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New Far Cry 3 Patch Detailed

2013/03/06
Jerry Paxton
News, PlayStation 3 News, Windows PC News, Xbox 360 News

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Ubisoft has detailed the new patch for their hit title, Far Cry 3, which includes several community-desired updates. Such updates include new difficulty settings, beta testing for player-made maps, and kicking of idle players. Checkout the full details below.

Official PR Text

*** MEDIA ALERT ***

FAR CRY 3 – PATCH UPDATE

WHAT: Far Cry 3 – New Far Cry 3 Patch Includes Fan Requested Features

Today, Ubisoft announced the release of a new patch for Far Cry 3, introducing a number of new features requested by players on both single player and multiplayer modes.  The patch is now live for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation® computer entertainment system and Windows PC.

Based on community feedback gathered by the Far Cry 3 team, the features added or tweaked by this patch are an on-going effort to respond to players and give them more reasons to re-visit Rook Islands, to improve their skills with tougher challenges, and to re-discover the Far Cry 3 world.  These new elements include:

SINGLE PLAYER:
–       Outposts reset: after the end of the game, players can choose to reset the liberated outposts to face the challenge to take them over again.
–       A new difficulty setting: Players who have completed the campaign can restart the adventure on MASTER difficulty, with more challenging enemies and dangerous wildlife.
–       New HUD/UK settings: allowing most on-screen information can be toggled on/off in the settings.

MULTIPLAYER
–       Map Beta Test: Players who upload a new map can now publish it as a beta test to monitor how it is played and improve it before releasing to other players.
–       Maps by author: Players will be able to search all the maps created by an author.
–       Idle kick: The feature that kicks out idle players during a MP match is removed from custom and private matches.
–       The Skip map voting system has been improved with more visibility and time to cast the vote

Far Cry 3 is now available.

Second FUSE Infographic Released

2013/03/06
Jerry Paxton
News, PlayStation 3 News, Screenshots / Photos, Xbox 360 News

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Electronic Arts has released a second infographic from their upcoming FUSE, which is due out this Spring. This infographic details game character Izzy Sinclair.

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What Izzy lacks in experience she makes up for in intelligence. Izzy joins Overstrike 9 after serving as an intelligence broker. Izzy is an effective support operative, using her Shattergun to lift enemies from cover and tossing a Med Beacon to revive downed teammates.

Carnage Heart EXA Gone Gold

2013/03/06
Jerry Paxton
News, PSP News

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Burlingame, CA. – March 6, 2013 – Natsume Inc., a worldwide developer and publisher of family-oriented video games, today revealed that their upcoming combat mech title, Carnage Heart EXA, has gone gold and will be launching on the PlayStation Network shortly. Carnage Heart EXA will be released for the PlayStation Portable and Vita via PSN on March 19th!

“We’ve still got a couple surprises in store for our fans before Carnage Heart’s release next month,” said Hiro Maekawa, President and CEO at Natsume. “These plans include an exciting website where the developers and players can share their creations and battle prowess.”

Carnage Heart EXA is divided into two modes when playing: Plot sections, which advance the game’s story and give players insight into the characters, and Briefing sections, where goals are established and enemies fought.

Mixing high levels of customization via programming with a hardcore strategy RPG system, the game also allows players to save their battles as movie files, which they can then share over the Internet.  Natsume has already shown off several Carnage Heart EXA videos on YouTube.  Players can choose their mech’s hardware, including items like weapons, armor thickness, and plenty more.  Program your robo-battler’s software, change its coloring, add an emblem, and give it a unique name.  Don’t forget to snap a screenshot so you can share your creation with fellow bot builders!  Check out Natsume’s full Overkill Engine (OKE) programming tutorial on the Natsume Facebook located here.

Players can follow all the news for their favorite Natsume franchises via  www.natsume.com, or by scooping all of the latest Natsume updates, contests, screen shots and more at www.natsume.com/facebook and www.twitter.com/natsume_inc and on YouTube at  http://www.youtube.com/user/NatsumeUSA

Tomb Raider Caves and Cliffs DLC Pack Announced

2013/03/06
Jerry Paxton
News, Xbox 360 News

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LOS ANGELES (Mar. 6, 2013) – Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of SQUARE ENIX® interactive entertainment products in the Americas, today announced they will be releasing three new multiplayer maps for the critically-acclaimed TOMB RAIDER® in the Caves and Cliffs Multiplayer Map Pack coming first exclusively to Xbox LIVE® for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft on Tuesday, March 19, 2013.

