Through my scope, I watch a neon-lit dinosaur shoot laser beams from its face in a fierce battle with evil robots. When it’s done roasting our mutual enemies, I blow the beast up with sniper-rockets. Suddenly, there's a 16-bit style sex montage. Nobody in their right mind would create something as wonderfully absurd as Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon – so I’m glad someone in charge at Ubisoft is at least a little nuts.
Don't go in expecting a traditional Far Cry game. Blood Dragon is philosophically, tonally, and mechanically the fundamental opposite of its straight-faced predecessors. It's like entering the imagination of a nine-year-old boy. Or my mind at age 25, honestly: These are action figures and super-powers come to life for an action-packed six-hours of open-world first-person shooting.
Trion Worlds has announced the Defiance Most Wanted contest, a chance to get your in-game character into the SyFy television series.
Beginning today and running until 11:59 p.m. PDT on May 12th, fans will be able to register for the contest, which they can win by completing two new Most Wanted pursuits. The winner “will have artists from the Defiance series render their character’s likeness into a special place in an upcoming episode.”
Both Most Wanted pursuits are available in the Goals section of the GO menu. The first, Rogue’s Gallery, “tasks you with eliminating various mutants, raiders, 99ers, and more,” while a second pursuit called Competitor “pits you against other ark hunters in team-based PvP and Shadow War modes.” According to Trion, “the ark hunter earning the most ark salvage per hour (excluding ark salvage earned from the Salvage Matrix) during their time played over the course of the contest will win.”
Trion Worlds has announced the Defiance Most Wanted contest, a chance to get your in-game character into the SyFy television series.
Beginning today and running until 11:59 p.m. PDT on May 12th, fans will be able to register for the contest, which they can win by completing two new Most Wanted pursuits. The winner “will have artists from the Defiance series render their character’s likeness into a special place in an upcoming episode.”
Both Most Wanted pursuits are available in the Goals section of the GO menu. The first, Rogue’s Gallery, “tasks you with eliminating various mutants, raiders, 99ers, and more,” while a second pursuit called Competitor “pits you against other ark hunters in team-based PvP and Shadow War modes.” According to Trion, “the ark hunter earning the most ark salvage per hour (excluding ark salvage earned from the Salvage Matrix) during their time played over the course of the contest will win.”
Henry Cavill has been discussing becoming Superman, explaining that he thought he’d messed up his audition due to being overweight, and revealing that he nearly missed landing the role thanks to World of Warcraft.
Talking to GQ, Cavill explained that his screen test went well, until they pulled out one of Christopher Reeve’s old Superman suits for him to screen test in.
“It was totally embarrassing” Cavill explains. “I wasn’t in training. I wasn’t feeling fit or looking good, and you put on a Lycra suit and it does not help. I just thought – OK, I’m not getting this job. I’m fat Superman. It’ll be some really in-shape dude that when they step out they look amazing.”
While Star Wars: The Clone Wars fans have lamented the end of that series , we have been promised additional episodes of the series, originally intended for Season 6. As it turns out, one of those unreleased story arcs will deal with a lingering mystery from the Star Wars saga -- one introduced in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones -- Syfo-Dias.
Syfo-Dias’ name was mentioned prominently in Attack of the Clones – he was the Jedi the Kaminoans believed Obi-Wan Kenobi to be initially, and we learned he had apparently commissioned the creation of a clone army in the first place. Obi-Wan revealed Syfo-Dias had in fact been killed years before, but that left plenty of question marks regarding who he was and what he’d been doing before he died.
Ubisoft has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 versions of Watch Dogs will receive 60 minutes of exclusive content.
While it's been rumoured that the PlayStation 3 edition of the game would get exclusive missions for some time, confirmation came yesterday when updated box art for the title was unveiled along with a release date.
Now, Ubisoft has explained that the same content will be available on Sony's next-gen console as well. A statement provided to IGN reads, "We can confirm that customers who will purchase Watch Dogs on PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 4 will be able to download 60 minutes of additional gameplay via the PlayStation Network after the game's launch. As of now, we have no more details to share."
Ubisoft has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 versions of Watch Dogs will receive 60 minutes of exclusive content.
While it's been rumoured that the PlayStation 3 edition of the game would get exclusive missions for some time, confirmation came yesterday when updated box art for the title was unveiled along with a release date.
