* Game Colloseum *

eMag Ce ai face cu 100.000 de Euro.

2011-10-05T01:45:00.000-07:00

Ro: Am zis sa arunc si eu un video.. nu ma costa nimic sa fac si eu unul..
Ideea ar fi.. cum ca video'ul care strange cele mai multe vizualizari timp de o luna castiga un Laptop.. acu eu nu cred ca am vreo sansa... Sanse au cei care au N'shpe.. mi de prieteni pe o retea de socializare (ex: facebook).. dar cine stie.. vedem !! :)

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TERA

2011-10-01T17:03:00.000-07:00

Release date ~TBA 2011~

The Exiled Realm of Arborea (also known as TERA Online) is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) by Bluehole Studio. It was released in South Korea on January 25, 2011. The date for release of North America and Europe is Spring of 2012, beta testing starts early 2012. Possible localizations for other regions have been mentioned, but have not yet been confirmed besides Japan.

~Races~

The 'Amani' - a race of draconian humanoids.

The 'Baraka' - a giant, intelligent race.

The Castanics - a demon-like race.

The Elins - an innocent nature loving race.

The High Elves

The Humans.

The animal-like Popori.

There are male and female counterparts for each of the races except for the Baraka, which are genderless.

~Classes~

The ARCHER who is a “Range Damage Class” uses a bow and wears light armor. This class is known to have the tool for every job with its evasive abilities, traps, minor melee attacks, and arrows that poison, explode, pierce armor, rapid fire, and area of effect enemies.

The SORCERER who is a “Range Magic Damage Class” uses an arcane disc to channel his magic and wears cloth armor. Known as “Warriors of Intellect” they do massive damage using fire, ice, arcane, and debuffs as long as they can keep their enemies away. They have several moves to help them evade and trap enemies.

The SLAYER who is a “Melee Damage Class” uses a 2-handed sword and wears light armor. This ultimate solo class has high damage attacks while also being quick and agile enough to never be hit. They are also known for their round house sword attack and ability to flip over and around enemies.

The BERSERKER who is a “Melee Damage Class” uses a massive 2-handed axe and wears heavy armor. Also known as “Damage Juggernauts” this class is the heaviest hitter in the game and knocks around foes like dolls. They have the ability to block with their axe and make good back up tanks since they can take heavy damage. The only downside to this class is they are very slow moving.

The LANCER who is a “Blocking Tank” uses a shield and lance and wears heavy armor. This class is most impressive because of its ability to use his shield to completely guard himself and allies behind him. But do not doubt his damage because lancers use both their lance and shield to do massive damage with shield bashes and lance thrusts.

The WARRIOR who is a “Evasive Tank” uses twin swords and wears light armor. Acting almost like a common rogue or assassin this class has the best dodging and evading abilities in the game. His quick attacks enable him to keep agro while dealing constant, higher than LANCER, damage.

The MYSTIC who is a “Support Healer Class” uses a scepter and wears cloth armor. More support than heals, the mystic acts as a party buffer. His abilities to summon minions and use crowd control make him useful. The newest and most interesting part about this class though is that he drops health and energy orbs on the ground that his teammates must pick up; this is how mystics heal.

The PRIEST who is a “Healer Support Class” uses a staff and wears cloth armor. This ultimate healer has the most extensive skill tree in the game that makes him able to buff and heal party members while still dealing damage and being able to solo. He has target and area of effect heals, stat boosts, barriers, and a few evasive moves to protect him.

Red Orchestra 2

2011-09-23T00:14:00.000-07:00

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad is a WWII themed first-person shooter video game developed and published by Tripwire Interactive. It is a sequel to Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. The title focuses heavily on the Battle of Stalingrad. The game was released on 13 September 2011. The developers have stated that the game is a PC exclusive and have no plans to bring it to the consoles. The game contains many new features including a new first person cover system combined with blind firing, first person collision detection as well as an entire new system of statistics tracking and enabling player development.

Red Orchestra 2 is a realistic first-person shooter. Guns behave realistically, with bullet drop and spin taken into account. The game also takes away with elements of a traditional HUD like an ammo counter, forcing players to remember, or manually check, the approximate amount of rounds are left in the gun's magazine. When reloading a weapon, the character will check the weight of the new magazine and determine if it's heavy (full or close to full) or light (empty or close to empty). The game's first person cover system allows players to hide behind all objects in the world to avoid gunfire. While in cover players can peek out to take more accurate shots or fire blindly. However the shape, size and composition of the object will change its effectiveness at protecting the player. Smaller objects may not cover the player's entire body and some may not stop bullets. Health does not regenerate over time or by use of medical equipment, but non fatal wounds must still be bandaged so no more health is lost through blood loss.

There are Tanks in Red Orchestra 2, with more vehicles added in after the game's launch. The interiors of each tank are fully recreated with either human or AI controlled characters manning each station. The level of detail was described by Tripwire's president John Gibson as rival or exceeding tank simulation games. Because of the extensive work required to recreate each vehicle, which Tripwire estimates to take three months each, the game will launch with two tanks. The German Panzer IV and Soviet T-34. Two more tanks and two troop carriers are in production and will be added to the game for free shortly after launch.

R@GE

2011-09-19T23:06:00.000-07:00

RAGE OCTOBRER 4th, 2011

The user plays as a survivor of the 2029 Apophis meteorite impact who has just awoken from an Ark (a world-wide movement which took scientists and other significant people, and froze them underground in cryo-pods so they could rebuild Earth). Soon, the player comes to realize that his Ark has malfunctioned and that he is the only survivor. Apparently this environment is perfectly suited to the rough-and-tumble dune buggy racing seen in games like MotorStorm, as that sort of gameplay will be an important feature of Rage. Players will have the ability to augment their cars with various items and upgrades they can gain by completing races, but the game is not specifically a racing title, trailers have shown a mix of mainly first person shooter elements as well as driving elements. (Racing is optional in Rage.)

