Pokémon X &
Y
Pokémon
is finally coming to the 3DS with the
newly announced Pokémon X & Y.
Yep they are so out of ideas that X
and Y, which can be used as stand-ins
for explanations that don’t want to give specific names to their examples, are
the actual names. It’s smart of Nintendo to finally transition their
flagship handheld franchise to the 3DS
and it is really interesting to see the game in 3D (not 3DS 3D, but N64 3D you
know). Speaking of which the combat now
looks like Pokémon Stadium and while
it seems cool and all I still wish they would make a Wii U exclusive title and maybe experimented with real-time or a
different type of turn-based combat. The
trailer is linked below
Halo 4 multiplayer
updates
343
Industries has released some details of their plans regarding Halo 4’s multiplayer for January and
February. It includes detailed weekly
playlist updates for the next three weeks as well as news that the second half
of Spartan Ops Season 1 is coming and
that their second map pack titled Majestic
will be released in February. Please
note that the info below is not 100% finalized but they did release it, so I
don’t see why or how they would fail to live up to their word.
Week of 1/21
-
Spartan Ops Episode 6: Five new missions and an accompanying new CG cinematic.
-
"Forge Test" playlist (name not final): A rotational hopper featuring
small Forge maps such as Relay. Help us test these maps by providing feedback
and reporting bugs that will assist us in getting them ready for Matchmaking!
-
Specializations: Pioneer and Pathfinder Specializations unlocked for all
players.
Week of 1/28
-
Spartan Ops Episode 7: Five new missions and an accompanying new CG cinematic.
-
Grifball playlist: A rotational hopper featuring everybody’s favorite virtual
sport. Catch the disease!
-
Specializations: Engineer and Stalker Specializations unlocked for all players.
Week of 2/4
-
Spartan Ops Episode 8: Five new missions and an accompanying new CG cinematic.
-
Team Doubles playlist: A rotational hopper for those of you that like action of
the 2 vs 2 variety.
-
Specializations: Rogue and Tracker Specializations unlocked for all players.
[Source:
Halo Waypoint]
The Walking
Dead Survival Instinct is coming to the Wii U
Activision’s
survival based FPS based on the
incredibly popular and incredibly awesome The
Walking Dead TV show has been confirmed for the Wii U. The game will make
use of the Gamepad for inventory
management and weapon swapping. I don’t
enjoy being pessimistic about a game because I would love for every game to be
great (well maybe not every game, I have a hard enough time keeping up with all
the great games as it is), but I just don’t have faith in this project. Terminal
Reality, the developers behind Survival
Instincts, is most noteworthy for BloodRayne
1&2, Ghostbusters: The Video
Game and Kinect Star Wars. That being said Telltale hadn’t done anything terrific either prior to The Walking Dead, but I felt like that
game captured what was core to me about The
Walking Dead and transitioned it into a game incredibly well. I feel like it would be very difficult to top
what they did and I worry that this will come out for more than twice as much
money as Telltale’s title and end up
as less than half the game that Telltale’s
is. The
Walking Dead: Survival Instinct will be available for 360, PS3, PC & Wii U on March 26th in NA and March 29th in
EU.
Cyberpunk
2077 trailer
CD
Projekt RED, the company that created The
Witcher 1&2, has released the
first teaser trailer for their new game Cyberpunk
2077 based on the pen and paper RPG
series Cyberpunk. The game is supposed to be an open-world RPG where people use cybernetic
augmentations to change things about themselves they don’t like or to look and
feel cooler (it is possible that with augmentations one could adjust or control
their body temperature but that is not what I meant by “feel cooler”). However, the more augmentations one undergoes
the greater the likelihood that the synthetic and organic material might clash
and cause mental breakdowns. The trailer
shows a squad of police officers and a Psycho
Squad agent attempt to deal with someone who has gone berserk in such a
fashion. I think the trailer looks
really cool but the initial image I saw beforehand of just the augmented woman
with blades out of her arms in a low cut top and underwear really struck home
to me how women do really have a right to complain about how they are
represented in games (not that I felt their claims were invalid before, it’s
just that my initial opinion of a game has never been “wow they really didn’t
think about female gamers at all”), that was the very first thing aside from
concept art that I had seen of the game and that is clearly designed with the
intension of arousing male interest and paying no attention to the female
audience. The makers of the game have
said that they intend for the game to look like the trailer does in terms of
graphical fidelity by the time it is complete in 2015. That is a pretty high bar to set and I’m
interested in seeing if they can actually meet it (I highly doubt it). Finally I want to point out that releasing a
trailer at the beginning of 2013 for a game that won’t be out till at least
sometime in 2015 is far too premature.
Games need to get their timing down better and release info when they
have something to show and are close to release not upwards of 2 years
prior.
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