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Author: Anthony Amato
Steam version of Ikaruga will include side-scrolling mode and other additions
Treasure, the developers of classic game Ikaruga, will be bringing their much-loved game to the PC soon with some extra goodies. This announcement comes in the wake of their reveal about a new PC game they’re working on. While we wait for that, we get to play Ikaruga with a few changes.
The PC version of the game will have “a new mode with a horizontal screen orientation,” according to Siliconera. It also has a new Double Play Mode, in which you can use one controller to control two ships.
Ikaruga will also take advantage of Steam’s ranking and Cloud features, among others. It will be available on Steam “soon” at the price of $9.99. You probably won’t have any trouble running it, but if you’re worried, here are the system requirements.
South Park: The Stick of Truth’s Super Bowl commercial stars Mr. Hankey
Well, that ad doesn’t star Mr. Hankey, because it’s a little too risque for our front page. The amazing thing in that TV spot, in my opinion, is the quick glimpse of zombie Chef. But you can see “The Return of Mr. and Mrs. Hankey” and “Ginger Kid Nazi Zombie,” the bonus “too hot for TV” trailers, after the jump.
South Park: The Stick of Truth will be out on March 4 for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
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Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged South Park: The Stick of Truth
Airtight’s Murdered: Soul Suspect also coming to Xbox One
Murdered: Soul Suspect is an upcoming action-adventure game from Square Enix. First revealed at last year’s E3, it’s been recently announced that it will be available on Xbox One – and you can read an in-depth hands-on article at Xbox Wire. They describe it as a “supernatural detective thriller” and go into detail about how you play as Ronan O’Connor, the renegade cop (get it? Ronan/Ronin?) who has to solve his own murder.
But Airtight also Tweeted today that there will be more news and another trailer tomorrow. Could this announcement be that the game is also coming to PlayStation 4?
Murdered: Soul Suspect is due out later this year and is currently confirmed for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
This is what it takes to create a fake video game for a TV show
What do you do when you’re making a television show, and you need to show off a fake video game? How much work does that take? According to this hyper-detailed article at Tested.com, it takes quite a lot.
In the new HBO series, Looking, Patrick (pictured above) works at a fictional video game company called Most Dangerous Games (MDG). In a scene, in which you actually see only a few seconds of the video game, Patrick plays a fighting game against another character. In order to create that video game, Todd Fjelsted, the show’s production designer, turned to CG expert Craig Vance.
Vance put a lot of work into it, starting “by going through his library of CG assets, hoping that he might be able to modify existing structures instead of having to build them from scratch. The game’s three characters, for instance, were ones Vance had pre-built based on people he’d worked with, which he then altered to fit Naval Destroyer’s specifications. (So not only are the video game’s characters roughly based on the show’s characters, but they’re also roughly based on people Vance actually works with, too). The battleship exteriors were also existing assets that were tweaked.”
Full details can be found at the article. The final product was six minutes of gameplay, which was only shown onscreen for one second. Wild!
[Photo Credit: HBO]
Arcadecraft will finally be available for PC “soon”
Arcadecraft, the arcade simulator in which you can create and run your very own arcade, is finally coming to PC. The game has had some success on Xbox Live Indie Games, selling 65,000 copies, and now developer Firebase Industries is ready to take the PC crowd by storm.
According to Firebase’s announcement, these new features will be available in the PC version:
- Mouse Control Support
- Keyboard Control Support
- Xbox 360 Gamepad Support
- 16:9 Resolutions from 1280×720 to 1920×1080
- Higher resolution textures and UI art
- New Character Models with Redone Animations
- Selectable Characters
- All of the Xbox 360 content updates released so far are included
- More than 100 arcade machines to place
- Sim from 1980 to 1987
There’s no release date yet, but you can click on the image above to pre-order it on the Humble Store. If you don’t know what Arcadecraft is about, hit the jump to see the reveal trailer for the Xbox 360 version. (more…)
Posted in News, PC
Tagged Arcadecraft
Rumor: Latest Need For Speed canceled after layoffs at Ghost Games UK
In another blow to the video game industry, Ghost Games’ UK offices have been hit by layoffs. According to Polygon, these layoffs are rumored to have even halted development on the latest (and currently unannounced) Need For Speed title.
EA offered compensation to those let go, or told them they could “work on Visceral’s rumored police-themed Battlefield title, code-named Havana,” which is due out later this year. On that note, why is this the first we’re hearing of a “police-themed Battlefield title” developed by Visceral?
This news doesn’t bode well for the studio or the franchise, which was placed fully in the studio’s hands last year, according to Marcus Nilsson, the executive producer on Need For Speed Rivals. However, the article was updated with the following: “An EA spokesperson told Polygon that the company has ‘entered a consultation period for some positions in our Ghost Games U.K. studio.'”
Best of luck to those who lost their jobs. We here at Warp Zoned hope they are able to find new employment quickly.
Posted in News
Tagged Battlefield Hardline, Need For Speed Rivals
Rumor: New Duke Nukem game developed by Interceptor in development
A new Duke Nukem might be coming our way, according to some rumors. DSO Gaming is speculating that the new game will be developed by Interceptor, a studio that had previously worked on a “free remake of Duke Nukem 3D that would be powered by Unreal Engine 3,” which went from being on hold to not being released.
Frederik Schreiber, the CEO of Interceptor, had some very specific ideas in mind for Duke, including making him less silly and more of a serious badass. “Give us a Duke game without strippers, a great sinister villain than can break Duke (Think Bane from [The Dark Knight Rises]), a slightly older, and way more badass/gritty Duke, and a galactic plotline that can be taken seriously, and I’m Sold!”
The article ends with an update, seemingly confirming just what form the new Duke game will take: “This new Duke Nukem game will be called Duke Nukem: Mass Destruction and will be a top-down action RPG that will be powered by Unreal Engine. Thanks Mark!”
More details can be found in this image, which comes from a (now-offline) teaser site and gives plot details and states that the game will be available on PC and PS4. Hopefully this is not just an elaborate hoax – Duke fans don’t need anymore disappointment.
Rumor: New Sonic game to be released for PS4, Xbox One, Wii U in 2015
The image above, which was posted at a site called SpinDash, pretty clearly shows that a new Sonic game is on its way to PS4, Xbox One, and Wii U next year. This image, which came from the Nuremberg International Toy Fair, is sure to make Sonic fans happy.
As announced last year, the agreement between Sega and Nintendo from last May states that the next three Sonic games must be Nintendo exclusives. Sonic: Lost World and Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, the first two games on that list, were both exclusives, which means Sega owes Nintendo one more before this mystery game can be released on the other two platforms.