Rage will also feature some role-playing game (RPG) elements—an inventory system and the capabilities of weapons will be based around types of ammo. Players will also have the option to customize their weapons. There will also be side missions. More on the RPG elements have not been detailed. At E3, Tim Willits stated that at the game's core is a first person shooter with car-combat added in and without the racing being the sole and central focal point. The world will be populated by the human survivors of the impact who were preserved from the asteroid by being buried in the Arks. The world will also be populated by mutants, who will serve as the player's main enemies at least for the first half of the game, as id is currently talking of a major change taking place at the midway point of the game.

In Rage's story, the asteroid strikes on August 23, 2029, and the few pockets of survivors are forced to begin a new civilization.

The world is populated by human survivors of the impact, who have come together to form settlements around oases and other practical or habitable locations, including racetracks. These fragile homes are diligently defended by the inhabitants against bandits and mutants, which are divided into various gangs and organizations of their own. Bandits and mutants serve as the player's main enemies for much of the game, and later races, although id Software has hinted at some sort of significant change around the halfway point in the storyline, where races become relevant.

The player emerges into this setting after being preserved inside an underground shelter called an Ark. The Arks are the direct result of the Eden Project, a massive international undertaking in which hundreds of Arks (cryogenic pods) were sealed under the surface of the Earth with twelve people inside each. Each passenger possessed a special ability or trait that, combined with those of the other members, would help them rebuild society. The Eden Project, however, was far less successful than hoped. The player's Ark in particular is in sorry shape upon the start of the game - all of the other residents of the player's Ark are dead (presumably because of the impact), and the equipment of the Ark is destroyed as well, and so the player wakes up alone and uninformed. With no memory of his identity or objective, the player is forced to head for the surface to find sustenance and allies.

World of Warcraft 4.0.6 Private Server

2011-09-18T23:45:00.001-07:00

www.rowow.com
It's a.. somehow.. new project.. A private Cataclysm High Rate Blizzlike Realm... Not to many people online right now.. but still a good server. The staff is working on a 4.2.0 Patch.

Anyway... not sure in which direction the server is going.. but.. i used to play there (I still do, from time to time) and.. i had fun.. I hope (if you will choose to play as well) you will enjoy it to.

Here is a little Video I made.. a couple of week ago. YouTube Link
Leave a comment if you liked it.. or not :)

Sorry !! Again !! :))

2011-09-18T23:36:00.000-07:00

I was a little disappointed when my AdSense account was disabled and since then I stopped "working" on this blog.. Anyway.... I'm back now.

PS. I'm doing this for fun. There are Websites out there 10x times better.. 50x better.. than my little blog.. don't need to remind me that.. i know.

AMD HD 6990

2011-03-08T14:24:00.000-08:00

Introducing the AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 Series Graphics Processors

Perfection is not an accident. We've engineered the
AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 to crush benchmarks, break records, and laugh at the latest games—even with a fistful of monitors. In fact, building the fastest graphics card in the world goes a little something like this:

Featuring 4GB of high-speed GDDR5 memory, the
AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 is the definitive solution for ultra-high resolution gaming across up to six simultaneous displays.¹
The second generation of DirectX® 11-capable hardware is here. This is its masterpiece. Give the latest games the power they deserve with the AMD Radeon™ HD 6990.
Higher clocks. Faster gaming. Devastatingly intelligent power management. That's
AMD PowerTune technology on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6990.²
Shift your AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 into overdrive with the Unlocking Switch. This ain't your daddy's turbo button.³
Designed for 450W of DirectX® 11 potential. From cooling to capacitors, the
AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 is precision engineered for an unprecedented performance envelope.
Did we mention dual GPUs? Yeah, dual second-gen DirectX® 11 GPUs.

Yeah, we thought you'd like that. Ready to bring the rain? Buy an AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 today.

AMD Renews Commitment to Gamers on the First Anniversary of "Gaming Evolved" Program

Gaming Evolved has helped AMD expand its AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology to 70 games, introduce the industry's only open standards-based stereo 3D solution and drive a record-setting transition to Microsoft DirectX® 11.

Brink (May 17, 2011)

2011-03-06T23:22:00.000-08:00

Brink is an upcoming first-person shooter video game developed by Splash Damage and inspired by the Seasteading movement, scheduled for release May 17, 2011 in the US and May 20 in Europe. It offers team-based multiplayer missions with authored narratives, persistent player characters and an approachable nature. It is also developer Splash Damage's first original title, as past titles were part of franchises.

In Brink, two sides, "Resistance" and "Security", fight in the previously utopian city known as The Ark, a floating city surrounded by the waters of a flooded Earth. The Ark was designed as a prototype of a perfect city, with renewable resources and no pollution, large enough to support 5,000 residents. However, due to many refugees entering the city from other parts of the world, its population has grown to 50,000, meaning there are not enough resources to go around - resulting in the city being on the brink (hence the name of the game) of a civil war.

Brink will feature Steamworks integration, including Valve Anti-Cheat. Its technology is id Tech 4 with a new rendering framework and improved support for multiple CPU cores.

Brink is a first-person shooter with a focus on fluid, parkour style movement similar to that seen in games such as Assassin's Creed and Mirror's Edge and co-operative play. Online play is also a main focus of the game, allowing up to eight players to play online. The game features both cooperative and team-based competitive options as well as the ability to play against Computer game bot.

For this movement Splash Damage have developed the SMART (Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain) System. It allows players to manoeuvre around complex environments without equally complex input by analysing their position and judging what they are trying to do.

Players can customise characters which are based on several and additional items can be bought with experience points earned by completing objectives. Unlike some similar games (the Call of Duty series for example) the same experience points can be earned in both single player and multi-player.

The player can choose to play one of four character classes, the soldier, the medic, the engineer and the operative. The Soldier class can resupply teammates and use high explosives to destroy key targets. The Engineer class enhances their teammates' weapons and can place stationary turrets. The Medic class is able to heal downed teammates and increase their teammates' health. The Operative class can perform acts of sabotage, interrogate downed opponents to provide intel on enemy locations and disguise themselves and operate as one of the enemy.

While in gameplay, both multiplayer and campaign, the player can bring up a "wheel" of sorts providing various objectives to fulfil. Each of these objectives give a specific amount of experience.

