Author - Jerry Paxton

DARK Skills Trailer #2

2013/05/15

News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News, Xbox 360 News

May 15, 2013, Ridgewood, NJ – Today we are pleased to release a new trailer for DARK, our upcoming vampire-themed stealth/action title for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC. In the new trailer, you’ll get a close-up look at several of the vampire powers available to you, as the newly turned vampire, Eric Bane. Watch as Eric hypnotizes unsuspecting guards to slip past them or deliver a deadly strike. Or, use Regeneration to convert the blood of your enemies to health points! Watch the new video to learn more about these and other stealth-focused powers featured in DARK, which Kalypso Media will release this summer on Xbox 360 and PC.

Trailer

KONAMI to Stream Pre-E3 Show

2013/05/14

Jerry Paxton

E3, Geek News, News

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – May 14th, 2013 – Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced that GameSpot, part of CBS Interactive, will live stream its third-annual “Pre-E3 Show 2013” beginning at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET on June 6th on www.gamespot.com. The show will also stream via the GameSpot app on Xbox LIVE.

To promote the show, special tune-in announcements will air on CBS Television stations in eight major markets, reflecting the first time a gaming manufacturer’s online news event will be promoted on television stations across the country.

During this year’s show, KONAMI will update fans and gaming enthusiasts for the third year in a row by releasing company news, game trailers and exclusive interviews all prior to E3. The company’s Pre-E3 show will provide insight into upcoming products from its social games studios, feature behind the scenes footage and interviews for the next addition to the PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER franchise with Producer Kei Masuda, and provide the inside scoop on Hideo Kojima’s next title in the METAL GEAR SOLID series, METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN. Exclusive first-time access with developer MercurySteam and a brand new gameplay trailer for CASTLEVANIA: LORDS OF SHADOW 2 will be unveiled, in addition to other major company announcements.

“KONAMI is bringing back the Pre-E3 show once again this year, with the biggest and best content the company has to offer,” said Tomoyuki Tsuboi, President of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. “We have partnered with the best in the industry, CBS Interactive and Gamespot, to provide our fans updates on some of their favorite franchises, all in advance of the world’s marquee video game conference.”

“E3 is the biggest event in the gaming industry and GameSpot will cover every aspect of the event online, on mobile and now on-air with a pre-E3 show that we will produce and which will air on CBS Television stations nationwide,” said Ben Howard, Vice President of Programming for GameSpot. “In advance of our special, we will dedicate several of the promotions specifically to the KONAMI Pre-E3 show, to drive tune in for their event and to help bring game enthusiasts closer to one of the biggest players in the gaming industry.”

The promos featuring KONAMI will air on CBS television stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Seattle and Sacramento, as well as on CW stations in San Francisco, Atlanta and Seattle starting May 27th.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) event is one of the largest cultural events held in Los Angeles. Computer and video game companies, business partners, media, and industry analysts from over 90 countries will converge on the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 11th, 2013 to June 13th, 2013 to attend this year’s E3.

KONAMI’s third annual Pre-E3 Show 2013 will debut on June 6th, 2013 on Gamespot.com (http://www.gamespot.com/shows/gamespot-live/?event=konami-pre-e3-show-2013) beginning at 10:00 am PT/1:00 PM ET. Fans can also check out the show in its entirety on events.konami.com. Those who have an XBOX Live Account can also tune into watch the show on Xbox Live via the GameSpot app.

DUST 514 Launch Screenshots

2013/05/14

Jerry Paxton

News, PlayStation 3 News, Screenshots / Photos

CCP Games has launched its PlayStation 3 online shooter, DUST 514, which connects directly to the popular EVE Online on the Windows PC platform. In celebration, they have released some new screenshots.

Screenshots

Remember Me Interactive Journal Released

2013/05/14

Jerry Paxton

News, PlayStation 3 News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News, Xbox 360 News

Capcom has sent out word that an online, interactive journal from the upcoming Remember Me, is ready for checking out. The journal is written by Antoine Cartier-Wells, creator of Memorize and the tech that allows everyone’s memories to be recorded all the time, bought, and sold.

