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PSN Today: Cloudberry Kingdom, PixelJunk Monsters: Ultimate HD, Narco Terror, more
Welcome to another week of PlayStation Store releases, this time starring Cloudberry Kingdom, the ultra-hard procedural platformer developed by Pwnee Studios. It’s available on the PSN today alongside twin-stick shooter Narco Terror, live action lightgun game The Last Bounty Hunter, and PS2 Classic P.T.O. IV. A fixed version of another PS2 Classic, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, is also available today.
And if you own Sony’s handheld system, you’ll be happy to know that a pair of new downloadable Vita games were added to the PS Store today. There’s the tower defense favorite, PixelJunk Monsters: Ultimate HD, and another puzzle game from Nikoli, Puzzle by Nikoli V: Slitherlink.
You want more information on each of these titles? You can find that after the break. You want a list of this week’s new game add-ons? That’s at the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3, Vita
Tagged Cloudberry Kingdom
Daily Scoop: July 30, 2013 – PlayStation 4 launch bundles
Hey everyone! It’s Tuesday, and you know what that means – board game night! I’m hoping to make it late tonight to Redcap’s Corner for some Super Dungeon Explore, which is an amazing game. It’s sort of like Gauntlet, but a board game. It even has spawn points and everything. Although there isn’t any food to shoot!
Anyway, there’s really not much going on today deal-wise, which is good and bad. Good because I’ve got so many games I already own that I need to play, but bad because there are so many games I don’t own that I want to play, too. I will tell you a secret, though – I finally pre-ordered the PlayStation 4. I ended up getting the Watch Dogs Launch Day Bundle, which is sold out again already. But don’t worry – you can still nab bundles with Battlefield 4, Killzone 4, or Knack.
There are plenty of great shirts today! (more…)
Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News
BioShock Infinite DLC, Clash in the Clouds, available today
As promised, 2K and Irrational Games have announced the first details of BioShock Infinite‘s downloadable content schedule. Actually, the first DLC expansion, “Clash in the Clouds,” is available today. That’s a nice surprise.
BioShock Infinite: Clash in the Clouds is a set of wave-based maps that “presents players with a series of unique, intense challenges and a whole new gambit of combat opportunities.” Players will be able to access four new areas in Clash in the Clouds and if they complete all 60 Blue Ribbon Challenges, they’ll be able to view a batch of new new Voxophones, Kinetoscopes, and concept art in the Columbian Archeological Society. BioShock Infinite: Clash in the Clouds can be downloaded now for $4.99 (or 400 Microsoft Points).
But Clash in the Clouds is just an appetizer before BioShock Infinite’s downloadable main course. “Burial at Sea” is a noir-like two-part expansion to the game that will bring Booker and Elizabeth to the underwater city of Rapture before its fall. Priced at $14.99 apiece, both parts of Burial at Sea are currently without release dates.
If you’re looking to save a little money, all of BioShock Infinite’s DLC can be yours as part of the game’s Season Pass, which is still available for $19.99, a significant discount over buying each piece individually.
You can find the first trailers for Clash in the Clouds and Burial at Sea after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged BioShock Infinite
Reggie Fils-Aime on Super Smash Bros. 4 petition: “My body is ready”
Leave it to Jimmy Fallon to get to get Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime to comment on fan petition requesting his inclusion in Super Smash Bros. 4. Late Night‘s resident game fan pelted Fils-Aime with a few Twitter questions from fans and after talk about third parties on the Wii U and how Reggie goes to bed every night dreaming of Link, we got to the big one: “What are the chance we may see you as an unlockable character in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Wii U?”
Fils-Aime very diplomatically stated that the final decision is up to Masahiro Sakurai, the game’s Director. But he followed it up by saying, “If he wants, my body is ready.” Any fan of the man knows that this is a callback to his famous declaration before stepping on a Wii Balance Board for the first time at E3 2007.
It’s also the perfect answer to that question.
