SEGA has unveiled a new “grindhouse” style trailer for its upcoming The House of the Dead OVERKILL – Extreme Edition, which is due out for the PlayStation 3 on October 25, 2011.
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Funcom has released some new screenshots from their upcoming MMO, The Secret World, while at the New York Comic-Con. The Secret World puts three secret societies at odds as they vie for control of the planet.
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Harmonix has announced that Coldplay will be bringing more tunes to the Rock Band Music Store come Tuesday, October 18th. Checkout the full listing below for all the details and price info.
Available on Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation®3 system (October 18th, 2011):
· Coldplay – “Yellow” X
· Coldplay – “The Scientist”
· Coldplay – “Clocks” X
· Coldplay – “Fix You”
· Coldplay – “Viva la Vida”
· Coldplay – “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall”
(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system October 19th)
The tracks will be available as “Coldplay Collection 01” and will be available for purchase individually on Xbox 360®, PlayStation®3 system and Wii™. Tracks marked with “X” will include Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions for $0.99 per song.
Price:
$9.99, £4.99 UK, €7.99 EU (800 Microsoft Points, 1000 Wii Points™) for “Coldplay Collection 01”
$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points) per song
$2.00USD (200 Wii Points™) per song
$0.99 USD (100 Wii Points™/80 Microsoft Points), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade
** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **
Positech has released the first trailer for their upcoming follow-up to Gratuitous Space Battles, Gratuitous Tank Battles. The game takes place in the far future and features some really interesting and unique unit types, all customizable to your liking. Checkout the carnage below!
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Activision has released some new assets for their upcoming Prototype 2 from the New York Comic-Con, in the form of a trailer and some screenshots. Enjoy!
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Six Flags Great Adventure’s Fright Fest has announced that Raab, one of the guys from MTV’s Jackass, will be hosting a cockroach eating contest on October 29th and October 30th, 2011. The park will offer free, VIP admission to the ultra-creepy, new Mortuary Manor terror trail for the first 20 guests who consume a giant, live, Madagascar hissing cockroach.
“I’ve seen some crazy things working with the Jackass guys, but eating Madagascar hissing cockroaches? That’s just insane,” Raab said.
UPDATE (10/14/11): Please take note that Raab will only be on-hand for the cockroach-eating on Sunday, not Saturday.
SteelSeries and GUNNAR have announced a new breed of gaming eyewear with their new Desmo. The Desmo features a rimless design and promises to be completely headset-friendly. Additionally, the Desmo promises a feature known as “fRActyl Lens Geometry”, which claims to magnify your field of vision while also relaxing your eyes.
“We’ve been collaborating with the GUNNAR Optiks team in marketing and events for more than two years now, including the launch of our first co-branded eyewear model, the SteelSeries Scope,” said Bruce Hawver, SteelSeries CEO. “When we started on this new design, it was important that it was more than just lightweight and comfortable, but that the lens shape, frame style and temples were chosen and perfected in order to impact and improve the way players saw their game. We believe we’ve achieved that goal with the Desmo and are excited for players to try it out.”
The Desmo is available now for $99.99 at SteelSeries official website.
Activision has announced a new Men in Black game to coincide with the release of next year’s Men in Black III. Not much is known about the game at this time, save that it will be released on both consoles and handheld platforms. Activision also released two screenshots from the game, which you can find in the gallery below.
“The Men In Black franchise is an unbeatable starting point to deliver a genre-bending gaming experience with a level of production value on par with Hollywood,” said David Oxford, Executive Vice President of Activision Publishing, Inc. Mark Caplan, Vice President of Licensing at Sony Pictures Entertainment, stated, “With Activision bringing the Men In Black universe to life on next gen consoles for the first time, the Men In Black video game will be both familiar to fans, an exciting beginning for the uninitiated, and revolutionary for the franchise.”
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Tecmo Koei has released a plethora of new screenshots from their upcoming Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends, a stand-along expansion for their acclaimed Dynasty Warriors 7, which is due out on November 15, 2011.
Official Description
DYNASTY WARRIORS 7: Xtreme Legends is a stand-alone expansion that super-charges the DYNASTY WARRIORS 7 world with the following enhancements.
