Infinite Crisis is another entry into the growing MOBA genre which currently dominated by the likes of Leauge of Legends (LoL) and Defence of the Ancients 2 (DotA 2) which features Player vs Player battles set in the DC Comics universe which has been re-imagined for the game. Infinite Crisis will feature a wide variety of both heroes and villains to play as but will also featured twisted and altered incarnations of them such as Nightmare Batman and Gaslight Catwoman, playing in league with well-known characters including Green Lantern and The Flash.

“We are thrilled to bring Infinite Crisis, a truly competitive experience featuring the DC Comics lore and characters, to the MOBA genre,” said Martin Tremblay, President, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.  “Turbine is a pioneer in online gaming and combined with the amazing world of DC Comics, they are executing on a game concept that expands the MOBA genre.”
“The Turbine team is very excited to reveal Infinite Crisis to the world and extend the MOBA genre with new features,” said Jeffrey Steefel, Executive Producer, Turbine.  “We are utilizing years of experience in the online game space to deliver innovations to the MOBA genre with a game that features fast-paced action, a major story arc, destructible environments, catastrophic events and a deep roster of iconic DC Comics characters.”

For now you can check out the trailer below but what do you think? Is this something you would consider playing? Or are you going to stay faithful to the already popular Leauge of Legends or Defence of the Ancients series? What will indeed be interesting to see is how Turbine will tackle the steep learning curve and unfriendly entry level that MOBA games are infamous for. (Especially when it comes to DotA 2)

On the PlayStation 3 it will be available as a single disk bundle containing both Final Fantasy X HD and Final Fantasy X-2 HD meanwhile on the PlayStation Vita they will both be sold individually. As of yet there is also no announcement of Cross Play support so choose wisely which console you get it for.

But for now you can ogle at the announcement trailer which for a HD remake, looks visually stunning as you would expect from a Square Enix game.

Starting today and running until March 19th and available to all Xbox Live members (Gold and Free) you can get selected Square Enix titles at up to 75% off their usual price. Unfortunately Final Fantasy is not on that list but games like Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Sleeping Dogs, both great games are on that list. DLC Add Ons are also being discounted to as low as 80MSP for some add ons, that’s as low as an indie title.

You can see the full list of items on sale below. Thinking of picking any up? Let us know in the comments!

The Year of the Snake sees you return as Wei Shen, the video game equivalent of Bruce Lee (You can even dress him in the famous yellow tracksuit if you so choose) as he goes back to the Hong Kong Police Department. This time, a doomsday cult known as “The Cult of the Snake” is slowly taking control of the streets of Hong Kong. With no option to negotiate with them, Wei Shen uses new weapons such as the tear gas launcher and electroshock pistol to take the streets back and try to earn his honour back in the process.

The DLC costs £4.39 on PS3 and 560 MSP on Xbox 360 and is available to download now. You can check out a trailer for the DLC below. Are you thinking of picking it up?

Special Forces: Team X is a third-person online only shooter with no single player training mode or tutorial, this means that you will be thrown right into the deep end the second you start. In terms of the control scheme, Gears of War players will feel most at home as the games mechanics are heavily influenced from that game from the sprint to the snap to cover.

Graphically the game looks very nice. From the first impressions, it looks very much like a third-person Borderlands in terms of its artistic styling with the gore levels being turned up to Team Fortress 2. An interesting concept is the maps are stuck together from three smaller maps that the players vote on before the match. This leads to many different possible combinations of maps.

Something Special Forces: Team X tries to push and emphasise is playing as a team. The teams are small and you are encouraged to work as a team with multiplier bonuses being applied if you stick together. This emphasis also makes it one of Special Forces downfalls. The “working together with strangers online” concept has been tried many times before with the likes of MAG, but what do they all have in common? None of them ever worked, and this falls among them. The simple fact here is working as a team seems more forced upon than optional and most players simply don’t like that.

