Samantha Ryan, Senior Vice President, Production and Development, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment:

“Gotham City Impostors is a unique first-person multiplayer shooter that delivers a completely different Batman experience that is irreverent, fun and humorous,”

“The game is unlike any other on the market today and gives fans the opportunity to play the game in whichever way they want to play.  We can’t wait to see reactions from players wreaking havoc in Gotham City.”

Players can engage in deliriously fast paced, uniquely vertical, and completely unconventional urban warfare where progress supports leveling up and access to a mind-boggling array of customization options. Unlock new Bats or Jokerz costumes and build your own specific loadout from a huge assortment of traditional and homebrew weaponry, equipment, and perks. Gadgets such as the Glider Rig, Grappling Hook, and Spring Boots give gamers unprecedented mobility options, while support items like the Bear Traps, Boomerang, and Body Armor open up new tactical options.

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The game features five maps and four modes inspired by DC Comics’ Batman license.  The maps include Crime Alley, Amusement Mile, Ace Chemical, The Docks and Gotham Power. Also in March there will be new content available for FREE which includes a new “25^th Floor” map, as well as over 100 new customization options including weapons, support items, costumes and calling card elements. Gamers can choose from several gameplay modes – Team Deathmatch, Fumigation or Psych Warfare modes – and engage in all-out combat, or they can choose the Challenges mode, a single-player mode that allows players to safely explore the different maps and practice using different weapons, support items and gadgets.

As a high-end console case, the engineering team at Calibur11 have ensured that the Vault promotes cooling of consoles for optimal performance, providing superior airflow by lifting the console off the ground, allowing the fan to work at its best ability. In addition, it features a controller/headset cradle and a light up N7 logo.

Phu Tien of Calibur11:

“It’s been fantastic to be teaming up with EA again for the release of Mass Effect 3. As huge fans of the game ourselves, we wanted to offer something really special that enhances the game experience,“

”With the exclusive Mass Effect 3 armour design including a Commander Shepard textured chest piece, this is a must for any Mass Effect 3 fan.”

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There’ll be more packs like these on the way offering more Coliseum Battles to tackle and more characters to add to your team. Serah’s Azrael bow is also available to buy today as DLC for 80 Micrsoft Points, exclusively for Xbox 360 players. You can purchase the Opponent: Lightning & Amodar pack now for 240 Microsoft Points here. Also it will be available  for £1.59 on the PlayStation Network when it’s released tomorrow (8th Feb 2012).

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While there have also been a large number of lightcycle games developed for every platform imaginable in the past, with Positron the aim was to design a new experience. It should also feel familiar but offer new and interesting challenges and game modes to challenge the player. One of the first design decisions that was made was to stay away from the boring open arena gameplay. While that is still included as a mode in the game, there is also have much more complex layouts and even include a level editor so the player can design their own levels which are dynamically built from a simple 2D pixel-map (a video of the editor in action will be posted this week).

Retroburn also said that the visual style of the blocks in the game world was designed to be simple, cover a large portion of the screen and use as few polygons to render as possible. We also wanted to show reflections of the world geometry, bikes and trails too. In early builds we would render two copies of everything, one translated beneath the ground plane and one above providing realistic looking reflections. As development continued we wanted to optimize this as much as possible and we now use a number of tricks to render the world in a much more efficient manner which even the Windows Phone 7 devices can handle with full reflections.

The bikes themselves have been designed to look fast, with minimal texturing. The game will launch with three bikes included and we intend to add more content as time progresses. The trail effect is relatively simple, nothing too special there but we did add in a few particle effects for sparks under the bike’s wheels while driving. This made the bikes feel grounded and provided a consistent visual effect to help make the scene more lively.

The chase camera went through quite a number of iterations before we reached the current version. During testing we accidentally changed some settings of the camera and thought it looked cool when turning that we got a side-shot of the bike. We kept this in the current camera with an elastic snap-back to the bike’s tail. This gives a unique cornering animation which looks cool as you go swerving around the corners on the map.

Overall we’re now very happy with the way Positron looks and feels. While this video was only intended as a VFX Preview there is so much more to the game than you’re seeing here and we will be showing that in a few upcoming gameplay videos later this week. We hope you like the video and please do comment or leave feedback.

Here is the video/trailer.

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Source: http://retroburngames.com/press/positron_vfx_preview_trailer_in_more_detail

No smokes, no shotguns, only Torque Bow pickups and single shot Snub. Just like last week, the Snub is loaded with just one shot capable of popping heads! Don’t forget to use the Thrashball Drone if you’re on the Locust team. There are only a few days left to play with this exclusive skin.

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The township of Riverspring will be one of the many places the 2 heroes of the game – Mors, sworn brother of the Night’s Watch, and Alester, the Red Priest – will have to explore but also to fight through. From King’s Landing and Red Keep to the Wall, an Epic quest awaits our heroes, guided by revenge, loyalty, honor, and family, along a twisting plot filled with betrayal and violence.

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Discover all of this in May 2012 with Game of Thrones on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC!

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Martin Sheen reprises his role as Illusive Man along with other fan favorites like Seth Green, Keith David, and Jennifer Hale. Jessica Chobot makes her in-game debut as Diana Allers, and Freddie Prinze Jr. is Shepard’s latest recruit, James Vega.

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Get downloading and take part in what could easily be this years number 1 futuristc shooter.

I announced the demo a few posts back, here in fact. To celebrate, and announce, the release of the demo, developer Starbreeze (known for The Darkness and Chronicles of Riddick) have made a little video to give you some help.

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Ken Rosman, Studio Head, Radical Entertainment said:

“Radical Entertainment has always focused on bringing long lasting fun to its fans, and PROTOTYPE 2’s RADNET content is our way of rewarding the game’s most loyal supporters – the early adopters, the one’s who will replay it over and over again,”

“We think this is great because we’re giving our fans hours of additional gameplay outside PROTOTYPE 2’s main narrative, and cool rewards – all delivered weekly following the game’s launch!”

The sequel to Radical Entertainment’s best-selling open-world action game of 2009, PROTOTYPE 2 takes the unsurpassed carnage of the original PROTOTYPE and continues the experience of becoming the ultimate shape-shifting weapon.  As the game’s all-new infected protagonist, Sgt. James Heller, players will cut a bloody swathe through the wastelands of post-viral New York Zero with unparalleled locomotion, building up a vast genetic arsenal of deadly, biological weapons and abilities as they hunt, kill and consume their way toward the ultimate goal – to kill…Alex…Mercer!

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Robert Bowling creative strategist at Infinity Ward confirmed the MW3 patch 1.08 for Xbox contains:

• improved lag comp
• theater fixes
• YouTube uploads are now 100x faster
• nerf to Striker (pellets reduced to 6)
• buffs to all other shotguns (9 pellets)
• all akimbo weapons nerfed (rate of fire reduced by 50%)
• fix to an issue that prevented some users from receiving prestige token after prestiging

It will require 5MB of space for download. Presently the patch is solely intended for the Xbox 360 however Infinity Ward has stated the PC and Playstation 3 versions will follow soon. “The PS3 version of the patch had PS3 exclusive updates that delayed it slightly” stated Bowling.