The Caves and Cliffs Multiplayer Map Pack opens up more of the island’s fantastic geography to players. Each of the three maps are playable on all four multiplayer game modes and sees the island’s indigenous Scavengers pitted against the crew members from the shipwrecked Endurance.

Players must use traversal and hunting skills to create fast-paced combat in a selection of four versus gaming modes.

The map locations include:

Scavenger Caverns
An extensive subterranean network of caves used by the island’s scavengers as an underground prison

Cliff Shantytown
This scavenger settlement was built high up on the island cliffs. Its many layers hide some of the deadliest traps on the island

The Burning Village
A raging fire has embraced an abandoned Japanese village, the burning buildings offer multiple ways to escape or engage your enemies

TOMB RAIDER fans will be able to purchase the Caves and Cliffs Multiplayer Map Pack first exclusively on Xbox LIVE for 400 Microsoft Points.

Related Links
Official Homepage: www.TOMBRAIDER.com
Official Twitter: @TOMBRAIDER
Official Facebook page: http://facebook.com/TOMBRAIDER
Official Tumblr: http://officialTOMBRAIDERblog.tumblr.com/
Official YouTube Channel: http://youtube.com/TOMBRAIDER

World of Tanks Rolls Out Update 8.4

2013/03/06
Jerry Paxton
News, Windows PC News

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6th March, 2013 – Wargaming, the leading free-to-play developer and publisher, today announced global release dates for Update 8.4 for their award-winning free-to-play MMO World of Tanks. Bringing in ten new hard-hitting tank destroyers from Great Britain, Update 8.4 will be available for all game clusters across the globe: Europe (March 6), North America and Southeast Asia (March 7), and Korea (March 20).

Thick armor, high durability and tremendous alpha strike capability makes the new British TD forces to be reckoned with. The line is headed by the intimidating FV215b (183) prototype, packed with a lethal 183mm high-damage gun.

Along with the newly introduced British tank destroyers, Update 8.4 adds three light German tanks: Pz.I, Pz.I Ausf.Ñ, and Pz.II Ausf.G. The game also introduces a newly revamped combat tutorial mode for rookie tankmen, where they can learn everything they need to know to be successful in the game, from movement, combat, crews skills and more.

Update 8.4 also sees four battle arenas being overhauled with new visuals, including Ensk, Live Oaks, Steppes and Fisherman’s Bay.

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 more than 300 armored vehicles from United States, Germany, the Soviet Union, France, Great Britain and China, carefully detailed with historical accuracy.

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inXile Launches Torment Kickstarter

2013/03/06
Jerry Paxton
News, Windows PC News

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(NEWPORT BEACH, CA) March 6, 2013 – inXile entertainment announced today that it has kicked off its Kickstarter campaign (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera) for Torment: Tides of Numenera™ (Torment), which continues the thematic legacy of Planescape: Torment.  After the successful funding of Wasteland 2 in April 2012, inXile entertainment has chosen to abandon the traditional publisher-developer business model and focus on crowdsourcing for upcoming projects, beginning with Torment.

inXile entertainment’s second Kickstarter marks a historical first with Kickstarter as they try to become the first video game company to attempt to successfully fund a second major project concurrently, thereby proving that crowdsourcing is a viable business model. inXile entertainment’s first Kickstarter project, Wasteland 2, recently released a first look gameplay video to the game’s backers in February to an overwhelmingly positive response.

“As we continue our progression toward launch of Wasteland 2, it is important to secure funding now in order to cover the costs of preproduction and to properly scope Torment: Tides of Numenera.  This method of development helps to both create a better a RPG game and to keep the winning team together from project to project. The crowd has become our financing partner and we embrace the stronger bond that it creates between us” said Brian Fargo, CEO of inXile Entertainment.

“As with Wasteland 2, 100% of the crowdfunding will be invested into creating Torment. Our biggest goal is to create a game people actually want to play rather than force a game onto people, which is what can happen with the current publisher model. We are designing Torment: Tides of Numenera to appeal to the RPG connoisseurs, focusing on the deeply personal and philosophical themes and the meaningful choices and consequences that madePlanescape: Torment great. With support and feedback from the community, we believe Torment will return to the RPG genre a more cerebral experience that we’ve been hoping to revisit for over a decade,” said Kevin Saunders, product director for Torment: Tides of Numenera.

