As you may know, our very own Editor-in-Chief Rob Thomas, Associate Editor Sage Knox and Contributing Editor Aubrey Klanecky are over at PAX this week, schmoozing with all manner of big name developers and highly anticipated games. One such developer happens to be Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and they’re showing off their future lineup over at “It’s Like E3, Only Better.”
Seeing as they’ve been gracious enough to share all these Super Scribblenauts screens with us, it’s only fair that we in-turn share them with you. So whip out that dictionary, start thinking outside the box and oogle these new shots (and a list of features) after the jump.
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Set your calendars, fellow Monster Hunter junkies, because come December 1st you’ll be able to import a third (technically a fourth) epic hunt-a-thon for way too much money. But oh, will it ever be worth it.
There aren’t many specifics available at this time, but it’s been confirmed that the aptly-named Monster Hunter Portable 3rd will include new monsters and gear (obviously), as well as some new zones. Will it be a portable version of Monster Hunter Portable Tri (*pictured*)? It seems likely but we won’t know for certain until this year’s TGS, where Kotaku has stated there will be a playable version available for hogging. So, stay tuned for more info, I’ll be watching this game like a hawk and telling everyone who will listen all about it. Sure there’s no US release listed yet, but given the series’ history it’s practically a given.
[Via: Kotaku]
Some of you may recall that Telltale Games announced their Back to the Future game a while back. If not, you know now. But that’s not the big news. The big news is that the man himself, Christopher Lloyd, will be providing the voice for Doctor Emmet Brown in the planned five episode series.
US Today has reported that the esteemed thespian will indeed be voicing Doc Brown. Not only that, Bob Gale (the screenplay writer for all three movies) will be working with Telltale on the story. There will be a DeLorean. There will be visits to Hill Valley. There will be Gigawatts. And who knows? There just might be a Day of the Tentacle-esque time travel mechanic. Are we excited now? I think we are.
[Via: USA Today]
So you wake up, grab some breakfast, and fire up your console of choice to get some gaming in before you start your day. You load up some Dragon Age: Origins and laugh at the wacky antics of Shale, the stone golem with a hatred of all things chicken. After killing a few darkspawn you still have some time to kill so you swap discs and go online to play some Tiger Woods with a friend. You cap it all off by jumping into Mass Effect 2 to try out the controls of the new Hammerhead hovercraft.
Or maybe you don’t. You see, you’re a money-conscious gamer who can’t buy all of your games brand new on day one, so you picked up these games used at GameStop. And everything I just mentioned — the Shale DLC, online play in Tiger Woods, and the “Cerberus Network” of free DLC in Mass Effect 2 — is free only to those who bought the game new.
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So. The PlayStation 3 lets people play games online and watch Netflix streaming for free. You run a competing console that charges for the same services. What do you do? You drop the price of your online service, offer it for free, or enhance your features to justify the price difference, right?
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Xbox Live Indie-Dome is a weekly feature where we sift through the Xbox Live Indie Games Marketplace to find the best and worst... so you don't have to!
Welcome once again (and again, and again) to still one more edition of the Indie-Dome. This week has been… interesting to say the least. Just skip ahead to the likes of The ADVENTURES of CAPTAIN Becky to see what I’m talking about. Are you back? Okay, good.
So it’s been a weird week filled with weird games, but I like weird so it hasn’t been all bad. It’s actually been fairly middle-of-the-road barring a few exceptions. So anyway, these are the games that came out between August 16th and 22nd and this is what I think about them.
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Soundtrack Spotlight is a weekly CFD! feature devoted to all things VGM. Every week we celebrate the best in game music, highlight new releases and forgotten tracks, and bring you the best in auditory awesomeness.
I could gush at length about how everyone should buy the wrongfully overlooked Blueberry Garden and experience its deceptively simple gameplay and dynamic environment, but our own Scott Thompson has already addressed this urgent matter in his review of the game from last year.
Instead, we’ll focus solely on one very important part of the Blueberry Garden experience. The music in Blueberry Garden was actually originally composed by a UK artist known as Daduk, though these relatively dour piano tracks are a consistent complement to the quasi-mysterious, almost lonesome feeling one gets when exploring the Garden.
Blueberry Garden is currently $5 on Steam, and the music featured in it can be downloaded here. I highly suggest you acquire both.
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With its stunning, hand-painted scenery and animation, lovable characters and Studio Ghibli feel, you’d be forgiven for thinking that The Whispered World was a children’s animated film, bringing back memories of watching Disney classics with your Grandma and crying at The Lion King (That wasn’t just me, right?).
A homage to classics in the point-and-click adventure genre, The Whispered World has the potential to become a classic in its own right. A modern fantasy set in a nostalgic world, the game follows the adventures of Sadwick — melancholy clown — and his pet caterpillar Spot, who turns out to be infinitely more useful than your average everyday bug.
