Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance – Game Feature Trailers January 27, 2013
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For those of you who may be interested in the new gameplay for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Konami has released three separate trailers on their Official YouTube Channel detailing all the new things that you’ll be able to do in the game. This ranges from new features that we already saw in the official demo, like Blade Mode and the AR visor, to new locations we haven’t seen before. Give them a look.
If you want to give the game a test drive before release, you can download the demo for free on through Xbox Live Marketplace or the Playstation Network Store. If just a regular version of the game isn’t enough for you, a Limited Edition of the game will be released at launch and include the game’s soundtrack and a replica of Raiden’s sword encased in a Plasma Lamp.
Any customers who preorder the game will also score some exclusive DLC depending on their choice of retailer while supplies last.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is coming February 19th, 2012 to the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Halo 4 Spartan Ops Episode 7 Trailer January 27, 2013
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The episodic cooperative campaign for Halo 4 continues. Spartan Ops picks up after the events of the Master Chief’s story in Halo 4 and bridges the gap between Halo 4’s campaign and the story of the not yet released Halo 5. The episodes are back to a weekly schedule and Halo 4 players will find the latest episode in Spartan Ops unlocked tomorrow for free.
Take a look at this new trailer and lets see what’s in store for us.
Spartan Ops Episode 7 launches tomorrow for free to all Halo 4 players with a Gold Live Subscription. Halo 4 is out now exclusive to the Xbox 360.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Demo Released January 25, 2013
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The Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance demo has been released for free on the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 and you can download it right now. Previously, this demo had only been released with the Zone of the Enders HD Collection in November, but now everyone can enjoy it, including people who don’t want to load up their ZOE: HD discs to play the demo.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a spinoff from the Metal Gear Solid series and follows the character of Raiden after the events of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Cyborg augmentation has become the newest commodity for Private Military Companies and Raiden has taken it upon himself to make those upgrades to his body in order to compete in this new world order. It is developed by Platinum Games, the makers of Bayonetta, and produced by Konami.
As of the time of writing, the demo was listed on the front page of the Xbox 360 dashboard upon Xbox Live login. I had to do a bit of a search for it on the PS3 store, but that was probably because I’m still not used to the new Playstation Network Store interface. Regardless, it can be found no problem with a manual search of the game’s name. For those of you who may have a lack of storage space on your consoles, here’s a heads up. The demo is 3.4 GB on the PS3. It is 1.86GB on the Xbox 360.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is coming February 19th, 2013 to the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
Bioshock Infinite Industrial Revolution Trailer January 24, 2013
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For any of you who may be interested in preordering Bioshock Infinite, this trailer explains what people who preorder the game can unlock through the Industrial Revolution social game. Anyone who preorders the game through supported retailers will receive an unlock code on their receipt or through e-mail for the website Fink Manufacturing.
You’ll unlock your retailer’s unique preorder bonus automatically. If you can complete Industrial Revolution, it will unlock some free content for Facebook and Twitter users, but more importantly it will unlock special content in the final game.
If you’re curious what you can do with this unlockable content, take a look at this.
Irrational Games promises that the Industrial Revolution unlock codes will be emailed to players shortly before Bioshock Infinite launches.
Bioshock Infinite is coming March 26th, 2013 to the PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
The Last of Us Demo Coming With God of War: Ascension January 24, 2013
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The Playstation Blog has announced that early access to the single player demo for the highly anticipated game The Last of Us will be made available to all players who purchase God of War: Ascension. While the demo will not be directly included with the newest God of War game, it will grant players early access to the single-player The Last of Us demo from God of War: Ascension’s menu the second the demo is finished.
God of War: Ascension is the newest game in the God of War series, and like The Last of Us, is also a very important PS3 exclusive release this year.
God of War: Ascension will be out March 13th, 2013 exclusive to the Playstation 3. The Last of Us is coming May 7th, 2013 exclusive to the PS3.
Aliens: Colonial Marines – Kick Ass Trailer January 24, 2013
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Listen up Marines! Disappointed with any movie in the Alien series that followed after the second one? Wish you had a sequel that properly followed the story greatly expanded by director James Cameron with Aliens? Well, now we’ve got ourselves a proper sequel and it’s headed to us in video game form.
If you’ve ever wondered just what the actual gameplay was going to be like in this game, fear no longer, as this new trailer for Aliens: Colonial Marines shows exactly what we’re in for in this new game, and just what kind of support we’ll have. Actually, this may be the time to start the fear.
Aliens: Colonial Marines is coming February 12th, 2013 to the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. A Wii U version is also coming.
Dead Space 3 Sneak Peak January 24, 2013
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Dead Space 3’s release is coming very soon and early comments about the game have already started popping up across the web. EA decided to create a little game teaser which took some of the comments they got from the game as well as some entirely new game footage we haven’t seen before. Check it out.
