With the heat building for the official kickoff of the summer movie season – Marvel’s The Avengers – gamers won’t have a console game to play. But Marvel Entertainment and Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG) have debuted a social game based on Marvel’s iconic characters, Marvel: Avengers Alliance. Developed by Playdom, Marvel: Avengers Alliance features a tactical turn-based combat experience with dozens of familiar Marvel Super Heroes and Super Villains. Though it's not based on the franchise movie, it is better than nothing.
While the Dreamcast was a system that faded awfully quickly, it had a few games that really resonated with its fans, even to this day. The home port of Soul Caliber brought the franchise into its prominence, and the many side activities of Shenmue kept gamers coming back looking for more distractions. And then there was Jet Set Radio, which combined extreme sports with the underground art of graffiti. Last week, the game was announced to have an HD remake, and now a few screenshots have emerged.
Epic Games announces that BBC Worldwide and Supermassive Games have licensed the award-winning Unreal Engine 3 technology to power the time-bending action game, Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock. Crafted by acclaimed developer Supermassive Games and based upon the BBC’s heralded franchise that has entertained audiences for nearly 50 years, “Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock” will be the first PlayStation (PS) Vita game to utilize the cutting-edge Unreal Engine toolset, which also fuels the PlayStation 3 and PC versions of the game.
United Front Games (UFG), the developer behind Sony’s hit franchise, ModNation Racers, has been busy recreating Hong Kong for its new game, Sleeping Dogs. Originally called True Crimes: Hong Kong with Activision on board as the publisher, game was canceled by Activision and then picked up by Square Enix. Sleeping Dogs is now scheduled to ship for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in the second half of 2012. Check out the game in action in the trailer below.
Before I started up Kingdom of Amalur Reckoning, I was completely skeptical about what 38 studios was promising to bring to the table. Even though 38 studios was founded by Curt Schilling, a former Boston Red Sox’s pitcher. It has some impressive talent behind the game, which drew my interest towards the game. Ken Rolston, who is mostly known for being the lead designer for Elder Scrolls “Morrowind” and “Oblivion”. Todd Mcfalane, who was the creator of spawn and lastly R.A Salvatore, who is a well known scifi writer. This trio of talent dose many rights then wrongs, but it lacks a strong identity and the game suffers because of it.
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), GameStop, and The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University are proud to announce that Closure was awarded the top prize at the third annual Indie Game Challenge. The winning team was named on the closing night of the annual D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit at the Red Rock Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Closure, which took home the $100,000 grand prize, can be seen in action in the video below.
The man who conjured Silent Hill, Keiichiro Toyama, is behind one of the most impressive PlayStation Vita launch games. Gravity Rush follows a young woman with amnesia, who names herself Kat, that is able to manipulate gravity. Set in the skyscraper-clad city of Hekseville, the game utilizes PS Vita's gyro sensor to allow Kat to float through the air. Toyama is already working on DLC for the game and would like to develop a full sequel. Checkout the game in action in the exclusive video walkthrough below.
Activision is once again blending the virtual game world with the very real and lucrative world of toys. High Moon Studios’ latest Transformers game, Fall of Cybertron, marks the debut of new characters in the mythology. These Transformers made their toy debut at the 109th annual New York Toy Fair.
Remember when Telltale was a small video game company that released a video game every one to two years. Last year alone Telltale released “Back to the Future” six episodic content and to close out the year, released “Jurassic Park”. Things have sure changed since then, but was it for the better? Has the Telltale dependence on licensed properties finally back fired on them in "Law & Order: Legacies".
Consoles and PC's have had a slow month interms of new AAA quality games arriving for your respected platform. While January got off to a slow start, it quickly recovered to bring us high quality tittles through digital distribution. Plenty of great downloadable arcade tittles were made available through XBLA, PSN and Steam, giving us many hidden gems on the digital marketplace. Let's look back at the games we reviewed over the past month.
Every Tuesday, Sony brings its PlayStation faithful new content, add-ons for your favorite games, Themes and avatars for your PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. Again another standard week of PSN goods you can get, but for the most part the main draw are going to be demos. Twisted Metal is finally going to hit store shelves and the fans of the series will be eager to get their hands on the multiplayer demo now available.
One of the first genre’s I ever got addicted to was tower defense games, but for awhile now tower defense games have long been stale. For a long time now, the genre hasn’t seen any dramatic changes, but still provided quality games for its fans. Recently, the genre has escalated to new heights thanks to advancements in smart phone technology and the integration of app marketplace. Developed by Futuremark Games Studio, Unstoppable Gorg attempts to reinvent the genre, but costly design choices ruin a potential hit.
Another week is upon us and another batch of new content has arrived on Xbox Live. If you were a fan of Rockstar's L.A Noire. Then you will happy to see that all the DLC for the game is at a low price. If you were holding out on getting the DLC for the game then now is your chance. As personal recomendation, I would get the Nicholson Electroplating case and skip out on Reefer Madness.
Every Tuesday, Sony brings its PlayStation faithful new content, add-ons for your favorite games, Themes and avatars for your PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. Not the best week for new content for new content on the PSN. If you missed Duke Nukem Forever then here is your chance to get the king as he finally makes his debut on current gen consoles. Not the best game on the market, but worth a pick up if your Duke Nukem Fan.
Del Rey, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, is publishing the second novel based on the Hitman video game series from Io Interactive. Hitman: Damnation will be written by author Raymond Benson and will release in North America in summer 2012 before launching internationally. Square Enix’ IO Interactive is developing Hitman: Absolution for release this year, which can be seen in the video below.
