Episode 6 of PAYDAY – the web-series is out now and draws us closer into the seedy world of “Vlad and Gage.” Special Agent Griffin is getting too close to CrimeNet…Bain sends Vlad to have a friendly chat with her…but will she get the message? Co-op heistshooter PAYDAY 2 is out now on Steam, PS3, Xbox 360, Playstation Network and Microsoft’s Games on Demand.
Tonido Brings Remote File Access Access and Unlimited Media Streaming to Windows 8 Devices
CodeLathe have launched a new Windows 8 mobile app that lets individuals watch videos, listen to music, see photos and open documents that are stored on their computer (PC, Mac or Linux). This personal cloud service allows Windows 8 device user to enjoy and share their personal media without worrying about storage limits, privacy and data security.
Tonido offers users secure access to their home computer’s entire collection of documents, photos, music and videos from anywhere without having to upload them to a public cloud service. Individuals simply download the free Tonido server app to their desktop and the free Windows 8 app to their mobile devices.
The app safely connects users to the files stored on their desktop within seconds. Users can access their files via Wi-Fi or 3G mobile networks, backup their photos and videos from their Windows 8 devices to their Tonido personal cloud and download files for offline viewing.
Tonido’s Windows 8 App will offer the same unique features that are enjoyed by over one million users on iOS and Android devices:
· Remote File Access – Browse files and documents, download them locally, edit them and re-upload.
· Download for Offline Use – Save files locally so they are available without internet access.
· Music Streaming – Stream an entire music collection without saving it to a device.
· Video Streaming – Easily stream videos and iTunes playlist from a computer to Windows 8 devices.
· Sharing – Share selected files, music and media to guest users either via direct links or email.
· Media Organization – All music, photos, videos are indexed by name, date and information such as artist, album and genre.
· Complete Compatibility – Tonido persona cloud software is available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
· Plug-and-Play Remote Access – No fiddling with router settings.
· Simple Access from Any Device – Easy to remember web URL provides access to a personal computer.
The Tonido server app is available for free at http://www.tonido.com.
The Tonido Windows 8 app is available from the Windows Store at http://www.tonido.com/windowsstoreapp/
Changing an F1 tyre with David “Crofty” Croft for F1 2013
With Codemasters F1 2013 game out now, I had the chance to try my hand at changing an F1 tyre, and who better to commentate on my performance than Sky Sports F1 Commentator David “Crofty” Croft.
So here I am giving the tyre change a go:
And my time – well, it wasn’t the fastest time of the day, but it wasn’t the slowest either!
F1 2013 features all the cars, circuits and star drivers from the 2013 season, allowing gamers to race as Lewis Hamilton in his Mercedes and Sergio Perez in the McLaren-Mercedes for the first time, and includes all of the new drivers, updated rules, tyre changes and remodelled handling to authentically reflect the challenge and exhilaration of racing 2013’s stunning roster of FORMULA ONE cars. A range of game enhancements, split-screen and online multiplayer, plus new and returning game modes delivers the most complete FORMULA ONE experience in videogame history.
And if you want to see the interview with Crofty where we talk all things F1:
F1 2013from by Codemasters is available now for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC.
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Exclusive Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag interview with Jean-Sebastien Decant and Darby McDevitt
At a recent visit to Abstergo Entertainment to see Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag I had the opportunity to talk all things AC4 on International Talk Like a Pirate Day with Jean-Sebastien Decant and Darby McDevitt from Ubisoft.
The year is 1715. Pirates rule the Caribbean and have established their own lawless Republic where corruption, greediness and cruelty are commonplace.
Among these outlaws is a brash young captain named Edward Kenway. His fight for glory has earned him the respect of legends like Blackbeard, but also drawn him into the ancient war between Assassins and Templars, a war that may destroy everything the pirates have built.
Darby McDevitt (pictured left) is the Lead Writer for AC4 and Jean-Sebastien Decant (pictured right) is the Lead Game Designer .
In the interview we talk about AC4 and it’s inspiration, we reveal a spoiler for AC3 (for those who still haven’t finished it) and we talk about the present day elements, amongst a few other things, and there is a lot of brand new gameplay thrown in too!
Over to Jean-Sebastien and Darby:
Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag will be released November 1st on Xbox 360, PS3 and WiiU. It is also coming on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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Exclusive Batman: Arkham Origins interview with Ben Mattes
Warner Bros will be releasing Batman: Arkham Orgins later this month and I recently had the chance to sit down with Ben Mattes from Warner Bros Montréal to talk all things Batman. And there’s some new gameplay footage in their too!
Batman: Arkham Origins is the next instalment in the blockbuster Batman: Arkham videogame franchise. Developed by WB Games Montréal, the game features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline set several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, the first two critically acclaimed games of the franchise. Taking place before the rise of Gotham City’s most dangerous criminals, the game showcases a young, unrefined Batman as he faces the defining moment of his early career and sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight.
