Today’s post is just a quickie to say remember to vote in the Call of Duty vs Battlefield poll in the sidebar, if you want your favourite first person shooting franchise to be the victor, you’ll need to get your votes in before the polls close.
Rally your friends, spread the word on Twitter and Facebook! Do whatever it takes because the winner not only gets the champion crown, but they also get a very special victory post…
Back in April when we posted our giant Crysis 3 feature, detailing all of the first, early factoids that we knew about the game, everyone was positively giddy. I received one worrying report about a reader who read the post and proceeded to wet themselves with excitement*.
You may need to exercise those bladders again as Crysis 3 is back again with a new pile of steaming hot screenshots. These Crysis 3 screenshots, are, as the gameplay trailer was, absolutely gorgeous.
We get to see some of the murky swamp goo (which yes, still looks pretty, albeit revolting, because that’s just how Crysis 3 rolls), a towering hulk of Ceph mech and the obligatory (perhaps) image of Crysis 3 protagonist, Prophet, staring wistfully into the distance. Marvel at them after the break.
*not really
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What a lovely break yesterday was as America celebrated Mother’s Day and me, a Brit, took full advantage of it. Well, welcome back today where we can now celebrate the fact that shooting people in the face and serving justice is really awesome.
This hefty slice of justice and the epic gunfights are, of course, thanks to none other than one Max Payne, whose third video game outing, Max Payne 3, is released on Friday.
In this Max Payne 3 launch trailer, Max talks about the two kinds of people who inhabit the world, those who “build a future” and those who try and “rebuild the past”. He says that he has always hovered in the middle but now plans on fixing this in Max Payne 3, but that won’t stop him from relegating you from his social circle should you fall into the latter category.
Best stay out of his way should you cross paths with him then…
Click ‘Continue Reading’ to watch the Max Payne 3 launch trailer.
Do you know what was nice? The Assassin’s Creed 3 teaser trailer. But do you know what would be nicer? What would be the lovely blood red cheery on an undoubtedly death-rich cake? Footage of Assassin’s Creed 3 gameplay.
Yesterday we were busy comparing Dishonored to Assassin’s Creed and today we see exactly how starkly different the two games are as Ubisoft have just released a trailer including our very first taste of Assassin’s Creed 3 gameplay, taken from a pre-alpha state of the game.
You won’t believe that it’s pre-alpha though. AC3 just looks that good. Few things have looked this incredible before release since the frozen pizza was invented. You can see this bit of extraordinary gameplay after the break.
Click ‘Continue Reading’ to watch the Assassin’s Creed 3 gameplay trailer.
DISCLAIMER : The author is looking forward to both Assassin’s Creed 3 and Dishonored, both of them stand the chance of being incredible. This post just takes a look a how Dishonored will best certain aspects of what we’ve seen AC do before and is not meant to hate on either upcoming titles.
One is a slice of globe-trotting, stab and stealth action where freedom and a fight against the power-hungry Templars take the lead, whilst the other is based around a dystopian Industrial-era society that has you using supernatural powers as you battle for your innocence against the corrupted leader(s) who framed you for a crime you didn’t commit.
Although they include a much different range of methods to get to their end-goal of putting the warped members of the aristocracy in their places, both are centred around the idea that they must kill for what is right.
These games? Dishonored and Assassin’s Creed.
As the two assassin genre supertitles go head to head later this year (the latter in the form of Assassin’s Creed 3), it’s inevitable that comparisons between them are going to be drawn. But how deep do the similarities go? That’s what we’re here to find out.
Click ‘Continue Reading’ to find out how Dishonored is just like Assassin’s Creed.
After an entire month of battling it out, we’re finally going to put an end to the gruesome fight between Madden and FIFA.
Oh how the war raged on in our monthly poll, with the lead changing three times before we got to this stage, but of course, we must now pronounce the winner……..FIFA!
