Follow Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains as they head to Washington, DC to commit an epic crime spree.

You can follow the game at their website and Twitter pages.

Within the Monsters University play set you will be able to play as either Mike, Sully or Randy as you try to prank your rivals at Fear Tech.  In the game, both Monsters University and Fear Tech compete to see who has the most school spirit during Fear Week.  Do you have what it takes to bring your school to victory?

Features of the game include:

• Pranks, Humor and Customization – Use scare tactics to perfect sneak attacks and prank opponents.  Also customize Frat Row buildings and characters.  You’ll also be able to unlock bikes to perform stunts and tricks.
• Play Set – The Monsters University play set has its own game play mechanics and pieces to add to the Disney Infinity world.  From a toilet paper launcher to the ability to ride on Archie the Scare Pig.  All of this can also be activated in Toy Box mode so you can create your own prank challenges as well as build and customize worlds.
• Toy Box Mode – Mike, Sulley and Randy can all interact with the other Disney Infinity characters from The Incredibles, Pirates of the Caribbean and Cars so you can create new adventures in your own customized worlds.

Disney Infinity is set to release in August this year for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii gaming systems.  Be sure to follow the game on their webpage, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for more information.

The game, being developed by EA’s newest studio Ghost Games, will enable to you to play either as a cop or a racer in the ultimate battle for road supremacy.  Each side provides their own set of high stakes challenges, rewards and consequences.

As a racer, take risks behind the wheel and capture your most daring escapes on video for the world to see.  Rack up the Speed Points to unlock new cars and items.  Become so infamous that you are a target for the police.  The more risks you take the better the rewards.  But beware, you can lose it all if you’re caught.

As a cop, work as part of a team to capture the racers.  The more racers you bust the faster you’ll rise up in the ranks as well as unlock police only cars and powerful pursuit tech.

And, Ghost Games announced the return of Ferrari to the Need For Speed franchise.  For the first time in seven years players will be able to get behind the wheel of some of Ferrari’s most desirable cars including the F12berlinetta.  Spokesperson Stefano Saporetti, Head of Brand Operations in Ferrari added, “We are back in the Need For Speed franchise, starting with Need For Speed Rivals, as we want the fans of this world-famous and award-winning racing game saga to be able again to feel the excitement of the Ferrari Brand and cars.”

Some of the new features available in Need For Speed Rivals are:

• Next-Gen Racing – Redview County will feature next-generation detail and weather effects that will force drivers to try master both the elements as well as the competition.
• Need for Speed Network Powered by Autolog – Compare stats and challenge your friends anytime, anywhere and share your accomplishments online.
• Personalization – Customize your ride with paint jobs, license plates, rims and performance upgrades.
• Pursuit and Evasion Tech – With 11 upgradeable gadgets including turbo boosts, jammers and EMPs for racers and shock waves, roadblocks and helicopters for cops.

Be sure to follow the game on their website, Twitter or Facebook.

With Game and Wario, Nintendo is showcasing the sort of games that were not possible before the Wii U: games that let the players themselves be the heroes instead of acting through an abstract character avatar. Taking the Wii’s motion controls a step further, the Wii U’s Gamepad allows Nintendo to experiment with new levels of immersion and augmented reality.

Game and Wario is the latest installment in Nintendo’s long-running WarioWare series. The nature of WarioWare makes it the perfect platform to demonstrate how Nintendo’s recent experiments with gameplay and genre have matured.

Each game in the series is a compilation of bizarre and disorienting microgames, which are the smallest possible units of a game. Each one features one or maybe two commands: in one microgame a skier is sliding downhill and the player needs only to tap the A button to help the skier jump off of the slope; in a fireworks microgame the player needs to tap A to detonate a rocket; and in a fly-swatting microgame the player must tap the touch screen to swat flies.

This reductionist approach to gameplay allows each microgame to be very brief, usually only a few seconds long. It also allows WarioWare to squeeze an enormous amount of gameplay variety into a short period of playtime, challenging the player to pass a gauntlet of microgames that become faster and more difficult as the player progresses. The frantic pace tests the players’ reflexes more than it does their ability to master complex commands, and the brevity and simplicity of each microgame make it easy to slip into a rhythm, or even a trance, while playing. As a result, WarioWare rewards muscle memory and mental calmness more than it does the critical thinking or caution that characterizes so many other, slower-paced games.

Every game in the WarioWare series has experimented with new ways for the players to interact with it. For instance, Mega Microgame$! (GBA, 2003) invites players to forget everything about playing games and to let the game flow through them. Twisted! (GBA, 2005) incorporates a gyroscope, asking players to physically rotate their Game Boy to play. Touched! (NDS, 2005) uses touchscreen gestures to interact with the game, and Smooth Moves (Wii, 2007) uses Wiimote gestures. Snapped! (DSiWare, 2009) uses the DSi camera to track players’ facial movements and add their image to the game. D.I.Y. (NDS, 2010) allows players to create their own microgames. For the most part, this series has made physical demands on players. To play WarioWare, it is not enough to press buttons and flick a joystick; players must become physically involved with the game and let it turn into an extension of themselves, often using the console, remote, or their own bodies to mime the actions that are performed in-game.

