Archive - 2014

Knott’s to Light Supreme Scream in Pink and Red

2014/02/12
Jerry Paxton
Geek News, News

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Feb 12, 2014 — This Valentine’s Day Supreme Scream, towering over 252 feet in the air, will be lit in red and glow for miles this Thursday, February 13 – Friday, February 14. Then, in support of Knott’s recent partnership with Susan G. Komen, the attraction will change to the color pink Friday evening, February 14 – Monday, February 17.

Knott’s Berry Farm and Susan G. Komen Orange County are working together to raise money for breast cancer awareness, services and research by offering a special “Pink Ticket” and limited edition specially designed “pink” merchandise from February 1 through March 31st. Guests can purchase the specially priced $39 “Pink Ticket” for theme park admission only online at www.knotts.com. A portion of the “Pink Tickets” proceeds will benefit Susan G. Komen Orange County.

Combat Arms Announces Global Map Creation Contest

2014/02/12
Jerry Paxton
News, Windows PC News

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Los Angeles – Feb. 12, 2013 – Nexon America has announced a player contest to help shape the future of Combat Arms by creating a new map for first-person shooter co-op game. From now through Sunday, Feb. 23, players can submit their ideas for the opportunity to put their personal stamp on Combat Arms.

Maps can be created in any medium, whether pencils, pen, paints, Photoshop, Maya, sculpture, photography or various other creative outlets. Any visual reference will be accepted.* To submit, players must upload renderings or screenshots of their map, or the map itself, along with a key, a description and title, to the Combat Arms forums.

Once submissions have closed and judges have evaluated the maps, Nexon America will submit one map into a global poll, where that map will compete against maps from other regions. All Combat Arms players, not just those that submit a map, will be able to vote for their preferred map in the global poll.  The global poll winning map will be announced in March, and will be evaluated for inclusion in a future update of Combat Arms.

More details on how to enter, content guidelines and prizes can be found on the official forums here: http://combatarms.nexon.net/home/newsdetail/?contentNo=00Hc5. For the latest news and information on Combat Arms, and to download and play for free, visit: http://combatarms.nexon.net.

*All entries are subject to the Official Rules for the contest. Enter Contest by: 2/23/14. For Official Rules and prize descriptions, visit the forum thread.

South Parth: The Stick of Truth Gone Gold

2014/02/12
Jerry Paxton
News, PlayStation 3 News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News, Xbox 360 News

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February 12, San Francisco – South Park: The Stick of Truth has gone gold and will ship to retailers across North America on March 4, Ubisoft, South Park Digital Studios, and Obsidian Entertainment announced today.

Written and voiced by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, South Park: The Stick of Truth is the definitive South Park experience. Arm yourself with weapons of legend to defeat underpants gnomes, hippies and other forces of evil.  Discover the lost Stick of Truth and earn your place at the side of Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as their new friend. Succeed and you shall be South Park’s savior, cementing your social status in South Park Elementary. Fail, and you will forever be known… as a douchebag.

New video assets are available, including a Behind the Scenes look at The Stick of Truth with Matt and Trey, the Ginger Kid Nazi Zombie Trailer, and the Return of Mr. and Mrs. Hankey trailer.

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Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar on Steam Early Access

2014/02/12
Jerry Paxton
News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News

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February 12th, 2014, Ridgewood, NJ – Kasedo Games is pleased to announce that Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar, the sequel to the award-winning historical strategy game Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece, is now available to play via Steam Early Access at a reduced price of $24.99/£19.99/€24.99. To celebrate the launch of Early Access, Kasedo has released a brand new Developer Featurette video for the game: giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at the development of the game and the thought process behind making it part of Steam Early Access.

Later today, developer Longbow Games will debut the first footage from the game in a Twitch.tv Developer Walkthrough at 19:00GMT/20:00CET; followed by a second stream tomorrow on February 13th at 20:00EST for North American viewers. You can view both streams at: www.twitch.tv/kalypsomedia. After the Livestream, both Longbow Games and Kasedo will be on hand to answer questions, but fans can get involved now by posting questions to our Facebook page. Or tweet them to us via our Twitter page @KasedoGames with the hashtag #Hegemony_Live.

Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar takes you to the plains and forests of ancient Gaul where Julius Caesar wages a decade long war to subjugate the barbarian hordes. It will immerse you in history like no other real time strategy game ever before, forcing you to pay close attention to the changing seasons and rapidly changing military situations.