As the top dog of this vicious series of voting, FIFA wins a feature from us here at J Station X (which will go live next week) and if you’re interested in joining the soldiers in the trenches of the next gritty attack, you can do so on the right, as the latest poll is Call of Duty vs Battlefield.
See you here again next month to crown the next winner!
Einstein himself couldn’t keep up with the pricing levels of the individual Call of Duty Modern Ware 3 map packs (my brain already hurts thinking about Black Ops 2’s online monetisation efforts) and talk about online passes, paid subscriptions et. al comes with side effects such as nausea, boredom and in severe cases, death.
So let us all gather round the proverbial campfire to praise and worship Rockstar Games, publisher and developer of Max Payne 3, as their plan for the Max Payne 3 multiplayer DLC is sweeter than sugary, third person shooter pie.
Called the ‘Max Payne 3 Rockstar Pass’, Rockstar’s plan is to have you pay a one time fee of £19.99 (that’s the PSN price, the Xbox 360 version will set you back by 2400 Microsoft points) and gets you almost £40 worth of maps. Rockstar are going to release 7 stonking great whoppers of Max Payne 3 multiplayer DLC between June and Autumn, which are as follows
June 2012
Summer 2012
Fall 2012
The first of the Max Payne 3 DLC, the Local Justice Map Pack, will include the Police Precinct map for Gang Wars, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Payne Killer multiplayer modes. The pack will also feature two additional maps for Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Payne Killer, new precinct-themed multiplayer avatar items, multiplayer challenges – and this is only part of it (Rockstar say that they’ll release more details soon, subscribe to our newsletter and we’ll keep you posted!).
Phew! All of this and the game isn’t even out yet!
The Max Payne 3 release date is May 15th, 2012, click here to pre-order Max Payne 3.
Years of blogging, Internet trolling and very real, actual, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH*, has taught us here at J Station X that you like having an opinion, but most of all you like it when people actually listen to the thinky-thoughts that are bouncing around in your noggin.
That’s why we have the monthly poll, where we give you two video games/franchise/characters/in-game scenes and get you to vote for the one you like best, and whoever gets the most votes in their corner gets a Very Special Post dedicated to them.
So, in a series of incredibly meta events, we are asking you, our lovely readerbase of coolcats and homedawgs – what is it that you’d like to vote on next?
Whether it be Call of Duty vs Battlefield, Kratos vs Zeus or even Johnny Sasaki’s bout of diarrhoea vs Solid Snake hiding in a cardboard box, whatever you want to vote on, let us know in the comments, and we’ll put it to a vote once the current polls ends.
*scientific research doesn’t exist, we’re just going on a probably accurate hunch.
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Gone are the days of gamers being shunned for being too ‘weird’ or too ‘quirky’. Banished are the stereotypes of us all being sexually charged teenage boys with too much time on our hands. Gaming myths are about to get a superkick in the butt as a new study from The More You Ferrigknow, led by super-fit actor, professional bodybuilder and former Mr. Universe, Lou Ferrigno, shows that actually, us gamers do alright when it come to the ‘love and all that other stuff’ front.
The survey, which questioned World of Warcraft players, a group of gamers who are, perhaps, the most lambasted for their gaming habits, showed that 74% of WoW players are lucky in love with fellow gamers, which, in contrast to the fact that 43% of non-gaming Americans are single, is a pretty big deal.
There’s a video of Mr Ferrigno clueing us in on this interesting bit of stat-age here.
Do you think being a gamer helps you in the love stakes? – Leave a comment!
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After the truckload of Call of Duty Black Ops 2 information that landed yesterday, Activision are striving to keep us frothing at the mouth over this game by releasing (intentionally, this time) even more Call of Duty Black Ops 2 screenshots.
Because I know that you may be ~*2 legit 2 quit*~, as the saying goes, you’ll be happy to know that these bombastic new images are official and not leaked, as is the case with yesterday’s lot. You can see them after the break.
Click ‘Continue Reading’ to see the new Call of Duty Black Ops 2 screenshots.