no skyscrapers?

The guy's from AC are pretty set on picking historical periods that are never/barely featured in other games.
I think it's a great idea TBH. I had heard rumors of AC3 taking place in Ancient Egypt or Victorian England but American Revolution sounds interesting as well.

I'm sure they'll find a way to include them.

New Japan Pro Wrestling is no longer owned by yukes. I know that yuke's ownership of NJPW was a major factor in spike not releasing a new King of Colosseum.

Wrestling would have to pick up a bit for it to happen, but NJ and AJ have been getting better numbers as of late. Noah is kind of fucked though.

Was hoping Assassins Creed 3 would take place entirely in the present, and finish out desmond's story.

I wouldn't mind Desmond's story being over, but a whole game? Yick.

On the plus side, it's a game I could easily skip.

The Simpsons Arcade is headlining February's PlayStation Plus bonuses. Sony offers an HD adaptation of the classic 1991 game free, for Plus members, through the end of the month. This is the Simpsons' first official launch confirmation, with previous sightings exclusive to XBLA, including this set of Xbox achievements spotted earlier this month.

Sony is handing out a special Valentine's Day present for Plus members as well, with a free download of the complete Far Cry 2 game, the week of February 14.

The Simpsons Arcade will include four-player online co-op and will be available at no cost to Plus members from February 7-29 -- and yes, that's a whole extra day this year, probably to contain all of our nostalgic Simpsons love.

This is very good news. Now RoXer1 and myself won't have to waste $10 to play it 2-3 times.

Well I assumed that's what they were building to, with Desmond picking up the skills of the assassins each game. Maybe not the hole game, but the majority of it.

Dunno. Of all the Konami beat-em-ups, simpsons was the weakest.

That's the thing, though. Desmond's been set up as primarily a framing device, but they have to do something with the bland bastard eventually.

This is one of the reasons I didn't mind them doing more games with Ezio. I didn't like altair that much, and Altair+Desmond=kinda yawn. One of these days, I may finish the game, but I tended to view it as a series with flaws but a lot of promise. Then 2 came along, and at least the guy you play as for most of the game had a personality and shit. The Desmond/altair bits were far more tolerable because they still weren't the focus.

Desmond as the focus of a game is something I can't see working really well. I know it's borderline inevitable, but he's been little more than a framing device through most of the games. Not sure about the latest. He's bland and boring and....

Actually, he's kinda like that chick from Twilight. A shame Twilight doesn't sandwich an awesome platforming open-world environment with fun, personable characters between the prologue and the last chapter.

I take it you have plus? How useful does it end up being?

I thought you could turn off the auto downloads.

Ah well, just curious. Don't know anyone who uses it.

Capcom announces the release date for Dragon's Dogma with a small twist at the end.

Dragon's Dogma was given a release date of May 22 for North America and May 25th for Europe with the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 getting the game.

Capcom also announced the DLC content for the game will contain additional quests, weapons, and armor to be officially announced at a later date.

As part of the deal to intice purchases, Capcom is bundling the game with the Resident Evil 6 demo with every new copy of the game containing the download token for the demo.

Xbox 360 owners will receive access to the demo about 60 days earlier than PS3 owners. The demo will be live on XBLA on July 3 while PSN users will get the demo on September 4. No news if the PC will get any access to the demo as of right now.

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http://www.screwattack.com/news/drag...e6-demo-and-bz

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Daily Recap:
1) EA announces an Online Pass will be used for the upcoming SSX game with this time just the ability to earn credits from online multiplayer matches being locked out while access to regular online matches will stay unlocked.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...r-multiplayer/

2) A suppossed prototype of an unreleased Resident Evil 1 game for the Gameboy Color could become available on the internet as a ROM should the collector's goal of reaching $2000 in donations be reached.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/unre...-might-leak-pc

3) NetherRealm studios announces they are branching away from only making Mortal Kombat games due to them wanting to branch out to more genres and a lack of interest in continuing the series.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...mortal-kombat/

I really should look up Dragon's Dogma.

After dragon age and skyrim, I am all dragoned out. Not going to pick up another fantasy game for some time.

Fortunately for me, I didn't bother with DA2 and haven't bothered with Skyrim, so I'm still fresh on the dragons thing. Not that this is necessarily the game I'm gonna get, but I've only heard the name a couple of times and, knowing nothing about it, want to find out more about it before I decide.

Just bought the parts to my new pc :D.