So over to Ben:
GAME FEATURES:
The Arkham Story Begins: Batman: Arkham Origins features a pivotal tale set on Christmas Eve where Batman is hunted by eight of the deadliest assassins from the DC Comics Universe. Players become an early-career Batman as he encounters for the first time many of the characters that shape his future.
Enhanced Detective Mode: Think like Batman with an all-new Case File system that allows players to analyse seemingly impossible-to-solve crime reconstructions in real time. Combining Batman’s cowl sensors with the Batcomputer, players can digitally recreate crimes and study detailed simulation of the act as it happened.
Gotham City will learn to fear Batman: Take back the sprawling streets of Gotham years before its transformation into Arkham City. Glide above or battle your way through new and ever more dangerous districts in the quest for justice. Prevent crimes in progress, take down gangs of violent new criminals and explore deadly new locations, from the impoverished streets to the penthouses of Gotham’s wealthy.
Gotham’s Most Wanted: The city streets are filled with more than just Black Mask’s assassins. Locate and take down Gotham’s most violent and dangerous criminals to earn unique upgrades.
Lethal New Enemies: Fight new foes such as the Armored Enforcer, the Martial Artist and more – each of which challenge players to approach Batman’s FreeFlow Combat scenarios in different ways. Classic FreeFlow combat is expanded with every new opponent – and with Batman’s abilities to engage them.
New Gadgets: Utilize Batman’s signature gadgets or take advantage of powerful new additions such as the Remote Claw, the Concussion Detonator and more. Use the Remote Claw to create new routes by deploying strategic tightropes or directly attack enemies by stringing them up from vantage points. Ready the Concussion Detonator to stun and disorient groups of opponents in close combat.
New and Familiar Characters: Experience a fresh take on iconic Batman characters including Black Mask, Penguin, Deathstroke, Bane, Anarky, Captain Gordon, The Joker, Copperhead and others yet to be revealed.
New Online Mode: Play online with friends and foes in 3v3v2 gameplay that blends traditional Arkham gameplay with third-person shooter mechanics. Hunt as Batman or Robin against the most challenging opponents yet – friends and other gamers online – or take a walk on the dark side as a Super-Villain Elite and be part of The Joker or Bane’s gang. Gamers playing as a Super-Villain Elite will also have a chance to seize control of either The Joker or Bane for a limited amount of time.
Batman: Arkham Origins will be available for the PS3, Xbox 360, the Wii U system, and Windows PC. Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, the handheld version developed by Armature Studio, will be available for PlayStation Vita and the Nintendo 3DS. The game will release on all platforms worldwide on Oct. 25, 2013.
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Review of Stealth Inc.: A Clone in the Dark from Curve Studios
On first appearance Stealth Inc. looks like a rather cutesy take on a stealth espionage game like Splinter Cell. Your fun little character donning a set of night vision goggles that are now inseparable from Sam Fisher. And then very soon you will find your character minced or carved up or horrifically killed by traps in some way.
Luckily it turns out that your character is a nameless clone that are definitely not in short supply. Your purpose is to test and defeat the traps set out before you using your wits and cunning. Darkness is your friend and lighting plays a large part in the puzzles that Stealth Inc. presents you with. As does learning through mistakes.
Rather than tell or suggest to you what to do when a new type of puzzle shows up, Stealth Inc. will just make you get it wrong until you learn. Usually there’s an incredibly sarcastic comment written in shadow on a wall behind you. I don’t know how it is that when you get cruelly destroyed yet again trying to figure out how to progress that you laugh when the game taunts you. The comments add a much needed sense of comedy to what would otherwise be a potentially frustrating experience.
The puzzles are very well designed and on more than one occasion have had me stumped for a good while until I finally figured out how to move on. There are enough elements to the puzzles that they stay fresh and creative throughout the game. Although for the most part the controls are fine on occasion failures can occur because you are unable to perform the actions you need to. Usually this is a timing issue as some of the puzzles rely on ludicrously specific timings. It’s unnecessary that clever puzzles also require such accurate platforming when accurate platforming is awkward to achieve. At times this can get a little annoying especially considering Stealth Inc. is perfectly capable of relying on the strength of its puzzles alone.
Everything is styled and themed with a sterile industrial feel that feels right at home for you and your clone. Stealth Inc. certainly looks good, especially the lighting. Despite its 2D platforming style the lighting in Stealth Inc. is surprisingly advanced. To move through your environment and avoid the devious traps laid before you, you will often rely on darkness. In the darkness you are (almost) entirely safe. Moving a block will see it cast an accurate shadow relevant to the source of light.
Amongst the shadows and light, scuttling robotic turrets and smoothly panning cameras litter the environment. Everything still has a strangely cute and humorous look to it despite the unbelievable violence that inevitably awaits your nameless clone around every corner. It’s a strange contrast but it keeps the feel of Stealth Inc. light hearted.
