Two Guys on Gaming, Tech, and the World
This is no movie trailer. Despite the narrator’s cinematic voice, the video below is actually for Batman: Arkham Knight, the finale in the Arkham game series.
The trailer teases intense game-play, and most importantly, the newly-designed Batmobile will be driveable for the first time in this franchise. The game will feature an open-world Gotham that is supposedly going to be larger than the world in Batman: Arkham City.
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Enjoy the perks of rising through the ranks of your Los Santos and Blaine County business ventures with The Business Update, coming next week on Tuesday March 4th to PSN and Xbox Live. Thrill-seekers and weekend warriors can hop in any of three all-new, blazing fast sports cars: the Albany Alpha, Dinka Jester and Grotti Turismo R… or take to the skies in the new Vestra airplane.
Swing by Ammu-Nation to pick up two new weapons, the Heavy Pistol and Special Carbine, which both offer some serious firepower.
Dress for success with formal and business casual attire options like new suit jackets, slacks, glasses, heels and blouses, or don new all-business hairstyles and currency themed tattoos. There’s also a collection of new masks, perfect for disguising yourself during the next hostile takeover.
Just like the recent Valentine’s Day Massacre Special, the new vehicles and weapons will be available in both Story Mode and Online. In Story Mode, weapons will be deposited into all three characters’ inventory with two full ammo-clips and all three cars are accessible from their garage properties. In GTA Online, you’ll be able to purchase the new weapons and their attachments at any Ammu-Nation location while the vehicles will be available for purchase from L
egendary Motorsport and Elitas.
Don’t forget that this weekend is your last chance to grab the Albany Roosevelt limousine, the Gusenberg Sweeper machine gun and all the rest of the exclusive items from the Valentine’s Day Massacre Special before they’re gone. Once you purchase them in-game, they’re yours to keep – but they will no longer be available to purchase after midnight PST this Sunday, March 2nd.
And stay tuned for details about our upcoming Business Update Event Weekend as well as more info to be revealed on future updates including Online Heists, the Capture Creator update, new Assassination and Flight School missions for Story Mode and much more…
This weekend is also your last chance to grab the Albany Roosevelt limousine, the Gusenberg Sweeper machine gun and all the rest of the exclusive items from the Valentine’s Day Massacre Special before they’re gone. Once you purchase them in-game, they’re yours to keep – but they will no longer be available to purchase after midnight this Sunday, March 2nd.
The studio behind first-person shooter classic Bioshock is closing its doors.
Boston-based Irrational Games will shut down after 17 years, co-founder Ken Levine revealed in a statement on the studio’s website. The company was responsible for the 2007 hit BioShock and 2013 follow-up BioShock Infinite, both of which were among the best video games of their respective years.
“It’s been the defining project of my professional life,” Levine wrote of Irrational Games, which was founded in 1997.
Levine says he will retain 15 members of the Irrational team for a new project with Take-Two Interactive, the video game publisher that launched the BioShock series through its 2K label.
Levine says the new endeavor will involved “highly replayable” narrative-driven video games for the core player.
“To meet the challenge ahead, I need to refocus my energy on a smaller team with a flatter structure and a more direct relationship with gamers,” says Levine. “In many ways, it will be a return to how we started: a small team making games for the core gaming audience.”
Levine says the BioShock franchise netted more than a half-billion dollars in revenue since launching in 2007 for PC and the Xbox 360 (a PS3 version was released a year later).
2K will maintain the rights of the BioShock franchise.
Click here to buy BioShock on Amazon
There has been some amazing 8-bit treasure on the web this week, including (but not limited to) the 8-bit renderings of Breaking Bad, as well as Sesame Street Fighter–the self-explanatory latter is still making us laugh. To finish out the week strong in pixelated creativity, The Creator’s Project on Vice present Flikli’s “8-Bit Games: Winteractive Edition!” a sequel to the studio’s London Games makeover in 2012.
Like the original, this animated short features a montage of winter sports–bobsledding, skiing, the works–with a built-in, interactive mini-quiz game. While Sochi has had a few amazing spectacles, like the Selfie Monument we can’t stop geeking out over, the month-long event can get a little tiresome. Sometimes a quick burst of arcade-style fun is an easy replacement for the real thing.
For more of Flikli’s work, check out their site here, and see the whole interactive flurry below.
Elmo, Grover, Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie have grown up a lot, it appears. Sesame Street Fighter brings some of our favorite childhood puppets into the arcade ring made famous by Ryu in an amazing fusion of pop culture insanity.
Though the title is pretty self-explanatory, the online game allows users to pick their favorite Sesame Street characters (clad with combat friendly headbands, gloves, and capes) and duke it out in 8-bit glory a la Street Fighter.
In typical Sesame Street fashion, though, this is a learning game. You have to type words as fast possible to hit your rival, and the vocab gets more tricky as you level up. Though this might not be shared in elementary schools any time soon, this is exactly how we imagined a really bad fight between Bert and Ernie.
Play the game over at FlavourMachine. Just don’t get too nostalgic…or horrified.
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Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag — Sequence 02 — Memory 05
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Sequence 02 – Memory 04 – Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
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