Videogame News: Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter

Kickstarters out the wazoo!

Shadowrun was originally a paper and pencil RPG created by Jordan Weisman who also was involved in creating BattleTech.  He’s also the guy heading up this Kickstarter and has a nice video on the Kickstarter page you should check out.  He’s also the guy who started Wizkids and has made quite a few table top games including Heroclix.  He also made a company known as 42 Entertainment which was responsible for websites such as the Halo franchise’s “I Love Bees” and Nine Inch Nails “Year Zero”.  Point being, this guy is qualified to make a cerebral 2D RPG.

Shadowrun basically takes things like elves, dwarves, and dragons and throws them into a Bladerunner meets the Matrix style cyberpunk future.  While I personally wish they had waited a couple months before doing this Kickstarter as I am basically out of money, this may be the one I’m most excited for.  With an entry fee of $15 for the PC game, its not a high gamble.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns

News: Video Game Releases

This is where we put out some info about the games we think are going to be somewhere between decent and awesome that release today or later this week.  Typically we skip over the heavy hitters.  Sorry Call of Duty, but 8 million people usually already know about your release date.

Asura’s Wrath – 360, PS3

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Developed by CyberConnect2 (they did a metric TON of dot Hack and Naruto games) and published by Capcom.  To be clear we’re not clear at all on this title, and we understand most of the Shin Megam Tensei games.  So Asura is accused of murdering the Emperor and his wife is captured and there’s something about Mithra and Deus and then there’s a giant finger attacking the planet that is god or something and he explodes when you punch him in the finger.  See, English doesn’t even work when describing this game.  Be warned, QTE’s are abundant.

 

Syndicate – 360, PC, PS3

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Developed by Starbreeze (The Chronicles of Riddick, The Darkness) and published by EA.  This is a new take on the old classic Syndicate Wars franchise Peter Molyneux is often credited for.  The original series was about taking four agents, replacing their body parts with cybernetics, pumping them full of drugs, and taking over the world in a violent, mind controlling fashion.  The new version appear to have taken this ruthless logic and applied it to an FPS.  Now with dubstep.

News: Video Game Releases

This is where we put out some info about the games we think are going to be somewhere between decent and awesome that release today or later this week.  Typically we skip over the heavy hitters.  Sorry Call of Duty, but 8 million people usually already know about your release date.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – 360, PC, PS3

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Developed by Big Huge Games and 38 Studios and published by EA and 38 Studios.  Reckoning is a stylized open world RPG romp featuring writing by R.A. Salvatore, best known for his work on AD&D Forgotten Realms novels including the creation of fan favorite Drizzt Do’Urden, as well as art design by Todd McFarlane (Spawn).

 

Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition – 360, PC, PS3

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Developed by Obsidian and published by Bethesda.  Obsidian took what Bethesda did with Fallout 3 and turned it on its head creating a crazy world of consequence with no black and white path to victory.  This version includes all the DLC.

 

Darkness 2 – 360, PC, PS3

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Developed by Digital Extremes and published by 2K.  Digital Extremes has developed and co-developed such legendary titles as Bioshock and Unreal as well as the cult favorite Dark Sector.  Darkness 2 is based off of the comic license from Image Comics.  The game protagonist Jackie Estacado is basically the middle of a mob war as he possesses the demonic darkness, who is voiced by Mike Patton (Mr Bungle, Faith No More, The Fantomas, the angry personality orb from the first Portal, the creatures from I Am legend, zombies in Left 4 Dead, no I’m not a fan <-sarcasm <-professional journalistic writing).  The game itself is a first person shooter enhanced by darkness powers including ripping off car doors and using them as shields, creating minions, eating people for health, things like that.

News: Mass Effect 3 Collector’s Edition Detailed

The better question is what doesn’t it come with and the sad answer is no season pass.  But what it does come with includes a 70 page artbook, soundtrack, comic, additional mission, N7 patch, squad mate appearance pack, Normandy robot dog (this is bold because its a freaking ROBOT DOG), lithograph, and other avatar and forum things we don’t feel like typing out.  One more pic after the break.

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News: Video Game Releases

Deus Ex Human Revolution – 360, PC, PS3

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Developed by Eidos Montreal and published by Square Enix.  This FPS Action RPG takes the player 25 years before the original Deus Ex in a dystopian future where the new prejudice is against those with cybernetics.  Eidos Montreal has been very public with this game and many an interview and question has already been answered.

