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Nintendo Download: Moon Chronicles Ep2-Ep4, Dig Dug, Kami, more
The final three episodes of Moon Chronicles, Renegade Kid’s space-based first person shooter, have been added to the 3DS eShop today. Players have the option of purchasing episodes individually (priced at $4.50 apiece) or they can grab the Season Pass at a steep discount ($9.00 for the remaining three episodes). Moon Chronicles is joined on the 3DS eShop today by Kami, a paper-folding puzzler that was a hit on mobile devices last year.
Over on the Wii U eShop, a pair of Bandai Namco favorites from the NES era are now available to download. Dig Dug is the classic underground digging game where players are tasked with pumping up a variety of enemies until they explode. Mappy-Land is slightly less well-known, but the ridiculously hard platformer is sure to ring the nostalgia bell for some players.
More information on all of these games (and a few other new releases) can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, Wii U
Tagged Moon Chronicles
Assassin’s Creed: Rogue will include eye tracking when it launches for PC on March 10
With Assassin’s Creed: Unity bypassing the PS3 and Xbox 360, Ubisoft threw previous-generation gamers a bone with the release of Assassin’s Creed: Rogue last year. Today, the prolific publisher has confirmed that the game will also be available on the PC beginning March 10.
Developed by Ubisoft Kiev, the PC port of Assassin’s Creed: Rogue will add in-game eye-tracking for anyone with a Sentry Eye Tracker. With this new technology, players will be able to look to the left or right while playing and the game’s camera will follow, creating an “infinite screen” effect.
And if you’re interested in pre-ordering Assassin’s Creed: Rogue, you can grab it through the Uplay Shop and pick up another Assassin’s Creed game for free.
Posted in News, PC
Tagged Assassin's Creed: Rogue
Watch this guy beat Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! while blindfolded
Jack Wedge was a man on a mission. During last year’s Awesome Games Done Quick marathon, he watched “Sinister1” attempt to complete Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! while blindfolded. Sadly, after beating the game’s first 13 characters, “Sinister1” was TKOed by Tyson. But his performance inspired Wedge to make his own blindfolded run at Iron Mike and the champ was a bit less invincible this time.
That’s right, it’s all in the video above, but Wedge went 14-0 against the cast of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! and emerged victorious with a decision against Tyson. Just beating Tyson at all is a huge accomplishment for most gamers, but doing it while blindfolded? I am just without speech.
Posted in News, Retro
Tagged Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
Get funky with the first concept art from ToeJam & Earl 4
In 2013, Greg Johnson and HumaNature Studios released the bizarre and colorful Doki-Doki Universe on all three PlayStation platforms. An outside-the-box game like Doki-Doki Universe isn’t exactly new territory for Johnson, as he was also the mad genius behind 1991’s ToeJam & Earl on the Sega Genesis. Johnson revisited the extraterrestrial duo in two sequels (1993’s Panic on Funkotron and 2002’s Mission to Earth) and it looks like he’s set to return to his funky roots once more as the developer confirmed that ToeJam & Earl 4 is currently in development.
A more formal announcement will “probably” be made in “three or four weeks,” but for now, head on over to Facebook for a sneak peek at some early concept art.
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Tagged ToeJam & Earl 4
Asher Vollmer’s Close Castles is on hold because it’s not very enjoyable
You might not know Asher Vollmer’s name, but you certainly know his work. Vollmer was one-third of Sirvo, the impromptu development team behind the mobile blockbuster Threes. More recently, Vollmer has been working on Close Castles, a real-time strategy game for the PS4 that he says is for people who hate real-time strategy games. But right now it looks like it’s not for anybody as Vollmer has confirmed (via Twitter) that the development of Close Castles is currently on hold.
Close Castles has been set aside for now because Vollmer believes that the game isn’t very enjoyable in its current state. The developer further states that he’s “designed [himself] into a corner” and that he’ll have to “overhaul the game” before he can release it to bring it up to his standards.
In the meantime, Vollmer has begun work on a brand new mobile game that he’s not ready to talk about yet. Hopefully we’ll learn more about it (and the future of Close Castles) soon.
Posted in Mobile, News, PS4
Tagged Close Castles
Evolve’s “Ready Or Not” live-action trailer is a big game of hide-and-seek
With Evolve‘s launch less than a week away, 2K Games has released the practically de rigueur live-action trailer for the game. Titled “Ready Or Not,” the trailer drops five teenagers into the largest game of hide-and-seek you’ve ever seen. Tack on a haunting vocal track (in this case, “Ready Or Not” by Scala and Kolacny Brothers, a Belgian women’s choir) and you’ve got yourself a trailer. Still, it’s a pretty impressive piece of footage and it definitely evokes the mood that Turtle Rock is striving for with Evolve.
Evolve will be available for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on February 10.
Kane “Jason Voorhees” Hodder will portray the killer in Summer Camp
Kane Hodder wasn’t the first stuntman to play Jason Voorhees, nor was he the most recent. But he has donned the iconic hockey mask more times than anyone else, and many fans consider him the definitive Jason. So, naturally, he was one of the first people approached by Gun Media when they were looking for an actor to portray the killer in Summer Camp, their video game homage to the Friday the 13th film series.
Hodder will be joined by other icons from the Friday the 13th franchise including Tom Savini and Harry Manfredini. Savini will bring his skills as the Special Effects Supervisor on Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter to his role as a consultant to the development team. Manfredini, who created the “Ch Ch, Ch, Chhh, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ahhh” sound effect, will score the game’s soundtrack.
Summer Camp is currently without a release date, but it’ll be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One when it’s ready.
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Friday the 13th
Xbox Store Today: Game of Thrones: The Lost Lords, Risk, SpongeBob HeroPants
A trio of new games now call the Xbox Games Store home and you can download them through your Xbox One or Xbox 360 now.
Leading the way is Game of Thrones: The Lost Lords (Xbox One, Xbox 360), Telltale’s second episode in their six-part Game of Thrones adaptation. Expect a “maelstrom of bloody warfare, revenge, intrigue, and horror” as you navigate House Forrester through the War of the Five Kings.
Also available today is Risk, an Xbox One adaptation of the game of “Global Domination,” and SpongeBob HeroPants, an Xbox 360 tie-in game based on the upcoming film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
More information about all of these games can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tagged Game of Thrones: A Telltale Series