Interactive Journal Link

Remember Me is scheduled for release on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC in North America on June 4 and across Europe on June 7.

Twitch Launches Xbox Viewing App

2013/05/14

Jerry Paxton

News, Xbox 360 News, Xbox 720 News, Xbox Infinity News

SAN FRANCISCO – May 14, 2013 – Twitch, the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers, today announced the release of an app to watch Twitch directly from the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment console from Microsoft. Available for download from the Xbox Live® marketplace in the U.S., users of the app can tune into Twitch to watch a diverse array of live streaming content right from their living room. With Twitch’s audience now exceeding 34 million unique viewers per month, this latest expansion to Xbox 360 strengthens the company’s goal of being everywhere that gamers are.

“Our app for Xbox 360 brings Twitch video to the television and into the living room of millions of Xbox Live members for the first time,” said Emmett Shear, Twitch CEO. “The app will let every Xbox Live gamer find and watch streams of their favorite games from their couch! Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, it’s a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360.”

Since launching at E3 in June of 2011, Twitch has experienced explosive growth in viewership, now exceeding 34 million unique viewers per month. The Twitch app for Xbox 360 caps a long list of high profile partnership announcements with the video game industry’s biggest game brands, including Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Activision, Sony Online Entertainment, and others.

“We’re very excited to create more amazing Xbox 360 experiences. Twitch brings a whole new category of live gaming video content that Xbox 360 owners will love. Now you can get your fill of playing a game, then stay right there on Xbox Live and continue the experience by watching the world play,” said Martin Sacchi, General Manager, Content Acquisition at Xbox.”

With the new Twitch app for Xbox 360, gamers will be able to watch the top 300 live Twitch channels. Viewers will be able to browse videos by channel, by game and by featured content. The Twitch app is initially available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers in the U.S.

Along with launching this exciting new app on Xbox 360, Twitch will also host an exclusive broadcast following the May 21st #XboxRevealed event at 12:00pm PDT. The broadcast will be presented by Larry Hryb, aka Microsoft’s Major Nelson, live via the new Twitch for Xbox 360 app as well as Twitch.

War Thunder: Ground Forces Teaser Trailer

2013/05/14

Jerry Paxton

News, PlayStation 4 News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News

(MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION) — May 14, 2013 – Developer and Publisher Gaijin Entertainment announced that their hit franchise and military MMO game War Thunder will make its console debut on PlayStation®4 (PS4™) in time for the holiday 2013 season. War Thunder will provide PS4 players with unparalleled first person gameplay entertainment experiences that allows them to enter into action filled, highly explosive World War II battles from the air, mobilized on the ground or out at sea.

Gaijin Entertainment will optimize the potent power of PS4 and its next generation computer entertainment system to redefine War Thunder’s rich gameplay with powerful graphics and speed, intelligent personalization, deeply integrated social capabilities, and innovative cloud options. War Thunder will feature stunning lifelike dynamics of real-time flight and precision in its details of planes, tanks and war ships, and intuitive controls thanks to the new gamepad Dual Shock 4. The power of PS4 will allow developers to include improved head-tracking system, easier socializing tools, smart and easy options to record, stream and share homemade gameplay videos and will have full support of PlayStation Cloud.

“We’re convinced that our cooperation with Sony will not only make the War Thunder franchise better, but it will give our fans a new level of gaming experience that will figuratively blown their mind,” said Gaijin Entertainment’s Creative Director Kirill Yudintsev. “Partnering with Sony Computer Entertainment is the most natural progression for the War Thunder brand, from our hugely successful beginnings on PC with more than 1.5 million players, to our recent announcement that War Thunder is under development for mobile devices. We are excited to bring War Thunder to the leading next-generation platform, the PS4.”

Trailer

New Screenshots for Wolfenstein: The New Order

2013/05/14

Jerry Paxton

News, PlayStation 3 News, PlayStation 4 News, Screenshots / Photos, Windows PC News, Xbox 360 News, Xbox 720 News, Xbox Infinity News

Bethesda Softworks and MachineGames have released some new screenshots from their upcoming Wolfenstein: The New Order, which is scheduled for release in Q4 2013 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and next generation consoles.