Music also adds a lot to Stealth Inc’s undoubted style and charm. Pounding baselines accompany you throughout most of your journey and the music is surprisingly memorable for a platformer. The sound effects of the roaming robots and alarms are largely to be expected but they’re good quality and complement the environments nicely.
With challenging and fresh puzzle design and huge amounts of style, Stealth Inc. makes a great puzzler/platformer that’s difficult not to enjoy. Strangely cute clones combined with puzzles that are at times pure evil is apparently a winning combination. Stealth Inc. is a great puzzler that at times forgets how clever it is and asks for overly accurate reactions and timing. Despite this, a vast majority of Stealth Inc. is clever and challenging and is definitely a game well worth your time.
Microsoft offer Xbox LIVE Gold free access for this weekend
Microsoft are offering Xbox LIVE users who do not have a Gold account free access to the Gold services for this weekend only.
This weekend, why not take your favourite games online? Go AWOL on Gears of War or burn rubber on the classic Project Gotham Racing (try out Cat and Mouse mode). Compete, increase your Gamerscore and frag the newcomers. Remember, you haven’t truly prevailed on Halo until you’ve got the Vehicular Manslaughter medal.
Find out more by clicking here.
Elgato Game Capture HD 1.4 software update now available
Elgato has released an update for its Elgato Game Capture HD device.
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What’s in this update:
The Elgato Game Capture HD 1.4 software update is available as a free download at http://gamecapture.com for PC and Mac.
New Title Update to Fix GTA Online for Xbox 360 and PS3
A new GTA V title update to address issues in GTA Online is now available for PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 (59mb) both are now live. This title update addresses a number of issues that GTA Online players have been experiencing in the initial days of launch this week, including:
- Fix to address the issue where players were stuck launching a session before the Mall or Nothing race in the online tutorial.
- Fix to address an issue where bank & cash were deleted incorrectly in some cases.
- Fix to address incorrect amounts of cash being dropped when the player dies in Missions and Last Team Standing.
- Fixes an issue where the Character Switch Wheel would disappear after a failed load.
- Fixes an issue where attempting to enter GTA Online via the Character Switch Wheel caused a black screen.
- Fixes an issue where temporary characters were overwriting main characters.
- Fixes an issue where players were losing apartments and the money they spent on them.
- Fixes an issue that caused Story Mode missions to be missed in some instances.
- Removes the autosave that occurred when transitioning into GTA Online from within GTAV Story Mode to prevent the chance of Story Mode saves becoming corrupted.
- Several tweaks to GTA Online including improving overall stability.
Update: The latest GTA Online title update has now gone live for Xbox 360. http://t.co/78OqiH9AJm
— Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) October 5, 2013
First look at Boo Bunny Plague from On The Level Game Studios
Boo Bunny Plague is one of those games that sounds more random the more you describe it. You play as a robotic rabbit, called Bunny, who gets infected with a virus that grants him intelligence. So what would any robot in possession of artificial intelligence do? Grab a guitar and go around beating various enemies with it, in between singing. Simple.
So at this point you are a robot bunny with artificial inelegance wielding a guitar as a weapon which you may say was weird enough. But then he breaks out into song. And I mean in proper musical style. The topic of the song is how much he loves his creator, or “mother”, and how you’ll never hurt him. Shortly after the song our protagonist beats him thoroughly with his guitar.
Gameplay takes on a simple, retro, hack ‘n’ slash style the likes of which I have no doubt most of you have seen before. Rather than different weapons there are different flavours for your guitar that, from what I saw, essentially serve as elements. Boo Bunny’s focus definitely seems to be to entertain through music and comedy rather than gameplay. The gameplay is fun and holds some retro value but without the music and humour wouldn’t be enough to carry the game alone.
From the small amount of gameplay I got my hands on there where certainly enough pop culture references to hold the attention of any Family Guy fan. There’s nothing particularly clever about the humour but it did manage to get a couple of good laughs out of me.
So really Boo Bunny Plague should just be good fun. The few minutes I got to play where certainly entertaining enough and hopefully the full game can keep the music and comedy fresh until the end. It was a very early build I got my hands on so there’s still quite a way to go for Boo Bunny Plague. Hopefully after quite a bit of polish Boo Bunny can be a fun hack ‘n’ slash adventure with humour that rarely gets seen in video games. Boo Bunny Plague is due out Spring 2014 for PC, Mac and Linux and is currently on Steam Greenlight here. The team is also planning on a Wii U version at some point in the future.
Farming Simulator 2013 Titanium: The American Dream Comes True
Farming Simulator 2013 from Giants Software GmbH on PC will launch its first big official expansion next Thursday (10th Oct) with the Titanium expansion!
