With the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Demo set to release on January 17th and the Mass Effect 3 demo coming not too far behind it, 38 Studios and Bioware have teamed up. Announced today, that playing both demos will unlock special items you will obtain nowhere else, except from playing these demos. These items will also be influenced by the demo they are unlocked from. Example, By playing the Mass Effect 3 demo, you’ll unlock Omni-Blade like daggers for KoA:R By...
Microsoft announced it’s annual House Party line-up recently. The new game extravaganza begins February 15th, with a new game releasing each week. While the house party normally has two or three “wow” games with one “meh” game in the bunch, this year is certainly an exception. Starting off the house party is Alan Wake American Nightmare. Developed by Microsoft Studios, this is one of the most hyped games by the Xbox community and the...
Minecraft Pocket Edition is being rewritten to add more depth to it. What you can expect in the upcoming update are animals, new blocks, and doors. What you can not expect to see is all the work Mojang is doing on the back end to set the game up for a survival mode update. Mojang has stated that “We have read tons of comments and feedback and it seems like we made a huge mistake. You wanted monsters, resources, animals and more different blocks.” It is good to know that...
At CES today Microsoft revealed a partnership that finally has me sold on Kinect, “Kinect Sesame Street TV.” What this is has still yet to be well defined but what we were shown at CES looks amazing. Remember when you were a kid and the shows would ask you to say or do something, then they would pause for you to do it? Well imagine if the shows knew whether you did that action or not and rewarded you accordingly. That is exactly what Kenect Sesame Street TV is. This has...
Microsoft announced Kinect for Windows 7 & Windows 8 today at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas today. The device will be for Windows machines running Windows 7 and 8 and using the Kinect SDK. Kinect for Windows will.. Utilize Kinect skeletal-tracking, sophisticated microphone array, and other sensor technologies Link computers to Kinect devices running Windows 7 and Windows 8 Developer Preview Run applications built with the Kinect for Windows Commercial...
Earlier today before Microsoft’s CES press conference, Microsoft announced it had sold a whopping 66 Million Xbox 360 console’s and of those, 40 Million gamers signing into Xbox Live Daily. Additionally, 18 million Kinect sensors have been shipped in the past year. Xbox has truly come a long way in the past ten years. Interested in watching CES? Tune in here.
At Sony’s CES conference they announced that the PS Vita a few features coming to the Vita. The first is the Music Unlimited service coming day one, the second is Netflix . Sony says that Netflix is “Working to have it ready day one.”Since Netflix comes equipped on most toasters in today’s market the announcement comes at no surprise. Still it is nice to see that Sony is trying to make the Vita closer to a portable PS3 with every new piece of software.
Ouch! Ahh! Oooh! It hurts! That’s some Maximum Payne i’m going through. Cheesy jokes asides, Rockstar Games next best seller Max Payne 3’s March 6th release date is nearing ever closer, the the doomsday clock is ticking down. What doomsday clock you ask? The one for securing your copy of the limited edition. Rockstar is cutting off all preorders for this $99 version of the game January 15th, so you better get moving down to your local game retailer. Now...
With the release of UFC Undisputed 3 fast approaching the marketing engine is going into overdrive, especially with this latest announcement. Customers who make a purchase or trade-in at a Gamestop between January 1, 2012 at 12:00 a.m. CT and January 31, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. CT will be entered in a giveaway to win a free UFC VIP package at an upcoming UFC event in Las Vegas, Nev. The grand prize package will include: Round trip airfare for two people to Las Vegas...
Have you ever wanted an app so horror-inducing that it dements the mind and perverts the soul? Have you ever wanted to play a game based on the award-winning Chaosism Call of Cthulhu tabletop role-playing system right in the palm of your hand? Have you been wanting a new tactical turn-based RPG for a portable format? Well it’s coming January 30th and it’s entitled Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Lands. Set in World War I, you play as a group of investigators and...
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