Forza Motorsport 3 release date is October 27, 2009
Forza Motorsport 3 has a release date of October 27th, 2009 exclusively for Xbox 360, developed by Turn 10 Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios.
The racing sequel to Forza Motorsport 2 will feature over 400 cars from 50 manufacturers. It will also include over 100 tracks!
Improvements from the previous game include a new in-car driving point of view, “single button assist driving” and vehicle rollover that allows for realistic damage.
The game contains a single player season that allows players to completely customize their “racing calender” thorugh over 200 different events (Circuit, Oval, Drag, Drift, Timed, etc.). With the wealth of options available the developers promise that no two calenders will look the same.
Graphically the game has been hugely improved with ten times more polygons in each modeled car and a texture resolution that is four times what we saw in Forza Motorsport 2. Running at a solid 60 frames per second it also features improved physics and A.I.
Multiplayer wise the game will include both online and offline modes with an all-new rules editor. The leaderboards meanwhile will now include the most prolific car tuners and the best painters to go along with the greatest racers.
While racing players will have the ability to rewind to a previous moment, which can be done as much as a player wants. It is optional however but available in both multiplayer and single player. Players will also be able to create in-game videos of their races and upload them for others to share and download.
Also included will be the ability to create in game videos and upload them to the Forza Motorsport website.
Here’s a video looking at some of the game’s new features.
3 comments »Melee! Pokemon Scramble announced for WiiWare
“Melee! Pokemon Scramble” has been announced for WiiWare as an all-new Pokemon centric top-down four-player brawler!
The game was revealed on the latest episode of the Pokemon Sunday Japanese TV show where they revealed the first trailer for the game.
The game looks to essentially be Smash Bros. but from a top-down perspective where you can battle with Pokemon of all types and kinds with up to four of your friends. Additionally the game has a single-player mode in which you run through dungeons battling with enemy Pokemon in order to fight against bosses at the end. You also will unlock new rare Pokemon as you make progress in the single-player.
The Japanese retail price for Melee! Pokemon Scramble is 1500 Wii Points and will release on June 16th in Japan. It has yet to be announced for U.S. release but you know it will be eventually, probably this summer.
Via 1UP
Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver come with PokeWalker in Japan
The PokeWalker is the name of a newest accessory in the Pokemon universe. Revealed on the latest episode of the Japanese Pokémon Sunday TV show.
Pokewalker is a walking meter device that looks like a Pokeball with a little screen and three buttons, it will ship with Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver in Japan and allows you to train your Pokemon even when you aren’t playing the game by walking!
That’s right. Using the infrared port on the Nintendo DS, you can transfer Pokemon to and from the PokeWalker. Then when you aren’t actually playing Pokemon, say while you are at school or work, you can simply stick the walker in your pocket and your Pokemon will gain experience as you walk around!
In addition, its affection will grow for you as you walk and your footsteps are translated into “watts”, which you can use to catch wild Pokemon and search for tools that you can find using the PokeWalker and send back to your core game in Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver.
Combining collecting Pokemon with physical activity? Sounds like a definite win-win to me. I always need more motivation to get me walking, and this type of thing is definitely something that could do it.
Via Andriasang
Obscure: The Aftermath coming to PSP Go
Playlogic has announced that the survival horror game Obscure: The Aftermath will be added to the PlayStation Store for download to the PSP Go this Fall.
For normal PSP owners the game will be available for PSP on UMD in September.
Here is a review video of the PS2 version of Obscure: The Aftermath.
The sequel to Obscure, Obscure: The Aftermath takes place two years after the gruesome events of the first game. The survivors have gone on to college and try to return to their normal lives. After the discovery of a beautiful but strange plant on school campus, events take a turn for the worse. Soon, the college students have to battle for survival once again.
Players of Obscure The Aftermath can choose their character and one AI controlled sidekick. In total there are six playable characters, each with their own unique abilities. These can be switched at various points in the game. Due to the game’s co-op feature, friends can join at any time to team up and attempt surviving the game together. There are many available weapons to keep the monsters that hunt you at bay. Light might be the players’ biggest ally because you never know what’s lurking in the shadows.
