Wizards of the Coast today launched Magic 2014 – Duels of the Planeswalkers on PSN, on Xbox LIVE Arcade and PC via Steam. The iPad and Android tablet versions launched yesterday, Magic 2014 challenges players to “Ignite Your Spark” and help Planeswalker Chandra Nalaar in a quest for revenge as they track down a manipulative and dangerous Planeswalker foe.
An engaging storyline and strong integration with the Magic 2014 – Core Set ties the experience together for players, culminating in an end-of-summer Magic Celebration on 7th September, 2013 that brings all Magic fans together in stores across the world.
Magic 2014 – Duels of the Planeswalkers builds on the success of previous games in the franchise and adds all new features including 10 brand new decks, 15 new encounters, 10 new puzzle challenges, and an all-new Sealed Play mode, allowing players to open booster packs and build decks to play against the AI and other players. Magic 2014 players will get the first look at cards from the Magic 2014 – Core Set, including the highly anticipated Slivers cards, creating even more seamless integration between the online and offline games.
NAMCO BANDAI is taking the harvest of anime gaming to JAPAN EXPO, Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center this 4th-7th July. NAMCO BANDAI will be there in full force at Booth BF76 Hall 6, with worldwide exclusive hands-on demos, new game announcements, live fan events and much, much more.
This year’s line up will be including ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS 2 (PS 3) TALES OF XILLIA™ (PS 3) PROJECT X ZONE (Nintendo 3DS), TEKKEN REVOLUTION (PS3 : FREE TO PLAY), TEKKEN CARD TOURNAMENT (Android, IOS: FREE TO PLAY) and PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX + (PS 3, Xbox 360 ) and additional exclusive titles that will delight anime gaming fans; details will be revealed shortly.
Games fan events will take over NAMCO BANDAI Games booth BF76 Hall 6 each day of JAPAN EXPO with guest appearances including Tales of Series Producer Hideo Baba; TEKKEN Project Director Katsuhiro Harada, Tecmo Koei vice president Hisashi Koinuma, Koji Nakajima Publishing producer of ONE PIECE: Pirate Warriors series and others. After last year’s success, ICHIBAN KUJI, will return to NAMCO BANDAI Games shop space with a totally new anime and gaming catalogue; plus a range of feature never previously available outside of Japan will make NAMCO BANDAI Games shop an essential stop for anyone who can’t make it all the way to Japan to do their shopping for games goodies.
The booster cards for Tekken Card Tournament will be also available for the first time in the world at NAMCO BANDAI’s game shop “As the major consumer anime event in Europe, JAPAN EXPO is where NAMCO BANDAI Games reaffirms its position as a main Japanese anime video game publisher” said Olivier Comte, Senior Vice President, NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe. “We are also very pleased to bring exclusively to JAPAN EXPO highly popular anime games, Japanese RPG but also toys and figurines directly coming from the Namco Bandai group” Check out NAMCO BANDAI Games at Booth BF76 Hall 6, at Japan Expo this 4th-7th July, Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center, France.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II Vengeance is available first, exclusively on the Xbox Live online entertainment network from Microsoft beginning 2nd July. Vengeance, the game’s third epic Downloadable Content (DLC) Pack from Activision and its award-winning studio Treyarch, takes players to four diverse locations around the globe, including a deserted tropical island, a destroyed suspension bridge, an abandoned paintball course and the jungles of Myanmar. Vengeance also serves up a new addition to the game’s esteemed Zombies experience with “Buried,” where the undead residents of an abandoned subterranean Old West mining town have come back to claim their home.
“When it’s difficult to see the line between playtesting and leisurely gaming around the studio, it’s a sure sign that we’ve created something fun with Vengeance,” said Mark Lamia, Studio Head of Treyarch. “From the four multiplayer maps to our new Zombies experience, “Buried,”Vengeance continues doing what we set out to accomplish from the very beginning of development on Call of Duty: Black Ops II: pushing the boundaries of fans’ expectations.”
