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  • Watch The First Developer Video For The Last Of Us

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    Photo courtesy cbsnews.com

    Naughty Dog has started to release developer videos leading up to the June release of The Last of Us.

    The first is titled “Hush” and focuses on the development process that went into creating the infected citizens. Not wanting to make them simply zombies, they took their inspiration from the fungal plants they saw on the BBC documentary Planet Earth and wondered what would happen if the fungus spread to humans.

    Naughty Dog has something special looking on their hands as many have seen since E3 a few years ago.

    [amazon_link id=”B007CM0K86″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]The Last of Us[/amazon_link] releases on June 14th.

  • Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Box Art Revealed

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    Photo courtesy polygon.com

    The worst kept video game secret of the past few weeks is official. Assassin’s Creed’s next installment will indeed have a pirate theme and apparently try to see how many weapons one man can have on his person at one time.

    Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is the next chapter in the AC saga and will star Edward Kenway, who is father of Haytham and dear old grandad to Connor from Assassin’s Creed 3. It now seems likely the naval battles from AC3 were a testing ground to see if a whole game could be set around them. Let’s just hope you don’t spend the first six hours of the game as another character that is not on the cover.

    As with past Assassin’s Creed installments, it was announced that the Playstation would be receiving extra content totaling about an extra hour of gameplay.

    Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag releases this fall.

  • PSN Gamers Choice Award Games 50% Off

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    Another day, another great Playstation Network sale.

    Yesterday we told you about the Spend $50, Get $10 sale and now Sony is making sure you have a great reason to spend that $50 with their Gamers Choice Awards Sale. Playstation 3, Vita and PSP games that were voted on and won are discounted by 30% for PSN users and 50% for PS Plus subscribers. So if you have not picked up certain games that won many other awards (cough Journey cough) then now is the best time to do so.

    Seriously if you don’t download the entire The Walking Dead game for less than 10 bucks, you may have problems.

    Here is the rundown of what Sony is discounting:

    -Assassin’s Creed 3- $49.99 (PSN) $39.99 (PS+)

    -The Walking Dead Ep. 1-5 $13.99 (PSN) $9.79 (PS+)

    -Gravity Rush (Vita)- $24.99 (PSN) $17.49 (PS+)

    -Unchained Blades (PSP)- $20.99 (PSN) $14.69 (PS+)

    -Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas- $7.49 (PSN) $5.99 (PS+)

    -Velocity- $3.49 (PSN) $2.44 (PS+)

    -Ghost Recon: Future Soldier- $23.99 (PSN) $21.59 (PS+)

    -Journey- $10.49 (PSN) $7.34 (PS+)

    -Counter Strike: Global Offensive- $10.49 (PSN) $7.34 (PS+)

     

  • Tomb Raider ‘Reborn’ Trailer

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    Photo courtesy techcentrail.co.za

    We are less than a week away from the release of Tomb Raider and Crystal Dynamics and Square are in full-on promotion mode with commercials everywhere you look. Now they have released a new trailer for the game titled “Reborn”. In it footage is shown from the game while many different people name off their strengths as Lara Croft. The stand out in the trailer has to be music which I can only hope is from the soundtrack because it is quite goosebump inducing.

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

  • Remember Remember Me’s Release Date

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    Photo courtesy thegamingliberty.com

    Capcom has revealed the release date and released a new trailer for their upcoming game Remember Me.

    The game is being developed by Dontnod Entertainment takes place in the year 2087 and stars Nilin, a memory hunter whose memory has been erased for some unknown reason. She must piece together past events to discover who is behind this. The combat is very reminiscent of the Rocksteady Batman games which should have this on your radar.

    The game was a surprise at E3 2012 and wowed the crowd.

    [amazon_link id=”B008XMSR6G” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Remember Me[/amazon_link] releases on June 4th

  • Assassin’s Creed Leads Today’s Xbox Live Sale

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    Photo courtesy gamerant.com

    Yesterday Halo was the centerpiece of Microsoft’s huge Xbox Live sale and today it is Assassin’s Creed’s turn to take center stage. Assassin’s Creed 1, 2, Brotherhood and Revelations get a big slash in price today to go along with the other games that are taking huge discounts until March 4th.

