Thursday, February 11, 2010

This Weeks UK PSP Digital Comic Store Update


Sony's EU Playstation Blog has revealed the comics coming to todays PSP Digital Comic store update.

2000AD Prog #1666 2000AD 18+
Cancertown: An Inconvenient Tooth: Chapter 2 of 6 Insomnia 18+
Daredevil (1998) #96 & #97 Marvel 12+
Donald Duck and the Three Musketeers #1 Disney 3+
Donald Duck Origami Maestro Disney 3+
Groom Lake #3 & #4 IDW 17+
Locke and Key: Head Games #1 IDW 17+
Marvel Zombies (2005) #1-#6 Marvel 12+
Scrooge McDuck and the Witchy Business Disney 3+
Tank Girl: The Gifting #1 & #2 IDW 17+
The Incredible Hulk (1999) #95-#101 Marvel 9+
Transformers: All Hail Megatron #11 IDW 12+
Ultraheroes #1: Gathering Disney 3+
Uncanny X-Men (2003) #483-#485 Marvel 12+
Wolverine (2003) #32-#37 Marvel 15+
Wormwood: Gentlemen Corpse #11: Calamari Rising #3 IDW 17+
X-Men (2004) #181-#186 Marvel 12+
X-Men: Colossus Bloodline (2005) #1-#5 Marvel 9+
X-Mickey #6: The Carousel Disney 3+

From EU Playstation Blog


EA Have Released A New Trailer For Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online On The PC

EA Have released a new trailer for Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online. this is a launch trailer that shows off the main features of the game using in-game footage. the trailer also shows of some of the games menus and unique online functions. one particularly unique feature is, when playing other people, when you tee-off you see where your shot and everyone else's, seeing where the ball lands on/off the course.




Sega Reveal Resonance Of Fate Has A UK Release Of 26th March And Release Character/Box Art

Sega has revealed that Resonance of Fate is coming out in the UK on the 26th March for both the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

Sega has also revealed the UK Boxart for both versions of Resonance of Fate and show the game has been rated 16. Sega has released some character art for the main characters in the game. you can click the speech bubble to read information about each character that was provided by Sega.

Character Art


Boxart


Fact Sheet

PRODUCT INFORMATION
Developer: Platforms: PS3 & Xbox 360
PEGI/ USK: 16+, COB: M Genre: RPG
Ship date: 26th March 2010

Resonance of Fate, is set in a dystopian future where Earth is no longer capable of sustaining life. The tower-like Basel structure, originally built as an experimental life support system, is now the only place mankind can survive. As part of the Private Military Firm, our heroes (Vashyron, Zephyr and Leanne), seek out and complete quests for their clients but are eventually led on a journey that will reveal the dark secrets behind the world they live in. From the studio of heralded RPG developers, tri-Ace, Resonance of Fate adds a fresh spin to the genre with a new cinematic action gameplay system centered around gun-play and a fascinating steampunk-styled world.

Key Features:
Battle System: Battle in fantastic cinematic action as your characters wield firearms in a semi-real time gameplay system

Hero Actions: Pull off spectacular moves and precision attacks through this special mode designed to chain attacks together

Unique Story: Built around a gigantic tower-like machine, the story will delve deep into fate and the machinery that controls it

Beautiful environments: Masterfully crafted environments pepper this title to illustrate the deep tapestry of this dystopian world

Customisation: Customise your characters and give them a unique look within the game and cutscenes
o Extensive Weapon customization allows your character to have specialized weapons from parts unlocked or bought throughout the game
o Change the look of your character by unlocking costumes along the way

Sega Have Released New Screenshots For Empire Total War: Elite Units Of The East

Sega have released new screenshots for the upcoming Empire Total War Expansion, Elite units Of The East. these screenshots are in-game and show various units from the Ottoman Empire and The Maratha Empire.