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We’ve meant to post this for a little while now, but to be perfectly and totally honest with you, planning for it has left us so frazzled that it’s only a week out that we’re actually getting around to making a formal, official announcement on the site.
Crush! Frag! Destroy! will be at PAX Prime 2010.
Well, three of us will be, at least. That’s still better than nothing, right?
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Welcome one and all to another CFD! bi-weekly feature! This here is our new bi-weekly report on free games. Not just free games, but free games that are exceptionally awesome and you need to play. Basically, they’re Free Games What Need Playing.
Some may be browser-based and others might require a download, but they’re all free and very much worth your time. They won’t all be brand-spanking new, but just because they’ve been floating around the internet for a while doesn’t mean everyone has heard of them before, right? So with that in mind, I present to you this week’s Games What Need Playing.
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In the interest of full disclosure: I fucking loved Dragon Age: Origins. It was my game of the year of 2009 and it made my wife into a gamer, so it will always hold a soft spot in my heart. I would have that game’s baby and never ask for child support.
Aside from the nearly criminal visuals, only one thing bothered me about the game: Where did Morrigan go? Without spoiling anything from Origins, let’s just say that everyone’s favorite swamp witch left with something that belonged to the Grey Warden, and the recent Dragon Age II article in Game Informer hinted that I’d have to wait for the sequel next March to get the nail-biting conclusion.
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Students at Wabash College this spring will be putting down their textbooks and picking up a controller, according to one teacher.
Michael Abbot, a professor at Wabash and editor of gaming community site The Brainy Gamer, has revealed that “alongside Gilgamesh, Aristotle’s Politics, John Donne’s poetry, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and the Tao Te Ching, freshmen at Wabash will also encounter a video game called Portal.” The game will be played in a new course called “Enduring Questions,” a class “devoted to engaging students with fundamental questions of humanity from multiple perspectives.”
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Two apologies right off the bat.
First, I’m sorry for the lateness of this episode. Planning for PAX and other things have been making sending those of us at CFD!’s home base running all over the place like the proverbial headless chicken. Let’s just pretend last week didn’t happen and that the show is only like, a day or so late, okay?
Secondly, I’m sorry as to the rough audio quality of this episode. Scott, our regular podcast guru, has been indisposed the last few weeks as he prepares to move into his newly purchased home, which is also part of the reason we haven’t recorded in a bit. Thankfully, George from Press Pause Radio stepped up, not only in being an awesome guest but also in recording the whole mess for us.
However, seeing as this was my first time editing a show together, I wasn’t exactly paying attention to volume levels and there’s a lot of clipping during the musical breaks (which you’ll also note are a bit longer than our usual breaks — that part I don’t feel sorry for. Screw you. I like music, okay?). This was in no way a flub on George’s end — it was all my lack of audio mixing skills combined with me being tired and frustrated at programs crashing over and over again.
So, provided you can get past the sound quality, we hope you enjoy this epic crossover of epic epicness between Crush! Frag! Destroy!, Press Pause Radio and Spawn Kill. And extra thanks to George and Stephanie for being awesome guests.
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You may remember back around the time of the contest for the early Halo: Reach beta codes, we asked how you felt about the idea of setting up forums and if you felt they were necessary to the formation and expansion of an online community. Many of you said you thought they were very important, if not essential. After all, not everybody likes to leave comments on posts and if we don’t happen to do a story about something particular that you want to talk about, you’re left without a place for your voice. Forums allow you to direct the flow of conversation with both your fellow readers and CFD!’s staff, which is a win/win for everybody.
However, as you may remember, CFD! is completely run out-of-pocket by yours truly. Web hosting, podcast hosting, non-donated prizes; all of this costs money, sadly, and the site does not make enough on its own to be self-sustaining. If it were, we’d be doing a lot more cool stuff, like improving the site and giving away a lot more free stuff.
This is where you guys come in.
Yep, you guessed it. It’s Fundraiser Time.
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Like Christmas coming on the 25th of December or Independence Day on the 4th of July, you can set your clock to the release of EA Sports’ latest Madden football title. Every 2nd Tuesday in August not only marks the beginning of the NFL season for many fans, it also signals the onslaught of autumn video game releases. Madden’s certainly a big deal; gamers buy new consoles for the next edition of Madden, for goodness’ sake.
There’s no question that EA Tiberon cares just as much about the game of football itself as they do their famous simulation based upon it, but the short development cycle usually allows for only a handful of small touches and refinements to be made over last year’s title. The question that arises every August is a simple one: is it better than the previous Madden, or should I skip this year?
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Rob Thomas
Rob Rich
Sage Knox
Beki Sutcliffe
Dustin Stevens
Jason Smith
Scott Thompson
Aubrey Klanecky
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