Key features of Obscure: The Aftermath include:
* 6 characters with unique skills
* Unique co-op mode: second player can join in at any time
* Find clues and solve various riddles and mysteries
* Vast variety of weapons and horrifying monsters
On Wii Shop and DSiWare now: Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, Rainbow Islands, Let’s Catch, Space Harrier, Mario Calculator and Clock
Nintendo downloads this week: features the first-ever kitchen appliance with martial arts training. Throw in some rainbows and a game of catch, and you have a pretty interesting WiiWare lineup. But that’s not all: There are Mario-themed Nintendo DSiWare applications and a classic arcade game for the Virtual Console.
Nintendo has now added these new/classic games to the Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo DSi Shop. The games go live at 9AM Pacific time. Users with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points or Nintendo DSi Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo DSi Points can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. A Nintendo Points Card can be purchased at retail locations or Amazon (see Card on the right).
Where available, we’ve included videos of each of today’s games. Either for nostalgia’s sake or so you can see if any new game is to your taste.
This week’s new WiiWare games are:
Eduardo the Samurai Toaster
Publisher: Semnat Studios
Players: 1-4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Mild Cartoon Violence
Price: 800 Wii Points = $8
Description: Fight your way through 13 diverse locations on your own or with up to three friends in this frenetic and stylish side-scrolling action game. Play as Eduardo and his fellow toaster buddies as you fire an assortment of pastries at all kinds of dastardly food products. Hop onto laser-mounted scooters and fly across the screen in rocket packs, and learn to cooperate with your teammates or simply annoy each other in an awesomely fun way by throwing each other around the screen. The choice is up to you.
Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure!
Publisher: TAITO
Players: 1-2
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Comic Mischief
Price: 800 Wii Points = $8
Description: In Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure!, players control the rainbow-magic-wielding Bubby or Bobby as they climb the seven seamless areas of a tower reaching the heavens while defeating enemies with their rainbow powers. Bosses controlled by the scientific genius Dr. Crescent await players at the end of every area. Race through every area within the allotted time to meet the rainbow-colored Holly’s Comet. There are three game modes: Story mode, which tells the tale of Holly’s Comet; Challenge mode, where players attempt to climb as high as they can; and Time Attack, where players select an area and see how fast they can climb it. Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure! is an exhilarating action game where you use rainbows to climb into the heavens.
Let’s Catch
Publisher: SEGA
Players: 1-4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Comic Mischief, Mild Suggestive Themes
Price: 1,000 Wii Points = $10
Description: Play catch with friends in multiplayer party games and compete for high scores using your Mii character and others. Choose from six different single and multiplayer modes such as Speed Catch, which tests your ability to catch a fastball, and Bomb Catch, an elimination party game for up to four players. Select from a variety of characters or use your Mii character to play other favorite catch games. Unlock special features when you own both Let’s Tap and Let’s Catch.
This week’s new Virtual Console game is:
Space Harrier
Original platform: Virtual Console Arcade
Publisher: SEGA
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Animated Violence
Price: 800 Wii Points = $8
Description: “Welcome to the Fantasy Zone. Get ready!” This is the greeting given to you as you start Space Harrier, but you don’t have much time to take this advice. Even as the words are being spoken, your Harrier warrior is already charging into battle. Toting a huge laser gun under his arm, the Space Harrier can either run along the checkerboard ground or freely fly through the sky. Either way, he’s always heading forward into the hostile 3-D world. As you progress, hordes of strange creatures and robots fly toward you. Fast reflexes are required to dodge their incoming fire. Environmental hazards can be a problem, too. Take care not to run into any trees or stone structures. If you need a bit of a morale boost, just defeat a boss, and the narrator will remind you that “you’re doing great!”
