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Holy pre-order, Batman! Robin officially added to Arkham City in Best Buy promo
Batman and Catwoman won’t be the only playable characters in this October’s Batman: Arkham City. Robin, The Boy Wonder, will be swinging into the game as well.
Gamers who pre-order Batman: Arkham City from Best Buy (on the PC, PS3 or Xbox 360) will receive exclusive access to the Tim Drake Robin Pack. WB Games had this to say about Robin:
“Robin will come complete with his own unique gadgets and special moves, and will be playable in all challenge maps in the game, as well as two additional challenge maps that are included with the pack – Black Mask Hideout and Freight Train Escape. The pack will also contain a bonus Red Robin character skin.”
So it looks like it’ll work exactly the same as the Joker Challenge Maps that were included with the GameStop pre-order of Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Batman: Arkham City
Halo Anniversary will include Kinect support
Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft Game Studios, sat down with GameSpot AU at E3 2011 and confirmed that Kinect support will be included in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary:
“Obviously, as a first-party, we believe that Kinect will be important to all genres of games. Be it racing games like Forza, combat games like Ryse and even games like Halo: Anniversary has Kinect integration,” Spencer said.
With confirmation out of the way, now comes the fun part… speculation on just how Kinect support will work in Halo Anniversary. We’ll have all Summer to think about it as Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is scheduled for a November 15 release on the Xbox 360.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Halo: Combat Evolved
Klassic Sektor & Cyrax bring the pain in new Mortal Kombat trailer
NetherRealm Studios has released a new trailer for Mortal Kombat showcasing the “Klassic” skins for Sektor and Cyrax. The pair will be available on Tuesday, June 21 as part of the free Compatibility Pack #1. Kombatants who download Skarlet (for 400 Microsoft Points/$4.99) will also receive the cyborg skins for free.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Mortal Kombat
Weekly Warp-Up: Post-E3 Cooldown
No, that’s not a typo. Welcome to the Weekly Warp-Up, your weekly wrap-up of the biggest and the best articles posted at Warp Zoned this week…
As we get back to normal after a crazy E3 Expo, very little in the way of news was announced. But the biggest story is actually something that has been in the making for a few months now: Duke Nukem Forever has finally been released! The game that we all thought was vaporware is now on stores shelves and is being absolutely savaged by critics and gamers alike. Even Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford expected that kind of reaction, so even this may not be considered “news.”
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For real news, you might want to check out our recap of this year’s E3 Expo in The A-Z of E3 2011. We’ve also got a hands-on preview of El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, which made a big splash at the industry’s showcase last week.
Finally, the Warp Zoned Podcast is back! In Episode 11, Mike Gutierrez, Nicole Kline, and Ryan Littlefield catch everyone up on what they’ve been playing, and then delve into what happened at this year’s E3. This one is not for the faint of heart, as Nicole won’t stop talking about the hardcore RPG fan’s game-that-must-not-be-named… it’s too horrible to even write it out! Join the crew as they talk about what they loved, hated, and disbelieved about E3 2011.
Hit the jump for the rest of the Weekly Warp-Up. (more…)
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New Releases: FEAR 3, Dungeon Siege III, Shadows of the Damned, More
After multiple delays, FEAR 3 will be scaring gamers on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this week. The game was developed by Day 1 Studios, who took over for original developer Monolith Soft. FEAR 3 will be joined in stores this week by another threequel that has switched developers: Dungeon Siege III (PC, PS3, Xbox 360). The Dungeon Siege series was originally created by Gas Powered Games but the third entry was developed by sequel specialists Obsidian Entertainment.
Sequels aren’t the only games releasing this week as EA will be bringing Shadows of the Damned to the PS3 and Xbox 360. A collaboration between Grasshoper Manufacture’s Suda 51 and Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, the hellbound tale will be nothing if not original. But for a complete change of pace, this week also sees the release of the movie-to-game adaptation Cars 2 (DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360).
Check out the full list of the rest of this week’s new releases after the break. (more…)
FEAR 3 launch trailer is full of slow motion scares
After multiple delays, FEAR 3 will finally be available for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 next week. To celebrate, WB Games has released a launch trailer for the game which features some truly grotesque and frightful scenes.
If you’re not scared yet, you will be.
Mortal Kombat DLC priced; Kombat Pass announced
The good news: NetherRealm Studios plans to support Mortal Kombat with at least four downloadable characters.
The bad news: Each character will cost $4.99 (or 400 Microsoft Points).
Yup, publisher WB Games plans to perform a Fatality on your wallet with the DLC pricing for Mortal Kombat. But the company is offering a slight break to Xbox 360 owners in the form of the Kombat Pass. The pass offers players a $5 discount to download all four characters (Skarlet, Rain, Kenshi and “an unannounced new entrant”) for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15).
If you choose not to download the new characters (and I don’t blame you), NetherRealm will be releasing free compatibility packs to ensure the new characters play nice with the current characters in online play. These compatibility packs will also include two free Klassic skins, such as the Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3-inspired Cyrax and Sektor skins found in the first pack.
Skarlet will be available to download on June 21 with Rain, Kenshi and the “unannounced new entrant” (which totally sounds like a new character to us) will be available later this Summer.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Mortal Kombat
BioWare bringing Mass Effect 3’s “FemShep” to the masses
When promoting the Mass Effect trilogy, BioWare has never strayed far from the default look for the game’s protagonist, Commander Shepard. And that default has always been the male default, meaning players who like to play as “FemShep” never got a chance to see her in action in the game’s many trailers. According to David Silverman, Director of Marketing at BioWare, that’s all about to change for Mass Effect 3.
In a series of recent tweets, Silverman has confirmed that a trailer starring a female Shepard is in the works. “FemShep” will even get a chance to be a cover girl as the Mass Effect 3 Collector’s Edition will feature both versions of Shepard on the box.
Here’s what Silverman had to say about the future of “FemShep”:
there will be a #FemShep trailer. We actually had a meeting on her yesterday. We are working on the look now.
– June 14the CE of #ME3 has both #FemShep and male Shepard on the box.
– June 12
Mass Effect 3 will be released for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on March 6, 2012.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Mass Effect 3