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  • New Star Trek: The Video Game Gameplay Trailer

    Photo courtesy realmofgaming.com
    Photo courtesy realmofgaming.com

    Not a whole lot has been shown of Star Trek: The Video Game beyond a handful of screenshots since last year, but now with the game’s April release looming Digital Extremes is beginning to take the wraps off of their licensed title.

    The game looks to mix a lot of different game styles together. The shooting sequences are close behind the shoulder type run and gun like Dead Space or Resident Evil while there appears to be some small exploration element like Uncharted or Tomb Raider and you even get to control the Enterprise in space battles. Hopefully all of this can come together and deliver a good movie tie-in game (for once).

    [amazon_link id=”B0081B1O5A” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Star Trek: The Video Game[/amazon_link] releases on April 23rd.

  • Fallout: New Vegas 2? Obsidian Is Down For It If Bethesda Is.

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    Photo courtesy thoughtcatalog.com

    Obsidian has kind of made a career off of making sequels to highly popular games. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 may not have been the defining RPG in the galaxy far, far away that its predecessor was, but the game was well made and dang fun. Same could be said for its sequel to Bethesda’s Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas. They did a great job bringing a new story to the Fallout universe and crafting an impressive open world to play in.

    Now the developers behind the upcoming [amazon_link id=”B006IOAHPK” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]South Park: The Stick of Truth[/amazon_link] may want to get back into the post-apocalyptic business if company CEO Feargus Urquhart has anything to say about it. And he did:

    “Oh, we’d love to do Fallout: New Vegas 2. It would be awesome. If I think of going from Fallout 1 to Fallout 2, we tried to associate the two areas somewhat closely. It wasn’t just ‘Oh, we’re gonna do this 2,000 miles from here.’ So I think if we were to do Fallout: New Vegas 2 – or just a new Fallout – we would probably separate it from what the internal team at Bethesda’s doing. We’d keep it on the West Coast, because we’re West Coast people. They’re East Coast, so it makes sense.”

    With Bethesda supposedly working on Fallout 4 would you want Obsidian to get another crack at the Fallout universe?

  • Has The Playstation 4 Controller Been Outed?

    Photo courtesy Destructoid
    Photo courtesy Destructoid

    With only six days to go until Sony’s big press even that many people (by that I mean 100%) believe will be the official unveiling of the Playstation 4, it seems that Destructoid has found the first look at what the PS4 controller may look like.

    There have been many reports that Sony was abandoning the dualshock design and including a small touch screen that will serve as the start and select buttons as well as have a share button that will let users be able to post info and videos from games they are playing directly to social media sites. Now assuming this is a prototype and not the final product what we can take away from this photo is that the reports appear to be mostly true. It may not be a complete redesign of the dualshock but it certainly has a different look and honestly looks thick as hell (again, prototype).

    We only have six more days of waiting before (hopefully) we get to find out the truth. And on the bright side, at least it is not as asinine as the PS3 boomerang debacle.

  • Donkey Kong Country Returns Headed To The 3DS

    Photo courtesy Kotaku
    Photo courtesy Kotaku

    One of the announcements at this morning’s Nintendo’s Direct presentation was that Donkey Kong Country Returns would be making the trip from the Wii to Nintendo’s handheld. Aptly titled Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (didn’t see that coming did you), the game will release this summer for the 3DS. Nintendo said a trailer for the game will be put up later today on Nintendo’s eShop.

     

  • Twisted Metal Birthday Bundle Available For One Week Only On PSN

    Photo courtesy gameinformer.com
    Photo courtesy gameinformer.com

    Some more good news for Playstation Network owners besides all of the free stuff you get if you are a PS Plus member. For one week only you can purchase the Twisted Metal Birthday Bundle, which has the four best Twisted Metal games available (Twisted Metal 1,2,Black and 2012’s version), for only $39.99.

    I know some of you are wondering where is Twisted Metal: Small Brawl and if you are actually wondering that then we can’t be friends.

    The games will be available separately to buy on PSN also.

    Now….where is my Carmageddon remake??!!

     

  • The Last Of Us Delayed.

