Electronic Arts and Dreamworks have officially released the first trailer to the Need for Speed movie arriving next year. The Fast and the Furious series has proved that car enthusiast movies have a place in the big screen today. While a movie to the franchise has always been teased, it looks like this one is closer then we think. Featuring Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul, Need for Speed will be arriving March 14th, 2014. Check out the movie trailer above and let us know if this might be the first video game to movie worthy to take note of.
Valve reveals part two’s announcement, Steam Machine
Valve made a reveal on Monday with they’re announcement of Steam OS. It will be Linux power and is Valve’s solution to the living room. This was one of three announcements they were going to make this week and the second one has just arrived. Valve is working with various partners to bring you an all in one Steam Machine. They will probably be different models, make and companies selling the units and will be available in 2014.
They have also let out that they themselves have 300 beta test units and want to hand them out to the Steam community for testing. You will need to answer a few questions and send it in. All information and questions can be found here.
We’ll bring you more info and the last announcement as soon as it comes in.
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII opening cinematic
Press Release:
SQUARE ENIX today released the gorgeous opening cinematic for LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII. The cinematic gives viewers a closer look at the city of Yusnaan—the city that is alive with banquets and festivities and where Snow rules over as the Patron. The trailer also reveals the epic battle between Lightning and her former ally, Snow in its entirety. The new video can be viewed on YouTube and downloaded on the press site.
LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII will be available for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation®3 systems and for digital download on the PlayStation®Network for $59.99 on February 11, 2014.
Steam’s broader living room vision is Steam OS
As the first of three announcements that Valve will make this week they’ve gone ahead and touched upon what will be a new operating system coming from Steam. This will essentially take all the data from your powered Steam app on the PC or Mac and stream the content for use on your TV with a device that can power it.
“As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that the
environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself.
SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen.
It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.” Valve writes.
Their will also be new features as well coming like music streaming, video and the earlier announced family sharing. We’ll know more for sure when it becomes available.
Uplay 4.0 PC features Twitch TV integration
Press:
Uplay PC 4.0 offers an array of new features in high demand among the PC community. The integration of Twitch, the worldÂ’s leading video platform and community for gamers with more than 45 million unique visitors a month, enables members to broadcast their in-game videos and share some of their most memorable gaming achievements with friends. An improved download manager allows for the progressive download of games and auto-patching, meaning that gamers can spend more time playing. And a new social wall keeps members up-to-date on their friendsÂ’ activities.
Ubisoft also confirmed that Uplay will be available when Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 arrive in stores later this year. Using one unique profile, new and existing Uplay members will be able to seamlessly access the full scope of Uplay services and features on next-generation consoles. Above all, gamers will benefit from the Uplay Win program, which rewards fans for their commitment to UbisoftÂ’s brands, both in-game and in real life with additional in-game content such as items and accessories, and invitations to consumer and industry events. All of UbisoftÂ’s next-generation games including AssassinÂ’s Creed IV Black Flag, Just Dance 2014, The Crew and Watch Dogs will integrate Uplay, including Uplay Win.
All new Battlefield 4 Multiplayer Trailer
EA has dropped a new Battlefield 4 trailer, this time highlighting all the reasons you will love multiplayer. It discuss the different forms of play, vehicle use and maps. Also new is the spectator mode which will allow for Twitch like features and watching players games while not in battle. The game drops in November and is one of the games a part of the upgrade program that will allow consumers to purchase the current gen version when release then upgrade to the next gen version when those arrive. Check out the trailer above for the latest lowdown.
Need for Speed Rivals Racer Personalization Feature Trailer
EA has announced that car personalization will be making its return to the Need for Speed franchise in Need for Speed Rivals. Not only can you modify vehicle performance which has never really went away in NFS but you can not change the cars decals, liveries, colors and more. Their’s also different body mods that will aid in different forms of evasive tactics for escaping cops. Cops will also receive different states of upgrades, from new cars to new tech to take out racers. Check out the above trailer for a taste of the action.
Steam Announces Family Sharing
Look who’s jumping on the game sharing band wagon. After lots of talk from Microsoft and Sony on sharing Steam looks to be doing the same thing .. in a sense. Everything is better when you share right? Below you can find the full press release.
Press
Steam Family Sharing, a new service feature that allows close friends and family members to share their libraries of Steam games, is coming to Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC, Mac, and Linux games and software. The feature will become available next week, in limited beta on Steam.
Steam Family Sharing is designed for close friends and family members to play one another’s Steam games while each earning their own Steam achievements and storing their own saves and application data to the Steam cloud. It’s all enabled by authorizing a shared computer.
“Our customers have expressed a desire to share their digital games among friends and family members, just as current retail games, books, DVDs, and other physical media can be shared,” explained Anna Sweet of Valve. “Family Sharing was created in direct response to these user requests.”
Once a device is authorized, the lender’s library of Steam games becomes available for others on the machine to access, download, and play. Though simultaneous usage of an account’s library is not allowed, the lender may always access and play his games at any time. If he decides to start playing when a friend is borrowing one of his games, the friend will be given a few minutes to either purchase the game or quit playing.
For more information about Steam Family Sharing and the beta program, please visit http://store.steampowered.com/sharing/.
