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The LinkedIn app for iOS has been updated to version 5.1.8.
Get on-the-go access to your professional network with LinkedIn for iPhone & iPad. Find and connect with more than 150M members worldwide, read the latest industry news, keep up-to-date with your groups, and share content with your network from anywhere.
Square Enix today announced they will be releasing three all-new multiplayer maps for the critically-acclaimed TOMB RAIDER in the Caves and Cliffs Multiplayer Map Pack coming first, exclusively to Xbox LIVE for the Xbox 360 on March 19, 2013.
The Caves and Cliffs Multiplayer Map Pack opens up yet more of the island’s fantastic geography to players. Each of the three maps are playable on all four multiplayer game modes and sees the island’s indigenous Scavengers pitted against the crew members from the shipwrecked Endurance.
Players must use traversal and hunting skills to create fast-paced combat in a selection of four versus gaming modes.
The map locations include:
Scavenger Caverns
An extensive subterranean network of caves used by the island’s scavengers as an underground prison
Cliff Shantytown
This scavenger settlement was built high up on the island cliffs. Its many layers hide some of the deadliest traps on the island
The Burning Village
A raging fire has embraced an abandoned Japanese village, the burning buildings offer multiple ways to escape or engage your enemies
TOMB RAIDER fans will be able to purchase the Caves and Cliffs Multiplayer Map Pack first, exclusively on Xbox LIVE for 400 Microsoft Points beginning March 19, 2013.
Tomb Raider was finally released yesterday, and we can now bring you part two of our Tomb Raider walkthrough video series.
WARNING: There are spoilers in the video, so watch it with care!
So here is part two:
So have you bought Tomb Raider? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Hawken a Free to Play games has released a big update the Raider Update not only introduces the new Raider mech with new weapons, a new chassis, and a new ability, but also adds the work-in-progress Facility map and reintroduces the server browser along with plenty of balance tweaks, new cosmetics, and two new ways to “express” yourself to allies and enemies. Expect full details on the mech and new cosmetics when the patch drops!
Mechs
The new Raider mech allows you to close pesky gaps and unleash incredible burst damage into your enemy’s grill with new weapons and an amazing new ability!
Maps
Facility Map
Weapons
Items
Abilities
Gameplay
Modes
Miscellaneous
Bugs Squashed
Raspberry Pi are calling for testers for the Camera module, Raspberry Pi owners to build video applications is expected to go on sale in April, according to the Pi Foundation’s Liz Upton.
“We’ve sent the first camera boards to production, and we’re expecting to be able to start selling them some time in April,” she writes on the Foundation blog.
She writes:
The reason we’re giving these cameras away is that we want you to help us to do extra-hard testing. We want the people we send these boards to to do something computationally difficult and imaginative with them, so that the cameras are pushed hard in the sort of bonkers scheme that we’ve seen so many of you come up with here before with your Pis, and so that we can learn how they perform (and make adjustments if necessary)… We want you to try to get the camera doing something imaginative. Think about playing around with facial recognition; or hooking two of them up together and modging the images together to create some 3d output; or getting the camera to recognise when something enters the frame that shouldn’t be there and doing something to the image as a result. We are not looking for entries from people who just want to take pictures, however pretty they are.
Pi owners hankering to have an eye to play with should email iwantacamera@raspberrypi.org and explain exactly what they want to do with the board, backing up their application with example of prior project work (with or without cameras) and GitHub code or the like, says Upton.
The Foundation also needs your postal address should you win. The competition is open worldwide until March 12.
Tomb Raider was finally released yesterday, and we can now bring you part one of our Tomb Raider walkthrough video series.
WARNING: There are spoilers in the video, so watch it with care!
So here is part one:
So have you bought Tomb Raider? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Parrot has added two new augmented reality games for iOS for their AR Drone 2.0. Read on for details.
