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  • Batman: Arkham Origins Reveals Multiplayer Mode

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    Photo courtesy pcgamer.com

    Batman: Arkham Origins is being developed by WB Montreal this go round and so far the game is looking like it will live up to the Arkham name. Now WB Games has announced that Arkham Origins will feature a multiplayer mode with a new twist.

    3 vs. 3 vs. 2

    One team will be headed up by The Joker while the other will be led by the massive Bane as they fight to control Gotham. The two in this equation are, of course, Batman and Nightwing who will try and take down both teams. Each team will have the latest in high tech equipment and weaponry to even the stakes against each other and The Dark Knight and his partner. They will have their own version of “Detective Mode” called “Enhanced Vision” which can only be used in thirty second intervals. Each team will also have the use of special attacks like Joker gift boxes which can be left as proximity mines.

    Batman and Nightwing will have their usual set of goodies to use, but will need to be more cagey in their actions since their opponents are wielding guns and other high end weapons.

    This sounds like it will be loads of fun and will definitely add a lot of hours to what I hope will be the next great game in this series. What do you think about the newly announced multiplayer mode? Is it something you are looking forward to?

    Check out the trailer below. [amazon_link id=”B00C7103DO” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Batman: Arkham Origins[/amazon_link] releases on October 25th.

    http://youtu.be/EYR9plVWNsY

  • South Park: The Stick Of Truth At Last Has A Release Date

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    Photo courtesy airingnews.com

    And at last, the heavens open up and the Lord has seen fit to bestow upon us a definitive release date for [amazon_link id=”B006IOAHPK” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]South Park: The Stick of Truth[/amazon_link]. Parker and Stone be praised.

    The long awaited game was caught up in all of the THQ drama of late last year and finally found a home at Ubisoft. The game is now scheduled to release on November 19th. Check out the trailer in which Stan Marsh bestows upon you the long, lost art of destructive farts.

  • Wait…Did Watch Dogs Just Kill Aisha Tyler?

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    Photo courtesy IGN

    LAAANNNNNAAAAA!!!

    The newest Watch Dogs trailer features actress/author/talk show host/inventor of girlwood Aisha Tyler and if you have always dreamed of stalking the beauty then Watch Dogs lets you live out your fantasy…at least until she apparently gets hit by a giant ass truck.

    Say it ain’t so Aisha.

    [amazon_link id=”B00BGHUS58″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Watch Dogs[/amazon_link] releases on November 19th.

    http://youtu.be/YZahmJIhE90

  • Ken Levine Unveils Bioshock Infinite DLC

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    Photo courtesy polygon.com

    For those impatiently waiting on [amazon_link id=”B003O6E6NE” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Bioshock Infinite’s[/amazon_link] Season Pass to pay off, your day is today.

    Literally.

    Ken Levine and Irrational Games revealed that the first piece of DLC for the Game of the Year candidate would be titled Clash in the Clouds and that it is available today for $5 or nothing for Season Pass holders. In it, you take control of Booker competing against waves of various enemies on four brand new challenge maps. There will be 15 waves of enemies per maps with increasing difficulty. There will be “blue ribbon challenges” which are given out for dispatching enemies in distinct ways.

    All of this wonderful, mindless killing will gain you cash which you can spend at the Columbian Archaeological Society where you can buy new Voxophones to listen to, character models to display and even new Kinectoscopes.

    But wait! I hear you exclaiming. Weren’t we promised single-player DLC when we ponied up $20 for the Season Pass?

    You would be correct and that will come in the form of Burial at Sea, a two-piece DLC that will see Booker and Elizabeth (or at least one version of them) return to Rapture on the night before the underwater city’s great fall. You will control Booker in the first part and players will finally get to control the newly gothic looking Elizabeth in the second part. Levine described Elizabeth’s DLC as more akin to “survival horror” so I am assuming that means she will not be making her way around Rapture with guns a blazing.

    No release date was given for Burial at Sea. Both will cost $15 a piece or be included in the Season Pass. So the Season Pass cost us $20 and we will be getting $35 in content. Not a bad deal.

    Are you excited to be returning to Rapture?

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  • PS4 Offers Double The Friend Cap Of Xbox One

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    Many were excited when it was announced that the [amazon_link id=”B00CMQTVMI” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Xbox One[/amazon_link] would have an expanded friends list going from 100 to 1,000. Now in another bout of “anything you can do, I can do better”, Sony has announced that the [amazon_link id=”B00CMQTVQO” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]PS4[/amazon_link] will have a cap of 2,000 friends.