Posted in 3DS, News, Wii U
Tagged Super Smash Bros. For 3DS, Super Smash Bros. For Wii U
Madden NFL 25 brings together the the best players of the last 25 years with All-25 Team
Boom! John Madden will return to the sidelines of an NFL game next month in Madden NFL 25. The bombastic coach (and turducken fan) will manage the All-25 Team, a collection of the best players of the last 25 years.
EA Sports plans to unveil the All-25 Team over the next two weeks on the official Madden website. So far, only two players have been revealed as part of the All-25 Team: running back Marshall Faulk (formerly of the St. Louis Rams) and fullback Mike Alstott (formerly of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
Madden NFL 25 will be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on August 27. The All-25 Team will also strut their stuff on the PS4 sometime this Fall and on the Xbox One this November.
LucasArts canceled at least 20 Star Wars games over the years… here are their logos
The book Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts was first published in 2008, but I guess no one bothered to look at the appendices until All Games Beta did today. There, in Appendix C, they found concept logos from 20 canceled Star Wars games. Wow!
It’s likely that most of the logos were designed for games that only existed as part of a collection of pre-production documents, but some of them have interesting stories behind them…
- Star Wars: Vader was an early version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (players could still play as Darth Vader during the game’s tutorial level). “The Force Unleashed” was originally a working title and it’s likely many of the logos pictured (Jedi Hunter, Dark Jedi, Rebel Fury, Jedi Rebel, Rebel Jedi, etc.) were alternate titles for the story of Vader’s Dark Apprentice.
- Star Wars Jedi Knight III: Brink of Darkness (or the similarly logoed Star Wars: Jedi Outlaw) would have been been the fifth game in the extremely popular Dark Forces series.
- Star Wars: Underworld shares a name with the long-in-development Star Wars live action television show. It was eventually announced as Star Wars 1313, which was canceled after LucasArts was purchased by Disney.
Personally, I’d love to know what kind of game Star Wars: Scum and Villainy was being developed as. You can find the complete list of canceled titles after the break. (more…)
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Daily Scoop: July 29, 2013 – Nearly August!
It’s nearly August, and you know what that means… it’s nearly time for PAX Prime! The PAX 10 was just announced, and one of my 2013 darlings, TowerFall, is on the list! I couldn’t be more excited. Congratulations, Matt Thorson!
Amazon is having a few decent deals today. The featured ones right now are Dishonored for $19.99, Metro Last Light for $39.74, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition for $39.99. Scoop ’em up!
There are a few great t-shirts up today…
Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News
Fez II canceled as Phil Fish quits game development
Phil Fish is one half of Polytron and the outspoken developer behind Fez, a highly acclaimed puzzle platformer released on the Xbox 360 and PC last year. During this year’s E3 Expo, Fish announced that he had begun work on a sequel, Fez II. But over the weekend, things between Fish and the gaming public turned ugly and he has canceled Fez II. In fact, Fish has decided to get out of game development completely. In a statement on Polytron’s webiste, he wrote:
FEZ II is cancelled. i am done. i take the money and i run. this is as much as i can stomach. this is isn’t the result of any one thing, but the end of a long, bloody campaign.
you win.
The dustup started after Marcus Beer, the “Annoyed Gamer,” tore into Fish on the latest episode of Invisible Walls, his show on Game Trailers. Beer was angry at Fish for refusing to comment on Microsoft’s recent Xbox One policy change allowing indie developers to self-publish their games on the system. Actually, describing Beer’s tirade as “angry” might be underselling it. It was much closer to verbal abuse.
Fish, quoting a line said by Bender on Futurama, told Beer (via Twitter) to kill himself and promptly canceled Fez II. Phil Fish has endured a lot of criticism from gamers over the years. Some of it is fair and some of it isn’t. But it looks like his battle with Beer was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Unless Fish changes his mind and tries to play the whole thing off as a PR stunt.