The Old Republic will get DLC this January

The Old Republic has been a commercial success for Lucasarts and Bioware, and things don't seem to be slowing down. And the developer is planning to release more content in the very near future.


Game's director James Olhen says that his team is already working on the new content as we speak. "Next month we're going to be releasing a new Flashpoint and an expanded Operation, The new Flashpoint involves a plague that could have significant repercussions across the galaxy. It takes place on a brand new world and involves some pretty epic battles. I can’t go into much detail, but be prepared for something different. The expanded Operation takes the existing Karagga’s palace scenario and more than triples it in size. It includes three new boss monsters and some pretty epic set pieces. You won’t believe the last boss."

Bioware is planning to release it sometime next month if all things go according to plan. Hopefully Me and Andrew will become part of the experience before then.

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Nintendo 3DS gets a Metal Gear Solid 3DS

Hideo Kojima recently announced on his twitter account that Konami and Nintendo will be releasing a Limited edition Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater themed 3DS system. Whats special about this is that this system has snake skin, yes, actual Snake skin.

While no pricing has been listed yet, the system is scheduled to be released January 20th next year in Japan. I doubt however that this will be available anywhere else. These are the kind of things PETA should be pissed off about...

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Sega Announces Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2

Things have been pretty quiet in the world of gaming, until Sega officially announced the sequel to Sonic's Arcade title, which confirms both Tails and Metal Sonic.


Gamespot was the first to get their hands on some new details concerning the new game in this inerview and has released the games first trailer.

Trailer

Interview

The part I'm probably most excited for is the new physics engine that they will be using. For those who didn't play episode I, while the game was still fun it had one of the WORST physics engines I've ever seen. Sonic felt really slow and clunky and his movement was just plain awkward. Episode 2 will be released sometime in 2012.

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Comic List - 12/28/2012

• Aquaman #4
• Batman The Dark Knight #4
• Blackhawks #4
• DC Comics Presents Batman Blaze of Glory #1
• DC Comics Presents Batman Urban Legends #1
• DC Comics Presents Elseworlds 80 Page Giant #1
• DC Comics Presents Legion of Super Heroes #1
• DC Universe Online Legends #20
• DMZ #72
• Flash #4
• Fury of Firestorm The Nuclear Men #4
• Gears of War #21
• Green Lantern New Guardians #4
• I Vampire #4
• Justice League Dark #4
• Legion Secret Origin #3 (of 6)
• Savage Hawkman #4
• Superman #4
• Teen Titans #4
• Uncharted #2 (of 6)
• Unwritten #32.5
• Voodoo #4

• Artifacts #12 (of 13)
• Bomb Queen VII Queens World #3
• Chew #23
• firebreather Holmgang #4
• Great Unknown #4 (of 5)
• Green Wake #8
• Hack Slash #11
• Haunt #20
• Infinite Vacation #4 (of 5)
• Memoir #6 (of 6)
• Orc Stain #7
• Orc Stain #8
• Orc Stain #9
• Pilot Season: Hardcore #1
• Shinku #5
• Walking Deadl Weekly #52
• Weird World of Jack Staff #7
• Weird World of Jack Staff #8
• Witch Doctor Resuscitation One Shot

•  Alpha Flight #7
• Annihilators #4 (of 4)
• Astonishing X-Men #45
• Avengers Children's Crusade #8 (of 9)
• Avengers Solo #3 (of 5)
• Black Panther Most Dangerous Man Alive #527
• Captain America #5
• Captain America #6
• Captain America and Bucky #625
• Deadpool #48
• Dorothy and Wizard in Oz #4 (of 8)
• FF #13
• Iron Man 2.0 #12
• Kick Ass #6 (of 7)
• Marvel Adventures Spider-Man vol. 2 #21
• Mighty Thor #9
• Secret Avengers #20
• Ultimate Comics Ultimates #5
• Uncanny X-Men #3
• Vengeance #6 (of 6)
• X-Men Legacy #260

I will be acquiring Aquaman, Batman, Flash, Justice League Dark, Teen Titans, Uncharted, Alpha Flight, Annihilators, Avengers Children's Crusade, Avengers Solo, Black Panther, Captain America, Deadpool, FF, Mighty Thor, Secret Avengers, Ultiamtes and Uncanny X-Men. I still need to catch up on comics I have yet to read.

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Avengers Annual #1 Preview

Simon Williams, a.k.a. Wonder Man, went up against the New Avengers with his own Revengers, now they will go toe to toe with The Avengers in the upcoming Avengers Annual.

Story - Brian Michael bendis

Art - Gabriele Dell'Otto

Release Date - January 4, 2011

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Stylize Your 3DS With These Metal Gear Solid Accessories

If you want to spice up your 3DS with some Metal Gear Solid themed accessories, now is your chance. Well, not right now right now, but soon.