Call of Duty: Black Ops II Vengeance delivers four new, diverse multiplayer maps starting with “Cove,” where the stage is set for all-out conflict on this small, forgotten island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, with players battling it out amongst the wreckage of a jet that crash-landed during a smuggling operation gone wrong.Next up is “Detour,” a destroyed suspension bridge, high above an East Coast waterway, packed with scattered vehicles, exposed iron and collapsed pavement where the head-to-head action will play out on multiple levels.The third map, “Rush,” sets the stage for fast, close-quarters engagements in this paintball course turned full-combat arena, giving players new opportunities and challenges to use the cover to their advantage.Rounding outVengeance’s multiplayer maps is “Uplink.”In this re-imagined adaptation of the fan-favorite multiplayer map “Summit” from the original Call of Duty®: Black Ops, players clash deep in the rain-soaked jungles of Myanmar, high atop a hi-tech mountain facility.
Treyarch yet again expands the Zombies storyworld in new, mind-bending ways with “Buried.” Players meet up with old characters and will encounter new ones as they face off against the undead residents of an abandoned underground Old West mining town. A healthy arsenal of equipment and weapons that will be at players’ disposal, but with one very special addition – something so powerful it will also appear in all other Call of Duty: Black Ops II Zombies maps (with the purchase of Vengeance DLC): the Ray Gun Mark II.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II Vengeancewill be available first, exclusively on Xbox Live for Xbox 360 for 1200 Microsoft Points on 2nd July, with other platforms to follow.
Sony has announced that next Tuesday, 2nd July, at 9.00am BST you will be able to get your hands on the demo for Gran Turismo 6.
In addition, Sony has announced that if you live in one of the GT Academy regions* then the demo could also be the ticket for your chance to race for real with Nissan.
“The demo is structured as a GT Academy-style driver training concept where you progressively learn the skills required to push very expensive track monsters at full speed round impossible apexes. The course where the action takes place is Silverstone, the spiritual home of GT Academy (and one of the brand new confirmed GT6 track locations in GT6),” says a post on the PS Blog.
“In GT Academy regions, once you’ve cleared the earlier rounds you will then have your shot to post your time to the leaderboard and see if you have got what it takes to progress to the next stage.
“Regardless of whether you are in one of the GT Academy eligible countries or not, once you have proved your skills and made the grade through the initial rounds you will unlock special bonus content.”
The demo will remain live until 31st August 2013, but if you’re in the GT Academy hunt you have until 11.59pm BST on 28th July 2013 to take a step towards a chance of a real life racing career.
*GT Academy regions: France, Italy, UK, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, Germany and Russia
Dropbox has updated it’s iPhone and iPad app to version 2.3.
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.
Read your docs or flip through your albums when you’re out and about. Save photos or videos to your Dropbox and share them with friends in just a couple taps. Even if you accidentally leave your iPhone in a taxi, your stuff is always safe on Dropbox.
Features:
Always have your stuff with you, no matter where you are.
Add files to “Favorites” for fast, offline viewing.
Easily save photos and videos to your Dropbox.
Share your photos and docs with family and friends.
Save email attachments straight to your Dropbox.
What’s New in Version 2.3
• Easily share a link to a folder
• Swipe on any file to quickly share, move, delete, or favorite
• Select and share multiple photos with your family, friends, and other humans
• Bug fixes and other magical performance improvements to keep you happy
At E3, I ran into Nolan North and he was kind enough to sit and talk to me about a few things. Well, he talked, and Deadpool talked, and a few others talked too…..
You may recognise Nolan’s name – he has been the voice of many video game characters, including Nathan Drake and can be heard as the merc with the mouth, DeadPool.
During the interview he occasionally references Jennifer Hale, you can’t see her in the video but she is sitting next to me while I talk to Nolan.
Anyway, over to Nolan, and Nathan, and Deadpool, and… well, over to Nolan:
Mission accomplished! I, Deadpool, have created the ultimate Deadpool video game masterpiece! I call it…wait for it…DEADPOOL!
