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Home » MacCentralCafe News » Gaming News“[LEGO Universe is] really about the creative mind shaping the universe around us — shaping a pile of bricks into something meaningful is an expression of this idea,” says creative director Ryan Seabury. He also calls LEGO “a language all its own,” one you’ll become highly fluent in after spending time in this massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Not only will you complete missions and earn lots of cool loot, but you’ll also have the chance to make a major impact on the game with a personal piece of property where you can build awesome creations to your heart’s content.
“We always come back to the assassin’s creed: nothing is true, everything is permitted,” development team member Jean-Francois Boivin tells us. Dig deep into a centuries-old conflict between assassins and Templars in Assassin’s Creed II. Desmond Miles again revisits an ancestor’s memories to learn an assassin’s ways and seek out the artifacts known as Pieces of Eden. This time, that ancestor is a man named Ezio in fifteenth century Renaissance Italy. Travel with us and learn what it means to be a blade in the crowd.
Return to the Pacific theater of World War II in Battlestations: Pacific, which features a pair of 14-mission action/strategy campaigns: lead the Allies beyond 1942’s Battle of Midway and through the climactic Battle of Okinawa in 1945, or ask “What if?” and control the Japanese navy as it scores several key victories and returns to Hawaii for a final confrontation. Five multiplayer modes let you take your strategic thinking online for fast-paced combat with up to seven other gamers.
Supreme Commander 2 boasts numerous game enhancements, in-depth Campaign Mode, multiplayer online and a unique storyline that represents a new dimension in real-time strategy gaming.
The strictures of a review really aren't adequate to quantify the experience waiting for players in Asura's Wrath. Of course there are mechanics and systems and gauges, all of that, and I will endeavor to explain them, but understand that what follows falls well short of fully encapsulating the experience. About 380,000 kilometers too short.
Continue reading Asura's Wrath review: Wrecking the curve
Asura's Wrath review: Wrecking the curve originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
And there have already been a few "post-modern" guitar games, most notably Power Gig: Rise of the Six-String and Rocksmith, which both involve real guitars rather than their plastic counterparts, and which suggest that strumming along with real songs and strings might actually teach real musical skill (a promise that neither was able to land with any amount of success).
And so it's interesting that Realta Entertainment Group has chosen this moment to step out with its premiere product, called BandFuse: Rock Legends. It's a music game that uses a real, live electric guitar, plugged into a video game console, as its controller. We've ... we've been down this road before, right?
Continue reading BandFuse: Rock Legends attempts a music game with real guitars ... again
BandFuse: Rock Legends attempts a music game with real guitars ... again originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Well, it seems the developer has gone one step further and slipped in the female Shepard on the reverse cover of Mass Effect 3 (standard edition). Sure, she's not black yet, but we'll take a partial truth for the time being.
Check out BioWare's unboxing video after the break.
Continue reading Mass Effect 3 standard edition contains reversible FemShep cover
Mass Effect 3 standard edition contains reversible FemShep cover originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
The PlayStation Vita just got moderately more useful. A suite of apps is available today on the PlayStation Store including Flickr, Netflix, and "LiveTweet." That's the name of the Twitter app. No, we don't know why.
If you're a new Vita owner, you can get them all right now through the PlayStation Store. If you're a prospective Vita owner just waiting to see how the Netflix app shook out, you can see for yourself in this walkthrough from Engadget.
PSA: Twitter, Netflix, and Flickr now available for Vita originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
