LittleBigPlanet Karting release date set

Sony just revealed that LittleBigPlanet Karting will be launching on November 6 exclusive to the Playstation 3 of course.  Together with the blog post revealing the release date, a new trailer was released. Ready for some Mario Kart-ish action mixed with some LittleBigPlanet creativity?

A Kevin Butler sackboy bundled with its own kart? Very tempting pre-order indeed.

[Source: PS Blog US]

PS3 version of Assassin's Creed 3 will include one hour exclusive content

Just in case you haven't decided on what platform you want to play Assassin's Creed 3, this bit of info might help. The PS3 version of the game is getting 60 minutes of exclusive content. No information yet on what this extra content is all about. 

During E3, Ubisoft announced that the PS3 version will be getting exclusive content. Well this is it. A box art(Shown below) reveals the exclusive content. If I have to guess, this might be a simple side quest with no meaning to the main story at all. Past Assassin's Creed games like Brotherhood and Revelations both have exclusive offers for PS3 players. Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation is also an exclusive PS Vita game with a completely different protagonist.

I'm planning to get the Xbox 360 version of Assassin's Creed 3(I like to spread the love between consoles), even with this exclusive content for the PS3, an extra hour of game-time is not enough for me to change my mind.

PS3 players will definitely appreciate the extra content, but is it really a good enough incentive to purchase this version of the game? An hour can pass just like that nowadays when playing.

Assassin's Creed 3 is out on October 30 for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. There will be a Wii U version of the game but no date has been announced.

[Source: ComputerandVideoGames]

I dare you to play Slender

Last weekend in between Dota 2 matches, I've been playing what people consider the game to play if you want to shit your pants. It's not a flash game that provides those cheap scares forcing you to look close, this is an actual game that will only take you a couple of minutes to go through. That is, if you can get to the end.

Slender is plain and simple. You are in a forest at night equipped with a flashlight, and tasked to pick up eight pages before the "Slender Man" gets you. Simple right? Well that's what I thought. Not sure where Slender Man started exactly but this scary entity is a very tall and skinny man with very long arms. Slender man's face is purely white with no eyes, mouth, or even hair, just a white head like close to a manikin.

Creepy I know, but that's not why Slender freaked the hell out of me. It's the scenario that the game puts you in that makes Slender a very scary game. You are alone, not a single light in the forest but your flashlight, and all you can do is look for these pages that relate to the Slender Man. When you pick up your first page, that's when the Slender Man starts going for you. Each time you pick up more pages, the Slender Man gets closer and closer. At the start he just stands there for you to find him, around 5 up, he starts creeping behind you.

The sounds in this game delivers the fear perfectly. You hear this weird sound as if someone is walking towards you. When The Slender Man gets near your screen slowly starts developing static. When The Slender Man touches you it's game over. The screen goes complete static and you see Slender Man's face on your screen and the game literally just exits. It's such a simple game but it delivers the true fear so well that while I write this, I tend to look at my shoulder like a 7-year-old scared of the boogeyman, or maybe because I played it a couple of hours ago and the effect is still around. I haven't played a game that could deliver a feeling like this in a long time. My highest so far is reaching page 5. It's a bit hard for me to keep going after each session because the game gets to me. It made me jumpy through the night. It was great. A lasting appeal from a scary game that only took a couple of minutes to experience.

People say PewDiePew from Youtube started the Slender trend. If you search in Google or even in Youtube itself, you will find tons of gamers making Lets Play Slender videos. Here's one playthrough of PewDiePew playing Slender. Hilarious stuff by the way.

I wasn't screaming like that, a bit exaggerated if you ask me, but one of my encounters with the Slender Man did make me take out my headphones as fast as possible to the ground. Oh, did I mention that you have to conserve your flashlight's battery?

It gets  crazy fast when you start racking up the pages. You start walking faster because you know he's behind you. You have no defense against him, and the idea that he could appear anywhere got me looking everywhere. To make matters worse, I sometimes mistake the tree having The Slender man behind it, peeping at you with half his body revealed. Getting freaked out by that makes me look away fast , and to find he was behind me all along. My mind starts to play tricks on me. It's definitely one of the scariest games out in this generation.

It's Free to give you a heart attack

It's free. This short but terrifying adventure is easy to get. If you want to give it a go, you can head over to the site and start downloading. It's only 58MB big and is definitely not graphics heavy so you don't have to worry about that.

Turn down the lights, wear headphones, and start searching for those damn pages. Try to beat my 5 page score. Reaching five isn't so hard. It's after five where he starts showing up all over the place.

Metal Gear Solid 4 trophy patch coming next week

Konami just announced that the patch to finally include trophy support to Metal Gear Solid 4 will be out on Monday, August 6. It has been requested by hardcore MGS4 fans, and they finally got their wish five years later. Here's the complete trophy list for all you trophy whores.

Thanks to a post from the US Playstation Blog, here is the full list.

Bronze - You enjoy all the killing, that’s why. Killed many enemies in one area, and vomited. Bronze - Divine Wind Caused a “divine wind” using the Tanegashima. Bronze - Hands Up! Held an enemy soldier at gunpoint and performed a body check. Bronze - Emotion Control Controlled an enemy soldier’s emotions using an Emotive Magazine. Bronze - Hurt me more! Shocked an enemy soldier using Mk. II/III. Bronze - Drum Can Addict Knocked an enemy soldier flying using a Drum Can. Bronze - That Tune Is His Mind Control Music Played Oishii Two-han Seikatsu and made one of the BB Corps dance. Bronze - Overhead view — just like old times… Used overhead view on Shadow Moses Island. Silver - SUNLIGHT! Obtained the Solar Gun. Silver - I Just Don’t Fear Death Caused ALERT status while wearing the Corpse Camo. Silver - Where I Can See Ya Located enemy soldiers using the Scanning Plug. Silver - Ghost Photography Addict Snapped at least 5 shots of ghosts on Shadow Moses Island. Silver - FaceCamo Addict Obtained 10 or more types of FaceCamo (excluding types obtained via password). Silver - Can you feel my power now!!!? Took control of an enemy soldier’s body using the Mantis Doll or Sorrow Doll. Silver - Are you an Otaku too? Viewed all model posters. Silver - You’re pretty good. Got kissed by Ocelot during the final battle. Gold - Flashback Mania Viewed all flashbacks. Gold - Sounds of the Battlefield Obtained all iPod® tracks (excluding tracks obtained via password). Gold - I am THE expert on weapons, equipment and cutting-edge technology. Obtained all weapons (excluding weapons obtained via password). Platinum - The Legendary Hero Obtained all trophies.

A bit disappointing that it took them this long to just implement 20 trophies into the game. Still, I'll definitely play this game again next week to see if I can get the Platinum.

The patch will also allow players to install the full game into their PS3, rather than the few gigabytes installed in each chapter of the game.

[Source: Andriasang]

Assassin's Creed 3's latest trailer shows off the game engine

Assassin's Creed 3's latest trailer is not really a trailer for the game itself, but more of a trailer for the latest version of the Anvil engine called Anvil Next. Assassin's Creed 3 and Assassin's Creed 3: Revelation are the first games to make us of the game engine. Have a look.

I lost interest after Assassin's Creed 2 since Brotherhood and Revelations were not really bringing anything new to the table. The third game on the other hand is a different story. Wandering through the forest Assassin's Creed style is already a huge plus for me. Plus, they say that this game will finally conclude the story of Desmond Miles, so I'm curious to how that plays out.

Assassin's Creed 3 will be out on October 30 for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.