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by Published on December 28th, 2012 22:32- Categories:
- PS2 News
Sony's PlayStation 3 has been on the market so long you'd think that production of the relatively ancient PS2 stopped some time ago. Well, that wasn't true, but according to the Japanese PlayStation website, the PS2 has now officially been discontinued in the region. Japanese site Famitsu adds that shipments of the console have ended, so once the remaining stock has been depleted in Japan, there'll be no replenishment. It's a sad thought, but let's remember the good times -- the PS2's variousiterations have been entertaining gamers for 12 years, and with over 150 million units purchased worldwide it's become the best selling console in history. We're not sure if the PS2 is still shipping to other regions, but its retirement in Japanis probably the beginning of the end globally, so we'd recommend you pick one up now if you intend to explore that extensive back catalogue one day. The PS2 era may be drawing to a close, but its legacy will live on and it can now rub controllers with the other greats in console heaven -- we still miss you, Dreamcast.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/28/p...nued-in-japan/ ...by Published on December 27th, 2012 23:23- Categories:
- Wii U News
The Wii U's Basic Set is bundled withNintendo Land at Best Buy for the next few days. SideQuesting took note of the bundle, which has the basic set at the standard $299.99 price with Nintendo Land included. The sale runs until December 29.
What you'll be missing out from the Wii U's Deluxe version is the charging cradle, Wiipad stand and 32GB hard drive. Despite the free Nintendo Land, the Deluxe is better future-proofed for the extra $50.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....6&type=product ...by Published on December 27th, 2012 23:21- Categories:
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The stockings have come down and the gifts have been unwrapped, but GameStop hasn't stopped kicking off deals for the season. The retailer's latest deals, which run now through Saturday, have Halo 4 and Assassin's Creed 3 for $39.99 each, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 on sale for $49.99.
Far Cry 3 is also on sale for $49.99, and you can pick up Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier for $29.99, in addition to all of the other deals on recent and popular games. Finally, the company's offering a buy two, get one free sale on all used Wii and Nintendo DS games, and there's an ongoing promotion that will give you an extra 50 percent credit back whenever you trade any used games in. Just in case you didn't spend all your money on this year's previous sales, GameStop will be happy to help take the rest of it.
http://www.gamestop.com/gs/weeklyad/...fsi_122612.pdf ...by Published on December 27th, 2012 23:11- Categories:
- PC News
Blizzard will support dueling, but Team Deathmatch heads back to the drawing board
Blizzard has decided to scrap its planned implementation of Team Deathmatch for Diablo III. Diablo III lead game director Jay Wilson explained why the company nixed the mode in a post on the official Diablo III site.
“In continuing to develop this mode, playtest it, and put it in front of other developers within the company, we've found that it falls short of our expectations for a high-quality Blizzard experience,” stated Wilson.
Wilson cited game depth and class balance as two problems which reared their ugly heads in Diablo III Team Deathmatch.
“Simply fighting each other with no other objectives or choices to make gets old relatively quickly. We've brought a lot of people in to try out Team Deathmatch and, while some found it entertaining, most of our testers didn't feel like it was something they'd want to do beyond a few hours. Without more varied objectives, or very lucrative rewards, few saw our current iteration as something they'd want spend a lot of time in,” wrote Wilson.
“Diablo III was designed to be a PvE-first kind of game, where we never compromised on player abilities in the name of future PvP balance. We want to be able to carry over as many of the crazy runes, items, and skills as possible, with their crazy effects, and alter them as little as possible. In a casual PvP mode, something equivalent to a WoW Battleground, this would be fine, but Team Deathmatch felt very hardcore, and it put a laser focus on class balance in a way that we didn't think would be good for the game as a whole.”
“Certainly, we've gotten a lot of benefits from the development of Team Deathmatch, especially in the areas of controls and combat model tuning, but at this point we don't believe it's the experience we feel it needs to be in order to ship, so we will be shelving it for now and exploring other options,” he added. “We are going back to the drawing board on a new replacement for Team Deathmatch, something that feels more appropriate for Diablo III. And as we stated previously, regardless of when we release it, it'll be a free addition to the game.”
Wilson said dueling will still be coming to Diablo III with patch 1.0.7, scheduled to be released “sometime after the new year”.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...eathmatch-mode
...by Published on December 26th, 2012 22:17- Categories:
- Nintendo 3DS News
With the holiday shopping frenzy drawing to a close, GameFly is now running a sale on all of its used game stock. Games get as cheap as $4.99, though, as you might imagine, the better ones will set you back a bit more. Some of the highlights include Ghost Recon: Future Soldier for $10, Persona 4 Arena for $18,Kirby's Dream Collection for $25 and plenty more across Xbox 360, PS3, DS, 3DS and Wii.
You can browse available games right here. Just remember, it's probably too late to get any of these under the tree.
