Recently, Namco Bandai announced the first multiplayer details for their upcoming third-person shooter, Inversion. The game will feature up to 16 player online matches as well as team deathmatch and free-for-all gametypes. In addition, the game will have multiplayer modes designed around players’ use of gravity. According to Namco Bandai, it’s even possible to take control of the gravity on an entire level – it might be like turning an ant farm upside-down.
Inversion is coming to the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 on February 7th, 2012 in North America and February 10th, 2012 in Europe. Make sure to check back here for more info as the release date draws closer!
Today ChAIR Entertainment released the long awaited multiplayer update to Infinity Blade. The free to download Infinity Blade: Arena update brings several new features to the game, including the following (as noted by ChAIR Entertainment):
- Enter the Arena: Assuming the role of Titan or Knight, fans can now challenge their friends to multiplayer matches online via Game Center
- Survivor Mode: Players face off against a legion of Titans to see how far they can go
- New Holiday Helms: A new helm for every season, ready to be played and mastered
- More than two dozen new magic rings, swords, shields, and helmets for players to collect and master
- New Facebook integration allows fans to view their character on their profile and take a screen grab to share with friends
- New Achievements, additional Leaderboards, and some new surprises
To celebrate this new update, ChAIR Entertainment is offering a great deal on the iOS game to bring in new players and challengers. Infinity Blade is on sale for $2.99 (regularly $5.99) for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (Universal App). Get it here from the App Store. Don’t hesitate, sharpen your skills and enter the Arena! You won’t be disappointed with the excellent game that ChAIR has crafted with Infinity Blade.
For more details, including some gameplay tips, visit the official website of Infinity Blade at www.epicgames.com/infinityblade.
Today Electronic Arts and game developer DICE release Medal of Honor, which takes place in a new modern day setting for the first time in the FPS series. Somewhat overshadowed by the controversy of naming, and later renaming, the multiplayer enemies “Opposing Force” (see here), Medal of Honor puts players in missions inspired U.S. Army confrontations in Afghanistan.
Medal of Honor is available starting today for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. Launch copies of Medal of Honor come packaged as a “Limited Edition” with extras that include Battlefield 3 Beta access, special weapons and an exclusive Special Ops player skin.
EA notes some highlights on the Medal of Honor series and today’s release of Medal of Honor:
- Highest pre-orders in the 11-year history of the Medal of Honor franchise.
- Supported by a global marketing campaign including multiple TV spots during Monday Night Football and out-of-home billboards in top 6 U.S. markets including attention-getting real estate in Manhattan’s Times Square.
- Over 180K Facebook fans and 25K Twitter followers before the game even shipped.
- Exposed Medal of Honor multiplayer to over 1M people across PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC platforms via two open betas to ensure the best performing multiplayer gameplay experience.
- PC Multiplayer Beta Peak Simultaneous Users (PSUs) outperformed EA’s previous record-holder Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 by 41%.
- According to internal estimates, Medal of Honor is slated to be the biggest blockbuster week-one event in October 2010 outpacing movies such as ‘The Social Network’ ($46M), ‘Secretariat’ ($12.6) and ‘Life as We Know It’ ($14.6). Box office estimates according to Boxofficemojo.com.
- Launched Linkin Park song “Catalyst” to #1 with music video set in the Medal of Honor fiction; 6.5M worldwide views to date making it #1 most viewed video on YouTube on August 1 and 2.
For more details on Medal of Honor, visit the official website at www.medalofhonor.com. Medal of Honor will be available in Europe on October 15, 2010.
See the launch trailer for Medal of Honor here.
If you missed the Dead Space 2 EA gamescom presentation by Visceral Games, here’s your chance to catch it. In the gameplay video, Isaac straps in and takes a jump through space to The Sprawl. The path is far and full of space debris, which will make for an intense gameplay sequence. What is The Sprawl? Visceral Games has posted a fun and informative little interactive directory on deadspace.ea.com. Poke around and get to know the place you’ll be spending your time in during your stay in Dead Space 2.
There is also a video clip from Steve Papoutsis, the Executive Producer of Dead Space 2, who teases a bit the multiplayer in Dead Space 2, something that wasn’t in the first game. Make sure you check out all these recent updates on the official Dead Space 2 website, at deadspace.ea.com.
Dead Space 2 is scheduled for a January 25, 2011 release on the PlayStation 3 (with an exclusive HD version of Dead Space Extraction), Xbox 360 and PC.
Watch The Jump gameplay trailer here.
Capcom previously announced that Street Fighter IV would debut on the mobile gaming platform on the iPhone and iPod touch. You can now see Street Fighter IV in action in a gameplay video below, from IGN. The video demonstrates how you can play a match against someone else via Bluetooth connectivity.
GamePro confirmed the fighters that will be in the game: Ryu, Ken, Guile, Blanka, Chun-Li, Dhalsim, M. Bison and Abel. The price point has also been announced at $9.99. Street Fighter IV will be available on the iPhone and iPod touch in March 2010.
Watch for Street Fighter IV soon on the App Store!
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