We love Blizzard Entertainment’s “Happy Holidays” cards. We have been fortunate to receive one for a few years now and this year’s is as cool as ever. Check it out!
Author - Jerry Paxton
Bethesda Softworks has announced that, since its release on November 11, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has shipped over 10 million copies. This amounts to roughly $650 million dollars in sales!
“We are gratified that Skyrim continues to garner high review scores and accolades around the world,” said Robert Altman, Chairman and CEO of ZeniMax Media. “We are most grateful to our fans for their support and enthusiasm for the game, and their love of the hundreds of hours of gameplay it offers. We continue to strive to deliver the highest quality entertainment experience for everyone. 2012 will be another huge year for our fans, with the release of the Creation Kit, as well as exciting DLC which will add to the richness of this epic adventure.”
Electronic Arts has released a new trailer for their upcoming Syndicate, showing off some new Agent technology.
Syndicate Deep-Dive: Agent Tech Trailer
Fans of Wargaming.net’s free-to-play, online tank game, World of Tanks, will be happy to know that their highly-anticipated “Update 7.0” has been released. The update fixes a huge number of gameplay issuesas well as introduces many new features.
“This is a huge-scale update that includes many of the long-expected features,” said Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming.net. “We are very excited to introduce the multicluster technology that will insure server stability, helping our players to enjoy World of Tanks even more.”
Some of the highlights:
· World of Tanks most anticipated update will include – Two new maps: Swamp and Fjords
· Tank customization: camo and horns.
· Tank company levels: Junior (tier 4), Medium (tier 6), Champion (tier 8) and Absolute (tier 10) divisions for company battles.
· Advanced visual effects: The new system of effects visualization will improve the quality of visual effects significantly (smoke, shots, and explosions) and will allow for lower system requirements for PCs.
· Replays of battles: players will be able to save replays of all battles they participate.
· Multicluster technology that allows adding one or several clusters to each server group. Users will have the opportunity to play on any cluster of the server group with the same, unified account
From Software and Namco Bandai Games have released some brand-new screenshots from the upcoming Armored Core V, which is due out in early 2012 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms.
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From the awesome astronomy department comes this image recently taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of IRS 4. IRS 4 is a new star, 15 times the mass of the Sun, that is just about finished being born about 1,000 light years from our position in the cosmos. You can get the full lowdown on this amazing view over at the official DiscoveryBlog.
Telltale Games has announced that their entire iOS catalog of adventure games has gone on sale for $2.99 per title. Here is the complete list of games as well as links to the App Store for each.
iPad (HD)
- Jurassic Park: The Game HD (iPad2 only)
- Law & Order: Legacies HD (available 12/22!)
- Telltale Favorites
- Back to the Future: The Game
- Episode 1: It’s About Time
- Episode 2: Get Tannen!
- Episode 3: Citizen Brown
- Episode 4: Double Visions
- Episode 5: OUTATIME – Finale!
- Tales of Monkey Island
- Episode 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
- Episode 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay
- Episode 3: Lair of the Leviathan
- Episode 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood
- Episode 5: Rise of the Pirate God
iPad (HD) & iPhone
- Hector: Badge of Carnage
- Episode 1: We Negotiate With Terrorists (iPad)
- Episode 2: Senseless Acts of Justice (iPad)
- Episode 3: Beyond Reasonable Doom (iPad)
- Episode 2: Senseless Acts of Justice (iPhone)
- Episode 3: Beyond Reasonable Doom (iPhone)
- Puzzle Agent Series
- Puzzle Agent (iPad)
- Puzzle Agent 2 (iPad)
- Puzzle Agent (iPhone)
- Puzzle Agent 2 (iPhone)
Tecmo Koei and Team Ninja have announced that the upcoming Ninja Gaiden 3 will be released on March 22, 2012 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms. Those who preorder NINJA GAIDEN 3 at GameStop and Amazon will get a special downloadable two-character demo stage from Team NINJA’s upcoming DEAD OR ALIVE 5 fighting game, giving fans an exclusive chance to experience the game before it arrives in stores in 2012. Meanwhile, the premium NINJA GAIDEN 3 Collector’s Edition offers a truly deluxe package that gives players a chance to play all four characters in the DEAD OR ALIVE 5 demo stage, an exclusive NINJA GAIDEN 3 “Unmask” game art book, soundtrack CD, and a unique “Duel of the Masked” figure not available elsewhere. Collector’s Edition only available at GameStop and EB Games.
“With NINJA GAIDEN 3, Team NINJA has created a fresh new way to take players behind the mask of the world’s greatest ninja, Ryu Hayabusa, where they must choose when to give mercy or wreak vengeance to learn what it means to be a dark hero,” said Amos Ip, SVP and General Manager of Tecmo Koei America. “Our preorder packages at GameStop and Amazon and our massive Collector’s Edition will give true fans their first chance to experience the unique fighting action of DEAD OR ALIVE 5 on day one when NINJA GAIDEN 3 ships.”
11 bit Studios has announced that their tower defense game, Anomaly Warzone Earth, will be hitting the XBLA platform sometime in the Spring of 2012. Earlier in 2011, the game was released to high-acclaim on the Windows and Mac PC platforms. Checkout some announcement screenshots below!
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Lionsgate Films has released the first teaser trailer for their upcoming The Expendables 2, which will not only see the return of most of the action stars from the first film but, also, Chuck Norris and Van Damme! Enjoy…
Trailer