The Squad Commander system provides players with context-sensitive missions. The player's specific position on the map, his relative skill, current progress in the overall mission, and a wide variety of factors influence the available missions.

Fable III (PC Version + May 17-20, 2011 +)

2011-03-03T14:49:00.000-08:00

Fable III is the third video game in the Fable series of action role-playing games (RPG) developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It focuses on the player's struggle to overthrow the King of Albion by forming alliances and building support for a revolution. After a successful revolt, the player becomes the King/Queen and can then lead Albion in whichever direction he/she pleases. It was released for Xbox 360 in October 2010, with a PC version arriving in May 2011 as part of Microsoft's renewed commitment to PC gaming.

Fable III is set 50 years after the events of Fable II on the continent of Albion where the Fable series is set. The old monarch, the hero of Fable II, has died and left the Kingdom of Albion to Logan, the player's older brother. Some characters allude to how Logan has "changed" in the last four years, and is excessively tyrannical now. After a traumatic event that Logan forces upon the player, they escape Logan's castle along with their mentor, Sir Walter Beck and their servant, Jasper (voiced by John Cleese). The player then starts to gather allies to aid in a revolution against Logan. The allies they gain include the "Dwellers," a nomadic community that lives in the mountains; Major Swift and Ben Finn from the Royal Army in command of a remote fort; Page, the leader of the "Bowerstone Resistance"; and Kalin, the leader of Aurora, a desert land across the ocean. When attempting to gain the support of Kalin, the hero learns that a creature called the "Crawler, ruler of the Darkness," the forces of the Darkness which have already devastated Aurora, intends to exterminate all life in the Kingdom of Albion. It is revealed that Logan's reason for treating his people so harshly is to raise money for an army to defend against the Crawler.

The player then leads a revolution and becomes the King/Queen, at which point the player is given the choice to keep the promises made to those who aided in the revolution at great expense to the treasury, or betray those promises in order to raise money for the defense of Albion through industrialization and using natural resources. The player can also utilize the treasury money for personal purposes, or use personal money in the treasury. The player can use the kingdoms money to invest in property or waste. If the player chooses to be a "good" ruler, the treasury will be vastly drained and the only way the player can offset this is by transferring several million gold from their personal funds to the treasury. With 6,500,000 gold in the treasury at the time of the Crawler attack, the player will be able to fully fund an army that can successfully defend the entire kingdom. With no money in the treasury and thus no army to defend Albion, the civilian casualties inflicted by the Crawler's attack amount to 6,500,000. If this happens, the world will be largely absent of civilians upon completion of the main quest. If the player passes lots of time by sleeping, civilians will start to return, but they will react hostilely to the monarch's presence, regardless of whether they previously acted as a benevolent or evil ruler.

SOCOM 4 (April 19, 2011)

2011-02-25T14:54:00.000-08:00

SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs (also known as SOCOM: Special Forces in PAL regions), is a 2011 third-person tactical shooter video game developed by Zipper Interactive and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation 3. SOCOM 4 is the first SOCOM title released by Zipper for PlayStation 3. Zipper's goal is to attempt to make a diverse game that can appeal to both the mass audience and the hardcore audience that they have gained throughout the past with older Socom titles by having a Respawn Mode and a Classic(traditional) Mode.

SOCOM 4 is set in Asia. The player controls Cullen Gray, unofficially called the "Ops Commander," the leader of a 5-man NATO special forces squad deployed near the Strait of Malacca. He is accompanied by two Americans named Schweitzer and Wells, as well as two South Korean operatives, Chung and Forty-Five. The latter is reported to be "vital to the story." The plot stretches over a six-day period in two main acts. The special forces squad is said to face an indigenous revolutionary group known as the Naga. Zipper reports the story to be "beyond the typical bounds of military shooters."

SOCOM 4 is a squad-based tactical shooter. Players are able to give various commands to team members such as setting waypoints, issuing squad commands, setting behaviors and commanding the squad to take out multiple targets on the way to their objective. In addition, as the player is the Ops Commander, he will be able to use Command Mode which allows him to see points of tactical interest that cannot be seen in regular mode. In Command Mode, the action will slow down slightly and the screen will become grayish as the player decides his choices though combat will still continue.

At times, the action will be a full-on firefight while other times require the player to infiltrate locations silently and undetected by enemy forces. Players will be receiving intel on the battlefield and will also be able to call in air strikes and strafing runs on enemy targets in the battlefield. The SOCOM 4 single-player campaign is built around 14 missions.

Apart from the single-player mode, the game will also feature an online mode which supports up to 32 players and has been described as "an all new experience" by lead designer Travis Steiner. It was also announced that there will be no in-game lobby's or pistols. The game also features a cover system which differs from previous games.

On March 10, 2010, at the Sony GDC press conference it was revealed that SOCOM 4 will be playable with the PlayStation Move controller.

SOCOM 4 was officially announced on the U.S. PlayStation Blog on March 4, 2010 by Jeremy Dunham, Sr. Community Manager of Zipper Interactive. With the release of the SOCOM series website, it was announced that the game is scheduled to be released fall 2010.

GameTrailers TV and Spike TV revealed SOCOM 4's debut trailer on March 5, 2010 during its air after 12:30 a.m. EST.

On Jun 14, 2010 at the E3 2010 convention, it revealed a new single player level that takes place in a destroyed city. It was shown with players who attended E3 playing with the Sony PlayStation Move and the DualShock 3 controllers.

SOCOM 4 was also shown at San Diego Comic-Con 2010 and the Eurogamer Expo in London, it featured the same single player level as in the E3 2010 Demo with only a few gameplay tweaks.

On January 19, 2011, the PlayStation Blog announced that North American buyers of specially marked copies of Killzone 3 will include access to the multiplayer beta (and also US PS Plus users). While in Europe only PlayStation Plus members will have access to the beta.

The music for SOCOM 4 is being composed by Bear McCreary.

On January 28, According to the PlayStation Blog, it has been confirmed that SOCOM 4 will come out in North America on April 19th. No word yet on if the European release date will be different.