This week’s new DSiWare games are:
Mario Calculator
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: N/A
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points = $2
Description: Mario and Luigi take a break from their normal adventures to dedicate their heroic talents to working with numbers. Mario Calculator features the full functionality of a traditional calculator, including a Memory key and the ability to display up to 13 digits, and adds a layer of atmosphere reminiscent of the original Super Mario Bros. Use the Unit Converter to turn one unit of measure into another (such as length, weight, volume, age and others), or track the history of calculations you’ve performed with ease. Listen to the Mario-related sounds and watch the coins fly as calculations are performed. Now, back to adding up those high scores…
Mario Clock
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points = $2
Description: Turn back time and enjoy a bit of classic game play based on the original Super Mario Bros. with Mario Clock. Help Mario and Luigi collect more coins than ever (POW block anyone?) while they run through a variety of stages. Gather enough coins and you’ll be treated to another scene bound to bring back fond memories for many. Mario Clock includes both analog and digital clocks that use the system’s internal clock or allow you to offset the time however you like. Program up to three alarms (with snooze functionality for those that need it) and assign them a Mario-related sound or use one created in the Nintendo DSi Sound application. You’ll find yourself thinking “Just a few more coins…” in no time!
Borderlands combines Fallout 3 gameplay with co-op multiplayer
Borderlands is a sci-fi FPS-RPG (like Fallout 3) from Gearbox that features four player online co-op multiplayer. It’s set for release in October 2009 on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Borderlands allows for multiple players to share the same game experience simultaneously online in co-op gameplay. Players can freely join or leave each other’s games at anytime, or choose to play in the full single-player mode. The game also boasts lifelike character animations, impressive real-time physics, and customizable vehicles. It also promises millions of different weapons in the game.
The Borderlands are reborn with endless opportunities. This E3 2009 trailer shows off the beautiful new art direction with controversial cel-shaded graphics.
Hear Gearbox’s president Randy Pitchford talk about Borderlands.
Aliens vs Predator 3 walkthrough video from the developers. Release date February 2010, is tentative
While Sega may still be expecting delays with a TBD / early 2010 release period set. Retailers have already listed Aliens vs Predator 3’s release date falls in February 2010 for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Update: A Sega USA spokesperson contacted us to clarify “We currently do not have an official release date for this title.” But Sega Europe continues to list the title for Q1 2010. And as mentioned above our sources claim it’ll be in late January 2010. Time will tell how it pans out.
Set on planet BG-386; a human colonist mining group discovers an ancient pyramid containing a dark and horrible secret. Across the galaxy, a race of warriors is alerted to the discovery of their pyramid and a hunting party is dispatched to ensure that it remains sealed at all costs. Deep inside the ruined pyramid meanwhile, nature’s deadliest species awakes from centuries of hibernation intent on finding new prey.
Time to get your survival-horror Marine scares (prey), Predator stealth (hunter), and Alien kills (survivor) on. Watch the adversaries trailer:
Developed at Rebellion by the team responsible for the original 1999 PC classic, the all-new Aliens vs. Predator allows players to take the role of three infamous species: Colonial Marines, Predators and Aliens. The game features a unique three-way online multiplayer experience, allowing gamers to battle for survival and the right to be crowned the deadliest species in the galaxy. Each race will also have its own distinct action-packed single-player campaign mode, with a storyline that cleverly interweaves with the other two species’ paths.
The following developer walkthroughs show off the game’s Predator campaign.
This Aliens vs Predator Developer Walkthrough Part 1, gives an in-depth look at the Predator, his moves, and his arsenal of weaponry.
In this Aliens vs Predator Developer Walkthrough Part 2, the Predator meets his match. Article continues »
Spyborgs revamped into a DMC-R&C action-oriented Wii title
The Wii-exclusive Spyborgs action / beat ‘em up game is self-described by the developers at Capcom as “Ratchet & Clank meets Devil May Cry”. The reason for that being that all the leads on the team are from the Ratchet & Clank series, and it looks like Capcom’s other stylish action-brawler Devil May Cry.
