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At the Penny Arcade Expo, I was lucky enough to see a presentation on Funcom’s third MMO, ‘The Secret World,’ which is set in the modern day. The world is being controlled by hidden puppet masters, now in the fourth age, where cabals rule the world, and the conspiracies everyone previously thought were a joke, turn out to all be true. Pandora’s box may truly be opening, and it may be full of vampires, demons and zombies.
Today we have the first screenshots ever available for the game here on SI and of course, more juicy details (and screenshots!) are after the break.
So before we get into this week's review I'd like to thank LadyZyre for participating in last week's challenge! She will be awarded with 3000 Wasabits and of course all internet front page fame. There will be no challenge this week unfortunately. Awwww, so sad.
Yes, the title of this article is correct. No, there is not a flash game for Arkham Asylum nor did I fall down a large flight of stairs and hit my head really hard convincing myself there is. I just felt that it would be appropriate for this Workless Wednesday article if I reviewed the game I was too busy playing to actually write a Workless Wednesday article. How ironic, I know. Now stop playing that Alanis Morissette song on loop in your head. There is nothing ironic about a black fly Chardonnay, moving on.
Ahem, I'm here today to talk to you about Batman:Akrham Asylum which is a steathly action adventure title with a linear sandbox gameplay. It's brought to us by developer Rocksteady Studios and published by Eidos Interactive in conjunction with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Comics. The basic storyline of the game is that the Joker has taken over Arkham Asylum through his sneaky ways and has released all the inmates while trapping you, Batman, on the island. Here's the short of it for those of you who are comic challenged. You are on an island filled with deranged psychopathic super villains. You have a batarang. Surely this is what people mean when they say, "Up shit creek without a paddle."
More After The Break
OK, so today marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Sega's last console, The Dreamcast. For those of you who don't know, The Dreamcast was a revolutionary console, not only was it the first of the 128bit generation, but it was the first console capabale of going online, surfing the internet and was a precursor to the gaming loveliness now known as XBOX Live. The Dreamcast was ill-fated despite a strong line up of games, especially those of the Japanese scrolling shoot-em-up many years after the console was abandoned everywhere else in the world, and still has a small yet thriving homebrew scene. I owned, loved and cherished mine and regret the day I sold it....Oh well.
Anyway, the reason I tell you this is that Sega had all but announced they weren't planning anything special for the occasion, no big party, no disc full of classic Dreamcast games like Sonic Adventure, Headhunter or Crazy Taxi 2. And that saddened me, and I'm sure many gamers across the world, as it seemed the final nail in the coffin of that long gone console had been banged in.Those days of Sega goodness finally dead, that had since been murdered by the newer Sonic games and other attrocities, it's world famous characters all over the Nintendo and Microsoft consoles. The world would never be the same again. Not even one fleeting glimpse of Old School Sega memories, just for old times sake. Nostalgia really was a thing of the past.....
Until now.
Today, on the anniversary of that last great Sega console, Sega cheekily announced that in a move taking it's cues from Nintendo and their recently announced release of a new Mario 2D game that the same was happening for our beloved blue hedgehog. Yes, Sonic is coming and this time in an all new 2D old school style adventure for next year. Yes, that's right! Sonic is coming back and in the style gamers of over a certain age will remember with dewey eyed and sticky trousered googdness, in the way Sonic was meant to be. None of this, werewolf transforming, squeaking Knuckles in an airplane nonesense, just good old fashioned, 2D jumping, spinning, bouncing and ring collecting joyfulness.
The game is codenamed Project Needlemouse and has been announced for 2010. It will be in glorious HD and is certain to make eyes bleed and 30-something gamers very happy indeed. There is a trailer here at Gamespot, check it out, weep tears of joy and please don't be too shy to sing along...”SEEEEEEGAAAA”
The XBOX 360 version of Batman Arkham Asylum is getting its' first piece of DLC on September 17th, and to make it all the more special the content is set to be free.
No actual details have been announced as to what the DLC will actually be, but there are a few rumours flying around that it may simply be just another challenge room. Another rumour is that the DLC may be the same challenge rooms that feature the Joker, who at this time is an exclusive PS3 playable character, but without The Joker. And the other rumour, which was “announced” on UK magazine, XBOX World 360's Twitter page suggests that The Joker may be coming to the XBOX 360 as a playable character too.
The upshot of it all is though that whatever the content is, it's free DLC for the game which only came out at the tail end of last month, and free is enough to get anyone excited especially in a game that is frankly just awesome.
Last night saw a very special press event at a Tokyo science museum which showcased and previewed the hotly anticipated Square Enix title Final Fantasy XIII. A release date of December 17th was confirmed for Japan with a “spring” release announced for the rest of the world.
This date comes as no huge shock to those watching the game as the December 17th date was leaked on the Square Youtube site recently and now the date has been confirmed at least some of those Final Fantasy fanboys can sleep soundly knowing that their game is soon to be arriving.
On the subject of European and American releases Square Enix Boss Yoichi Wada had this to say. "In the past, it's taken a year or half a year to release our games abroad, but this time we are aiming for an international release this Spring". This suggests that this time around this side of the pond won't be third in the queue for the game's release and that we may get it the same time it hits American stores.
The game will retail in Japan at a rather steep ¥9240 with tax which works out to be around $100US. Other than the “spring” date, us Westerners still have no idea when we'll be getting our sticky little fingers on the game, nor how much it will cost us.
