For those of you who have read some of the initial press or reviews about Monolith’s eagerly awaited Gotham City Impostors, you’re most likely pretty stoked that it comes out tomorrow. If you haven’t, then get ready for, as Monolith puts it, “Over-the-top gameplay where players become personalized versions of the Bats and the Jokerz.” Yep, that’s right, you get to play as impostors of either The Caped Crusader or his insane and chaotic antagonist, The Joker. Did I mention it’s only $15?
If Mass Effect 3 is on your most wanted listed for 2012, I have a little treat for you this afternoon. Head over to your Facebook page and check out the new FB app called Mission Command. This is a direct promotion to go along side with the upcoming launch of Mass Effect 3.
OK, well maybe not free live time for all, but if you happen to be a silver member when downloading the upcoming ME3 multiplayer demo, Microsoft has a surprise for you.
As Epic promised, Gears of War 3 has some new content around the corner on January 17th. “Fenix Rising” will be a new muitplayer map pack that will take us back to the home of Marcus Fenix. You may remember playing through this segment as the “prologue” section of Gears 3. Not all the maps have been exposed, but this new list of achievements have surfaced on Epics website.
Gears of War 3’s “RAAMS Shadow” DLC launched today to kick of Gearsmas 2011. For the first crack at campaign DLC for Gears 3, it is fantastic. Epic places you in the boots of Zeta squad, a familiar yet fresh 4 man wrecking crew for the COG. The content take place prior to the events of Gears 1, just after E day, but also still ties in some familiar environments and faces.
It is already known that Skyrim sold a whopping 3.5 Million copies in its first two days, which may not seem like much for a AAA title, but for an RPG of this sort that is mighty impressive. So, it may be no wonder that after so many people were playing it while logged in to the Xbox Live service last week. Below is the full list of the top 20 games played by Xbox Live users. Skyrim ranks third and Battlefield 3 follows right behind in fourth.
You know, I thought Who Wants to Be a Millionaire died out when Regis Philbin left the show. Apparently I was wrong and it is still on air with Meredith Vieira as the host, continuing to be one of the most popular game shows on television. With that little tidbit, I would like to lead on to say that Deep Silver and doublesix have announced that the South Park version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire will be available for download on the PSN and Xbox Live on November 23rd. This is just the first of several different variations of this game that will become available in the coming year.
If you are one of the fortunate attendees of New York Comic Con this year, you will be the first to see the trailer for the new South Park game at the South Park panel this Friday. “South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge” will be available on Xbox Live this spring.
God knows how this happened, considering overflow bugs have been known about since the days of Pac-Man, and have been bugs in games such as Wiz ‘n’ Liz, Golden Axe 2, and several other games where a number going below zero verts it straight to 255, 65,535, or 4,294,967,295. XBox players who tried to get the Battlefield beta on the market saw the staggeringly high number.
Let me explain this from a more technical standpoint. 255, 65,535, and 4,294,967,295 are the highest numbers possible in certain bit numbers, with 4,294,967,295 being the highest possible number in 32-bit. In some programs not properly coded, an error can cause a number that goes below zero to wrap around to the highest possible number. Multiple games have a bug or two related to going over or under the limit that can be beneficial or ruin your entire game altogether. A few examples can be found on this page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cap
Regardless, this is simply a display error and users were able to get into the beta for free.
At this years BUILD conference, a Microsoft event centred around the innovations of Microsoft properties, it was announced that Windows 8 will have Xbox Live integration right out of the box. As Major Nelson puts it on his blog: “Bringing Xbox LIVE to Windows 8 is part of our vision to bring you all the entertainment you want, shared with the people you care about, made easy”
Microsoft recently confirmed to a leading gaming website, Eurogamer, that it will integrate Games for Windows Marketplace into Xbox.com by the 11th of July in a bid to provide a more unified and accessible cross platform system for accessing, purchasing and downloading games. Additionally, Microsoft confirmed that all user account details will remain the same and that users can still use their Xbox Live profiles in PC games and communicate with their PC counterparts.
Microsoft is quickly trying to become relevant in the mobile space against giants like Apple and Android, and they’re doing a fine job at it. Windows Phone 7 features Live enabled games that will net achievement hungry gamers some extra gamerscore, while also being a cut above the rest of the downloadable games currently on the service. Only problem is the Games Hub is nearly a mess and fairly disjointed.
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