The trailer for Game and Wario demonstrates many of these experiments at work. According to the trailer there will be 16 short games in the final release. I want to focus on a few of them that show how the players, through their actions with the Gamepad, actually stand in for the in-game characters.

In “Gamer”, the character 9-Volt will be on the TV screen, playing his Game Boy in bed when he is supposed to be sleeping. Players will use the Gamepad itself as 9-Volt’s Game Boy, playing a series of microgames. Like 9-Volt, players can’t blink while playing these fast-paced games, and they must watch the TV to make sure that his mother doesn’t catch him and make him go to sleep.

“Shutter” is a game in which the player will need to catch criminals by photographing them. Unlike older photography games, such as Pokémon Snap or Fatal Frame, which use traditional controllers to move a virtual camera, players will use the Wii Gamepad itself as a prop camera. “Shutter” is the game that most strongly catches my attention.

This isn’t Nintendo’s first foray into photography gameplay. Nintendo has played with virtual cameras in major titles of previous generations, such as the pictobox item in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. The aforementioned Pokémon Snap is a Nintendo 64 title that revolves around a photographic tour of a Pokémon island: instead of capturing Pokémon with balls, the player captures them on film.

Nintendo has not been alone in playing with virtual cameras: in Ubisoft’s Beyond Good and Evil (2003), the heroine is a photographer investigating a conspiracy; in Tecmo’s Fatal Frame (2001), the heroine uses a special camera to photograph and exorcise spirits. However, with the exception of a few minor experimental titles like Warioware Snapped!, these games were limited by the controls of the consoles. Players did not really use the controller as a camera, but instead issued abstract commands by pressing buttons and joysticks on the face of the controller.

The new technologies of the current-generation systems are finally allowing these experiments to grow. Spirit Camera (3DS, 2012) has already established a new genre of photography games. In this title jointly developed by Nintendo and Tecmo, players look through the 3DS camera to see ghosts emerging in the space around them. The game world and the real world are integrated seamlessly, so that the 3DS acts as the eponymous Spirit Camera. The player is no longer abstracted from the main character and their Camera Obscura: the player is holding the Camera Obscura; the 3DS is the camera and the player is the heroine.

The Wii U’s Gamepad combines all of the input devices that Nintendo in general and WarioWare in particular have been experimenting with. Game and Wario demonstrates that, for Nintendo, hardware does not come before software.  The hardware is designed to allow developers to create the kinds of games that they could not make without it. The Wii U’s unique controller has been chosen to take Nintendo’s experimental projects from the sidelines and push them into the spotlight. I look forward to seeing how well Game and Wario exploits this novel peripheral.

This game is the debute of The Scourge Project:  Episode 1 & 2, released to Window PC in 2010.  It has been vastly improved with a host of new features and enhancements.  These include re-vamped gameplay, smarter AI and new XP perks.

Key features of Scourge:  Outbreak include:

• Four player co-op with over six hours of gameplay
• Four different characters each with his own abilities and weapons stats
• Squad AI for games with less than four players
• Up to eight players in Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag online multiplayer

Scourge:  Outbreak is due to be released on July 3rd this year for 800 MS Points.  For more information be sure to check out the official website.

This bundle will give fans hours of enjoyable game time as they will be able to play as Samuel Rodrigues and LQ-84i.  Each of the characters will bring their own set of unique abilities and characteristics as you play their storylines and learn their origins.

The Ultimate Edition is available now on the Playstation Network for the PS3 for only $74.99.  Be sure to check out the website for more information.

The name of the next generation of consoles is Xbox One and it will recognize your name and your voice.

It is a little larger than you’d expect.  About the size of  the old BetaMax VCR’s from the 70′s.  But it’s going to have all the bells and whistles.  The console will be able to automatically remember what you were last doing and show that on your home screen.  Using your voice you can browse the new dashboard with a much faster interface.  One of the features available will be integrated TV.  You’ll be able to connect your cable service.  They’ve also put in instant switching.  You can switch between game, TV, movies, etc.  simply by saying it.

Using hand gestures you can also “grab” the screen and shrink or enlarge it to go back and forth between the dashboard.  There is a “Snap Mode” which will allow you to use multiple applications at the same time without the console slowing down.

And now for the news that everyone has been waiting for.  SKYPE!!!  Skype will be included in the new console.  You’ll be able to take or send calls while watching movies or gaming.  Like sports?  You’ll be able to keep track of your fantasy team while watching your games.

Can’t find anything to watch, use the Xbox One Guide.  You can search using Voice, Favourites or what’s Trending.  With Favourites, you’ll be able to keep track of what you watch the most or use Trending to see what’s popular.  The new console will be connected and ready to go.  There will be 5 billion transistors and 8 GB of RAM in the console as well as a BluRay player.  There are three operating systems in the console to help with the processing speed necessary to keep up with the latest games and apps.

