Latest Trailer for Brink
Splash Damage just released a new trailer explaining the types of classes you can be when playing Brink. This game looks amazing and the ability to move around difficult environments is cool but I'm still 50/50 of this game is worth the buy.The game is days away from release and they have been releasing tutorial videos over and over which makes me think this game won't need a game manual.
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Brink is being released earlier than expected, it will be out on May 10 for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
Mass Effect 3 delayed into 2012
They have just announced that Mass Effect 3 has been delayed and will be released on the first three months of 2012. Most of you will say it's a bad thing yes, but it isn't really. As a huge fan of the series, I'd rather have a polished third game coming out next year than a rushed project forced out on the holidays.
The announcement was posted in Bioware's Facebook page by Casey Hudson, Executive Producer Mass Effect series and said "The development team is laser focused on making sure Mass Effect 3 is the biggest, boldest and best game in the series, ensuring that it exceeds everyone’s expectations."
I'm fine with the delay, it seemed too soon for Mass Effect 3 to be released. When I saw the teaser trailer revealing Holiday 2011 I was excited at the same time worried that Bioware might be rushing it since Mass Effect 2 just came out Jan of 2010, that's a short development time and they were still providing DLC's for the second game. Moving it to 2012 gives them more time and focus to polish and give us an epic close to the Mass Effect series.
Mass Effect 3 is now multi-platform and will be out on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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Nintendo Wii price cut, now at $149.99
It's official: Nintendo is dropping the price on the Nintendo Wii to $149.99, as insinuated by price drop rumors floating around Nintendo's console the last few weeks. The price drop will be in effect as of May 15th, and will include a Nintendo Wii in black or white along with Mario Kart Wii and a matching colored wheel, replacing the Wii Sports/Wii Sports Resort pack-ins. For those dying to pick up a black wheel, it can be purchased separately for $9.99.
Beyond the Wii cost reduction, Nintendo also formally announced its "Nintendo Selects" program, which will offer popular Wii titles at the $19.99 price point. The four titles initially part of the Nintendo Selects family include The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Animal Crossing: City Folk, Mario Super Sluggers and, for the first time ever as a separate software purchase, Wii Sports. There was no mention of Super Smash Bros Brawl made officially by Nintendo.
It sounds like a great deal for someone that's been waiting all these years to pick up a Wii, with deals galore for classic titles that the legions of Wii owners have enjoyed for years. But with Nintendo's new console 'Project Cafe' coming next year, the timing seems a bit off to really drive any serious momentum for the flagging console.
Read more: http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/712360/nintendo-wii-price-cut-official-at-14999-nintendo-selects-to-follow/#ixzz1LOrzvLxA
Soure: G4TV
RGP # 16 - Who let the dogs out?
Random Gaming Post # 16
If ya'll didn't know, we here at TMG are fans of 4playerpodcast and their hilarious antics. One in particular convinced me to get a game I might have never even thought of getting, let alone enjoy. That game is Just Dance for the Nintendo Wii.
David Liao played it live on their Justin.TV feed with the camera pointed on him as he mirrors dances moves from the game while wearing an HMD shirt from Viewtiful Joe. And yes, that IS Surfin' Bird you hear at the end of the video.
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New Assassin's Creed Teaser takes us to Istanbul
Another teaser video has been unlocked in the Assassin's Creed Facebook page.
Known for it's alternate reality, my sort of a passion for history made me like the Assassin's Creed series. We all know that the release date will be revealed this month but I couldn't help it, so I investigated a little with the available clues shown in the short clip below to give us an idea on what would the next Assassin's Creed game be all about.
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Assassin's Creed: Revelations Teaser
Left side: Masyaf Castle in background, Altaïr(?) or at least his hidden blade bracer in foreground
Right side: Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (Constantinople until 1453)
- Originally used as a Cathedral for Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
- It was used as an Imperial Mosque when the Ottoman Turks captured the city in 1453.
- 1453 - Fall of Constantinople, start of growth of the Ottoman Empire and the end of the Byzantine Empire
"24061459"
- 24th June 1459, Birth of Ezio Auditore da Firenze
- 1459 - 6 years after the Fall of Constantinople
Tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent (Suleiman I)
- Born in 1494
- Longest reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1520 - 1566)
Timeline of events after Assassin's Creed Brotherhood:
In general, the 16th century was the Age of Discovery. A major era in the history of the world. Its also the time of Henry VIII of England (and we all know what a drama that was).
April 1509: The Battle of Agnadello between the French (commanded by Louis XII) and Venetians (jointly commanded by Bartolomeo d'Alviano and Niccolò di Pitigliano) starts.