Konami has announced that they will be teaming up with accessory company Hori in order to release Metal Gear Solid 3 related accessories.

The accessory kit will include coming out are a olive drab pouch to hold your 3DS in, a stylish stylus and a protective cover and camo sticker for the inside of the handheld.

All this will be released on March 8th, same day as Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, as a kit and will cost 2,980 yen. Konami is currently reserving pre-orders at their online store.

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Minicraft 2 Being Worked On

Markus Persson has announced, via Tweeter, that a sequel to his hit Minecraft game is currently being worked on.


"Minecraft 2 is being worked on, for no good reason," says Persson on Twitter. "It needs a better name, though."


I'm not too sure how you would make a Minecraft sequel, but I'm more than interested to see what's going on.

 So, thanks to Titz for clarification, Persson is doing a sequel to Minicraft, not Minecraft. My apologies for not noticing that. For those that don't know what Minicraft is, Minicraft is a game that Persson made in under 48 hours.

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Kid Icarus: Uprising Will Have Multiplayer

With Nintendo's conference yesterday, news came out that Kid Icarus: Uprising will include multiplayer action; supposedly it's something that fans have been wanting multiplayer since the title was announced.

If you're wondering how the multiplayer works, then go ahead and watch the video below to see some single player and multiplayer.



Kid Icurus: Uprising is schedules to come out in March 2012 in the United States and Europe.

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Fire Emblem Kakuse Gets A Release Date

Today Nintendo has released footage and announced the release date for Fire Emblem: Kakuse.

The next Fire Emblem installment will be released on April 19 in Japan; there is no date for a North American and Europe release yet, that is if Nintendo wants to give us the game. Watch Satoru Iwata talk about Fire Emblem: Kakuse which I can't understand.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Is Doing Better And Better

Star Wars: The Old Republic is officially the fastest growing MMO according to new statistics from BioWare.

On top of having 28 million logged in hours, 3.8 created characters and more than 2 billion NPCs killed, The Old Republic now has:

• Over 60 million in-game hours — roughly equivalent to watching all six Star Wars movies over 4 million times.
• Over 850,000 Sith Warriors and over 810,000 Jedi Knights created.
• Over 260 million quests completed.
• Over 44 million PvP battles.
• Over 9 million space combat missions completed.
• Over 3 billion NPCs killed.

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Alan Taylor Directing Thor 2

Earlier this month it was announced that Penny Jenkins would no longer be directing Thor 2 due to creative differences, which left Marvel with no director. The day is saved though, thanks to Alan Taylor, who will now be directing the movie.

Alan Taylor has worked on some episodes for "Game of Thrones". Brian Kirk, who was the first person to be asked to work on Thor 2, is also a director of "Game of Thrones", but he turned down the offer of directing Thor 2 due to a creative and financial issues.

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Wii U Will Come Out Some Time After June

The release date for the Wii U is not sure at this moment by anyone, but Nintendo has announced that the release date window has been shrunk from between April and December 2012 to between June and December 2012. It is believed by some people that Nintendo will be announcing an exact release date at this year's E3 conference, which sounds possible.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Already A Big Hit

BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic is a big hit with it being released just three days ago. According to BioWare there are:

• Logged 28 million in-game hours – roughly equivalent to watching all six Star Wars movies, two million times.
• Averaged well over five hours a day playing the game.
• Created more than 3.8 million characters; 510,000 Jedi Knights and 550,000 Sith Warriors.
• Killed more than 2 billion non-player characters in the eight days since Early Game Access began.

It looks like this is the closest anyone has become to being a "WoW Killer". BioWare is claiming that Star Wars: The Old Republic is the fastest-growing MMO in history with it's millions of members in just a few days. 

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Capcom Is Opening A Bar

The world is full of unsuspecting twists and turns, and today Capcom has announced one of those unsuspecting things at us. Capcom is combining alcohol and (hopefully) video games into one thing - a bar.

Next year in Shinjuku, Tokyo Capcom will be opening a bar that will serve food and drinks inspired by their own games; maybe they will have Hadouken Punch with some Roll Cake as Guile's theme plays in the background.

The bar is to open on January 25th in Shinjuku's Pasela Resort, so if any of you readers are in the vicinity, go check it out.

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The Legend Of Zelda Timeline

With the release of Hyrule Historia, fans are going crazy about the once very secretive Legend of Zelda timeline. Those crazy theories were actually correct on the timeline, especially the split time line.

This is the official timeline that Eiji Aonuma has created.

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Nintendo Misspelled 'November' On Calendar

It seems like Nintendo has made a spelling error for the 2012 calendars that Elite Status Club Nintendo members received.