The expansion is rich in content, and will enable players of Farming Simulator 2013 on PC to discover and enjoy all the new features and original content from the recent console version of Farming Simulator. Among the great additions is a vast American backdrop with crops and a wide range of new agricultural vehicles.
The Titanium expansion of Farming Simulator has double the size of the gameplay area and a total of 150 vehicles and types of agricultural machinery!
The Titanium expansion of Farming Simulator 2013 will be available on Thursday, October 10 in stores and for download. It will be available with the full version of Farming Simulator 2013 in the special Farming Simulator 2013 ‘Titanium Edition’, and as an add-on for players of Farming Simulator 2013 on PC.
F1 2013 Is On the Start Line Today
Ahead of this weekend’s 2013 Formula 1 Korean Grand Prix, Codemasters highly anticipated, F1 2013 races into stores across the UK for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and is available for Windows PC from Steam today.
Fans can see F1 2013 in action in a stunning new launch video. Showcasing the game’s latest step forward in visuals, which deliver the ultimate immersion in the 2013 season, alongside ground-breaking new classic content the launch trailer.
F1 2013 players will get more from their game with RaceNet, Codemasters’ free online community hub. RaceNet will power regular community challenges, which will begin this weekend with a Time Trial event in Korea where players will compete to set the best time on online leaderboards around the circuit in dry conditions in a Williams car. Each entrant will earn 1000XP which can go towards unlocking rewards, including in-game helmets.
RaceNet also enables players to set up Custom RaceNet events. Players can set their own Time Trial scenarios, choosing circuit, weather conditions, car and duration of the event, and challenge their RaceNet friends to compete to set their best time on leaderboards. RaceNet also includes visual stats and game progress updates and every F1 2013 player with a RaceNet account will receive the 1976 Ferrari 312 T2, as starring in the film Rush. Gamers can sign up to RaceNet
F1 2013 is available in two editions. F1 2013 includes the full game of the current season and classic content from the 1980s. Alternatively, fans can choose to purchase F1 2013: Classic Edition, a premium version of the game limited to a run of just 10,000 units in the UK (Insert Territory Details Here), featuring bespoke box art and expanding the game with 1990s Content and Classic Track Packs. Classic content in both editions is introduced by legendary broadcaster Murray Walker and can be experienced in a range of game modes, including split-screen and online multiplayer.
F1 2013 is further improved and enhanced with wide-ranging technical and gameplay improvements. New Scenario Mode pushes gamers to complete realistic
Union J Changes Name to Union XY for Pokemon X and Y
In a move that reflects their enthusiasm for everything Pokémon, Union J have announced today that they will change their name to Union XY to mark the launch of the Pokémon X and Pokémon Y video games for Nintendo 3DS, on October 12th.
For one day only, Union J will celebrate the release of Pokémon X and Pokémon Y with their name change to Union XY—a suggestion made by band member George Shelley and supported by his band mates. The official press announcement was made today (October 4th) at the Charlotte Street Hotel in London, where the band revealed the news to a packed press conference.
“We’ve always loved Pokémon and it was a massive part of my childhood, I’m hooked on it,” explained George. “When I was telling the rest of the band how excited I was about playing Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, the idea to change our name just came to me. It’s so cool to be part of the game in some way; it feels like a natural fit.”
Josh, Jaymi, George, and JJ are all fans of Pokémon and are familiar with each generation of Pokémon games. During the filming of the X Factor, Josh and George brought Nintendo DS systems to play Pokémon Black, JJ loves Pokémon Emerald, and Jaymi’s favourite game is Pokémon Crystal.
The official name change will happen on October 12th, the same day as Pokémon X and Pokémon Y release exclusively on Nintendo 3DS.
Skylanders Boomcast Webisodes Out Today
Today Activision has announced today the launch of Skylanders Boomcast, a weekly offering of webisodes available through YouTube starting this today (4th Oct) for 13 parts.
The Skylanders Boomcast series, which will kick off the Activision’s “SWAPtober” month to celebrate the October launch of Skylanders Swap Force. It is hosted by Diary of a Wimpy Kid star Zachary Gordon and will offer information on the series, gameplay tips and more.
“Our young fans have a tremendous appetite for all things Skylanders. Skylanders Boomcast is an innovative way to turn marketing content into entertainment content,” said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing. “This will be the destination where our fans can dive deeper into the world of Skylanders than ever before.”
“I’m so honored and excited to be a part of Skylanders Boomcast! The fact that I get to bring Skylanders news to Portal Masters around the world is a dream job, and I can’t wait to see what amazing things fans will bring to the table,” said Zachary Gordon, host of Skylanders Boomcast. “It’s been really great working with Activision on this project, and I just know that fans will love what the team has in store for them.”
Skylanders Swap Force launches in a only a few days on the 13th Oct in North America, 16th Oct in Australia and 18th Oct in Europe.