Though Winnie Mandela is a more-than-serviceable classroom recounting of events, it fails to reach much higher than that, and deals with identity issues when deciding whether to challenge your views or simply glorify real-life events. Check it out if you're fascinated by this time period or love the actors involved, but otherwise don't feel too pressured.
Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate embraces the brazen camp and erotica the series is known for while providing a ton of extras, and sneaking in a robust fighter underneath it all just like last year's edition. If you already have that game and weren't a huge fan then you might want to think twice, but otherwise don't hesitate to grab this and dive in all over again. If you're new to the series, it's a total no-brainer - this is the definitive DoA 5 version.
The Italian Grand Prix is coming up! Like, now! What, you're not excited? I'm actually getting a little bit sucked into this F1 stuff lately, and as much as I'd like to claim I'm actually knowledgeable about the sport, it's mostly just because F1 2013 looks so cool. Now, I know it's a yearly franchise, so I can't quite tell what's changed from last year or how much new stuff has been added since I never played F1 2012, but that hasn't stopped me from geeking out over pretty cars as Codemasters releases more info. So, I don't know - sue me.
Hideki Kamiya has a lot of experiencing developing home console titles. His thoroughly impressive repertoire includes the likes of Devil May Cry, Resident Evil 2, Okami, Viewtiful Joe, and Bayonetta, so it's understandable that he might want to try his hand at a portable release for a change. With development finally wrapped up on Wii U title The Wonderful 101, now seems like the perfect time. In a recent discussion with Siliconera at PAX, the Platinum Games director said the following regarding the studio's relationship with Nintendo and some of his ideas for potential 3DS games.
Ubisoft, these gameplay walkthroughs are getting out of control. Just hours after a 14 minute tour of Watch Dogs, we're now getting this guided romp through some of the upcoming gameplay in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag? It's all just too much to bear. Luckily, what's going on here seems pretty interesting, so it's hard to complain.
If there’s one series that has yet to bore me throughout the course of my long, ever-treacherous but usually satisfying gaming career, it would without a doubt be SSX. EA Sports Big’s snowboarding juggernauts of the early 2000s weren’t just a sports games, and really, neither were any of the late great development studio’s releases. EA Big knew how to put fun first, rules of the road second, and general convention and laws of physics dead last, and the results weren’t just a rollicking good time with each and every release, but uncommonly high praise from game critics ‘round the globe. When you consider how sports games tend to be received nowadays, this comes off as doubly impressive.
Oh my gosh - this is why I needed a real life hacking suit, Ubisoft! To play Watch Dogs Live! Now I'm going to have to wear a Slipknot t-shirt and a pair Converse. If you haven't heard about Watch Dogs Live, it's an app for iOS and Android that lets you roam the streets of Canada and out-hack your IRL buddies. I'm not sure I can phrase it any better than Ubi themselves, so check out this description from the recent press release.
Looking for new IP? Ubisoft's got you covered, and the writhing Watch Dogs hype machine they've been gradually feeding over the past few months isn't about to let up. Today, the company has posted to its YouTube channel a 14 minute demo of the game featuring gameplay, character interaction, and open world traversal.
In this morning's Pokémon Direct video, Nintendo revealed some surprising information about the starters you'll be able to choose in the upcoming Pokémon X and Y. As always, there are three new creatures: Chespein, Fennekin, and Froakie, respectively. I personally think they seem pretty awesome, but it's no surprise that most people's nostalgia goggles prevent them from ever liking any starters as much as the original three. Because obviously the miniature elemental monsters created by Game Freak today are poorly designed and creatively bankrupt shadows of their superior forebears. Obviously.
Wow - now isn't this ironic. Anyone's who's followed the drama surrounding Rayman Legends since February or so will no-doubt be familiar with the changes it's undergone in that time. Namely, Ubisoft delayed the game by an unheard-of 8 months, all in the name of a multiplatform release. The Wii U has been struggling ever since, so nobody can really fault the company for its choice, but in an odd twist the Wii U version is dominating the game's overall sales thus far in the UK.