WWE All Stars

2011-02-25T00:25:00.000-08:00

WWE All Stars is an upcoming professional wrestling video game published by THQ and developed by THQ San Diego for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, and Xbox 360 systems. The game features current and former WWE wrestlers competing in fast-paced wrestling matches. In contrast to the more simulation based WWE SmackDown vs. Raw series, WWE All Stars features arcade-style gameplay along with over-the-top animation and wrestlers bearing a more exaggerated look. The game is expected to be a combination of a fighting game and a wrestling game, with combos playing a major factor in gameplay, both on the ground and mid-air. Some gameplay videos show the wrestlers doing exaggerated moves, such as John Cena's Attitude Adjustment, in which he dives high into the air. The game will feature present and past WWE wrestlers, as well as commentary from Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler.

The first official announcement for both WWE All Stars and WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 was made at E3 in June 2010 by THQ, shortly followed by an interview with gaming website GameSpot.

WWE All Stars is the first WWE game to be produced by the THQ San Diego team. Many of the team's employees had worked Midway San Diego, the studio that developed the first TNA Impact! professional wrestling video game. It is the second WWE game Sal Divita has produced, the first being WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game.

Ancient Secrets Mystery of the Vanishing Bride

2011-02-23T19:06:00.001-08:00

HoG

Follow Kate on this grand adventure that leads her to an unexpected discovery. Search the island paradise for indispensable objects and learn the tragedy of the Vanished Bride from its keepers. Use tools to find your way through, solve challenging puzzles, and harness the power of Tekkan relics. With a captivating storyline, more than 15 engaging in-scene mini-games, and a startling twist at the end, this new journey is certain to entertain.

System Requirements:

OS: Windows XP / Vista / 7
CPU: 1.2 GHz
RAM: 512 MB
DirectX: 9.0
Hard Drive: 316 MB

Warriors: Legends of Troy (March 2011)

2011-02-23T18:49:00.000-08:00

Warriors: Legends of Troy, released in Japan as Troy Musou, is an upcoming video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 games consoles. The game is being developed by Koei Canada and is due to be published by Koei. The title will be part of the Dynasty Warriors series but will differ from previous installments in the series as it will contain a large amount of graphic violence and will be the first game in the series to receive an M rating by the ESRB. The game had a scheduled release date of Q4 2010 in all regions but was pushed back to Q1 2011 after Koei's announcement during Tokyo Game Show 2010.

The game will support online co-op and competitive play for up to four people. The game will feature a much larger amount of blood and gore than previous Dynasty Warriors games. The player will control characters from a third person perspective and will be required to face large amounts of enemies. The player will be able to use their shield as a weapon and will also use throwing weapons such as javelins and boulders, and will be able to pick up other soldiers and use them as weapons. Each character the player controls will have their own personality and fighting style.

There will be eight different heroes over the course of the two separate storylines. Each side, both Greek and Trojan, will have four major characters. The playable characters for the Greeks include Achilles, Ajax, Odysseus and Patroclus. For the Trojans Aeneas, Hector, Paris and Penthesilea will be playable. Many other unique characters have been shown, but their playability is unknown, such as Agamemnon, Diomedes, Helen, Menelaus, Neoptolemus, Philoctetes and Priam.

The game will be set during the ten year Trojan War and will feature supernatural elements, such as appearances from the Greek gods. The game will be based around literature such as the Iliad. Each level will begin with a traveling bard telling the story of the war to an audience around a campfire and will include story-driven cutscenes showing the events of the entire war. The games developers went on research expeditions to archaeological sites Turkey and Greece. Locations in the game will look like actual landscapes where Troy was believed to be. Players can play as Greeks and Trojans and see the war from their different perspectives.

Gods Eater Burst (PSP)

2011-02-23T18:43:00.000-08:00

Gods Eater Burst is a 2010 action-adventure video game exclusively for the PlayStation Portable developed and published by Namco Bandai Games in Japan and published by D3Publisher, a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Games, in North America. The game was originally released in Japan as God Eater on February 4, 2010 but was later improved and re-released as God Eater Burst on October 28, 2010. Gods Eater Burst will be released in North America on March 15, 2011. The opening and ending theme songs for the game are "Over the Clouds" and "My Life", both of which are sung by Alan.

The game's gameplay has been said to be very similar gameplay of Capcom's Monster Hunter series of video games, however unlike the Monster Hunter series the game possesses a large storyline which can be experienced fully with names and voice actors in single-player mode. Players play as a young warrior who has decided to go up against powerful creatures called "Aragami"; warriors who face these beasts are called "God Eaters". The game boasts a mission-based single-player mode consisting of more than 100 missions inclusive of co-operative play with up to three teammates over local adhoc wireless multiplayer or AI-controlled teammates. The North American version of the game will also support the PlayStation 3's adhoc Party. The game also features character creation allowing customization of hair style, hair color, face, skin, clothing, voice as well as weapons using special materials. Equipment is divided into three groups: Blade, Gun, and Shield. Weapons can be switched between melee, ranged and shield mid-mission.

The story revolves around the 6 main members of a anti-monster organization called Fenrir. The player will lead the veteran members named Rindou, Soma, Sakuya, Kouta, and Elisa. While assignments will come from Tsubaki, an instructor.

The game was first announced on July 9, 2009 by Namco Bandai Games. Shortly after the game's Japanese release a North American release was announced by a subsidiary of Namco Bandai, D3 Publisher, for a Q3 2010 release. However, D3 has now decided to localize God Eater Burst instead at the beginning of 2011. On January 12, 2011 it was revealed that the North American title would be changed to Gods Eater Burst making the word God plural.

Pokemon Black & White (NDS)

2011-02-23T18:34:00.000-08:00

Pokémon Black Version and White Version are role-playing games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. They are the first installments in the fifth generation of the Pokémon series of role-playing games. Black and White were first released in Japan on September 18, 2010, and will be released in Europe, North America and Australia in March 2011. Prior to the games' release, Black and White were the fastest DS games to reach one million consumer pre-orders in Japan. As of January 9, 2011, the games have become the fastest DS titles to sell five million copies.