Game modes vary from your usual affair such as Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag, but there are also game modes like MVP where the aim is to kill the MVP to gain points. You will find a little bit more enjoyment from the team based games like Capture the Flag due to the games heavy emphasis on team based play.

The other downfall is what I mentioned earlier, balancing. This game is very unbalanced which makes playing the game more of a stressful experience rather than a fun one. It’s a multiplayer shooter that forces you to wade through the lower levels with bad equipment and being constantly slaughtered by the higher levels before deeming you worthy to get the decent gear. If anything, this is more a test of your patience. Spawn deaths are common and the classic “how the hell did I die? I put about 20 shots in him!” line will likely be exclaimed A LOT.

Special Forces: Team X is a good concept with good artistic styling. But this multiplayer falls short among many of the others simply down to the fact that it is no fun to play and will leave you more thirsty to shoot something than before you started.. If you have a bunch of friends that all coincidently decided to buy this then you’ll likely have a better experience. But if they haven’t then there are many better online shooters on the Xbox Live Marketplace that will give you a better and more enjoyable experience. Also the chances of you having to shell out for a new TV due to controller implement will be reduced by around 87%.

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Tomb Raider’s full list of PC enhancements and specifications are as follow:

The game’s enhanced features on the PC version include:

General
• Full integration with Steamworks to offer cloud storage for saves, multiplayer matchmaking,
achievements, as well as automatic updates and new content.
• Support for Steam Big Picture Mode.
• Configurable mouse and keyboard support.
• Gamepad support.

High-end graphics
• Very high resolution textures with up to 16x the amount of data
• Detail Tessellation to enhance the detail on many surfaces in the game
• Higher quality shadows
• High quality bokeh depth of field with near-blur
• Tessellation algorithms used to smooth out geometry
• Improved cloth, SSAO, quality wetness effects, and post-filter effects.
• LOD quality is adjustable for better quality on higher-end machines.

Low-end graphics
• Crystal care about TR fans being able to run on older systems, unlike many other games they
still support Windows XP.

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A lot of scalability options to suit a range of machines.

Darrell Gallagher, Studio Head of Crystal Dynamics commented: “With over a decade of experience
working alongside AMD and Nixxes at Crystal Dynamics alone, we had rock solid partners on board
to create a superb Tomb Raider experience for PC gamers around the world. At Crystal we approach
each of our projects with the sole intention of creating the best possible consumer experience for
that format, and we are proud to have worked alongside two great partners who hold the very same
values.”

The full list of PC minimum and recommended system requirements is listed below:

Minimum system requirements for PC
• Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista,7,8 (32bit/64bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics card with 512Mb Video RAM:
o AMD Radeon HD 2600 XT
nVidia 8600
Dual core CPU:
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o AMD Athlon64 X2 2.1 Ghz (4050+)
Intel Core2 Duo 1.86 Ghz (E6300)
• 1GB Memory (2GB on Vista)

Recommended system requirements for PC
• Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
• DirectX 11 graphics card with 1GB Video RAM:
o AMD Radeon HD 4870
nVidia GTX 480
• Quad core CPU:
o AMD Phenom II X2 565
Intel Core i5-750
• 4GB Memory

Following on from the first two episodes, which highlighted how an inexperienced Lara Croft must use her intellect and whatever she can scavenge to survive the harsh conditions of Yamatai, the final episode digs deeper and gives players a taste of Lara’s scrappy, raw combat.

Check it out below!

In Watch_Dogs, players will experience the realities of living in our fully connected society, where individuals and corporations are at risk of exposure by our ever-increasing reliance on networks and technology.

Check out the trailer below!

The series, which will continue to be developed by Yukes in Japan, will combine the studio’s signature gameplay with 2K’s commitment to authenticity in WWE ’14, the latest iteration of the popular, long running series.

With the addition of the WWE franchise, 2K will continue a highly-successful, 15-year tradition established by past WWE titles.