By Nolan P. Smith Another big announcement for X-Box fans to come out of E3 so far has to be the Rare Replay. The collection, which brings together 30 of Rare’s titles throughout history, hits stores August 4th for the bargain price of 30 bucks. That’s a buck a game! I am a huge fan of Rare’s titles, and even […]
By Nolan P. Smith The E3 Expo hurricane of news has been swirling around all day today, but one of the biggest shock waves felt is that Microsoft’s X-Box One is now backwards compatible… well at least for X-Box preview members. The function will launch fully in the fall, but for right now, X-Box preview members can play their X-Box […]
By Staff Reports Space Hulk®: Deathwing™ is a First-Person Shooter experience of Games Workshop’s classic Space Hulk boardgame set in the universe of Warhammer 40,000, developed on Unreal Engine 4 by Streum On Studio, the team behind E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy. Published by Focus Home Interactive and co-produced by Cyanide Studio, Space Hulk: Deathwing offers players the chance to experience a […]
Review by Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)—One of the best parts about the current generation of games has to be the influx of indie games getting a push into the spotlight. Not every game needs to have authentic looking hair render and innovative mechanics that will change the landscape of gaming forever. No, sometimes we forget that all we need […]
By Nolan P. Smith The launch trailer for one of the most anticipated games of the year is here! The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt hits stores tomorrow, May 19th, and this eerie trailer sets the mood perfectly! Now the question is: who’s picking this up? Garnering over 200 prestigious awards before launch, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is CD PROJEKT […]
Review by Nolan P. Smith When I received word of Tower of Guns, the first person shooter from GRIP Digital S.R.O and Terrible Posture Games, I didn’t know what to think. I had never heard of the game, so my fear was another run of the mill first person shooter that is destined to fall through the cracks. I love […]
By Staff Reports Independent publisher Team17 and indie dev Italic Pig are proud to announce that fast-and-furious, action-adventure, platformer-puzzler Schrödinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark, will be available to download for Xbox One and PS4 on May 13 for $9.99. Cooked up by the team behind the gritty, grown-up point and click trilogy Hector: Badge of Carnage […]
By: MrAndMrsSmith Tomorrow those of us that purchased the season pass for Mortal Kombat X will have the opportunity to start playing as the iconic horror villain Jason! Check out this video that illustrates how bloody it is going to get! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVLIgsf6qcs&w=720&h=410]
Review By Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)—NetherRealm Studios had a tall order when it came to the next installment of the Mortal Kombat franchise. Easily one of the top fighting game franchises in the world, Mortal Kombat has grown into a phenomenon since its debut in 1992. With Mortal Kombat X, this marks the debut of the bloody fighter to […]
By:MrAndMrsSmith This week Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim California has delivered as promised! We got to take a sneak peek at the highly anticipated Star Wars Battlefront! All cameras had to be shut down as to protect the secrecy of the project (with the exception of the above picture). The good people at EA let us watch 5 minutes of […]
By Staff Reports VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest publisher, distributor and licensor of manga, graphic novels and anime in North America, brings back one of the most iconic video game characters of all time in celebrated graphic novel form with the release of THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: A LINK TO THE PAST on May 5th. The original, widely […]
By Staff Reports VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest publisher, distributor and licensor of manga, graphic novels and anime in North America, brings back one of the most iconic video game characters of all time in celebrated graphic novel form with the release of THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: A LINK TO THE PAST on May 5th. The original, widely […]
By Staff Reports GRIP Digital s.r.o. and Terrible Posture Games LLC are proud to unlock the doors to the hugely anticipated ultimate FPS Tower Of Guns, unleashing hell on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and on Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft via the ID@Xbox self-publishing program, on 10 April. Tower […]
By Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)—Fans of comic books, movies, television series, cosplay and more will all be gathering in Southern California this weekend as WonderCon Anaheim once again invades the Anaheim Convention Center on April 3rd– 5th. In 2014, WonderCon brought in nearly 60,000 attendees to the Orange County area, bringing vendors, comic book publishers, television and movie stars, […]
By Nolan P. Smith The Mortal Kombat universe just got a little bigger and scarier, as Jason and the Predator join Tanya and Tremor for the season pass for Mortal Kombat X. Jason, from Friday the 13th fame, was previously announced this week, and the Predator was leaked as a character earlier today. Joining the two are Tanya, who fans […]
