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Ace Combat: Infinity open beta begins February 4
Are you ready to test your piloting skills? Then you should be excited about Ace Combat: Infinity, which will be running an open beta from February 4 to February 11 on the PlayStation Network. Not only will you have access to loads of amazing weapons and killer aircraft, but you’ll also have two game modes to choose from, as mentioned on their Facebook status:
- Lone wolves will be immersed in a brand new story exclusively written for Ace Combat: Infinity in which they will have to use their pilot skills during perilous solo missions.
- For those who prefer to team-up with their friends and to show off their talent as a pilot, aces will form two co-op teams of up to four aircrafts and will compete in incredible air fights in order to inflict the most damage on the NPC enemy forces.
The beta will be available everywhere except Japan, and everyone who plays the beta will get a special in-game emblem once the game launches.
Ace Combat: Infinity will be coming out on the PlayStation 3 later this year.
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged Ace Combat: Infinity
Breaking Madden: One man’s amazing destruction of the (digital) Super Bowl
I don’t know anything about sports, which is why I’ve never visited SB Nation… until today, that is. Jon Bois does an amazing job of breaking Madden NFL 25 in his amazing article, The Breaking Madden Super Bowl: The Machine Is Bleeding to Death. While the writing is superb, it’s the GIFs of him humiliating the game that really make it.
Whether you’re a football fan, a player of the Madden series, or… OK, really, if you’re just a fan of video games in general, you will appreciate this gem. Get ready to laugh until it hurts.
Madden NFL 25 Super Bowl XLVIII simulation comes up short as Seattle Seahawks win
Sometimes the Madden Super Bowl prediction is scarily accurate. Other times… it’s not.
Super Bowl XLVIII ended just moments ago and not one of Madden NFL 25‘s predictions came true. The game didn’t go into overtime. Peyton Manning didn’t throw three touchdowns (and he definitely wasn’t the MVP). There was no snow. And the Denver Broncos did not win their first Super Bowl since 1998. Instead, the Seattle Seahawks crushed their opponents 43 to 8.
In the real game, Russell Wilson threw a pair of touchdowns (one to Doug Baldwin and one to Jermaine Kearse). Marshawn Lynch added a rushing touchdown and Seattle’s special teams added two more (one pick six from Malcolm Smith and a kickoff return from Percy Harvin). In case you were curious, Smith also took home MVP honors as well.
With the loss, the Madden NFL Super Bowl simulation drops to 8-3 over the last 11 years. The last failed prediction was in 2011 when the Packers defeated the Steelers in Super Bowl XLV.
Better luck next year, EA.
Plague Inc: Evolved infects Steam on February 20
Plague Inc., the popular mobile game that simulates the spread of diseases, is graduating from the mobile realm and coming to the PC (via Steam) in the form of Plague Inc: Evolved. The evolution has tons of new features, including:
- Infectious Multiplayer – Cooperative and competitive gameplay modes let you team up to fight the cure with friends, or compete in a race to kill the world.
- Contagious Content Creator – Hit the lab and develop your own custom scenarios – creating new plague types and worlds. Bring your deadliest ideas to life and share them with Steam Workshop.
- Blinding Graphics – Including full 3D disease models taking you closer to your plague than ever before, city-cams showing humanity’s struggle at street level, and the body scanner highlighting the full effect of your mutations, organ by organ.
- Deadly Data – Predict government responses with priority indicators, geek out with loads of new stats and graphs, and analyse your best strategies with end-of-game replays.
Plague Inc: Evolved will be available on Steam Early Access on February 20.
Posted in News, PC
Tagged Plague Inc: Evolved
Catch up on the Final Fantasy XIII saga with this Square Enix-produced 16-bit recap
I’m one of the few people who will say – or at least, who will admit – that I love the Final Fantasy XIII games. Well, I love the first one – the second one is more than a little convoluted. If you didn’t like the gameplay, or aren’t interested in the games, but really want to know the plot of both of them, you’re in luck: Square Enix has created a recap. And it’s not just any recap – it’s all 16-bit (AKA Final Fantasy VI-style) and has the soundtrack redone in the old chip style as well. This little video will tell you everything you need to know (super abridged, of course) to play Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.
I am so excited right now that I’m bouncing up and down in my seat. February 11 cannot get here fast enough!
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Final Fantasy XIII-2, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
Master Reboot coming to PS3 this month
Wales Interactive is releasing their very first PlayStation 3 game this month, Master Reboot, which the developers describe as “a haunting first person sci-fi adventure game.” In the game, a giant server called the Soul Cloud holds the data from people’s souls once they die. But, of course, something goes wrong, and after your soul has been uploaded, you wake up with no memories. Now you must “explore, solve puzzles, and try to piece together your life and death.”
The Soul Cloud itself is populated “with floating islands, each island looks like a town, village, or city filled with rooms, skyscrapers and houses that hold people’s memories.” So there will be lots of nooks and crannies, giving plenty of room for that psychological horror to take hold.
Master Reboot will be launching on the PlayStation 3 later this month. For more details and some great screenshots, check out the PlayStation Blog.
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Tagged Master Reboot
Yoshi lays an egg in a new Yoshi’s New Island trailer
There is a lot of cute happening in this trailer for Yoshi’s New Island. Fans of the original game are sure to be excited about not just the things that feel warm and familiar, but also the crazy new features (eating giant enemies and laying giant eggs that break so much?!?!) that run rampant here. It’s A Shell of a Time!
Yoshi’s New Island will be available on March 14 for Nintendo’s 2DS and 3DS handheld systems.
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Tagged Yoshi's New Island
Namco Bandai is changing their name to Bandai Namco
The publishing company we all know and love, Namco Bandai, is changing their name globally to Bandai Namco, which is currently their name in Japan. The change will start on April 1, and will apply to all 31 of their subsidiaries, locally and abroad.
According to an article at Gematsu, “The reason for the change, the company said, is to elevate the appeal and value of the Bandai Namco brand overseas.”
If you’re curious as to the names of all 31 of the subsidiaries, you can find that – and what the new names will look like – on the second page of this PDF.
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