By Anonymous on Apr 17, 2015 12:19 am
 Capcom has a slate of Mega Man games it's bringing to the Wii U Virtual Console in North America next month. And, much as it did last year, it's letting fans decide which one comes out first. Six new Mega Man games for Game Boy Advance in all are slated for release on Wii U during Mega May 2015. This includes Mega Man & Bass, Mega Man Battle Network 3 Blue and White, Mega Man Battle Network 4 Red Sun and Blue Moon, and Mega Man Zero 2. You can vote for which of these four (each of the two Battle Network variants is counted as one game for release date purposes) you want to see launch on May 7 over on the Capcom Unity blog. The remaining games will then be released chronologically, one per Thursday, for the remainder of May. Unfortunately, we can't see the current results of the poll, so the winner will be a mystery until after the end of the voting period, which runs from now through April 29. Among GBA games on the Wii U's Virtual Console, the Mega Man series is better represented than any third-party franchise, with four games already available, including the first two Battle Network games. A price for the new games wasn't announced, but the previous Mega Man GBA games cost $7-$8 each.
By Anonymous on Apr 17, 2015 12:02 am
 Check out this trailer to learn more about the commanding Guardian, an all-around support and tanking class.
By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2015 11:45 pm
 With the game a success, you can now buy a variety of Bloodborne-themed merchandise, including a limited-edition statue that costs $220. The 10-inch statue is likely to be the most in-demand item, as it truly is limited edition: Only 1,000 are available, and each one is individually numbered. It's not due out until September, but ordering one requires a $100 deposit, with the remaining $120 (plus shipping) being charged once it's actually ready for release.  If your budget is a bit tighter, other Bloodborne items are also available. This includes a t-shirt sporting the game's box art ($20), a pint glass with the game's name ($15), and a messenger bag ($60). There's also the gorgeous, limited-edition lithograph seen above for $40, of which only 300 are available. You can see all of the merchandise on the PlayStation Gear Store or in the gallery below. Sony says more is on the way, but there's no word on what any of it might be. Bloodborne was released last month exclusively for PlayStation 4, and it's already gone on to sell more than one million units.            
By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2015 11:35 pm
Today at the Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, Disney released the next teaser trailer for Star Wars Episodes VII - The Force Awakens, which comes to theaters on December 18, 2015. This new video follows the first Force Awakens teaser trailer that was released in November 2014. In Star Wars gaming news, Electronic Arts and DICE will reveal new details about Star Wars: Battlefront tomorrow, April 17, starting at 10:30 AM PDT. You can watch the reveal live. Battlefield Hardline developer Visceral Games is also working on a new Star Wars game, rumored to be an open-world title. Disney acquired the Star Wars franchise in October 2012 in a $4 billion deal with George Lucas. What questions linger in your mind after watching the trailer? Let us know in the comments below!
By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2015 10:43 pm
 Nintendo has updated Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, but has offered little in the way of details on what's been changed. That's left it up to players to discover the minutae of what the patch does: Nerf Diddy Kong, among many other things. Diddy Kong is widely regarded as being overpowered, and has been since shortly after this newest Smash Bros. first landed on 3DS last year. This led to serious concerns when it was announced in December that the game wouldn't be receiving any further balance patches. And although Nintendo hasn't officially announced any specific balance changes for this 1.0.6 patch, players have discovered quite a few, which are being tracked on Reddit.  There are the mundane, expected changes, like the addition of Mewtwo-related content throughout the game, as well as new features like an option to trigger Smash attacks by pressing A and B simultaneously or an indicator that shows who's talking in an online friends match. Then there are the actual balance tweaks. Quite a few characters have been changed in one way or another; Link's Up+B attack now does more damage, while Sheik's Bair now does less. But it's Diddy Kong who appears to have been affected as much as any character. Many of his attacks now do less damage--Side-B grabs and kicks, up and down throws, certain air attacks--with the accompanying knockback they cause also being reduced. Whether that's enough to make players happy with him remains to be seen. You can check out the full, continuing-to-evolve rundown on the patch's changes in this thread on Reddit. Nintendo, for its part, did make note of the update in today's weekly press release on eShop releases, but it only called attention to two things: the need to update before playing online and the ability to buy new Mii fighter costumes. These include Link, Majora's Mask, and Mega Man getups, which can be had individually for $.75 each, in a 3DS/Wii U bundle for $1.15 each, or in a complete bundle for $6 (per platform) or $9.20 (for both platforms). You can see all of these in the gallery below.         
