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Splinter Cell Blacklist is set to be released on August 23rd for the Xbox 360, PS3, PC and also the Nintendo Wii U. Today Ubisoft released a new trailer for the Nintendo Wii U. It shows off the unique game play which is only possible with the use of the Nintendo Wii U’s GamePad.

Some of the cool things you are able to do with the GamePad are:

• Control your Trirotor Drone
• Tag you enemies for Killing in Motion simply by tapping on the screen of your GamePad
• Quickly switch your equipment and gadgets
• Control you Sticky Camera
• Use the GamePad to view your Opsat Snake Camera

The Nintendo Wii U with the use of it’s GamePad is allowing players to play in a new way, their way. Splinter Cell Blacklist is rated M for Mature.     -Sil3ntX   

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I am sure we are all excited about the next Pokemon installment due to his shelves this fall. Well get ready for even more exciting news. The Pokémon Company International recently revealed a mysterious new Pokémon that looks strangely familiar to Legendary Pokémon Mewtwo. I has been confirmed that there is a very strong connection between Mewtwo and the newly discovered Pokémon!

 

Here is an official animation clip that makes this connection crystal clear. How this connection will play out when Pokémon X and Pokémon Y launch in October is still to be confirmed.

♥ I like moments when our dear friend the Wii U gets to feel special. ♥

Square Enix just released a new behind the scenes trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. In this video you will get to hear about some of the exciting new changes to the Director’s Cut from key developers David Anfossi, Antoine Thisdale, Steve Szczepkowski, Jean-Francois Dugas, and Émile Pedneault. You will also get a first look at the game in action and an inside look at the philosophy behind the development of Human Revolution – Director’s Cut.

In addition to an abundance of new features, the Director’s Cut also offers approximately 8 hours of developer commentary and a 45 minute “making of” video that that reveals secrets and background info on the creation and production of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Why does this make Wii U happy you ask? But it is coming exclusive for the Nintendo Wii U later this year. The decision was made to use Straight Right as their partner has they have been very proactive to propose new ideas because they are used to the WiiU platform.

We feel working with the Wii U with Deus Ex was an immersive experience.

As with other games they looked at the use of the Wii U control as a means of creating a different experience with your game play. The game pad is more than a control or a second screen but an extension to the player themselves. They have added additional game play, more story plot, fresh graphics, increased A.I. and much more all for the love of Wii U players.

For more information about Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut, log on to http://www.DeusEx.com. Check out the trailer here: \

I have heard nothing but great things about the highly successful move The Croods. Numerous of parents have suggested that we take our kids to see it. So it is no surprise to us that shortly after the movie release there is a video game, The Croods: Prehistoric Party, to accompany it. Game play The Croods: Prehistoric Party! is a laugh out loud family fun video game featuring the Croods – Grug, Ugga, Eep, Thunk, Sandy, Gran and Guy – on a hilarious adventure through 30 unique, fun and addictive party-style mini-games.  If you enjoy games that you can engage the entire family in you will enjoy this game for sure. You will get to compete in events located in five imaginative and dynamic game boards inspired by environments from the film, filled with never-before-seen creatures (some friendly & some not so friendly)! Compete with your friends and family in nonstop madness with up to four-player multi-player for Nintendo’s Wii U™ system and Wii™ system (single player for handhelds). Game Play • Challenge Your Friends in 30 Croods Themed Party Games: 30 fun-filled mini-games that will challenge the “Croodest” of players with events like racing on amazing creatures, boxing with “punch monkeys”, egg football, rock bowling and more! • Party with the Croods Family: Play as your favorite character from “The Croods” including: Grug, Ugga, Eep, Thunk, Sandy, Gran, and Guy • Interact with Imaginative Game Boards and Creatures: Five spectacular and dynamic worlds that feature a wild array of imaginative hybrid creatures like the “Ramu”, a cross between a Ram and an Emu and a “Mousephant”, a creature the size of a mouse with an elephant’s trunk, plus many more cool and unique species! • Compete in Four Player Multiplayer Fun: Select any of the characters from the Croods family in four-player multiplayer fun on consoles • Tons of Collectibles and Game Extras: Earn bonus items like colorful eggs, shells and prehistoric points to unlock artwork and mini-games

Time to dawn the cape again! Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment today announced Batman: Arkham Origins™ and Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate™, the next installments of the blockbuster Batman: Arkham video game franchise. Batman: Arkham Origins will be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, the Wii U, and PC. Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate will also be available for the Nintendo 3DS, and PlayStation Vita. Both games are set to release on October 25, 2013. Batman: Arkham Origins has a very interesting tag line,

“YOUR ENEMIES WILL DEFINE YOU”

This Warner Brothers title features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel story line set several years before the events of Batman Arkham Asylum and Batman Arkham City, the first two critically acclaimed games of the franchise. Taking place before the rise of Gotham City’s most dangerous criminals, the game showcases a young and unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight. As the story unfolds, players will meet many important characters for the first time and forge key relationships. Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate is a 2.5-D game developed by Armature Studio that brings the Batman Arkham experience for the first time to Nintendo and Sony handheld systems. A companion game to Batman: Arkham Origins, players can continue the story line of the console version and discover more details of the Dark Knight’s past.

