars Released On Xbox Live

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

The latest title published by Kalypso Media, Air Conflicts: Secret Wars, has been released on to Xbox Live according to the publisher. If you’re looking to let out your inner pilot you can do so for a mere 1600 Microsoft Points ($15 USD). Air Conflict is an arcade style flight combat game that spans both World War 1 and World War 2. Boasting seven campaigns, 49 missions, and varying objectives like bombing runs and hit & runs on targets. Air Conflict seems like it would appeal to both military fanatics (I’m looking at you fellow Broken Joysticks Staffer Daniel Shannon!)

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Sells Over 400 000 in US

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Matthew Regier

38 Studios new IP Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has sold over 410  000 copies since its release in the United States. According to Rhode Island news station WPRI by the NDP Group, a majority of these sales numbers came from the first month of release, with 80 000 being sold last month. These sales numbers do not reflect digital sales or sales outside of the United States. NDP spokesperson David Riley made the comment, “an impressive figure for just two months, no matter how you slice it”. This proves that a new IP is able to get its foot firmly in

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Miyamoto Confirms Super Mario Land 4 In Development

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

When gaming legend Shigeru Miyamoto speaks the entire gaming landscape pauses for a second and listens. With rumors circulating that Super Mario 4 would be announced this year, more than 20 years after the release of Super Mario 3 on the Nintendo Entertainment System, people took notice. Speaking to Korean website BetaNews the man himself confirmed that the game was under development. Unfortunately outside of those details he offered little else. “We have Mario team in company, so we are making Super Mario 4. But only I can say is, we just announced that game. More details will be revealed

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Ubisoft Sued For Copyright Infringement

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Matthew Regier

American science fiction writer John L. Beiswenger, is suing Ubisoft on allegations that their franchise Assassin’s Creed and Beiswenger’s novel Link share a few too many similarities. The suit includes everything related to the Assassin’s Creed franchise. From the games, strategy guides, as well as the comic book series. Beiswenger’s novel, which was published in 2003 contained a premise that ancestral memories could be “accessed, recalled, relived, and re-experiemented” in a new scientific process. The lawsuit lists quite a number of similarities. Everything from its narrative themes to the specific use of individual words.

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Halo 4’s Multiplayer Includes Co-Op & Custom Loadouts

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Following on the heels of yesterday’s announcement that Halo 4 would be launching on November 6th Microsoft have announced some brand new details surrounding the games multiplayer mode. These majority of these details come from a GameInformer ViDoc released to promote the latest edition of the magazine. Other supposed details surrounding the multiplayer also leaked out last week. The multiplayer suite of Halo 4 could offer a radically different experience from previous Halo games depending on how far reaching 343 Industries’ changes are.

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Darksiders II Delayed Until August

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Matthew Regier

It won’t be until August now when we see Vigil Game’s highly anticipated sequel, Darksiders II. The game will be facing a two month delay from its initial release date at the end of June, so we will be seeing the title hit shelves sometime in August. Executive vice president of THQ, Danny Bilson is stressing that the delay is only to add polish to the title. After a rather shaky year in 2011 many would think that this delay means bad news, but is actually quite the opposite. Ever since Saints Row 3 has officially shipped over four million

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007 Legends Celebrates 50 Years of Shaken Martinis

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

After the successful port of GoldenEye 007: Reloaded to the Xbox 360 and PS3 this past fall Activision has announced 007 Legends for release this fall. The publisher is touting Legends as a celebration of the past 50 years of the Bond franchise. Legends will span six different films concluding with the evens from the latest film, SKYFALL, which is also due out this fall.  Activision did not provide specific details surrounding which films will be included in 007 Legends. Hopefully they choose their choices wisely – we’ve already seen games based upon Goldeneye and From Russia With Love from

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Halo 4 Launches November 6

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Eric Regier

The next installment in the Halo franchise launches this fall and will mark the first time since 2007’s Halo 3 that Master Chief will be playable as the main character. In the work shop since 2009 by 343 Industries, this will be their first full release Halo title. With Halo Waypoint downloadable for the 360 and Windows phone first under their belt, then went on to make the Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. Former Bungie employee Frank O’Connor is leading the development of the project it shouldn’t be straying too far from its roots.