By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2015 10:30 pm
Last year's Wolfenstein: The New Order took us back to an alternate 1960s where the Nazis had won World War II, much to the displeasure of a gruff B.J. Blazkowicz, who had spent the preceding 14 years in a coma. The upcoming standalone DLC Wolfenstein: The Old Blood takes us back even further in time; all the way back to the 1940s, in fact, and the the ascendance of the Nazi war machine. The Old Blood is being developed by The New Order's Machine Games, and we spoke to executive producer Jerk Gustafsson about what changes to expect in the upcoming game, what new weapons and enemies we'll see, and much more.  What would you say are the most significant changes from The New Order to The Old Blood? Jerk Gustafsson: One of the major differences in terms of presentation is that The Old Blood has a persistent first-person perspective. The whole story is told from B.J.'s point of view which creates a more intimate play-through experience. Another difference is that we have been able to do some nice rendering updates as well as being able to create larger and more detailed environments as we've only focused on the new consoles and PC. The Old Blood's combat spaces are, in general, more open and include more enemies--while still running the game in 60 frames per second. What new weapons will be available in The Old Blood? We have a bunch of new weapons in The Old Blood. Even the ones that have been carried over from The New Order, like the knife, assault rifle, and handgun have been revised and refined. Specifically, the assault rifle has gone through some major improvements--it's now a lot heavier and fast-firing. It's highly entertaining--especially when dual-wielding. Then we have weapons that are completely new. The pipe, for instance, is a melee weapon that can be used both for getting around the levels and for performing gruesome takedowns on enemy soldiers. We also have a brand new and very efficient shotgun, a high precision bolt-action rifle, which can be upgraded with a scope, and a fun and powerful weapon called The Kampfpistole. How about new enemies? A few new examples from The Old Blood's enemy roster are the marksman, a new enemy-type equipped with a sniper rifle, and the heavy soldier who wields a semi-automatic shotgun. There are two new variants of supersoldaten and a new type of drone. In addition to that, we have a few surprise enemies which we can't go into detail on at this point in time.  Are both parts of the game (Rudi Jager and the Den of Wolves and The Dark Secrets of Helga von Schabbs) going to be available right away? The Old Blood will ship with both parts--Rudi Jäger and the Den of Wolves and The Dark Secrets of Helga von Schabbs. The storyline for each part focuses on one of our two major villains, Rudi Jäger and Helga von Schabbs. However, the two parts are not narratively disconnected--there is an over-arching storyline which binds them together. Is The Old Blood 1080p on Xbox One and PS4 just like The New Order? Yes, the game is 1080p on both Xbox One and PS4. You teamed up with Meshuggah's Fredrik Thordendal for The New Order. Did he write any music for The Old Blood? No, the music for The Old Blood is composed by Mick Gordon, who also made most of the music for The New Order. There is some truly great music in the game. To create The Old Blood style, Mick recorded live with a string quartet, and spent time manipulating a broken mandolin and cello for percussion and other weird sounds. Mick also prepared a piano by attaching nails, screws, clamps, chains and barbed wire to the inside of the piano, so when the keys were pressed the objects would bounce around and create chaos. As in The New Order, we also try, as much as possible, to offer a good balance of stealth and action.
