Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag Release Date for Next Gen

Hi guys,

 I come to you will some sad news, that is if you live in America and are getting a PS4 at launch. The hit title from Ubisoft Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag will be releasing world wide on November 22nd, so if you wanted to get Black Flag at launch with your copy of your PS4 you can't. Because the game won't be releasing until a week after the PS4 is released in the USA! I find it quite odd that Ubisoft aren't making their game available to next gen consoles at the time the PS4 is released in America, I wouldn't have thought that week would be much use to anyone! Anyway there is also a new trailer for Black Flag, called Pirate Heist which you can feast your eyes on below!

I would like to stress that the current gen versions of this game will still be launching on November 1st, so you can still play it then.
Thanks for reading
Ed

Battlefield 4 Beta Details

Hi guys,
 The scene is set, the field is ready, the players; preparing, the developers baiting their breath. The time is fast approaching, the time when players will unite together to play the hell out of a beta. The beta of a game that will redefine what it means to make a shooter, a game that will redefine the definition of an immersive game.
     You can be in no doubt in your mind of the game with which I speak, Battlefield 4. Of which the beta is soon upon us. As you probably guessed from the title of this post, anyway let's get down the the new details of the beta.    

The only map that will be playable in the beta will be the first map we saw all the way back at E3 this year, and that is Seige of Shanghai, as I'm sure you remember the largest skyscraper in the map was destructible, you can see the building collapsing in the picture above. The two available game modes to play will be Conquest(4-5 flags to capture and get points from) and Domination, which is similar to Conquest Domination in BF3 except on a bigger scale. It is a great shame that both the modes are so similar in gameplay. I would have been very nice to see the flagship mode of Battlefield: Rush, as that would have shown the map of in a different light. Alas it is not the case, we will have to make do with those two modes and that one map for the beta. If my memory serves the full game will feature 10 maps(Including Seige of Shanghai and Paracel Storm) and 7 game modes. 

     

The beta is set for release on October 1st for certain people, and October 4th, I hope to see you all on the battlefield!

On one last thing, it is the European Women in Gaming Jobs convention, on the September 25th, keep up with what is going at the convention here.

Thanks for reading

Ed

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PS4 UI screens

Hi guys,

 Less than an hour a go Sony released 10 new screen shots of the UI(User Interface) of the PS4, I am sure you know that the XMB(Cross Media Bar) from the PS3 has been ditched in favour of a new more sleek looking menu system. Of the ten new shots three of them are from the upcoming Playstation app, and looks much smoother than the current app. Another screen shows the video editing software built into the PS4, then another shows the options for uploading the video/screen shot. The other four screen shots show nothing major other than they all heavily feature Knack, the new game by Mark Cerny, exclusive to the Playstaion family. With out further ado I will unleash the new screen shots onto your unbelieving mind!

Tell me what you think of the new shots in the comments below,

Thanks for reading,

Ed

Deep Down going to be free to play!

Hi guys,
 I would like you to cast your mind back to E3, when we had a snippet of gameplay from a new IP made by Capcom called Deep Down, for many people it looked good at the time, but it was no ones game of E3. Well I have some very good news that will make you want to go back and watch that gameplay again. Deep Down has been announced as being a Free To Play game! Yes that is right you will be able to raid the dungeons New York(you read right) with out having to take you wallet out once! I don't think it has been announced yet but it is a near certainty that there will be micro-transactions in the game, so you will be able to buy a flashy sword for about £1-3. The game is expected to go into beta shortly before the release of the PS4..... In Japan. There was also a new gameplay trailer released at TGS(Tokyo Game Show), you can check it out below.

The two time zones(similar to Assassins Creed) looks to add a new dimension(pun intended) to the game, so I very much look forward to it's release some time next year!
Thanks for reading
Ed

Is Treyarch trying to steal players back?

Hi guys,
 I am sure you have seen that GTA V was released less than a week ago(read my first impressions here), there are tons and tons of people playing GTA V, in the first 3 days it made $1,000,000,000 world wide, so suffice to say that practically every gamer is currently playing, it. Well Treyarch have said that this weekend(20-22 Sept 2013) you will earn double XP for everything you do in the game! Now personally I don't see this as a coincidence, I think Treyarch have seen that far fewer people are playing BO II than normal, and have thus decided that they should host a 2 XP weekend to try to remind people to play CoD. To be quite honest, I think it is petty and lame of them to resort to such tactics, and I personally will not be taking advantage of the 2 XP weekend, and instead blasting around Los Santos, having far more fun than I would playing Black Ops II.
     Shame on you Treyarch.
Thanks for reading,
Ed

My initial reaction to GTA V

Hi guys,
In this post I will be covering a little game that very few people are talking about, and you yourself may not have heard of, it goes by the name of Grand Theft Auto V! I will tell you all now that I have only played about an hour and a half so far, so my thoughts set out here will more than likely change before I review the game as a whole. To be honest I haven't explored a tenth of the full world, all I have done is: Rob a bank(oh and before I continue if you haven't already worked it out this will contain spoilers of the begging of the game), have "two" team mates die, get chased into the fog by armed police men, went to a therapist, stole two super cars, crashed one super car. No I'm not done but I'll just let you take a breath, taken one? Good, we shall carry on. Silenced a gardener, went sneaking round a dysfunctional family house, stolen another car, had a gun pointed at my head, crashed another car(getting the theme?), broken some windows, chased a 40ft boat, caught people falling of said boat at 50 MPH. Did I say that was just a hour and a half worth of gameplay? Well it was.

     There is only one major(ish) problem thing I have found during my time with GTA V, and that is the cross hairs whilst aiming, it may sound like a pretty small thing, and really, it is but it is definitely there. If you are in a semi-light environment then you are simply relying on the auto-aim to get you through a gun fight. I would say that is okay, but really it isn't. I whole heatedly advise that you don't take the auto-aim off, I think it would kill at the climactic gun fights. TENNIS, sorry it just slipped ROLERCOASTER, they are both outside the parameters of the main missions.
   

 I really do hope that you have had the opportunity to play GTA V, if you haven't go to the shops right now. Yes I know what you are doing is semi-important, but think of climbing a mountain using a mountain bike, then parachuting off, all from the comfort of your lounge!
   You can all expect my full review with in the next few weeks.
Thanks for reading,
Ed
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Minecraft For the PS4!

Hi guys,
 You have my apologies for my absence from the gaming news world, I have been on holiday and have there fore missed all of Gamescom! Fear not though as I am here to counteract that right now. Don't worry I am not going to bore you with the top news you have already seen from Gamescom..... well most of the top news anyway. The story I am by far most excited for is Minecraft coming to the PS3, PS4, AND the PS Vita! I don't believe we have a release date for the PS3 and Vita versions of the game, however we do know when the PS4 version will be released: Release day in their respective country's!

The one feature I really really really(you get the picture) hope is in the game is Mods, I know that you can't mod the 360 version of the game, but you can for the PC version. So surely the next generation of consoles are capable of dealing with the mods? Even if they had to limit the number of mods you can have active at any one time. That would be OK! If you have no idea what I am talking about with mods, it means modifying the game, all the different results, there are new block mods, to possibly the most famous mod, Tekkit or Feed the Beast. Both of which add a plethora of new content to the game. If you are still unconvinced as to if mods would be a good thing, just have a look at what people have done to the PC version here. Another smaller thing I would like to see, is infinite worlds, currently only the PC version has this feature I believe, and I think it would be a very good thing to see in the game.

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Minecraft is released on PS4 on release day in you respective country, and the PS3 and Vita versions will follow!
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Ed
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