Features included in Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar Early Access

  • Direct from the hand of Caesar – The first two chapters of the campaign, “Migrants and Conquerors” and “The Bravest of These” follow the conquests of Julius Caesar in Gaul as he wrote them in Commentarii de Bello Gallico.
  • All new map – Explore over one million square kilometers that are seamlessly zoomable, from the Mediterranean coast to the shores of Britannia.
  • Improved graphics engine – Hegemony Rome supports 10x the terrain detail over previous installments and features a diverse and immersive landscape to explore.
  • Build an empire – The construction system allows players to build forts, walls, and bridges at thousands of sites across the map to cement Roman control over the barbarian kingdoms.
  • Promote your legions – Players can train officers to augment their unit’s skills as well as appoint governors and construct buildings to expand and improve their cities.
  • Starve your enemies – Supply camps and logistics system makes sieges and supply lines more intuitive and more important than ever.

For more information on the Steam Early Access head over to the Steam page here.

Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar will be available on Windows PC spring 2014. For more information please visit www.kasedogames.com

CruxCase Announces the CruxENCORE for iPad Air

2014/02/11
Jerry Paxton
Mobile News, News, Tech News

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PROVO, Utah – February 11, 2014 – CruxCase, established by cutting-edge designers of innovative iPad® cases, is pleased to announce the new CruxENCORE™ campaign now live on Kickstarter. The CruxENCORE™ is a versatile rotating protective keyboard case for the iPad Air, transforming it into a compact and powerful laptop. Built with the look of a Macbook Pro and the weight and feel of a Macbook Air, the CruxENCORE™ features Bluetooth® connectivity as well as a raised, full-sized QWERTY keyboard. With its exclusive hinge technology, the CruxENCORE™ allows the keyboard to rotate 360 degrees for multiple positions: typing, movie watching and portability. At an ultra slim 2.0 cm, it is one of the thinnest keyboards ever developed for the iPad Air. Engineered with anodized aluminum, CruxENCORE™ weighs in at a travel friendly 1.45lbs. Additionally, foam padding allows the iPad Air to stay in place and prevents scratches. The case comes with a built-in 360 mAH battery to power Bluetooth connectivity and will only need to recharge once a month depending on usage. Available at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spywire/cruxencoretm-ipad-air-laptop

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Design Elements

• 2.0 cm thin keyboard base
• Smooth anodized aluminum coat matching the iPad Air exterior
• Full-sized raised above the plane island-style keys with special function keys on top
• Foam padding to hold iPad in place and prevent scratches

Functionality Items

• Patented hinge provides 360 degrees of rotation
• One-time easy Bluetooth setup
• Multitude of positions for portability, typing, and movie watching
• Switches iPad on/off when keyboard is opened and closed

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Titanfall Beta Sign-Ups on Now

2014/02/11
Jerry Paxton
News, Windows PC News, Xbox One News

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February 11, 2014 — The future of first person multiplayer action is upon us, and now’s your chance to be among the first to fall for Titanfall. Starting today, Respawn Entertainment and EA are inviting gamers to sign up and register for a chance to be a part of the upcoming Titanfall closed beta, a large-scale event coming February 14 to Xbox One and PC. For complete details on the beta and to register, please visit www.Titanfall.com/beta.

Already the winner of more than 80 awards from critics around the world, Titanfall is one of the most anticipated games of the year. Fans around the world from Tokyo to Seattle to London and beyond have been impressed with its thrilling and dynamic multiplayer gameplay featuring elite assault pilots and agile, heavily armored 24-foot tall titans.

The Titanfall beta will include three game modes – Attrition, Hardpoint Domination and Last Titan Standing. In Attrition, teams win by eliminating anyone or anything on the opposing side – pilots, titans and AI soldiers. In Hardpoint Domination, teams will capture and hold three hardpoints throughout the map to earn points and secure victory. And in Last Titan Standing, everyone on both teams starts with a titan in a round-based mode that ends when one team has lost all of their titans. There’s no respawning and no replacement titans can be called down.

Set in the near future on a distant frontier torn apart by war, Titanfall drops players in the middle of a conflict between the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation (IMC) and the Militia. The action is rapid and varied — featuring parkour-style wall running and massive double jumps. The freedom to shift back and forth between pilot and titan allows players to change tactics on the fly, attacking or escaping depending on the situation and extending the action vertically to new heights.

