Who wouldn't want Jin Kazama on their plane?
Namco Bandai is bringing new DLC to Ace Combat Assault Horizon. Two skins resembling two characters from the Tekken series will be available for purchase on November 15, 2011. Jin Kazama and Kazuya Mishima can be put on your Su-35 Flanker-E for 400 Microsoft Points. It will be available for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Is the mega-popular MMO on the downslide?
The World of Warcraft has been that 800 (make that 8,000) pound gorilla in the MMORPG room for seven years now. It has become a worldwide phenomenon, slipping into the mainstream as easily as Pac-Man, Grand Theft Auto, and Call of Duty. The game has a rabid fanbase, was featured in a wildly-popular episode of South Park, and became the inspiration for Felicia Day’s popular web series “The Guild”. WoW boasted over 12 million subscribers for the past few years, but it looks as if the massively successful MMO has finally peaked. This year has seen a noticeable decline in paid subscribers, to the tune of almost 2 million.
Surprise, surprise....
In a move that is sure to surprise absolutely no one, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick confirmed that there will be another installment in the Call of Duty franchise making its debut in 2012.
The PixlBit staff loves HD and wants to see some of their favorite franchises get the treatment.
HD collections seem to be all the rage these days. The craze began with Sony’s release of the God of War collection – collecting the first two games in the series – on the PS3. This was promptly followed up by the HD Sly Cooper Collection, also on the PS3.
It's going to take more than a Plasma Cutter and a prayer to get Isaac Clarke out of this one.
By all rights, Dead Space 2 shouldn’t exist. The first game was pushed out into a crowded holiday season rush with little marketing behind it, and the game was very slow to reach sales numbers that EA considered successful. The second game, Dead Space: Extraction, was released initially as a Wii exclusive and sold a paltry 9,000 units in its first week, and it didn’t get much better from there. In the high-stakes game of HD video game development, it would have been completely understandable for EA to put Dead Space on the shelf and never look back. But somehow, Visceral Games was allowed to take another stab (or is that slice?) at it, and I’m very glad that they did, because Dead Space 2 is not only a worthy successor to the first game, but it’s also one of my favorite games of 2011.
Though not a part of the Strike series, Chopper Attack appears to follow in its footsteps, providing a helicopter shooting experience from an overhead view. The base action is fairly solid, but suffers from a few poor design trappings and lack of variety. It's also on the brief side, making its merits short-lived.
"Nintendo now know they absolutely need to support two tablets."
When the Wii U was officially announced at this year's E3, the idea of a room full of people each with their own tablet was quickly dashed when it was revealed the system could only support a single tablet at a time. Nintendo is reportedly trying to change this by working out a way to support two tablets on one system.
Players will have to wait for the PC version for another week.
Warner Bros. Interactive announced that the PC release of Batman: Arkham City will be delayed by one week. Previously, the port was announced to be coming out on November 15, 2011, a delay from the console versions, which was released three weeks ago on October 18, 2011. Now it seems players will have to wait until November 22, 2011, with European gamers waiting until November 25.
The only sure things are death, taxes, and Assassin's Creed.
Since the release of the first game in 2007, Assassin’s Creed has gone on to become one of Ubisoft’s most successful game franchises ever. Assassin’s Creed II was released in 2009, and since then there has been a major release in the series every year. Don’t expect that to change in 2012, as a new game in the popular stealth-action series is due to be released about a year from now.
Even a loaded gun wasn't enough to get a customer to part with his copy.
Hot on the heels of our story about two shipments of Modern Warfare 3 getting hijacked comes another story of MW 3 theft, this one in Kansas. Thankfully, this one has a happier ending.