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Bethesda Announces The Elder Scrolls: Assassin’s Creed

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Matthew Regier

Okay, not really but that is what a lot of people are going to think when they watch the announcement trailer for Arkane Studio’s Dishonored, a first person sci-fi action game. What we know about the story is that your main protagonist, Quartho,  an assassin framed for the murder of some Empress. And has he ever got a desire for a whole truck load of vengeance. The setting appears to be of the dystopian calibur showing imagery one would expect to see in a Half Life game, or in War of the Worlds. Showing a soldier on mechanical stilts shooting

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Prototype 2 Gameplay Walkthrough

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Matthew Regier

After the release of Radical Entertainment’s Prototype back in 2009 many fans and have been anxiously awaiting the release of the game’s sequel, Prototype 2. Which has promised to improve many of the more lackluster elements of the game. Well, a gameplay walkthrough has been revealed showing off a section of the game and some very sleek and stylish new elements by the game’s design director Matt Armstrong. The short, but satisfying six minute video does a great job of showing off the games elements and style. We see our new protagonist, James Heller, near the beginning of the game

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Capcom x Sega x Namco: Project X Zone Website Launches

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Matthew Regier

After the recent announcement of Project X Zone, the collaboration project between Capcom, Namco, and Sega many fans have been speculating what the game is going to be about and what characters we will be seeing. We are now that much closer to getting more information revealed with the launch of the game’s official website which can be viewed here. Unfortunately nothing about the story or game’s system has been revealed, but according to the screenshots found on the site we can see that it appears to be a fighting game with a sprite based art style and a very

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Electronic Arts Set To Lay Off Up To 1000

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Matthew Regier

Electronic Arts has announced  a companywide lay off from between 500-1000 people. A number that will result in having 5%-11%  of their staff back out on the job market. This lay off was originally planned to happen last Monday (4/9) but was pushed back. It has been confirmed that they are coming very soon however. After EA’s plummeting stock prices dropping from a once lofty $61 per share has recently fallen to $16 per share. While being speculated to keep falling. This is believed to have been caused by 2011 not having as many big blockbuster hits aside from Battlefield

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Gravity Rush Demo Arrives On May 29th

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

One of the next big titles for the PlayStation Vita, Gravity Rush, will be receiving a playable demo two weeks before its June 2012 launch. The demo will hit the PlayStation Network on May 29th in North American and May 30th in Europe. Gravity Rush tells the tale of Kat, a young girl who gains the ability to defy gravity, allowing her to run along the sides of buildings and float through the air. The game brings a unique approach to both traditional platformers and combat as players must navigate an ever changing landscape and level up Kat’s abilities. Gravity Rush launched in

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Devil May Cry Tells The Tale of Dante’s Early Days

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Ninja Theory’s take on the Devil May Cry franchise, “DMC: Devil May Cry”, turned a lot of heads when it was unveiled a few years ago. New details surrounding the game’s plot and gameplay came to light at the Captivate ’12 event in Rome this past week. DmC will take Dante back to his roots as he learns what it means to be the child of a devil and angel. Both of these sides can be called upon allowing him access to varying abilities as well as changing his weapon, the Rebellion Sword.

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Tekken Tag 2 Roundhouses Its Way To 360 and PS3 This Fall

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Fans of the Tekken series won’t have to wait long for the next entry in the franchise. The long in development Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will be released for both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 this September the publisher has announced. With the announcement of the release4 window Namco Bandai also highlighted two other features of the game.  The first is the character roster featuring an impressive 50 characters pulled from the six+ games in the Tekken canon. The second part of the announcement had to do with the various modes available to players.

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