I myself picked up a few shirts, one of them being the Super Bro’s pixel art T’s. Well the reason why I bring up WeLoveFine and MightyFine is because LVLONE and WeLoveFine have teamed up to do a give away! What better time than to do it during the holiday season? If you can see below some of their pixel art shirts range from X-men, Star Wars, Sesame Street, and a few others that are on their website. We’re gonna hold this contest up for one week starting today! All you have to do it is leave a comment in a post anytime this week and it’ll give you one entry into the give away. At the end of the week we’ll draw from random two names that will each win a $25 gift certificate to the WeLoveFine Shop!

The battle starts as soon as your squad touches down on the pavement. A way point on your mini map lays out the direction that the team should be heading out towards. The game lets you freely roam however you like within the area, but if you stray too far you’re definitely guaranteed to get eaten by zombies, or at least wounded enough to make you run like a screaming girl in a horror movie back to your squad mates. The shooting mechanics and game play feel really tight like SOCOM, but movement and shooting feels more precise. Throughout the stage we ran into either hunters, or soldiers fending off zombies, which also tend to shoot at you and your team as well. One great thing that I noticed while playing was that enemies can possibly come from everywhere; vents, shafts, even by helicopter dropped pods. After reaching the way point a cut scene of the Tyrant plays, signaling a boss or mini boss fight. Unfortunately the demo ends there, leaving my itchy zombie killing trigger finger yearning for more. Guess we’ll just have to wait till March 2012 for it to come out till we can really get into the nitty gritty, but this is definitely one Resident Evil game that changes the playing field in a fun way.

The special edition of Street Fighter X Tekken, which will include:

• Street Fighter X Tekken game
• Build-It-Yourself Arcade Cabinet Bank (approximately 5″H)
• Exclusive Prequel Comic Book by UDON
• 36 Gems: Includes All Pre-Order Packs Plus An Exclusive Pack
• Pre-Order Bonus: Nine Exclusive Gems Only Available For Pre-Ordering Special Edition
• Total of 45 Gems When You Pre-Order

So we’ve been hearing alot of hype for this new game Uncharted .. 3 I believe. We played it a bit at E3 this year, yea its pretty awesome. After the announcement that there would be a Multiplayer beta for the game to be released, we thought we’d share the love to you guys and girls out there. So today we’re giving out a number (it’s alot!) of Uncharted 3 Beta codes and maybe your one of the lucky ones that will get one. All you have to do is comment below on what your most excited about for the game itself.

We will choose at random later today but PS your chances are better the earlier you comment as we’re giving the codes out in spurs. Be sure to be signed up to lvlone.com as we are sending them out to the attached emails of users. Also if you think you have no chance, think again cause we got plenty of codes to give out.

Ninja Gaiden was one of those games that made a huge splash upon its return back in 2004 for the original Xbox. It’s been 7 years and we are taking a look at the third with a new direction and director at its helm. LVLONE got a chance to get hands on with the game at E3 2011 and we’re surprised to find out that some things have changed.

One of the biggest things to note about this is that it is not a sequel to Ninja Gaiden II, it is a new story with some new mechanics to boot. Now I’ve always been a fan of the franchise and could not wait to see what Team Ninja was going to come up with next but as a seasoned player it felt like diving into a new game of sorts? While we didn’t know much about what was going on, we do know that his energy and crazy moves come from the blood/curse that surrounds his right arm.

What the arm allowed us to do was these hard stab techniques that feel like they came out of anime films like Ninja Scroll. Massive amounts of blood spewing from these hard stab then slice moves. We’ve noticed that some of the moves we’ve grown to love are gone like the roll which has been replaced with a slide. The slide is not a big difference as it does nearly the same thing but can possibly be used as an intro to engage enemies with your moves. The other is the Flying Swallow which allowed you to engage multiple enemies, staggering them so they don’t overwhelm you. It took some time to get used to but it came together.

The game is looking good and while some might not like the fast to slow style from the new cut-through-enemies mechanic I actually thought they looked really slick. One thing I didn’t understand was the lack of dismemberment. Throughout the entire demo I was nearly cutting people in half but nothing was flying off, not even heads. While it would seem minor, it was one of the things that made Ninja Gaiden a bad ass.

The game seems to be coming along ok. There is some work and tweaks it can use but graphically has been bumped up a bit. Team Ninja has some time before the games release so promise is definitely something I see here, dismember in the final build? I certainly hope so.

With Nintendo announcing the 3DS at E3 last year it almost didn’t come as a surprise that they unveiled their newest console to be making its way into homes soon. Officially named Wii U, the focus is not on the console itself but on the controller. They had playable tech demos along with some games to be arriving for the consoles launch next year, we got a chance to check out what this new device is all about at Nintendo’s booth at E3.

The controller boasts a 6.2″ touch screen, a gyroscope, accelerometer, microphone and speakers. It has a camera on the front, triggers in the back and standard buttons on each side making the whole thing resemble a tablet. The first thing we noticed was how light it was, weighting in at no heavier then the 360 controller. The idea is to have a seamless interaction between the TV screen and the controllers touch screen. We here at LVLONE played some of the early tech demos showcasing what the controller can do.