It’s pretty much the greatest thing I’ve made (besides my ill-fated root beer float hot tub incident of ’93) and is available now in popular retail establishments and most major chimichangerias (like a taqueria…but with chimichangas!) across the UK. Oh yeah, and those video gamey and comics guys at High Moon Studios, Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), and Marvel Entertainment kind of helped, too.
“I’ll never forget the day I threatened convinced Peter Della Penna, the head of High Moon Studios, to make a kick-ass, third-person comic book video game with extreme combat and bikini-exploding action, starring me,” said Deadpool, Big Chief and Head Honcho of Things & Stuff regarding DEADPOOL at High Moon Studios. “Peter looked me lovingly in the eyes and said in return, ‘Deadpool, I’ll do whatever you want; just please stop filling up my kitchen with pancakes!’ It was that first moment where I really felt like Peter and I had a connection – an understanding that has stuck with me to this very day. Coincidentally, his family dog stuck with me too, you know…for leverage.”
Fans can rest assured that the first order of business while making DEADPOOL was purchasing a life-size replica statue of me for High Moon Studios, so that my outstanding team of talented, dedicated nerd types could gaze endlessly at it in order to make the digital me look as good as real-life me. I also instructed them in the art of building a fast, fluid combat system that mixes all my upgradable bang-bangs with my mad kung-fu-chop saki skills and mutant abilities, so the Deadpool in DEADPOOL (i.e. that’s me…heh…), is a one-stop wrecking machine, perfect for stealth and balls-out explosive frontal assaults alike. Forget walking away from explosions in slow motion – I jump right into them to see how hot they are…REGENERATIVE HEALING FACTOR, baby!
I also filled a windowless room with terrifying spiders and locked…er…hired veteran Deadpool writer Daniel Way and provided him with really, just a stupid amount of spiders a “package” to convince him to pen a script that would befit Marvel’s most lovable character’s debut as a leading man. DEADPOOL is the rare game that plays with you while you play with it, delivering a $#!t ton (it’s just a better system of measurement, people – I can’t stress that enough) of fourth-wall-eviscerating humour voiced brilliantly by yours truly, doing a bang-up imitation of what it would be like if a young up-and-comer I discovered named Nolan North were trying to sound like me (Got that?…).
I am currently available and accepting dating offers – please send full-body shots. In other news, my DEADPOOL video game is also now available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and on Windows PC. If you’re not into hard, packaged goods, the digital me is also available for digital download (Did you think I wouldn’t diversify my distribution network? In this economy? Newbs!) on the PlayStation Network for the PS3 and Steam. I will also be available later this summer on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360. And of course, I…DEADPOOL, am rated PEGI 18! Because if there’s one word that describes Deadpool, it’s “mature.” Want more information? Well, let your fingers inappropriately caress your keyboard over towww.DeadpoolGame.com, or follow along at www.facebook.com/RealDeadpoolor on Twitter @RealDeadpool.
And here is the crazy launch trailer – take it away Deadpool:
Xbox One will not include the headset as a pack-in accessory. Because Xbox One includes Kinect, gamers will be able to use that for chat instead. However, should you want a more intimate trash-talking experience whilst online, a new Xbox One headset will be sold separately.
Microsoft has confirmed the omission to Ars Technica, stating that Kinect features “highly sensitive multi-array microphones designed to enable voice inputs and chat as a system-level capability, both in-game and with Skype and other experiences.” Unfortunately, you cannot use your old Xbox 360 headset, as it is not compatible. After the U turn last week from Microsoft about the always online and DRM, now this can’t Microsoft do anything right for this New Generation of console.
But the Playstation 4 comes with a headset not a very good one, it doesn’t look like something you have to get too excited about.
Sony has announced the SmartWatch 2. The wearable device syncs up with an Android smartphone and is compatible with a wide range of approved apps, from fitness software to weather applications.
Basic smartphone features such as call handling, reading text messages and social networking can also be carried out using the watch.
Measuring in at 9mm thick, the SmartWatch 2 is water-resistant and features a 1.6-inch 220×176 display equipped with anti-glare technology.
