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Xbox 360 version of RE: Operation Raccoon City gets exclusive Nemesis Mode DLC
Can’t wait to buy Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City? Undecided as to which console you’ll buy it for? Well Microsoft has just sweetened the deal for Xbox 360 owners, who now get exclusive DLC called “Nemesis Mode.” Check out the trailer to see what it’s all about.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City will be out March 20, along with the Nemesis Mode DLC for Xbox 360 users. Nemesis Mode will be 320 Microsoft Points.
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Tagged Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Robotics teams ready to rumble with Kinect
At the FIRST Robotics Competition in New York City, which is part of a larger celebration of science and technology, more than 60 robotics teams will be competing to earn a chance to go on to a global competition and qualify for scholarship money.
What does this have to do with gaming, you ask? Each team has an “alliance” of robots, and this year, they have the option to control one using an Xbox 360 Kinect instead of an autonomous routine. The Kinect controller will read the team member’s movements and translate those to the robot, creating a “hybrid” between man and machine. All very science fictiony, don’t you think?
Check out the video above of how the Kinect will be used to control robots at the competition!
The FIRST Robotics competition will be held March 16-18, 2012 at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. For more information about the New York City FIRST, or the competition, visit their website at NYCFIRST.org.
Play.com leaks GTA: Vice City Nights, Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, more for Vita
UK retailer Play.com has outed a few Vita games and the selection should be of great interest to… well, everybody. Don’t believe me? Check out this list of leaked titles:
- Final Fantasy Type-0 HD
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Nights
- Monster Hunter Portable 3
- Tales of Innocence R
Obviously, none of these titles have been officially announced. But there’s a lot of evidence to suggest they’re real.
Final Fantasy Type-0 was previously released for the PSP in Japan and Square Enix has always said it would make it across the Pacific. With the PSP as good as dead, a Vita release makes much more sense.
There hasn’t been so much as a peep about Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Nights, but GTA: Liberty City Stories, GTA Vice City Stories, and GTA: Chinatown Wars were huge sellers on the PSP.
A tech demo of Monster Hunter Portable 3 running on Vita hardware was shown by Capcom last year. Turning it into an actual game is a no-brainer. Tales of Innocence R is already available for the Vita in Japan and Namco Bandai has been heavily pushing the series in America as of late, so this also qualifies as a no-brainer.
So what are all of these publishers waiting for? Announce them already!
[Source: Eurogamer]
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Tagged Final Fantasy Type-0, Vita
Apple announces specs, March 16 release date for iPad 3
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the iPad 3.
The latest revision of Apple’s tablet includes a new processor, a new camera, 4G LTE support, and a new Dictation app. It’s sleek and sweet and will only set you back $499 (for the 16GB Wi-Fi version), $599 (32GB Wi-Fi version), or $699 (64GB Wi-Fi version).
OK, maybe “only” is the wrong word (and the versions with 4G support are even pricier). But the new feature set is incredibly nice:
- A5X chip with quad-core graphics
- 5 megapixel iSight camera with advanced optics
- Retina display delivers four times the number of pixels of iPad 2
- Dictation app
- 4G LTE support
Hit the jump for more details on all of these features. Everyone else, commence drooling, you’ll be able to purchase one on Friday, March 16 (that’s next Friday). (more…)
Daily Scoop: March 7, 2012 – Happy Wednesday!
It’s the middle of the week! And even closer to the weekend for me, as I’ve taken off Friday to recover from Thursday, which is my birthday! Chances are I won’t do a bit of drinking, but hey – it’ll be nice to have a three-day weekend and to sleep in, if you know what I’m saying. Taking off on your birthday is nice, too, but when it doesn’t behave and fall closer to the weekend, what can you do?
Not really much in the way of deals today. Amazon’s Deal of the Day in video games is pretty interesting – it’s Sniper Elite by, get this, Maximum Family Games. This Wii game is $19.99 today, and I’m assuming it helps you learn how to be a leet sniper… with your family. In the most maximum way possible.
Does anyone else get a kick out of this, or is it just me???
Alas, only one gaming t-shirt for sale today on the daily sites: (more…)
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Rapper asks for return of the old Squaresoft… in rhyme
Richie Branson loves Square Enix.
Correction, Richie Branson loves the Squaresoft that created games like Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy VII. The nerdcore artist also gives some heartfelt advice on how the megapublisher can win back his business… in song.
EA announces rebirth of the SimCity franchise
Long before CityVille sucked up your free time on Facebook, there was SimCity. Last night, as expected, EA announced that their Maxis studio is hard at work on a new entry in the city-building series. And like all good reboots, it’ll simply be titled SimCity when it’s released exclusively for the PC in 2013.
“We’d like to thank the millions of fans who have helped make SimCity synonymous with the city-building genre. This is a franchise that means the world to us at Maxis and we’re happy to be bringing it back home where we are reimagining it for an entirely new generation of players,” said Lucy Bradshaw, Senior Vice President of EA’s Maxis Label. “Using our proprietary GlassBox Engine, SimCity for PC will equip players with the tools to play the most sophisticated simulation of its kind. We are dedicated to making sure the experience – no matter the platform – has the fun, flavor and playability that has been intrinsic to the franchise since its birth.”
According to EA, everything in SimCity will be simulated: “Sims in each city will have jobs or can lose them, buy homes, be prosperous or be an economic drain on the city.” Besides this new level of complexity, the publisher also touted the game’s ease-of-use and accessibility, so SimCity fans of old should feel right at home.
But Maxis and EA are also working to add some fun stuff to the SimCity formula including a “robust” multiplayer mode and expansion content (SimCity Heroes & Villains) ripped from the pages of a comic book.
Finally, you can check out the game’s first trailer after the break. (more…)
XBLA Today: I Am Alive
The Xbox Live Arcade House Party has come to a close for another year as Microsoft added the final game, I Am Alive, to the XBLA today. Ubisoft’s I Am Alive has gone through a troubled development cycle that saw multiple delays and it’s eventual downsizing from a disc-based game to an XBLA release.
Will this change of venue do it good? Or will it be a disaster similar to “The Event” it depicts…
One year after a worldwide cataclysmic event has wiped out most of human civilization, a man struggles for survival. Faced with an insecure, decaying, and hazardous world, he scours a desolated city, searching for his long lost wife and daughter. Survive the suffocating, murky streets covered in dust. Climb the teetering remains of the last standing skyscrapers to reach breathable air and find untouched resources. Explore the crumbling ruins of a once-thriving metropolis. And discover a changed human condition, punctuated by distrustful survivors, dangerous armed gangs, and victims in need.
I Am Alive will be available to download for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15). And don’t forget, if you’ve purchased all four House Party titles, you’ll receive a rebate of 800 Microsoft Points ($10).
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Tagged I Am Alive