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Hotel Transylvania Coming To The Nintendo DS And 3DS

Minneapolis, MN- July 23, 2012- GameMill Entertainment, an independent publisher of entertaining mass-market video games, announced today its plans to release Hotel Transylvania for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS, an action-adventure video game based on Sony Pictures Animation’s upcoming animated comedy Hotel Transylvania.  Hotel Transylvania the game is set to hit store shelves this September. Hotel Transylvania the film will be released in theaters nationwide on September 28, 2012.

Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of his best friends – Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Werewolf family, and more – to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis’s 118th birthday.  For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem – but everything could change for the overprotective dad when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis.

Featuring a wide variety of locations, puzzles, and boss battles galore, the game creates an imaginative and fun way to interact with the movie characters.  Developed by Way Forward, Hotel Transylvania for Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS is rated “E10+” for Everyone 10 and up by the ESRB.  For additional information about GameMill’s line of products, please visit: www.game-mill.com.

Ron Moravek Joins THQ As Exec VP

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. – THQ Inc. today announced Ron Moravek has been appointed Executive Vice President, Production reporting directly to THQ President, Jason Rubin. Moravek joins THQ’s management team as the company is moving quickly to embrace new strategic business models, digitally connected experiences, and a more focused, high-quality game slate.

Moravek has over 14 years of experience in the videogame industry as both a creative development executive and business entrepreneur. Moravek co-founded and was COO of Relic Entertainment where he was a key member of the executive team that negotiated the sale of the studio to THQ in 2004, and served as the studio’s general manager until 2006. Over the next several years Moravek was VP and COO of Electronic Arts, Canada and co-founded and ran two different software companies. Most recently, Moravek served as a senior advisor to NuCaptcha, a cloud-based internet security platform, where he was responsible for developing the go-to-market and business growth strategy for their enterprise platform.

“Ron is an exceptional development executive with unique perspective on the industry from both a creative and business point of view,” said Rubin. “His entrepreneurial experience as well as his ability to drive dynamic teams is a great fit for our strategic objectives. Additionally, Ron’s experience building high-quality products will help us continue to deliver great games and build upon our foundation to innovate digitally in the future.”

“I am thrilled to be re-joining THQ and to be working with Jason and the development teams around the world to deliver high-quality games and digitally connected experiences,” said Moravek. “There are many exciting changes affecting the videogame industry today, and I look forward to building new games and experiences with Jason and the team at THQ.”

Moravek holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Dance Central 3 Release Date And Tracks Announced

Cambridge, MA – July 23rd – Get your living rooms ready for the hottest dance party of 2012!  Harmonix is excited to announce that the latest installment in its best-selling dance franchise on Kinect for Xbox 360, Dance Central 3, will be available in stores on October 16th in U.S., Canada and Latin America, and October 19th in Europe, Asia, Australia and Japan!

With more than 40 tracks on the disc, Dance Central 3 includes previously announced music by Usher, 50 Cent, Cobra Starship, and more. Today, Harmonix is announcing 11 additional tracks for the soundtrack, each with authentic dance routines created by professional choreographers, including:

  • 2NE1 – “I Am The Best (Original Version)”
  • Alice Deejay – “Better Off Alone”
  • Backstreet Boys – “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”
  • J.J. Fad – “Supersonic”
  • Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz ft. Ying Yang Twins – “Get Low”
  • LMFAO – “Sexy And I Know It”
  • Los Del Rio – “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)”
  • Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera – “Moves Like Jagger”
  • Vanilla Ice – “Ice Ice Baby”
  • Vicki Sue Robinson – “Turn The Beat Around”
  • Village People – “Y.M.C.A.”

Dance Central 3 will feature a fun and exciting story mode that has players traveling back through time to learn classic dance moves from past decades alongside their favorite crews and characters from the series. Today, Harmonix revealed that Flash4ward, a fan-favorite crew made up of Taye and Lil’ T, will make their return in Dance Central 3, repping the fly look of the 1990s in a killer house party venue! Stay tuned for reveals of both new and familiar faces in some surprising venues in the coming months.

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops II Video With Trent Reznor

They made a behind the scenes video for Call Of Duty: Black Ops II and it rocks.

Here’s the official description:

To create a game like Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Treyarch assembled some of the greatest talents in the world. David S. Goyer (co-writer of The Dark Knight Rises), Trent Reznor (Academy Award-winning composer of The Social Network), join Studio Head, Mark Lamia and the game’s Director, Dave Anthony, to discuss the relationship between movies, music and games, as well as the creative process behind Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

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Paradox On Tour With Rock And Games

NEW YORK— Paradox Interactive, self-proclaimed masters of game publishing and power chords alike, today issued a warning to the world: starting today, game fans everywhere had better be ready to rock. Paradox

Interactive has its roadies working around the clock, loading weapons into the tour bus, pumping the tank full of starvoid, and preparing to embark on a coast-to-coast tour where six upcoming games will perform a series of incredible shows.

