Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Sony Online Entertainment Detail The Heads Of Tales DC Universe Online Update

Sony Online Entertainment have announced a new update for DC Universe Online is out now. the Heads Or Tales update brings Harvey Dent/Two Face to the game.

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This update brings:

BATCAVE PART 3
Batcave 3 Raid: Level 30 players are brought face-to-face with
The Dark Knight himself. Unfortunately, he’s been infected with a virus and has teamed up with the all-powerful Brainiac’s Avatar of Technology.

INTRODUCTION TO TWO-FACE
  • Two-Face Instance: Following Harvey Dent/Two-Face on a mission into Penguin’s hideout, players will aim to take out his latest smuggling operation. The kicker? You don’t know if he will help or hinder your efforts – the chances are 50/50 and everything depends on the flip of a coin!
  • Legends PvP: Two-Face/Harvey Dent will be added as a playable character in Legends “Play as Iconic” PvP mode.
  • New Attacks: Call in your own mob of goons to keep your opponent occupied as you unleash a suppressive bullet spray, oil drum trap or grenade launcher.
  • Flip-of-the-Coin Abilities: Switch powers based on which side the coin lands: the Two-Face side deals more damage and DoT attacks and the Harvey Dent side gives more control, knockdowns and stuns.
SPECIAL EVENTS
  • Mister Mxyzptlk: Experience Metropolis transformed by the presence of Mr. Mxyzptlk and his fellow 5th dimensional supervillain tricksters.
  • Multi Player Race: Players can assume the guise of a 5th Dimensional Denizen and play tricks on fellow races over the skies of Metropolis.
  • New Gold Collections: New encounters with 5th Dimensional Denizens dressed as Leprechauns guarding a Pot Of Gold that players will need to find and collect coins from while the Leprechauns try to stop them in various amusing ways.
Press Release

WHAT: Sony Online Entertainment today announced the release of thesecondepisode of new content for the critically acclaimed action MMO DC Universe™ Online (DCUO) Heads or Tales. Arriving shortly after launch and a robust content addition in February, Heads or Tales features Gotham City District Attorney turned crime boss Harvey Dent/Two Face, and delivers new game play content suited for players of all levels and criminal persuasions including new missions, raids, and encounters. Players will also be able to explore the darker side of Batman when he is infected with a virus and teams up with DCUO’s most formidable boss, Brainiac’s Avatar of Technology.

Available for the PC and the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, DC Universe Online allows players to step into the DC Universe™, create their own super hero or villain and join forces to fight alongside or against their favorite DC icons. The Heads or Tales content will be available as a free update for all active DC Universe Online accounts.

The new content update for DCUO includes:

BATCAVE PART 3
Batcave 3 Raid: Level 30 players are brought face-to-face with
The Dark Knight himself. Unfortunately, he’s been infected with a virus and has teamed up with the all-powerful Brainiac’s Avatar of Technology.


INTRODUCTION TO TWO-FACE
· Two-Face Instance: Following Harvey Dent/Two-Face on a mission into Penguin’s hideout, players will aim to take out his latest smuggling operation. The kicker? You don’t know if he will help or hinder your efforts – the chances are 50/50 and everything depends on the flip of a coin!
· Legends PvP: Two-Face/Harvey Dent will be added as a playable character in Legends “Play as Iconic” PvP mode.
· New Attacks: Call in your own mob of goons to keep your opponent occupied as you unleash a suppressive bullet spray, oil drum trap or grenade launcher.
· Flip-of-the-Coin Abilities: Switch powers based on which side the coin lands: the Two-Face side deals more damage and DoT attacks and the Harvey Dent side gives more control, knockdowns and stuns.

SPECIAL EVENTS
· Mister Mxyzptlk: Experience Metropolis transformed by the presence of Mr. Mxyzptlk and his fellow 5th dimensional supervillain tricksters.
· Multi Player Race: Players can assume the guise of a 5th Dimensional Denizen and play tricks on fellow races over the skies of Metropolis.
· New Gold Collections: New encounters with 5th Dimensional Denizens dressed as Leprechauns guarding a Pot Of Gold that players will need to find and collect coins from while the Leprechauns try to stop them in various amusing ways.

WHEN: Players worldwide can experiencethe second DC Universe Online game update on April 5.

For more information about DC Universe Online, visit www.DCUniverseOnline.com.

About DC Universe Online
Lex Luthor has traveled back through time with news of a dire future: While the heroes and villains spent years battling amongst themselves, Brainiac has been feeding on their powers, building strength to return to Earth and destroy humanity. To change the future, Lex has come back to set off a device that bestows super powers to thousands of every-day citizens and give humanity a fighting chance. Can Brainiac be stopped, or is this another nefarious Lex Luthor plot?