Screenshots

Video Games: The Movie Kickstarter Begins

2013/05/14

Jerry Paxton

Movie News, News

(DALLAS, TX) May 14, 2013 – Mediajuice Studios announced today that it has launched a Kickstarter campaign to finalize its indie documentary film, Video Games: The Movie (http://kck.st/10F2eCG). Mediajuice Studios, which has created scores of trailers and live-action commercials for the world’s top video game brands, recently concluded a year’s worth of on-camera interviews with many video game icons and celebrities for Video Games: The Movie, and is now raising funds to complete post-production before releasing the film theatrically.

Video Games: The Movie is a documentary that hopes to entertain and educate people about the rich history, unique culture and exciting future of the video game industry through incisive interviews with the people who helped shaped the interactive entertainment industry, including Nolan Bushnell (founder of ATARI), Randy Pitchford, Cliff Bleszinski, and many others. Also included are some of geek and gamer culture’s leading celebrity voices such as Wil Wheaton, Chris Hardwick and Alison Haislip.

Directed by Jeremy Snead, Video Games: The Movie will tackle many of today’s hot button topics, including the questionable correlation between video games and violence, the exploration and elevation of video games as an art form, next-generation and future-generation gaming and the negative stereotypes that continue to plague the industry despite its popularity and commercial success.

“We have spent the past year gathering footage, speaking with industry founders, influencers, and pundits to get their take on what we’ve collectively created as an industry and where we’re headed. We’ve amassed an amazing library of footage that we think will help bring the true story of the video game industry into clear focus. We’re now headed into post-production and are looking to the community to get us to the finish line. We are on Kickstarter to generate enough funding to create the type of film the video game industry deserves,” said Jeremy Snead, director of Video Games: The Movie and president of Mediajuice Studios.

Mediajuice will use Kickstarter to fund post-production on the film, which includes editing, a musical score, voice over narration, the acquisition of licensed archival clips from as early the 1960s through the late 1990s, motion graphics, and the need to gain a handful of key interviews that are needed to cover the next generation of consoles as well as round out and better present the video game industry to viewers.

“I hope that once we’re done, Video Games: The Movie will stand as a benchmark for all other movies about the games industry; and that it will help dispel some of the nagging falsehoods that ignorantly plague game makers and players, and keep them from receiving mainstream acceptance like other art forms such as films, music and books. In the end, our hope is that this film will help further legitimize the industry and the culture to those who continue to disregard it without really spending time to learn about it,” said Snead.

Boris Salchow to Score FUSE

2013/05/14

Jerry Paxton

News, PlayStation 3 News, Xbox 360 News

Los Angeles, CA (May 14, 2013) – Composer Boris Salchow (Resistance 2&3, Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time) swaps his baton and orchestra for Moog synthesizers and rare vintage audio processors as he reunites with Insomniac Games to score their new sci-fi video game FUSE published by Electronic Arts. FUSE thrusts players into the roles of four elite, covert agents each with their own Xenotech weapon and set of unique skills used to fight to protect mankind from a deadly alien energy source known as FUSE. Salchow’s original score blends analog electronic elements, adrenaline infused drums and musical sound design to provide a foreboding and rousing sonic landscape for FUSE’s dark futuristic setting and intense co-op action experience. FUSE will be released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on May 28 in North America and May 31 in Europe.

German-born composer Boris Salchow is classically trained but just at home in the electronic music world. Combining these two worlds he began his scoring career writing commercials, promos and prime time television series for leading networks in Germany. Now based in Los Angeles Salchow has composed for feature films and video games including the internationally-released action thriller 80 Minutes, additional music for Elsewhere, and additional music for the Sony/Screen Gems’ teenage horror mystery Prom Night. Salchow ‘s music can also be heard in Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Sony’s Resistance 2, Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time, and Resistance 3. Salchow continues to write music for commercials, promos and trailers for some of the most prestigious brands in the world including Adidas, Audi, and Lamborghini.

