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Brutal Gamer News Wrap: 2/6/14

February 7, 2014

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea/Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2/Child of Light/Sonic

Today on the Wrap Sega unveils a whole new Sonic, Ubisoft’s Child of Light is looking mighty special, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 gets a full symphony backing and Burial at Sea episode 2 finally has a release date. Sega reveals Sonic Boom trailer Now, before you leap to conclusions,…

Velocity Ultra 2X screenshots blast out of thin air

February 7, 2014

FuturLab/Indie Game/News/PS Vita/PS4/Screenshot/screenshots/Upcoming Games/Velocity Ultra/Velocity Ultra 2X

News by Chris I. While we’re still high speed warping and blasting things to bits in FuturLab’s addictive indie hit Velocity Ultra on the Vita, the developer surprised us out of nowhere with a batch of fresh screenshots of its upcoming PS4 and Vita sequel, Velocity 2X. If you missed…

The Interactive Canvas interview announcement: Brenda Romero

February 7, 2014

Brenda Romero/News/The Interactive Canvas

News by Matt S. Today we have another wonderful artist interview announcement to make. One of the most experienced game developers still working in the industry (and the longest-serving female developer), Brenda Romero, is going to participate in our humble book about games as art. Romero started working in the…

Review: Echo Prime (PC)

February 7, 2014

action RPG/Diablo clone/Echo Prime/PC/Reviews/Robot Entertainment

Review by Harvard L. The world first saw Echo Prime as a premium price iOS title from Robot Entertainment, a studio that developed titles like Orcs Must Die and Hero Academy and are made up of former employees from Ensemble Studio, the team which developed Age of Empires. It’s a…

a-useful-ios-app-for-gamers-sheet

February 6, 2014

iOS/non gaming application/Reviews/Sheet Yourself/SparkNET

Review by Matt S. Finding a good application to digitalise your Dungeons & Dragons pen-and-paper RPG character sheet is more difficult than it should be. There’s plenty of them on the market, but they almost universally have terrible interfaces, or miss vital information, or are simply clunky to use. Sheet…

kojima-clarifies-ground-zeroes-play-time

February 6, 2014

Hideo Kojima/Konami/Metal Gear/Metal Gear Solid V/Metal Ground Solid V: Ground Zeroes/News

News by Shaan J.While Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain doesn’t have a solid release date, its standalone-prequel, titled Ground Zeroes, is due out next month, and serves to show player the open-world nature of the game, along with then newly developed Fox Engine. However, amid all the pre-release…

How does that Pokemon Bank stand up?

February 6, 2014

Cloud/cloud gaming/Nintendo/Pokemon/Pokemon Bank/Reviews

Review by Matt S. A couple of days ago Nintendo finally rolled out its hotly-anticipated Pokemon Bank to European and Australian Poke-nuts, and the service has just launched in the US. Promising the ability to store thousands of virtual critters on nice, safe servers back at Nintendo HQ, this Cloud…

amazon-makes-major-gaming-acquisition

February 6, 2014

acquisition/Amazon/Double Helix Games/Financial results/News

News by Matt S. Here’s an interesting bit of news; Amazon has acquired Double Helix Games, the developer of the recent Killer Instinct reboot and Strider. This follows rumours that Amazon was preparing to make a formal play into the game console space currently dominated by Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft.…

review-sultans-of-rema-iphone-ipad

February 6, 2014

Apple/Gamebook/iOS/Reviews/Sultans of Rema/Tin Man Games

Review by Rob P. I once wrote a gamebook based on my life. It went like this: What would you like for lunch? If cheese, turn to page 23. If sandwiches, you must pass a dexterity check. Ah, it appears you are an inexpert sandwich-maker. You drop them on the…

Assassin’s Creed IV expansion is so big, it’s now a stand-alone game

February 6, 2014

Assassin's Creed/Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag/Assassin's Creed IV: Freedom Cry/News/Ubisoft

News by Matt S. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag was initially a DLC add-on titled Freedom Cry. Obviously it’s a very big game in its own right though, because Freedom Cry is being released as a stand-alone title. In other words you don’t need to own Black Flag to download…

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