For the first time, players and fans will be able to enter the DC Universe as an active force for good or evil. A massively multiplayer experience, DC Universe Online delivers unparalleled high-energy, physics-powered combat that brings the player's extraordinary powers to life.

DC Universe Online was created in the artistic vision of legendary comic book artist Jim Lee, and set within a world created by famous DC writers including Geoff Johns and Marv Wolfman.

Rated T for Teen with Mild Blood, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes and Violence, DC Universe Online is available for PC and PlayStation 3 for the suggested retail prices of $49.99 and $59.99, respectively. The game includes one 30-day game membership, with monthly subscriptions available thereafter for $14.99. For players of the PC version of the game, DCUO will be included in SOE’s all-in-one Station Access subscription.

About Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) is a recognized worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games, with hundreds of thousands of subscribers around the globe. SOE creates, develops and provides compelling entertainment for the personal computer, online game console and wireless devices. Known for its blockbuster franchises and hit titles including EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, Champions of Norrath®,Untold Legends™, PlanetSide®, and the recently launched DC Universe Online™, as well as the recent kids’ phenomenons Free Realms® and Clone Wars Adventures™, SOE continues to redefine the business of online gaming and the creation of active player communities. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, with additional development studios in Austin, TX, Seattle, WA, Denver, CO, and Tucson, AZ, SOE has an array of cutting-edge games in development across various platforms and genres for audiences of all ages.

SOE, the SOE logo, EverQuest, Free Realms, Champions of Norrath and PlanetSide are registered trademarks and Untold Legends is a trademark of Sony Online Entertainment LLC. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners.

About Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, is a premier worldwide publisher, developer, licensor and distributor of entertainment content for the interactive space across all current and future platforms, including console, handheld and PC-based gaming for both internal and third party game titles.

About DC Entertainment
DC Entertainment, home to such iconic DC Comics properties as Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Flash, MAD Magazine, and Fables, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating across Warner Bros. and Time Warner. DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its superheroic characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment, and interactive games. Publishing over 1,000 comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Comics is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world.

PopCap Reveal New Small Games Label 4th & Battery And Their First Game Unpleasent Horse

PopCap have revealed a new games label aimed at smaller, simpler, and maybe edgier games. 4th & Battery will aim their games at a more mature audience, the first of which is Unpleasant Horse. 4th & Battery aim to make several games a year without the concern of schedules, profitability, or even a target audience.

Unpleasant Horse has you playing as a Unpleasant Horse that has wings. you need to destroy small birds and land on pleasant horses from above. Unpleasant Horse will be free when it comes to iPhone and iPod Touch this month.




Press Release

SEATTLE and DUBLIN, April 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PopCap Games, the worldwide leader in casual games, today announced the formation of 4th & Battery™ (www.4thandbattery.com), a new experimental label where PopCap's designers and developers have free reign to create smaller, simpler, and sometimes edgier games without the typical constraints of an established global games publisher. Named after the Seattle, Washington intersection where PopCap's Seattle headquarters are located, 4th & Battery today introduced its first game, Unpleasant Horse™.

"4th & Battery is a pressure valve intended to keep our heads from exploding," explained Ed Allard, Executive Vice President of Studios at PopCap. "The PopCap brand has become closely associated with ultra-high quality, polish and attention to detail — which is a great thing. But our standard game development process is therefore long and involved, and doesn't really accommodate all of the creativity pumping through our collective veins. 4th & Battery gives us a way to quickly try really strange or marginal ideas, and to give our designers a safe area to hone their chops."

4th & Battery is expected to produce several games per year, primarily small-scale, arcade-style games for platforms ranging from PC to Facebook® and iPhone. Unlike PopCap's traditional franchises, some of the content emanating from 4th & Battery, including its initial launch title Unpleasant Horse, will be aimed at mature audiences.

"4th & Battery is a purely experimental, creative label with none of the typical concerns like schedules, profitability, or even target audience. It's kind of the video game equivalent of B-sides or short films," explained Jason Kapalka, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at PopCap. "Expect weirdness."

The first game from 4th & Battery, Unpleasant Horse, was announced today. Players take on the role of – wait for it! – a strikingly unpleasant horse that sports wings and advances through the game by destroying small birds and landing on more pleasant horses from above. Landing atop other horses enables the player to force them earthward into a perpetual meat grinder for extra points and special bonuses. Available later this month for the iPhone and iPod touch through the Apple App Store, Unpleasant Horse will be available for free.

About 4th & Battery
4th and Battery is located in a secret druidic chamber below one of Seattle's largest public parks. Small groups of PopCap® game developers gather there when the stars are right to let their imaginations run wild. The results can be alarming.