Shield Pose
Pirates on a boat are trying to hit you with plunger tipped arrows and the only way to block them is by using your shield at hand. The concept behind this was to show and call out a set of actions on the TV screen which will then be executed while holding the control tablet. The pirate shouts out commands of where he is launching the arrows from at which point you need to place the control tablet in that section to reflect them, all at a timed beat. With the help of the controllers gyroscope you will almost get a 360 degree view of your surroundings which is how it allows you to block the attacks. As you progress it gets faster, harder and even asks you to dance. This showed an array of promise to games that would have you perform actions to neutralize enemy attacks and so forth.

Chase Mii
This demo played like tag giving all the players the task to chase and catch one person. All of them were dressed like toad with mushroom hats, as the one being chased was dressed like mario. The concept here was how five players can play on one console effectively, while not all having the same experience. Everyone played with Wii-motes looking at the 4-player split screen, while I played with the Wii U controller. When I played the character that needed to be caught on the Wii U controller I not only had my own screen but it also had a map of where everyone was. Everyone was to communicate to catch me while I do what I must to stay away and survive. I don’t remember the last time I had five people play a game in my house at the same time if ever!

Battle Mii
This demo had a Metroid style to it and it was a two vs one battle. The people holding the Wii-motes were these Samus styled shooters split screen on the TV, while the one holding the Wii U controller is a spaceship trying to gun them down in the air. Being the shooter on the ground first your able to collect power ups and turn into the ball to navigate around the arena easier while also trying to find the ship to shoot down. Being the ship with the Wii U controller felt a little awkward as you had to use the accelerometer to control the ships navigation. I got somewhat used to it but still felt clunky at the end.

Since the announcement of the Wii U at Nintendo’s press conference some people including myself had been skeptical on how this thing would play out. I see the promise and ideas of where Nintendo is trying to go with this. It is to early to tell if all gamers will accept the concept but expect more info and news of games to surface in the future. I’m thinking this is only the tip of the iceberg for the Wii U and the avalanche is coming soon!

Am I a person you would call a Sonic fan? Yes. Have I played every Sonic game? No. Are all Sonic games good? No. But do I still have love for the little blue hedgehog? Absolutely. See Sega has tried to capture Sonic as he once was which isn’t always an easy task but dare I say it I think this time they’ve done it! Sonic Generations brings the series back to its roots this time sporting not only the Sonic we’ve come to know from Sonic Adventures but the original Sonic from the very first game. We got the chance to check it out at Sega’s booth at E3 2011 and in stunning stereoscopic 3D at that.

The stage that we played was the original Green Hill Zone which is cut up into two styles of play. One is with the original Sonic played in 2D form, the other is with the newest generation Sonic and switches from 2D to 3D gameplay. If this game isn’t a trip down memory lane then I don’t know what is. All classic monsters and sound effects were easy to get lost to. I suddenly felt like a kid again playing the first Sonic on the Sega Genesis.

Playing with the original Sonic was a ton of fun but the newer Sonic actually feels like a completely different experience for a stage that’s exactly the same. Switching off into 3D like some of his more recent games was pretty smooth for the most part. The controls get kind of funky since it gets confusing where to keep my figure if the direction keeps changing.

There are a couple of kinks to work out but this can be one of the best Sonic games to come out in a long time if treated with the proper care it needs. This is designed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Sonic series and brings in a number of stages throughout the entire series so there won’t be any shortages here. We honestly can’t wait for the final product but will keep everyone informed of news as it comes in.

It was exactly one year ago where Onlive were just getting their foot in the door and showing the world what cloud gaming looked like. With TV, blu-ray player deals and a Micro-Console they have pretty much blown the doors right open for the service. One of their next entries was the Onlive app running on tablet devices unveiled at their booth at E3. LVLONE got a chance to sit down with them and get some hands on to find out what it was all about.

To note this isn’t the same app on the iPad which is just a viewer but will be an update in the future. We were given a demo of how the new app works on the iPad 2 and like the desktop version of the software this one works just the same. Like the desktop version you can view, purchase and play Onlive right on your tablet device.

We were first treated to an example of how it played by checking out Lego Batman. The buttons are laid out on the sides of the tablet and can be configured in anyway. They went as far as to say if a dev had certain button layouts that was beneficial, it would come pre-customized to suite it. While we noticed some connection drop, that had to do more with the congestion of networks in E3.

The second demo was Assassins Creed Brotherhood, showcasing that even some of the most graphically intensive games can run on a tablet device because of the Onlive software. The game looked great and the only lag noticed was almost about the same amount from the desktop version. They are currently look at the best ways to map complex games of this nature with touch pad. While they do have the universal blue tooth/wifi controller some will not have this option if they don’t want it.

Other plans like having the service running a cloud based browser which would essentially enable the ability to run flash on the iPad 2 and touch pad sensitive games were also shown. Along with making games have touch capabilities. Onlive has certainly impressed me on how far they have come in a short amount of time. I’m really excited in the direction the platform is going, who knows maybe we’ll see MMO support in the future?