Sony claims that the SmartWatch 2 offers between three to four days of power on a single charge and comes with Bluetooth 3.0 and NFC connectivity on board. Sony SmartWatch 2 SW2 will be available worldwide from September 2013 priced at €199. It will be launched today at the Mobile Asia Expo, Shanghai.
The Sky Pirates of Tyria update arrives today! This next update further develops the Living World saga with a new dungeon to explore, new events, rewards and features, not to mention the announcement that Custom Arenas and Spectator Mode is coming out of beta.
Details of the update include:
New Story Dungeon: Aetherblade Retreat
Find the hidden entrance to the Aetherblade base and take the fight to the pirates. It’ll take skill, courage, and no small measure of agility to battle through to the Aetherblade Captain and First Mate.
Sea of Sorrows Scavenger Hunt
New permanent content to celebrate the 25th June launch of the new Sea of Sorrows novel by our very own Ree Soesbee, Narrative Designer at ArenaNet.
New Rewards
A variety are available, including Aetherblade caches, a First Mate Horrik miniature companion, a stylish monocle and more.
Skill and Trait Balance Update
The largest balance patch ever is being introduced in this build, which includes significant updates to traits and skills to introduce more viable build diversity. Updates also have been made to some less popular skills to improve their effectiveness.
Custom Arenas and Spectator Mode leaves Beta
Custom PvP arenas allow players to host private matches, and customise their map settings. This feature is leaving beta, which means that Custom Arena Starter Kits will be available for anyone to purchase in the Gem Store. Spectator Mode also is officially out of beta. Together, these two features allow for practice, competitive play and tournaments.
Mortar Mastery Joins the Growing List of World vs. World Abilities
Players can increase their mortar effectiveness by training in Mortar Mastery. Improvements in this line include increasing mortar blast radius, beefing up on damage, reducing skill recharge, and even adding a new skill, Mortar Barrage.
To celebrate the launch there is a new video available:
For more information about Sky Pirates of Tyria and Guild Wars 2 please visit www.guildwars2.com. And stay tuned for an exclusive interview with Guild Wars 2 Lead Content Designer Mike Zadorojny.
And in case you missed it, we recently interviewed the Guild Wars 2 Game Director Colin Johanson:
The first screenshots from Eternal Descent: Heavy Metal Heroes, the comic book/heavy metal, action-packed 3D scrolling endless brawler, that is launching next month on iOS before coming to future gaming platforms. The creator of Eternal Descent Llexi Leon and the game dev is PLA Studios.
The shots come from the game’s first city-based stage and feature nomadic warrior Sirian, who wields an electric guitar as a demon-slaying weapon. He’s basically more rock ‘n roll than One Direction and Bieber could ever hope to be.
Nordic Games is doing the final testing for its new point and click adventure The Raven – Legacy of a Master Thief, developer KING Art has just shared a new blog detailing the four biggest changes in their dev diary at http://raven-game.com/en/blog/.
“The Raven is the most complex adventure we have made to date. We have tried a lot of new things and put a lot of work into the game. The result is approximately 20 hours of a mystery adventure with a convoluted story, in which you play both the investigator and the delinquent”, said Jan Theysen, Cofounder & Creative Director of KING Art.
The Raven – Legacy of a Master Thief will be released in three chapters, first chapter – 23rd July 2013, second chapter – 27th August 2013, third chapter – 24th September 2013.
The boxed version including all three chapters will be released 24th October 2013. Coming out for Xbox 360, PS3, PC and Mac
WWE 2K14‘s cover art has been revealed on an episode of WWE Raw.
Unveiled during a segment involving Vickie Guerrero, Brad Maddox and Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler, the cover art features Wrestlemania 29 headliner Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.
2K Games is hosting a competition in which fans can create an alternative cover by downloading images of their favourite performers.
The upcoming wrestling release has also been given its first gameplay trailer, which combines current superstars with WWE legends.
The video features appearances from the likes of Shawn Michaels, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Macho Man Randy Savage, Ryback and John Cena. The game will be released on October 29 in North America, with a European launch likely to follow on November 1.
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