Where does this sit in the timeline? As The New Order was a direct sequel to Wolfenstein 2009, can we expect other characters from either game to appear in The Old Blood? The Old Blood is a prequel to The New Order, taking place in 1946, just a few months before the assault on Deathshead's compound. There is a cameo appearance by one of the characters from The New Order, but I won't spoil who it is. Other than that, The Old Blood features a brand new story set in the German Alps with new allies and villains. . As we're infiltrating Castle Wolfenstein, can we expect more homages to the original Wolfenstein 3D? More secrets? More pushwalls? Mecha Hitler? Just like with The New Order, the game contains many nods to Wolfenstein 3D; secrets, dog food, difficulty settings, you name it. To us, it's more than just paying tribute to the original Wolfenstein--it's about the continuation of the spirit of that game. The Old Blood is also heavily inspired by, and definitely pays homage, to one of my personal favorites of the franchise: Return to Castle Wolfenstein. How does The New Order's open spaces and variable combat approach translate to a location such as Castle Wolfenstein that is typically comprised of cramped stone hallways? The Old Blood offers great environment variation and we really want all of the combat spaces within these environments to include different route possibilities in addition to allowing players to approach combat scenarios with their preferred playstyle. As in The New Order, we also try, as much as possible, to offer a good balance of stealth and action. I do think that we have succeeded with the above in the more cramped areas (like some of the ones inside Castle Wolfenstein) as well as in the more open areas. The levels overall feel sprawling and very inviting for exploration and trying out different approaches to obstacles. Parts of the game also take place in the area around Castle Wolfenstein and in part two, The Dark Secrets of Helga von Schabbs, the story takes us to a medieval German town called Wulfburg which players get to explore.
By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2015 10:27 pm
[UPDATE 2] The panel has ended, but you can watch a brand new Force Awakens teaser trailer right here. [UPDATE] The event has now begun! What are you hoping to see/learn/hear? Let us know in the comments! The original story is below. We're not expecting any news about Star Wars: Battlefront until tomorrow. But director J.J. Abrams and producer Kathleen Kennedy will share new details about the upcoming movie Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens in just a few minutes, live from the Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California. Abrams and Kennedy are speaking today during a panel at the Star Wars Celebration. You can watch the entire event through the YouTube streaming video embed above. The Force Awakens hits theaters on December 18, 2015. Looking ahead, Electronic Arts and DICE will reveal new information about Star Wars: Battlefront tomorrow, April 17. That event kicks off at 10:30 AM PDT and it will be streamed live.
By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2015 09:30 pm
The backstory and continuity of the Deus Ex series are complex to the point of confusion. When you have multiple shadowy organisations, mysterious characters controlling puppet governments, and a cornucopia of conspiracies running alongside all of this, things can get confusing. With Deus Ex: Mankind Divided picking up two years after the end of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, it's worth refreshing your knowledge of what happened at the end of Adam Jensen's first adventure, and what the state of Deus Ex's world is. Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Deus Ex: Human Revolution and the original Deus Ex. The fall of PanchaeaPanchaea was a massive, geo-engineering Arctic installation ostensibly created to combat global warming, and was the setting for Human Revolution's finale. The facility also contained a secret broadcast centre which, toward the end of the game, emitted a signal that caused all augmented humans around the world to hallucinate and go berserk. Jensen reaches the signal source and shuts it down, and is then left with a choice of four endings. He can broadcast a video that reveals the Illuminati's responsibility for the augs' mass frenzy, thereby causing humanity to abandon mechanical augmentation. Or, he can blame the incident on the anti-augmentation political groups, increasing support for augmentation. Alternatively, he can put the blame on the corporations creating augmentations, which results in intense restrictions on the use of the technology. Finally, he can cause the facility to self-destruct, never revealing the truth behind the incident and leaving humanity to determine how to view augmentations for themselves. According to an interview which originally appeared in the latest issue of GameInformer, this last ending is the point from which Mankind Divided continues its story. However, Eidos Montreal is also weaving in select elements from the other three endings to construct the state of the game's world. Finally, although Human Revolution implied Jensen would go down with the ship, Mankind Divided's reveal trailer shows his eventual rescue from the Arctic ocean. What does that mean for the state of the world in 2029? Humanity has come down hard on mechanical augmentations. In some parts of the world, those who possess them are forced into ghettos. Organisations of augmented people have resorted to terrorist attacks to fight for equality. And soon, a referendum will take place, with humanity voting on some kind of definitive stance on augmentations as a whole. All of this has resulted from Jensen's destruction of Panchaea.  