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Friday, April 8, 2011

Available demo Kinectimals

With a little 'delay for those who had remained in doubt whether or not to buy Kinectimals, which allows you to interact with some animals using the Microsoft sensor is now available to the demo that comes with a delay of only 4 months of the launch of the title. The demo weighs the beauty of 1.52 GB and of course you need to play Kinect.

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Portal 2 - New images

The wait is almost over, EA has released a series of new images for Portal 2, which in recent days has been proven by our Moioli Umberto. This second chapter is much more complex than the first, which was a fragment of the Orange Box, and promises to integrate a more complex plot with the ingenious system first person puzzle that characterizes the series.

Portal 2 (wikipedia)

EyePet and his friends - Announcement and images

In co-op! With his friends and EyePet Sony introduces the ability to interact with two puppies at the same time, provided of course have two controllers, Move. The pups will react to each other and obviously the title will offer other innovations. Here are some of the official statement that describes some of the possibilities offered by EyePet and his friends.

"With EyePet and his friends each day is filled with activities such as dressing, brushing, to train puppies and create your own toys to have fun together. The young people many opportunities for interaction with the EyePet, for example, can tickle and caress them with your hands, choose games and activities to do with using the motion controller PlayStation Move, and much more.

A mysterious message from Valve reveals a bathysphere?

The code from Valve If you had not followed the matter, Valve is having fun lately to pursue some kind of meta-game based on cryptic messages and codes mysterious, whose solutions are the real puzzles to the gaming community. A few days ago have been distributed on the strange square that contains numbers and parts of the image: a total of 9 squares (one still missing) that combined together and form the inverted image shown at the bottom.

Funcom still thinks of The Longest Journey

Among the projects in the thoughts of Tornquist Despite the recent and long-term drift towards the MMO that has led, among other things to the next Age of Conan and The Secret World, Funcom has obviously not forgotten his roots. Ragnar Tornquist, in particular, told Eurogamer still think of the series The Longest Journey, an excellent duo of graphic adventures with which the Scandinavian development team has captured the attention of audiences and critics.

Tactical Intervention - The beta in May

From the co-creator of Counter Strike Tactical Intervention is a multiplayer shooter, designed by Minh Le, one of the authors of Counter Strike. There is therefore no coincidence that both tactical and full of terrorists such as the famous mod for Half Life. Unfortunately, the title seems to have remained in the Time of Valve's masterpiece in terms of technology.

But to evaluate a stock is always necessary to try it and you can do so on May 6 when they open the doors of the closed beta. To have a chance to try Tactical Intervention is obviously need to register and fill out the application to be admitted to testing. Link: Mayn Games - Tactical Intervention Tactical Intervention Beta - Video gameplay

Tactical Intervention (wikipedia)

Sam B for two other images of Dead Island

From rap to zombie The presentation by Sam B, new playable character in Dead Island, continues today with two other images dedicated to the fighter in question. As reported previously, Sam B is a former rapper who became famous with a song by the great success but then never managed to stay on top. Apparently, as seen in the pictures below, now has other problems to think about.

Dead Island (wikipedia)

SOCOM: Special Forces - The diary of campaign development

Not only multiplayer developers of SOCOM: Special Forces released a diary of development to emphasize the narrative quality of the single player campaign. It starts with the characters including a captain without fear, a right arm and hired a team of soldiers, among them being the lethal 45. The group will be involved in a civil war in Asia and the situation will be complicated and dangerous to say the least.

Touchfactor November and Software - The new names of social gaming

Looking for a new beginning social gaming, facebook and IOS have slaughter dozens of developers to move into the new frontier. A border made of low cost, high gain and a lot of independence for veterans of the sector is a decisive factor. A border that sees even reach the legendary Julian Eggebrecht, former president of Factor 5 who has collected a few dozen faithful to create the software house TouchFactor.

A new trailer for The Secret World

Mysticism and reality, "It is true," Funcom tells us with this new trailer for The Secret World, which shows something of the game in question, in particular of its setting. Situated on the edge of a realistic world and a legendary and mythological, the new MMORPG from Funcom put us in a land where magical elements contaminate an alternative reality in a weird hybrid.

The mystery here is clearly shown by the contrast between a first part of the video dedicated to the game environments and a second part where little phrases related and very cryptic one another incessantly on the screen. The game, developed by the group author of The Longest Journey, will be distributed by EA Partners, but the release date has not yet been defined.

The Secret World (wikipedia)

DD - The mystery Capcom project is still talk about

A heart New information arriving from the site created by Capcom for the mysterious new project that is behind the initials DD. The first innovation is explicit and has a beating heart appeared in the chest of the dragon, but the most interesting is the second fan or an image found in the site code. This is evidently a medieval landscape that turns the dragon symbol on the page to clear reference to what you find in the title.

