When Pokemon X and Pokemon Y were announced my excitement for the series took a nose dive. It basically boiled down to the devastatingly mundane look of the Legendaries. Seriously? We already have 2 legendary deer, their names are Cobalion and Virizion Did you just forget about them, GameFreak? But I digress, as my love for the game instantly shot up with the reveal of Mega Pokemon. Or rather, that a metric butt-load of Pokemon can achieve the Mega Evolution state. This...
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Arkane Studios and id Software working on Next-Gen Projects
Arkane Studios is currently looking to hire members to join their next-gen development team. The studio that brought us Dishonored is currently at work on a next-gen game. As stated on Bethesda’s blog, While we can’t talk about what’s on the horizon, we wanted to let prospective game developers know that they’re already building up their team for the next project. Arkane Studios, based in Austin, Texas, has over 10 new positions open for their next project. They...
Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag open world gameplay – What did we just see?
Here’s the latest gameplay trailer from Ubisoft for Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag. It features 10 minutes of the games open world. I’ll briefly go over what is shown in the newest trailer. 0:20 The trailer starts off on Andres Island. An island that is part of the Colombian Islands and that was used by the English pirate Henry Morgan as a staging ground for attacking Spanish ships in the 17th century. 1:00 The trailer shows Taverns as being a place that...
Women Enter the EA Sports UFC Roster
We told you about EA Sports UFC back when it was announced at E3. I for one was excited to see it since I’m a big fan of MMA in general and the UFC games especially. I was reluctant when I heard EA had taken the franchise over, but I’ll reserve my judgement for later. Announced this week though, was the fact that for the first time women fighters will be added to the UFC’s roster, in the game that is. The full roster of women fighters has not be revealed...
Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkeness Coming October 8th
On the Playstation Blog this morning, the release date for Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness was announced as October 8th forPlaystation 3 in North America. Disagaea D2 will be featuring new systems in game, including the Mount System. The Magichange is being replaced with the Mount System which allows the player to mount a human character onto a monster for added abilities and to dismount when done. Disgaea D2 will be adding two new classes the Male Angel and the Sea Angel. A...
Diablo 3 is out now for PS3 and Xbox 360
Hi kids, remember reading this? Well, guess what. The time to get Diablo 3 is now, chop chop! Oh, you can also get it for 360. And you can play over PSN and Live. Aaand if you want to get it on Games on Demand, that will be available on October 4th, but you can get it one PSN now. AAAAAAAAAND…eh, that’s about it…OH! You can also get it in exotic markets like North America, Latin America, Europe, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Southeast...
New Destiny Gameplay: What Did We Just See?
Bungie has just released their new Community Thank You video, and in it came a slew of new gameplay and ever before seen places and things. Let’s break down what you just saw. I’m going to walk you through each section of the video, excluding the parts that aren’t gameplay. First off at 0:30 we see a large orange monolithic temple. The orange and red hues leave me to believe this is a shot of somewhere on Mars. 0:35: We see a grassy stone area, which looks...
Bungie’s Latest Video is Full of New Destiny Gameplay, Awards, Awesomeness
Bungie has just released a “community thank you” video onto it’s YouTube, in it is a list of some of the best awards they received at Gamescom in Germany as well as a giant slew of new gameplay for the upcoming Destiny. Just from my first watch I’ve noticed new powers (something akin to Dishonored Blink, a knife being shanked), new locations including what looks to be Mars and possibly the Moon base, as well as our first look at the new enemies...
Updated – The PlayStation 4’s Dualshock 4 Will (Reportedly) Work on Computers
According to Redditor dzle, the developers of Galak-Z confirmed last weekend at PAX Prime in Seattle that all PlayStation 4 controllers will work on computers simply by plugging them in via the micro-usb connector without any finagling. It is also reported that the touchpad will also be able to be mapped like the touchpad on your everyday laptop. If this all comes to be true, the PlayStation 4 may just become the next generation controller you have to have for PC...
Xbox Live Rewards, Making a Little More Sense
Finally, Microsoft has gotten rid of their ridiculous space bucks system known as Microsoft Points. Thankfully you no longer need to be a mathematician to figure out how much money you actually have left to spend on your account. Last week, Microsoft rid us of this headache. And now they’re trying to make their Xbox Live Rewards program make sense as well. Microsoft is now giving you credits, that yes, equal money. But nonetheless, 1000 credits equals $1...
