Details have come out for the Collector’s Edition of Assassin’s Creed Revelations. It will be available for PS3, PC and Xbox 360.
The Collector’s Edition will come in a unique box, have a 50 page art book, the game’s original soundtrack and a copy of the animated short film Assassin’s Creed Embers Movie. For in-game content, there will be the prison of Vlad the Impaler with his deadly blade and two multiplayer characters in the Crusader and the Ottoman Jester.
Electronic Arts is bringing the popular Sims franchise to social gaming. While the series has had an MMO incarnation in the past with the Sims Online, Executive Vice President of the EA Play Label at EA Jeff Karp says things will be different this time.
“We learned a lot [from The Sims Online],” says Karp. “It’s like comparing apples to oranges.”
“Players will be able to customize their own Sim and interact with other Sims, which will be associated with people you know in Facebook and won’t just be AI entities. Revenue will come in the form of customization and decorative items.”
“The thing we’re most excited about is bringing something new and unique to Facebook,” says Karp. “With this game, we like to say it s alive and unpredictable.”
Source: Inside Social Games
Batman: Arkham City is getting its own special controllers from Power A. The devices will be displayed at Power A’s E3 booth (West Hall, 5522) for those interested.
The controllers are mostly the same, though the Xbox 360 controller is tethered by a 9.8-foot cable whereas the PS3 controller is wireless. The light up LED’s can have their colors changed by a special button.
Not only is Catwoman a prominent character in Batman: Arkham City but she’s also been revealed to be a trailer. Check out the trailer highlighted by Get Some by Lykke Li.
The Ayzenberg Group have created a CG trailer for Age of Empires Online just in time for E3. It manages to be evocative of 300 while maintaining a cartoony, lighthearted tone.
If you want to see some gameplay of Devil’s Third in action, this behind the scenes trailer will leave you disappointed. However, if you want some eccentric Japanese sketch comedy, check it out!
Along with the launch of InFamous 2 PS3, Sucker Punch and Sony have launched InFamous: Anarchy {link no longer active} a Facebook social game that drops the user into the the post-apocalyptic world of Empire City. The user has a new life and has a chance to clean up the streets, similar to the storyline of the console version of the game. Use powers similar to Cole’s to fight through quests and missions, clean up districts, pummel rivals, and build up your own faction. Rise to the top and answer the question whether you will be the next savior or villain. Areas of the game include the Airfield, Dockyard, French Quarter, Swamps and the Casino. Increase your powers with skill points and wearable items and build up your faction by inviting friends to join and play together. Create and personalize your district, care for your battery farm and get those FarmVille and CityVille players on the run! Make moral choices along the way and battle rivals to show them who’s the boss. Players that level up in InFamous: Anarchy can unlock player skins that can be used in InFamous 2 PS3.
Trion has recently unveiled a new in-game feature called Riftconnect {link no longer active} that allows players to post text, images and video directly to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Tumblr. Using the Rift patcher, players can click the Riftconnect button and log in to their preferred social network to surface and publish media. Each supported social media has its own options such as automatically posting Achievements and Discoveries on Twitter, linking to YouTube videos from other sites and hiding UI in screenshots.
SCE Worldwide studios president Shuhei Yoshida is very enthusiastic about the NGP device and he feels that lessons learned by the company will be reflected in its designs. He notes that mistakes with the PSPgo are particularly informing design of the NGP saying, “I could spend 30 minutes talking about what was wrong with PSPgo”.
“There are lots of lessons we learned from the PSPgo,” said Yoshida. “Definitely we didn’t do something right with [it]. So there are lots of things like the hardware didn’t have the compatibility with the UMD library and not all the PSP games were sold on the PSN store. Hardware wise we made it our highest priority to make it small and portable but that’s not what people really wanted. Because when we made it too small the screen was smaller, the buttons were thinner. It’s kind of difficult, cramped into a smaller body.”
“That’s one of the things we learned when making the decision about large we want the screen for NGP,” he added. “The five inch OLED screen and the size of the body meant we can fit the real analogue sticks.”
Source: CVG
Paramount Digital Entertainment has announced that they will be making a Star Trek Game for PS3, PC and Xbox 360 with developer Digital Extremes. Focusing on the characters of Kirk and Spock, the co-op game will have them looking to stop a race bent on conquering the galaxy.
“Star Trek challenges the boundaries of co-op gameplay with a galactic adventure that gamers and fans have never experienced,” said Tom Lesinski, President of Paramount Digital Entertainment. “Working closely with the Star Trek filmmaking team throughout development, the game is sure to deliver AAA production values, a wide variety of gameplay and all the action you would expect from the hit franchise. This will be the definitive Star Trek gaming experience.”
The game will release in Summer 2012, around the same time that the new J.J. Abrams Star Trek film will release.
