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Telltale reveals Walking Dead: Season 2 and promises Episode 1 will be out soon
Just in time for Halloween, Talltale Games has uploaded the first trailer for The Walking Dead: Season 2. The first episode of the season will debut for the PS3, Steam (PC/Mac), and Xbox 360 later this year with iOS and Vita editions also in the works. Four additional episodes will be released throughout 2014.
In Season 2, players will control Clementine as she makes her way through the zombified remains of the world:
The Walking Dead: Season 2 will continue the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned at the outset of the undead apocalypse, now left to her own devices to seek safety and survive in a world gone mad. Now assuming the role of an ordinary child, players will struggle to outwit both the dead and the living in situations that will test their morals and control the flow of the story through their decisions and actions.
Each episode of The Walking Dead: Season 2 will be priced at $4.99 apiece. PC players can pre-order all five episodes now for $22.49, a 10% discount.
EA’s next PGA Tour game won’t star Tiger Woods
EA Sports has announced they’re hard at work on their first next-generation PGA Tour golf game. But they’ve also confirmed that when it releases, it won’t include a Tiger Woods endorsement.
Tiger Woods and EA first teamed up for 1998’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99 and a new entry in the series was released every year for the next 15 years (culminating with this year’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14). It’s unknown if EA will enlist another athlete to be the game’s featured golfer or if they’ll revert to the “PGA Tour [Year]” styling.
However, EA was willing to share the first screenshot of the in-progress game. As you can see, the game includes considerably more detail than the screenshot from current-generation consoles. The publisher has also hinted that the next PGA Tour game may be offered through a DLC or free-to-play model:
EA Sports golf fans have always loved authentic courses and players, but they’ve also asked for more choice and customization in how and where they play. We’re working on a new approach to deliver the best golf experience to our fans — we think you’ll love it.
EA has promised that more information about the next PGA Tour game will be released soon.
[Source: The Beat – EA’s Blog]
Posted in News, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Rory McIlroy PGA Tour
Halo: Spartan Assault is bound for Xbox 360, Xbox One in December
Tell me if this makes sense…
You’re a massive publishing company and you own one of the biggest and most-beloved brands in all of gaming. You want to create a spinoff game, a twin-stick shooter, for your popular franchise. You have multiple platforms both available and in development that it could be released for. So what do you do? You release it on the one that doesn’t support twin-stick controllers.
Sounds crazy, right? Yet, that’s exactly how Microsoft has handled Halo: Spartan Assault. The top-down shooter was released for Windows 8 tablets and smartphones back in July and didn’t include controller support. It was later patched in, but why not release a game like that on the Xbox 360 or the upcoming Xbox One?
Thankfully, Microsoft has come to their senses and plans to bring Halo: Spartan Assault to the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One in December. The console version will include everything found in the tablet/smartphone version as well as the “Operation Hydra” expansion and an exclusive online co-op mode.
Sadly, online play between the two consoles will not be supported.
Posted in News, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tagged Halo: Spartan Assault
Battle aliens in Call of Duty: Ghosts’ Extinction co-op mode
Treyarch may have the market cornered on zombies, but Infinity Ward is bringing something new to the Call of Duty franchise with Ghosts: aliens.
The recently revealed “Extinction” mode is a co-op mode for one-to-four players “featuring a unique blend of fast-paced survival action, FPS base defense, scavenging, and class leveling.” Players will battle with horrible shock troopers known as Scorpions and attempt to breach an alien hive with a mini-nuke. It looks to be a close encounter of the awesome kind.
Call of Duty: Ghosts will be released for the PC, PS3, Wii U, and Xbox 360 on November 5. PS4 and Xbox One versions will follow in mid-November.
Eidos Interactive has discussed Western-developed Final Fantasy with Square Enix
Final Fantasy was released for the Famicom (NES) in Japan in 1987 and since then, Square Enix has expanded the series to include dozens of sequels, spinoffs, and remakes. But in all that time, the publisher has never contracted with a Western developer to produce a Final Fantasy-branded game. But that may change in the very near future as OXM UK got in touch with Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Director Motomu Toriyama and Gameplay Director Yuji Abe to probe the subject.
According to Toriyama, the development history of the franchise lends itself to seeking out new blood: “The whole thing about the Final Fantasy series is that for every iteration, for every game we do, we have a very different game. So the development team is also different very time, so that there’s different ideas and different concepts driving it. So obviously within that framework, having a very different type of team could work. So if we got the right team of people, it could produce something very interesting in the end.”
