Telltale recently revealed that there next video game project will be The Wolf Among Us. This game is based on the DC comic series Fables by Bill Willingham.
The Wolf Among Us will be set before the come book series. Players will control Bigby Wolf (The Big Bad Wolf), his goal is to protect fairy tale characters from being detected in the world.
The Wolf Among Us will be coming out this summer on the MAC, PC, Xbox 360, and PS3.
Activision just announced Micro-transactions for Black Ops 2 will be coming to PS3 and PC on April 12.
The micro items will include 9 personalized themed packs, 10 extra Create-A-Class slots, the Flight of The World calling card packs, and the Nuketown 2025 multiplayer zombie map.
No price has yet been confirmed as of yet for all of these Micro-transactions, stayed tuned for later updates.
Through a series of leaked information over the past days, EA has finally confirmed that Battlefield 4 will be coming out around Fall of 2013.
EA officially announced Battlefield 4 on coinciding debut events in San Francisco and Stockholm. Also EA also confirmed that Battlefield 4 will be powered by DICE’s Frostbite 3 engine.
Regarding info released from EA, there will be a lot of multiplayer designs that will be mixed into the single player of Battlefield 4.
According to an EA spokesperson, they confirmed that Battlefield4 will be released for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. There was no confirmation that Battlefield 4 will be on next gen platforms.
People who pre-order Battlefield 4 will get a Premium expansion pack for free.
EA also announced that there will be a Digital Deluxe version of Battlefield 4, that version of the game will be a Origin exclusive that will include some extra in-game digital items.
The Battlefield 4 mulitplayer beta and Premium expansion pack will be available for players who pre-order the Digital Deluxe version of Battlefield 4.
Yoichi Wada will be stepping down from his position as representative director for Square Enix. Wada was the companies president and representative director since the merging of Square and Enix in April 1, 2003.
Replacing Yoichi Wada as representative director of Square Enix will be Yousuke Matsuda, who has been with Square since 2001.
The change will be coming into effect in late June of this year.
Wada’s demotion comes after a projected loss in Square Enix’s next financial statement.
According to a statement released by Square Enix, Wada has received a 60% pay cut in his salary in part of the companies poor performance. A long with other pay cuts, Matsuda will be getting a 40% pay cut with his promotion.
Yoichi Wada will not be re-appointed to Square Enix’s Board of Directors.
Gearbox Software recently showed a video at PAX East teasing some Borderlands 2 single player dlc. The Borderlands 2 dlc trailer shows Tiny Tina with Mordecai, Lilith, and Brick, original Vault Hunters from Borderlands, playing a game called Bunkers and Badasses.
Bunkers and Badasses seems to be the Borderland’s version of the popular Dungeons and Dragons role playing game.
Another announcement revealed of new character Krieg, a Psycho. Kreig will not be included in the Borderlands 2 season pass.
No clear release date is confirmed for when for they will actually release Krieg. Krieg will go for $9.99 for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
Gearbox also revealed that they will raise the level cap up 61 on April 2. Season pass holders will be getting the level cap for free, but people who don’t have the season pass will have to pay five dollars for the level cap.
Video games play a vital role in society, however some people choose to forgot that video games have that power. People should start accepting the concept of games being tools of success and enrichment for people and the ever progressing society.
What about Tetris, a simple game of organizing blocks, that game gave us different ways to do some creative things. It was fun to find out how to fit blocks together, and to perform under pressure when every thing was speeding up, that reached many people and challenge them in ways that others things couldn’t.
I believe that some of people today get the idea of video games as making many of our generation lazy and unproductive, but it is far from that concept.
And there are games that are not just about simply killing things and shoot others. Look at the walking dead video game, it was a great game not because of all the action and the killings that was happening, but it was a rich story that taught morals and showed what humans are capable of.
There are always going to be haters saying that video games influence some of the younger generation that violence is right and that desensitizes violence but what about violent movies, violent books, violent comic books. Does violence through just make it more worse and ten times more influencing than those mediums.
But we humans create that market for violence, but does it really make us blood thirsty people. No it doesn’t, because those things are for entertainment.
But that is just the outside looking in, there is much more than games than meets the eye. They can give tools to further a society.
And one of those things can be helping society , It does sound sill by they have the ability to do so.
What about what Nintendo did with the Wii, it brought families and other people together. The Wii helped cultivate and create relationship’s like never before.
Games give kids outlets where they can express themselves in different ways that other mediums can not provide.
They can help teach important skills like creative thinking from many games like Plants vs. Zombies, the many games in the Pokemon series, and games in the Elder Scrolls universe.
Games’ can have the ability to spawn interest in arts, technology, science, and philosophy. I really learned a lot from The Walking Dead video game, the morality of decisions I make for the group of survivors I was managing, all the humane and inhumane things that were represented in the game really gave us a lesson from what is wrong and right.
Game are have an immense impact on us, whether we like to admit it or not. They can help generations to come with the skills and wisdom that we need for the real world.
PlayStation 3 owners will be getting trophies to their PSone and PS2 classic games in the near future. Information was leaked about Sony filing an application for a patent that would give trophies to PSone and PS2 classics games back in Sept, 19, 2012.
According to Neogaf, the method or apparatus will give trophy support to games that in the past didn’t include trophies. The potential method and apparatus will be used to detect disk access, used the detected disk access as potential trophy triggers in games, and recognize the triggers while the game is played.
The problem with giving trophy support to a game was that developers of the original game would have to make some alterations to that game. For the developer that cost more money and time because they have to go through the process of being certified again.
This new technology will make it easier for the creators of the original titles to give trophy support to PSone and PS2 Classics on the PS3.
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