Parrot has added two new augmented reality games for iOS for their AR Drone 2.0. Here is the press release:
AR.Race 2 & AR.Rescue 2:
Compare yourself to the Parrot AR.Drone pilots’ community
Need a shot of adrenalin? Want new challenges? Discover two augmented reality games dedicated to the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 quadricopter connected to the AR.Drone Academy allowing you to compare your scores with other pilots in the community.
Create giant slaloms downloading AR.Race 2 or be part of a futuristic quest playing AR.Rescue 2.
Let the best pilot win!
AR.Race 2: an aerial race without limit …
– Select a gaming zone: house, garden, forest… Each element of the environment (wall, furniture, tree…) is part of the game and becomes a potential obstacle.
– Chart a course and indicate the start/ finish line by placing a tag on the ground that will be recognized by the embedded vertical camera of the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 to record race times.
On your marks! Get set! Go! Your flying machine is going fast, zigzagging between obstacles; right-turn, left-turn. Time is running out! Step on the gas, make a loop just after the straight line and make a U-turn just before crossing the finish line…
New players want to be part of the game? Add as many as you want and create races with no end…
Compare your scores with the pilot community by connecting to the AR.Drone Academy.
AR.Race 2, game downloadable for free on the App StoreSM
AR.Rescue 2: Aliens’ may-day…
An alien rocket has crashed. Survivors have to find every part of the spacecraft to rebuild it and go back home. But they need your help!
When piloting a Parrot AR.Drone 2.0, you will go through four augmented reality worlds (10 levels each) and collect, one by one, scattered pieces of the spacecraft. But be careful! Crunchers, little monsters who will devour scraps of metal, are looking for you and will do everything they can to shoot you… Get your laser weapons ready, keep your head up and be prepared for a long fight.
Compare your scores with the pilot community by connecting to the AR.Drone Academy.
AR.Rescue 2, game downloadable for free on the App StoreSM
Parrot AR.Drone Academy: the place to be!
Available within the AR.FreeFlight piloting App, the AR.Drone Academy is a sharing and exchange platform dedicated to Parrot AR.Drone pilots. Members access exclusive features and content: flight data and statistics; videos; photos; identification of best flying areas and places to avoid; easy video uploads on social networks and sharing platforms…
Check out some video of AR.Rescue 2 here:
I plan on trying both of these out soon, so stay tuned for my review. In the meantime, these games are available on the Apple App Store so check it out!
Here is the list of Winners from tonight’s BAFTA Games Awards 2013.
Action
Artistic Achievement
Audio Achievement
Best Game
British Game
Debut Game
Game Design
Family
Game Innovation
Mobile & Handheld
Online – Browser
Online – Multiplayer
Original Music
Performer
Sports/Fitness
Story
Strategy
BAFTA Ones to Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital
I recently had the opportunity to sit down and play the first few hours of Capcom’s new game Remember Me, and I thought I would share my memories of the preview with you.
Give me a memory to remix, and I will change the world (Nilin, memory hunter, 2082 AD)
Back at Gamescom last year, Capcom announced a brand new IP called Remember Me. Developed by DONTNOD Entertainment and set in Neo-Paris in 2084, personal memories can now be digitised, bought, sold and traded. The last remnants of privacy and intimacy have been swept away in what appears to be a logical progression of the explosive growth of social networks at the beginning of the 21st century. The citizens themselves have accepted this surveillance society in exchange for the comfort only smart technology can provide. This memory economy gives immense power over society to just a handful of people.
Remember Me is a 3rd person action adventure where players take on the role of Nilin, a former elite memory hunter with the ability to break into people’s minds and steal or even alter their memories. The authorities, fearful of her knowledge and capabilities arrested Nilin and wiped her memory clean. After her escape from prison, Nilin sets out on a mission to recover her identity, helped by her last and only friend. This search for her past leads to her being hunted by the very people that created this surveillance society.