The return of Adam JensenJuan Lebedev, a key character from the first Deus Ex, is a member of the Juggernaut Collective.Rescued from the wreckage of Panchaea and disillusioned with the result of his actions, Adam Jensen joins Task Force 29, an Interpol-led anti-terrorist group. However, Jensen doesn't fully trust his new employers, and is secretly feeding information to a group called the Juggernaut Collective. This isn't the first appearance of the shadowy group of hackers--they featured prominently in Human Revolution's prequel novel, Deus Ex: Icarus Effect (and its retelling-turned-follow-up, Deus Ex: The Fall) as well as in Human Revolution's DLC, The Missing Link. Not much is known about the Juggernaut Collective, but the group has some significant ties to people and organisations that became major players in the first Deus Ex game. They support a United States secessionist organisation called the New Sons of Freedom--the same organisation which would later become the National Secessionist Forces, or NSF, in Deus Ex. Together with the Juggernaut Collective, these two groups form what is essentially an "anti-Illuminati" coalition. Given Jensen's affiliation to them, Mankind Divided should set the stage for some interpersonal conflict as well as shadowy wheeling and dealing. At the end of Human Revolution, Megan Reed--Jensen's ex-girlfriend--is heard in conversation with a character which implies she is joining the Illuminati on their next project. That character is Bob Page, the unnamed conspirator seen in Human Revolution's introduction movie, and the primary antagonist of the first Deus Ex game. The rise of the IlluminatiWhat new projects are the Illuminati working on in 2029? Given what we know about the first Deus Ex, and the ending of Human Revolution, there are three that stand out. Before conversing with Megan Reed, Bob Page asks for the wreckage of Panchaea to be searched for technology that can be used for something called the Morpheus Initiative. This is a reference to the Morpheus artificial intelligence that can be found and spoken to in the first Deus Ex: a precursor to an AI named Daedalus that the Illuminati creates in an attempt to control the world's electronic information. VersaLife's logo, as featured in Mankind Divided's trailer.In the same conversation, Reed also refers to a nanite virus, implied to be a precursor to the Gray Death plague that is ravaging the world as the first game begins. This nanite virus is manufactured by VersaLife, a corporation controlled by Bob Page, and one whose logo features in the Mankind Divided trailer. The nanite plague is a kind of research and development, designed to accelerate the creation of the next generation of nanoaugmentation technology. The most significant aspect of Mankind Divided's setting of 2029 is that it's the same year in which the first Deus Ex game's protagonist, JC Denton, was born. He and his brother Paul are some of the first people physiologically able to accept the next generation of augmentations. Human Revolution reveals that Jensen is the first human being capable of being augmented--with the present mechanical augmentations--without requiring an expensive drug called Neuropozyne to prevent his body rejecting them. How do we know this? The very first book you can read in Human Revolution reveals that Reed has been experimenting on Jensen's DNA without his knowledge.  The mechanical apartheidAll of this is pointing to the notion that Mankind Divided may have much stronger tie-ins to the original Deus Ex. Jensen's destruction of Panchaea left the Illuminati with the ability to create Daedalus, and his DNA is likely facilitating the creation of the Gray Death and later nanoaugmentation itself. There's a reason Megan Reed is shown in Mankind Divided's first trailer: it's only through her actions at the end of Human Revolution that the future of the Deus Ex universe can come to pass. With public opinion on mechanical augmentation split down the middle, the time is ripe for the shadowy cabals to make their next move. How this happens is something we'll have to wait for Mankind Divided to find out. And as the achievement you earn by finishing Human Revolution is called "The D Project", and has a picture of JC Denton's face, it's highly likely we'll see Jensen and the Dentons' lives begin to cross.
By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2015 06:30 pm
 Investigating the English countryside before the apocalypse.
By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2015 06:13 am
 No, thank you, directors mode.
By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2015 06:03 am
 In this brief tutorial, we'll explain how to populate the self radio station with your favorite tunes in GTA V.
By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2015 05:44 am
 Check out this trailer from Bandai Namco's Global Gamer Day for Godzilla, coming to the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 on July 14, 2015.
By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2015 04:30 am
 Watch these two teams duel it out in J-Stars Victory VS+.
By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2015 04:30 am
 Natsume Atari's upcoming game will have you fighting kaiju from the old-school shows.
By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2015 04:30 am
 The NRDC want the Xbox One to save power, Phil Spencer has nice things to say about Sony and Bloodborne, and GameStop will buy/sell retro consoles!
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