Out this week in the world of Nintendo is Unepic (EnjoyUp Games) for £8.99/€9.99 for the Wii U via the eShop. Also the favourite plumber is back in Super Mario Bros : The Lost Levels (Nintendo) for the Wii U via the eShop for £3.499/€4.99.
With Ninja Gaiden III : The Ancient Ship of Doom (Tecmo Koei Games) out via the eShop again for £3.49/€3.99, Last but no least is Bella Sara 2 – The Magic of Drasilmare (Bigben Interactive) for the Nintendo 3DS (Card/Download)via the eShop £39.99/€34.99
Today Namco Bandai have released new information on the new characters that are joining NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM REVOLUTION impressive roster, among them we can count:
– The Second Mizukage and his deadly Water Pistol Jutsu.
– The Second Tsuchikage with his unique Particle Style.
– The Third Raikage, a legendary Kage, considered as one of the fastest and most powerful man earth has ever witnessed!
– Gaara’s father; the Fourth Kazekage and his ability to control gold dust.
One of the game’s main idea is the Combo Ultimate Jutsu; in order to use this powerful and advanced technique, Kakashi’s former Team 7 reunites! By combining their forces, Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura will be able to blast a terrific attack and show the world how strong the Sannin of the new Era are!.
Naruto Ultimate Storm Revolution will be out this year for both PS3 and the Xbox 360.
If you want to take some exciting projects with your Raspberry Pi, then you should take a look at the new book Raspberry Pi Projects from Andrew Robinson and Mike Cook.
Raspberry Pi represents a new generation of computers that encourage the user to play and to learn and this book is aimed at the beginner Raspberry Pi user who is eager to get started creating real-world projects.
Containing 16 practical projects this fun and informative resource introduces readers to the skills required in order to make the most of the Pi.
Beginning with a quick look at how to get the Pi up and running, and programming with Python, it then helps readers to get stuck in to an array of exciting software and hardware projects, including:
· Writing simple programs such as a tic-tac-toe game
· Recreating vintage games similar to Pong and Pacman
· Constructing a networked alarm system with door sensors and webcams
· Building Pi-controlled gadgets including a slot car racetrack, disco lights and a door lock
Raspberry Pi Projects is an excellent way to dig deeper into the capabilities of the Pi and to have great fun while doing it.
The book is 470 pages long, and is full of diagrams, images and code for you to get your teeth into. There are 16 projects in all and this book is a must if you want to do more with your Raspberry Pi.
Raspberry Pi Projects is available now in paperback and e-book priced £14.99 and is published by Wiley.
Have you ever wanted to upload your photographs from your camera to your smartphone or tablet as you take them but your camera doesn’t have that facility? With the Mobi SD card from Eye-Fi you can do that just, and here is our review.
Eye-Fi Mobi automatically transfers your photos and videos from your camera to your smartphone or tablet, no matter where you are. That’s because Mobi creates its own WiFi network. You take the pictures then watch them appear on your mobile device to enjoy and share, instantly.
Eye-Fi is dedicated to building products and services that help consumers manage, nurture and share their digital memories. Eye-Fi’s patented and patent-pending technology wirelessly and automatically uploads photos and videos from digital cameras and smartphones to online, in-home and retail destinations. Eye-Fi has helped people wirelessly upload more than 500 million photos since being founded in 2005.
Setup simply and instantly: Mobi has the simplest Eye-Fi card setup yet – no computer, no account and no cloud. Just download the free Eye-Fi app for iOS or Android, enter the Mobi card’s unique 10-digit code, and the mobile device is paired. Use the same code to pair as many mobile devices as needed.
Share real-time: High-resolution photos and videos instantly transfer from camera to a device’s photo roll/gallery. From there, edit and share with favorite apps.
Transfer anywhere: Built-in WiFi means no WiFi network, hotspot or internet connection needed for pairing or transfer; Mobi literally moves photos from camera to devices anywhere, whenever new content is detected.
Works with the devices users already own (and love): Mobi works with thousands of cameras.
Eye-Fi Connected: Many manufacturers have integrated the software support for the Eye-Fi technology into their camera’s.