“Batman: Arkham is a huge triple-A video game franchise and we are delighted to expand the experience with Batman: Arkham Origins,” said Martin Tremblay, President, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “WB Games Montréal has an incredibly talented team building upon Rocksteady’s award-winning game play and technology to deliver a deep, immersive, quality experience fans will love.” “WB Games Montréal is honoured to have the opportunity to create Batman: Arkham Origins, a new chapter in this amazing franchise” said Reid Schneider, Vice President and Executive Producer, WB Games Montréal. “We are huge fans of the franchise and are committed to creating an experience that offers players more of what they love, as well as the chance to play as a younger Batman within a fresh story line and expanded world.”

Batman: Arkham Origins is based on DC Comics’ core Batman license. If you want more juice details visit www.batmanarkhamorigins.com for more information about the game.  

 

Remember Me Enemy Fight Trailer. Capcom’s Remember Me game is shaping up to be an awesome addition to the list of games that is not just your run of the mill games. Instead, the games offer the players a deep story line, interesting characters, even better crazy enemies. Remember Me is set to be released on June 4th for the Xbox 360 and Sony PS3. Remember Me is rated M for Mature. Remember Me is a 3rd person action adventure where players take on the role of Nilin, a former elite memory hunter with the ability to break into people’s minds and steal or even alter their memories.  

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    -Sil3ntX

Can’t get enough Hitman Absolution action? It is time you added another layer of interaction to your experience. IO Interactive A/S, a Square Enix studio, has officially launched HITMAN: ICA, the official HITMAN videogame companion app for iOS and Android devices. You can now join the International Contract Agency and track your HITMAN career, plan Contracts, view extensive statistics, evaluate your style and acquire intel.

HITMAN: ICA extends the experience of HITMAN: ABSOLUTION players who have collectively earned over 1.3 trillion dollars within the Contracts multiplayer mode. They can browse Contracts, upgrade weapons and unlock disguises on-the-go with all changes synchronizing with the HITMAN: ABSOLUTION game. Access to leaderboards, gameplay statistics and much more from the HITMAN universe is also now easily accessible.

Key features of HITMAN: ICA

• VIEW, BUY AND UPGRADE weapons, purchase disguises and assess techniques from Hitman: Absolution – changes made will synchronize directly with the game.
• PLAN YOUR GAME ON THE GO – find custom made Contracts and push them to the Hitman: Absolution game.
• FOLLOW YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS from Hitman: Absolution and onwards to build up your contract killer career.
• MANAGE YOUR ASSASSIN NETWORK and follow up on the network of contract killers from anywhere in the Hitman franchise. The International Contract Agency has crucial global and local statistics, info, and analysis on every known assassination.
• GET ACCESS TO THE EXTENSIVE ICA DATABASE for helpful info on locations, targets etc. Learn about the Hitman legacy and follow the footsteps of Agent 47. Get insights to the secret ICA files with guides, tips and tricks on how to deal with targets.
• RECEIVE VALUABLE INFORMATION and get the latest updates about local and global performances and monitor your own.
• GET THE LATEST NEWS from The International Contract Agency community site and Hitman YouTube channel.

HITMAN: ICA is available free for iOS and Android Devices. Andriod iPhone/iPad

Being a gaming family we are always looking for different games to play together or gifting each other with games that support each persons own special gaming genre. Right now our littlest gamer is all about Sonic the Hedgehog. Any Sonic game he can get his hands on he wants to play for hours. That was until he was given Sonic Free Riders (released in Nov 2010) as a surprise. Surprise to all of us, it has turned out to be a family nightmare.

In a nutshell Sonic Free Riders, is said to provide full-motion body control which is suppose allows you to twist and turn your way through a range of courses in an action-packed Sonic experience. This is true, when it actually works.

Kinect’s unique motion sensor means Sonic Free Riders will see family and friends controlling their fully customisable hover board or bike by twisting, turning and jumping in an exhilarating race to be the first to cross the finish line.

You can choose from any of your favorite Sonic characters, or even your own Avatar to play the game. You can reach out and grab a variety of pickups along the course that will give you an advantage as you race. By throwing, shaking, or swinging your arms to launch your items, you can gain the competitive edge over your rivals in high octane single or multiplayer races. All of this sounds wonderful but seeing that the controls for not just the game play but the menu itself are so choppy and unresponsive that it drives you crazy you are never able to fully enjoy all these amazing features the game has to offer. My poor son is only 3 so when he startec throwing a little tantrum about getting the game started I was very close to accusing him and saying he just didn’t know how to operate the Kinect features. So I took over and with in 5 minutes I was throwing my own little tantrum on the floor and cursing Sega. Calibrating is a temporary fix until ADD kicks in and the game forgets what to do again.