May 1509: The French are victorious in the Battle of Agnadello. Bartolomeo d'Alviano is captured as a Prisoner of War. Niccolò di Pitigliano retrieves The Shroud.
1510: Francesco Vecellio, an Assassin, assassinates Niccolò di Pitigliano and retrieves The Shroud.
May 1510: Caterina Sforza, an ally of the Assassins, dies.
1512: The Medici regain their power.
Mid-1512 : Rise of Martin Luther, founder of Protestantism movement.
1512: Copernicus completes Commentariolus, placing the sun at the center of the solar system.
1512: Florentine Republic dismantled; Medici regain power.
1512: Selim I forces his father Bayezid II to abdicate the throne of Ottoman Empire. Bayezid dies shortly afterwards.
1513: Niccolo Machiavelli completes his book, The Prince. (in AC:B, Machiavelli says he will write the book in honor of Ezio - I speculate this is when Ezio dies or sometime around this).
1513: Bartolomeo d'Alviano is freed from French prison.
Sep 1515: Selim I captures Tabriz without any resistance. Subjugates the Persian Shah.
Oct 1515: Bartolomeo d'Alviano, an Assassin and condottiero, is killed.
Feb 1516: Mary I of England is born.
Jun 1516: John III, King of Navarre and brother in law to Cesare Borgia, dies.
1516: Selim I invades the Holy Land (Syria & Egypt).
1516: Leonardo da Vinci accepts to work at the court of Francis I, King of France.
1517: the Holy Land falls to the Ottoman Empire under Selim I, declares himself Caliph.
1517: Martin Luther publishes is 95 Theses, sparking the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
1519: Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa in France.
1519: Hernan Cortez lands in Central America, meets the Aztecs.
1519: Ferdinand Magellan leaves Europe to circle the globe.
1519: First civil riots occur in Anatolia (Ottoman Empire)
May 1519: Leonardo da Vinci dies.
June 1519: Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, dies.
1520: The fleet of Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico.
1520: Giovanni Borgia gets the Crystal Skull.
1520:Bombastus analyzes the Crystal Skull.
1520: Selim I dies (possibly poisoned). Succeeded by his son Suleiman I (the Magnificent), ushering new era of growth in Ottoman Empire. Aleksandra Lisowska (Roxelana) is given to him as a gift. Initially a concubine, she later became his Queen, becomes the most influential figure in Ottoman politics.
1520: Aztec Empire destroyed.
1521: Martin Luther excommunicated.
1521: Ferdinand Magellan dies.
1521: Ottoman Empire advances into eastern Europe, capturing Belgrade.
1521: First son born to Suleiman I.
1522: Bianca Riario, daughter of Caterina Sforza dies.
1522: Suleiman I conquers island of Rhodes (Knights Hospitallers, who flee to island of Malta).
Dec 1524: Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer and a Templar, dies.
1525: France and Ottoman Empire ally against the Holy Roman Empire.
1526: Suleiman I defeats King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in battle, who dies while retreating.
1527: Medici lose Florence again to supporters of Giralomo Savanorola, unti 1530.
1527: Spanish & German troops sack Rome.
Jun 1527: Niccolo Machiavelli an Assassin, dies, entombed in Sante Croce, Florence.
1529: Treaty of Zaragosa divides world's waters between Spain and Portugal; East for Spain, west for Portugal.
1529: Suleiman I launches military campaign into Hungary. Lays siege to Vienna, Austria. But he is finally defeated, halting the spread of Islam into Europe.
1529: Archduke Ferdinand of Austria dies (how convenient)
1532: The Prince is published.
1532: Suleiman I launches unsuccessful campaign into Hungary.
1533: Ottaviano Riario, son of Caterina Sforza, dies.
1533: Peace treaty divides Hungary between Austria and Ottoman Empire.
1533: Suleiman I makes Roxelana Queen of the Ottoman Empire.
Jun 1541: Francisco Pizarro y González, 1st Marquess of los Atabillos, is assassinated by Assassins.
Sep 1541: Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, a Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and a member of the Assassin Order, dies.
1542: Giovanni Borgia, an Assassin, experiences a vision of an unknown Chinese man through the Crystal Skull and decides to alert the other Assassins.
May 1543: Niccolò Copernico, a Polish Renaissance astronomer, mathematician and priest, dies.
1548: Giovanni Borgia, an Assassin and son of Lucrezia Borgia and Perotto Calderon, dies.
1553: Queen Mary I obtains an Apple of Eden and begins her rule over England.
Mar 1554: Ivan Ivanovich, heir to the Russian throne, is born.
1560: Francesco Vecellio, an Assassin, dies.
Nov 1581: Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich is assassinated by Assassins.
other events at this time: - start of African slave trade - Islamic conquest of Christian Ethiopia