Cartoon Network fans will be hugely excited to learn that there will be three games coming this fall based on award-winning series from the popular television channel, announced by D3Publisher (D3P) and  Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE). Hitting the shelves later this year will be Adventure Time: Explore The Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW!, Regular Show: Mordecai And Rigby In 8-Bit Land and the next addition in the series of Ben 10 games, Ben 10 Omniverse 2. 

Players will be able to escape into a world playing as their favourite TV stars, Mordecai and Rigby, Ben and Rook, Ben and Jake. This is the first game created for the much loved Regular Show, which will unfortunately only be released on Nintendo 3DS. Luckily, the other two will be released on Wii U, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, allowing many more fans to delve into their wondrous cartoon universes.

In a recent interview, Pete Yoder, vice president of Cartoon Network Enterprises says, “With strong creator involvement and a sense of what games our fans want to play, we’re excited to build on the tremendous success of last year’s Adventure Time game and extend it across all consoles, as well as introduce our first-ever Regular Show game and continue the global excitement around an all-new Ben 10 game.”

Do you think the games are worth purchasing? And should more emphasis be put on creating video games based on popular children TV shows?

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Video Games: The Movie is a feature length document that dives our industry and shines will attempt to shine a mainstream spotlight on many of the fallacies that plague it while highlighting its past and future.  From fallacies such as violent video games causing violent behavior, to things we can be produ of like the spectacular growth of today’s Gamer Culture, to how the video game industry will look in 1 year, 10 years, 100 years from now.

Video Games: The Movie will showcase the evolution of industry via four sections: The History, The Culture, The Creation and The Future through insightful interviews. Participants include Rob Pardo (CCO, Blizzard Entertainment), Mark Rein (vice president, Epic Games), Cliff Bleszinski (Gears of War, Unreal Tournament), Nolan Bushnell (founder of ATARI), Brian Fargo (founder, Interplay & InXile), David Perry (co-founder, GAIKAI), Randy Pitchford (president, Gearbox), Palmer Luckey (creator of the Oculus Rift), Kudo Tsunoda (Corp. VP, Microsoft Game Studios) as well as some of geek & gamer culture’s leading celebrities such as Wil Wheaton, Chris Hardwick, Max Landis and Alison Haislip.

KICKSTARTER TO BRING VIDEO GAMES: THE MOVIE TO THE SILVER SCREEN

Mediajuice Studios Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Finalize the Untold Story of Video Games

(DALLAS, TX) May 14, 2013 – Mediajuice Studios announced today that it has launched a Kickstarter campaign to finalize its indie documentary film, Video Games: The Movie (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mediajuicestudios/video-games-the-movie). Mediajuice Studios, which has created scores of trailers and live-action commercials for the world’s top video game brands, recently concluded a year’s worth of on-camera interviews with many video game icons and celebrities for Video Games: The Movie, and is now raising funds to complete post-production before releasing the film theatrically.

Video Games: The Movie is a documentary that hopes to entertain and educate people about the rich history, unique culture and exciting future of the video game industry through incisive interviews with the people who helped shaped the interactive entertainment industry, including Nolan Bushnell (founder of ATARI), Randy Pitchford, Cliff Bleszinski, and many others. Also included are some of geek and gamer culture’s leading celebrity voices such as Wil Wheaton, Chris Hardwick and Alison Haislip.

Directed by Jeremy Snead, Video Games: The Movie will tackle many of today’s hot button topics, including the questionable correlation between video games and violence, the exploration and elevation of video games as an art form, next-generation and future-generation gaming and the negative stereotypes that continue to plague the industry despite its popularity and commercial success.

“We have spent the past year gathering footage, speaking with industry founders, influencers, and pundits to get their take on what we’ve collectively created as an industry and where we’re headed. We’ve amassed an amazing library of footage that we think will help bring the true story of the video game industry into clear focus. We’re now headed into post-production and are looking to the community to get us to the finish line. We are on Kickstarter to generate enough funding to create the type of film the video game industry deserves,” said Jeremy Snead, director of Video Games: The Movie and president of Mediajuice Studios.

Mediajuice will use Kickstarter to fund post-production on the film, which includes editing, a musical score, voice over narration, the acquisition of licensed archival clips from as early the 1960s through the late 1990s, motion graphics, and the need to gain a handful of key interviews that are needed to cover the next generation of consoles as well as round out and better present the video game industry to viewers.