For more news about the Titanfall beta, including when it will begin, stay tuned to our official Titanfall channels on Facebook, Twitter and at www.Titanfall.com. Titanfall is coming to Xbox One and PC on March 11, 2014 in North America and beginning March 13, 2014 in Europe. The Xbox 360 version is being developed by Bluepoint Games and will be released on March 25, 2014 in North America and March 28, 2014 in Europe.

World of Tanks Gets Nation vs. Nation Combat

2014/02/11
Jerry Paxton
News, Windows PC News

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February 11, 2014 — Wargaming today announced the launch of Update 8.11 for World of Tanks in Europe and Russia. Players from Asia will be able to try out new game mode and battle arenas on February 12, with tank commanders from North America and South Korea getting the update on February 13.

Available for machines of all tiers and balancing weights, with the exception of Japanese and Chinese tanks, the new experimental combat mode, Confrontation, groups players with vehicles from a specific nation into a team that faces off against a comparable opposing squad with vehicles from a different nation. Introduced as an experimental new gameplay element, Confrontation is yet to undergo balance tweaks.

Along with competitive national combat, Update 8.11 enriches the game with a new European winter battle arena, Windstorm, revamped version of Ruinberg, now featuring rainfall and fires, and a reworked Himmelsdorf with winter setting.

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About World of Tanks

World of Tanks is the first and only team-based, massively multiplayer online action game dedicated to armored warfare. Throw yourself into the epic tank battles of World War II with other steel cowboys all over the world. Your arsenal includes over 300 armored vehicles from United States, Germany, the Soviet Union, France, Great Britain, Japan and China, carefully detailed with historical accuracy.

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About Wargaming

Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher and one of the leaders in the free-to-play MMO market. Founded as a privately held company in 1998, Wargaming has shipped more than 15 titles. Currently, Wargaming is focused on its team-based MMO war series dedicated to the mid-20th century warfare that will include the armored World of Tanks, the flight combat World of Warplanes, and the naval World of Warships. The three intertwined titles will form a common gaming universe integrated within the portal www.wargaming.net.

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Guild Wars 2 Nothing Lasts Forever Trailer

2014/02/11
Jerry Paxton
News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News

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BELLEVUE, Wash. – February 11, 2014: ArenaNet, developer of the acclaimed Guild Wars franchise, today released the teaser video trailer for the upcoming living world release “Escape from Lion’s Arch,” coming February 18. The ominous trailer focuses on the trademark city of Lion’s Arch, a beacon of prosperity in Tyria that acts as trading hub for players. The city has proven resilient to numerous onslaughts by enemy races, pirates, the undead, even an Elder Dragon. Now, the villainous Scarlet Briar may present this proud city with its most terrifying foe yet.

As the teaser trailer shows, the forces of the sylvari supervillain will soon descend upon Lion’s Arch. Aetherblade airships, dirigibles of death piloted by the dreaded pirates who now serve Scarlet, loom over the city like birds of prey. On the ground, the cruel serpentine krait and subterranean dredge hunt for prey and terrorize its citizens. In one grim moment in the video, the famed nautical architecture of the city burns as innocents try to flee the devastation.

Lion’s Arch is a thriving city familiar to any Guild Wars 2 player, home to in-game traders and vendors as well as the asura gates that lead to the far corners of Tyria and beyond. The city has served as the focus for in-game holidays and events including Halloween and Wintersday, and has been featured extensively in living world releases such as “Sky Pirates of Tyria” and “Cutthroat Politics.” Lion’s Arch played an important part in the original Guild Wars, and is featured in the extension of the game lore in the novel “Sea of Sorrows” by Ree Soesbee. “Escape from Lion’s Arch” will be available to all Guild Wars 2 players on February 18.

Guild Wars® 2 is a visually stunning MMO that offers players the epic grandeur of a massive role playing environment combined with innovative combat mechanics, dynamic events, and customized personal storytelling. Building on the success of Guild Wars, NCSOFT and game developer ArenaNet™ have created an MMO that lets gamers play the way they want, while at the same time retaining the no-subscription-fee business model that made the original Guild Wars so popular.

For more details on Guild Wars 2 and the Living World releases, visit www.guildwars2.com.

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Evolve Gets a New Trailer

2014/02/11
Jerry Paxton
News, PlayStation 4 News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News, Xbox One News

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2K and Turtle Rock Studios have unveiled a new trailer from their upcoming multiplayer shooter, Evolve, which puts players into a small band of hunters taking on over the top creatures and game on alien worlds. Evolve will be available this fall for Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system, and Windows PC.

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