    Photo courtesy playstation.com
    Photo courtesy playstation.com

    Damn.

    Naughty Dog has officially announced that their post-apocalyptic game [amazon_link id=”B007CM0K86″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]The Last of Us[/amazon_link] has been delayed by five weeks. The game will now release on June 14th, which also happens to be a Friday.

    Naughty Dog has released an official statement on the delay:

    “As a team we pride ourselves on setting a very high quality bar for every aspect of our games – gameplay, story, art, design, technology and more. We want to make sure The Last of Us raises that bar even further – for ourselves, and most importantly, our fans.

    As we entered the final phase of development for The Last of Us, we came to realize just how massive Joel and Ellie’s journey is. But instead of cutting corners or compromising our vision, we came to the tough decision that the game deserved a few extra weeks to ensure every detail of The Last of Us was up to Naughty Dog’s internal high standards.”

    This hurts a lot considering how long we have been salivating over every bit of coverage we have seen for the past two years, but delays almost always mean that we will be getting a better product and that’s the important thing. But still.

    Damn.

  • New God Of War: Ascension Video Takes You Inside The Motion Capture Studio

    Photo courtesy forbes.com
    Photo courtesy forbes.com

    A new video released by Sony shows the team at Sony: Santa Monica hard at work in the motion capture studio with actors T.C. Carson (Kratos), Jennifer Hale (FemShep, I mean Lysandra) and Troy Baker (Orkos). The three are suited up in spandex and balls which sounds like fun but they are just motion capture suits. One of the things the team is doing differently is recording the voiceover work at the same time as the mo-cap session to give the performances a more authentic feel.

    We then get a look at the programmers as they take the actors mo-cap session and translate that into the game you will see next month.

    God of War: Ascension releases on March 12th.

    SIDE NOTE: I realize this is T.C. Carson’s seventh time voicing the legendary Kratos, but am I the only one that still thinks of Kyle Barker from Living Single? Or am I showing my age. (We are livinnng sinnngle)

  • Watch The Penultimate Episode Of Tomb Raider: The Final Hours

    Photo courtesy techcentrail.co.za
    Photo courtesy techcentrail.co.za

    The next to last episode of the web series Tomb Raider: The Final Hours is now up and focuses on just how much of a strain is put on the team at Crystal Dynamics as they push themselves to get ready for console certification. Host Zachary Levi talks with Darrell Gallagher, head of Crystal Dynamics about how much last minute work his staff of eighty have to put in to find and fix every last bug and hiccup only for days before the game is due to be finished. For those of us who haven’t seen the real backstage grind that goes into a game this size it is a fascinating look.

    [amazon_link id=”B004FS8LYK” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Tomb Raider[/amazon_link] releases on March 5th.

  • Risk: Mass Effect Will Take On The Reapers This Fall

    Photo courtesy softpedia.com
    Photo courtesy softpedia.com

    The Mass Effect Facebook page posted up a nice nice little surprise yesterday with this shot of the Mass Effect Risk game which will be coming this fall from USAopoly, the makers of many other themed versions of Risk including Metal Gear Solid, Halo, World of Warcraft and Starcraft.

    No price was given for the set. Risk: Mass Effect will hit store shelves this fall and hopefully no one will complain about how their games end since it will be there own damn fault.

    Yeah I am still on that Mass Effect 3 kick. The original ending was good. Shut the hell up.

     

  • Is A New Arkham Game Coming This Year?

    Photo courtesy Game Informer
    Photo courtesy Game Informer

    Did WB’s CFO just out the next game in the Batman Arkham series?

    During the Warner earnings call CFO John K. Martin let this little bit slip out when discussing the games division:

    “And we also have a strong games release this year, which will include the next release in the Batman Arkham franchise.”

    About a year ago came word that Rocksteady, developers of the first two Arkham games, were hard at work on another Bat tile that would take place in the Silver Age of Batman lore and possibly have appearances from Justice League members. A lot of reports had pegged the game for a 2014 release date so this may just be a snafu by the Warner chief.

    If another Arkham title was coming this fall logic would tell you that we would have seen at least something as simple as a screenshot by now.