The game starts with Nilin in a coffin, or rather being freed from a coffin by a leaper. Leapers are mutated humans who’s memories are permanently corrupted. Basically not very nice guys who want nothing more than to kill her!
The game is split into episodes – episode 1 being called Low Life / Low Tech. At this point Nilin has no memories and must relearn everything, which includes climbing and the most important element (for now), fighting. What this basically means is that we get to learn how to do these things with Nilin thus doubling as a tutorial.
So within a few seconds of the game beginning Nilin is attacked by a group of these leapers and her friend Edge (who guides her on her journey offering help and advice whilst not actually physically being with her) tells her she has no choice but to fight. This is where the tutorial element kicks in, basically guiding you in the art of dodging blows and attacks. Edge advises you to “use your pressens”. The game then enters the Sensen Menu and you visit the Combo Lab. This is where you can create, and remember fighting moves and combos. At the start of the game you don’t have any set up so you have to add three pressens to create a combo. It may sound a little confusing but once you are in the Combo Lab is sort of makes sense. Later in the game you can create multiple combo moves, including ones that regenerate your health when you complete the combo (and believe me later on you will need that regenerative combo, a lot). The fighting style is similar to other combo based fighting games – move, press a sequence of buttons to perform certain combos and repeat until your opponents are dead. Performing certain combos give you a sense of satisfaction and more points which can be used later to increase your combos and bring in new moves.
It’s then straight back into the game were you very quickly dispatch the three leapers, all the time learning more about the controls, including some combo moves. From then on its time to make your way through the game, trying to learn more about your past and find those responsible. I won’t spoil any of the rest of the plot today, mainly because I can’t quite remember it………
There is the usual “suiting up” part of the story, she gets her combat skin and glove, which she will need to go into people’s memories to perform remixes but also to use a weapon to overload an opponent.
At first glance the game appears to be almost open world, but it isn’t – there are only certain places you can go, and to help you on your route there are yellow arrows that appear to tell you where to go, where to jump, and so on. The game tells you that “Your Sensen calculates the optimal path towards your objective” but I found it to be a little to “go here, go there” and didn’t really involve me having to explore to find out where I needed to go. Now this may not be the same in later episodes in the game (I only got to play episodes 1 and 2) and it was also a preview build so it is certainly possible that it won’t be like that in the final game. I really hope it isn’t or at least give the player the opportunity to turn it off because otherwise it will just be a case of follow the arrows and that takes away a little of the game for me.
In episodes 1 and 2, and I suspect throughout the rest of the game, a lot of the movement involves climbing on things and scaling buildings. And when I say a lot, I really do mean a lot. This takes a little getting used to because early on in the game I would just drop off a ledge or a pipe because I hadn’t quite go the correct position for the next jump or drop. Eventually you do get the hang (get it) of it, but when you do die, as I did often, there was a very long wait while the game reloaded. Now again, it was a preview build and I suspect this will be resolved before the game is released, otherwise it becomes rather frustrating.
The really unique element in Remember Me is the Memory Remix. Nilin has the ability to go into someone’s memory and remix it, making them remember a different outcome than actually took place. There are various reasons for doing this, each part important to the main story. The first time Nilin has to perform a memory remix she goes into the memory of Olga Sedova because she blames Nilin for something that happened to her husband David. You see the memory build around you and play out as it really happened, then you look for memory glitches which are elements that you can change, such as unlocking a strap or untying an anaesthetic mask.
You do this by rewinding through the memory and making whatever changes you feel necessary. You can then play the memory once it has been remixed and see what the outcome is. In the case of Olga you’re remixing of her memory changes her from hunting Nilin to helping her. There are a number of glitches you can change, so which wont make a difference and some that need to be done in sequence. Once you get the hang of memory remixing it can be interesting to see the failed results as well as the successful ones and certainly makes the game more interesting and more involved than what it first appears to be.