“I hope that once we’re done, Video Games: The Movie will stand as a benchmark for all other movies about the games industry; and that it will help dispel some of the nagging falsehoods that ignorantly plague game makers and players, and keep them from receiving mainstream acceptance like other art forms such as films, music and books. In the end, our hope is that this film will help further legitimize the industry and the culture to those who continue to disregard it without really spending time to learn about it,” said Snead.

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The game will be priced at $19.99, and offers the player visually stunning gameplay set in the mystical realm of Mousewood. The story follows Jerry, as he journeys through Mousewood, he soon finds his old life trailing behind him as he discovers magic and battles to save the wondrously diverse inhabitants from the tainted evil that pervades the land. Tagging along to assist Jerry is a number of critters and a white rabbit, that will follow the player as they explore a plethora of different regions containing magic and mystery, in search of the cure to vanquish the sinister forces at work.

The pre-order game will be available in seven languages; English (Dub), French, Polish, Czech, Russian, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese (Sub).

For players interesting in questioning the lead designer, Matt Kempe, on GOG.com will be answering questions in an exclusive online interview taking place from May 13th to May 15th.

Released today was also a new gameplay video in which Matt Kempe discusses the world of Mousewood and his role in helping to develop the game. Below is a link to this video and a link to the pre-order site.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=ZApjA_gFumU

The game can be pre-ordered at http://www.gog.com/news/preorder_the_night_of_the_rabbit

Will you be pre-ordering this game and delving into the weird and wonderful realms of Mousewood?

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These are all the things that makes up Metro: Last Light’s story and while it may sound like a lot to take in, Metro pulls it off with only a few bumps in the road.

Metro 2034

Inspired by the novel Metro 2033, Last Light is the sequel to Metro 2033 (the game) and takes place a year later, the events at the end of 2033 wiped out what the humans believed to be their enemies, alien like creatures called “The Dark Ones”.

Only one of these creatures is left, a small child that was able to escape and survive the attack on his species, he is never given an actual name but plays a huge part in the game’s story.

Don’t worry if you never played Metro 2033  there’s a cut scene at the start of the game that will tell you the important parts, it actually feels like cliff notes but it gets to the point and allows you to jump into the game quickly.

Artyom, the main character, was born a few years before the fire when nuclear missiles obliterated mankind from the face of the world and razed Moscow to the ground, he took refuge in the Moscow Metro, the largest nuclear bunker ever built, with his mother.

She died in the tunnels while he was still a boy, devoured by rats, leaving him to be raised by the leader of Exhibition Station, this would become his home for the first 20 years of his life.

When a new mutant threat appeared, known as the Dark Ones, one of the Spartan Order of Rangers named Hunter ordered him to take a warning to Polis, the capital of the Metro.

Journeying across the front line between the warring factions of the fascist Reich and communist Redline , he delivered his message only for the Council to reject his pleas for aid, so the Rangers decided on a plan.

Lead by Miller, they forged a path to the legendary bunker of D6, a Pharaohs’ Tomb of forgotten treasures, weapons, technology and supplies. They took control of a long-dormant missile defense system and rained hellfire on the nest of the Dark Ones.

The threat was extinguished but Artyom felt no satisfaction in his deeds.

On his travels, the Dark Ones had tried to make contact with him, where other men were driven mad by their psychic touch, Artyom was immune.

They had a message for him, a message of hope that he ignored, now the secrets of D6 have been laid bare, a glittering prize at the heart of the Metro.

Reich, Redline and Hansa are mobilizing for a war that threatens humanity itself.

Sounds of the Metro

Last Light has some great audio work, the music is a perfect fit and the creatures all have a distinct cry, after hearing a certain cry you can instantly tell what’s coming your way and can properly prepare yourself.

Moscow itself sounds great, you can hear the water in the swamp splash around as mutants are constantly moving and you never know when one of them might jump out and attack.

The flapping of wings as you walk throughout Moscow will keep you on your toes and your wits about you, while not every creature will attack you on sight a good majority will instantly rush after you.

The booming noise of a giant creature preparing for an attack can be a great cue and hearing those noises in the background is nearly bone chilling.

You can hear Artyom’s outfit as it shifts and his boot as they stomp on grass, dirt, mud and water. The audio in the game is great and is one of the best aspects of Last Light.

Listening to civilians talk about current events was interesting as even the most unimportant NPC was well voiced and had something to say, there is even a moment where if you actually listen to a conversation it opens a small side quest that has no real effect on the game’s main story.

The best part is, the game doesn’t tell you it’s a quest, I wanted to help based on what was said and I unknowingly discovered a side mission, I ended up doing this quest and while I didn’t receive a reward in the terms of ammo I was ok with it.