- ARIANET Avenger Black Midi Tower Chassis
- 2GB EVGA GTX 560 Ti, 40nm, 4000MHz GDDR5, GPU 822MHz, Shader 1645MHz, 384 Cores, 2x DL DVI-I/ mHDMI
- Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Unlocked Processor
-Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (REV B3) Socket 1155 DDR3 PCI-Express Motherboard (rev. 1.0)
-Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB 3.5" SATA III Internal Hard Drive
-LiteOn Version B 24x Internal SATA DVD RW Drive [IHAS124-19]
-550W Cooler Master GX 80PLUS Bronze Power Supply
-Akasa 6 Port Internal Card Reader [AK-ICR-07]
-16GB Corsair XMS3 (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz 1.5v Quad Channel Kit - CMX16GX3M4A1333C9

A couple of Halo-related news with Halo 4 being rumored to have its official debut later this month and the official end of Bungie's role in the series now has a date.

According to a Finnish magazine, Halo 4 is rumored to have its official debut later this month and specifically during Microsoft's Xbox Spring Showcase which will occur on February 29.

While neither 343 Studios, developers of Halo 4, nor Microsoft have made no official statements about the game since e3 2011, Microsoft is trying to gain rights to the bogus Halo 4 beta website. If a beta does occur this year, it could follow the steps of Halo 3 by either arriving this May or signal Halo 4's release date of 2012 (Halo 3's beta occurred 4 months before Halo 3's release date).

Bungie announced the final handover date for the Halo series will occur on March 31 with Halo stats, user generated content, Bungie Pro memberships, and Halo Waypoint moving to Microsoft's and 343's servers. After that date only historical related data will be kept on Bungie's own website servers.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...lace-in-march/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...al-this-month/

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Daily Recap:
1) Nintendo updates their Club Nintendo game awards for Februrary with Mario Party 2 (Wii VC) and Art Academy: First semester (3DS eshop) as the choices for this month.
https://club.nintendo.com/

2) EA confirms their forums were hacked over the weekend with the company stating no personal information was compromised as the hacker only changed the apperance of the forums and the intrusion was caught very early into the attack.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/ea-fo...r-the-weekend/

3) As stated earlier by G, The Simpsons Arcade game is arriving for free to Playstation Plus members while Xbox 360 uers get the game in February 3 and regular PSN users get it on Feburary 10. The game has a price of $9.99 on PSN and 800 MS points on XBLA.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/the-si...gly-soon/3954/

4) Warner Bros announces Gotham City Imposters will have a release date of Feburary 7 for the PS3 and PC in North America while the rest of the world and the Xbox 360 version arrives a day later on February 8.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ate-confirmed/

I had nowhere else to post this.

Surely someone on here will know what this means this too. lol.

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It means you're posting a shitty meme with no context in our news thread.

A couple of EA related news with the first being Syndicate will not have an Online Pass and a few details were revealed from the company's earnings confrence for the third quarter.

Synidcate will not be given an online pass due to the game being designed around cooperative play for both gameplay and online structure which has made EA unwilling to harm potential sales or reception by using the pass. EA also explained they only own publishing rights to the game and left the decision up to Starbreeze who decided against it. No actual funding was given by EA during the actual development of the game.

The majority of details given by EA during its phone conference mainly dealt with The Old Republic MMO game such as 300,000 users have dropped out of the game from a base of 2 million users. Their mobile division was able to become a $100 million per year revenue provider, the social games division will be ramped up and include 5 new games this year, and they are expecting at least $100 million in revenue to be generated from this year's FIFA Ultimate Team program.


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http://www.joystickdivision.com/2012...on_syndica.php
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/tidbit...ngs-call/3958/

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Daily Recap:
1) According to Sony's financial report for the third quarter (Sept-Nov), the company lost $2.9 billion with the Consumer Products and Services division (contains the Playstation division) accounting for about $1.5 billion in losses.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-billion-loss/

2) Ubisoft reveals some new details for the Rayman 3 HD remake with remastered audio, 15-20 hours of gameplay, and 9 mini-games confirmed to go with a digital release of March 21 for PSN and XBLA.
http://kotaku.com/5881427/ubisoft-tr...c-in-hd-remake

3) Based on a ratings leak by ESRB, Game Gear games will be arriving in the near future for the Nintendo 3DS eshop Virtual Console. Shinobi and Sonic Triple Trouble could be the intial games released based on the leak.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...rated-for-3ds/

Is there any other kind?

Origin now has 9.3 million users. .3 are actually voluntary users.

300k already dropped out of Old Republic. I'm surprised.

Damn. Where'd that number come from?

That few?

Source.

I'm really hoping they do make a new Populous and I'm hoping it's like a mix of Populous: The Beginning and From Dust. Obviously, people are joking that it'll be like Syndicate and XCOM and be turned into an FPS.

