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Microsoft recently revealed Ninja Blade, an Xbox 360 exclusive currently in development at FromSoftware.
This action thriller sees players defending Tokyo and ultimately mankind from a genetically mutating disease armed with specialized ninja tools, weapons and skills. While details for the game are still scarce, you can check out this teaser trailer to get a taste of the building-running, demon-slashing game play.
Codemasters has released the first batch of pre-alpha screenshots for Fuel.
Currently in development at Asabo Studios, Fuel is promising the deliver “the largest environment ever created in multi-terrain race gaming.” Players will be able to race in over 5 000 square miles of different terrain, performing stunts on various two and four-wheeled rides.
Set in an alternate present where climate change has damaged areas of the world, the game features a dynamic weather system where day and night transitions, sunshine, rain as well as tornadoes, storms, lightning and even blizzards will require you to change your strategy during races. Players will also be able to go online and compete in multiplayer challenges.
Fuel is scheduled to be released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2009.
Spore, the stratospherically anticipated game from Maxis and Will Wright (and EA), is set for release later this week - Friday the 5th of September. This is then the last opportunity to have a look at some fresh screenshots before you get to play the game for real. If you just can’t wait, you can get a head-start by pre-installing Spore and playing it the second it’s available on the 5th.
Spore has been in varying forms of development for over 7 years, only publicly unveiled at a Game Developers Conference in 2005. Now in 2008, Spore’s level of hype has gone through several stages, from bursting at the seams through to backlash, enthusiast press at times wondering if there was actually anything more to the game than its Creature Creator, the ability to create any creature you can possibly imagine.
Over the last few years, several areas of the game have been revealed, such as the Tidepool Phase, fighting for survival in a Petri dish-like environment, the Creature Phase as your creature begins to evolve, the Tribal Phase where players control an entire tribe of your creatures, the City Phase, building cities and technology, the Civilisation Phase, seeking to dominate an entire planet and lastly, the Space Phase, tasking players with spreading their colony across the galaxy, meeting new and weird creatures along the way.
Now, Spore’s imminent release will reveal just what the people at Maxis have been up to all this time and we’ll get to see if the enormous excitement surrounding the game has been warranted.
The first new Mortal Kombat game on the current generation of consoles is highly anticipated, not only because it follows in a long line of Mortal Kombat games, starting in 1992, but this new version, Mortal Kombat VS DC Universe, features key characters from DC’s lineage of comics, from Superman and Batman, to Wonder Woman and The Flash. Key Mortal Kombat characters include Sub-Zero, Sonya Blade, Liu Kang and Scorpion.
While Midway have been pretty elusive regarding their series’ signature Fatality finishing moves, they’ve released a screenshot showing one of them off. If you remember playing the very first Mortal Kombat, then you’ll enjoy this homage to Scorpion’s original Fatality, flames spewing out of his exposed skull, torching Sub-Zero in the process. Hopefully we’ll see more soon!
Mortal Kombat VS DC Universe releases on the 21st of November in the UK and Europe, while the US release is set for November 18th.
Nintendo’s long-awaited, oft-rumoured-to-be-cancelled natural disaster simulation game, Disaster: Day of Crisis, has finally been given an official release date, coming to Wii on October 24th.
The game tasks players with surviving natural disasters along the lines of floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and earthquakes. Filling the shoes of one Raymond Bryce, players will also need to foil the plans of a terrorist group who have managed to obtain a nuclear weapon amidst the chaos.
Have a look at some screenshots to see what you may be up to during the game.
The popular Dreamcast classic Samba De Amigo will be hitting shelves on the 23rd of September.
Developed by Gearbox, Samba De Amigo is a rhythm music game that sees players shaking the Wii Remote and Nunchuck like maracas in time to the visual beats of samba tunes on-screen as the sombrero-topped monkey Amigo. The game features over 40 tracks from the original game as well as new pop favourites and the chance to download new songs.
Two players can step up to the challenge in competitive and co-op multiplayer modes, with players using either the Wii Remote and a Nunchuk or two Wii Remotes. The game also includes career, single player, training and record modes as well as Quick Play, Classic, Battle, Survival, Hustle and Mini-games. Players will also be able to compare scores thanks to global leaderboards.
Screens follow.
Skate 2 is set to follow up the first entry to the series with slightly altered dynamics. For one thing, this new version is set 5 years after the original Skate and big business has since clamped down on skaters and the skating culture, essentially making the sport illegal.
Areas that used to be prime skating spots have been blocked off, so players will have to either find new routes or take advantage of the blockades, using them as trick opportunities…or get off your board and move the obstructions yourself.
Skate 2 will also feature a character customisation tool ala Tiger Woods, a video upload service, a renewed camera and 3rd person-perspective as well as (gasp!) a female character!
Don’t squint at the screens. That’s how they are.
The new Prince of Persia game is looking pretty awesome. Telling an all new story, set in an all new environment not related to the previous time-based Prince of Persia games, the combat in this one is more focused, allowing players to take one enemy on at a time, instead of trying to battle a dozen at once, while featuring the acrobatics of the last Prince of Persia series.