The music is very reminiscent of Blade Runner and really helps to set the scene, and along with the look of Neo-Paris really draws you into the game and makes you want to explore more.
One thing that you will notice the moment Nilin speaks is that she has a very strong British accent. So much so you could easily mistake her for Lara Croft. I’m not sure why DONTNOD decided to make Nilin British, perhaps later in the game that will be revealed, but for now it just seems a little strange having two very strong female lead characters who both sound the same. That said, her voice is pleasant to listen to so I’m not really complaining.
After 90 minutes of playing Remember Me I wanted to play more, I wanted to learn more about Nilin and use some of her newly remembered abilities. In that first 90 minutes I just scratched the surface and I look forward to May.
Remember Me will be available in May 2013 on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, is developed by DONTNOD Entertainment and published by Capcom. You can learn more from the Remember Me website.
What do you think of it? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Google have just updated their Google Maps app, taking it to version 1.1.
Navigate your world with Google Maps, now available for iPhone. Get comprehensive, accurate and easy-to-use maps with built-in Google local search, voice guided turn-by-turn navigation, public transport directions, Street View and more. Use Google Maps to discover great places to eat, drink, shop and play, with ratings and reviews from people you trust. Sign in to save your favourite places and quickly access all your past searches and directions from your computer, right on your phone.
Search
* Find addresses, places and businesses around the world with Google local search.
* Discover places to eat, drink, shop and play, with ratings and local reviews.
* Sign in to sync your searches, directions and favourite places between your computer and your phone.
Directions
* Get voice guided, turn-by-turn driving directions.
* Find your way with train, bus, underground or walking directions.
* Access live traffic information in cities across the world.
Street View and imagery
* View 360-degree panoramas of places around the globe with Street View.
* See inside more than 100,000 businesses worldwide.
* View high-resolution satellite imagery of locations around the world.
Simple and easy to use
* An entirely new Google Maps experience on your iPhone.
* Newly designed and streamlined interface for even easier navigation of your world.
* Use gestures to explore the map and browse results.
* Search your Google Contacts; sign in to see your saved addresses when you search for friends and family by name.
* Search for local places quickly by selecting popular categories such as restaurants, pubs, cafés, petrol stations, etc.
* Choose between kilometres or miles for your preferred distance units.
* Note that some features may not be available in all countries.
In Q2 2013, bitComposer Games and Most Wanted Entertainment are launching the Thunder Wolves, who will take to the skies in order to wipe the forces of evil off the map.
The organization they work for is secret, but one thing is certain; the Thunder Wolves are the best and most daring pilots in the world, and in this hard-hitting arcade-shooter, they will annihilate anyone who stands in their way.
In Thunder Wolves, the player becomes part of this formidable group of pilots who carry out every order with unequalled precision and speed, no matter whether it requires protecting an oil platform, destroying a chemical factory, or stopping advancing enemies in their tracks. Their goal is nothing less than saving the world, and this requires staying a step ahead of the terrorists by finding out just what they are planning.
Key Features:
– Get ready for some old-school helicopter action in this relentless, adrenaline-pumping arcade shoot ‘em up.
– Let the earth tremble! A fully destroyable environment allows you to unleash unprecedented devastation.
– Choose the right equipment for every job! Nine different helicopters and a wide arsenal of weapons are available.
– See the world! 13 action-packed missions in four different regions.
– Carry out a wide variety of missions, from stealth and escort operations to seek and destroy missions.
– Enemies galore: from terrorist foot soldiers and land vehicles to enemy helicopters.
– Spectacular boss battles will stretch your gaming skills to the limit.
– Local multiplayer mode tag team! Create a unit with a friend and fly into battle in co-op mode as pilot and gunner.
Thunder Wolves is the work of the Hungarian development studio Most Wanted Entertainment, and is being released on Sony Playstation Network, Xbox LIVE Arcade, and Windows PC.
