Watch the Mortal Kombat X Official Launch Trailer, preparing fans and gamers for the epic narrative of Mortal Kombat X to unfold on April 14. The launch trailer, directed by System Of A Down bassist Shavo Odadjian, sets the stage with glimpses of iconic moments, a cast of new and returning Kombatants and heart-pounding fight sequences set to the band’s hit song, “Chop Suey!”
via Mortal Kombat X – Official Launch Trailer | PS4, PS3 – YouTube.
Warner Bros has announced another delay to the release of Batman: Arkham Knight. The game will now hit shelves June 23 instead of the previously announced June 2 release. Arkham Knight was first marked for release in the latter part of 2014.
Check out the review for Homeworld Remastered from our friends at PC Gamer – Homeworld Remastered review
This week brings us a varied collection of old and new, with titles arriving on new platforms and anticipated exclusives arriving. Bloodborne headlines the pack, but there’s a lot of variety in this bunch.
Turbine’s DC Comics-themed MOBA, Infinite Crisis, emerges from beta later this week, and Slender: The Arrival arrives on both current-generation consoles. Those of you waiting for a big PC RPG to sink your teeth into can look to Obsidian’s Kickstarted title, Pillars of Eternity.
Here’s the full list:
Out of the Park 16 (PC) – March 23
Bloodborne (PS4) – March 24
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection (Xbox One, PS4) – March 24
Glorkian Warrior (PC) – March 24
Lego Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin (Vita, 3DS) – March 24
Slender: The Arrival (PS4) – March 24, (Xbox One) – March 25
Etherium (PC) – March 25
Infinite Crisis (PC) – March 26
Pillars of Eternity (PC) – March 26
Forza Horizon 2 presents Fast & Furious (Xbox One, 360) – March 27
via New Releases This Week: March 22 Through March 28 – News – www.GameInformer.com.
Bloodborne is the latest Action RPG from renowned Japanese developer FromSoftware, in collaboration with SCE Japan Studio, available exclusively for the PlayStation 4 system and available this Tuesday March 24th.
via Bloodborne – Cut You Down Trailer | The Hunt Begins | PS4 – YouTube.
According to the game’s creative director Uncharted 4 has been delayed into 2016. The game was originally slated for 2015 though a date was never announced. Find more info on the delay here: Sony Blog
One month from today, Mario Kart 8 will be driving players wild with anti-gravity racing action. To get people revved up for the Wii U game, Nintendo released a new Nintendo Direct video that announced some additional news nuggets, including a Mario Kart 8 Wii U bundle, a free downloadable game offer for Wii U owners who buy Mario Kart 8, details about online features, cool new characters and devastating new items.
Some of the new information announced today included:
Mario Kart 8 Wii U Bundle: People who don’t yet own a Wii U system will find it easy to get in on the action. On May 30, Nintendo is releasing the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Set bundle that includes a Wii U Deluxe Set system, a Mario Kart 8 game, a red Mario Wii Wheel accessory and a red Mario Wii Remote Plus controller, all at a suggested retail price of just $349.99.
Get a Free Digital Game: People who buy Mario Kart 8 and register the game with Club Nintendo before July 31 will receive a free Nintendo eShop download code for an additional Wii U game. Players can grow their Wii U digital game collections by choosing from one of these well-received Wii U games: New Super Mario Bros. U, Pikmin 3, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD or Wii Party U. That’s a two-for-one deal featuring some of the all-time great Wii U games. This offer also applies to people who get the game in the Mario Kart 8 bundle or digitally in the Nintendo eShop.
Online Multiplayer: Up to 12 players can race together online in four different multiplayer modes, as long as everyone has a broadband Internet connection. Like to trash-talk your friends while you’re preparing for a race? You’re in luck! Mario Kart 8 lets players chat with one another in the lobby area using the Wii U GamePad microphone or text phrases as they wait for their friends to join. Players also can create public or private tournaments for which they specify the day of the week, the time and the rules. Per tradition, players will be able to race against ghost data from friends or even the top 10 worldwide racers. They can try to beat them or just pick up a few tips and tricks from studying the best. If you beat the development team’s ghosts, you’ll get cool stamps for use in Miiverse posts.
Mario Kart TV: As previously announced, players can watch their highlight racing reels, rewind them, play them in slow motion or upload them to Miiverse. They can watch the world’s most popular highlight reels and comment on them. But players with Google accounts can also upload their reels directly to their YouTube channels.