The new Prince will be aided by magical female companion, Elika, who looks as though she gets the Prince out of messy situations, as well as helps out with the acrobatics, performing special ‘duo acrobatic’ moves. Players will be able to navigate the open-world structure of the game as they please, unfolding the story in their own way.
The new Prince of Persia, apparently now in development for three years, releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC later this year using the engine that powered Assassin’s Creed.
Mushroom Men is the tale of mushrooms, plant-life, insects and other animals gaining sentience from the green, glowing emanations of a crashed meteor. These once docile creations, now that they have minds of their own, have turned to primal instincts, forming warlike communities.
In the Wii version, the player takes the role of a misfit kind of character that is destined to stop the escalating ‘Spore Wars,’ while naturally learning more about himself along the journey. Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars for the Wii and Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi for the DS (featuring a different story perspective) will be available from October this year.
The screenshots look interesting enough.
Midway’s Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe pitts famous Mortal Kombat warriors against popular superheroes from the DC Universe for the first time ever.
Mortal Kombat began in 1992 and is now Midway’s leading fighting franchise. The 9th edition in the series promises not to disappoint with two new fighting systems: FreeFall Kombat enables players to battle in mid-air while falling from one arena to the next while Klose Kombat gives players a brutal up-close view of the fight.
The game features iconic fighting arenas from both universes, including Metropolis and Gotham City from DCU and Hell and Graveyard from MK, as well as never-before-seen combo arenas that blend both universes.
Choose a character from the MK or DC Universe, each featuring their own signature attacks and finishing moves, before testing your mettle with the new single player mode. Players will even be able to take the battle online.
The latest characters to join the fight include Sonya Blade and Shang Tsung from MK and Catwoman and The Flash from DC. They join Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Liu King, Batman, Superman and Shazam.
Take a look at the latest game play video to see how the game is shaping up.
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe is scheduled to be released on the Xbox 360 and PS3 across South Africa this October. Head over to worldscollide.com for more information about the game.
An interesting ‘crime-puzzler,’ called Defenders of the Law, coming to Wii, DS and PC later this year, has had a little light shed on it. Defenders of the Law is a puzzle-based crime drama, tasking players with putting clues together in order to solve the mystery. So far, so Phoenix Wright.
Further game play features will involve the player in a search for evidence via a hidden-object mechanic, later analyzed in ‘the lab.’ That evidence is then presented in a card-game mechanic, played against the district attorney. The winning hand decides the fate of the defendant as the final verdict is revealed. This apparently leads to not-insignificant replay value. Apparently.
For some reason, GAMEINVEST, the developers, are still looking for publishing partners for Defenders of the Law.
Follow Afro, the Samurai, as he tracks down his father’s murderer to become the No.1 samurai and attains the No.1 Headband to prove it.
Afro Samurai, based on a manga series, became an anime TV series under co-production by Samuel L. Jackson. For the game, Jackson’s voice will once again be lent to Afro, as well as Ninja Ninja, another character in the series. The game will follow the story of the TV series, while adding new content for fans.
Afro Samurai could be called a music-rhythm action game for its unique style of combat. Enemies are affected by the beat of the music, as Afro slices them up and is able to interact with ‘everything and anything in the environment.’
The game will release on Xbox 360 and PS3 later this year. While the screenshots look great, they’re relying on bit too much on that bloom filter…
Not only have 505 Games announced they will be handling European publishing duties for the 2009 Wii game, Cooking Mama 2: World Kitchen, they’ve also gone and released a set of cute screenshots.
Cooking Mama 2, like the original, uses the WiiMote to simulate all manner of kitchen utensils, allowing you to chop, grate, slice and fry. ‘Mama’ also sticks around to help you out if you make a mistake in a bunch of mini-games, one tasking you with “dashing from side to side catching burgers.” Sounds familiar, somehow…
Anyone familiar with Dead Rising on the Xbox 360 will know just how impressive these screens of the Wii version are.
From the screens, Dead Rising on the Wii seems to be the game as seen on Xbox 360, only graphically lower quality and some game play changes. New enemies and weapons feature as well as the obligatory use of the WiiMote and Nunchuk, used to swing weapons and target zombies.
Other changes include moving the camera from a full 3rd person perspective to an over-the-shoulder style camera, as made popular by Resident Evil 4, while the photo mode (the ability to take photos at any time for later perusal) has been removed.
The story will also be handled differently, as sub-missions are now necessary to advance in the game.
The full title is being reported as Dead Rising: Zombie Sacrifice.
If you didn’t like the original LocoRoco on PSP, you just don’t have a heart. LocoRoco 2 continues in the fine level-tilting tradition of its predecessor, while introducing a new story.
The Moja Troop, the ‘enemies’ in the first game, are now able to sing and are sucking the energy out of everyone. It’s up to the LocoRoco (i.e. you) to travel the world and try to perk everybody back up again. The LocoRoco can swim underwater this time and are also able to manipulate more objects around them than before.
LocoRoco 2 is coming to PSP later this year.
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