Ubisoft will be transitioning and upgrading its servers on February 7 which will end up having a bad side effect of making a few of their DRM-enabled games become unplayable until the company creates a patch.

Also confirmed is all online multiplayer games regardless of their DRM status will also be unplayable due to the complete switch although the majority will only be down for at least a day.

The issue appears to affect mostly recent PC/Mac games they have released but no news was given if it affects older titles or if those were fixed in preparation for the switch.

The biggest issue comes with Ubisoft not promising when the patches or fixes to update the DRM games will arrive. As well as the amount of time it will take to update all the servers due to Ubisoft themselves unsure of how long it will take.

The list of recent games confirmed to be unplayable:
The list of games confirmed to be playable:
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Daily Recap:
1) Microsoft adds XBLA game Bastion as this week's "Deal of the Day" with the deal lasting from today till Feburary 6th at the 600 MS points price (50% off).
http://www.screwattack.com/news/deal...e-until-monday

2) Valve teases a secret project is currently in development for Team Fortress 2 while hinting it won't involve hats nor maps for content.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ess-2-project/

3) Eat Sleep Play's Twisted Metal reboot game will be delayed in Europe till at least March now after Sony's European branch requested edits and censorship to be made to the game's cutscenes.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/twis...sorship-europe

4) The sequel to the mobile version of Snake was revealed as a free PC game download created as part of this year's Global Games Jam expo. The game itself is a side-scrolling shoot-em-up (shmup), involves a snake with a hand for a butt, and the main boss being the "Butt King" (a butt with a crown on top).
http://www.screwattack.com/news/sequ...-king-ass-hand

Anybody get the Simpsons Arcade game yet?

The trial. Probably all I need.

Yeah, I've only got the trial. I'm in no rush to buy the full game. Got MGS HDC yesterday and I have SFxT next month which will last me most of the year, I'm sure.

Speaking of MGS HDC, I have an MGS3 question and it's not worth making a thread for. I had MGS3 for the PS2 when it first released but never got far enough to know one way or another.
I remember reading in a magazine that, as you play the game, Snakes beard grows and that you could shave it. Is that true?

It's a miniscule detail but I was curious.

Don't remember the beard thing.

The launch trailer for MGS HDC showed Snake in the jungle with a beard more grown in than the one he starts with. That's what reminded me of that supposed feature in the first place.

Unless it's Peace Walker. I've never played that game, so playing it later today in the collection will be a first.

I read the MGS 3 beard thing from the same magazine that said that THQ were going to make sharing CAWs in HCTP easy by turning your finished CAW into a numerical password that you could write down and give to someone else, they'd put the code into their game and get your CAW.

Even though that never happened, I always thought it sounded like a good idea.

Surely this just means nothing more than the game supporting an output resolution of 1280x720, which puts no demand on anybody. Nintendo will expect games are standardised to the resolution of the WiiU screen, which is exactly the same thing.

Are you, stupid? Puts no demand on anybody? How about it puts a lot of demand on the console to be able to pump out graphics in HD? There's a reason the PS3 and the 360 are system spec juggernauts compared to the Wii: it's not in HD, so it doesn't need that kind of power to support shovelware graphics. And now that fine detail is considerably easier to see in HD, the guys handling the graphical side of the games have to put a lot more of that fine detail into crafting the models so they don't look like shit on a 50 inch flat panel screen pumping out visuals in 1080p. That is both time consuming and expensive. Do you think a world as expansive and graphically detailed as Red Dead Redemption took the same amount of effort, time and money to make as pretty much anything on the Wii? If you have a Wii, go grab a component cable for it, plug it into a 46"1080p LCD tv and see how "amazing" it looks. It looks a little shit. There's only so much a component cable can do to smooth out the jaggies and textures; Wii games just look bad on HD tvs.

Its more of Microsoft won't accept a game published on their console unless its in HD (720) and even indie titles have to abide by the rules. Nintendo hinted they won't make the same restriction because if a developer wants to use the extra power for processing or adding in a ton of enemies at lower details, then they can. It was mostly done to get a lot more indie and smaller companies games for the Wii U network.

Sort of similar to Nintendo saying with the 3DS, a developer can make games not use 3D to get the extra power for graphics. Initially they are asking for all retail games to use 3D as a selling point for the system since its barely a year old, after that then they don't care if a developer makes a 3DS without any 3D effect. DS was the same with all launch games using the touchpad and then eventually branched off to having games barely using the pad for gaameplay.

Troll.

Now wait a second. This makes me a hypocrite, not a troll. And I resent the insinuation. http://www.tpwwforums.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

Sorry, but you called me a troll for mocking stupid people saying ridiculous things. I guess it's only trolling when you agree with the people being stupid. My bad.