From the YouTube Description
Batman: Arkham Origins features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline occurring several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City. Taking place before the rise of Gotham City’s most dangerous villains and assassins, the game showcases a young, raw, unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight. As the story unfolds, witness identities being formed and key relationships being forged.
The third piece of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance DLC will be hitting both the PSN and XBLM May 17th. For those not in the know, this dlc has the player in control of Blade Wolf, robo-hound pal of both Raiden and Jetstream Sam. The DLC will take place during the time before Blade Wolf fights Raiden, back when he was working under Mistral. It’s a little difficult imagining how this DLC will play and control, at least with Sam we could figure he’d play similar to Raiden, but this thing is a damned robotic wolf with a chainsaw tail!! Regardless of whether or not we can understand how it’s going to control, if anyone can make it feel amazing, it’s Platinum Games.
New trailer were released today by Rockstar Games for GTAV. They provide some backstory on the game’s three protagonists: Michael, Franklin, and Trevor.
Grand Theft Auto V will be released on September 17, 2013.
Fangirls (and boys too) can rejoice. Your favorite bishie Norse God, Loki, is back. Not sure if that kind of audience follow NUReviews, but eh. Oh yeah, Thor’s back, yadda yadda.
From the YouTube Description:
Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself. In the aftermath of Marvel’s Thor and Marvel’s Avengers Assemble,Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos…but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
Starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Tadanobu Asano and Jaimie Alexander with Rene Russo and Anthony Hopkins as Odin, Marvel’s “Thor: The Dark World” is directed by Alan Taylor, produced by Kevin Feige, from a story by Don Payne and screenplay by Christopher Yost and Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and is based on Marvel’s classic Super Hero Thor, who first appeared in the comic book “Journey into Mystery ” #83 in August, 1962.
If you were watching that Nintendo Direct video, then you know already the hum-dinger news that was talked about. If you didn’t get to view it in person, allow us to share with you the highlights:
Start with possibly the Biggest announcement, a brand new Legend of Zelda game for the Nintendo 3DS that takes place in the same world as Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. The new game will be in the classic over head view of hand held Zelda titles, but will still use elements in the game to add a sense of depth and height. While the game takes place in the same world, it is a completely new story and will feature completely new dungeons. Link will also have the ability to “transform into a drawing” and move along walls, which will be key to solving many of the game’s puzzles. Nintendo is aiming for a Holiday 2013 release of this new title. A 3D video should be available in the next hours/day or two to give you a sense of what the game feels like with the 3DS 3D
Continuing along the Legend of Zelda train, classic GBC games Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons will be available on the Nintendo 3DS eShop May 30th. The games will feature their iconic password system to continue the adventure from one game to another.
Shin Megami Tensei 4 will be releasing July 16th, and all release copies of the game will come with a music cd, strategy guide and a collectors slip case
Three of the four Guild02 games will indeed be localized for the Nintendo 3DS eShop, as previously reported. The games are The Starship Damrey, a suspense adventure game that gives the player no tutorial or objectives, Bugs vs Tanks, a game by Keiji Inafune where you control tanks that fight bugs, and Attack of the Friday Monsters by Kaz Ayabe, where the main character lives in a town where the monsters from old school japanese giant monster films come to life every friday
Both Bravely Default: Flying Fairy and Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy will be localized and released sometime in 2014, Professor Layton will see an EU release sometime this year
Animal Crossing New Leaf will release June 9th and will be released along side a special edition 3DSXL with the game pre-installed for $219.99
Wii U Virtual Console will be released next week in North America, and by the end of the year both NA and EU Wii U Virtual Consoles will see the release of Earthbound, or Mother 2 for you hardcore fans
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team will be out July 12th in the EU and August 11th in NA
A new Mario Party will be released for 3DS sometime this winter
the New Super Luigi U DLC for New Super Mario Bros U will be released this summer
Game & Wario will be in stores and on the nintendo eShop June 23rd
A brand new Yoshis Island title will be released on the Nintendo 3DS sometime in the future
Soul Sacrifice, the Monster Hunter like game that’s all about trading body parts and partners for phenomenal powers. comes out at the end of the month for the PlayStation Vita. In case you can’t wait to get the game, or want to try it out without going through the long process of getting the Japanese demo, you can download the Soul Sacrifice demo on April 16th. The demo covers the first part of the game, showing you the intro to the story and the first couple of missions, essentially the same as the Japanese demo. Soul Sacrifice is also Keiji Inafune’s first big title since the forming of his own company, which leads us to ask “Mr. Inafune, what are you trying to tell us with this game? When are you going to revive Megaman in a new, non-copyright infringing manner? And where the fuck is that animal-pirate-romance of the three kingdoms game you showed off at E3 2 years ago!?”
Muramasa, one of those “cult hits” on the Nintendo Wii, is being re-released on the PlayStation Vita under the name Muramasa Rebirth. Not only will the re-release feature better graphics, it will also feature a “super hard mode” where eating or drinking anything means instant death, customizable controls, four downloadable scenarios, as well as a brand new translation which, let’s face it, it needed. badly. While some may find the translation gives the characters too much of an “uppity” feel to them, and there are a number of people who would fight against the dlc, it can go without saying that this will likely be the “quintessential” version of this game. Along with the release date, a special edition version of the game has been announced. With this version you’ll get a Muramasa Rebirth themed skin and cover by HORI, a special carrying pouch, and a lithograph of art by the game designer himself. Aksys hasn’t given a specific price range yet, but Amazon has it listed for $60, which seems like a fair price point for the goodies you’ll get.
