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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
Killzone 3 “From the Ashes” DLC includes remastered Tharsis Depot & Radec Academy
The third map pack for Killzone 3 will release on the PlayStation Store on June 21 for $4.99. For the price of admission, you get four maps, two of which are remastered from Killzone 2. One is Tharsis Depot, while the other is Radec Academy, whose changes you can see in the video above. Anyone who spent a decent amount of time with Killzone 2’s multiplayer probably lost a lot of hours in Radec Academy, so it’ll be great to see how the new one stacks up. You can head over to the PlayStation Blog for three additional trailers showcasing these retro maps.
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged Killzone 2, Killzone 3
Daily Scoop: June 20, 2011 – Comic hangover
Here I am, exhausted with a smile on my face, hungover from how much fun I had at the convention. I got to see Adam Baldwin talk yesterday, and that was amazing! It made me want to go home and watch Jaynestown all over again.
Lots of great deals today! Ryan Littlefield’s obsession with Toys R Us pays off today, as he told me about this amazing sale: get any two of these games for $50. The list is:
- Brink
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- F.3.A.R.
- Mortal Kombat
- L.A. Noire
- Portal 2
The games are available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This is an AMAZING deal, especially considering F.3.A.R. isn’t even out yet. I mean, what?
Amazon’s Deal of the Day in video games is SVG Distribution’s Brunswick Pro Bowling for the Xbox 360. This Kinect-only game is $39.99 down from $49.99, and has “10 highly detailed bowling environments, each with unique lane characteristics” as well as “five game-play options including Exhibition, Skins and Tournament modes.” Word!
As for today’s daily t-shirt, well, I love dinosaurs, in case you couldn’t tell. Funny story: when I play multiplayer games with my microphone on, people can’t tell if I’m a girl or a 10-year-old boy. It doesn’t help that the emblem on my player card in Call of Duty: Black Ops is a t-rex. So yeah, it’s obvious why today’s shirt.w00t is so close to my heart:
The artist should totally make an anime con version of this shirt and call it “Glompasaurus Rex.” :D
Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News, PS3, Xbox 360
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.