/// EPISODE 108
Below are the news stories that may not have made the headlines today but are worth reading!
Gamers never die…..
Just like the Games of Our Lives…
/// GAMES FEATURED
►Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth 3: V Generation
►Makai Shin Trillion
►Story of Seasons
►Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven
►Sword Coast Legends
►Final Fantasy Type-0 HD
►Destiny
►Tales of Zestiria
►Deep Down
►The Order: 1886
►The Division
►Assassin’s Creed
►Rainbow Six Siege
►Star Wars Battlefront
/// Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth 3: V Generation Coming West This Summer!
Key Features
• +1 to Combos! Customize attack combinations with up to five moves, opening up a whole new array of ways to defeat your enemies!
• New Story! Play through new story and scenarios when someone else joins the Console War fray and refuses to play by the rules!
• Bring a Dungeon Buddy! Stella’s Dungeon is back, and this time she can bring friends! Each is equipped with special skills that lend their support to Stella in her items quest, so choose wisely!
• Remake in your Image! Modify the world of Gamindustri to your liking by creating “Plans” that alter dungeon treasures, enemy difficulty, and more!
• Get Crafty! Customize powerful equipment that can unlock the true power of the CPUs, opening up a world of new skills for them to use!
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/// Makai Shin Trillion | Gameplay Teaser ~ PS Vita!
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/// Story of Seasons is Coming to North America on March 31!
Story of Seasons is the beginning of a new chapter in the “Bokujo Monogatari” series, a long-standing and top-selling farming/life simulation franchise. Though the series is reborn with a new name, it continues the well-loved traditions of customizable farms, animal care and relationship-building toward the goal of getting married and starting a family.
After creating a customized character, players can live out a new life by cultivating their favorite fruits and vegetables while expanding and filling their farm with their choice of animals. Fans of past games in the series will love the many new additions on display here, including an enhanced variety of seeds, pets, and other ways to make their farms truly their own. But the major addition is the new theme of “connectivity,” as trading with other countries will help grow the player’s crop variety and wallet, as well as the prosperity of the entire town. Players can also connect locally via WiFi to visit one another’s farms and tend crops as a team, expanding both their harvests and their friendships.
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/// Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven Coming to North America This Spring!
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/// ‘Resogun’ Developer Working with ‘Defender’ Creator on New Project!
On Feb. 12th in Helsinki, Finland, Eugene and the Housemarque guys got together and chatted a bit about the state of gaming, specifically about arcades and old school gaming in general. This panel featuring Eugene, Harry Krueger (Resogun Lead), and Mikko Hyppönen (CRO of F-Secure and arcade enthusiast) will be available on the Housemarque YouTube Channel as soon as possible. [Source]
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/// New D&D PC Game Sword Coast Legends from Dragon Age: Origins Director!
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/// PS4 Back on Top, Dying Light in 1st Place!
“PlayStation 4 was the top selling console in January, it and remains the cumulative leader in the US, according to NPD data,” Sony said in a response statement.
“Since launch in November 2013, 18.5 million PS4 units and 81.8 million software units have been sold through to consumers worldwide.”
Nevertheless, Microsoft was pretty positive, reporting a 22% increase in members and hours spent gaming on Xbox Live over January 2014.
“We are grateful to our loyal Xbox fans for their continued support,” Xbox marketing corporate vice president Mike Nichols said.
“With a special $349 price for Xbox One in the US and an unprecedented lineup of Xbox exclusives including Fable Legends, Halo 5: Guardians, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Forza Motorsport 6 plus a host of blockbuster third-party titles such as Battlefield Hardline, Evolve and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt all coming this year, 2015 is shaping up to be another amazing year for Xbox fans.”
Dying Light dominated the sales charts in January. It was the only major new release, but even with that in mind its performance was impressive.
1. Dying Light (PS4, Xbox One, PC)
2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)
3. Grand Theft Auto 5 (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3)
4. Minecraft (360, PS3, Xbox One, PS4)
5. NBA 2K15 (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)
6. Super Smash Bros. (Wii U, 3DS)
7. Far Cry 4 (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3, PC)
8. Madden NFL 15 (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3)
9. Destiny (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3)
10. FIFA 15 (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3, Wii, Vita, 3DS)
[Source]
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/// Final Fantasy Type-0 HD | 5 Minutes of Footage!