 

Devil Survivor Overclocked – 3DS

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Developed and published Atlus.  Devil Survivor Overclocked is the 3DS port for Devil Survivor, now with voice acting, new demons, and an additional day.

News: Videogame Releases

So now E3 is over we can all go back to enjoying the games that are out, unless you missed last week’s recommendations.

 

Duke Nuke ‘Em Forever – 360, PC, PS3

Its being almost universally blasted in the reviews but I’m willing to bet these guys or these guys will have something different to say about it.  I don’t even want to try to list all the companies involved in this game but we’ll just say Gearbox finished it and 2K published it.

 

Alice Madness Returns – 360, PC, PS3

Developed by Spicy Horse and published by EA.  If you didn’t know, American McGee is an actual person and does work at Spicy Horse.  McGee is best known for doing the original PC adventure platformer, American McGee’s Alice.

 

Child of Eden – 360

Developed by Q Entertainment and published by Ubisoft.  This is the spiritual successor to Rez.  Works with Kinect.  Will be released for PS3 at a later date.

News: Video Game Releases

We know so there’s so much E3 going on right now its easy to forget but there are new games out that you can play right now!

Infamous 2 – PS3

Developed by Sucker Punch and published by Sony.  If you only buy one game this week, buy this one.  And if you don’t own a PS3, then buy it anyway.  Yes that’s right.  Sucker Punch deserves your money more than you do.

 

Shadows of the Damned – 360, PS3

Developed by Grasshopper and published by EA.  Grasshopper is best known for Killer 7 and No More Heroes.  If there is one thing Grasshopper can guarantee, its that you’ll never play another game quite like theirs.  Don’t believe me?  Watch the trailer.

 

Red Faction Armageddon – 360, PC, PS3

Developed by Volition and published by THQ.  This game has already been roasted in the reviews but with such popularity on the prequel among Gamers with Good Taste, its hard not to bet on the sequel.

Turn 54 – On the Brink of


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Featuring John “MusiM”, Joey “Joey”, Scott “Scott”, and Suzy “Specter”.

Music by MusiM.  Buy the new album at musim.bandcamp.com

Welcome to the new usually biweekly format of the Carousel where we will discuss what we’ve been watching, reading, and playing with each cast member limited to a total of 6 topics.

This week we start with what we’ve been reading including DC Universe, JLA, JSA, Green Lantern, Transmetropolitan, and Kurt Vonnegut.

We continue with what we’ve been watching including Thor, X-Men First Class, and discuss some rumors on the upcoming Avengers movie.

And we finish with what we’ve been playing including League of Legends, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, LA Noire, Brink, Gratuitous Space Battles, Gretel and Hanzel, Gretel and Hanzel 2, and Furdieurb.

And lastly we discuss some brief news (Zone of Enders HD Collection!!!) and then get into an accidental discussion on hackers and internet security.

Also download Ultima IV for free.

News: Video Game Releases

So this week is the calm before the storm that is June releases!  I mean seriously publishers, does it all have to come out in June!!!  But we have some games that we think might be pretty sweet coming out now.  Hopefully someone will let us know as we’re kind of broke.

Hunted: The Demon’s Forge – 360, PC, PS3

Developed by inXile Entertainment, Inc. (2004 version of Bard’s Tale) and published by Bethesda Softworks, this game is for you co-dependents out there.  Two player action-RPG co-op all the way from split screen to online.

 

Dungeon Siege 3 – 360, PC, PS3

Developed by Obsidian and published by Square Enix.  The old Dungeon Siege games were pretty Diablo-esque and I’m sure this one will be too but with that old Obsidian twist.  And seriously, you should know who Obsidian is by now.

Turn 50 – Fine Purveyors of Something


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Featuring John “MusiM” and Scott “Artisan002″.

This week its extra length with videogames, movies, and music we’ve been experiencing lately.  For videogames we discuss Tactics Ogre, Gratuitous Space Battles, Republic Commando, Mass Effect, and more.  For videos we discuss Twin Peaks, Hanna, Machete, TMNT, Fast and Furious Five, and more.  For music we talked Tron: Legacy Reconfigured, Hanna, and Sucker Punch.

And of course a giant section on the PSN.


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