Official COD: Ghosts Single Player Campaign Trailer tells its story
Infinity Ward has just dropped a gameplay trailer to their Call of Duty: Ghosts single player campaign. If you remember anything from Modern Warfares crazy story telling then this will probably go beyond that as we even see gunfighting in space itself and in the next minute hurling towards earth. Check out the trailer above and see a glimpse of what you can expect November 5th.
Con Report: Otakon 2013
I know this is a little late but here is my report from this year’s Otakon! 2013 marked the 20th anniversary and convention number of Otakon. (Can you believe this con has existed for 20 years now )
We didn’t get to any panels but we had a lot of fun. When my friends and I normally go to Otakon, it’s usually most of the group is selling in Artist Alley while only one friend joins me on a tour of the convention. But it looked like there were some issues so we had a group of four! It was still fun even though we really didn’t get into anything.
For Friday and Saturday I cosplayed Wendy from Fairy Tail in her original outfit from when she was still in Cait Shelter. I even got the guild tattoo!
My friends are heavily into Fire Emblem and decided to cosplay as Donnell, Tharja and Gaius. I don’t know much about the game but it was really cool to see the cosplay. I’m not much of a fan of strategy games so I tend to stay away from them. Give me a turn-based RPG any day!
Sunday, we finally put together our own little group cosplay. We decided on Pokemon! We were all the video game versions of our characters: I was Jasmine, the Steel gym leader while my friends were Sabrina, Giovanni and Blaine. It was pretty awesome!
We arrived on Thursday and met up with the rest of our friends. Friday, the convention started and we got into our Fairy Tail and Fire Emblem cosplay. First matter of business was to get me to the Fairy Tail photoshoot that was outside near the fountains. It was really hot but we had a decent size group.There were a lot of Celestial Spirits and a few cosplayers of Gray, Natsu and Lucy. But I was really happy to see that there was at least one Makarov. Even though he was a young guy, he still got the look and character of Makarov down perfectly! For those that don’t know the series, Makarov is the elder guild leader. Think of him like your friendly grandpa!
After the shoot, we walked around for a bit until it was time for the Fire Emblem shoot which would be near the main entrance into the convention center. There was a decent size group of all these characters I didn’t know. xD But it was still cool. I was just about the only non Fire Emblem character there. But I got to take photos of my friends so that was cool. I have a lot of fun taking photos of cosplayers.
After the shoot was done, we continued to walk around and headed into Artist Alley a bit to see our friends selling there before checking out the Dealer’s Room. We didn’t buy much until the next day…
For Saturday, we hauled our tired selves back to the convention center to try to get into the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Posing School! But we got there too late and they cut off the line. I was really sad about this because I am basically obsessed about this series now. So much, that after my friend showed it to me, I started reading the manga. Yes, the original 1980s manga. I am not regretting it.
But still, without realizing it, we noticed that there were many Jojo cosplayers running around and I managed to get photos of some of them! It was a good thing my friend who introduced me to the series was there to identify them. Otherwise there would have been a lot of missed photo opportunities! And later on we found out there are photoshoots! So my friend and I have decided we would cosplay as Erina and Speedwagon. It’s gonna be so awesome!
Since we couldn’t get into that, we went to the second Fairy Tail photoshoot that was now in the upstairs terrace. It was a little better since there was shade now. And the group was slightly bigger. We didn’t have that many Celestial Spirits that time though. But it worked out! We had a Mavis and Zeref. We even had a Lucy with her baby dressed as Plue! That was unbelievably adorable! And there were a ton of Erza cosplayers and a lot more Wendy ones! And I think there was only one other Wendy that had the same dress I did. Not bad!
We walked around a little bit before it was time for the second Fire Emblem photoshoot where there were a lot more cosplayers! When we were done there, we went back to the Artist Alley and Dealer’s Room to make more purchases as well as check out what was being sold. We picked up a few goodies like a dress for me, a Jojo figure for a friend and other things. Then we headed back to the outdoor terrace for our own mini photoshoot. We hung around a bit before we continued to see around the convention. Not long after, we decided to hang out in the game room where we mostly relaxed with another friend of ours. And after that, we went back to our room for some good dinner.
On the last day, Sunday, we got into our Pokemon cosplay! I was so happy to finally join in on a cosplay group! I was Jasmine while my other friends were Blaine, Sabrina and Giovanni. We got a little late start but we made it to the Pokemon shoot, which was pretty deep into the building. It might have been because we arrived so late but there wasn’t much going on and it just eventually turned into a live Pokemon battle. But I am happy to say I was the only Jasmine. After a bit, we went to the outdoor terrace where we had our own shoot with even a mock battle! Not sure how Ampharos would do against the real Sabrina but it was really cool!
With some time to spare, we visited Artist Alley and Dealer’s one last time to make sure we didn’t miss anything. I was super excited to get Unico DVDs as well as the manga! My childhood in just three items! Then finally, it was time to go! While we didn’t get to do much else but take photos and run around, it was still good fun. I’m already excited about next year! Not only will I be Erina from Jojo but I plan to join another group for Tales of Graces as Idol!Sophie. Can’t wait!