Free Eye-Fi App: for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, including the Kindle Fire.
Backup automatically: Photos and videos transfer as they’re taken, so if anything happens to the camera, content is already safe on the mobile device.
Achieve lightning fast quality: Mobi reinforces Eye-Fi’s commitment to provide exceptional performance in SD memory – HD video, low light and fast action shots are easily captured with this high-performance card.
The packaging contains the SD card only.
Now that Christmas and the New Year are out of the way, many of us put getting fit at the top of our New Years resolutions. One piece of tech to help you to achieve that is the new NIke+ Fuelband SE, and here is our review.
The new Nike+ FuelBand SE is the smart, simple and fun way to get more active.
The box contains the Fuelband SE (with an 8mm link attached), a 16mm link, a sizing tool, USB cable, quick start guide and warranty documentation.
Here are the release notes for the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 4, EA and Dice have been busy this week releasing new patches for the game.
– Various fixes for improving general stability
– Fixed a player feedback timing issue where blood was appearing before other damage indicators, and before damage was actually done
– Fix for bug where it looked like soldier was dying with 1 health instead of 0
– Fixed a bug where players’ rank icons on the scoreboard would not be updated
– Normalized repair rates across all vehicles. Vehicles with lower health points, like aircraft and transport vehicles, now repair more slowly than before
– Fixed problem with killer health in kill card not being correctly updated (showing 100% health even though he was just hurt)
– Fix for friendly marker not always showing when needed to, resulting in players shooting team members
– Fixed a bug where the M1 Abrams Coaxial HMG ammo box was occasionally blocking the driver’s camera
– Increased damage by 25% for the Stealth Jet 20mm cannons
– Stealth Jets now have more similar handling attributes to each other. F35 & J-20 are slightly more agile, Su-50 is less agile
– Attack Jets now have more similar handling attributes to each other, and all 3 are now slightly less agile than earlier
– Fixed camera glitch when switching weapons while moving in crouch
– Fixed an occasional bug where players could experience intermittent engine sound dropouts when driving wheeled IFVs
– China Rising: Fixed animation glitch for motorbike passengers occurring when aiming
– Fix for first and third person soldier animations being out of sync while doing transition changes. This could potentially make the player get hit while in cover behind a wall or other obstacle
– Fix for map and minimap flickering on Rogue Transmission and Operation Locker
Back in September we told you that WD had redesigned their My Book for Mac external hard drive range, they also redesigned their My Book range and now its time to review the 4TB My Book.
Secure your precious memories on My Book desktop storage. This USB 3.0 drive is optimised for the fastest possible data transfer rates and features complete protection for your files. WD SmartWare Pro automatic backup software protects your precious memories, while Acronis True Image WD Edition helps ensure the security of all the information on your PC. Password protection with hardware encryption keeps your private stuff private.
From their website:
We are thousands of people worldwide working to enable you to store, collect, access, and use a vast and growing body of digital information. Our reliable hard drives and solid state drives, marketed under the WD and HGST brands, are everywhere that digital information and content is found: in the cloud, supporting your mobile digital lifestyle; in business and personal computers; in external storage devices; in the digital video recorder in your home; and in sophisticated medical, military, aerospace, automotive, manufacturing and telecommunications systems. We also make media players that enable you to enjoy your digital content on the biggest screen in your house – your TV. Our customers range from some of the largest companies in the world to individual users like you.
The box contains the My Book, a power adaptor, USB 3.0 cable and a quick install guide.
Tecmo Koei Europe announced today that upcoming title Deception IV: Blood Ties will be released across Europe on the 28th March 2014 for the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Vita.
In this imaginative follow up to the classic Tecmo title ‘Devil’s Deception’, first released in 1996 on the PlayStation, players can get a taste of what it’s like to play on the side of evil. Much like its predecessors, Deception IV: Blood Ties is a strategy focused action game revolving around a deceitful main character known as the Devil’s daughter who, assisted by three Daemons, defeats her foes through trickery.