Recently Salchow scored the feature film adaptation of the award-winning documentary series Germany From Above (Buena Vista International) recorded with a 70-piece orchestra and mixed at Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. This visually stunning film is comprised of breathtaking aerial shots of Germany. With only a few words from the narrator, the movie provided a unique opportunity to take the audience on an inspiring musical journey befitting the film’s grand scale. Germany From Above premiered with a special event at Germany’s largest movie theater, where Boris’ 90-minute score was performed live along with the film. For more information on Boris Salchow, please visit www.borissalchow.com.

FUSE is a four-person co-op, story-driven, action game that allows even solo players to experience the unique attributes of each agent by using the game’s LEAP feature – a feature that can be used to switch the player between the four characters at-will during combat. Each covert agent is equipped with unique skills and weapons that are not only necessary for survival, but also help create unexpected and extraordinary results. Xenotech weapons are powered by a volatile alien substance that gives players unique capabilities that expand their strategic options in and out of combat. Through lethal teamwork, players can complete objectives and kills to earn Fuse points for powerful upgrades. Players can also play online or offline and level up along unique character paths, allowing players to unlock more powerful Fuse-driven abilities as the game progresses. In addition, the game’s progression system is unified between different play modes, allowing players to continue improving their agents regardless of how they play. For more information on FUSE, please visit www.fusegame.com.

Expeditions: Conquistador Release Date

2013/05/14

Jerry Paxton

News, Windows PC News

Copenhagen, Denmark / Eschborn, Germany – May 14, 2013: Expeditions: Conquistador takes PC adventurers back to the time of the exploration and conquest of the Americas. This tactical role-playing game will be available for PC, Mac and Linux on May 30^th 2013 on Steam. Expeditions: Conquistador will also be available on GOG.com, Gamersgate and several other platforms.

Playing as a Spanish Conquistador, the player has to lead his or her party through the untamed wilderness of the New World, making hefty decisions along the way. Decisions that could significantly alter the course of history. The game project was financed through Kickstarter, and developed by the Danish development studio Logic Artists ApS. bitComposer will market Expeditions: Conquistador worldwide.

The digital version of Expeditions Conquistador will be available on the 30^th of May 2013 on PC, Mac, and Linux for just €19.99. The Game will be available on: Steam, GOG.com, Gamersgate, Greenman Gaming and Desura.

About Expeditions: Conquistador

It is the 16th century – an era of intrepid explorers and adventurers. In Expeditions: Conquistador, the player takes on the role of a famous—or infamous—conquistador, landing on the shores of the New World. On the search for gold, fame, and adventure, the player and a few companions venture into regions never before explored by Europeans.

Expeditions: Conquistador offers the player in single or multiplayer mode the opportunity to conquer an unknown continent, or to fight on the side of the indigenous people as they defend their homeland from the invaders. This will require not only tactical skills in battle, but also diplomatic finesse. In Expeditions: Conquistador, the variety of tactical possibilities in turn-based battles, the numerous role-playing elements, and the wide scope for decision making all pose an exciting challenge.

Further information on Expeditions: Conquistador can be found at: http://conquistadorthegame.com or www.bitcomposer.com

KEY FEATURES

Four different difficulty levels for beginners and pros alike. But beware: the Aguirre (pro) difficulty level is a real monster!
Brutal battles or peaceful diplomacy: survive all engagements on over 70 battlefields!
Discover the New World! Journey to legendary locations within the Americas and blaze the trail to mystical El Dorado.
Create your own troops! Choose from more than 30 characters, train your recruits, and lead them into battle. Direct their development from inexperienced beginners to skilled warriors.
Customize your main character with six unique player stats balancing strengths and weaknesses.
Journey across a gigantic world map and discover authentic and legendary places.
Challenge your friends in multiplayer battles, in both hot seat and TCP/IP mode.
Detailed strategy: a turn-based strategy role-playing game with plenty of retro charm in modern garb.