    I am sure for famous people that have people clamoring to be on their friends list this is a great move. If you are just a random gamer and have the need for a 2,000 friend limit then I congratulate you on having a sparkling, magnetic personality and I would enjoy hanging out with you one day.

    It was also announced that while you will need to be a PS Plus member to play games online you will not need the service to run Netflix, party chat or play free-to-play games.

  • Xbox One Controller, Accessories Priced

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    Photo courtesy softpedia.com

    Microsoft has revealed the pricing for the Xbox One controller and all of its various accessories. The controller will retail for $59.99 while the play and charge kit will run you $24.99. Buying the controller together with the play and charge will cost $74.99. The chat headset retails for $24.99.

    So if you are planning on getting an extra controller and play and charge and don’t want to use the Kinect to voice chat (who the hell does?) be prepared to fork over an extra one hundred bucks on launch day.

    Pre-orders are being taken on all of these items on Amazon.

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    Photo courtesy screencrush.com

  • Only 4.5 GB GDDR5 Memory Available For Games On PS4

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    Sony has revealed that, while the [amazon_link id=”B00CMQTVQO” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]PS4[/amazon_link] will come equipped with an impressive 8GB of GDDR5 memory, only 4.5GB of that is available to game developers.

    3.5GB is reserved on the system to run Sony’s new OS with a 1GB of “flexible memory” that can be pulled from the OS to use for the games if needed upping the total to 5.5GB. So, in response, the internet community has done what they do so well and jumped off the deep end in response with some morons in comment threads saying they will cancel their pre-orders because of this.

    Why?

    No game is going to need most of the 8GB on the system. Hell, most games will be good with less than the 4.5GB and very few, I am assuming, will need to stretch into the extra memory. Developers have a sh**ton of space to work with and, if anything, the 3.5GB reserved for the OS on the system will mean that we will get a much better experience than we are used to with the PS3, including the ability to play while downloading and a much better running PSN.

    Slow down, bleeding hearts. Take a breath and everything will be alright.

     

  • Go Behind The Scenes Of Crytek’s Ryse: Son Of Rome

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    Photo courtesy allthingsxbox.com

    Ryse: Son of Rome gets to me. I can’t explain it. I want to play this damn thing. Yes, we can all get into the whole “it looks like a game full of QTE’s” argument, but Ryse simply looks fun as hell.

    Crytek has just released a video that takes a look at the motion capture for the game and how the power of the Xbox One will be able to bring powerful performances to the game like never before. Even if you are not planning on getting Ryse there is no denying it is a beautiful game.

    [amazon_link id=”B00CMQTU74″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Ryse: Son of Rome[/amazon_link] is a launch day title for the [amazon_link id=”B00CMQTVMI” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Xbox One[/amazon_link].

  • NBA Live 14 Cover Revealed, First Game Clip With Cover Athlete Kyrie Irving

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    I am genuinely excited about NBA Live 14. I have never been able to latch onto the 2K game and yes, I realize that I must be one of the minority. Live used to be a yearly buy for me going all the way back to NBA Live 95 on SNES, to NBA Live 97 on my Sega Saturn and on into the PS2 days. So it hurt me to see the franchise fall so hard on its face the past five years.

    Now after false starts and cancellations weeks before release, EA is set to bring back NBA Live to the PS4 and Xbox One. I am not expecting it to beat the 2K series or even compete, but I hope that it will be a fun restart to the series.

    Today, the cover for the game was officially unveiled with Cleveland Cavaliers star Kyrie Irving. There is also a short announcement clip below using the game engine to introduce Irving to the masses.

    [amazon_link id=”B00CYS5GEQ” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]NBA Live 14[/amazon_link] will be a launch day title for the [amazon_link id=”B00CMQTVMI” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Xbox One[/amazon_link] and [amazon_link id=”B00CMQTVQO” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]PS4[/amazon_link].

  • Activision Bringing Six Games To Wii U This Fall

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    Photo courtesy gamingtrend.com

    No one can blame Activision for contributing to the [amazon_link id=”B009AGXH64″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Wii U[/amazon_link] game drought. They have just announced that six games will be making their way onto Nintendo’s struggling console this fall including Call of Duty: Ghosts.

    Here is the lineup:

    -Call of Duty: Ghosts

    -Angry Birds Star Wars

    -Angry Birds Trilogy

    -Skylanders Swap Force

    -Spongebob Squarepants: Plankton’s Robotic Revenge

    -Wipeout: Create & Crash

    Really none of these are system sellers (since COD is on every system already) but it will at least give owners a few new things to think about getting, especially if you have kids.

    Merry Christmas Johnny! It’s Spongebob and Call of Duty!