...by Published on December 26th, 2012 22:12- Categories:
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Amazon is offering a $5 coupon on digitally distributed PC products to those who purchased a product on Amazon from publishers 2K, Ubisoft, EA and THQ during 2012. Some of these games can be activated on Steam, while others are Origin. The real fine print is when the coupons can actually be used -- anyway, it's a lot of details, which we'll get into after the break.
OK, 2K is offering $5 coupons on all digitally distributed 2K PC products on sale at Amazon (over $9.99) to every customer who purchased a 2K product in 2012. Coupons can be used from December 26 until New Year's Eve.
All products activate on Steam.
2K Mega Pack - $29.99 ($24.99 after coupon) contains:
- Bioshock
- Bioshock 2
- Borderlands GOTY
- Civ City: Rome
- Duke Nukem Forever Complete (DNF + 2 DLCs)
- Mafia 2
- Civilization 5 GOTY
- Civilization 4 Complete
- The Stronghold Collection
2K Shooter Pack - $9.99 ($4.99 after coupon) contains:
- Bioshock
- Bioshock 2
- Borderlands GOTY
- Duke Nukem Forever Complete (DNF + 2 DLCs)
2K Strategy Pack - $19.99 ($14.99 after coupon) contains:
- Civilization 5 GOTY
- Civilization 5 Gods & Kings
- Civilization 4 Complete
- The Stronghold Collection
The WTF Pack - $9.99 ($4.99 after coupon) contains:
- Borderlands GOTY
- Duke Nukem Forever (not complete)
- The Darkness 2
The Desert to Sea Pack - $9.99 (4.99 after coupon) contains:
- Bioshock
- Bioshock 2
- Spec Ops: The Line
Ubisoft does the $5 coupons on digitally distributed PC games on Amazon (over $4.99) to every customer who purchased a Ubisoft product in 2012. Coupons can only be used today, December 25. Humbug, indeed!
None of these activate on Steam.
- Assassin's Creed Revelations - $7.49 ($2.49 after coupon)
- Assassin's Creed Revelations Gold - $13.60 ($8.60 after coupon)
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Deluxe - $7.49 ($2.49 after coupon)
Sensing the theme so far? Ok, so, Electronic Arts/PC digital distribution/over $4.99/ every customer who purchased a EA product in 2012. Coupons, like Ubi's, can only be used today, December 25.
All products activate on EA's digital distribution service Origin.
Mass Effect Trilogy - $29.99 ($24.99 after coupon) contains:
- Mass Effect
- Mass Effect 2
- Mass Effect 3
The Storming, Burning, Reflecting, Flaming, Sabotaging Pack - $13.49 ($8.49 after coupon) contains:
- Bulletstorm
- Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
- Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
- Mirror's Edge
- The Saboteur
THQ has the same $5 coupon today only for those who purchased a product from the publisher in 2012. There's the Tantalizing THQ Medley ($9.99 or $4.99 w/coupon) and theDarksiders 2 Franchise ($13.19).
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/25/am...christmas-day/by Published on December 26th, 2012 21:41- Categories:
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I adore handheld gaming. I have ever since I first laid eyes on the original Game Boy in 1990. Vita and 3DS? Both day-one purchases. So it pains me to admit that my interest in dedicated portable consoles has hit an all-time low.
I've taken serious time to reflect on this, but I always come to the same conclusion; handheld consoles have lost their way.
Modern portables are just not what they used to be, or what I want them to be anymore.
I always loved handheld gaming for the convenience of portability, and I don't mean "gaming on the go" - the most overused term in handheld console marketing. I use my handhelds at home. But I don't always like to be confined to my living room TV. I enjoy gaming in the garden under the shade of my porch. I like gaming in complete ignorance of my wife's obsession with Vampire Diaries and Once Upon a Time - shows which dominate the TV for hours each week. I love gaming in bed before sleeping - that's a near nightly practice for me.But I also love portable gaming for its purity. As console games gradually became bigger, prettier, more complicated and inherently more expensive throughout the late '90s and early 2000s, portable gaming's inferior hardware forced it to remain true to the simpler origins of my lifelong hobby. I don't just mean 'old-school', but streamlined, fast, and direct.
Now, in 2012/13, we have portables that are more capable than the wildest dreams of my 12-year-old self. And having lived with them far beyond the initial honeymoon period, I really wish they weren't.
My point is, portable consoles' obsessive pursuit of "console quality gaming" has done more harm than good. It's their final attainment of this high-end performance that's ruining handhelds for what they really should be - portable, convenient and, crucially, instantly gratifying.
Let's start with that - load times. This grates on me more than any other aspect of modern portable gaming. I want to flick on my portable and I want to be playing a game within 20 seconds. I want to play a quick race during a commercial break. I want to blast through a quick mission while I wait for my wife to apply the finishing touches to her hairdo. Nevermind the scenario, I just don't want to bloody wait.