The expressions and gratitude they gave me was enough, which is odd seeing as these people had nothing to do with me nor I them.

It just felt natural because of how well the voices worked and I felt like helping.

The little things that count

The graphics in Metro: Last Light has some hits and misses, but  it’s still a great looking game; the Metro itself is wonderful to look at, the walls are rusted and grimy while some of the floors are covered with trash and decay.

The misses comes with some texture pop ins and a few moments where my character model started acting funny, while holding my pistol Artyom’s hands started twitching about, once I switched weapons the twitching stopped.

It’s sad that Last Light doesn’t really encourage exploration, while some areas are open to find collectables the game will put you through tight corridors, it pushes too much on the claustrophobic battles.

But it’s the little details that 4A Games put into their work that makes Metro such a great game to look at. Artyom’s watch looks to be just an add on to the character model, but as I played through the game I noticed the watch actually kept with the time.

That may not sound impressive but what made it great for me was that the watch was keeping up with real time not game time.

I got a message from a friend while playing and I looked at the time on my Xbox 360, when I returned to my game I noticed Artyom’s watch was displaying the same thing.

Players who take the time to look around camp areas filled with civilians will notice some great Easter eggs, I found one that could be a hint at future Metro installments.

The gas mask has some great details to it also, as you take damage the mask will begin to crack, if you take to much damage Artyom will start to breath heavily and begin to gasp for fresh air as the mask will become useless and will need replacing.

Your mask will start to fall apart as you take damage

Filtered passage

Masks cannot be purchased like guns and ammunition, instead you will have to find one either in a casing or off of some poor schmuck who didn’t make it.

Filters are just as important as bullets, in order to walk around certain parts of the Metro and through Moscow players will need to keep a stash of filters.

While you can collect over thirty minutes of filters each one lasts for only five minutes, the timer can be found on Artyom’s watch, again this is tracked in real time.

In the beginning you will have only five minutes to find another filter or else Artyom will start to choke on the toxic air. Finding new filters won’t be hard and only a few areas in the Metro actually requires you to wear the masks.

By the end of the game I had over fourty minutes of filter left over and at times forgot that I wearing a mask.

Bring a gun to the freak show

There are two kinds of enemies in Last Light, humans and mutants, that latter isn’t as fun to fight as they could be.

You will run into some interesting mutants when given the chance to walk above the Metro, some have mutated from familiar real world creatures into horrific monstrosities.

One example are monsters that look like mutated rats but instead of just scurrying around like normal they can jump great distances and moves like an attack dog.

You encounter these creatures fairly often while other mutants, like the giant spiders or mutated crabs, are only shown in certain areas.

Each creature has a certain challenge to them and the first time you fight one you are forced to figure out what is the best way to dispose of them while using as little ammo as you can.

This sounds great and that kept me wondering what else Last Light was going to throw at me, but the game insist on sending waves of rats at you, both above and inside Metro.

Which is a real shame because there are some interesting monsters to fight as you get further in the game, especially when you’re finally able to leave the Metro and walk around what’s left of Moscow.

Ammunition can be very scarce and planning ahead can save you some precious rounds, this makes each battle intense and can even be frustrating.

That’s not a bad thing, usually in shooters the game gives you what feels like unlimited ammo, mainly because you can scavenge ammunition off of your enemies, but in Last Light you can’t pick things off of fallen monsters and the human enemies you do fight barely has ammo on them as well.

Most of the mutants can eat a lot of bullets and when the game sends a bunch of mutated rats your way it feels like it’s trying too hard to be a survival game.

You can carry up to three different guns, five claymores, five pipe bombs, five incendiaries and five throwing knives at once.

The game doesn’t force you to take a heavy or a light, you are free to chose the kind of weapon you want, this gives you strategic choice and it works very well throughout the game.

Each weapon has a strength and weakness, there is a shotgun I was very fond of due to it’s stopping power and fast rate of fire but the trade off was a slow and tedious reload, I died a couple of time because of this and not once did I blame the game.

I chose to take the weapon and when I was in a tight spot used it irresponsibly and wasn’t paying attention to how many rounds I had left.

I love this shotgun, but that reload time got me killed a few times

The story in Metro: Last Light starts off strong and grabs your interest but it’s the gameplay that keeps you coming back for more, Last Light has tight controls and the weapons feel like they actually do some damage.

The game has some interesting weapons, like a air pumped powered gun that shoots steel balls, and each weapon can be modified to your play style.