Pokémon Black and White feature gameplay similar to previous installments of the series, while introducing a number of changes to the core gameplay. The player follows the journey of a Pokémon trainer through the region of Unova, as they train Pokémon used to compete against other trainers. The ultimate goal is to become the Champion of the region, by defeating a group of top trainers known as the Elite Four. Black and White introduce 156 brand new Pokémon to the franchise, bringing the total number of Pokémon to 649. The Pokédex, an in-game index of all Pokémon species, can be completed by obtaining all 649 Pokémon. Both titles are independent of each other, but feature largely the same plot. While both Black and White can be played separately, trading Pokémon between both of the games is required in order to complete the Pokédex.

Pokémon Black and White are role-playing video games with adventure elements, presented in a third-person, overhead perspective. There are three basic screens: an overworld, in which the player navigates the main character; a battle screen; and the menu, in which the player configures their party, items, or gameplay settings. The player begins the game with a single Pokémon, and is able to capture more using Poké Balls.

When the player encounters a wild Pokémon or is challenged by a trainer to a battle, the screen switches to a turn-based battle screen where the Pokémon fight. During battle, the player may fight, use an item, switch the active Pokémon, or flee (however the player is not permitted to flee a battle against another trainer). All Pokémon have hit points (HP); when a Pokémon's HP is reduced to zero, it faints and cannot battle until it is revived. If an opposing Pokémon faints, then all of the player's Pokémon who participated in defeating it receive experience points. After accumulating enough experience points, it may level up. A Pokémon's level affects its battle statistics, and some Pokémon will evolve upon reaching a certain level threshold.

New features

The graphics were further improved from previous games, and includes more cutscenes. When talking to people, the dialog box has been changed to speech balloons, which appear over other characters' heads, allowing more than one character to speak at once. In addition to this aesthetic change, Japanese players will be given an option to switch to having kanji appear on screen, rather than just hiragana and katakana. During battles, the sprites of the Pokémon are fully animated and the camera changes position to highlight specific parts of the battle.

In addition to the day and night cycle first introduced in the Gold and Silver games, Black and White have introduced a seasonal cycle, with the seasons cycling every four months rather than being linked to the actual calendar. Outside areas will appear different depending on the season, such as changing of leaves in autumn or snow on the ground in winter. Certain areas will only be accessible during certain seasons, and different Pokémon can be found in the wild in winter when others were encountered in the other seasons. In addition to these features, the Pokémon Deerling and Sawsbuck have been designed to change their physical appearance along with the seasons of the game.

There are two new battle mechanics in Black and White: Triple Battles and Rotation Battles. In Triple Battles, both teams must send out three Pokémon at once. Which of the Pokémon can be targeted by any specific attack is dependent on the position of the Pokémon in the line up; Pokémon on the left or right sides can only target the Pokémon directly opposite of them and the two Pokémon in the center position on both sides, while Pokémon in the center can target all Pokémon in the field. Positions can be changed, but this uses up the player's turn. In Rotation Battles, both sides send out three Pokémon at once, again, but instead of a three-on-three match as seen in Triple Battles, it is a one-on-one match where the Pokémon in the front can be switched with either of the two other Pokémon sent out without using up a turn. Depending on the game version, one of these two new battle types will be found in greater quantity than the other; Black has more Rotation Battles than Triple Battles, and vice versa in White. Another related feature are the Combination Moves; the starter Pokémon from any game can be taught one of the three moves that can be used in combination with each other to produce more powerful attacks. Another battle mechanic is found in the wild, where differently colored and styled tall grass will enable Double Battles against wild Pokémon.

Unique to Black and White is the Pokémon Dream World, a game mechanic that is dependent on the official Pokémon Global Link website where the player can befriend Pokémon not normally obtainable in gameplay with unique Pokémon Abilities, which are later captured in an area known as the Entralink after syncing the game back with the Dream World, in a mechanic similar to the Pokéwalker used in HeartGold and SoulSilver. The player can also maintain a house in the Dream World that other players can visit as well as grow Pokémon Berries.

The C-Gear is a new mechanic that replaces the Pokétch on the Nintendo DS's second screen. It allows the player to control the various wireless capabilities of Black and White. These include connecting to other players through infrared communication (battling, trading, friend codes, and the "Feeling Check" function), wireless communications with friends in the Xtranciever video chat or access to the High Link to transfer content from the Pokémon Dream World, connecting to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to sync with the Pokémon Global Link servers, and the new Pass By mode which allows the game to communicate with other games through IR when not being played.

The Feeling Check function tests the compatibility between two players, awarding them with one of two items depending on the level of compatibility. In addition to allowing players access to Pokémon acquired in the Dream World, the High Link also enables players to interact with each other and perform side games which award points that can be traded for "powers" that improve normal gameplay, such as increasing experience, capture rate or lowering prices of items in Poké Marts. The Pass By feature is another side game in which the player answers various survey questions, and depending on how many other games are interacted with, the players receive an item. Another new feature is Random Match, where the player can battle a random other player. When playing against other players online or in IR battles, a new mechanic called the Wonder Launcher allows for items to be used in battle to heal or improve the status of the players' Pokémon.

To transfer Pokémon between the older games and the new games, two features have been placed in Black and White. For normal transfer, the Poké Transfer feature is available after completion of the main storyline. Unlike the Pal Park feature that was in the Generation IV games, the Poké Transfer is a mini-game in which after six Pokémon are transferred, the player uses the touch screen to launch Poké Balls at the transferred Pokémon which are moving about on the top screen to catch them within a time limit. Another feature called the Transfer Machine is used to transfer the Pokémon given away in promotions for the Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions film so the player can activate the special events to obtain the rare Zorua and Zoroark Pokémon. Unlike the Poké Transfer, this function is available before the main game is completed.

In addition to the standard battling and Gym challenges, the player can compete in Pokémon Musicals, a side-game similar to the Pokémon Contests of previous games; the Battle Subway, similar to the Battle Towers and Battle Frontiers of previous games; and on the Royal Unova, a cruise ship that the player can ride daily and fight various trainers aboard to win otherwise rare items.