There are a lot of neat features to this game and it really seemed like a  game we could enjoy but it all comes crashing down every time the game fails to recognize a turn, ignores a jump or refuses to let you use an item. I would say now … hopefully Sega provides a patch to fix the controls, but seeing that it is Spring of 2013 and the complaints we have are the same that reviewers had when the game launched over 2 years ago, nothing is going to change. If you are not convinced and want to try the game out for yourself, give me a few days, our copy will be available on eBay shortly.

Elizabeth: Booker, are you afraid of God? Booker: No…but I am afraid of you. This is, in my opinion, is just one of the more compelling conversations between Booker DeWitt and Elizabeth in Irrational’s masterpiece of a game Bioshock: Infinite. There are many games that promises a lot of hype, promises a gripping story, promises characters that we, as the player, will “care” about. Then at the end of the day what happens, none of these! All the promises fall flat. Well, I am excited to say that this is not what has happened this time, in fact the total opposite. What you get from Bioshock: Infinite IS a gripping story, characters you become attach to, and hype that lives up to expectations. This is Bioshock: Infinite

Set in 1912, players assume the role of former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt, sent to the flying city of Columbia on a rescue mission. His target? Elizabeth, imprisoned since childhood. During their daring escape, Booker and Elizabeth form a powerful bond — one that lets Booker augment his own abilities with her world-altering control over the environment. Together, they fight from high-speed Sky-Lines, in the streets and houses of Columbia, on giant zeppelins, and in the clouds, all while learning to harness an expanding arsenal of weapons and abilities, and immersing players in a story that is not only steeped in profound thrills and surprises, but also invests its characters. 

Bioshock: Infinite is apart of the Bioshock franchise as the prequel of the series. Both Bioshock 1 and Bioshock 2 had really good story lines, however it just seems that Bioshock: Infinite’s storyline was just more cared for. What we loved Here are some the things we loved about about Bioshock: Infinite. First off, the setting of Columbia. From the moment you reach the floating city of Columbia, you are in awe. Columbia is vast. One of the questions that arises is how exactly do you travel around the city of Columbia? Well, when the undulating road intersections aren’t possible, just hook on to the Sky-Line system, a sort of grapple hook railway system, that intertwines throughout the city. But how did Columbia come about? Well, because of political upraising, Columbia secedes from America and vanishes from sight into the skies beyond the clouds. While Columbia is a beautiful place, and it really is, visiting Columbia soon reveal that there is something “dark” about this floating “paradise”.

  

 Secondly, we love the characters of Bioshock: Infinite. Characters can make a good game great. You are introduced to and play as Booker DeWitt, a detective with debts to pay and with no way to pay them, you get approached by a stranger who asks you to find and bring back a girl and if you successfully accomplish this, all your debts with be erased. A clean slate. You head to Columbia and there you find your girl, Elizabeth. A young girl, locked in a tower all her life. Why? All we know is that there is something really special about Elizabeth. She possesses a power that is both amazing and terrifying. She has never been outside of her tower and what she knows of the world is from books. The only other interaction she has is with Songbird. Songbird is a creature with tremendous strength, and is Elizabeth’s watchers, protector, warden, and companion. Songbird’s one drive is watching over Elizabeth and at times there is almost an air of a boyfriend-like reaction.

More about Elizabeth. There are games I have played where I have had an A.I. companion, whether it’s to journey with them to a location or they are there to assist you, and the A.I. is just a chore or just fades into the background soon to be forgotten. Irrational has done a fantastic job of not making Elizabeth like those. Elizabeth has so much personality that you actually start to forget that she is just an A.I. There are times when you turn to her expecting to be able to talk to her. One of the things I love what Irrational did was if you just stood around, instead of Elizabeth just standing there, she will actually go off on her own and interact with the environment and the NPCs. Her help during fights is simply seamless and nonintrusive. Elizabeth is just amazing!

 

What We Hated This might be an isolated issue, but I experienced a couple of game freezing glitches. It happened about six times through out the game. All while doing the same thing, acquiring some gear. When ever I picked up a new gear, the information about the gear would come up then nothing. Everything would just freeze, requiring a full restart of the xbox 360. That’s pretty much it. Other than that, the game was near perfect.   So, should you pick up Bioshock: Infinite? The only reason for you to pick up Bioshock: Infinite is if you want to play a game that has a great story line, dialogue, characters, and setting. On the hardest difficulty, Bioshock: Infinite is a challenge and for an added challenge, Irrational has put in place a 1999 Mode which this there to give the best of us another level of difficulty. If you are a resident of the Bioshock franchise, then this is a no brainer. If you are a new comer, then Bioshock: Infinite is the perfect introduction to the series.     We give, Bioshock: Infinite 9.5/10   -Sil3ntX  

Source: Bioshock: Infinite, PCGamer, Doublejump

Last week Capcom confirmed that Rachel will be a playable character in the Raid Mode of Resident Evil Revelations. The additions of Rachel and Hunk as playable characters in Raid Mode are just a couple of new features implemented into the console and PC versions of the game. New content previously confirmed includes: extra ‘Infernal’ difficulty mode, integration with Residentevil.net, the Wall Blister enemy, and Raid mode improvements. Resident Evil Revelations will be available beginning May 21 when the title launches for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U and PC in North America.

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