On November 12, 2011 Nintendo decked out New York City’s Time Square for the launch of their Nintendo 3DS title, Super Mario 3D Land. Guests were able to traverse life-size water pipes, trampoline coin-jumping, and even slide down a flag pole at the end of the “level”! Super Mario 3D Land is out now on the Nintendo 3DS platform.
The Fighter Collection and Eagle Dynamics have announced their roadmap for upcoming releases in their Digital Combat Simulator series of flight sims. The order of the day looks to be multiplayer compatibility as most of their upgrades seem to be briding the gaps between their Black Shark, A-10C, and Flaming Cliffs products to enable them to be cross-compatible. Additionally, they mention something called a “DCS Flying Legends” aircraft as well as their as-of-yet unannounced fixed-wing jet simulation. Hit the full press release below for all the information!
[spoiler effect=”apblind” show=”SHOW THE FULL PRESS RELEASE”]The Fighter Collection (TFC) announces future publishing intentions
In the coming months we plan to release several new projects. While we wish to have open communications with our customers and let them know of our planned projects, please understand that plans often change due to unforeseen circumstances. The below list is a road map of our intentions and not a promise of things to come. As each product nears completion and feature lists are finalized, more details will be provided.
1- Combined Arms. This $19.99 add-on will allow A-10C, Black Shark 2, and Flaming Cliffs 3 owner to act as ground force commanders as the mission is running. Users can direct ground units, set fire missions for artillery/multiple rocket launchers, and take the role of a Joint Terminal Air Controller (JTAC). As the JTAC, players will have night vision goggles, IR pointer, laser designator, and Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR). Several other new items are still being considered. Combined Arms will work in both single player and multiplayer missions.
2- Flaming Cliffs 3. This will be a paid-for update to the Flaming Cliffs series and brings it to the same world, mission editor, AI, units, etc. as A-10C and Black Shark 2. We plan to include several upgrades to the aircraft, a resource management system, and several other new features. This will also make Flaming Cliffs online compatible with A-10C and Black Shark 2. Pricing will depend on what new features are included.
3- Nevada map. This will be a $19.99 add-on that will be compatible with A-10C, Black Shark 2, and FC3. Users that purchased the A-10C beta will get this map for free.
4- The first “DCS Flying Legends” aircraft will be released in the first half of 2012.
5- The next US fixed wing jet DCS aircraft is being worked on in parallel. For Combined Arms and the Nevada map, a single purchase will allow these add-ons to work with A-10C 1.1.1.0, Black Shark 2, and FC3.
More information, visit: www.digitalcombatsimulator.com
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Sony Online Entertainment has released a new trailer for their upcoming online strategy-shooter, Planetside 2, looking at the design of the New Conglomerate units.
On November 15th, 2011 the Rock Band Music Store has announced it will be adding five tracks from legendary artist Stevie Wonder. Checkout which tracks and pricing information below!
Available on Xbox 360, Wii™and PlayStation®3 system (November 15th, 2011):
(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system November 16th)
The tracks will be available as “Stevie Wonder Pack 01” or 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:
$8.49 USD, £4.39 UK, €6.59 EU (680 Microsoft Points, 850 Wii Points™) for “Stevie Wonder Pack 01”
$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points) per song
$2.00 USD (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. **
*Available on-disc, via download and disc export. Internet connection and export key purchase required. Wii™ Shop Channel has more than 1,500 song tracks available for purchase on the Rock Band platform on-disc, via song import, and download. Not applicable to Nintendo DS™.
Paradox Interactive has unleashed the official trailer for the upcoming iPad version of its tower defense game, Defenders of Ardania.
Positech has released some new alpha gameplay footage from its upcoming strategy/defense game, Gratuitous Tank Battles. Enjoy!
Petroglyph has released a new spotlight video for the character of Aislynn in its online actioner, Rise of Immortals. Check it out!
This is a message from Valve co-founder, Gabe Newell, on the recent hacking of Steam databases, which resulted in the comprising of user data.
Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users,
Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums.
We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked. We are still investigating.
We don’t have evidence of credit card misuse at this time. Nonetheless you should watch your credit card activity and statements closely.
While we only know of a few forum accounts that have been compromised, all forum users will be required to change their passwords the next time they login. If you have used your Steam forum password on other accounts you should change those passwords as well.
We do not know of any compromised Steam accounts, so we are not planning to force a change of Steam account passwords (which are separate from forum passwords). However, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to change that as well, especially if it is the same as your Steam forum account password.
We will reopen the forums as soon as we can.
I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience.
Gabe.
The good people at Nvidia have released a new set of GeForce beta drivers, complete with profiles for Bethesda Softworks RPG epic, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, as well as the newly-launched Battlefield 3!
You can download the 285.79 beta drivers at GeForce.com
o Fixes cases of irregular performance (stuttering) primarily seen on DirectX 10 GPUs. The fix improves the performance of both DX10 and DX11 GPUs.
o Fixes shadow map corruption seen with DirectX 10 GPUs.
o Fixes cases of black corruption lines/triangles with DirectX 10 GPUs.
o Aion v3.0
o Anno 2070
o Assassins Creed: Revelations
o Bastion
o Need for Speed: The Run
o Payday: The Heist
o The Adventures of Tintin
o The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
o Airline Tycoon 2 – rated Fair
o Assassin’s Creed: Revelations – rated Good
o Batman: Arkham City – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
o Deus Ex: Human Revolution – rated Excellent
o The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – rated Excellent
o FIFA 12 – rated Good
o Hard Reset – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
o inMomentum – rated Fair
o The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
o Smash Cars – rated Fair
o Two Worlds 2: Castle Defense – rated Good
o Zombie Driver – rated Excellent
The folks at Supercell have launched their Facebook-based, real-time MMORPG, Gunshine.net. You can find out more information on the title at the game’s official website.