Bulletstorm

2011-02-22T09:57:00.000-08:00

Bulletstorm takes place in the 26th century, where the Confederation of Planets are protected by a secret black-ops army called Dead Echo. The story follows space pirate Grayson Hunt, voiced by Steve Blum, and his cyborg partner Ishi Sato, who were both dishonorably discharged from Dead Echo after they were betrayed by their commanding officer, General Sarrano. 10 years later, after a spontaneous and liquor-induced attempt to take revenge on the General and his forces, Hunt's and Sato's ship crash-landed on the planet Stygia, a formerly-hospitable planet now overrun with meat-eating plants, feral mutant tribes, criminals, and Godzilla-sized monsters. Hunt and Sato search for a way off the planet, all while doing battle with the General's forces, who also crashed on Stygia after Hunt's attack. Along the way, they're joined by Trishka Novak, a foul-mouthed woman with a dark past who also knows her way around a gun. One of the locations they travel to on Stygia is the city of Elysium, formerly a Vegas-like adult paradise.

Players utilize a sizable arsenal consisting of over-the-top combat moves and large weapons. Bulletstorm also has a variety of "skillshots". The skillshot gameplay system rewards the player for creating and inciting mayhem in the most creative and destructive ways possible, from killing an enemy in midair to pushing an enemy into a carnivorous plant to executing an enemy after shooting him in the testicles. The more unusual the skillshot, the more points players acquire to upgrade their character and unlock weapons, which allow the player to perform even more creative moves and exaggerated skillshots. If these creative moves are repeated, the player character can "max out", meaning the character will gain more skillshots and one shot kills.

The weapons range from a pistol to an assault rifle to a cannon that shoots two bombs connected by chain that wrap around an enemy or piece of environment before detonating. Each weapon has an "alternate fire" mode, which are limited but can be refilled by performing skillshots; for example, the assault rifle's alternate fire is a single blast of energy that instantly reduces the struck enemies into skeletons.A device the player carries for most of the game is the "energy leash", a rope of energy projected from a device on his left hand. The leash allows him to pull enemies towards him, activate certain devices and traps, and slam down a ball of energy that launches all nearby enemies into the air. The player can also kick enemies and run and slide into them. Usually, when an enemy is launched into the air by the player, their descent is slowed down by the leash's energy.

The Witcher 2 - Assassins of Kings (May 17, 2011)

2011-02-20T15:01:00.000-08:00

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is an upcoming role-playing game and a sequel to The Witcher, developed by Polish studio CD Projekt RED. Before Assassins of Kings was officially announced, a video showing the game was leaked on 16 September 2009. On September 18, 2009, CD Projekt RED officially confirmed that the game is in development for PC. While the game is being published by CD Projekt itself in Central Europe and Digital Distribution sites, distribution in North America will be handled by Atari. Publisher for West Europe will be NAMCO BANDAI.

News of a sequel to The Witcher came when a leaked video, tagged 'confidential' started streaming in the internet with the title, Assassins of Kings. A few months later CD Projekt RED finally acknowledged the production of the sequel, named The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.

For the sequel, CD Projekt had developed their own engine this time, unlike the first installment, which used a modified version of Bioware's Aurora Engine. Until now, only select areas of the game have been shown using the engine with the developers highlighting the various improvements they have made. Along with the engine, the developers have changed the combat system. Although these changes have not yet been publicly displayed, various gaming sites like IGN have reported that the combat is no longer like it was in the first game, which used a timed mouse-based system. It's also been said that the game will use Havok physics engine.

On March 25, 2010, the first gameplay video was shown to audiences. This gameplay footage showed the various methods that a player could use to complete the level. The demo at GamesCom 2010 also showed many different levels and characters for the first time. It has been rumored that the game has 16 different endings. The game still retains its signature delayed-consequence system, which was well-received by the gaming community and critics alike. The game features a branching dialogue system with full voice acting which was cast, directed and recorded in London.

Cave Quest

2011-02-20T14:45:00.000-08:00

Match 3 Game

The evil spirits that haunt the narrow trails of a mountain have been trapping travelers, and have captured your family! Trapped in a labyrinth of caves, it’s up to you to go spelunking and save the people from certain doom! Unravel the mystery of the Ghost King and save your family in Cave Quest, a fast-paced and exciting Match 3 game!

System Requirements:

OS: Windows XP/Vista
CPU: 1.0 GHz
RAM: 512 MB
DirectX: 8.0
Hard Drive: 95 MB

Fight Night Champion (March 1-4, 2011)

2011-02-19T11:31:00.000-08:00

Fight Night Champion is a boxing video game in development by EA Sports. It is a member of the Fight Night series, set to be released on March 1, 2011 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game is stated to take a drastic turn from previous installments, depicting a "grittier" and "darker" setting with animations and player damage that "truly conveys the brutality of the sport of boxing." It is the first ever EA Sports game to receive an M rating from the ESRB in North America. An iOS version of the game is set to be released alongside the console versions.

The single-player mode is intended to recreate the dramatic and emotional aspects of the sport.

A new mode called "Champion Mode" will be featured in the game. It revolves around a storyline which follows a boxer named Andre Bishop. Most other modes, such as Legacy Mode (the career mode of the series) are expected to return.

EA is promising a refined physics-based animation system and a new "Full Spectrum Punch Control" scheme. There will also be a demo launching on both Xbox Live and PSN on the 1st of February. The demo will be the first demo of the franchise to be online compatible. Although this online compatibility will only last 2 weeks from the launch date. After those 2 weeks, it will only be playable offline.

2011-02-19T02:35:00.000-08:00

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Maestro – Music of Death Collector’s Edition (HoG)

2011-02-17T13:51:00.000-08:00

A mysterious illness has broken out and is causing an entire village to age rapidly and die! Meanwhile, ominous music can be heard wafting through the air… Journey to the quarantined village and find the cause of the deadly disease in Maestro: Music of Death. While you search for the source, find a little girl, who is trapped in the town! Master this Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game and save the entire village!

