In case you didn't already know, the fighting game worlds biggest time of year is upon us. Evolution 2012 is ON! Day two is going on now, but we all know the real excitement is on Sunday during finals day. Via TwitchTV are all of the streams of the tournament bound to have many memorable moments.
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Gameplay 1
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Gameplay 2
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Evolution 2012 Panels
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There are no new releases for PS Vita or PSP this week.
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3DS/DS
PC/Mac
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PS3
PS Vita/PSP
There are no new releases for the PS Vita or PSP this week.
Wii
3DS/DS
PC/Mac
Xbox 360
PS3
PS Vita/ PSP
Wii
3DS/DS
PC/Mac
Xbox 360
PS3
PS Vita/PSP
Wii
There are no new releases for Wii this week.
3DS/DS
There are no new releases for PS Vita or PSP this week.
PC/Mac
If you know anything about my relationship with videogames it's that Street Fighter is a huge part of it. Those on my Xbox LIVE friends list are probably sick of Street Fighter IV (insert edition here) always accompanying my gamertag. Unfortunately that has meant almost nothing when it comes to Street Fighter X Tekken. Sure, I own the game and have played quite a bit of it. Notice that "have played" isn't still play or play?
It has been months since I've touched Street Fighter X Tekken and by association SSFIVAE. With all of the problems the game had at its inception I was supremely willing to fogive all and soldier through, but that only lasted for so long. Three odd weeks after launch it had been a real chore to ignore all of the iusses. Fixed at this very moment or not, I'm done with SFxT, at least for now. EVO (which is very soon) might get me back in, or is it this Vita version that's on the way?
Bryan, Jack, Lars and Alisa
Again, I own a PS Vita as well. Do I see myself ever touching the Vita version of SFxT unless I end up with a copy for review? Hells NO! It's too late Capcom. You blew your shot to hook not only me, but many that I know who or know of who are hardcaore about fighting games just as much as I am or more so in some cases. We are who you have been whoring yourself out to for years while the rest of the gaming world laughs at us for buying all of your upgrades and re-releases.
Cody and Guy
If interest in the game is there chances are you already own the game on a console. Those hardcore about fighting games are highly competitive. So answer me this? Why would any of us by a hanheld version of a game we might or might not already own to play on a platform that is obviously not where the bulk of the competition is going to be? Extra characters or not. I felt burned by SFXT and still do in a lot of ways and I'm sure no one like me is up for that feeling again on an inferior plaform for fighting games.
Watch the below video first if you haven't seen it yet or watch the shorter clips provided below.
The E3 2012 Ubisoft Conference Watch Dogs presentation in its entirety.
There is something brewing at Ubisoft Montreal. It's a game you smell, of course. It's open world. It's technically beautiful, and more importantly it most defintely got everyone's attention at the end of Ubisoft's E3 2012 Press Conference. If buzz and not droids is the word you are looking for you have landed in the right place. So now what? You've now seen a very impressive vertical slice of a game very few people knew about prior to a little more than 24 hours ago. Take a look again if you need to below.
Watch Dogs gameplay video #1
Are you still excited? If so, why do you think that is? I'll be the first person to say it took me quite a bit to get my jaw up off the floor after seeing this for the first time. It's so good it had many thinking it was a game meant for the next set of unannounced consoles after the target platforms went undeclared by Ubisoft. Although what we were shown is spectacular what is it that we really know about this game?
You'll roam around a city with high tech gadgetry looking for targets after manipulating the NPC's you encounter on the way only to get into cover based fire fights just like every other action game set in an open world. Are you coming down from Cloud 9 yet? Of course you aren't. We all want everything we see that looks like a beatiful woman/man to be just that. Once we get our hands on the goods that's when we'll start to realize that their face might not be quite what we had imagined from afar. Maybe it'll be just like I'm Gonna Git You Sucka? Remember that scene in that movie. That is almost exactly what happens to us everytime we get hyped for pretty things. Give the PR team a hand. They sure know how to back that hype up with some solid PR gold too.
In Watch Dogs, players enter the dangerous world of Aiden Pearce, a new class of antihero whose ability to hack into any connected system could be his most powerful weapon. Whether it’s triggering a 30-car pileup by manipulating traffic-lights to trap an enemy during a downtown shootout or tapping into the city’s omnipresent security cameras to access anyone’s personal information, Pearce is capable of coercing and controlling almost every element of the world around him.
“Watch Dogs goes beyond the limits of today’s open-world games by giving players the ability to control an entire city,” said Jonathan Morin, creative director, Ubisoft. “In Watch Dogs, anything connected to the city’s Central Operating System becomes a weapon. By pushing the boundaries, we can provide players with action and access to information on a scale that’s never been seen in a video game before.”
Watch Dogs gameplay video #3
Promises, Promises, Promises! I'm seen this before and so have you. Watch Dogs may turn out to be every bit as good as what was just shown. I truly hope so. But, before then I'll take a look at this other game announced at the beginning of this generation, Frame City Killer. Remember that game with quite a bit of E3 hype? You don't. That's because it never came out.
*Tobuscus? Why? (that is all of the commentary needed)