"As you may have noticed, we misspelled one of the months on the Year-view Calendar insert, included alongside your 2012 Club Nintendo Calendar Elite Status gift. (It's the month between October and December.)

We're really embarrassed and apologize for this oversight; we always want our rewards and gifts to be special. We would like to offer you a replacement Year-view Calendar insert."

If you are really concerned about the spelling error, you can receive another copy of the 2012 Nintendo calendar by clicking on a link that was attached to an e-mail that was sent to Elite Status Club Nintendo members; if you're not one, then sorry, you don't get a Nintendo calendar.

How I never noticed that November was misspelled as 'Nobember', I don't know, but I will never throw this calendar away just because of that reason. 

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David Jaffe Needs Help With Twisted Metal Box Art

David Jaffe, creator of Twisted Metal and God of War, needs help in deciding which box art should be used for Twisted Metal.

If you head over to his blog, you can see the five different options he has for people to vote for. Which ever box art gets the most vote might be used for the final version.

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PlayStation Vita Launch Titles And Accessories

In two months the PlayStation Vita will be hitting stores in North America and with that, Sony has announced the launch titles and accessories for when it comes out.

SCEA Launch Day Titles
Escape Plan (PSN Only)
Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational
Hustle Kings (PSN Only)
Little Deviants
ModNation Racers: Road Trip
Super StarDust Delta (PSN only)
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Wipeout 2048

Launch Window Titles
Gravity Rush
MLB 12: The Show
Reality Fighters
Unit 13

Third-Party Publisher Launch Day Titles
Army Corps of Hell (Square Enix, Inc.)
Asphalt Injection (Ubisoft, Inc.)
Ben10 Galactic Racing (D3 Publisher of America)
Blazblue: Continuum Shift Extend ( Aksys Games Localization, Inc.)
Dungeon Hunter Alliance (Ubisoft, Inc.)
Dynasty Warriors Next (Tecmo Koei America Corporation)
F1 2011 (Codemasters)
FIFA Soccer (Electronic Arts, Inc.)
Lumines Electronic Symphony (Ubisoft, Inc.)
Michael Jackson The Experience (Ubisoft, Inc.)
Plants vs. Zombies (PSN Only) (Sony Online Entertainment LLC)
Rayman Origins (Ubisoft, Inc.)
Shinobido 2: Revenge of Zen (Namco Bandai Games America Inc.)
Tales of Space: Mutant Blobs (PSN Only) (Drinkbox Studios)
Touch My Katamari (Namco Bandai Games America Inc.)
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (Capcom Entertainment, Inc.)
Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour Edition (Sega of America)

Launch Window Titles
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Warner Bros. Interactive Ent. Inc.)
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention (NIS America, Inc.)
Ninja Gaiden ∑ Plus (Tecmo Koei America Corporation)
Ridge Racer (Namco Bandai Games America Inc.)
Silent Hill Book of Memories (Konami Digital Ent. America, Inc.)
Supremacy MMA: Unrestricted (505 Games)

Accessory List
4 GB Memory Card $19.99
8 GB Memory Card $29.99
16 GB Memory Card $59.99
32 GB Memory Card $99.99
Starter Kit with Memory Card $39.99
In-Ear Headset $19.99
Carrying Case $19.99
Travel Pouch $19.99
Protective Film (2 pack) $9.99
Card Case $5.99
Cradle $19.99
AC Adaptor $14.99
USB Cable $14.99
Portable Charger $49.99 (out in Spring)
Car Adaptor $14.99 (out in Spring)

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Arkham City Lock Down Update

Finals are finally over, meaning I can now come back and start updating my blog in a fashionable order one again. To start things off, today I bring you news of an update for the Batman: Arkham City iOS version - Arkham City Lockdown.

The update gives players the ability to swap outfits for the Caped Crusader. One costumes is the Batman: Earth One costume based off of the series that was promised, but never released. The developers travels back in time for the next costume as Batman sports his look from the 1970s.

Costumes aren't the only thing that this update brings, it also allows iCloud, so you can save your game and pick it up from another i related device.

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Gears of War 3 Fenix Rising DLC Announced

Epic has just announced the next set of Gears of War 3 DLC, named "Fenix Rising" which will contain new maps, characters and a whole new "Re-up" system to get you hardcore gear heads a chance to keep earning experience and to show off your dedication.

Maps

- Academy: The lineage of the Fenix family can be traced back along a distinguished line of military officers. Officer training at the Oracle Academy was simply the expected path for Marcus, and he had visited the grounds many times in expectation that he would walk the same path as his ancestors. But it was not to be, and Marcus broke with tradition to be with his best friends Dom and Carlos. Like any number of fine Seran traditions, the Academy is now lost to the invasion of the Locust Horde.