Empire Total War: Elite Units Of The East



Audio Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest)

Here is today's Audio Re-Cap of Yesterdays news.
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Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest)

  • QTE Blog: Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest) http://ow.ly/16xNdO

  • QTE Blog: Audio Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest) http://ow.ly/16xOBh

  • PS3: Famitsu gives Heavy Rain a 37/40. more scores to be released after 5pm GMT http://ow.ly/15SNk

  • there will be day 1 dlc for Battlefield Bad Company 2 http://ow.ly/15SOD

  • PC: Myst Online, a mmo, has been re-released and is now free to play. http://ow.ly/15SQ0

  • PS3: rumoured footage from Wakebarding HD has been leaked. its suggested this is Creat's next game. http://ow.ly/15SS9

  • PS3: its been reported that a Japanese podcast mentions that Demons Souls 2 is coming out this year in Japan http://ow.ly/15SVf

  • PSP: Dylan Cuthbert says there are no plans for more PixleJunk PSP games. say most people don't hook PSP's to the PSN http://ow.ly/15SX0

  • Nintendo is holding a event on 24th February. something is reportedly going to be revealed. http://ow.ly/15T22

  • analysts predict that digital sales will increase 34% in 2010. industry to grow 6%. PS3 only console with sales increase http://ow.ly/15T6O

  • EA says they are looking at ways to punish players who quit online games in FIFA 11 http://ow.ly/15T8Z

  • the first 5th Gen pokemon has been revealed. the silhouette was Zoroark, the evolved form of Zorua. http://ow.ly/15Taj

  • QTE Blog: SouthPeak Announce 3D Dot Heroes Comes Out In The UK On May 14th, Will Be At The Midlands MCM Expo http://ow.ly/16xStU

  • the ESA has revealed that there are more than 120 exhibitors for E3. some absences, High Voltage, NCSoft, 6 trade groups http://ow.ly/15TcW

  • 360: A Final Fantasy XIII Bundle is coming out in Japan. it'll be a white 360+250GB HDD, 2 controllers + FF XIII http://ow.ly/15VfV

  • PS3: Heavy Rain review scores have gone live. plenty of 9/10 - 10/10 with a couple of 7/10 http://ow.ly/15YXP

  • QTE Blog: New Zero Punctuation - Borderlands http://ow.ly/16xVdo

  • Wii: Marvelous Entertainment have opened World Game Parade to localise western WiiWare games for a Japan Release http://ow.ly/15Z0m

  • iPhone: Revolutionary Concepts are releasing Karate Champ, with multiplayer. Manomio are working on a Amigo emulator http://ow.ly/15Z31

  • Disney's gaming division have announced they made a loss of $10M, up from a $45M Loss. Wii+DS games sold best http://ow.ly/15Z5K

  • QTE Blog: Sega Have Released A New Trailer For Sonic & Sega All Star Racing http://ow.ly/16xWAr

  • QTE Blog: EA Announce That Over 8 Million Games Have Been Sold Since Their Partnership In 2007 With Hasbro http://ow.ly/16xWAq

  • PS3: its been reported that a Japanese podcast mentions that Demons Souls 2 is coming out this year in Japan http://ow.ly/15SVf

  • QTE Blog: PopCap Announce The Bejeweled Franchise Is 10 Years Old http://ow.ly/16xYhx

  • PS3: Sony has annoucned that the PS3 will get a 3D Gaming Patch and a 3D Blu-Ray Patch in the summer http://ow.ly/164rF

  • 360: Samurai Shodown Edge of Destiny is set to come out in the USA this spring as Samurai Shodown Sen http://ow.ly/164ug

  • iPhone: Doom II RPG is out now for $4 http://ow.ly/164v0

  • PC: its reported there are issues with BioShock 2 and WideScreen PC's. it trims the top+bottom of a 4:3 resolution http://ow.ly/164wO

  • Xbox: DLC For original Xbox Games is already not working with Xbox Live. its reported this started last week http://ow.ly/164yZ

  • Wii: Rock Of The Dead has been announced. it lets you kill zombies by using a Guitar Hero Controller and inputting riffs http://ow.ly/164B8

  • Activision Blizzard have posted financials, Q4 revenue is down to $1.56B, from $1.6B. Year revenue up to $4.28B from $3B http://ow.ly/164D2

  • Activision Blizzard announce a new Tony Hawk, Call Of Duty, Guitar Hero, And Spiderman game will come out during 2010 http://ow.ly/164EJ

  • Activision are reducing the amount of Music games they release in 2010 to 10, down from 25 in 2009 http://ow.ly/166QH

  • Activision have announced that Singularity and Transformers War For Cybertron was coming out in may 2010 http://ow.ly/166Yj

  • Activision have announced that a Blur multiplayer beta will come out in March http://ow.ly/166Zb

  • Xbox: Microsoft say they are 'actively working' to restore DLC. this service should be live until April 15th http://ow.ly/16703



Wednesday, February 10, 2010

PopCap Announce The Bejeweled Franchise Is 10 Years Old

PopCap have announced that the Bejeweled franchise is 10 years old. Since the games release as Diamond Mine back in 2000, there have been more than 350 Million downloads of Bejeweled. at retail, the game has sold more than 50 Million units, which puts it in the top 10 best selling games of all time. a copy of the game is sold around every 4.3 seconds.