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/// Square-Enix Registers Trademark for ‘Lara Croft: Relic Run’!
CLICK ON THE PIC TO ACCESS THE LINK!
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/// Destiny Getting a Reputation UI!
In the latest Bungie Weekly Update, interface design lead David “Evil Otto” Candland explained why this feature, of all those on players’ wishlist, is coming in the next patch.
“We’re working on a lot of new features. This one is being included in 1.1.1 because it had a very low impact on our Test team,” he said.
“We’ve known we’ve wanted this feature since we donned our first piece of faction class gear, and the community has too. It was a no-brainer.
“Since reputation really affects your buying power, it made sense to put it in close proximity to your currencies. The inventory screen real estate is pretty full, so using the fly-out convention we established in the settings screen was a way to recoup some space, yet still allow tooltips for another layer of detail.”
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/// Tales of Zestiria | ‘Alicia After Episode’ DLC Trailer!
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/// Ono: Deep Down has to Last 15 Years!
“We are currently working diligently on Deep Down, so please give us a little more time,” director Yoshinori Ono said.
“We may be able to show you some big developments this year.”
“[Deep Down] is a title that has to be able to compete for the next 15 years or so, so from a graphics standpoint we can’t release it as it is now, saying that it’s the best there is,” producer Kazunori Sugiura added. [Source]
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/// The Order: 1886 “trying to do something different” with Cinematics!
Speaking to Gametrailers, creative director Ru Weerasuriya acknowledged that this approach has raised concerns.
“We took the risk of trying to do something that was different, but the reality of it is that it is part of the game, and one of the big things we want to tackle with this game,” he said.
“That kind of seamless-ness, that constant question that you have of whether or not what you’re looking at is a cinematic or are you playing the game.”
>>> FAST FORWARD >>>
“We put it out there and see what people say, but for us it was important that as the next-generation was here to do something different not to just give people what they expected; not to just say, ‘Hey, here’s every game you’ve seen until now and we’re just giving you a re-hash. We wanted something new.”
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/// Ubisoft: The Division, Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six Siege All Coming in FY16!
Ubisoft announced in its latest financial report it shipped 10 million units of Assassin’s Creed Unity and Assassin’s Creed Rogue combined. It also said to expect more information on its pipeline of triple-A titles in May, which total five. [Source]
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/// Sony’s Massive Games List!
Confirmed Release Dates
Dead or Alive 5 Last Round 2/17/2015
The Order: 1886 2/20/2015
htoL#Niq: The Firefly Diary 2/24/2015
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2/24/2015
Dynasty Warriors 8 Empires 2/24/2015
Rugby 2/24/2015
Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart 2/24/2015
Resident Evil Revelations 2 Episode 1 2/24/2015
Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late 2/24/2015
Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea 3/10/2015
Sniper Elite 3: Ultimate Edition 3/10/2015
DMC Devil May Cry Definitive Edition 3/10/2015
Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters 3/10/2015
Awakened Fate Ultimatum 3/17/2015
Final Fantasy Type 0 HD 3/17/2015
Bladestorm: Nightmare 3/17/2015
Battlefield Hardline 3/17/2015
Bloodborne 3/24/2015
Borderlands: The Handsome Collectio 3/24/2015
LEGO Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin 3/24/2015
Toukiden: Kiwami 3/31/2015
MLB 15: The Show 3/31/2015
Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin Bandai Namco 4/7/2015
Mortal Kombat X Warner Bros. 4/14/2015
The Witcher III: Wild Hunt 5/19/2015
Batman: Arkham Knight 6/2/2015
Release Date TBA
A Virus Named Tom PS3
Aaru’s Awakening PS4 / PS3
Alienation PS4
Alone With You PS4 / PS Vita
Amplitude PS4 / PS3
Armikrog PS4
APB: Reloaded PS4
Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer PS Vita
Assassin’s Creed Chronicles PS4 / PS3
Assault Android Cactus PS4 / PS Vita
Astebreed PS4
Axiom Verge Thomas PS4 / PS Vita
Aztez PS4 / PS Vita
Baboon! PS Vita
Badland: Game of the Year Edition PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Bastion PS4 / PS Vita
Battleborn PS4
Bigfest PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Blast ‘Em PS4 / PS Vita
Blood Bowl 2 PS4
Bodycheck PS Vita
Broforce PS4 / PS Vita
Broken Age: The Complete Adventure PS4 / PS Vita
Carmageddon: Reincarnation PS4
Capsule Force PS4
Chasm PS4
Chroma Squad PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Close Castles PS4
Color Guardians PS4 / PS Vita
Cosmic Star Heroine PS4 / PS Vita
Darkest Dungeon PS4 / PS Vita
Day of the Tentacle Remastered PS4 / PS Vita
Dead Island 2 PS4
Death Ray Manta PS Vita
Death Tales PS Vita
Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition PS4
Desert Ashes PS4 / PS Vita
Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance PS4
Distance s PS4
Don Bradman Cricket PS3
Dragon Fin Soup PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Drawn to Death PS4
Dream Pinball 3D 2 PS3
Dungeon Defenders 2 PS4
Drifter PS4
EA Sports PGA Tour PS4
EarthNight PS4 / PS Vita
Energy Hook PS4 / Vita
Elder Scrolls Online PS4
Enter the Gungeon PS4
Ether One PS4
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture PS4
Extreme Exorcism PS4
Farming Simulator ’15 PS4 / PS3
Fat Princess Adventures PS4
Fenix Rage PS4 / PS Vita
Final Fantasy VII PS4
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster PS4
Flame Over L PS4 / PS Vita
forma.8 PS4 / PS Vita
Foul Play PS4 / PS Vita
GALAK-Z: The Dimensional PS4 / PS Vita
Gang Beasts PS4
Get Even PS4
Giana Sisters 2 PS4
Godzilla: The Game PS4 / PS3
Grave PS4
Guns of Icarus Online PS4
Guns Up! PS4
Gunship X PS4 / PS Vita
Gunsport PS4
Habitat: A Thousand Generations in Orbit PS4
Hand of Fate PS4
Hatoful Boyfriend PS4 / PS Vita
Hellblade PS4
Helldivers PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Henka Caper PS4
Heroes of Loot PS Vita
Hollowpoint PS4
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number PS4 / PS3 / Vita
HTR+ Slot Car Simulation PS Vita
Hyper Light Drifter PS4 / PS Vita
Imagination is the Only Escape PS Vita
Invokers Tournament PS3
Jamestown+ PS4
Jet Car Stunts PS4
J-Stars Victory VS+ PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Journey PS4
Just Cause 3 PS4
Killing Floor 2 PS4
Kill Strain PS4
Kingdom Under Fire 2 PS4
King’s Quest PS4 / PS3
Klaus PS4 / PS Vita
Kodoku PS4 / PS Vita
Krinkle Krusher PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Kyn PS4 / PS Vita
Legend of Raven PS4 / PS Vita
LEGO Jurassic World PS4 / PS3 / Vita
LEGO Marvel’s Avengers PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Let It Die PS4
Lost Orbit PS4
Lost Sea PS4
Magicka 2 PS4
MechRunner PS4 / PS Vita
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain PS4 / PS3
Metal Slug 3 PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Miegakure PS4
Mighty No. 9 PS4 / PS Vita
MilitAnt PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Monster Bag PS Vita
Moon Hunters PS4 / PS Vita
Murasaki s PS4 / PS3 / Vita
N++ PS4
Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Storm 4 PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Night in the Woods PS4
Ninja Pizza Girl PS4
Ninjin: Clash of Carrots PS4 / PS3 / Vita
No Man’s Sky PS4
Nom Nom Galaxy PS4
Not a Hero PS4 / PS Vita
Nova-111: A Cosmic Voyage PS4 / Vita
Nuclear Throne PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Octodad: Dadliest Catch PS Vita
Oddworld New ‘N’ Tasty PS3 / PS Vita
OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood PS4 / PS Vita
One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 PS4 / PS3 / Vita
One Way Trip PS4 / PS Vita
Onigiri PS4
Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy PS Vita
Orcs Must Die! Unchained PS4
Oreshika PS Vita
Paparazzi Games PS4
Paperbound PS4
Pavilion PS4
Persona 4 Dancing All Night PS Vita
Persona 5 PS4 / PS3
PGA Tour Golf 16 PS4
Pier Solar and the Grand Architects PS Vita
Pillar PS4
Planetside 2 PS4
Primal Carnage: Extinction PS4
Project Root Reverb PS4 / PS Vita
Rack n’ Ruin PS4
Ratchet & Clank PS4
Ray’s The Dead PS4 / PS Vita
Rebel Galaxy PS4
Relativity PS4
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 PS Vita
Rocket League PS4
Rocketbirds 2: Evolution PS4
RocketsRocketsRockets PS4
Roundabout PS4
Salt & Sanctuary PS4 / PS Vita
Samurai Gunn PS4
Savant Ascent PS4
Scram Kitty PS4 / PS Vita
Severed PS Vita
Shadow of the Beast PS4
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero PS4 / PS Vita
Shiftlings PS4
Shovel Knight PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Shu PS4 / PS Vita
Silence: The Whispered World 2 PS4
Sketchcross PS Vita
Skullgirls Encore PS4 / PS Vita
Skulls of the Shogun: Bone-a-Fide Edition PS4
Skytorn PS4
SNOW PS4
Soft Body t PS4 / PS Vita
Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype PS Vita
SOMA PS4
Son of Scoregasm PS Vita
Soul Axiom PS4 / PS3
Source PS4
Squares PS Vita
Starbound PS4 / PS Vita
Star Wars: Battlefront PS4
Starwhal PS4 / PS3 / Vita
SteamWorld Heist PS4 / PS Vita
Steins;Gate PS3 / PS Vita
Super Exploding PS4 / PS Vita
Super Time Force Ultra PS4 / PS Vita
Supermagical PS3 / PS Vita
Table Top Racing: World Tour PS4
Tales of Zestiria PS3
Tearaway Unfolded PS4
Teslagrad PS4 / PS3
The Banner Saga PS4 / PS Vita
The Banner Saga 2 PS4
The Castle PS4
The Dreamfall Chapters PS4
The Forest PS4
The Talos Principle PS4 / PS3
The Tomorrow Children PS4
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter PS4
The Witness PS4
There Came an Echo PS4
Tinertia PS4
Titan Souls PS4 / PS Vita
To Leave PS4 / PS Vita
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege PS4
Tom Clancy’s The Division PS4
Toren Versus Evil LLC PS4
Tower of Guns PS4 / PS3 / Vita
TowerFall: Ascension PS Vita
Tropico 5 USA PS4
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Ultra Street Fighter 4 PS4
Ultratron PS4 / PS3 / Vita
Viking Squad PS4
VizionEck PS4
Volume PS4 / PS Vita
Wander W PS4
We Are All Doomed PS4
Woah Dave! PS4
Y2K PS4
YAKUZA 5 PS3
Yorbie – Episode 1 ‘Payback’s a Bolt’ PS4
Zombie Army Trilogy PS4
Zombie Vikings PS4
/// Star Wars Battlefront Rumors: Campaign, Multiplayer has “hero” System, More!
According to information the site received, Battlefront will come with both campaign and multiplayer modes. The multiplayer portion will support 64-player battles like previous Battlefield games. As for the campaign, it’s supposedly longer than most modern games.
The story will cover the entire Star Wars saga, giving you control of both the good guys (Old Republic, Rebellion and Republic) and the bad guys (Separatists and the Empire). The majority of it will be set in the original trilogy, but will feature events from the prequel trilogy, including the Revenge of the Sith opening battle.
Now here’s is where it gets interesting, the final section of the campaign is supposed to serve as a prequel to the upcoming The Force Awakens film, given that it’s primed for release before the film.
Multiplayer -wise, some game modes will feature space-to-land battles. But what differentiates this from Battlefield games is what’s called the “hero” system. Think of it as a killstreak-style reward that lets you play as certain hero characters when you reach a certain point threshold.
The specifics of this this mechanic have reportedly not been nailed down completely yet.
An “aggressive” DLC plan is also in place, with five content packs, each containing at least three maps as well as characters from The Force Awakens. [Source]
