Daily Scoop: November 14, 2012 – Happy Monthiversary!

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Nicole Kline

Happy monthiversary to my sweet, darling boyfriend, Anthony! It’s been 15 months of happiness, cuddling, high fives, Dungeons and Dragons, video games, board games, rolling dice, holding hands, eating water ice, and sharing books. I love you!

All right, enough embarrassing my boyfriend! Time for some deals. As part of its countdown to Black Friday, Amazon has Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympics for 20% off, as well as Sonic Generations for a whopping 64% off. The digital deal is pretty great as well – they’re offering Prototype and Prototype 2 for just $9.99. Scoop ’em up!

There are some fantastic t-shirts up for sale today as well!

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XBLA Today: Planets Under Attack, Warlords

Posted on November 14, 2012 by John Scalzo

Welcome to this week’s Xbox Live Arcade update, which includes the strategic spacefaring combat of Planets Under Attack:

Humanity discovered a new galaxy rich with resources and wonders and it’s up to you to conquer it! Guide your space fleet through the depth of space, discovering new star systems and colonizing planets. Beware, you are not alone in the universe and other races also starve for living space and are ready to fight for it. Not to mention mysterious treasures, dark secrets, treacherous rivals and Bosses! Planets Under Attack is a fast and fun strategy game, easy to understand and to control, offering dozens of hours of tactical fun.

And the medieval combat of Atari’s rebooted Warlords:

Show no mercy and take no prisoners as you fight to the death for title of the almighty Warlord. Defend your castle from mischievous minions and ferocious fireballs in this whimsical reinvention of the beloved classic. In the ultimate battle of speed, strategy and survival, command your troops with shrewdness and skill to capture control points, collect power-ups and destroy the other warring factions!

Planets Under Attack can be downloaded for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15), while Warlords will only set you back 800 Points ($10).

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Check out the second Grand Theft Auto V trailer

Posted on November 14, 2012 by John Scalzo

As promised, Rockstar has released the second trailer for Grand Theft Auto V and it is a doozy. Full of the Hollywood-style action appropriate to its Los Santos location, the new trailer gives gamers their first look at bank robber Michael, low-life Trevor, and repo man Franklin. If you weren’t excited before, you should be now.

Grand Theft Auto V will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 next Spring.

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DMC: Devil May Cry demo available next week

Posted on November 14, 2012 by John Scalzo

Capcom has announced that a demo of DMC: Devil May Cry will be available to download from the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace next week.

The demo, which will contain two levels and a boss battle, will be available in North America on November 20 and in Europe on November 21. Players who download the demo will get a taste of “a few of the game’s difficulty modes,” as well as the remixed Son of Sparda mode (which requires completion of the demo to unlock). A variety of weapon upgrades and “maybe a few secrets” also await those who test out Dante’s next adventure.

The full version of DMC: Devil May Cry will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on January 15, 2013. A PC version will follow sometime later in the year.

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WWE WrestleFest runs wild on the XBLA on December 19

Posted on November 14, 2012 by John Scalzo

WWE WrestleFest was originally released for iOS devices back in February with the promise of a future release on the PlayStation Network and the Xbox Live Arcade. Nine months later, it looks like THQ is finally ready to bring the remade arcade game to consoles.

The release date news comes courtesy of an updated Xbox.com profile for the game. The page doesn’t give us any idea how much WWE WrestleFest will cost, but we know when it’ll be released: December 19, 2012. So in exactly five weeks we’ll be able to suplex and slam our way through the 90s arcade classic, which now features a whole passel of current WWE wrestlers as well.

Sony hasn’t made an announcement concerning the PSN version of the game, but a mid-December launch to match the XBLA version seems likely.

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CoD Black Ops Declassified, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, more added to PS Store

Posted on November 14, 2012 by John Scalzo

Yesterday was Tuesday, and as always, Sony has posted this week’s update to the PlayStation Store for your shopping pleasure. Here’s what PS3 and Vita players can look forward to this week:

The Vita-exclusive Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified leads this week’s new releases. Activision’s portable military shooter is joined by Colors!, a new painting app for your Vita.

There are two new additions to the PS3 side of things: Namco Bandai’s Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and an ala carte version of SingStar. Players who want to brush up on their karaoke skills can download the free SingStar client (which includes several demo songs) and then fill their hard drives with only the songs they want.

Finally, a pair of PSN titles round out this week’s batch of new releases. Wicked Monster Blast! HD is a shooting gallery for your PlayStation Move controller (though it also works with a DualShock 3) and Planets Under Attack is a strategy game that features intergalactic warfare. Take that, Call of Duty!

More details on all of this week’s new releases can be found after the break and a complete list of the latest game add-ons can be found at the PlayStation Blog.

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Sleeping Dogs gets second expansion this holiday season

Posted on November 13, 2012 by John Scalzo

Square Enix has announced that “Zodiac Tournament,” the second Sleeping Dogs expansion pack, will be available before the end of the year.

The titular tournament revolves around a fight club operating on a secret island off the coast of Hong Kong. Naturally, Wei Shen is pulled into the tournament and must fight for his life against the best-of-the-best of this blood sport.

Square Enix has a full slate of Sleeping Dogs DLC scheduled for the coming weeks, including plans to make the pre-order bonus content available to all on November 14 (as the “Dragon Master Pack”), as well as new costumes and fight styles.

Read all about them after the break.

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Tokyo Jungle Review: A Story of a Man and His Dog (Without the Man)

Posted on November 13, 2012 by James Delli-Bovi

What happens to man’s best friend when man doesn’t exist? That’s the big question established in the refreshingly original premise of Tokyo Jungle, a game which sees the human race extinct, domesticated pets running feral and ferocious zoo animals ruling the streets of Tokyo, all facing a savage battle for survival.

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