The new Kinect Sensor has been completely redesigned to better relate to voice and gestures and comes pre-packaged with the new console.  The new camera will give a 1080p view of the world.  More joints will be understood by the sensor so that it will better follow you.  It will be able to read your heartbeat while exercising.  The new controller itself will feature over 40 new innovations including a new D-Pad and better feedback through the triggers.  You’ll still be able to use Smartglass with the new console as it is now a native part of the console.  But how will all this work together?  Through the Kinect.  It is the centre of the whole hub.  When you log in with Smartglass, pick up your controller or speek the sensor will understand and make sure the proper function is being accessed.

As for online experience?  Over 300,000 servers will be available to enable better, faster access.  If you are watching a movie, playing a game or browsing the web but want to play an online match, the system will search for your perfect match for you without having to back out of what you are doing and wait.

For fans of EA Sports, there is a new partnership between them and Microsoft.  Their games will be powered by EA Ignite.  The games will be able to better understand how you play and bring that to impact directly into the game.  It is designed to immerse you into a more realistic gaming experience.  The games will be able to make smart decisions four times better than before.  Using the internet, EA Sports games will be able to access real-time info and bring that directly into the game.

Forza Motorsport 5 is scheduled to be released on Xbox One.  The game example running on the new console was brief but exciting.  It will be expected to release at launch and more info on Forza will be announced at E3.

Quantum Break, released by Remedy uses real graphics merged with CGI to tell the story about a girl who seems able to tell the future and possibly control it.  The game is going to feature “Bullet Time” like you’ve never seen it before.

In the past, television has been one-sided.  Now you’ll be immersed into the experience.  TV is going social.  You’ll be able to discuss what’s going on with friends.  Xbox One is going to be the next water-cooler.

And the big news for Xbox One and TV…  A Halo television series.  Fans everywhere will be sure to love this one.  Although they had a video message from Steven Spielberg, it looks as though he will be the executive producer of the series.

Finally, CoD fans will be pleased to hear that all DLC for the game will be released exclusively first on Xbox One.  The next CoD game will feature motion capture and a new engine.  This is set to help bring the CoD series completely into the next generation of console gaming.  Using model characters from MW3 as compared to characters using the new engine you’ll be able to see much more detail bringing you further into the game experience than you’ve ever been before.

CoD Ghosts World Premier was featured at the reveal.  Using the new engine, you could practically see water droplets from water falls or dripping from a dogs tongue.  Even though I’m not the biggest fan of the CoD series, the reveal had me wanting more.

The new console is set to be released later this year with more information coming up at E3.  Until then be sure to keep up with news Gamer Living.  We’ll have the latest news and info, on Xbox One as it comes available.  In the meantime, head over here to catch the reveal if you weren’t able to view it live.

Some of the many enhancements to the new addition to the series includes an overhauled user interface and a new engine which will improve game operation.  The developers are also set for better connectivity with other devices and more social and community functions.

The cars and tracks from Gran Turismo 5 will be making a return in the new game.  With the new additions, the car line-up will be increased to 1,200.  With new customization functions, players will be able to customize them even more than before.

With the addition of six new tracks, Gran Turismo 6 will now have a total of 33 tracks.  Players will also have the choice of 71 different layouts – 19 of which are brand new for the game.  One of the newer tracks is the UK’s Silverstone Circuit.  More tracks and cars will be added after the games launch.

Along with the new tracks and cars will be a new and improved course maker function that provides several kilometers of scenery which includes the beautiful Andalusia backdrop.  With a new GPS feature, players will have more freedom for track creation in the game.

For more information on the upcoming release, be sure to check out the Gran Turismo website.

This is a documentary made with the hope to entertain and educate about the history, unique culture and future of the video game industry.  There are interviews with people who helped shape interactive entertainment industry including Nolan Bushnell (founder of ATARI), Randy Pitchford, Cliff Bleszinski and many others.  There are also interviews with some of geek and gamer culture’s leading celebrity voices such as Wil Wheaton, Chris Hardwick and Alison Haislip.

Video Games:  The Movie is expected to cover such hot topics as the questionable correlation between video games and violence, the issue of video games as an art form, next and future-generation gaming and it’s popularity despite the stereotypes plaguing the industry’s success.

The movie looks to tell the story of video games by giving a past, present and future look at how they are made, marketed and consumed.  Where is the market headed?  Find out when the story is told from the perspective developers, publishers and consumers.

Payday 2 is a four player co-op shooter that lets players wear the masks of the original crew in the first game – Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf, and Chains – as they start a crime spree in Washington D.C.  With a large array of contracts from the CRIMENET, players are free to choose anything from small-time convenience store hits or kidnappings to major league bank jobs and cyber-crimes.  You’ll even have the opportunity to participate in your local community and run some “political errands”.  As your crew progresses through the game the jobs will get bigger and better.

Be sure to keep an eye on Facebook, Twitter or the main website for more information on Payday 2.  Payday 2 will release for consoles and PC, via Steam, in August 2013.