This week Kalypso Media released video detailing the third and final playable character in their upcoming cooperative hack ‘n’ slash game The First Templar. The new character Marie d’Ibelin is one of two possible companions who’ll join the game’s protagonist Celian over the course of the story. Players can switch between them for single-player adventures, but the game is designed to encourage multi-player coop.
A new video of the wacky, trap-based strategy game, Orcs Must Die has surfaced. It’s part of a new weekly showcase in which the developer, Robot Entertainment, shows off the various traps that players will be able to use in the game. This week, it is the Arrow Wall. It’s a placeable wall that shoots out a floor-to-ceiling- volley of arrows that impales any hapless Orcs unfortunate enough to wander by.
Although a whole ton of folks bought themselves a Kinect since the fancy peripheral was released over six months ago, that’s one bus I haven’t jumped on yet. My DJ Hero turntable, PlayStation Move controller, and Street Fighter arcade stick will be glad to tell you my tales of buying peripherals that I use a few times and then relegate to collecting dust (I suppose I could include my Wii on that list as well). However the Kinect is so uninteresting to me that I haven’t even found it worthy of dust accumulation.
While Child of Eden looks gorgeous and is something I’m absolutely picking up, being the spiritual successor to Rez, there’s no way I can play it without a controller. Thankfully behind all the personal trainer and dancing titles on the horizon there’s one game that you may not have even heard of that could finally get me to go out and buy one of these fancy cameras: Project Draco, a spiritual successor to a Sega series that has sadly drifted away from the spotlight called Panzer Dragoon.
EA have announced the latest entry in its
long running NFS racing series called Need for Speed: The Run which is set to
arrive on PlayStation 3 on November 15 in North America, and November 17 in
Each year more and more games are being released in a multi-platform format. While console exclusives sell game systems, more multi-platform releases mean that you don’t have to go out and buy a new console just for that one killer app. Unfortunately, it’s becoming too frequent for publishers to overlook a PC version when they release multi-platform games and this can lead to PC gamers missing out on some awesome games.
You’ll need to act fast, because many of these weekend deals are actually just for one day only, and Electronic Arts has a massive sale you’ll want to check out today. You slowpokes will still find a few deals that stick around over the weekend, but thrifty game hunters will want to take a look at what’s up for grabs today on the digital distributors.
It’s been a few years since GameFly became the Netflix of video games rentals, but there hasn’t been a Redbox for gaming. That will all change in June when Redbox themselves will begin offering game rentals along with their movie selection. For those of you unfamiliar with the service, a Redbox is essentially a vending machine for movie rentals. As opposed to other physical retail rental chains, such as the recently bankrupt Blockbuster, Redbox locations can be anywhere from a gas station to a fast food restaurant. When you’re finished, you just return the disc to any Redbox location. Rentals for films are a dollar a day on DVD, or for 50 cents more you can get a Blu-Ray. According to Redbox, games will be a little more at $2 a day.
