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Good news for all European fans of the Oddworld series eagerly awaiting the release of the remade version of Abe’s Oddysee: New N’ Tasty. Seems that all the prices have been equally across all regions, and that means a slightly lower price for all of Europe.
Originally the game had a digital total for £19.99 in the UK and €24.99 for the rest of Europe. This didn’t really compare well against the US total of $24.99 which is about £14.64 or €18.35. So a lot cheaper for North America. However now to guarantee a much fairer deal for the European fans, the prices have been revised down to £17.99 and €20.99. Still not totally equal, but better than it had been.
The price changes were announced as part of an EU pre-order bonuses post (or ‘quikbuy’ as it’s put on the news post) outlining the Alf’s Escape bonus mission and the Scrub Abe costume.
New N’ Tasty will be releasing onto Playstation 4 on July 22nd, and then coming to PC, Mac and Linux later on.
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.
Good news for all of you who like to take advantage of a bargain. A mistake in the Steam listing for the double pack of indie game The Red Solstice means that not only is the pack being sold for the price of one copy of the game – it’s also currently 40% off. What’s more, you won’t get into trouble with the developers for taking advantage of the error.
Developers Ironward are going to correct the error tomorrow, but for now they’re not opposed to people taking advantage of the mistake. This is probably a good thing, as it does mean that not only can copies of their game get out to a wider audience with this impromptu sale, because it’s a multiplayer game this means that the servers will be filled with enough people to hopefully fill the 8-player squad and give it a good long life.
The game itself is a Kickstarter funded game, set in the future on the surface of Mars where a solar storm has cut all contact with a capital colony called Tharsis, and even as the storm continues to rage you are sent to find out what has happened to Tharsis, controlling a squad of space marines against an alien threat similar to Space Hulk.
Hopefully the accident will turn out to be a happy one for The Red Solstice and its developers, Ironward. If you’re unsure, try the demo on the Kickstarter page first… but hurry if you want to take advantage of the accidental offer.
Sunset Overdrive will be available for digital pre-order on Xbox Insomniac Games had revealed, and hopefully soon. This makes it the first Xbox One game to be confirmed to be up for digital pre-order.
In their series Sunset TV, which takes questions from fans and answeres them community manager Brandon Winfrey has told fans that the pre-orders will have the same in-game content as those copies that get bought at retail, the Day One content. Digital pre-order customers will also get a pre-order bonus although he didn’t specify what that bonus would be.
The video also went into more detail about the ‘amp’ power-ups that will be unlocked during the game and slotted into the character, mainly revealing a new one called ‘Scorched Earth’ which forces bursts of lava upwards from the player’s footfalls to catch groups of chasing enemies in its fiery damage radius.
Sunset Overdrive’s release date is October 28th in North America and October 31st for Europe.
A chief staff member of Xbox’s UK team has acknowledged the perception of their console having an ‘inferior’ framerate compared to their rival Sony’s Playstation 4, and the negative effect in could be having on sales in what he calls a ‘perception challenge’ that needs to be overcome.
Speaking to CVG Xbox UK marketing boss Harvey Eagle said that although he personally couldn’t see a difference in framerates or resolutions between the two, he realises that in the market the Xbox One was seen as having the weaker of both and that they must tackle and change this perception.
He sees the decision to do away with the Kinect being a permanent add-on to the console as a step in the right direction to challenge it though, as the resources that the Kinect used to make use of were now freed up for developers to make use of with their games.
“There is some GPU power that can be allocated to Kinect that we’re now freeing up for developers if they want to increase the fidelity of their games.” Eagle said, saying that it was up to the developers how they chose to make use of the freed-up resources now.
Currently as it stands, the Playstation 4 does at times outperform Microsoft’s console with framerates and resolution on games that the consoles share between them; but with the announcement about the Kinect no longer being mandatory having only been made two months ago it is possible we could see the gap becoming smaller as new games are developed to make use of the new higher amount of GPU power available in Xbox Ones.
