Batman!

Well, as a lover of the new Batman films, the old-school comics and Thief, I was absolutely thrilled to here that Eidos and Rocksteady Studios are making a new game for the series; Arkham Asylum.

Set in the insane asylum of Gotham City, home to the madmen and women that haunt the town, the player takes the role of Batman, sneaking and fighting their way out of a trap laid by the inmates and the Joker. There'll be sneaking, terror and gadetry, forcing the player to use all of their detective skills.

And the inmates? So far Joker and Croc are confirmed, as is my personal favourite Harley Quinn. Poison Ivy and the others are still maybes though, so fingers crossed for those childhood favourites.

The game will be coming out on the PS3, Xbox360 and the PC, and is slated to release sometime in 2009. Oh, and to make it even better, the script will be written by legend Paul Dini, so it should be fantastic!

Looking forward to some horribly scary moments, hehehe. XD

Greetings, Price

Oh the lamentations of those who sleep in. After kicking myself for a good 10 minutes this morning for sleeping in and missing my ride in and first lecture, I found a single positive.

JustJared have posted pics of Jake Gyllenhaal as Dastan, a 6th century Persian prince, soon to be accompanying the princess Tamina (where the f*** is Farah!?) to stop the Sands of Time being unleashed by the evil visier.

You can find more pics of Jake dressed as the prince here. Now you've seen it.. what do you think?

Rejoice in waste!

Brothers and Sisters of Steel (in Australia!) rejoice, for the wondrous Fallout 3 has been classified by the OFLC for Australian shores. We can now expect the game to land about a week after the US release (here on the 15th of October, US on the 7th) as it has passed classification!

No word on what was modified or cut from the game, after it was recently refused classification due to drug references (and the in-game direct use of morphine), and if it was a simple re-name of the drugs or if large chunks of the system have been removed (although I have enough faith in Bethesda's game ethics not to deprive us of such). The game is classified MA15+, based on "Strong Violence, Drug References and Coarse Language", which seems fine by me.

So prepare your hand-held atomic bomb launchers, your trekking boots for making your way through post-apocalypse downtown DC, and POSSIBLY your veins for some drug references. Oh god I hope this isn't misinterpreted horribly.

Fallout! We lust for you!

Source: IGN

Diabolical Rainbow

Well, after travelling around the internet in my super purple box of inter-dimensional (eat your hearts out Dr. Who) travel, I have come to the conclusion that there is far too much interesting stuff out there that I can't even think of how to comment on.

So instead I'll just have a bit of a mindless rant!

First off, there's been a lot of complaining about Diablo 3's art direction; that it's too bright, too cartoony etc etc. Really, look outside the window and tell me what you see? 

Blue sky maybe? Green trees? Perhaps it's autumn, and they're, oh I don't know... changing colour?

I personally think the art direction is rather nice, and since we've seen about two whole areas from the game, we shouldn't be screaming about how much it resembles a kiddy picture. I think it's atmospheric and realistic, and is a good move from the cliched 'this is a hack and slash game therefore the only colours used are black brown and red.' 

Use some creativity people! There is nothing more boring in my eyes than the same colour scheme used over and over and over again until you're bleeding sepia. (for the record, there is nothing 'realistic' about making something brown and glowy)

Old school Diablo 2 was, yes, quite monotone in regards to colour. However, even I, in my sorcering greatness lost my character. Make quips about my vision if you must, but unless my character was wearing bright purple, or the beasties I was fighting were assisting my in painting the landscape red and chunky, it was a little hard to navigate around in certain bits.

Troll me if you must, but I really think people should keep their artistic pants on for a bit, at least until we know of a other few areas. Things can be scary, and still in colour.

It really WORKS.

For all those who have scoured the net (aka Google) to find diaries or logs of users progress on the Wii Fit, I'm happy to provide a link to one of the most successful ones out there! (Or that I have seen, other than the IGN Wii Fit blog)

Using only the Wii Fit, Wootini (the reviewer) has lost about 12kgs, and appears to have put on some muscle too! I guess this proves that the Wii Fit can actually make you fitter when you actually use it. If you wanted motivation to see if it can really work, it's the perfect example. You can read the whole article and view pictures here.

Congrats!!

Oh hai...

Meet the new Lara Croft. Yes, old stand in, the beautiful Karima Adebibe has been replaced by Alison Carroll (picture above). Eidos have announced the new real life counterpart to everyone's favorite (or most loathed) video game queen, Lara, for her upcoming game, Tomb Raider: Underworld.

Carroll beat out over a hundred other applicants for the role, and, like previous Laras, will have to take up an SAS course and Archaeology tutoring before she can fully take the roll.

Why the switch? The Tomb Raider franchise typically has a new model for each game they release, with the exception of Karima, who stood in for both TR: Legend and TR: Anniversary. Personally, the Legend Lara (both in game and real life) to me seems to be the hottest. The new Lara looks a bit like she used to be a Russian man (in the game.. not so much the new real life lara), and it's all in the brow and cheek bones! Little too harsh for me juxtaposed with the itty-bitty nose and small but full lips, but hey, it could all work out. You can find high-res pictures of the new lara here.

Hot Conan Cybersex

Here's a little something to make your day... It's not quite our follow up to our Age of Conan review, but it sure made me laugh. A GM was caught by a trolling player, after the player lured the GM into cybersex by telling him that he was a male avatar but was played by a female.

It really raises a few questions about the GM in question. 1/ as a GM, one would assume it's your job to find such action more than just a little dubious, and 2/ if you were cybering with a female in real life, who had a male avatar, would you really have an urge to get naked with said male avatar?

At any rate, the GM in question has apparently been fired, which, although bad for him, is to be expected as, with anyone else, he needs to act in a professional manner appropriate to his job. Then again it is Age of Conan, and all their trailers pre-release touted the "sexy" game. The full transcript can be found here.

Source: Kotaku

If you are easily offended...

Something to make you lol...

"Using some of the gaming industries top talent Somavision has assembled a team of top industry talent to bring their perverse vision of the future to the PC. Some members have even worked on high profile games such as Dreamworks Interactive and EA games popular "Medal of Honor" franchise. "The staff that has been pulled together for this game are top notch talent", says Booker who boasts that his production carries over 30 years of combined industry experience."

So if you're easily offended... then DO click HERE.

Lets get wet!

I have loved Heavy Rain ever since Quantic Dream (of Fahrenheit fame) put out the theatrical trailer back in E3 2006. Heck, it was one of the reasons I wanted a PS3! (as a side note, I've loved Quantic Dream since Omikron, one of my favorite games of all time).

At any rate, long after that demo, Quantic Dream went dark. No press releases, no information, no trailers, no interviews, no nothing. Back in march this year, a few bits and pieces started to emerge, including the above video looking for artists. Now a few new screens have come out, which you can check out here, as well as some more information about the game.

Personally, I can't wait for heavy rain! It's time to get wet.

Source: Ripten.com

I'm in your Fable.. pwning ur covenant?

You just have to love unlockable outfits in games... Whether it's brand new g-strings in Dead or Alive 4... brand new g-strings in Soul Caliber 4... brand new g-strings in...

Er well, you get the picture! Heck, Altair in Metal Gear Solid 4 was still pretty damn cool... (although, did NOT have a g-string)

Latest on the list of games with cameo appearances is Master Chief appearing in Fable II... albeit in a somewhat period-ised version of his very well known spartan armor.

We reckon it's pretty cool. You can find more about this over on Loinhead (yeah, that's right, via the Lionhead forums) here.