-Anvil: The fortress of Anvegad was called Anvil Gate because its impenetrable walls were forged in the fires of war. Huge cannons sat atop battlements that guarded sprawling walls running the line of the UIR borders. Marcus went there to find Hoffman, and they both thought that Anvil Gate would offer protection from the incoming forces of Locust and Lambent. They were wrong, and little remains other than the ruined shell of a once mighty fortress.


-Depths: The excessive opulence of Azura defied all normal reasoning. But Adam Fenix could see the cracks in the veneer of splendor from the moment he arrived at this underwater processing center. And all that beauty mattered not at all once he was held captive by the Locust.


-Escalation: Haldane Hall has been the home of the Fenix family for countless generations. But the only history that matters to Marcus’s are his memories of warm summer evenings spent with his mother, Elain, relaxing in the estate’s gardens. Sadly, all the estate’s history and beauty was lost when the Locust destroyed it in an attempt to kidnap his father.(returning from gears 1)


-The Slab: Convicted for insubordination and treason, Marcus was incarcerated in Jacinto Maximum Security Prison. Known as “The Slab,” this prison is not a correctional facility – it’s a place where Sera’s worst offenders are locked up and forgotten. The inmates are brutal, parole is not an option, and the average life expectancy is about two years. But that was before the Locust showed up, and what couldn’t get worse, suddenly did. Now your life expectancy there is around two minutes.

Characters

Recruit Clayton

Thrasball Cole (limited edition)

Savage Marauder Drone

Savage Kantus (limited edition)

The Re-up System

This new leveling up experience will let you already Lvl 100's reset your level back to level 1, however you still keep all achievements, stats and unlocks. Much like the prestige system in Call of Duty. But it also rewards you with a new rank icon that lets lets other gears players know you've been around the block (bronze, red, green then gold). You can re-up four times and after every re-up after bronze you earn a brand new weapon skin.

-Re-up Plasma: Animated Gold Plasma (red)
-Re-up Omen: Shiny Crimson Omen (green)
-Re-Up Electric: Animated Golden Lighting Bolts (gold)

The new pack will be out very soon on January 15th and will cost 800 Microsoft Points for those who didn't purchase the season pass.

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The Legend Of Zelda Time Line Revealed

Eiji Aonuma And Miyamoto always remained strong at the hundreds of emails they'd receive about the timeline. They also said it would be kept secret, kept safe. But someone must have finally given into their fans shrieks of dismay, for it shall be revealed! In this lovely new book,
you will be able to find out everything you probably wanted to know. There is no news on release dates, or if there will be an American adaptation, but hopefully it shall be translated soon enough.

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Rocksteady Gives Free Batman Skin to Thank All Their Fans

Arkham City has been given many high praises this year as one of the best games of 2011, and as a huge success, Rocksteady has written a letter to their fans wanted to thank us by releasing a new Batman skin, free of charge.


The new Batman Inc. Skin will be available on all platforms and DLC, and as a bonus, Rocksteady has released an update that allows you to input a code on the menu screen that lets you choose to wear your favorite skin without having to beat the game first, that's old-school.

To activate this cheat code, input the code on your d-pad on the main menu after selecting your save slot. You will receive an audio confirmation that lets you select the skin of your choice. The code is:

-Left, Left, Down, Down, Left, Left, Right, Up, Up, Down.

Enjoy the treat everyone!

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8 Minute Footage Of Kingdom Hearts 3D

Want to see some beautiful footage of Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance? Well Square Enix has made it all possible. The Game has no release date for the West..but is going to be released sometime in March in Japan.

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Team Fortress 2 Presents Australian Christmas!

Valve is celebrating their second annual TF2 Christmas event, Australian style! Which means more Gordobot weapons, holiday themed items, and a whole new Map. This is Australian Christmas.


Engineer and Pyro have gotten brand new Dr. Gordobot item sets for themselves. Pyro gets the Moonman pack and Engy gets the Brainiac Pack.




They both get a new primary, secondary, melee, hat and misc. items that have a futuristic and alien-like theme. You can check their weapons on the TF2 Wiki.

Christmas time calls for Christmas items, and Valve has created a whole bunch of community items for the holiday season. This also means new crates! There is the new Naughty and Nice crates and keys. The "nice" crates can only be opened with "nice" keys and contain the Australian Christmas items, while the "naughty" crates and keys unlock a class's default weapon with Christmas lights, wrapped around them. There is a chance you can get one with a strange variation and still have a chance to unlock an unusual hat for both.
The biggest part of the update is the whole new control points map named Foundry.


Just a standard control points map, however there are 12 new achievements, all related to this map AND if you get 7 of them you unlock the new "Full Head of Steam" hat for all classes.If you want to be part of the festivities, then update TF2 on Steam right now before Australian Christmas is over.

"I want a Mmphmph-frmm-mumphhh"

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