System Requirements:

OS: Windows XP / Vista / 7
CPU: 1.4 GHz
RAM: 1024 MB
DirectX: 9.0
Hard Drive: 713 MB

Darkspore (March 29, 2011)

2011-02-15T23:28:00.000-08:00

Darkspore is an upcoming video game based partially on the 2008 video game Spore. It is described as "a fast-paced, sci-fi Action-RPG in which you battle across alien worlds to save the galaxy from the mutated forces of Darkspore." The game is set to be released on March 29, 2011, for Windows.

The Crogenitors were a race of unrivaled scientists and had build a large galactic empire. They had mastered mutation and used their knowledge to create an army of genetic heroes, that became know as "Living Weapons". But the discovery by Crogenitor Zelem of the E-DNA, an experimental amino acid that bonds to DNA, changed everything : it can be used to weaponize life itself, and it can achieve millennia of evolution in hours. However the E-DNA grown was unstable and all of the subjects who come in contact with it were taken over by it, completely becoming a genetic nightmare and connecting with a hive mind know as " The Darkspore ". The E-DNA rapidly turned into a virus that began to spread in laboratories, all over the galaxy, killing everything in sight. The end result was war. All genetic heroes were slaughtered and almost all Crogenitors were killed and the Crogenitor empire dissipated star by star. Six surviving Crogenitors were put in cryogenic pods and five of them were given the task to reach the planets each genetic types come from and to construct new Living Weapons still untouched by the Darkspore. The last was put in sleep for an indefinite period until the HELIX network had stabilized the E-DNA. After 1000 years the HELIX succeeded, and awoke the 6th Crogenitor, who began to gather the new Living Weapons and strengthen them with the stabilized E-DNA. Starting with only a few brave heroes, the Crogenitor Insurgency, as it became known, grew to the size of a small army. The Insurgency raided all Darkspore strongholds, discovering more comrades along the way. They grew ever closer to their ultimate goal of purging the Darkspore from the galaxy...

Age of Empires II - Age of Kings

2011-02-14T07:11:00.000-08:00

I have been asked recently if I remember AoE II. And then... it hits me !! (the idea)

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (often shortened to AGE2, The Age of Kings, AoE II or AoK) is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft. Released in 1999 for the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems, it was the second game in the Age of Empires series. An expansion, The Conquerors, was released in 2000. A PlayStation 2 version was released by Konami in 2001, and a Nintendo DS spinoff, Age of Empires: The Age of Kings was developed by Backbone Entertainment in 2006. The Dreamcast port, by Konami, was canceled.

The Age of Kings is set in the Middle Ages and contains thirteen playable civilizations. They are the Britons, Byzantines, Celts, Goths, Teutons, Franks, Mongols, Chinese, Japanese, Persians, Saracens, Turks and the Vikings. Players aim to gather resources, which they use to build towns, create armies, and ultimately defeat their enemies. There are five historically-based campaigns, which constrict the player to specialized and story-backed conditions. There are three additional single player game modes, and multiplayer is supported. Despite using the same game engine and similar code to its predecessor, development of The Age of Kings took a year longer than expected, forcing Ensemble Studios to release Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome in 1998 instead. The design team focused on resolving significant issues in Age of Empires, but noted on release that some problems remained.

Reception of The Age of Kings was overwhelmingly positive, and the game scored highly on review aggregators. The significant number of new features was praised, as were the gameplay improvements. Some reviewers were critical of the presentation of units—they were seen as bland and uninteresting—while others considered The Age of Kings to be overly similar to its predecessor, Age of Empires. Three months after its release, two million copies of The Age of Kings had been shipped, and it topped sales charts in seven countries. The game won multiple awards and has had a significant impact on future games in its genre.

The Age of Kings focuses on building towns, gathering resources, creating armies, and destroying enemy units and buildings. Players conquer rival towns and empires as they advance one of 13 civilizations through four "Ages": the Dark Age, the Feudal Age, the Castle Age (The Middle Ages), and the Imperial Age, reminiscent of the Renaissance—a 1000 year timeframe. Progressing to a new Age unlocks new units, structures, and technologies, but players must pay a sum of resources to advance to the next age (typically food and gold) once selected technologies are researched from their current age, and certain buildings are constructed.

Civilian units, called "villagers", are used to gather resources; they are either male or female - gender does not affect their abilities. Resources can be used to train units, construct buildings, and research technologies, among other things; for example, players can research better armour for infantry units. The game offers four types of resources: food, wood, gold, and stone. Food is obtained by hunting animals, gathering berries, harvesting livestock, farming, and fishing. Wood is gathered by chopping down trees. Gold is obtained from either gold mines, trade or using relics in a monastery, and stone is collected from stone mines. Villagers require checkpoints, typically depository buildings (town center, mining camp, mill, and lumber yard), where they can store gathered resources. Each civilization can purchase upgrades that increase the rate of gathering these resources. Players can construct a market for trade; players can either trade wood, stone, and food for gold, and use gold to buy other resources. Market prices fluctuate with every transaction. Furthermore, docks can also generate gold by using trading cogs which are used to visit ally ports; once they return to the player's port, gold is added to the stockpile. The amount of gold a trading cog earns on each trip is related to the distance it had to travel to an ally port. More gold is earned on longer trips. It is possible to trade with enemies' ports, but the player's trading vessels may be attacked or destroyed by enemy units in the process. Players do not need to keep trading manually, as once they select the port or market the trading units infinitely continue to trade.

There are five campaigns in The Age of Kings, containing historically-based scenarios such as Genghis Khan's invasion of Eurasia, Barbarossa's Crusade, or Saladin's defence of the Holy Land. In the Joan of Arc and William Wallace campaigns, the player can control a unit based on its namesake; in others, players take orders from guiding spirits representative of the army's commander.

Additional game modes are available to the player in The Age of Kings. One mode, random map, generates a plain map, with players starting in the Dark Age with a Town Center, three villagers, and a scout unit. The game can be won through military conquest, by constructing a special building known as a Wonder and keeping it standing for a certain amount of time, or by obtaining control of all relics on the map for a set amount of time. Deathmatch mode allows players to begin with large amounts of resources, creating a focus on military dominance, while in the regicide mode each player is given a king unit, winning by killing all of the other monarchs.

