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Following the introduction of new characters Sticks and Lyrics, Sega have announced that addition of a heap more ally characters into the Sonic Boom universe, in a range of different positions.
The characters will appear in both the games of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric for Wii U, and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal for 3DS in a non-playable form. They’ll also make appearances in the accompanying Sonic Boom television series set to debut on Cartoon Network when the games release.
The new characters include a “happy go lucky farmer,” Old Tucker and Hayward, who assists Old Tucker on the farm. There’s also a pair of sailing hippo brothers called Salty and Pepper with a broken relationship, Hokey and Pokey, an old married couple, Chef Woody, a beaver cook, Q-N-C/Quincy who acts as a guide in the games to our heroes and many more personalities to flesh out the Sonic Boom world.
I consider Sonic Boom to be a separate canon to the one we’ve followed since 1991, so introducing characters to help flesh it out seems logical to me. Only I do wonder if Sega have introduced too many at once this time. Without more information we can’t be sure whether these new characters will act as quest-givers and background, or if they’ll play a bigger role in the story.
The next installment in Bioware’s popular Dragon Age RPG series has been delayed. The game was originally set to drop in October one of the busiest months of the year. It has now been delayed to late November, the developers wrote this statement on their blog:
“I’m writing to let you know that Dragon Age: Inquisition has a new release date of November 18, 2014 in North America (November 21st in EU). We appreciate the enormous support we’ve received from all of you to get to this point, and while this extra few weeks may not seem like a lot, I know the game you’ll play will be all the better for it.
Since we began working on Dragon Age: Inquisition almost four years ago, our goal was to create the best Dragon Age experience ever. It was that goal that motivated many of our decisions: moving to Frostbite, bringing race choice and customization back, improving tactical camera, building a team of characters whose relationships evolve based on your actions, and most importantly, crafting an epic, nation-spanning story that both draws upon past games and takes you to many new places in the realm of Thedas.
I’m privileged to be a part of a team that has been working very hard to surpass every measure they’ve set for themselves. That has meant completing huge amounts of game content, fixing bugs both big and small, and improving the overall experience. This last bit of time is about polishing the experience we want you to see. Ensuring that our open spaces are as engaging as possible. Strengthening the emotional impact of the Hero’s choices. And ensuring the experience you get is the best it can be in the platform you choose to play on.”
* Dragon Age is slated for release on PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
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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.
A new trailer for the Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby remakes has been released today and it shows off a wide variety of things, both new and remastered.
The trailer includes footage of some of the animations used when you challenge certain Hoenn gym leaders as well as those from two of the Elite Four of the region. It also showcases the Secret Base function that was a popular part of the third generation games and something new that is hinted to be associated with the region’s contests, either as part of it or maybe even a new type altogether: Pikachu Cosplay.
The main thing the trailer reveals though is the next Pokemon to get a Mega Evolution, the Steel/Psychic type Metagross, which noticeably changes the position of the Pokemon’s four limbs from being four leg-like limbs to what seem to be four arm-like limbs with counterweights to the back of the Pokemon. It also turns the x across its face golden and adds a goatee-like spike below Metagross’ mouth.
Check out what the new evolution in the video below!
Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire will release on November 28th for Europe and November 21st everywhere else.
And we want YOU to help us celebrate. Thats right dear listener, YOU.
So join us July 5th-6th for the Sanitarium.FM 7th B’day Charity Gaming Extravaganza!
The station DJ’s and other staff and friends will be playing all sorts of games – from Minecraft, to Guild Wars 2 and indie games like War for the Overworld and Bro Force – starting at midnight GMT on the 5th and going all the way through till midnight EST or whenever we all collapse from lack of sleep!
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