New Items: Items are what make Mario Kart games so balanced. No matter how skilled racers are, they’re just a blue Spiny Shell away from disaster. A well-timed item can also turn defeat into victory in an instant. The new Super Horn blows away all other items – literally. Sounding the Super Horn issues forth a sonic shock wave that blasts away everything in the vicinity, including other drivers, Red Shells and even blue Spiny Shells. It’s a potent asset, especially for drivers trying to maintain their lead. Mario Kart 8 also introduces the Crazy Eight, a swirl of eight different items that lucky players can use one by one.
New Racers: Two new playable female characters make their debut appearances in Mario Kart 8. New heavyweight driver Pink Gold Peach glows with a golden light and makes a nice counterpart to Metal Mario. Baby Rosalina shows up for a play date with other Baby characters. As in past Mario Kart games, players can again choose to play as their Mii characters, which rounds out the field of racers to an even 30.
Mario Kart 8 is now available for pre-order at major retailers throughout Canada. A deposit may be required for pre-orders. See individual retailers for details. For more information about Mario Kart 8, visit http://mariokart8.nintendo.com.
via Press Release
Previously available to the Public, but as an open beta, Smite has officially been released. Developed by High-Rez Studio’s, Smite is a new take on the existing MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) style game. Instead of the classic view (overhead birds-eye view) that you normally get in these kinds of games, Smite changes this to a 3rd person view. Now as small of a change as this seems, it makes a HUGE difference in the way the game plays, and I think this change makes the game much more friendly to new users. Because you are using WASD to move and your mouse to look around, the game has a much more action oriented feel to it.
There are a variety of game modes, but the classic 5 VS 5, three lane Conquest Mode is the meat and potatoes here. They have also taken deity’s from mythology around the globe and created champions out of them, from Greek, Egyptian and Norse Mythology, all the way up to Hindu and Chinese Mythology, there are at current count, 51 gods playable in the game. They are also slowly adding more gods as time goes on, they have not stated yet how many they plan to add to the game, but so far they have a great assortment that can fit to a variety of play styles.
Smite is Free to Play, there is a weekly God rotation that cycles through the free gods available that week, as well as you can use in game currency or “Favour” as they call it, which you get by completing matches, or spend real money on Gems, which you can then use to buy gods, as well as skins for those gods. All in all not to uncommon for this kind of game, and it is a system that works well.
There are ranked games and Ladders in the game, and they are definitely aiming to get the game into e-sports with the built in Twitch Streaming as well as the fact that this weekend they are kicking things off with a rather large tournament in Atlanta, with more then $200k in prize money up for grabs. for more information on the tournament, you can go here.
For the launch of Smite they also sent along this very cool Cinematic trailer showing off a few of the gods in Smite, you can take a look at that below.
All throughout the Beta I have been playing my fair share of Smite as well and you can see some matches and how the game plays at the links below.
So what else can I say really, this game is worth the download, and I have been playing the crap out of it recently, and this in spite of the fact that Titanfall has come out. It really is kind of like the MOBA for people who can’t/don’t like MOBA’s. At the very least it is free, and if you can’t get into it, well that is fine, no harm no foul, but I def urge you to take a look at it.
To download the game and get playing, head here to SMITE.
By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
@DayneCody
So it is no secret that the last Alien game, Aliens: Colonial Marines was not very good, but it appears that Sega wants to try again. This time they have decided to go in a different direction, and they are hoping to scare the pants off you in this upcoming survival horror game.
According to the press release, Alien: Isolation is set 15 years after the events of Alien and you play as Ripley’s daughter, Amanda, as she searches for the truth behind her mother’s disappearance. Going to a survival horror game should bring back more of the feeling from the movie, and I am hoping that it will make for a much better game then the last one.
You can check out the release trailer for Alien: Isolation below.
Alien: Isolation is slated to be released sometime in Fall 2014 for the PC, Xbox One, PS4, Xbox 360 and PS3. You can find out more from their Website.
By Dayne Anjel” Cody
@DayneCody
So over the Christmas holiday’s this phenomenal fan film, Croft, was released. Created by Director Trevor Addie and Producer Irma Evangelista as a more gritty, hard hitting version of Lara Croft that falls much more in line with the newest game that was released last year. This is a fan film done right! Not to mention I can’t believe these guys did this film on virtually no budget, I would LOVE to see what they could do with some actual money behind them….. Here is hoping the studio is listening, let these guys do a real film!
Also you can also check them out on Facebook for all the latest updates. I I hope we can get the word out to see what they could get done with a Studio and a real budget behind them!
By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
@DayneCody
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