Deception IV follows the story of Laegrinna, an animated fragment of an imprisoned Devil’s soul, as she battles her enemies by mischievously luring them into strategically placed traps. From rolling boulders and spiked walls to spring boards, Iron Maidens, human cannons, falling bathtubs and banana peels, the player can choose from a multitude of dramatic, sadistic, and comical traps in order to finish off an enemy
Setting traps is not enough though, as they need to be activated in turn. Timing also plays an important role, as an untimely activation could result in Laegrinna falling into her own trap or allow her rivals to catch up her. Depending on the manner an enemy is killed or captured the Devil’s three servants: Veruza, Caelea and Lilia (each representing a different aspect of cruelty: Sadistic Torment, Elaborate Death and Humiliating Demise) reward points and upgraded traps
Players will be able to upload their combos online (PlayStation 3 version players can upload their videos to or challenge other players to beat their highest-scoring, funniest, or sadistic combos. Other network elements include leaderboards for total Ark (points accumulated in a level), clear time etc as well as uploading and downloading user created missions (Cross-Quests). PlayStation Vita boasts a few additional features and using the touch screen to select and activate traps
For all dragon fans and fantasy lovers, 2014 is beginning on a high note. The online role-playing game Dragon’s Prophet developed by Runewaker
Entertainment and published by Infernum Productions just received a major update for mounted combat. A trio of healing, tanking, and damage skills are now available for dragons, which allows for a more dynamic combat experience and creates entertaining fights for players to enjoy.
Whether a player wants to specialize in a single area or be more versatile, it’s entirely up to them! But that’s not all: The update also includes the new high-level dungeon “Shrine of Handras”, which offers fresh obstacles for Osirans to overcome.
The new features give the game more depth, let the players develop an even stronger relationship with their dragons, and results in a more dynamic flow of combat!” says Marco Neubert, Director of Brand Management.
Another highlight of the patch is the legendary Dungeon “Shrine of Handras“. Explorers will find the entrance to the fully submerged instance in the southeastern region of Olandra. Inside the shrine, brave adventurers will find a number of belligerent water monsters, dangerous whirlpools, and five fearsome bosses. Only those who have paved the way through the algae forest, past sunken ships and giant clams, will face the final battle with the dragon Handras.
SEGA has announced that its award-winning strategy game Company of Heroes 2 will receive a massive STEAM promotion this weekend, including free offerings for new as well as current players. During the STEAM Free Weekend, prospective new players now have the chance to try out the popular RTS (real time strategy) game by simply hitting “play” in their STEAM library. The entire base game will automatically appear in every user’s library for free that started yesterday on the 16th January, 2014, 10 am PST and Sunday, 19th January, 2014, 1PM PST.
During the same period, all paid multiplayer commanders for Company of Heroes 2 will be available for free as well, including for those players participating in the free trial. Additionally, SEGA also announced that Company of Heroes 2 will be seeing a 66% off sales promotion over the weekend, offering the game at USD 13.59/£ 10.19/€11.89/AUSD 16.99.
Have a look at the latest screenshots from Dark Souls 2, lots of new characters from Drangleic appear through this new batch of Screenshots.
• 3 old ladies and the Housekeeper: Milibeth.
• Emerald Herald, the mysterious lady.
• One of the few Drangleic survivors who wanders endlessly with his furniture on his back: Merchant Hag Melentia.
• A cursed lost undead blacksmith: Blacksmith Lenigrast.
• A cursed Knight from Mirrah: Lucatiel of Mirrah.
• An apostol called blue knight: Blue Sentinel Targray.
Along with the new characters, lot of new items, features and places are shown, among them:
• The Deep Pit, a complicated 3 dimensional map.
• Majula, a place at the extremity of Drangleic.
• A Human Effigy, an item that could save more than one life.
• And much more $B!D(B
DARK SOULS II will be launching in Europe and Australasia on March 14, 2014 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 with the PC edition to follow shortly in 2014.
For those of you luckily enough to own a PS4 (and according to Sony there’s quite a few of us now) Resogun is free to play. So at least you’re guaranteed something to play!