ABOUT THE GAME

Torment: Tides of Numenera will be a single-player role-playing game, distributed DRM-free for Windows (PC), Mac, and Linux. It will be available in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. Torment will continue the thematic legacy of the critically acclaimed Planescape: Torment™ by having to face complex and nuanced morality decisions, carefully contemplating deep and reactive choices with consequences that echo throughout the game all the while immersed into a new and strange vision taken from by renowned designer and writer Monte Cook’s new tabletop role-playing game, Numenera™.

In Torment: Tides of Numenera, players will have to decide for themselves the answer to the eternal question, what does one life matter? Numenera’s Ninth World is a fantastic vision of a world in which massive civilizations continue to rise and fall with only cities, monuments, and artifacts left behind to serve as reminders of their past existence. These reminders have become part of the accumulated detritus of eons and now this assortment of ancient power, called the numenera, is there for the taking. One of these humans has discovered a way to harness the numenera to grow strong, to cheat death, to skip across the face of centuries in a succession of bodies. But he discovers an unexpected side effect: You.

For more information about the Kickstarter, please visit http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera.

Zombie Tycoon 2: Brainhov’s Revenge Release Date

2013/03/06
Jerry Paxton
News, PS Vita News

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QUEBEC CITY – Mar. 6, 2013 – Today Frima Studio announces that the release date of Zombie Tycoon 2: Brainhov’s Revenge for the PS3 and PS Vita will be April 30th, 2013 in the US, May 1st in Europe and Asia. The sequel to 2009’s hit PS Minis title Zombie Tycoon, Brainhov’s Revenge expands on the hilarious RTS gameplay of the original with new factions of zombies, expansive, detailed maps and Cross Play functionality to link players on consoles and handhelds. The game will be available on PSN for $9.99 and is a Cross Buy title.

The future of the zombie race is at stake as rogue apprentice Orville Tycoon and his heavy-duty zombies face off against his vengeful former mentor Professor Brainhov and his new breed of frantic, agile undead. Choose a side and unleash your hordes to decide once and for all what type of zombie will inherit the scorched earth.

Players can look forward to:

  • Well-balanced RTS gameplay with four special monster (hero) units to keep things fresh.
  • Cross Buy enabled on the PS3 and Vita. Buy it once, play it anywhere!
  • A single player campaign featuring both zombie factions.
  • Strategic, 1v1 online deathmatches between PS3 and Vita players with Cross Play technology.
  • The return of favorite characters such as Professor Tycoon, Dr. Brainhov and, of course, hordes of silly zombies.
  • Brain-boggling graphics powered by Unreal Engine 3.

Zombie Tycoon 2 will be debuting this year at PAX East, stop by booth #1086 and challenge your friends to a fast-paced Cross Play duel!

In honor of the sequel launch, the original Zombie Tycoon will be available for the special price of $1.99.

Lost Planet 3 Gets Official Release Date

2013/03/06
Jerry Paxton
News, PlayStation 3 News, Screenshots / Photos, Windows PC News, Xbox 360 News

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Capcom has announced that the third installment of the Lost Planet franchise, Lost Planet 3, will be making its debut across North America on June 25 and in Europe on June 28 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows PC platforms.

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Official PR Text

The extreme conditions that characterized the Lost Planet series return, harsher than ever before, with the release of Lost Planet 3 across North America on June 25 and in Europe on June 28. The latest chapter in the Lost Planet series will be available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

Discover more of what awaits on E.D.N. III in a brand new trailer and screens that introduce the Snow Pirates and new giant Akrid, the Carrier, which can be downloaded now at the Capcom Press Center.

The trailer continues the story of Jim Peyton’s time on E.D.N. III as a NEVEC employee seeking out further sources of the planet’s energy supply T-Eng. During one of these missions, Jim comes under attack from E.D.N. III’s indigenous Akrid, causing his Utility Rig to fall down an icy fissure, leaving him unconscious and injured. Jim wakes to find himself in what appears to be a secret base, hidden beneath the planet’s frozen surface. On discovering he was rescued by one of the base’s inhabitants, Mira, the daughter of Snow Pirate leader, So’ichi, Jim realizes that NEVEC are not the only human inhabitants of E.D.N. III.

Will the Snow Pirates welcome NEVEC or will Jim have to face yet another hostile force on E.D.N. III?  

For all of the exclusive pre-order details, including a guest appearance by Hunk from the Resident Evil franchise, please visit your local retailers. You can also check out Capcom-Unity and the Lost Planet 3 Facebook page for more information.