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For those of you who were gaming around the time of the PS2 and the first Xbox you will remember a game called Fatal Frame, or for those in Europe Project Zero. It was a nifty little game about the supernatural where you played a character who could sense ghosts and used a special camera to… rid herself of them. Well they are bringing Fatal Frame back, this time for the Wii U.
Known in Japan as Zero: Nuregarasu no Miko, roughly translating to Fatal Frame: The Black Haired Shrine Maiden, the game will launch in Japan on Sept. 27. No word on a release date for other regions yet but keep your hopes high.
In this new series installment, players take control of Kozukata Yuuri, a girl who can see spirits of those taken to the other side. Yuuri also discovers she has the ability to bring the spirits back into the real world by reaching Mount Hikamiyama better known as the mountain of death.
As is standard in the series, players will find and capture ghosts using an in-game camera. In this Wii U iteration, players can use their Wii U GamePad to control the camera. Check out the trailer below to see how that works.
The studio states that this will be the biggest installment of the Fatal Frame/Project Zero series yet and we can only hope that unlike some of the series it reaches us here in the EU and NA regions. There is also talk of a Fatal Frame live action movie which could be amazing.
Blizzard have put out a release date for the single-player adventure secton of their popular free-to-play card game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. The release date across all platforms (that is PC, Mac and iPad) will be July the 23rd with a month-long launch event running.
The blog post reveals that there will be five ‘wings’ of the extension to come, released across five weeks. The first chapter, the Arachnid Quarter, will be free permanently for all those who start the adventure during the launch event. The other four will be priced at 700 coins a wing or about 5.99 EUR/ 4.99 GBP in real money. Blizzard are also planning to sell the other wings in bundles packages.
The rewards include special cards to be unlocked by progressing through the five wings of the adventure, including those gained by beating certain ‘bosses’.
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The Elder Scrolls Online was Bethesda’s attempt to move into the market of the MMORPG game, using the lore of their already well-established Elder Scrolls series. It gained a lot of attention because of the name attached to it, the amount of lore that could already be found in previous Elder Scrolls titles and the idea of roaming through lands from all of those previous games combined into one huge map? All very appealing. And now it’s coming to Steam.
Announced ahead of the Quakecon weekend, the news was tweeted out from their Twitter account today, Bethesda revealed that the game was coming to the popular distribution platform this day with more details to follow later.
The game itself is universally acknowledged as being okay, if not great. A number of patches have fixed some of the worst game-breaking bugs, but like most MMOs it is a lot more fun with friends playing with you. To be honest though, some of that is down to the amount of hype around the game being very hard for a great many games to live up to. That and being a subscription-based model of game can be a big turn-off for some players.
Will you be thinking about getting TESO now that it’s coming to Steam? Tell us in the comments below!
Most gamers love special edition hardware and gadgets, they sell well to collectors and fans of the brands alike and it looks like Microsoft are again looking to cash in on this market by releasing a new special edition headset and controller. The controller and headset are the special edition armed forces and they sport a camouflage pattern. The headset unit is going to be around £50 and the controller will be £35 and it also looks like they will only be available in north America as there is no way to pre-order if you live in Europe presently.
When the Xbox one was announced there was a lot of controversy about various features, one of which was the Kinect which at the time always had to be plugged in. Microsoft went back on a lot of things during the launch stages of the console including the Kinect requirements for the console to function and then the console was released to the public. Initially all the console packages came with the Kinect but on June 9th in north America Microsoft began to sell the console without the Kinect unit and unsurprisingly they have double their sales without the Kinect unit.
Does this come as a surprise to you and would you buy the console with or without the Kinect unit?