Essentially you will scroll left and right on a cylindrical map blasting shooting and dodging your way through waves of enemies. Your primary goal is to save humans, although it’s not always obvious why a human has died or if one even needs saving. It’s definitely satisfying to rush in and bravely destroy the enemy to save someone but it’s not always obvious when this should happen. Simply moving your ship over a human will pick them up and then you must transport them safely to a checkpoint to save them.
There are small visual clues that show you when and where to be but in a game like this a huge unsubtle beacon wouldn’t look particularly out of place. Amongst all the explosions and lasers it can be pretty difficult to see what to do. Luckily losing humans makes little impact on the gameplay and will just reduce your score. It’s satisfying when it all goes well but can be a tad frustrating at other times.
But at least the difficulties are (surprisingly) very well done. Players of Super Stardust HD will certainly appreciate it. If you want you can progress through the game with very little chance of complete failure. And if you want you can make life very difficult for yourself. The only exception being the last level which can get pretty tricky even on the lower difficulties.
There’s still a challenge to be had but only if you go looking for it. And even if the higher difficulties aren’t enough for you, you can always go for high scores and slowly climb your way up leader boards.
If you look at it, since the very dawn of game development a primary goal has been to essentially reduce visible squares. But Resogun’s looks makes a particular point of showing off its squares. Rather than exploding realistically anything you destroy will burst into a pleasing shower of sparks and cubes. There’s barely a curve in sight and it looks great. High definition certainly helps but Resogun is a brilliant game to show what the PS4 can do.
And to go along with all the visual thrills is an upbeat and punchy soundtrack that adequately reflects the pace of the gameplay. Resogun is certainly energetic and that’s simply not possible without a suitable soundtrack. Luckily Resogun delivers and doesn’t allow the music to break the pace.
Addictive score beating gameplay and good looks makes Resogun a great game to have on the PS4’s starting line-up. There’s an endless energy to Resogun’s explosions and vibrant lighting ensuring the pace stays high. It’s a great launch game to show off some PS4 goodness and it’s totally free for Playstation Plus members. So if you haven’t already get over to the store and give it a try.
Today, Ubisoft and The Tetris Company announced a partnership to develop the iconic Tetris franchise for digital channels on Xbox One and the PlayStation4. The Tetris franchise celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2014 and has sold hundreds of millions of units worldwide across more than 50 different platforms since its launch in 1984. Tetris-branded products are available in more than 50 languages and in 185 countries around the world.
“We welcome Ubisoft to the Tetris family. I am 100% sure they will develop one of the best versions of the Tetris game ever,” said Henk B. Rogers, managing director of The Tetris Company, LLC.
“We’re very excited to start working with this world-renowned brand, and can’t wait to combine Ubisoft’s expertise and all the capacities of next-gen consoles to create an exciting new Tetris experience for fans,” added Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft co-founder and CEO.
Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare is coming to Xbox One, and Xbox 360 has been delayed by a week now its out on 25th February in North America and starting 27th February in Europe.
Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare is a 3rd person shooter like no other. It is the only game where you shoot peas from your face, invade the skies as a garlic drone and… get to play as a zombie with a dolphin gun! Crazy Dave also wants you to know that plants will have all-new reinforcements – Ice Pea, Hot Rod Chomper, Future Cactus and Mystic Sunflower – characters outfitted with special abilities, new gameplay mechanics and cool costumes.
More Brainzzzzz… A brand new gameplay developer diary launched today that showcases four-player co-op gameplay mode Garden Ops where the Yeti and Giga-Gargantuar bosses make their debut in Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare! In Garden Ops, you play in squads of four working together to defend a garden base until Crazy Dave arrives to extract our heroes. Successfully defend the garden through the 11 zombie waves and earn huge rewards.
Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare – 4 Player Co-Op Gameplay with Developer Commentary
One of the most anticipated games of 2014, Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare features three distinct modes – two 12v12 competitive multiplayer modes called Garden & Graveyards and Team Vanquish, and the four-player co-operative mode Garden Ops. In Garden & Graveyards, plants must defend their garden bases from zombies attempting to turn them into spooky graveyards. Players can also square off in Team Vanquish as they try to send the other team to the compost pile.