Further information about Thunder Wolves is available at:
http://www.mwent.hu/games/thunder-wolves
Apple has just updated it’s iBooks app to version 3.1.
Team NINJA today outlined new details for NINJA GAIDEN 3: RAZOR’S EDGE, the latest chapter in the famed action series arriving at retail on April 5th 2013 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
The famed developer revealed that the game will have a full-featured demo available on both platforms before launch and that the full retail Xbox 360 version will support robust SmartGlass functionality for tablets and smartphones, a first for any Team NINJA game. Additionally, Team NINJA announced the new Golden Scarab upgrade feature and fighting details for the female characters Kasumi and Momiji. To premier these new game elements, Team NINJA has released all-new images highlighting the SmartGlass functionality, Golden Scarabs and fighting moves.
Xbox 360 players will be able to expand their NINJA GAIDEN 3: RAZOR’S EDGE experience with immersive SmartGlass “second screen” features on their internet-enabled tablet or smartphone. They can check their updated personal records and achievements and even watch strategy videos based on their current in-game location to get help. Players will also be able to participate in the game’s community by viewing and commenting on gameplay videos which have been uploaded by players around the world—or take a more active role by uploading their own videos from the game.
Regardless of whether they are using SmartGlass features, all players can boost the capability of Ryu Hayabusa, the game’s iconic ultimate Ninja, by discovering Golden Scarabs hidden throughout the game world. These Scarabs can then be used to unlock new Ninpo or weapons. For instance, Piercing Void, a move that creates deadly sharp vacuum blades to slice up nearby enemies, can be unlocked for 20 Scarabs while the sweeping Lunar Staff weapon can be unlocked for 10 Scarabs. The Scarabs are well hidden, though—players will have to search hard for them!
Team NINJA also revealed fresh intel on the fighting moves that Kasumi and Momiji will add to NINJA GAIDEN 3: RAZOR’S EDGE as playable characters. Kasumi, first seen in the DEAD OR ALIVE series, brings a variety of deadly attacks including her renowned Mugen Tenshin attacks that strike with deadly speed even if delivered from midair. She can also unleash the slow but powerful Kunai Tempest, which creates a giant pinwheel shuriken, and Rending Wind, which channels her aura into a powerful beam of energy. Momiji is no slouch, either. She can double-jump in midair with her unique Heavenbreaker to rain down attacks from high overhead, transform dancing leaves into a circle of flames with her Crimson Lotus, and unleash a powerful fireball with her Autumn Flame.
Available prior to launch, the game’s demo will feature stages for both Hayabusa and Ayane. Any Karma or Ninja Skills acquired in the demo can be transferred to the full version, ensuring that demo play time is put to productive use. More details regarding the demo will be available soon.
NINJA GAIDEN 3: RAZOR’S EDGE is the most action-packed and feature rich NINJA GAIDEN game ever created. Published by TECMO KOEI, the game was designed from the ground up to please core action fans with a brutally redesigned battle system, tough enemy AI, upgraded online features, and the return of dismemberment. The Ninja Skills system lets players use Karma earned in combat to freely purchase weapon and Ninpo upgrades, feats, and costumes. Adding to the variety of gameplay, Kasumi, Ayane, and Momiji all join Hayabusa as playable characters. Ayane will get her own chapters in story mode while all three female characters can be played in the new Chapter Challenge mode and Ninja Trials co-op play with multiple costume options.
NINJA GAIDEN 3: RAZOR’S EDGE is developed by Team NINJA and published by Tecmo Koei.
SEGA Europe and SEGA of America Inc. have announced Sonic Dash the fast and endless running mobile game.
Following the success of Sonic Jump, this infinite running title is the latest created exclusively for mobile platforms from Hardlight Studios.
Our spikey hero goes on a fast and frenzied 3D dash through the stunning grassy verges of Seaside Hill. Challenge your friends to run as far into the hill as you can and beat their best times!
Sonic Dash will be available on to the App Store soon.