Dawn of War II: the DLC is region locked,

Dark Angels, the new DLC Dawn of War II: Retribution is region-locked, meaning that you can not download it in Europe with a U.S. code and vice versa. "If you received a code to download it from the official forum or in any other way and you live outside the U.S., you can not download the DLC," said Hirmetrium, moderator of the official U.S.

forums. It matters little, however, because Dark Angels is officially released in Europe on Wednesday and is available on Steam at € 5.99.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (homepage) Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (wikipedia) Regional lockout (wikipedia)

A date for the European Allods Online

Gala Networks has announced that its MMO "free-to-play" Allods Online will be available in Europe from 11 May. Anyone who has reached level 30 during the beta will be rewarded with an object and an even rarer gift will be given to those who had risen above 35. Along with the game's official debut will be made available to volume 4 of the adventure, Astral Odyssey, which will raise the "cap" at 47 and will open a new area to explore.

Allods Online (homepage)

Disgaea 4 arriving in September in the U.S., autumn in Europe

It tightens the circle NIS America has confirmed the arrival of Disgaea 4 in the West, as well established for some months now, but specifying the period of more output planned for both markets. The U.S. version will arrive in September 2011, therefore, while Europe is expected in autumn, later than its American counterpart.

The game will be released on PlayStation 3 and represents a new chapter in the series of strategic RPG Japanese, continuing on the path of the three previous games with a new story, new characters and the ability for users to create new content. Just in line with the principle of "democratic", NIS has provided the opportunity for the public to give names to weapons, abilities and personalities through the official website.

EA wants to create a persistent world

EA intends to bring together all of its games in one world, each player can customize it as if it were a social network. The announcement was the boss of EA Sports, Peter Moore: "We want to make all of our franchise as a single piece of the puzzle, the players may change depending on your needs and tastes." "The idea is to stay connected to the world of EA, no matter who you are, what console you own or what your favorite titles.

Mortal Kombat, the "Kasting" of the models

Their qualities are clear, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has just released three videos than usual for the promotion of the new Mortal Kombat, but certainly spectacular in their own way. Because it is the casting (or "Kasting," to stay on) of the three models that have lent their generous shapes for the characters of Kitana, Mileena and Sonya.

At the moment we do not find other words to add, only know that we will put online the three high-definition video soon. Mortal Kombat - Mortal Kombat Kitana Casting - Casting Mileena Mortal Kombat - Sonya Casting

Mortal Kombat (homepage) Mortal Kombat (wikipedia)

Kinectimals trial on Xbox Live

As anticipated a few days ago, Microsoft launched Xbox Live on a trial version of Kinectimals, game compatible with the device for Xbox 360, Kinect. Developed by Braben Frontier Kinectimals is available from the end of 2010 on Xbox 360. You can queue up the demo link to the page of the game on Xbox. com.

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The Witcher 2, revealed the short-copy protection system

On April 14, CD Projekt will tell how the game will be protected Thursday, April 14, during a conference, developer CD Projekt will speak of the protection system adopted for The Witcher 2, its characteristics and its operation. The first episode of the series used the copy protection system TAGES, not the problem on the square but still responsible for some annoying drawbacks.

The Witcher 2 was expected as even the absence of any protection system, but we believe it is unlikely the organization of a conference to say "hi, The Witcher 2 does not use any copy protection system." Next Thursday will find out how things are, then.

New info on Mass Effect 3

The latest issue of Game Informer magazine has posted a preview (via NeoGAF) Mass Effect 3, the final chapter of the trilogy of BioWare. At the beginning of the game, Shepard is on the Earth and will have to deal with an invasion of Reapers. Those who do not will have their rescue of the two previous chapters can use interactive cartoon similar to that established with the PlayStation 3 version of Mass Effect 2.

What would the Duke? The second episode

This time we talk about women published the second of the video series "What would Duke do", this time mostly old problem of women. What would the Duke in front of a scantily clad woman and the voice allusion? Well, at this time we really can not tell you. Watch the video goes, but keep your hands in plain sight.

Duke Nukem Forever - What would Duke do the second episode

Soon the debut of Mortal Kombat: Legacy

The Mortal Kombat series in seven episodes: Legacy will debut next week, Warner Bros. announced The first episode will be aired on YouTube, Machinima, from April 12. Jeri Ryan will play Sonya Blade, and Michael Jai White is Jax Briggs. "We worked closely with Netherrealm Studios and Ed Boon, and we are making the finishing touches to the episodes," said project director, Kevin Tancharoen.

"We have not departed from the style of Mortal Kombat and I think that fans will be satisfied." The new Mortal Kombat will debut in April on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Mortal Kombat (homepage) Mortal Kombat (wikipedia)

New trailer and images for Red Faction: Armageddon

We meet the beautiful Kara THQ has released a series of new images for Red Faction: Armageddon, and a new trailer narrated by the voice of Kara, a beautiful and dangerous ally of Darius. The game, set on Mars, once again, that he sees facing a real Armageddon that threatens the integrity of the red planet, in the meantime making a bunch of new enemies.