Yet it takes a hair under a minute to get to gameplay in Resident Evil: Revelations on 3DS. And no less than a minute and 28 seconds to get Vita from standby mode - not even full shutdown...standby - to actual gameplay in Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation. A minute and a fricking half.
I know, I know... huge open world, high-res textures - it's all 'triple-A'. I get it. Truly impressive on a machine that size, too. That much is undeniable. But this is exactly my point. I sit down on the throne, fire up my Vita and I'm half-way done before I even get in-game. Sorry, but that's a fail.
All those high-end visuals have an knock-on effect in other areas, too. Namely, battery life. Unfortunately, power cell technology hasn't progressed in equivalency with the increasingly power-hungry processors of today. Admittedly, most of the time it's not a huge deal - the 2.5 to four hour battery life of the 3DS and Vita is enough to see you through your average commute, or doctor wait time."There's no denying that this is abysmal performance"However, I recently took my Vita out to a racing track day where I knew I'd spend most of my time waiting to get on track in a car. My plan was to keep busy with Vita during downtimes. I started the morning with a fully-charged Vita. It was dead before lunch.
There's no denying that this is abysmal performance. Anything less than 6 to 8 hours and battery life becomes a serious concern - especially for long journeys or extended periods without access to a power outlet. Convenient, this is certainly not, and it even calls into question the true 'portability' of these machines before we even touch on their size.
Let's talk about that though. Surely, portables should be portable, no? I mean, truly portable. 'Put them in your pocket even if you might not use them' portable. 3DS is just too big for that kind of commitment, and to call Vita portable in that regard is almost laughable. It's a brick. Early '90s mobile phone levels of heft.
You could argue that very few portable consoles have actually been pocketable over the years, and you'd be right. Game Boy was massive. Game Gear? Ha! The crucial difference is that there was nothing like Game Boy back in 1990. 'Snake' - the Angry Birds of the pre-smartphone era and the title that unintentionally kick-started mobile phone gaming - wasn't even programmed for a Nokia device until 1997, according to the official Nokia blog.
Game Boy evolved though, and it attained true portability with the brilliant GBA SP. But modern handhelds have seemingly thrown this all away in favour of high-end performance, cameras and rear touch panels.
Both Sony and Nintendo's latest machines are undoubtedly impressive bits of kit, but if I could sacrifice some of that horsepower and a few of those cameras for a console that slips neatly into my inside pocket, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
...by Published on December 26th, 2012 21:38- Categories:
- PS3 News
Five new Grand Theft Auto V screenshots have been released.
Among other things they feature a shark and a mini submarine, hinting at the likelihood of water-based missions in the open world game, while one screen shows a plane, a jet and a blimp in close proximity.
Rockstar has confirmed that the GTA V release date will fall in spring 2013 on PS3 and Xbox 360. PC and Wii U versions are "up for consideration", according to the studio.
Click for gallery modeThe last GTA V screenshots and the second GTA V trailer were released last month.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...rine-aircraft/ ...by Published on December 26th, 2012 21:34- Categories:
- Wii U News
Nintendo lays claim to one of the more advanced implementations of dual-display gaming; its Panorama ViewFeature lets you move around the Wii U controller to see a different perspective than what's shown on the external TV screen. The company was just granted a patent for this very technology, and the document goes into great detail about the gyrosensors used to determine the controller's change in position. It's a lot simpler in practice than in theory -- just take a glance at the image above or peek at our hands-on demo of the concept at E3 2012 (embedded below the break).
http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/26/n...-view-feature/ ...by Published on December 26th, 2012 21:27- Categories:
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The National Rifle Association has looked to pile some of the blame for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on violent video games.
NRA head Wayne LaPierre decried violence in video games, and other media, during a press briefing last week regarding the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut.
"There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and sows violence against its own people," LaPierre said. "Through vicious violent video games, with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse.
"And here's one: It's called Kindergarten Killers. It's been online for 10 years. How come my research staff can find it, and all yours couldn't, or didn't want anyone to know you've found it?
"Isn't fantasizing about killing people to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?"
In response to LaPierre's statements, California Senator Leland Yee has called the NRA's reaction "pathetic and completely unacceptable."
Yee cites a law against violent games that went to the supreme court in 2011 - a law the NRA never supported in the slightest. The politician made it clear he felt the organization was too busy looking for a scapegoat, instead of involving itself in helping solve the real issues at hand.
"I find it mind-boggling that the NRA suddenly cares about the harmful effects of ultra-violent video games," Yee said in a statement. "When our law was before the Supreme Court — while several states, medical organizations and child advocates submitted briefs in support of California's efforts — the NRA was completely silent."
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