Just a reminder, the Dead Space 3 demo is already out for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 if you want to check the game out for yourselves.
Dead Space 3 is coming February 5th, 2013 to the PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
What IS Next for the Wii U January 23, 2013
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Several weeks ago I wrote an editorial about the Wii U. In it, I detailed a few things that Nintendo could announce for the Wii U in response to if any future console announcement that Sony or Microsoft made. I expected that the article would stand until Nintendo made any announcements for the next wave of Wii U content, which I figured would be at E3. Well, I was wrong. Today, during the Nintendo Direct webcast, Nintendo announced a plethora of new content for the Wii U, including games, system updates, and new console features. There is just so much to cover.
When I was watching the Wii U Direct Video, I felt like it was written as a response to a lot of the stuff I brought up in my previous editorial. So, I want to break down a few things that were mentioned by Mr. Iwata that I thought should be coming for the Wii U, and apparently now will be.
3D Mario Wii U Game – This was confirmed, and it will be playable at E3 this year. Its being done by the team who did Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, so there’s good chance it could be called Super Mario Galaxy 3 or since Mario Galaxy’s project code was Mario 128, you could call this new one Mario 256.
Mario Kart Wii U – Also confirmed and it will be playable at E3 this year. No other details about it were provided.
Wii U Virtual Console – The Wii U is getting its own Virtual Console. Users rebuying games they had already purchased on the Wii will be able to rebuy their games at a heavy discount to take advantage of the new features Wii U virtual console games will have. All a user will have to do to earn these discounts is transfer their Wii saves and purchases to the Wii U using the transfer tool.
Wii U Virtual Console games will have the same features 3DS Virtual Console games have, like allowing the user to keep a save file of their game progress. There are a wide range of games that will be coming from a wide variety of classic Nintendo platforms, including Game Boy Advance, which is a platform Nintendo has not released any Virtual Console games from to date. It also will be compatible with the Wii U Controller and offer a variety of customizable control options. Finally, Nintendo will be implementing the most requested Virtual Console feature people wanted on the Wii U, you will be able to play VC games entirely on the Wii U Controller’s screen if you want to.
No GameCube support coming to the Virtual Console yet (or backwards compatibility with GameCube games), but Nintendo is releasing Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker updated for the Wii U on disc this fall. There will be updated graphics, HD widescreen, and Wii U Controller screen support. Hopefully if this sells well it will inspire Nintendo to port over more GameCube games like Luigi’s Mansion or Eternal Darkness to the Wii U.
Wii U Panorama View – I mentioned this feature as a possible video service for the Wii U in my original article. Nintendo demoed a feature of the Wii U which would allow a user to use the Wii U Controller to view a 360 degree HD video. I was really interested in this feature when I first saw it shown at E3 2012. There hasn’t been a mention about this since E3 2012 and there was no mention of it during the Nintendo Direct video, but after writing about it, I decided to see what was the latest information I could dig up on it was. This had been previewed in real-time at last year’s CES and when it was shown at E3 2012 it had a tentative release date of the end of 2012. That time has passed and it never saw release so my guess is that it was either quietly delayed or cancelled.
Nintendo wasted no time capitalizing on the time that they have before Sony and Nintendo respond to the Wii U. I thought for sure that these announcements weren’t going to be coming until E3, but I was wrong. If Nintendo continues to improve their hardware in the time they have before another console’s release, as well as continues to release great software for the platform, either through retail or online, they will be in a very difficult position to move from the top spot of the future generation console battle.
Monolith Soft Wii U Trailer January 23, 2013
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Here’s something that is sure to interest our site contributor Twitch. Monolith Soft is the company which developed Xenoblade Chronicles for the Wii. According to Twitch’s research, Nintendo owns a stake in Monolith Soft, which is why their games have appeared as Wii exclusives in the past.
With the Wii being phased out, it looks like Monolith Soft’s next major game is going to be headed exclusively to the Wii U, and it looks just amazing. The following premiered today during the Nintendo Direct feed.
X is coming exclusive to the Wii U.
Nintendo Miiverse Smartphone App Announced January 23, 2013
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Nintendo announced during today’s Nintendo Direct that a smartphone app that would allow Wii U owners mobile access to the Nintendo Miiverse was going to be coming. With it, you’ll be able to read Miiverse posts, view drawings, posted screenshots, and manage your communities without having to be home and logged in at your Wii U.
The app will be coming in two phases starting this spring. The first phase will be a browser-based experience which will allow limited interactivity and allow users to keep up to date with Miiverse posts on their smartphone screen. A full featured Miiverse app will then be released afterwards.
Nintendo announced that you would be able to access Miiverse through your Nintendo Network account, which users traditionally set up the first time they start the Wii U. While any internet connected smartphone will be able to browse the Miiverse with their smartphone’s internet browser, no specifics were provided about which smartphone platforms they would release the full featured app on.
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