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Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 Hands-On Preview: Resurrecting a Zombie in More Ways Than One
When the third episode of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness was canceled in 2010, I have to admit, I was a bit shocked. The first two games in the series provided plenty of RPG thrills and all the Penny Arcade-style humor I could ever ask for.
I was equally shocked when the RPG series was reborn under the slightly less laborious title, Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3. Now in the hands of Zeboyd Games, an indie development house known for their love of 16-bit RPGs, the game was playable for the first time at last month’s PAX East expo. And play it I did. (more…)
Posted in Mobile, PC, Previews, Top Story, Xbox 360
Tagged PAX East 2012, Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
THQ fools us all, announces Saints Row 3: Enter the Dominatrix standalone expansion
On April 1st, THQ announced Saints Row: The Third – Enter the Dominatrix, a standalone expansion to Saints Row: The Third that trapped the Third Street Saints inside an extraterrestrial virtual reality machine. I guess the joke’s on all of us, because it’s real.
THQ reannounced Enter the Dominatrix today and revealed that it’ll be released for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 this Fall. The game will carry a suggested retail price of $29.99 and include something every Saints Row fan has been asking for: “freaking super powers.”
“Faster than a speeding cyber jetbike, more powerful than a roided-out Luchadore, able to leap flying aircraft carriers in a single bound… That’s the power you’ll find inside the Dominatrix. Use it for good. Use it for evil. Use it for whatever you want. As always in Saints Row, it’s up to you,” said Danny Bilson, Executive Vice President of Core Game Production at THQ.
Still don’t believe? Trust me, you want to believe:
Saints Row: The Third – Enter the Dominatrix picks up immediately following the events of Saints Row: The Third. For centuries, alien warlord Zinyak has eyed Earth and its precious natural resources and females with a watchful eye. As he prepares an armada for invasion, he has only one worry: the Third Street Saints.
Now, in order to prepare his forces for domination, Zinyak captures the leader of the Saints and imprisons him in an elaborate virtual reality simulation. This simulation program looks and feels like Steelport, but it is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. Here, you are a slave. Welcome… to the Dominatrix.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Saints Row IV
GameTrailers gets to the bottom of CoD Black Ops II trailer
GameTrailers has given the Pop-Block treatment to the Call of Duty: Black Ops II reveal trailer. Using their advanced sleuthing skills they deduce what types of weapons and vehicles we can expect to see in the game, what real-life locales we’ll be visiting, and just who is involved in this future war.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II will be available for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on November 13. But I’ll bet you knew that already.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Bethesda Softworks announces Elder Scrolls MMO
Bethesda Softworks today announced The Elder Scrolls Online, which will be the first Elder Scrolls game that allows players to explore the vast world of the Elder Scrolls with others in a massively multiplayer online setting. The game has been in development for the Mac and PC since 2007 by ZeniMax Online Studios, whose staff has worked on games like Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online, Star Wars: Galaxies, Ultima Online and The Sims Online.
Matt Firor, game director of The Elder Scrolls Online, states that his team has been “Working hard to create an online world in which players will be able to experience the epic Elder Scrolls universe with their friends, something fans have long said they wanted.”
The world’s first look (including a teaser trailer and screenshots) at The Elder Scrolls Online will take place over at GameInformer.com throughout the month. As you can see to your left, the game has also been selected to grace the cover of the June issue of the mag (which will be shipped to subscribers on May 8).
Even ore information about the game will be available in the coming months, so to keep up with updates, check out the official Twitter account and Facebook page for the game, or the Bethesda forums, if you’re into that kind of thing.
Bethesda has given The Elder Scrolls Online a 2013 release date.
Posted in News, PC
Tagged The Elder Scrolls Online
Valve: No new announcements at E3 2012
Speaking to IGN, a representative from Valve has confirmed that the company has no new announcements planned for this year’s E3 Expo. Period. Full stop. No foolin’.
Valve has two previously announced projects in the works: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and DOTA 2. Sadly, it sounds like the much-rumored Half-Life 3 won’t be joining them this year.
The Walking Dead: Episode 1 Review: A New Day For Adventure Games
In a world where nearly every medium is overwhelmed by the undead, yet another zombie game seems gratuitous. Is there really anything more to say about the living dead? Telltale seems to think so. And, from the first episode of their new game series based on Robert Kirkman’s massively successful comic, The Walking Dead, I can’t help but agree. (more…)
Zombies Mode confirmed for CoD Black Ops II
Mark Lamia, the Studio Head at Treyarch, has confirmed that Zombies Mode will be reanimating on Call of Duty: Black Ops II this November in an interview with VentureBeat:
The multiplayer is pretty big and ambitious. And they really are creating another game with the Zombies there.
While that little tidbit of information would ordinarily be big news, CVG has ferreted out the first details of Zombies Mode and they are impressive.
Eight players will be able to take on the zombie menace in Black Ops II (up from four in the original Black Ops). With an increased player count, you can expect an increased zombie count as well: “Treyarch will be using the game’s improved multiplayer engine for zombies, which means double the amount of shuffling corpses to sink your bullets into.”
But I think the money quote is this one from CVG’s man on the inside: “Treyarch [has] given their zombie team free reign to do pretty much whatever they want with the mode regardless of the direction the campaign is headed in.”
In case you haven’t heard, Call of Duty: Black Ops II will be released for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on November 13.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Daily Scoop: May 2, 2012 – Nero Day
It’s humpday, and it’s raining! But that’s OK, because I’m listening to Nero, which is brightening the day up considerably. It’s a tea and blanket kind of day, but instead, I’ve got Vitamin Water and a hoody. I guess I’ll just have to make do…
Not too much in the way of deals today! Amazon’s digital deals are: $7.99 for Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Augmented Edition, $6.99 for Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Standard Edition, and $4.99 for Dungeon Siege 3.
Other than that, GameStop’s got some new deals, including $50 off of the Xbox 360 Limited Edition Kinect Star Wars Bundle, bringing it to a more reasonable $399.99. Scoop it up!
Just one shirt today, but it’s one of Megan Lara’s finest! (more…)
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