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Is The Evil Within the Scariest Horror Game of this Generation?

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I’m a strong believer that any ‘evil’ should stay firmly outside of my body. I’m not interested in being possessed or taken over by some corner dwelling demons, thank you. But one thing’s for certain, and that’s that possession is an absolutely terrifying prospect. While Dead Space 3 skimped on the scares when it was released earlier this year, The Evil Within is taking that inner-hiding badness and turning it into what could possibly be one of the most cack-inducing video games of all time.

Published by Bethesda Softworks, the team who brought you Skyrim and made frostbitten spiders frighten the ever-loving bejesus out of you and developer Tango Gameworks there’s no doubt that The Evil Within will be a quality game, and what’s more is that it’s headed up by none other than the creator of Resident Evil, premium scaremaster himself, Shinji Mikami.

What we know about the likely nightmare inducing fear that The Evil Within will instil in us is that it will likely be set in some kind of asylum, judging from the trailer anyway, it’s guaranteed to scare use out of our skin. Watch the video after the break.

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Assassin’s Creed 4 : Black Flag Announced by Ubisoft

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We’re barely 4 months away from the release of the last Assassin’s Creed game, Assassin’s Creed 3, but already, Ubisoft have announced the next game in the series, Assassin’s Creed 4 : Black Flag.

Not a lot is known about Assassin’s Creed 4 : Black Flag, but we do know a few pieces of information, for example, the ‘Black Flag’ in the title and the image on the box art is a reference to the fact that Assassin’s Creed 4 : Black Flag will have a heavy emphasis on sea-based missions. However, we don’t yet know what or who you’ll be fighting against at sea, other than (presumably) a heck of a lot of scurvy.

Other Assassin’s Creed 4 : Black Flag tidbits that we know this far are that the game the game is set in 1715 and it will be introducing you to an all new protagonist. You’ll play as “Edward Kenway”, who is the father of Haytham Kenway and the grandfather of Connor Kenway (the protagonist of Assassin’s Creed 3), albeit, this member of the Kenway family thankful has a more easily spelt name (Ratohnhaké:ton, anyone?)

We’ll know more on Monday, 4th of March when Ubisoft are planning on releasing more information about the game. – Click here to sign up to the J Station X newsletter to find out all the latest Assassin’s Creed 4 : Black Flag news.

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Skyrim Dragonborn DLC Finally Released on PS3

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The Skyrim DLC that Xbox 360 and PC players of the game have already gotten to know and love has been out for several months now and thankfully, PS3 players who’d like to get their hands on the critically acclaimed Skyrim DLC can now do so.

On this very here blog we slated Bethesda for releasing Skyrim knowing that it was undoubtedly broken on PS3 and nearly a year after announcing that they knew about the broken mess they tried to sell PS3 players pre-release, Bethesda are finally making amends.

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It was the ‘Rimlag’ problem that prevented PS3 players from playing the Skyrim DLC initially but now Bethesda say that with the installation of the recently released Skyrim 1.8 update, players will be able to play all the Skyrim DLC packs – Dragonborn, Hearthfire and Dawnguard as they’re released on the PlayStation Network (complete with a 50% discount for their first week on sale).

The first to be released is Dragonborn which sees players taking on the original slayer of dragons and yeller of ‘FUS RO DAH’. It’s out today on the store.

The entire Skyrim DLC release schedule is below

  • Dragonborn releases Wednesday, February 13
    • Regular Price: £12.99, € 16.99, AUS $24.95; First Week Pricing: £6.49, € 7.99, AUS $11.75
  • Hearthfire releases Wednesday, February 20
    • Regular Price: £3.99, € 4.99, AUS $7.35; First Week Pricing: £1.99, € 2.49, AUS $3.65
  • Dawnguard releases Wednesday, February 27
    • Regular Price: £12.99, € 16.99, AUS $24.95; First Week Pricing: £6.49, € 7.99, AUS $11.75

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Aliens : Colonial Marines is Released, Launch Trailer Hits the Web

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Aliens : Colonial Marines has finally been released and in space no one can hear you scream unless you too are that angry that it’s taken this long to hit shelves. But now, after months of rabid slobbering from Aliens fans waiting for Gearbox Software to release their interactive homage to the series, the title, which was produced with help from original Alien director, Ridley Scott, is here.

Acid blood, wall crawlers and movie references alike, some critics are still slating the game already but hopefully that won’t put you off, and Gearbox have even released an Aliens : Colonial Marines launch trailer for you to fully decide if you want to play a piece of cult film heaven.

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GTA 5 Release Date Confirmed for September 17th

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The next game in Rockstar Games’ behemoth sandbox series, GTA 5, has had the black cloud of a ‘Spring release date’ since that GTA 5 trailer debuted all the way in December. Release was almost guaranteed, as it always is with the Grand Theft Auto games, that our next outing in los Santos would debut in Q1, but with a small room for uncertainty, Rockstar have pushed the GTA 5 release date back to September.

Speaking of the new September 17th release date, the official word from Rockstar is that it’s being pushed back “in order to allow additional development time” but it sounds like the ever-excellent dev has bitten off more than it can chew with players now in control of three protagonists instead of one and that the GTA 5 multiplayer that Rockstar say will “redefine open-world games” needed a little more time in the Game of the Year oven before it’s deemed worthy of the praise that this game is no doubt going to get.

Given that September is an entire 7 months away, Rockstar have all the time in the world to put the finishing touches on the “deepest, most beautiful and most immersive world yet” that they’ve promised us.

The GTA 5 release date is September 17th, 2013. – Click here to pre-order it now.