Civilizations

Players choose to play as one of 13 civilizations split into four architectural styles, West European, Central European, Middle Eastern, and East Asian, that determine building appearance in-game. The 13 civilizations are: Britons, Byzantines, Celts, Chinese, Franks, Goths, Japanese, Mongols, Persians, Saracens, Teutons, Turks, or Vikings. The civilizations have varying strengths and weaknesses with regards to economics, technology, and battle, and each has access to a different, very powerful "Unique Unit". Additionally, each civilization provides an individual team bonus in team games. To add variety, each civilization has a set of soundbites in its native language (except the Goths, who speak German) that are uttered by units when selected or instructed to perform a task.

Units

Every player has a limit to the number of units they can create—a population limit—but may not immediately use the entire potential population. The population capacity, which can be capped at anywhere between 25 - 200, is based on the number of houses, Castles, or Town Centers—the main building in a player's town—which have been built. The Age of Kings introduced two significant new features for unit management: the idle villager button, which helps players identify villagers that have not been assigned a task, and the town bell, which sends all a player's villagers into their Town Center, Castle, or tower for safety; units garrisoned within these three buildings, especially archers, increase the building's fire-power (towers fire more arrows with units garrisoned inside) including the town center, which can not fire anything at all without someone garrisoned there.

The Age of Kings also includes five types of military units: infantry, archers, cavalry, siege weaponry, and naval units. Certain types of infantry, archers, and cavalry are "counter units" with special defenses against other types of unit. The three human classes of military generally follow a rock-paper-scissors model. For example, infantry are generally powerful against buildings but weak against cavalry, thus the infantry counter units—spearmen and pikemen—have attack bonuses against cavalry. Each Civilization in The Age of Kings has a special unit that is exclusive to that Civilization. For instance, the Britons have access to Long-bowmen, an archery unit with increased range. These Civilization-specific units are generally more powerful, but still follow the basic rock-paper-scissors model. The monk is a special kind of military unit that has the ability to convert enemy units to the player's civilization, and to heal allied units. Monks are also used to collect relics; relics accumulate gold once held in the player's monastery — the more relics he has captured, the faster the gold is accumulated. Collecting all five relics on the map is one method by which a player can win a random map game, depending on the victory setting. Once a player has all five in their monasteries(does not all have to be in the same monastery, as long as they are owned by the same player or team), a timer is shown to all players. If an opposing player does not destroy a monastery holding a relic after the set time, then that player wins.

Buildings

The buildings in The Age of Kings are split into the economic and military buildings categories. Buildings can research technologies and upgrades that increase economic, military or unit-based efficiency, as well as provide resources for the player.

The most important economic building is the Town Center, where villagers are created, all types of resources can be stored, some technologies are researched, and the player can advance to the next Age. The Town Center can fire arrows at enemy units within range if villagers or archers are garrisoned while under attack. Other economical buildings available include storage buildings for resources, farms, docks (the dock may also produce several military ships), and houses to support a higher population.

Military buildings include unit-producing buildings such as barracks, archery ranges, stables, and castles, as well as defensive buildings such as walls and towers. Military buildings can perform research to improve the abilities of military units, increasing their strength, defensive capabilities, or other attributes. The castle is a military building which can train a wide variety of units, including the civilization's 'Unique Unit', and fires arrows at enemy units within range, with garrisoned units (notably archery units) firing extra arrows. It can only be built after a player has reached the Castle Age, although in some game options, players can begin with an already-built castle as early as the Dark Age.

There are two main defensive buildings, the wall and the tower. The two types of walls, stone walls and the weaker palisades, are used to prevent access to an enclosed area whilst providing a solid line of defense. Gates can be installed in stone walls to allow allied units to access a defended area. Towers are equipped with the ability to fire arrows at unfriendly units, and can be used in conjunction with the wall in defense mechanisms.

Multiplayer

The Age of Kings supports multiplayer over the Internet, or via a local area network (LAN). Up to eight players can take part in one game, with all of the single player game modes available. The MSN Gaming Zone supported the game until the service closed on June 19, 2006. Alternative services, such as GameSpy Arcade, GameRanger and Garena, also known as "GGG-Client", were recommended as a replacement.

Custom Scenario

Age of Kings like later games has a user-friendly campaign/scenario editor. Unlike the sequel, Age of Empires 3, The AI automatically has a fully functioning intelligence so minimal programming is required. It is also possible to string user-created games into a whole campaign in the same way as the historical campaigns, though of course you can't get videos.

Serious Sam 3 - BFE (2011 ?!)

2011-02-13T13:41:00.000-08:00

Serious Sam 3: BFE is currently in development by Croteam. It will also feature the use of Serious Engine 3. Croteam CEO Roman Ribaric has stated that it was planned to be finished in 2010. On December 27, 2010, BigDownload had an interview with Croteam about Serious Sam 3. The game is stated for a summer 2011 release according to the official website. It is yet unknown what the "BFE" stands for.

Dragon Age II ( March 8, 2011)

2011-02-13T12:40:00.000-08:00

Dragon Age II is the upcoming sequel to the Dragon Age series and is set to be released on March 8, 2011 in North America and March 11, 2011 in Europe. Unlike Dragon Age: Origins, the main character's race cannot be changed; however, the character's appearance, gender and class are all fully customizable. Hawke, the main character, is a Lothering refugee who rises to power and becomes the Champion of the Free Marches. Dragon Age II is set in the same world as Dragon Age: Origins, but takes place in the Free Marches.

Dragon Age II centers around the main character named Hawke, known to be a survivor of the Blight and the Champion of Kirkwall, who rises to power throughout the story. In the format of a framed story, Hawke's tale spans over a decade throughout the game and the player writes the history that will change the world forever.

Choices that the player made in Dragon Age: Origins can be imported and reflected in the world of Dragon Age II. Choices from Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening will also be imported, if the player decides to take this action.

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