German developer Black Lion Studios has announced an advanced third-person shooter called Shadow Harvest, for the PC and Xbox 360 platforms. No word yet on a PS3 release. Using gameplay similar to the current ‘two-people vs the world’ seen in Kane & Lynch and Army of Two, Shadow Harvest will have you bounce between the two main characters in order to complete mission objectives. Mastering both of their abilities will be crucial and necessary.
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Shadow Harvest* is a highly immersive 3rd-person tactical action game set in the year 2025 on various current and future points of conflict around the globe. The game is in development for PC and XBOX 360. Featuring dual character control, amazingly realistic graphics and a refreshingly different storyline, Shadow Harvest is a completely new interpretation of the tactical-action genre. Being an ISA* agent, the first character, Myra Lee, has a background in espionage and stealth operations, while the other character, Aron Alvarez, is a hard-boiled close combat specialist of US Army’s Delta Force. Both characters are deployed as elite black-ops agents on various hot spots worldwide and behind enemy lines to cooperatively complete covert operations.
Sudoku fans, rejoice, for your dreams of playing the popular logic game on your Xbox 360 are about to come true. Scheduled for a second quarter release, Merscom’s Sudoku promises ‘innovative competitive and cooperative play’. It should be interesting to see how they add the multiplayer aspect to the usually solitary game.
Razer is known to gamers the world over for their gaming mice and keyboards. Only recently did they delve into the gaming audio market with their own sound card and headsets. Now they have teamed up with THX in order to bring gamers the Mako. The Mako is a desktop audio system designed to bring perfect reproduction of sound to your home/office. With a very advanced chipset designed to provide distortion-free sound, the Mako is quite the system. Something that didn’t make it to film due to it not doing justice to how good the unit sounded, was when the interviewer played come ‘cityscape’ noises. A motorcycle revved up in the track and you have thought it was right there in the room with you. In addition, Razer has added its sense of style to the volume control unit, which is all touch-based – no knobs or buttons. We will attempt to acquire one of these unit’s for an in-depth review and report back to you soon. Enjoy.