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The Awakened Fate Ultimatum | Review

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Broken Joysticks

Version Tested: PlayStation 3 Reviewed By: Ben Jr. Longpre  The Awakened Fate Ultimatum is a roguelike RPG developed by Nippon Ichi Software.  You take control of Shin, a boy who is anti-social and hates humans. After he has a a strange dream while sleeping on his school rooftop he wanders home and gets cornered in an alley and ambushed by devils. He has no understanding why he was struck down and killed as he wakes up a few hours later learning that he was revived by a crystal that turns him into the new god and that he must fight

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Leak: Metal Gear Solid V Releases Worldwide Sept 1st

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

It looks like Konami & IGN’s planned reveal of a “big announcement” scheduled for tomorrow morning has been leaked a whole day early. Hideo Kojima’s next entry in the Metal Gear Solid franchise, MGS V: The Phantom Pain will be released worldwide on September 1st 2015. Series director Hideo Kojima provides eager gamers with seven minutes of new details in this brief video.  IGN has pulled the original video but you can watch a subtitled version in the embedded YouTube player below.

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COD: Advanced Warfare Havoc DLC Slams Down on PS3 / PS4

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Gamers on either of Sony’s home consoles can now enjoy the Havoc DLC for Activision’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare the publisher announced today. This first DLC expansion adds four new multiplayer maps, a brand new energy weapon called the “AE4 direct energy assault rifle” and the return of the popular zombie’s mini-game with the addition of the “EXO Zombies” mode. EXO Zombies mode has its own story separate from the main campaign. It featured a celebrity voice cast including Bill Paxton, John Malkovich, Rose McGowan and Jon Bernthall.  So grab three of your friends and prepare to experience this

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Sony Announces Spring Fever Sale

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Sony has announced an 8 week sale over on the PlayStation Blog, you read that right a series of discounts that last two months. The Spring Fever sale includes 10% discounts for on yet to be released digital titles like Shovel Knight and the upcoming Helldivers. These special discounts will only be available for the launch of each respective game. Things kick into gear on March and last until April 27th.

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Why Do Nippon Ichi Games Work So Well?

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Les Major

NIS America has brought us some amazing titles over the years. Even more recently, there have been some real slam dunks like The Guided Fate Paradox that really stood out as a classic. With another Disgaea sequel on the way for the PS4 much later this year, it really made me realizes there is a lot more here than just nostalgia. Sure lets face it, many of us knew or even played NIS games before the Netherworld tactical simulator came out, but it was Disgaea that really made NIS shine. The variety of the cast, fun writing, and the customize

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Join The Battle With Your Own Character In Dragon Ball XenoVerse

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Les Major

With just over two weeks away, it’s almost time for Namco Bandai’s North American release of Dragon Ball XenoVerse. In this title, Time Patrol Trunks uses the power of Shenron to summon a new hero into the world of Dragon Ball. The awesome thing about this game is, that hero is one you create! Your mission is to restore the Dragon Ball timeline to it’s original state. Let alone the idea of fans being able to craft original characters into the game is awesome, but it seems there’s even an online component as well. Being able to choose from five

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I’ve Dreamed Of Lego Jurassic Park… And Now It’s Real!

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Les Major

Set to be released this June along with the upcoming Jurassic World movie, Warner Bros. and TT Games have revealed the game is in the works. There aren’t many more details at this time, but really, this news is just awesome! The Lego games franchise has been a fantastic experience. In this release, we’ll get all three original Jurassic Park movies, and the new movie Jurassic World as well! Alan Grant minifig action! Jeff Goldblum in Lego form! I love the movies, all three! Of course I’m looking forward to Jurassic World as well and this game will be fantastic

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February 2015 PS Plus Games Include Thief and Transistor

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Sony has finally revealed the February PlayStation Plus line up for North America. Get ready to sink your teeth into an action-RPG with Transistor, sneak around in the Shadows with Thief and join the Japanese mafia with Yakuza 4. All of these games and more will be gratis for the entire second month of 2015.

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A Couple Nights With Dying Light

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Les Major

Just released yesterday, the zombie infested city parkour adventure Dying Light is quite an unique title. The game vaguely feels like a free roam version of Mirror’s Edge with some Dead Rising mixed in. This creates some amazing experiences that can relate to the games quite unbelievable, however accurate, gameplay trailer. There’s nothing quite like running down an alleyway on your way to a mission, then stopping dead when you come to a street full of shambling zombies. What do you do? Take to the roof tops? Climb the nearest bus to avoid their attacks? Or just run head long

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New Trailer Shows Off FF-Type 0’s Combat Mechanics

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Straight from the world of Orience comes a brand new trailer for Final Fantasy Type-0 in the style of an in-universe news report. In this clip the announcer gives us the low down on the combat mechanics in this latest entry in the Final Fantasy series. 3 classmates fight alongside one another each of them possessing a special weapon. If one of your comrades dies in battle you are able to swap them out with one of your reserves classmates. This action RPG looks absolutely fantastic – mixing combat system with a pretty neat elemental magic system this looks like

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PlayStation New Releases: Resident Evil Scares Up A REMake

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Last week’s PlayStation Store update packed whole lot of brand new games with everything from brand a new RPG, the return of some classic survival horror and even the chance to travel to hell with a Saint’s Row spin-off. There is something for everyone in the latest PSN update!

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Jan 15 PS Plus Games – Infamous: First Light & More

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

It’s a brand new year and more importantly a brand new month and that means a whole crop of new PlayStation Plus games to try out. InFamous, one of Sony’s premiere first party franchises makes the jump to the instant game collection with a gratis copy of Infamous: First Light. That’s not all Sony has in store, read on to find out what other surprises await PlayStation 3 and PS Vita owners.

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Hackers Say Merry Christmas By DDOSing PlayStation Network

Posted on December 25, 2014 by Rae Michelle Richards

If you got a brand new PlayStation 4 for Christmas I hope you weren’t planning on using it on the PlayStation Network today as it appears that PSN is down due to a distributed denial of service attack. It appears that users all across North America are having issues logging into PSN on their consoles leading some to believe that hackers are targeting the PlayStation Network login servers. A group of “hackers” on twitter calling themselves “Lizard Squad” have taken responsibility for today’s outage. They took to social media to request that their twitter account receive more than 10,000 re-tweets

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Destiny Gamers Can Now Explore The Dark Below

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Les Major

Ranging between Earth’s Cosmodrome and The Hellmouth pit on the Moon, Destiny gamers can now purchase Bungie’s first expansion. Don’t be fooled into thinking there’s just a new raid here. Be sure to stop by the Tower after picking up the The Dark Below expansion and talk to newcomer Eris. She’ll have some bounties for you that will unlock new missions. If you’ve played Destiny on Earth or the Moon recently, you’ve seen increased activity from The Hive foes. This DLC continues that storyline leading into the darkness deep within the moon where the latest raid takes place. What else

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