Abe went a step further, and specifically cited Square Enix’s Western development, Eidos Interactive, as a possible partner for future Final Fantasy titles: “Obviously, Square Enix bought out Eidos a number of years ago, and now we have direct access to American development teams. That’s certainly been discussed within the company, the possibility of say, Eidos or maybe someone else to look after or maybe take on the Final Fantasy series. And we obviously haven’t decided anything concrete, but if we find the right team of developers, the right people who really wanted to do it, and we had the right game, then yes, certainly we’d think about it.”
Eidos Interactive has been responsible for many of Square Enix’s biggest hits over the last few years including Tomb Raider, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and Sleeping Dogs. While an Eidos/Final Fantasy project is currently just talk, I think it could certainly be an interesting match.
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Rockstar readying GTA5 Stimulus Package, Beach Bum Pack, Content Creator
Rockstar Games is gearing up to release the first bits of downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto V in the near future. And, if everything goes according to plan, the publisher plans to deposit the GTA$ Stimulus Package money into the accounts of all GTA Online players next week.
The Beach Bum Pack will add “new beach themed vehicles and new weaponry” while the Content Creator will “give players the ability to craft, publish, rate and play custom-made Deathmatch and Race Jobs.” Both the Content Creator and the Beach Bum Pack are free:
The GTA$ Stimulus Package
We know many of you are anxiously waiting for us to show you the GTA$ Stimulus Package money we announced a couple weeks back. We have a few more tweaks and fixes to make in a new title update that will hit sometime next week and then we will distribute the cash.The Beach Bum Pack
Coming in early November will be the first add-on content update, the Beach Bum Pack which will bring all-new beach themed vehicles and new weaponry that you’ll be able to use in both GTA Online and Story Mode. Plus new customization options for your GTA Online character including new tats, hairstyles and more. We’ll also be adding lots of brand new action-packed Jobs to play with Gang Attacks, Survivals, Last Team Standings, Parachutes, Deathmatches and Races that will have you bloodying up the waters and coastlines of the finest beach resorts across Los Santos and Blaine County.The Content Creator
We are also working to bring you the debut of the first part of the GTA Online Content Creator this fall – giving players the ability to craft, publish, rate and play custom-made Deathmatch and Race Jobs. We’ll be keeping our eye open for exceptional ones that we’ll be stamping as “Rockstar Verified” and will be featuring them here at the Newswire and as part of forthcoming GTA Online Social Club Events.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Grand Theft Auto V
Weekly Warp-Up: More Delays Edition
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…
Another pair of delays struck the video game world this week as Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed: Liberation HD will move from Fall 2013 to January 2014 and EA has confirmed that The Sims 4 is moving on down to Fall 2014.
In other news, our UK Correspondent, Andrew Rainnie, sat down for an interview with Gary Beaver of GHI Electronics. The company’s Director of Operations filled us in on his employer’s new “programmable” handheld, the FEZ Game-O, and the Kickstarter campaign they successfully ran to fund it.
More news from the week that was can be found after the break. (more…)
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New Releases: Battlefield 4, Assassin’s Creed IV, Sonic: Lost World, More
It took a little bit longer than usual, but we’re finally in the middle of the Fall gaming avalanche.
This week, gamers can look forward to Battlefield 4 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360), the next entry in DICE’s popular shooter series; Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (PC, PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360), the next entry in Ubisoft’s popular stealth series; and Sonic: Lost World (Wii U, 3DS), the next entry in Sega’s sometimes anger-inducing popular platformer series.
Also available this week is…
- The Wii Fit U Fit Meter, Nintendo’s stylish exercise gizmo designed for the free downloadable version of Wii Fit U (which will also be available this week).
- The first wrestling game published under the 2K Games banner WWE 2K14 (PS3, Xbox 360).
- The console version of Angry Birds Star Wars (3DS, PS3, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360).
- The latest platformer starring Pac-Man, Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (PC, Wii U, Xbox 360)
A complete list of this week’s new game releases can be found after the break. And remember to keep an eye on “New Releases,” because we’re just a little over two weeks away from the launch of two new consoles. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, PC, PS3, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360
Tagged Angry Birds Star Wars, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Battlefield 4, Sonic: Lost World, WWE 2K14