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The Last of Us multiplayer finally revealed by Naughty Dog
With just a week and a half to go before The Last of Us is available in stores, Sony and Naughty Dog have finally unveiled the game’s multiplayer component.
The game’s multiplayer mode is referred to as Factions and players will be able to side with either the Hunters or the Fireflies and from there it branches off into two gametypes: Supply Raid and Survivors.
In Supply Raid, you’ll have to scavenge the area and keep your team alive. Your team has a pool of twenty reinforcements. Once the reinforcements have been exhausted, the match will go into sudden death. In Survivors, you’re going to have to be extremely vigilant. There are no respawns. Once you’re gone you’ve been eliminated until the next round. It’s a best of seven rounds in which the first team to win four rounds wins the match.
Eric Monacelli, Naughty Dog’s Community Strategist is pretty proud of Factions and told the PlayStation Blog: “The moment-to-moment survival present in the single-player campaign is integral to the multiplayer. You’ll feel tension and need to be intensely alert at all times.”
The Last of Us will be available exclusively for the PS3 on June 14.
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Tagged The Last of Us
Deus Ex: The Fall is an iOS exclusive action RPG
As promised, Square Enix and Eidos Montreal have lifted the curtain on Deus Ex: The Fall and it’s not at all what you’d expect. Instead of a full-fledged sequel to 2011’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution, The Fall is an iOS-exclusive sequel to the Deus Ex: Icarus Effect tie-in novel, which starred a new protagonist named Ben Saxon:
Deus Ex: The Fall is set in 2027– a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but also a time of great social divide and global conspiracy. Powerful corporations have seized control from governments and command the drug supply needed by augmented humans to survive. In this chaos Ben Saxon, a former British SAS Mercenary who underwent physical augmentation, is desperate for the truth behind the drug conspiracy. Betrayed by his private military employers, the Tyrants, not only is his own life at risk, but for all augmented humans, time is running out…
Deus Ex: The Fall will be developed at Square Enix Mobile, with assistance from Eidos Montreal and Executive Game Director Jean-Francois Dugas. Owing to its new home on iDevices, The Fall will eschew the franchise’s traditional FPS feel and play more like an action RPG.
You can listen to Dugas and Executive Producer David Anfossi discuss Deus Ex: The Fall in the video above. Square Enix will reveal more information about their major mobile project next week during the E3 Expo.
Deus Ex: The Fall will be available to download for $6.99 this Summer.
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Tagged Deus Ex: The Fall, E3 2013
XBLA Today: State of Decay
Undead Labs’ open-world zombie game, State of Decay, is now available to download from the Xbox Live Arcade. In addition to blasting away at the zombie hordes, players will also have to fortify a base and scavenge for food:
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a third-person action game set in a dynamic open world. You choose where to make your stand, designing and fortifying your home base, performing daring raids for food and ammunition, and rescuing other playable survivors with unique talents.
State of Decay has been priced at 1600 Microsoft Points ($20).
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Tagged State of Decay
Precursor plans to suspend Shadow of the Eternals crowdfunding campaign
Precursor Games’ crowdfunding campaign for Shadow of the Eternals hasn’t been going well. With 13 days to go, the developer’s Kickstarter campaign has only raised $127,962 in pledges, which is less than 10% of their $1,350,000 goal (an additional $157,345 has been raised through a PayPal campaign).
But perhaps all is not lost.
In an update on the Precursor Games website, CEO Paul Caporicci has announced that the Kickstarter campaign will be suspended on Thursday, June 6 because of “a host of new exciting opportunities” that have become available.
Caporicci wouldn’t go into specifics, but he did say that we’ll all learn about it soon, when the Shadow of the Eternals Kickstarter campaign is relaunched in a few weeks. All current donations that came in through the Kickstarter campaign and via PayPal will be refunded.
So has a big-name publisher agreed to fund Shadow of the Eternals? Because it certainly sounds like that’s the case.
Posted in News, PC, Wii U
Tagged Shadow of the Eternals
PSN Today: Remember Me, EDF: Insect Armageddon, Limbo Vita, more
You’ll never forget today’s PlayStation Store update… and that’s not just a play on Capcom’s Remember Me! But yes, Capcom’s noirish third-person action game has been added to the PlayStation Store today alongside two fantastic games now available to download for the first time.
D3’s Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon was released for the PS3 in 2011 and a downloadable version is now available on the PlayStation Network. Shooting armored alien ants was fun two years ago and it’s still fun today.
Also available today is Playdead’s Limbo. The moody platformer was also originally released for the PS3 in 2011, but today’s re-release is for the Vita. Best of all, it’s a Cross-Buy game with the PS3 version.
More details about the above titles and a few other new releases (including Class of Heroes 2 for the PSP) can be found after the break. And the complete rundown of this week’s new game add-ons can be found at the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
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Tagged Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, Limbo, Remember Me
Fable Anniversary announced for Xbox 360
Fable was one of the games that helped put the original Xbox on the map. Now, on the eve of the launch of the Xbox One, Microsoft has announced Fable Anniversary for the Xbox 360.
Fable Anniversary is in development at Lionhead Studios and will be released this holiday season. The new edition will include a graphical overhaul, “almost instant loading times,” an all-new interface, Achievements, and Xbox SmartGlass support. The game will also come complete with the Fable’s only expansion, The Lost Chapters.
“We’re really excited to bring Fable to Xbox 360,” said Ted Timmins, Lead Designer on Fable Anniversary. “It’s the game that the Fable community has been asking for, so we wanted to make sure Fable Anniversary delivered the definitive Fable experience for both long-time fans and newcomers to the franchise.”
Timmons also promised that chicken punting will return. In fact, not only will the popular pastime be included in Fable Anniversary, Timmons revealed, “There’s now a leaderboard for [it]!”
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Tagged Fable Anniversary
Harmonix and Disney team up for Fantasia: Music Evolved on Xbox 360, Xbox One
Harmonix isn’t straying very far from their musical roots for their next game. The Rock Band developer has teamed up with Disney to produce Fantasia: Music Evolved for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The Kinect-powered game will be available in 2014.
Fantasia: Music Evolved players will become the next “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and legendary sorcerer Yen Sid will teach you the secrets of magic thanks to a series of on-screen prompts. Correctly following his instructions by flailing your arms and moving body will restore magic to the world and “transform magical worlds.”
Instead of the classical music the Fantasia film was known for, Fantasia: Music Evolved will use more modern music including tracks from AVICII (“Levels”), Bruno Mars (“Locked Out of Heaven”), Fun (“Some Nights”), Kimbra (“Settle Down”), and Queen (“Bohemian Rhapsody”).
Of course, if you really want to see a magical rendition of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” I suggest William Shatner’s version.
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Tagged Fantasia: Music Evolved
Deus Ex: The Fall reveal coming tomorrow, June 5
Square Enix and Eidos Montreal will unveil Deus Ex: The Fall tomorrow, June 5. The news was delivered courtesy of a seven-second teaser trailer on the official Deus Ex YouTube Channel, which asks, “Are you ready to begin?”
Yes, we’re ready. Did you really need to tease this twice, Eidos Montreal?
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