    The Assassin’s Creed games are on sale for today only.

    Assassin’s Creed- $9.99

    Assassin’s Creed 2- $9.99

    Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood- $9.99

    Assassin’s Creed: Revelations- $14.99

    These games are on sale until March 4th:

    Dirt 2- $4.99

    GRID- $4.99

    Dark Messiah- $2.99

    Rayman: Raving Rabbids- $2.99

    H.A.W.X.- $4.99

    Rainbow Six: Vegas- $4.99

    Kane and Lynch: Dead Men- $4.99

    Call of Juarez- $4.99

    Tomb Raider Legend- $4.99

    Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter- $4.99

    Virtua Fighter 5- $4.99

    Bioshock- $4.99

    El Shaddai- $2.99

    The Darkness- $4.99

    Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2- $4.99

     

  • Gears Of War: Judgment Season Pass Available For $19.99

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    Photo courtesy gearsofwar.com

    When [amazon_link id=”B002I0H79C” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Gears of War 3[/amazon_link] launched it offered up a Season Pass for $29.99 that included four DLC packs that mixed single and multiplayer content. Now Gears of War: Judgment will be receiving a season pass of its own, but with no single player DLC.

    The “VIP Season Pass’ will cost $19.99 and will give the buyer a 30% discount over buying the content separately. Here is what you will get when you purchase the Season Pass:

    -Permanent double-XP for all multiplayer

    -Six new multiplayer maps

    -Two new game modes

    -Five weapon skins

    -Four armor skins

    -Early access to multiplayer maps and more

    Gears of War: Judgment releases on March 19th.

     

  • EA’s CTO Says PS4 Is An ‘Experience That Is Unprecedented’.

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    Photo courtesy kotaku.com

    During a recent media and technology conference, EA’s chief technical officer,Rajat Taneja, had many glowing things to say about Sony’s recently announced behemoth Playstation 4.

    “We are excited about Sony’s news and the launch of the next-gen of consoles. At EA, we have never been as prepared or more ready for the start of a new console.”

    Taneja went on to say that there were really no more limits with development that they have experienced in the past.

    “We no longer have to constrain our games or ration computer graphics, memory or bandwidth. We can let the games really flourish in 1080p, 60 frames a second” on PS4, presenting “a level of gameplay experience that is unprecedented.”

    He also talked of EA’s enthusiasm about the next generation of gaming with the PS4, “We are excited about Sony’s news and the launch of the next-gen of consoles. At EA, we have never been as prepared or more ready for the start of a new console.”

  • Playstation Network Offers Another Deal

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    Sony continues to pour on the deals when it comes to the Playstation Network. Until April 1st for every $50 you spend online in the Playstation Store you will get $10 back in your PSN wallet. You can use the reserve of digital download games to make up the money if you wish or buy new backgrounds, movies, etc. Any way to spend $50 will get you a free $10.

    For those super deal seekers you can double up on deals. Sony has another deal until March 4th that will get you a free three months of Playstation Plus when you purchase a full year. So conceivably you can buy a year of PS Plus for $49.99 and reserve a game or buy a cheap avatar and get fifteen months of PS Plus and ten bucks back in your PSN wallet.

    And if you got a free $10 bucks last week from Sony in your account (raises hand) the deal turns out even better.

     

  • Has Assassin’s Creed IV Leaked Already?

    Photo courtesy kotaku.com
    Photo courtesy kotaku.com

    Oops. Seems like Kotaku may have uncovered a bit of spoilery news pertaining to the next game in the Assassin’s Creed series.

    A picture they have posted show a promotional poster for Assassin’s Creed IV: Blag Flag which has a pirate themed assassin which matches up with some of the earlier rumors which suggested that theme and would be taking place in the Caribbean. So for those of you that the naval battles were your favorite part of [amazon_link id=”B0050SXFKE” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Assassin’s Creed 3[/amazon_link] this will be happy news if this proves to be true.

    Now if the guys at Ubisoft were promotional wizards they would combine this game with ads for Black Flag bug spray.