To follow the excitement all summer long, Paradox Interactive fans are being issued a backstage pass in the form of the Paradox on Tour Blog, featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes developer stories, world premiere videos, special guest

profiles for the upcoming War of the Roses tournament (announcement coming soon!), and plenty of rock’n’roll pictures.

The lineup of games hitting the road with Paradox is as follows:

Salem: The Crafting MMO – Live the grungy life of a colonial settler in an unforgiving MMORPG

War of the Roses – Engage in brutal team-based melee combat and give your enemies a taste of your death metal

A Game of Dwarves – A really underground dwarf management sim; only if you are part on the exciting underground scene will you have heard about it

Dungeonland – Co-op hack & slash with an alternative twist: one evil GM controls the dungeon against his “friends”

Starvoid – Multiplayer real-time strategy in space with an army of techno-droids

The Showdown Effect – Freestyle sidescrolling combat with a fusion of 1980s character archetypes

SPECIAL SURPRISE GUEST – An unannounced game will make its debut during the tour… don’t miss it!

The Paradox on Tour Blog kicks off with an all-new video of Salem, making its worldwide debut. To follow the tour and catch the latest exclusives, visit http://paradox-interactive-on-tour.tumblr.com/

War Of The Roses Tournament Airing On TwitchTV

NEW YORK – As part of its Six Games and Rock ‘n’ Roll tour, Paradox Interactive today announced that it will host a tournament of champions for upcoming medieval multiplayer game War of the Roses.  Pitting game industry veterans against each other in the first ever US tournament for the ambitious and gritty third-person action title, the live stream event will take place on July 27 from 4pm-8pm PST and can be viewed at www.twitchtv.com/paradoxinteractive

Billed as one of the most brutal tournaments to take place this year, the entire competition will be broadcast online via TwitchTV and will play host to a variety of specially invited guests that will get the chance to play against (read: stab) each other while the whole world is watching.  Totaling 20 competitors in all, these exclusively invited individuals include broadcasters SeaNanners, TotalBiscuit, Angry Joe, and many more, as well as developers from Paradox Interactive and a team of miscreants from TwitchTV. Commentary will be provided by War of the Roses producer Gordon Van Dyke and gaming veteran Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez.

War of the Roses is a gritty third-person multiplayer action game that seeks to put large teams of players into the muddied mail boots of medieval soldiers, allowing them to unlock a wealth of persistent elements as a 1,500lb mounted knight, nimble archer, cunning footmen or anything in between.

Tune in LIVE and see the mayhem unravel by heading to the official Paradox TwitchTV channel at www.twitchtv.com/paradoxinteractive .  Players who like to get their hands dirty can sign up for the War of the Roses beta at www.waroftherosesgame.com .

Here is one of the E3 2012 trailer!

Hard Reset: A Visual Journey Released For Free

To celebrate the 75% off Steam Sale on the old school FPS Hard Reset Extended Edition, the folks at Flying Wild Hog have release The Art of Hard Reset: A Visual Journey as a free pdf.  The file is filled with concept art, renders and the price is definitely right.  All you have to do is go to http://www60.zippyshare.com/v/95173254/file.html or http://www.mediafire.com/view/?r22dnwyc25rn5w2 and download away!  The Steam Sale only goes through July 23rd so if you like what you see act fast.

NAMCO BANDAI Announces Ninostarter For Ni no Kuni

NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. is giving JRPG fans the opportunity to add additional bonus items to the recently announced Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – Wizard’s Edition through a program called Ninostarter. Ninostarter is an exclusive North American crowd sourcing initiative where NAMCO BANDAI Games America will harness the enthusiasm of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch fans to unlock additional items that will be included in the North American Wizard’s Edition when the game ships on January 22, 2013.

Ninostarter works by tracking the number of Wizard’s Edition preorders being placed exclusively on www.clubNamco.com; as the Wizard’s Edition preorder numbers rise, additional Wizard’s Edition items will be unlocked when pre-established levels of preorders are reached. Fans will have to act fast to unlock additional items in the Wizard’s Edition as clubNamco.com will stop taking preorders for the Wizard’s Edition on August 31, 2012 in North America.

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is an epic tale of a boy name Oliver traveling between two worlds on a noble quest to save his mother.  The game is developed by the critically acclaimed Japanese development studio, LEVEL-5 (Professor Layton video game series).  Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch features animations and cut-scenes produced and supervised by the legendary Japanese animation company, Studio Ghibli, (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away) and features music scored by the world-renowned composer Joe Hisaishi.

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch will be available on the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system on January 22, 2013 in North America.  For more information about Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, please visit: http://www.namcobandaigames.com.  To track the progress of Ninostarter, please visit: www.ninostarter.com.

Here’s a trailer!