Posts Tagged ‘360’
Microsoft Doing Old Games On Demand Sale Clearout – 400 MSP Per Game (Including Kameo, Ghost Recon AW etc.) Next Week
Starting next week on June 19th and ending the following week on June 25th, Microsoft is having a jolly old Games on Demand clearance of some of it’s older titles.
Including titles such as Kameo, Perfect Dark Zero, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and Prince of Persia going for 400 MSP per pop, it seems like there could be something for everyone from the old guard at this super cheap price… Except for well, Perfect Dark Zero. It was offensively horrendous.
The full list of titles has been compiled below for your viewing pleasure, again, there are more than a few stinkers but i’m sure there is a least one title there for most of us that we wouldn’t mind splashing out the relatively menial sum of 400 MSP for:
- Bionic Commando
- Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WW II
- Bolt
- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
- Conan
- Dark Void
- FaceBreaker
- Kameo
- Open Season
- Perfect Dark Zero
- Prince of Persia
- Rockstar Table Tennis
- SEGA Superstars Tennis
- Surf’s Up
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
- Virtua Tennis 2009
- Viva Pinata Party Animals
Anything catch your eye?
Gorgeous Looking Water Physics Platformer ‘Walter’, Emerges From Former Test-Drive Unlimited Dev Blossom Minds – Debut Trailer Released
Blossom Minds, an off-shoot of Test Drive Unlimited developer Eden Games has today released the trailer for it’s inaugral effort – a water physics platformer that goes by the pun-tastic name of ‘Walter’.
Besides boasting a charming art-style and looking utterly gorgeous, Walter looks like on initial impression at least that it will play as well as it looks. Playing as a sentient blob of water with eyes, the titular ‘Walter’ can change his mass, form and density to suit any situation. See a long series of peaks and trough tubing that needs to be overcome? Walter can transform himself into a trickle of water to speedily race up and down the tubes far quicker than if he was to remain as a blob of water; otherwise forced to slowly plod through. Another great example of how denisty and form affect the gameplay is one instance in the trailer where Walter is required to maintain a frozen ice-cube state to complete the level and he does this by keeping under dynamically moving shadows in order to prevent himself from melting.
It really looks like compelling stuff and while no formats have been announced, smart money is on an XBLA, PSN and Steam release sometime during the vague ‘2013’ release window that has been pegged for the game.
The trailer for ‘Walter’ is embedded below:
Walter is due to be released on formats to be announced sometime in 2013.
EA/DICE Confirms Double XP Weekend For Battlefield 3 This Weekend – Get A Better Return On Your Fragging
EA has today announced that another ‘Double XP’ weekend is in the works for Battlefield 3 with the next lot of double XP grabbing festivities kicking off June 16 at 8.01am BST. For the uninitated or the painfully slow, this basically means that you’ll receive double the usual amount of XP across all matches on all maps when playing only on ranked servers. The double XP goodness ends June 18th at 7.49am BST and the promotion applies to the game on all formats; 360, PC and PS3.
Just what I need to get to rank 45 then – getting piss sick of seeing everybody else killing me and passively taunting me with their shiny, numbered emblems. The twats.
As an additional note, PC and 360 owners who decided to plonk some of the Queen’s down for Battlefield Premium will find that the Close Quarters expansion is available for download today; PS3 folk got knee deep in that shizz last week.
Mark Of The Ninja E3 2012 Trailer Gleefully Reminds Us How Stealth Should Be
Whilst Sam Fisher was out and about doing Michael Bay golden showers over the legacy of stealth that he had built at this year’s E3, it was perhaps rather fitting that ‘Mark of the Ninja’, an Xbox Live Arcade title by Shank developers Klei Entertainment, was delighting the rest of us from the shadows with it’s stealthy 2D platform exploits – reminding us just how fun stealth can be and what it takes to get it *right*.
The game reinvigorates all of the hallmarks of stealthy gameplay, focusing sternly on the setup for the kill (or evasion instead of the kill) with misdirection, patient observation and wide-range of acrobatic abilities and ninja gadgets all further emboldened by Klei Entertainment’s typically gorgeous cartoon stylings.
