Free Ni No Kuni DLC coming this Feb 12

Ni No Kuni just got released last week for the Playstation 3 and I'm sure most of you are playing right now. Well, if your loving the game so far, you might want to check out the Playstation Store on February 12 for some free DLC.

Publisher Namco Bandai just announced that you can download the Draggle Familiar free of charge on the Playstation Store when it gets available. With an industry now filled with paid DLC's at every corner, it's good to see every now and then free content, even though it's as simple as a new familiar for your game.

A new trailer was also released to get a glimpse of Oliver's adventure to another world. From what I'm hearing, this is turning out to be one of the best JRPG's to hit this generation. And that soundtrack...

[Source: Polygon]

Weekend! What are you playing?

Yey, the weekend! Do I go out and have as many drinks as I can until I pass out on a sidewalk, sleep all day, or just play more video games? Actually, I'm going for all three this weekend so good luck to me. What are you playing? 

Quash: I might call it an early night this friday, but after doing my errands tomorrow, I'm planning to play the Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance demo. Been waiting for this demo for weeks since Revengeance might just be my first game of 2013. As of right now, I haven't bought anything new since my Halo 4 purchase in early December. I also plan to play some Path of Exile and get to act 3, and hopefully do some Guild Wars 2 dungeons with some friends if they get online.

Migoy: Haven't really thought about what I'll be playing this weekend. Will probably get around to starting Dmc Devil May Cry on the Son of Sparda difficulty. I definitely need hit the lab in Persona 4 Arena and Street Fighter x Tekken. More so in SFxT because I recently got blown-up badly by a few players online. Plus I just need to step my game up in general. Can't rely on the scrub skills forever. I also borrowed Arlie's copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and heard that there are still people who play it online so I'll try that out. I also just got a new microphone so I'll definitely do some tests for that. Who knows, maybe some good footage might go along with it.

Arlie: What is up? I'm still at the office and I can't wait to get home for the weekend. I'm planning to get into Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch more and play less of Guild Wars 2. I'm only just 16 hours in Ni No Kuni thanks to my schedule. THIS GAME IS SO AMAZING that playing it only for an hour or two a day is just dumb. Earlier this week my Human Elementalist already hit the max level cap of 80 in Guild Wars 2, only to realize that (shit!) this was just the beginning. After that, I've been running down dungeons and trying to finish the story arcs. A major update was up this week in Guild Wars 2 and its called Flame & Frost: Prelude (Game of Thrones reference? anyone?). Feel free to add me in GW2, my gamer tag is arliedavid.6123 roaming at Isle of Janthir. Excelsior!

'See the Future' of Playstation on Feb 20? (PS4?)

A video teaser by Sony was released today in YouTube revealing that a big announcement is coming  on February 20. Is this what I think it is? Will Sony be the second among the big three to reveal their next console?

With the Wii U now out for Nintendo, talks about who will be next to reveal a new console was soon to follow. During the second half of 2012, there were tons of talks and discussions about Sony and Microsoft's next-gen console, they are all considered "rumors" of course since there is no official word, but there's no doubt in my mind that we will see at least one console reveal this year, but this early in the year? Heck, why not.

The last time Sony did a meeting like this, they revealed the PS Vita for the first time, so it's only fitting to assume that this could be the PS4 reveal, if it's not, it's still going to be big. Also, the fact that production of the Playstation 2 has finally been ceased shows that Sony now has space for another generation to come in.

A teaser page was created to let people sign up to get any updates first, but not other information was placed, only the hashtag #playstation2013 for everybody to start the discussion over at Twitter.

I thought they'd reveal something during this year's E3 but revealing a new product outside big events makes a lot more sense. Why show your next console when other competitors are also revealing their new goods at the same place? You want the attention all on you, and making your own personal press conference is the best way to do it. It also gives Sony the opportunity to make use of those big events like E3 or Gamescom to market the already announced product.

Do you guys also think the Feb 20 announcement is a console reveal?

UPDATE - Wall Street Journal is reporting that the PS3 successor is indeed going to be revealed on Feb 20. Not only that, it might actually be released this christmas.

[Source: PS Blog US]

Killzone: Mercenary for Vita gets a release date and a new trailer

Killzone: Mercenary, Sony's Killzone title for the PS Vita, gets a new trailer and a release date. It will launch on September 17 in North America and Europe. More details and the trailer after the break.

Killzone: Mercenary is being developed over at Guerilla Cambridge (LittleBigPlanet portable) and will be using the Killzone 3 engine.  It's set after the events of the first Killzone game and the players control mercenary and former UCA- soldier Arran Danner, who apparently is not on the Helghast or ISA side, he only thinks about his next paycheck.

The single player will contain nine missions each lasting about an hour-long. Multiplayer will be included of course and will support up to eight players (4v4) with six maps and three gameplay modes (Warzone, Team Deathmatch, Fee-For-All).

The FPS will have a currency system, where each kill and objective will reward the player money, which then can be used in the shop to buy new weapons, grenades, etc.

A Vita Killzone game was inevitable. Sadly none of the big franchises like COD or Assassin's Creed is seeing any success in the portable device, so hopefully Killzone entering the portable arena can fix that.

[Source: Gematsu]

Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Bound Together

So I finally decided to start a video series of me and Bud playing Tekken Tag Tournament 2 online and I think the title "Bound Together" is perfect for the title.

If you've played Tekken 6 or Tekken Tag Tournament 2 then you'd know about the Bound mechanic which let's you ground bounce your opponent once during a combo string. The bound mechanic gets expanded upon in Tag 2 by incorporating the whole "Tag Assault" mechanic so on and so forth. The title fits because there is no way that we are playing this alone. At least for the most part. We will try to rank up using the game's pair play method where we each control a character in our tag team. This, of course, changes how one plays the game drastically as you are working with another person and have no control over their actions on screen aside from hard-tagging and initiating a tag assault or tag crash.

Doing pair play online may not be the best way to rank up in Tekken but if we won't, who will? Join us on our quest to rank up in the world of Tekken Tag Tournament 2!

Warning: There will be a whole lot of losing in this series.