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Dead Space 3 Demo Release Date Announced

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As a new year of gaming begins, EA are starting the year off right helping us all decide upon the very first game on our 2013 gaming wishlists as they’re all ready to release the demo for Dead Space 3.

The full game of Dead Space 3 is set to let players take control of the bad-luck plagued space engineer Isaac Clarke and experience his willingness to constantly get himself into danger in places entirely overrun with necromorphs, as players will get to see an entirely new world, the “unforgiving ice planet”, Tau Volantis.

When the Dead Space 3 demo launches later this month (Dead Space 3 demo release date – 15th of January on Xbox 360, 22nd of January on PS3) you can take on Tau Volantis with a friend as the controversial inclusion of co-op takes form with secondary Dead Space 3 character, Sergeant John Carver, making his video game debut.

Those in doubt about the new co-op feature in Dead Space 3 (or the game as a whole) needn’t worry as EA say that their game will include “the franchise’s core elements of suspense, horror, action and sound”, which is exactly what made us love the previous Dead Space games.

As an added bonus for Xbox 360 players, EA say that you can go to demo.deadspace.com to win a chance to get to play the demo even earlier than the 15th of January.

Dead Space 3 is out on Xbox 360 on February 3rd and PS3 on February 5th (North American release dates).

GTA 5 Trailer #2 Goes Live, Showcases Three Playable Characters

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Continuing to well and truly push the boat out with their games, Rockstar’s tongue in cheek, rags-to-riches series, Grand Theft Auto is back with GTA 5 trailer #2, giving us a preview of Los Santos’ (the fictional California-like world of GTA 5) craziest and wealthiest characters as we meet the three characters that will be playable at the GTA 5 release date.

Back in the series are planes, helicopters, cars (some fast, some rust-bucket-y) as well as high-speed chases, less than legal dealings and those that anyone old enough for a Winter heating benefit would call “hoodlums.”, as well as some extremely pretty cutscene footage showing that GTA 5 is completely obliterating the graphical and lighting standards set by GTA IV all the way back in 2008.

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Mass Effect 4 Confirmed by Bioware

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The Mass Effect series of games have always been some of the most forward-thinking available and to the surprise of some, the developer of the 3 games, BioWare, have announced that Mass Effect 4 is in production.

BioWare are currently working our other favourite series of games, with Dragon Age 3 in development at BioWare Edmonton and in a blog post on the official BioWare blog, Yanick Roy, Studio Director at BioWare Montreal (one of the two teams working on Mass Effect 4), said that won’t tell us more about the game “for a good little while” because the two studios are developing the new game together.

What we do know is that Mass Effect 4 will be using the Frostbite Engine and although the Mass Effect trilogy is complete and Mass Effect 4 will be a completely new section of the series developed “in full compliance with the legacy established by the first three chapters”, Mass Effect 4 will be just as diverse as the first three games “including many alien races, a huge galaxy to explore and, of course, a rich and cinematic narrative.”

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HMV Listing Confirms GTA 5 Release Date

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It appears that the HMV website has confirmed the GTA 5 release date.

Developer of the Grand Theft Auto series, Rockstar Games, have yet to *officially* confirm the release date but with HMV’s retailing rival Zavvi stating on their website that Rockstar have yet to tell them the release date (opting instead to use a placeholder) and HMV making a point not do either, it’s likely that this is the GTA 5 release date and someone on the HMV website staff has made a huge error.

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EA Includes Female Hockey Players in NHL 13, Predicts the Future

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Someday, the National Hockey League will be known by it’s full name as the National Hockey League for men, women and anyone else who wants to play because we aren’t a bunch of sexist dickbags. A woman has yet to play for the NHL in a regular season game, but we’re making progress – in video games at least, thanks to NHL 13.

EA, well into keeping with the NHL’s unofficial (and entirely made up by be) name are putting two female ice hockey players into their game of the sport, NHL 13. Sandwich jokes and comments about wombs/baby-making and/or homekeeping be damned (!) because finally women are going to be slapshotting and fightpicking with the men.

In NHL 12, EA introduced female characters into their Be a Pro mode “based on a request from a 14-yr old female fan who emailed our staff because she felt underrepresented as a hockey videogame fan”, says Dean Richards, General Manager, NHL, EA SPORTS, proving that EA are the best and develop their games with a work ethic comparable to sunshine, rainbows and your favourite chocolate bar. That 14 year old is going to be overjoyed when she sees that “Team USA superstar Angela Ruggiero will join former Team Canada great Hayley Wickenheiser” in the game and if you were wondering why these two women in particular got picked to play alongside their male, ice-skating associates, the fact that the two of them are not just one, but FOUR-TIME OLYMPIC ICE HOCKEY MEDALLISTS (Angela has a gold, silver and bronze to her name, while Hayley has a silver and 3 golds) meaning that not only are they undoubtedly more qualified than some of them men to be in the game, they are also certifiably awesome.

The press release with all of the info about this monumental decision also included this bookmark-worthy quote from EA – “The addition of women’s hockey legends as playable characters within the EA SPORTS NHL franchise is the continuation of a commitment that the development team made to create greater representation for women’s hockey beginning with NHL 12.”

The lack of badass female characters in video games is something I’m going to write a post about a later date but for now I think it’s cool that EA are being part of the future with NHL 13, a future where badass sports men and women are playing their sports alongside each other, represented equally in video games and in real life, so I commend you for that, EA!

Want to be involved in the forward-thinking ice hockey brilliance that is NHL 13? – Click here to buy the game and support these amazing lady legends.