If you like to play with stealth than you can, if you like to run and gun then you can, Last Light doesn’t punish you for playing one way or the other.

There are no missions that forces you to play with stealth, it won’t end your game just because you got bored with sneaking in the shadows and decided to go all John Woo for the rest of the level.

You can purchase new weapons and attachments but with a trade off, you can only carry three weapons at all time, there are no lockers or cases for players to store their weapons.

This means in order to buy a new gun you will have to trade in one of your three weapons, but you get a small discount on the weapon you are trying to acquire.

The game’s currency is military grade bullets and you earn them by finding some laying around or trade in some of your weapons, but they can also be used as your emergency ammo.

If you ever find yourself in a tight spot with no ammunition you can use your military grade bullets to reload a weapon, by doing this you’re using what little currency you have and you won’t come by a lot of them too often.

 Conclusion

Metro: Last Light is a great shooter with the sights and sounds to go with it, despite the strong beginning the story starts to lose itself halfway through and gets muddled with plot twists and new revealings, but picks itself back up near the end with an explosive final battle that would make Call of Duty proud.

The controls are tight and responsive, the music is great, the sound design is brilliant and even though the game has a 10-12 hour campaign it feels quite lengthy.

If you were a fan of Metro 2033 than rest assure that 4A Games has continued the series with flying colors, and if you missed out on the first outing don’t miss this one, Metro: Last Light is a great example of video games adapting from other medias and for that A4 Games and Deep Silver deserves praise.

This review is based off the final code retail copy for the Xbox 360 provided by Deep Silver.

Metro: Last Light is available May 14th on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 for MSRP $59.99 and is rated M for mature by the ESRB

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Huck Gee is a contemporary artist, illustrator, toy maker, and designer best known for his iconic “Skullhead” character and “Gold Life” art creations.

BattleTails is described as a “live action strategic defense game” and has three clans to choose ; Clan Six Tails, a clan of mischievous Snow Monkeys; Clan Ten Thousand Winds, a warrior clan of magic wielding tigers; and the nefarious Boso Ichiban Clan, a rag tag group of human punks and troublemakers.

The game promises the ability to customize your hero and build your forces. The art looks great and the animations look smooth, even with the game being in the early stages of development, also DJ Qbert is doing the music.

If that isn’t enough to get your interest check out the awesome pitch video on the campaign page.

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Check out the trailer below.

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Thunder wolves is available for pre-order on Steam for $9.99 with a release date of May 15th, the XBLA and PSN version are “coming soon”.

It’s not rocket science – just rockets!
Arcade-style shooter, Thunder Wolves, available for preorder today.

Eschborn, May 8, 2013 – The Thunder Wolves are taking off next week to obliterate evildoers everywhere. Available on Steam May 15, the game can be preordered now. Early-birds get a discount of 20-percent off the regular price of $9.99.

In addition to the PC release, the engines are already warmed up for the upcoming release on Microsoft’s Xbox 360® Entertainment System and Sony’s PlayStation® 3 (release dates TBD).

There are missions that are so dangerous and secret that only the best of the best are up to the job; the kind of mission that calls for the Thunder Wolves! These daring helicopter pilots are equipped with explosive weapons and ready for anything.

In this two-fisted arcade shooter, Thunder Wolves, the player becomes part of this formidable group of pilots who carry out every order, no matter how dangerous, with unequalled precision and speed. Protecting an oil platform, destroying a chemical factory, or stopping advancing enemies in their tracks – their goal is nothing less than saving the world, and this requires staying a step ahead of the terrorists by finding out just what they are planning.

KEY FEATURES
– Arcade-style action with explosions galore and ridiculously destructible environments.
– Nine helicopters with unique arsenals.
– Carry out 13 missions, including stealth operations, escorts, and seek-and-destroy missions.
– Enemies galore: from terrorist foot soldiers and land vehicles to enemy helicopters.
– Challenging bosses with crushing firepower.
– Three levels of difficulty: Casual, Normal, and Expert.
– Local co-op. Fly into battle as a pilot/gunner duo.

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MechWarrior Online is free to play and is live now.

MechWarrior Online Brings Misery to the Battlefield

New 85 Ton Mech Now Available, Plus: New Jenner Champion Trial Mech + New Update Allows for with New Update Allows Hero Mech Color Customization

The Inner Sphere – Today pilots across the Inner Sphere can add “Misery” to their list of weapons in their arsenals as Piranha Games and Infinite Game Publishing announce the long-awaited 85-ton Stalker Mech, Misery, now available in the Mech Lab for MechWarrior Online (www.mwomercs.com). Sporting top speeds of 48.6 kph and armed with four medium lasers, a Gauss rifle, a large laser and an SRM-6, this is what Misery truly looks like. Additionally this gigantic update brings pilots the chance to nab the new Jenner Champion Trial Mech as well as the hugely anticipated option to customize the color of all Hero Mechs – get all of the goods in the Mech Lab and start customizing now!