· New characters join the battle!
Brand new characters Guo Jia & Wang Yi as well as returning hero Pang De bolster the ranks of Wei kingdom.
· Secret Weapons
New ultra-powerful versions of DYNASTY WARRIORS 7 weapons can be unlocked by fulfilling certain conditions in the game. New weapon types are added to your armory and weapons such as the Dragon Spear, Sai, Battling Stick & Scimitar will further increase the variety of ways players can decimate opposing armies.
· The new “Legend Mode”
Newly implemented “Legend Mode” allows players to tackle battles from both the past Dynasty Warriors series and brand new scenarios with all their favorite characters. In addition, players are able to make their castle town prosper and also employ a lieutenant from their favorite military commander. The lieutenant affects how the castle-town flourish in many different ways.
· Challenge Mode
The Challenge Mode allows players to tackle various missions that allow them to fight for world-wide rankings. This mode is backed up with online leader boards which allow players to fight for the world no. 1 spot in the Dynasty Warriors universe!
· Mixjoy
With this game, by reading in the original Dynasty Warriors 7 disc, the player will be able to experience a powered-up verson of the original Dynasty Warriors 7 Story mode and Conquest mode.
· Japanese Voice-Over
DYNASTY WARRIORS 7: Xtreme Legends will feature a Japanese voice-over option.
DYNASTY WARRIORS 7: Xtreme Legends developed by OMEGA FORCE, for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system will be released in North America on November 15th 2011.
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Telltale Games has released the final chapter to the Hector Trilogy entitled Beyond Reasonable Doom. Beyond Reasonable Doom’s storyline picks right up where episode two left off and then wraps up the terrorist case in Clapper’s Wreake.
Story:
The story of the Hector Trilogy has been its strong suit since the beginning and Beyond Reasonable Doom continues this trend. The story does pick right up where it ended with episode two, so make sure you have played through the other episodes first before picking up this game. Hector continues work on the case involving the Terrorist of Clapper’s Wreake using his personal syle of detective work, which involves questionable methods and morality. Without spoiling the ending, or any of the other episodes while I’m at it, Beyond Reasonable Doom wraps up the trilogy nicely and leaves me satisfied in the story department. Overall, the story is well written and funny, with a British sensability to it. While it won’t win any writing awards, Beyond Reasonable Doom does tie up all of the loose ends and characters into a nice little ending that will leave you smiling. The writing has been easily the best part of the Hector series and has made me laugh hard more then once.
Gameplay:
The gameplay of Beyond Reasonable Doom is the exact same as the other two episodes, point and click. You will spend your time moving your mouse around the scene, looking for items to pick up, interact with, or to merge together. The puzzles in this go around seem to be a little more logical and were easier for me to understand and comprehend. There were a few puzzles in the earlier episodes that I just didn’t get the logic behind, but episode three steered clear of those traps. The puzzles here just feel right, challenging enough to make you think, but not hard enough that you will want to bang your head on your keyboard.
Aesthetics:
The visuals of the Hector Trilogy have a hand drawn look to them and are just fun to look at. The visuals make Clapper’s Wreake appear to be the unpleasent town that the characters say it is. Everything is done in two dimensional art style that works nicely. The locals are fun to look at and, in some cases, disturbing, but all have that particular sense of humor that Hector is known for.
The sound design for the game is adequate, but the voice acting, as before, is great. The characters each have their own personality that comes through in the voice acting brilliantly. Hector is done to perfection, the actor really makes him sound like the ass the dialogue makes him out to be.
Final Thoughts:
The Hector Trilogy was a fun romp through Clapper’s Wreake. The puzzles, with some exceptions, were logical and just challenging enough to give your brain a tweak. The art direction fit the story perfectly, the locals were dirty and disturbing, the characters visually portrayed their personalities, and was completed in a two dimensional style. The story line won’t win any awards for depth, but will keep you fully entertained for the entire three episodes. Beyond Reasonable Doom ties up the story line quite nicely and gives the trilogy a nice little ending. Overall, I felt that this trilogy, while not as good as this year’s Sam and Max trilogy, is worth playing for any fan of the point and click genre.