Now, Ubisoft has explained that the same content will be available on Sony's next-gen console as well. A statement provided to IGN reads, "We can confirm that customers who will purchase Watch Dogs on PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 4 will be able to download 60 minutes of additional gameplay via the PlayStation Network after the game's launch. As of now, we have no more details to share."
At EVE Fanfest in Iceland last year, Dust 514 was introduced to the world with a spectacular set-piece: a squadron of mercenaries playing on PS3 calling in a real-time orbital strike from a player piloting a spaceship in EVE. It was an impressive and easy-to-understand symbol for the wider integration of this new multiplayer FPS into a persistent, ever-changing world that is already home to several hundred thousand players and their Internet spaceships.
Since beta testing began almost a year ago, though, things haven’t been so clear, and those grand co-operative moments have only just started materialising in-game. Integrating something like Dust into the EVE universe without messing up the economy or the game has been a long process, and it’s still not done. “We’ve set in place all these knobs and levers and we slowly keep turning them on to see how it all goes,” says CCP’s Brandon Laurino, who is in charge of Dust 514 at the developer’s Shanghai studio. “It’s much harder to unspool things that happen in the EVE universe than in other games.”
At EVE Fanfest in Iceland last year, Dust 514 was introduced to the world with a spectacular set-piece: a squadron of mercenaries playing on PS3 calling in a real-time orbital strike from a player piloting a spaceship in EVE. It was an impressive and easy-to-understand symbol for the wider integration of this new multiplayer FPS into a persistent, ever-changing world that is already home to several hundred thousand players and their Internet spaceships.
Since beta testing began almost a year ago, though, things haven’t been so clear, and those grand co-operative moments have only just started materialising in-game. Integrating something like Dust into the EVE universe without messing up the economy or the game has been a long process, and it’s still not done. “We’ve set in place all these knobs and levers and we slowly keep turning them on to see how it all goes,” says CCP’s Brandon Laurino, who is in charge of Dust 514 at the developer’s Shanghai studio. “It’s much harder to unspool things that happen in the EVE universe than in other games.”
PlayStation Vita may be capable of console-quality gaming, but its largely untapped strength rests in its potential to provide those experiences in commute-friendly, time-sensitive bursts. Soul Sacrifice straddles the line between delivering the depth typically found on console and the on-off-on-again routine of handheld gaming, and the result is something that will likely please Vita owners hungry for a quality, grind-heavy RPG.
Delivered by Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune, Soul Sacrifice suffers from problems endemic to likeminded games in the genre – think Monster Hunter or Phantasy Star Online – but it also does some unique things that help keep it fresh. While it can occasionally bog down in sheer repetition and the rampant overuse of monsters and maps, there’s something inherently and undeniably addicting about Soul Sacrifice.
PlayStation Vita may be capable of console-quality gaming, but its largely untapped strength rests in its potential to provide those experiences in commute-friendly, time-sensitive bursts. Soul Sacrifice straddles the line between delivering the depth typically found on console and the on-off-on-again routine of handheld gaming, and the result is something that will likely please Vita owners hungry for a quality, grind-heavy RPG.
Delivered by Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune, Soul Sacrifice suffers from problems endemic to likeminded games in the genre – think Monster Hunter or Phantasy Star Online – but it also does some unique things that help keep it fresh. While it can occasionally bog down in sheer repetition and the rampant overuse of monsters and maps, there’s something inherently and undeniably addicting about Soul Sacrifice.
Leonardo Da Vinci continues to show his investigative prowess when he’s alerted to an epidemic of so-called “Demonic Possession” at a nearby convent. It serves as another opportunity to show the audience how clever Da Vinci is and how diabolically wicked the will of the Holy Roman Church can be. Meanwhile, the hunt for the mole in the House of Medici continues forcing Lucrezia to take drastic measures to protect her true intentions.
There is some gruesome imagery in “The Prisoner” which goes hand-in-hand with the subject matter of demonic possession. The encounter with the first nun who is supposedly possessed is chilling and the unexpected eye stabbing was horrific. It did a great job of ramping up the immediacy of the situation though, even if Da Vinci wouldn’t react immediately as he was too self-absorbed in his own quest for the Book of Leaves.
