Due out November 22 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, the console version of The King of Fighters XIII seeks to address many concerns fans have voiced about the franchise. Concerns like lengthy matches, addressed in the video by massive combos that take out an entire life bar.
Yes, it does take a great deal of coordination to actually pull any of these moves off successfully, so players shouldn’t run into them defenseless all that often. That is unless the player is me. This short video summarizes just about every The King of Fighters match I’ve played in my long and painful career, hence the popular saying. “The key to victory is just a Fahey away”.
Mick Foley–otherwise known as Mankind, Cactus Jack, and Dude Love–joins the growing list of wrestling superstars in WWE ’12.
The WWE franchise is back with an exciting all-new edition with WWE ’12. The new gameplay system will make you feel like you’re truly in the ring with the most fluid, dynamic, realistic, action-packed WWE simulation to date.
Taking up my trusty, weatherbeaten pickaxe’o’electronic delights, I chip another gleaming nugget from the mountain of indie games lurking in the RPS inbox. What new gem will I mine this time? It has a fine name indeed. That name is Stealth Bastard: Tactical Espionage Arsehole. It has a core philosophy, and that philosophy is “why does stealth need to be so slow?” Turns out, it doesn’t.
Bits of Portal, bits of Super Meat Boy, bits of Splinter Cell, yet a tone and character entirely of its own, and with none of all that tedious waiting around business. Having nosed at Alpha Protocol for the first time over the weekend and run screaming from its horrific hacking minigame (don’t worry, I’ll persevere), I can’t tell you how grateful I am to just have to press a button and watch a computer’s digital defences crumble before me.
Capsized is a fast paced 2d platformer developed by Alientrap Games, focused on intense action and exploration.
As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!
Artist Jesse McGibney and programmer Lee Vermeulen create an immersive alien world teeming with bizarre life-forms and strange landscapes presented in a unique hand-drawn art style. Combining control elements of first person shooters and innovative physics based combat, Capsized emphasizes action without giving up the smart problem solving of classic platform games.
“We’ve banned hundreds of hackers this week alone, and we are determined to punish the players who play without integrity,” the official Battlefield Twitter account said in a series of three tweets. “A patch is just around the corner, and we will continue to ban cheaters. We take it seriously. That is our attitude here at Battlefield. We have zero tolerance for cheating players and are banning more all of the time.”
What happens when bad-asses get old? They look back into history at the fates of other, long-dead badasses. Watch the latest trailer for the finale of Ezio Auditore’s saga and see how UbiSoft plans on making the gray-bearded assassin go out with a bang.
Action role-playing game based on fantasy epic gets a publisher, early 2012 release window.
The ongoing A Song of Ice and Fire series has been a favorite among fantasy buffs for more than a decade, and its popularity has exploded with the recent HBO Game of Thrones adaptation. A real-time strategy game based on the franchise from Cyanide Studios hit shelves in September, and now the same developer has a publisher for its in-development Game of Thrones action role-playing game.
Atlus announced today that it will be handling publishing duties for the Game of Thrones action RPG adaptation. The game will feature many familiar locations from the books, and likenesses of some of the actors from the HBO series.
The “30-plus hour” game puts players in the shoes of one of the two original characters with different motivations. As former members of Robert’s Rebellion, players will have to battle through numerous quests as power over the Seven Kingdoms is contested.
On the gameplay front, the title will feature an “active slowdown tactical combat engine” that slows time and lets players make strategic battle decisions. Character interactions and player decisions are also said to have a big impact on the game’s world.
In news that is likely to please fans, Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is directly involved with the creation of the game’s scenarios and story. Cyanide studio director Yves Bordeleau told USA Today, “All the situations and storyline were written under [Martin's] monitoring in order to fit with the story the fans have already read, and thus fulfill their expectations.”
The Game of Thrones action RPG is set for an early 2012 release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
I’ve spent the last ten minutes trying and failing to make the Battlefield 3 noise with my mouth, but it has too many digital effects over it and my mouth, as I’ve just discovered, is analogue. Such mimicry is my usual reaction to squelchy electronica, and I just watched the trailer for Back to Karkand, the first expansion to EA’s five-million and counting selling lawnmower simulator. Join me below in watching it.
It cleverly takes the classic Battlefield maps (ie: the ones we actually want to play), Strike at Karkand, Gulf of Oman, Sharqui Peninsula, and Wake Island, and takes the new engine and makes them kiss. The are three new vehicles and ten new weapons, too. Bonus: if you pre-ordered the main game, you’ll get it for free, the rest will have to pay £11.99/$15/23.5666666 Peggles.