In the game players jump between the identities of a team of five bionic superspies or play in 2-player co-op to combat a rogue squad of wacky, dysfunctional super villains. Each character has unique powers to match their super-spy skills, such as heavy firepower, martial arts, bladed weaponry, acrobatic skateboarding skills or pure robotic destruction. This cast of characters may make a misfit group individually, but by utilizing them as a team, the Spyborgs will have the power to save the world – if they don’t blow themselves up first! Spyborgs’ tongue-in-cheek action and compelling interactive cartoon theme keeps players engaged from the first episode to the last with one of the most fun and entertaining games to be developed for the Wii system.
New info from E3 2009 reveals the game:
The creators are “aiming to deliver huge cinematic action sequences to the Wii that gamers are used to seeing on the Xbox 360 and PS3,” as you can see in this 15-minute Spyborgs stage demo.
Halo 3: ODST Special Collectors Edition comes with green Xbox 360 controller
Halo 3: ODST has gotten a special collector’s edition that will come with something very unique (for once), a custom Xbox 360 controller! And it’s a purdy green for all you Halo fans. The bundle will be out on September 22nd.
In addition to the controller the $99 CE will also come with:
* An invitation to the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta.
* Three new Halo 3 multiplayer maps
* A new cooperative mode called Firefight. In which four-player fight an increasingly punishing wave of enemies
* An all new story-mode experience that is told through the eyes of an Orbital Drop Ship Trooper (or “ODST”)
About Halo 3 ODST
Halo 3: ODST’s tale focuses on the legendary ODSTs or “Orbital Drop Shock Troopers” as they drop into the ruined city of New Mombasa, looking for clues behind the Covenant’s catastrophic attack on the city.
The new campaign chapter predates the events that unfold in “Halo 3″ and gives players a new perspective through the eyes of a new hero in the “Halo” universe. New multiplayer maps ensure that the award-winning Xbox LIVE experience of “Halo 3″ continues to thrive.
Key features of Halo 3: ODST include:
* All-new campaign content. The “Halo 3: ODST” campaign is an intriguing side story that takes place during the terrifying events leading up to the Master Chief’s return to New Mombasa in “Halo 3.” Experience the fate of Earth from the brand-new perspective of a special forces ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Trooper), adding a unique outlook and new gameplay elements to the events that unfold in the trilogy’s finale. While the feel of this new chapter will greatly resemble that of previous “Halo” experiences, “Halo 3: ODST” will require players to employ more elements of stealth and cunning than ever before.
* A new hero: Prepare to drop. Known for their courage, valor and, at times, insanity, ODSTs are among the fiercest UNSC soldiers, priding themselves on being the first unit deployed into hostile situations. While not as large or supernaturally gifted as their Spartan comrades, these “Hell Jumpers” more than compensate with their ferocious attitudes and unwavering nerve.
* Expanded multiplayer collection. No “Halo” experience would be complete without groundbreaking multiplayer content,* and “Halo 3: ODST” gives fans more of what they love. With exclusive new maps and full Forge options, players will find more multiplayer content than ever before with “Halo 3: ODST.”
* Ever-growing community options. Players will continue to enjoy all the great “Halo 3″ technological innovations, including Saved Films, screenshots, Campaign Scoring and four-player co-op. All of the new multiplayer maps fully support the Forge editor, offering endless gameplay customization possibilities for fans.
Fret Nice, the guitar-controlled indie platformer, coming to XBLA and PSN via Tecmo
Tecmo has picked up Fret Nice, an Indie platforming controlled by using a guitar controller, for release on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.
The game features a crazy cut-out artstyle where you need to play riffs on the guitar in order to defeat enemies. To add depth, you are sometimes required to play specific riffs depending on the attributes of an enemy.
The game will support two-player local as well as online play. When playing with a friend a guitar cord will attach your character to his so that one player can’t wander too far off from the other. The game will also feature upgraded visuals.
Here is a trailer for the game from E3 2009.