In Celebration of this, PopCap are going to have a 10 Month celebration were new instalments in the Bejeweled line-up are going to be released, as well as a community wide competition for Bejeweled Blitz. The Bejeweled Blitz competitions will include finding the best players, which starts in spring, as well as other contests and promotions.
there will also be a promotion called "Show Your Bejeweled Love" which will launch next month. this promotion asks fans to celebrate their love for Bejeweled in audio/video form.

Press Release

SEATTLE and DUBLIN, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- PopCap Games, maker of some of the world's most popular video games, today announced that it will mark the 10th birthday of its flagship franchise Bejeweled® with a 10-month long celebration beginning today. Throughout 2010 PopCap will introduce new installments in the Bejeweled lineup, hold the first-ever community-wide competition for Bejeweled Blitz, and stage exciting promotional activities such as the upcoming "Show Your Bejeweled Love" contest. PopCap also announced today that Bejeweled has now sold more than 50 million units, making it one of the top ten best-selling video games of all time — and the company continues to sell a copy of Bejeweled every 4.3 seconds.

"Bejeweled has obviously succeeded beyond our wildest dreams," said Jason Kapalka, co-creator of the game and co-founder and chief creative officer at PopCap. "When Brian Fiete, John Vechey and I built the game ten years ago, we had no grand aspirations for it or PopCap, we were trying to survive as a company during the depths of the dot-com collapse. Little did we know we'd still be selling copies of Bejeweled a decade later!"

Originally launched in the spring of 2000 as "Diamond Mine," ten years and more than 350 million downloads later Bejeweled has won dozens of awards, has been localized for audiences around the world and has been adapted for more than a dozen different platforms from iPhone to Xbox and even airline seatbacks. The game has actually accelerated in popularity and now sells at a rate of one copy every 4.3 seconds somewhere in the world, and has just been named The Most Popular Puzzle Game Series of the Century by the Guinness World Records 2010 Video Games Edition. PopCap and its distribution partners have recently confirmed that more than 50 million units of Bejeweled, Bejeweled 2 and Bejeweled Twist have been sold, but the game's reach extends an order of magnitude further.

Between free-to-play online versions across the internet, trial downloads, pre-installs and demo disks, an estimated half billion people have played Bejeweled in one form or another since its introduction.

Over the course of this calendar year, PopCap will introduce new installments in the Bejeweled franchise - including an all-new way to play Bejeweled Blitz, the 1-minute social adaptation of the game - as well as conducting numerous contests and promotions open to consumers of all stripes. A competition to identify and reward the very best Bejeweled Blitz players - the first such competition held around a social game - will commence later this spring. The "Show Your Bejeweled Love" contest kicking off next month will encourage fans of the game to celebrate their affinity for the original match-3 puzzler in various audio and video forms; there is no cost or obligation to enter, and details will be available as of early March at www.bejeweled.com.

About PopCap
PopCap Games (www.popcap.com) is the leading multi-platform provider of fun, easy-to-learn, captivating video games that appeal to everyone from age 6 to 106. Based in Seattle, Washington, PopCap was founded in 2000 and has a worldwide staff of over 260 people in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Vancouver, B.C., Dublin, and Shanghai. Its games have been downloaded more than 1 billion times by consumers worldwide, and its flagship title, Bejeweled®, has sold more than 50 million units across all platforms. Constantly acclaimed by consumers and critics, PopCap's games are played on the Web, social platforms, desktop computers, myriad mobile devices (cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, Pocket PCs, iPod, iPhone and more), popular game consoles (such as Xbox and DS), and in-flight entertainment systems. PopCap is the only "casual games" developer with leading market share across all major sales channels, including social, Web portals, retail stores, mobile phones, MP3 players, and game devices.

The PopCap logo and all other trademarks used herein that are listed atwww.popcap.com/trademarks are owned by PopCap Games, Inc. or its licensors and may be registered in some countries. Other company and product names used herein may be trademarks of their respective owners and are used for the benefit of those owners.
SOURCE PopCap Games