EVE Online: Crucible forges community feedback into a release filled with player-requested features and fixes. New battlecruisers, a massive graphics update, time dilation and an improved UI are just some of the 100 additions and improvements that have arrived November 2011 in EVE Online's 15th free expansion.
Star Wars Burlesque from Tenderloins on Vimeo
Jaded Vanities, a burlesque troupe in Sydney, Australia, is doing their own rendition of "The Empire Strikes Back". Everyone gets the Rule 63 treatment, even the Wookies. (However, Leia is the exception, and YES, she is in the metal bikini.) I'm not quite sure what to think of this. On the one hand, I'm digging the costumes and the theatrical side of it, and some of their moves are incredibly impressive.
On the other hand... WTF, sexy Wookies and Sand-People... I don't even... o_O
When we raised money for Video Game High School, our feature length webseries, we put a joke reward for the person who pledged $9,001 - the "Over 9000" Reward. That person would receive a video of Brandon and I re-enacting the Over 9000 dressed in Dragonball Z costumes.
Since nobody pledged $9,001 and the demand for this video was so high, we've decided to create it and release it to the internet anyway.
Also, this will probably be the only Dragonball Z video we will ever make
"It's really all about finishing Batman and Bruce Wayne's story. We left him in a very precarious place. Perhaps surprisingly for some people, our story picks up quite a bit later, eight years after The Dark Knight. So he's an older Bruce Wayne; he's not in a great state.
SAN DIEGO – November 17, 2011 – Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) will soon launch its second Downloadable Content (DLC) pack for DC Universe Online with the worldwide release of Lightning Strikes, later this year. Launching simultaneously on the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC, Lightning Strikes introduces Electricity Powers – the game's eighth power set – and a new adventure starring the iconic speedster The Flash.
"In this DLC pack, fans have the opportunity to immerse themselves in another great character and action-packed story from the DC Universe," said Jens Andersen, Creative Director for DC Universe Online. "With exciting gameplay, a new power set and new locations to share with your friends, we packed a whole new kind of fun into this DLC pack and are eager for our players to dive into another legendary adventure."
In addition to the new Electricity Power set, DC Universe Online players will also be able to interact with The Flash-themed characters and content with new maps and features:
- Central City – An all-new map that offers players a more open world experience that provides on-going gameplay, with solo and group missions.
- The Flash Museum Duo – Players can now experience the Central City of today and tomorrow. In The Flash Museum Duo, players can travel back in time to the very moment when Barry Allen became The Flash and battle foes inside the Central City Police Station!
- Electricity Powers – Players now have the opportunity to get the new Electricity Power set for current and new characters. The new Electricity Power set allows players to leverage the lightning power of electricity and use new types of attacks in combat. Electricity Powers include the Tesla Ball, which creates a floating ball of electricity that zaps nearby enemies; the Shockwave, which shoots streams of electric bolts at enemies; and Ionic Drain, which drains energy from the environment to replenish a player's health while simultaneously damaging surrounding enemies.
- New Gear – Players can earn all-new gear sets including the new Zoom-inspired gear set for villains, and the new Black Lightning-inspired gear set for heroes.
New Characters – Lightning Strikes brings players new iconic DC Universe characters including Livewire, Black Lightning, The Top, The Trickster, Static and more. New characters – such as Livewire – will be featured as new "Inspired By" options for players who can choose to create a new character inspired by some of DC Universe's legendary characters. Additional new characters – such as Black Lighting – serve as a bounty mission that players can fight if they choose to be a villain.
You can read more from the official post over at the Mech Warrior Online site here.
"Working with CryENGINE is a true pleasure," said Russ Bullock, president of Piranha Games. "It is definitely the best choice for us: Both the character animation pipeline with the procedurally and physics based animations and the destruction system fit our goals perfectly and allow us to develop a truly unique AAA experience based on the award-winning BattleTech Universe."
From Rift
From the Embers - Steel your souls for RIFT 1.6, which introduces a new zone, dungeon, and sliver, plus Fae Yule festivities, and much more.
Earth and Fire have joined forces as the Wanton Maw to besiege Ember Isle, abandoned home of the proud Kelari. The Ascended must journey through the repaired Travel Stones and stop the cultists before Maelforge breaks free to doom the world.
Goldeneye Reloaded is the latest in the long line of James Bond 007 video games. Originally released for the Wii in November 2010, the game has been ported to the PS3 and Xbox 360 early this November. This game is disappointing for me. On the Wii, this is a great game, but on either Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 this is a bad excuse for a modern shooter.
It looks, and kind of feels, like a Call of Duty Game, but doesn’t play nearly as well. Since this game is so much like the latest COD games, I’m going to compare them. The controls aren’t as good in 007 as they are in COD. The buttons are the same basic layout, but in Call of Duty, the controls flow so much better. In 007, the movements are almost jerky, you can’t reload and crouch at the same time. The framerate drops randomly even when playing locally. Sometimes you’ll push a button, reload for example, and it will just ignore the command.
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Synopsis: In the epic action-adventure Snow White and the Huntsman, Kristen Stewart (Twilight) plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Oscar® winner Charlize Theron) out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, Thor) dispatched to kill her. Sam Claflin (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) joins the cast as the prince long enchanted by Snow White's beauty and power. The breathtaking new vision of the legendary tale is from Joe Roth, the producer of Alice in Wonderland, producer Sam Mercer (The Sixth Sense) and acclaimed commercial director and state-of-the-art visualist Rupert Sanders.
Firefall is a F2P online shooter that combines a massive open world with a competitive eSports mode. Customize your battleframe, use your abilities, save humanity. Beta is on now. More invites coming soon.
www.firefallthegame.com
If you've played the first two Uncharted games, like myself, there is no chance in the world that you weren't excited for Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves alone is one of the defining experiences for the Playstation 3 and if you haven't at least tried the series you're clearly missing out. It's fair to say then that I had very high expectations of Uncharted 3. You might even say totally stoked.
The Uncharted series, for the six of you who are still unfamiliar, are third person action games that bandy about between exploration, platforming, shooting, and storytelling. Uncharted's big selling point however is the way it effortlessly flows between these pieces to craft an action packed story with playable setpieces unlike anything you've ever seen in other games. If fact, segments of Uncharted 2, such as the infamous train level, are pointed to as huge technical accomplishments even two years later.
Dance Central, developed by the brilliant minds at Harmonix, was easily the killer app for Kinect. It did a great job showing off just how precise Kinect could be while offering an experience you couldn't replicate anywhere else. Sure, dancing games were nothing new, with Dance Dance Revolution and Just Dance having already paved the way, but Dance Central was the first time a dance game tracked your whole body and that made all the difference.
Now, in typical Harmonix fashion, the series returns a year later in Dance Central 2 with a whole host of new features and refinements to the existing mechanics. Don't get me wrong, if you didn't like Dance Central or don't like dancing at all, Dance Central 2 will NOT change your mind. If you know what you're in for though, Dance Central 2 is one of the best games you'll play all year.
