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Daily Scoop: June 6, 2011 – E3 is here!
It’s time for E3! Some of the press conferences have already happened, but the big three are still to come. We’ll be reporting on them, so stay tuned here for all of your E3 needs!
While you’re waiting, you might want to check out some of the deals going on and pick up some games on the cheap! Amazon’s Deal of the Day in video games today is for all of you football fans out there! The MadCatz NFL PlayStation 3 controllers are just $25.00 each, down from $39.99. Pick up your, uh, Buffalo Bills controller today! That’s a football team, right?
Also, it’s week two of the Dads & Grads promotion at Amazon, and that means handheld deals! There’s plenty of great stuff there, including Final Fantasy IV The Complete Collection for PSP – arguably the best version of FF IV yet!
And after a slow t-shirt weekend, today’s Qwertee has me wondering if it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all:
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Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News
Nintendo Download 6/6/11 includes Ubongo, Picdun, Dreamwalker
Nintendo plans to turn on the 3DS eShop sometime today, but until then they’ve alreday updated the Wii Shop and DSi Shop with a quartest of new games.
The Wii Shop gets Ubongo, a puzzle game based on an internationally renowned board game. DSi owners will get a chance to download three news titles: Go Series: Picdun, a unique action RPG where “every step you take will fill in the blanks of a hidden picture”; Dreamwalker, a Little Nemo-like platformer; and Crazy Cheebo: Puzzle Party, a puzzle game.
More information on four games can be found after the break. (more…)
Activision announces E3 lineup; CoD Elite beta dated
The 2011 E3 Expo opens today as Activision has released the final details their Call of Duty-centric lineup. The one-two punch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and the Call of Duty Elite subscription service headline the publisher’s announcement. They’ve even announced an official state date for Elite’s invite-only public beta: July 14, 2011. According to Activision, over a million people have already registered to request a beta key.
The megapublisher plans to have a few other titles on display at E3 including the toy/game hybrid Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure, their other toy/game hybrid Wappy Dog, the game-to-movie adaptation Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the wild Prototype 2 and the Marvel-ous Spider-Man: Edge of Time and X-Men Destiny.
More information on Activision’s complete E3 slate can be found after the break. (more…)
Use the Force to view the Kinect Star Wars E3 trailer
So what do we know after watching the Kinect Star Wars trailer? Always in motion, the future is, but the game appears to be a saga-spanning epic that lets players battle droids on Naboo, pilot a pod racer on Tatooine and fly an X-Wing into space. Actions are performed by quite literally kicking a droid in the face, making the hand motion for a Force Push, swinging a Lightsaber in combat (Lightsaber not included, but the developers encourage you to use one) and mimicking the controls of the vehicles.
Hopefully we’ll see more at E3, but if you’ve got a big enough living room, Kinect Star Wars could be the game that makes all your “Stars Wars Kid” fantasies come true.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged E3 2011, Kinect Star Wars
Customize Skills with Runestones in Diablo III
Blizzard wants players to be able to have the option to highly customize their characters in Diablo III. In order to accomplish this lofty goal, Blizzard has introduced Runestones. Runestones are used in order to augment your skills. Each class has 20+ Skills and players are allowed access to seven of those Skills at any one time.
There are five types of Runestones: crimson, indigo, obsidian, golden, and alabaster. In addition to the different types of colors, Runestones also come in different ranks of power. The higher the rank, the better effect on the skills it is attached to. Each of the Runestone’s effects vary depending on what skill you actually attach it to. For instance, the crimson Runestone will enhance a barbarian’s Whirlwhind Attack to cause rocks to fly in every direction, dealing area of effect damage. The same crimson Runestone will cause the witch doctor’s Acid Cloud spell to cause immediate damage instead of its original damage over time effect.
To see videos on how Runestones alter your Skills, head on over to the official Diablo III website.
Posted in News, PC
Tagged Diablo III
New trailer reveals Saints Row: The Third’s November 15 release
The words “over the top” and “Saints Row” are pretty much permanently linked in the eyes of many gamers. And that definitely won’t change when Saints Row: The Third is released for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on November 15.
Check out the game’s E3 trailer above for some of the wildest action you’ve ever seen, including a rooftop shootout between the Third Row Saints and a squadron of VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) jets. Yup, I’d say that qualifies as “over the top.”
Silent Hill: Downpour trailer rains down on E3
Welcome back to Silent Hill. The perpetually foggy town will frighten gamers again later this year in Silent Hill: Downpour, but first Konami has unveiled the debut trailer for Vatra Games’ take on the horror franchise.
Downpour looks to combine classic Silent Hill scares with the escaped prisoner antics of The Fugitive (sadly lacking Tommy Lee Jones’ Gil Gerard). It’ll be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 this Fall and will be on display during next week’s E3 Expo.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged E3 2011, Silent Hill: Downpour
Uncharted: Golden Abyss gets E3 2011 trailer
Sony has released a new trailer for Uncharted: Golden Abyss, the NGP prequel to the popular series, that is chockful of great gameplay and great insights from the development team.
Uncharted: Golden Abyss will be on display at next week’s E3 Expo and will likely be in stores this Holiday season alongside the portable’s launch.
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Tagged E3 2011, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Vita