About PopCap
PopCap Games is the leading global developer, publisher and operator of casual video games: fun, easy-to-learn, captivating games that appeal to all ages across PC, mobile, social and other platforms. Based in Seattle, Washington, PopCap was founded in 2000 and has a worldwide staff of more than 400 people in Seattle, San Francisco, Vancouver, B.C., Dublin, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo. PopCap's games have been downloaded over 1.5 billion times by consumers worldwide, and its flagship franchise, Bejeweled®, has sold more than 50 million units.

The PopCap logo and all other trademarks used herein that are listed at www.popcap.com/trademarks are owned by PopCap Games, Inc. or its licensors and may be registered in some countries. Facebook® is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc. 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

This Weeks UK PSP Digital Comic Store Update



Sony's EU Playstation Blog has detailed the comics coming out today on the Digital Comics Store.

000AD Prog #1721 2000AD
Azure #6 DC Comics
Batman Beyond Vol.2 #8 DC Comics
Batman Beyond Vol. 4 #4 DC Comics
Batman Black & White #4 DC Comics
Celadore #3 DC Comics
DC Universe Online Legends #5 DC Comics
Doctor Who: Volume 2 #2-3 IDW Publishing
Ex Machina #38 DC Comics
Fables #53 DC Comics
Hack/Slash #10-11 Devil’s Due Digital
Infestation: Ghostbusters #1 IDW Publishing
JLA #45 DC Comics
Legends of the DC Universe #11 DC Comics
Powers (2004) #28-30 Icon
Pray for Death #3 DC Comics
Resident Evil Vol.2 #1-3 DC Comics
Return to Labyrinth #11 TOKYOPOP
Runaways (2005) #1-6 Marvel
Sandman #29 DC Comics
Star Trek #4 Devil’s Due Digital
Superman/Batman #56 DC Comics
Tales from the Clockwork Empire #1 Markosia
Telara Chronicles #4 DC Comics
Tomorrow Stories #6 DC Comics
Top 10 #6 DC Comics
Transformers #17 IDW Publishing
Undertown #14 TOKYOPOP
Van Von Hunter #12 TOKYOPOP
Voltron: Defender of the Universe #0-5 Devil’s Due Digital
Wonder Woman Vol. 3 #28 DC Comics
X-Factor (2005) #4 Marvel
Y: The Last Man #35 DC Comics

Source: EU Playstation Blog


Zero Punctuation - Pokémon White

This weeks Zero Punctuation is on Pokémon White. Like many of us, Yahtzee has a past of Pokémon but for him this is his first Pokémon game in several years. can a series that's not really changed still engage him, or has it left him beind, stuck with his 600+ Pokémon?




Namco Bandai Have Released A New Inversion Trailer Called "First Impression"

Namco Bandai have released a new trailer for Inversion. this trailer is called "First Impression" and it is a small youtube style film. the film shows people reacting to the strange, anti-gravity events. the trailer shows how things started off small but then bigger things were effected. the trailer ends with a hint as to what's coming.


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PopCap Announce The Soundtracks Bejeweled 2 and Bejeweled 3 Are Out Now


PopCap have announced the soundtracks to Bejeweled 2 and Bejeweled 3 are out now. Both soundtracks have been remastered and mixed to provide a better sound quality than their game versions. They join Plants Vs Zombies as having their soundtracks released online. all 3 can be found at bandcamp

PopCap soundtrack links on bandcamp:
Bejeweled 3: http://skaven252.bandcamp.com/album/bejeweled-3
Bejeweled 2: http://skaven252.bandcamp.com/album/bejeweled-2
Plants vs. Zombies: http://laurashigihara.bandcamp.com/

Press Release

April 6, 2011 - PopCap Games, the worldwide leader in casual games, has made the musical soundtracks from Bejeweled, the world’s most popular puzzle games series, available for the first time.

The soundtracks to Bejeweled® 2 and Bejeweled 3 are now digitally available at no cost so fans of the hugely popular franchise can get their musical fix wherever they are. The soundtracks are available now from the bandcamp website at the URLs listed below.

Composed by Peter Hajba and Alexander Brandon, better known as Skaven 252, the Bejeweled tracks have been fully remastered and mixed for these soundtracks, with higher definition and quality than the game versions. A never-heard-before remix of the Bejeweled music is now also available.

The Plants vs. Zombies™ soundtrack, composed by Laura Shigihara, is also available on bandcamp.

PopCap soundtrack links on bandcamp:
Bejeweled 3: http://skaven252.bandcamp.com/album/bejeweled-3
Bejeweled 2: http://skaven252.bandcamp.com/album/bejeweled-2
Plants vs. Zombies: http://laurashigihara.bandcamp.com/

Sony Online Entertainment Have Released A New Magic The Gathering Tactics Trailer Showing Planeswalkers

Sony Online Entertainment have released a new trailer for Magic The Gathering Tactics. this trailer features a member of the team talking about the 5 Planewalkers, describing their personality and in-game character.


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