Red Faction: Armageddon will be available from June 3 in the PC version, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Source: Destructoid

Red Faction: Armageddon (wikipedia)

7 years of content for The Secret World

Funcom has not yet announced the date of launch of MMO The Secret World, but the company seems to have clear ideas on the future of the game that they intend to support for 7 years. "Actually we've already started working on the content received after the launch," said a source Videogame game director and writer Ragnar Tornquist.

"As soon as you step on The Secret World will see what might happen in the game. We have lots of content, we do not know when they arrive," says Tornquist. "We intend to support history, content and functionality of the game for seven years." "We have not announced anything related to horses.

Prime detailed info on Mass Effect 3

SPOILER WARNING: we warn you that the following lines contain information on the plot of the game. So if you want to know anything you close your browser and go to comb doll or some sandpaper confetti. The information was taken from an article out in the next issue of Game Informer magazine. We come to Mass Effect 3.

The events of the game will follow those described in the last DLC for Mass Effect 2, Arrival, with the Reaper that will attack the planet Earth and that Shepard will try to counter them. Cerberus, the mysterious organization with which Shepard has worked for Mass Effect 2 will attempt to delete it.

Twisted Metal on PS3 in October

The exclusive PlayStation 3, Twisted Metal, will hit stores on October 4. The indication appears in a new movie released on GameTrailers. The date of October 4th (a Tuesday) should indicate the debut of Twisted Metal in North America. Possible that in the coming hours Sony announce the launch date in Europe.

Twisted Metal is developed by David Jaffe, creator of God of War.

Twisted Metal (2011 video game) (wikipedia) Twisted Metal PS3 - E3 Sony Press Conference (youtube)

The new Harvest Moon in the West

Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns, latest episode of Marvelous Entertainment, will arrive in the West. According to the publisher Natsume, the game will be available in summer in the U.S. on the Nintendo DS and 3DS. A spokesman for the publisher confirmed that the new source for Video Games Harvest Moon will arrive in Europe, though it may be Rising Star, and Natsume, to publish the title in the Old Continent.

A video shows Rebecca Chambers in RE: The Mercenaries 3D

The character will probably unlocked Rebecca Chambers will join the roster of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, or at least is what you see in the video that a user has uploaded to YouTube, and showing the girl in action in a playable demo of the promising third person shooter weblog Capcom. Appeared for the first time in the original Resident Evil, then promoted to co-star in the beautiful Resident Evil Zero (By the way, cool ourselves memory), Rebecca has the air of a shy and awkward girl, however, knows that pulling out the nails when needed.

A date for Minecraft

Mojang The developer has announced the launch date of the final version of Minecraft. The game developed by Markus 'Notch' Persson will be available from 11 November 2011, Persson made it known on his blog. "It's actually hard to talk about the launch date for Minecraft because we updated continuously.

The version that we call 'full' will not be much different from what you have seen until a few days ago, so it is more like achieving a goal that will allow us to remove the tag 'beta'. " "We will launch the day Minecraft debutetranno different games and movies, what is Skyrim expects more," said Persson.

Splinter Cell Trilogy HD PS3 New Images

Sam Fisher is back in action published some pictures of the PS3 version of Ubisoft's Splinter Cell Trilogy HD, a collection that includes the first three chapters of the game coming to PSN.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (wikipedia)

Apple rejects Unpleasant Horse

Unpleasant Horse, a new game developed by the label "experimental" from PopCap, 4th and Battery, was rejected by Apple because of the presence of "adult content". In a message posted on the Twitter profile of the developer (via Joystiq), reads: "What? Apple refuses Unpleasant Horse because of adult content? Thought that a game based on the horses that end up in a meat grinder was not for the whole family." The message was later removed, but the developer made it known that he had submitted the play to Apple with a different rating.

ChuChu Rocket! today for free at App Store

Enjoy faster promotion! The classic puzzle action game born on Dreamcast is now available free on the App Store, in the version for iPhone and iPod Touch. One of the first videogame console to support online multiplayer, ChuChu Rocket! see us control the path of a group of "mice" who must flee from the clutches of evil space cats through a huge number of levels.

Each time the puzzle to be solved is more complex and increase the "hubs" which have the task to manage, but equally there is a growing Satisfaction for having successfully completed the rescue. If you still do not have it, you can download the game from this link.

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Sony Launches GT Boutique

Sony has launched a clothing brand dedicated to Gran Turismo. According to the official website of Gran Turismo Boutique, from now on you can buy a range of clothing decorated with the logo of Gran Turismo. The last game of the series was Gran Turismo Gran Turismo 5, exclusively available from the PlayStation 3 last November.

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