By Nolan P. Smith Rejoice gamers, Titanfall is ready to respawn. Developer Respawn announced in an interview with IGN (see the whole article HERE) that a second, yet still untitled Titanfall game is in the works, and will be cross platform, which leads us to speculate that it will be hitting for not only the X-Box One and PC, but […]
By Nolan P. Smith Get your Zombrex, because it’s Dead Rising time! Based on the ultra popular Dead Rising video game franchise, Legendary Digital Media and Crackle bring the world the streaming movie, Dead Rising: Watchtower. This marks the first release for Legendary Digital Media, and what a first release it is shaping up to be. From what we see […]
Review by Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)—When Ready at Dawn revealed they were making The Order: 1886, a Victorian based third person shooter with werewolves and more, I was more than excited. Knowing that this title was a PlayStation 4 exclusive is one of the reasons that motivated me to finally purchase the next gen system. Right before the game’s […]
By Staff Reports CD PROJEKT RED released a new gameplay video for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at PAX East 2015. Narrated by Peter Gelencser, Senior Level Designer, the new 7-minute gameplay video takes players on a guided tour of parts of No Man’s Land, one of the giant regions available for exploration in the game. Watch Geralt discover the […]
By Staff Reports How much of Dying Light could actually be recreated in film? This question inspired Techland and Flying Carpet Studio to create a live-action short-film “The Last Supply Drop” which was released today. Telling a story about four quarantine survivors’ last ditch attempt to get to an air-drop full of crucial supplies, the video brings Dying Light key […]
Review by Jason T. Smith (Victor Valley)—As a part of February’s PlayStation Plus free games for the PlayStation 4, I was happy to see Apotheon- a game which I knew little about. Just by the screen shots I saw, I figured it was worth a shot- what I found was one of the most enjoyable side scroller games in recent […]
By Nolan P. Smith Nintendo sent along a list of their own winners for 2015 film awards. Thanks, Nintendo,for sending this out, and now, without further adieu, here are the winners! The Princess Peach Award, for best female costume in a movie – Maleficent The Samus Aran Award, for strongest female character – Olivia Evans – Boyhood The Smash Award, […]
By Nolan P. Smith With The Order-1886 having hit the PS4 this past Friday (review coming soon!), the next big PS4 would be Bloodborne. Hitting in North America on March 24th, From Software’s Bloodborne looks to be yet another reason to jump into the world of Sony. Below we have a trailer for the game, which shows off the atmospheric […]
With conventions like E3, Star wars Celebration and Comic Con rapidly approaching we are sure to get a heavy dose of what is to come next in the Star Wars universe. The highly anticipated Star Wars Battlefront 3 is surely on the top of my list. We do not know much about this game yet and we have only been teased […]
Review by Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)—Zombies have been all the rage for the past few years. Whether from the ultra popular TV show and comic book, The Walking Dead, or video games like Dead Rising and Dead Island, zombies have been the go to menace. But with so many products and projects cashing in on the craze, when does […]
By Staff Reports The Super Bowl may be over, but the Super Bowl ad game continues to heat up in what has become the biggest year ever for Big Game ads on YouTube. The YouTube blog post with updated stats from this week is here, with a few highlights below. Super Bowl ads and teasers have been watched more in […]
Review by Jason T. Smith (Victor Valley)—World Wrestling Entertainment, also known around the world as WWE, is the creator and king of sports entertainment as we know it today. From TV to comic books, video games, and more, the company has expanded its reach to just about every form of media. With WWE Immortals, they delve into the world of […]
By Staff Reports Techland announced today the updated global launch dates for Dying Light. The game will have a worldwide digital release on PC of January 27, 2015. In North and South America, the digital release and physical copies for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will be available at the same day. In Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Australia, Dying […]
By Staff Reports Dark Horse Comics has secured its place in video-game-art history with The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia™, which charted as the number-one best-selling book at Diamond Comic Distributors for 2014! Additionally, Dark Horse Comics’ The Sakai Project, which celebrates thirty years of Stan Sakai’s marvelous samurai-rabbit saga Usagi Yojimbo, charted as the sixth-best-selling book of 2014. In […]
By Staff Reports Anchor Bay Entertainment and Amplify present Jeremy Snead’s VIDEO GAMES: THE MOVIE, the fascinating chronicle of the meteoric rise of video games from nerd niche to multi-billion dollar industry. Executive produced by Zach Braff (Garden State, “Scrubs”) and narrated by Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy), the documentary features in-depth interviews with some of the […]