Also available in this latest update is the unique totally badass Buccaneer Premium Pattern. This pattern’s art direction was described by its artist as, “Some crazy, bearded, malnourished man with missing teeth going to work with a paint roller in the ‘Mech hanger while indulging in questionable substances. This mech painting bender happened after the force he was attached to made off with thirty tons of potatoes, women’s shoes, and stereo equipment from the last backwater planet they raided.”

And for those more communication-inclined, the Buccaneer Premium Pattern presents enemies with a taunting message that changes with each Mech type. It’s like wearing your heart middle finger on your sleeve, and shows enemies that you mean business to totally wipe them off the map forever.

Proving again that enough is never enough, Piranha Games has also released an additional four new trial Mechs and three new cockpit items to start May off on the right foot: Trial Mechs include the Jenner JR7-F(C), the Hunchback HBK-4G, the JagerMech JM6-S and the Highlander HGN-732 – all of which can be taken out for a spin now in MechWarrior Online by fans eager to test out new options. To add to the personalization of the cockpit, statues for the Dragon, Awesome and Cicada are also now up for grabs!

The latest update also comes with some performance fixes and enhancements, of which the full list can be found here: http://mwomercs.com/.

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If that wasn’t enough for you today we have more screen shots from the game, you can check them out below.

Magrunner: Dark pulse is set to release “Q2 2013″ for PC and “Q3 2013″ for XBLA and PSN.

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GRAVI is Hashbang games first project that was created for the Ouya 10 day CREATE game jam contest.

The game isn’t going to win you with music or sound effects, or a story for that matter, instead it focuses completely on the gameplay aspect.

Before I get into the gameplay it’s worth noting that you won’t need a strong computer to run the game, it keeps things simple and doesn’t take a lot of space from your computer, so casual computer gamers will not have to worry too much about the specs.

With that said I did run into one problem, the frame rate, around level ten I started experiencing some frame rate issues dropping around 30 frames and soon I was hitting some sections as low as 3FPS.

I checked to see the game’s specs and found them to be pretty low, despite the low requirements I turned down the graphics as low as I could and was still seeing the game chug at 3FPS.

The game’s graphics are decent, again this game was built in ten days so in all honesty the graphics weren’t a big concern for me, you can easily tell what’s a hazard and navigation is easy.

There are 40 levels in the game and things start to get complex the further you dive into the game.

One of GRAVI’s strong points is that the game doesn’t throw twenty different ways to control your little ball, the controls are simple and practically made for those whom enjoy minimalist type control in a game like this.

You move using the directional arrows or the usual A key and D key, fire your Mitosis with the left mouse click while the right mouse click will fire smaller sections of your projectile and the space bar retracts any matter you fired.

“You guide a little ball of energy named GRAVI,stuck in  ridiculously trap-filled underbelly of an alien test facility, you must use your wits and perseverance to solve a series of perplexing puzzles. While you’re launching through terrorizing traps and bending gravity to your will, Anti-Gravi, an atomic ball of rage, is barreling down on your position.​”

That segment is from the game’s website, had I not read that section I wouldn’t know that the game had an actual story, it’s a good thing that GRAVI is fun enough to where you might not care about that.

The puzzles in the game range from easy to frustratingly absurd, which it’s meant to be, casual fans will no doubt stop playing GRAVI after the first ten levels or so.

Hardcore puzzle fans might lose interest once they see that the game only allows one way to win and that because you can see a good chunk of the level, solving them will be a breeze.

There lies the double edge sword of GRAVI’s level design, it shows a nice piece of the level which is great for planning ahead, some will enjoy it and other will just solve the problem and get bored with knowing what’s coming next.

For the hardcore puzzle solvers I highly suggest going after the awards withing the game, GRAVI has some predictable ones like gathering a certain amount of collectibles or beating a whole section, but it’s things like 5-in-5 (where the game asks you to beat level 5 in under five seconds) that brings even more challenge to the game.

Despite some frustrating frame rate issues GRAVI is a fun game that is worth a look, especially if you love a good indie game.

GRAVI is available now for PC, MAC and Linux via GamersGate

This review is based off a review code provided by Hashbang Games for the PC.

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