Turbine and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have announced the Infinite Crisis closed beta will start on 8th May. they are encouraging fans to sign up for a chance to join in the Beta, Infinite Crisis is a multiplayer online battle arena. Turbine have released new Wonder Woman art showing three different variants as well as 2 new game play videos showing action from DoomsDay and Gaslight Batman.
Epic Games and Mozilla have announced Epic Citadel, from Epic Games, is now playable on PC in a web browser for free. no Plug-ins are needed, the game runs using HTML 5 in Firefox Nightly Version 23 or above. Both teams boast that it took just 4 days to port Epic Citadel to Firefox and features:
· Amazing
visuals. Through the latest advances in Unreal Engine 3
technology, “Epic Citadel” pushes the envelope for modern game
visuals on the Web. · Realistic
reflections and animations. Environment mapping and other
high-end rendering techniques produce lifelike reflections, while
vertex deformation and skeletal animation bring trees and banners to
life with dynamic movements. · Global
illumination. Unreal Engine 3’s built-in global illumination
system, Unreal Lightmass, provides realistic lighting and shadows
with minimal development resources. · Dynamic
specular lighting with texture masks. Sophisticated graphics
features impart a tangible quality to cobblestone roads and vivid
reflective marble surfaces, while lens flares and light coronas add
dramatic emphasis when panning across light sources.
Ubisoft have released a new game play video for Rayman: Legends. this video shows action from one of the new rhythm based levels. this one is Mexican/Spanish themed and see if you can guess the music that's being played that they are running/jumping/fighting to?
2K and Firaxis have announced Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol comes out on iOS on 9th May. this free to download game was conceived, designed and programed by the legend himself, Sid Meier.
Key Features Include:
Piloting a selection of 30 vintage
and historical WWI aircrafts through more than 120 missions;
Building out a team of Aces that
each offer a special skill set to expand gameplay options;
Upgrading and promoting the top
fighter pilots throughout the course of the campaign;
Playing Turn-based Single-Player,
Two-Player Hot-Pad or Asynchronous Multiplayer through Game Center.
Nintendo have announced the EU release date for Game And Wario. this Wii U game will come out from 28th June. the single player mode has 12 different games for you to play whilst Multiplayer features 4 different game modes. Game and Wario also features Miiverse integration with Miiverse ARTWORK, in this mode you have to pick 1 of 4 things to draw in 60 seconds with your finished piece being uploaded to Miiverse for all to see, you can also suggest things for people to draw.
Tecmo Koei have announced 2 new characters in Dynasty Warriors 8. these characters are Lu Su, a Governor General, and Han Dang, a skilled veteran who fights for Wu. Tecmo Koei have also released 47 new screenshots for the game. Dynasty Warriors 8 is set to come to PS3 and Xbox 360 on 12th July.
Codemasters have released several new videos for GRID 2. the first video highlights the LiveRoutes feature of the game. this new system can dynamically change the course of a track on the fly. the tracks which feature LiveRoutes are Paris, Barcelona, Chicago, Miami and Dubai.
The other videos, in order, are gameplay videos from Indianapolis and Paris, a video showing Overtakes and Time Attacks, and gameplay videos for Cote D'Azur, Brands Hatch and the Algarve.
