Late last month PopCap let us know that the iPhone/iPod touch version of Plants vs. Zombies would be seeing a delay to mid-February. However, we weren’t notified of an exact release date, until now. PopCap, along with releasing the above trailer, has officially announced that Plants vs. Zombies will be hitting the App Store for use with the iPhone and iPod touch on February 15th, 2010.
We’ve yet to hear of a price for the game but we can’t see it being too high.
Those anxiously awaiting a new Ghost Recon game will be happy to hear that Ubisoft has today announced Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. They have supplied us with the above logo and have said that the game is to feature both singleplayer and multiplayer gameplay.
Additionally, those who purchase Splinter Cell: Conviction for the Xbox 360, which comes out on April 13th, will get access to GR:FS‘ beta. Unfortunately, that’s all the information we currently have but we’ll be sure to keep you updated as Ubisoft tells us more.
When I first purchased BlazBlue I have to say, I was quite intrigued by its ridiculously fast paced gameplay. However, the fact that it only has 12 characters was quite disappointing. Luckily, Arc System Works has since announced BlazBlue: Continuum Shift which will include, presumably, a new cast of characters for us to mess around with (unless you actually know what you’re doing).
One of those new characters was revealed today thanks to Kotaku, a character called μ-12, pictured above. μ-12 will be voiced by Kanako Kondou, the voice actress behind Noel Vermillion and V-13 from BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger.
Unfortunately there is no North American release date for BlazBlue: Continuum Shift but it will be making its way to Japanese shores for the PS3 and Xbox 360 sometime this summer.
The original BioShock, released back in 2007, is arguably one of the most atmospheric games ever made, and also, one of the most original. So it was no surprise that a sequel would eventually be released, and despite concern that it’s made by a new development team, and despite the fact that the main protagonist of BioShock 1 is out, BioShock 2 is everything one might expect from a sequel: it delivers in almost every way one expected.
In case you’re not familiar with BioShock, it centers around the failed world of Rapture, set in a retro futuristic underwater city where you at first was introduced to it (in the original), but now, you play as Big Daddy himself, one of the massive creatures that was your main nemesis in the first game. BioShock 2 takes place 10 years after the original ended, where Rapture creator Andrew Ryan was defeated, and as mentioned, you play as Big Daddy, and you have a little sister to protect as well. And while you can still harvest or save the girls, you can now also adopt them as well. Read the rest of the BioShock 2 review
If you’re one of our loyal readers you may remember that back in April of last year, Sony brought their free to play MMORPG, Free Realms, out of beta. Well, it’s been some time since we’ve heard about the game but now Sony has issued a press release that says the game has amassed over 8 million players.
John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, comments:
“Free Realms is more than just a virtual world for our players; it is a portal for imagination. A place where players transform their house into a jumping maze for friends to compete or a petting zoo that boasts all their pets. Our job as developers is to listen to and predict what they want and give them the tools that inspire and compel them to share their experiences with eight million others.”
So have you checked out Free Realms? I mean it is free, after all.
I must say, I was a bit skeptical about the LEGO Star Wars series before I was actually able to get my hands on it. Once I was, I realized the game was actually pretty damn fun. However, no matter how fun it is it doesn’t exactly get me excited for the recent announcement of LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars.
The latest addition to the LEGO Star Wars franchise will be based on the animated series entiteld, you guessed it, The Clone Wars. Both seasons of said series will be included in the game alongside a new and improved level builder, head-tohead combat moves and all new abilities.
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars will be made available this fall for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PC DS and PSP.
Gamers who have been around since the late 90s have undoubtedly heard of Medal of Honor. It’s a Call of Duty-esque FPS set in a variety of time zones including WW2. Well now, with the popularity of games set in modern day like Modern Warfare 2 and the forthcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2, EA and DICE have decided to reboot the MoH franchise with a similar setting.
Well, with the announcement that Dead Space 2 and the next Dragon Age are set for a 2011 launch, EA has said that Medal of Honor will be launching in Q2 of 2011.
We don’t know much about the game other than the fact that it will be set in Afghanistan and, of course, be an FPS.
Dead Space fans waiting for a sequel will be happy to hear that EA has just dated the game for a 2011 release. Of course, you’re probably not too happy to hear it considering you have to wait over a year to get your hands on it. Additionally, EA has also told us that Dragon Age 2 (or whatever the sequel is to be called) will also be hitting store shelves sometime in 2011.
But that’s not all as EA has also listed the two sequels as having a future presence on “handheld platforms” which could mean anything from the DS and PSP to the iPhone and iPod touch, or all over the above.
We’ll let you know as more information is made known about the two sequels.
Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux has not only stated that lots of Fable 3 details will be spilled at the upcoming X10 event, but also that people would be “pissed off”;
“There’s some very, very big things happening in Fable. Bigger than you think, and it’s going to really upset people. They’re going to get super pissed off, they really are.”
Maybe they’ve got something really interesting to showcase, or Molyneux is really just hyping the game up. However, considering he’s not really a PR master, we’re now quite interested in the upcoming X10 event.
According to G4TV’s Geoff Keighley, he managed to get a sneak peak at the upcoming LA Noire in the upcoming issue of Game Informer, and he notes via Twitter that the game is set for a September 2010 release on the PS and Xbox 360. We’ll know for sure as soon as Game Informer is out.
The original BioShock, released back in 2007, is arguably one of the most atmospheric games ever made, and also, one of the most original. So it was no surprise that a sequel would eventually be released, and despite concern that it’s made by a new development team, and despite the fact that the main protagonist of BioShock 1 is out, BioShock 2 is everything one might expect from a sequel: it delivers in almost every way one expected.