Below, you can see not only the E3 2012 trailer, but also an earlier video taken from PAX East – showing off one of the levels in almost it’s entirety.
It’s about time games took stealth seriously again says I:
Mark of the Ninja is due to be released exclusively on XBLA sometime this Summer.
E3 2012 – Brutality Personified: New Sleeping Dogs Trailer Escapes Into The Wild
Guns! Cars! Bikes! Tattoos! Torture! It’s all here in the latest and most stylish trailer for Square-Enix’s ope-world, undercover Triad actioner Sleeping Dogs.
Don’t take my word for it though; have a look for yourself below:
Sleeping Dogs releases in both standard and limited editions versions for 360, PC and PS3 platforms on August 17, 2012.
E3 2012 – For Your Viewing Pleasure: All Five E3 2012 Presser’s Available For You To View & Download In High-Definition At Your Leisure. Relieve The Mediocrity!
As the title suggests! Enjoy!
E3 2012 took place between June 5-7th, 2012. It mostly wasn’t brilliant.
E3 2012 – Gears of War: Judgment Multiplayer Gameplay Trailer Escapes
The first real taste of the gameplay to be seen in the forthcoming Gears of War Judgment was released on the interweb a few moments ago.
As well as the trailer that was shown at the conference, the trailer also shows a good deal of gameplay from the newly announced ‘Overrun’ mode and shows a game that remains still very much in the spirit of the games that have proceeded it, despite the change in developer.
Have a peek at the video below and knock yourself out:
Gears of War: Judgment is due to be released exclusively on the Xbox 360 sometime in 2013.
E3 2012 – EA Releases Launch Trailer For Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Expansions No.2 – Close Quarters
Following on from their Battlefield Premium announcement that was leaked here, comes the release of the launch trailer for the first Battlefield 3 DLC expansion pack that has launched since the game did back in September last year (Back to Karkand was available at launch).
Each of the Battlefield 3 expansion packs have been designed with a particular focus in mind. Therefore, it shouldn’t be too difficult to guess what playstyle ‘Close Quarters’ will be gunning for. The next pack after this one, Armored Kill, is due to be released in September and will focus almost exclusively on vehicle based combat; giving you huge maps with which to ply your thunderous exchanges of vehicle against vehicle in.
Take a look at the trailer below and see if the focus on infantry combat in ‘Close Quarters’ floats your boat:
Battlefield 3: Close Quarters is available now for free on the PS3 if you’re a Battlefield Premium member. A week later for 360 and PC owners who are Battlefield Premium members. A week staggered after that for PS3 and then PC and 360 formats for £9.99/1,200 Microsoft Points respectively.
The official release schedule for the expansion can be seen here: http://www.battlefield.com/battlefield3/1/close-quarters
E3 2012 – XCOM Enemy Unknown (No, not the shit shooter one, the other one) Gets A Bit Of Trailerage
2K Games and Sim City developer Maxis have released a trailer for their forthcoming strategy based XCOM title, XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
As well as cribbing the moniker of the much loved turn based original which was released way back in the nineties, the game also boasts the same third person perspective, strategic gameplay and reserach and development to improve your soldiers, equipment, vehicles and even your home base.
You also get to autopsy aliens too. Probably.
Though the trailer perhaps doesn’t show off the game in it’s best like (it looks like any other third person shooter really), trust me when I say that the game is shaping up to be a polished and highly enjoyable strategical gem.
The trailer can be seen by clicking on the embed below:
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is due to release on 360, PS3 and PC platforms this October.
E3 2012 – Capcom’s DmC Gets A Brand New Trailer; Much Swearing & Attitude Contained Therein – Release Date Of January 15th, 2013 Confirmed
Sneaking under the radar whilst the Microsoft, EA and Ubisoft conferences were going on, was the latest trailer for Capcom’s Ninja Theory developed Devil May Cry reboot; DmC.
More of Dante’s unabashed attitude was on show alongside a generous smattering of in-game and cut-scene footage, all adding up to reinforce my increasing belief that this really won’t be shit at all.
Nope not at all.
See for yourself:
DmC is due to be released on 360, PS3 and PC platforms on January 15th, 2013.
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