Food existing in video games as a health and power-up item has become a classic staple of the industry, but am I the only one disturbed by the fact that we see characters eating randomly found food that just happens to laying directly on the ground. Whether its slices of pizza in any TMNT arcade game, rolling mushrooms in Mario, or turkey legs in Final Fight we witness gaming heroes practicing horrible food safety attitudes.
Gearbox Software released patch notes to an update for the PC version of “Borderlands 2” this past Tuesday that included a fix to the controversial Bee shield. The legendary drop allowed players with full shields to continuously punish foes with massive amounts of damage, thus giving fans the ability to down the game’s massive boss fights in mere seconds. Some upset about the change are calling the patch a nerf, while Gearbox Software simply says they fixed a broken piece of gear in the game. ‘Mass Effect 4′ will be developed by a different studio with a new engineon November 15, 2012 at 12:04 am
Bioware announced on Monday that the next “Mass Effect” title won’t be developed by their Edmonton based studio as all previous games of the franchise have been. Instead, Bioware Montreal will be taking over control as the new development team for the developer’s hit science fiction epic. Bioware’s Montreal studio isn’t unfamiliar with the space RPG series, as they are the team responsible for the “Mass Effect 3’ multiplayer mode as well as many of the game’s cutscenes. The studio head in charge of the next “Mass Effect”, Yanick Roy, had the following to say.
Now that Game Informer’s digital edition of their December issue (featuring an 18 page cover story for “Grand Theft Auto V”) has given fans their first glimpse of Rockstar Games’ upcoming crime series, gamers can get ready to find out even more juicy details on the franchise’s return to San Andreas as IGN announced they have spoken with the developer and will be showcasing “Grand Theft Auto V” news every day of the coming week. GTAV Week on IGN is the first time that the general public will get to read up on what the upcoming title has in store for them since Game Informer’s reveal was available only to subscribers of the magazine. Fans can expect new details to emerge from the week-long expose as IGN has already stated that they will be walking fans through the game’s first mission and introducing them to the title’s three playable characters.
Randy Pitchford, President of Gearbox Software, confirmed that the next “Borderlands 2” DLC will be releasing by the end of this year. DLC for the game has releases at a steady pace since the title’s September release. Another add-on releasing before the new year leaves the add-on less than two months left in this year to come out in, meaning fans will likely see the release of the game’s next downloadable content next month. It isn’t clear whether this new coming DLC will be a part of the “Borderlands 2” season pass or not, but Pitchford stated that details on the DLC will come soon. Later this morning he went on to tweet that a new DLC will come before another character class for the game, confirming that the next “Borderlands 2” add-on will not be the game’s sixth playable class. View Latest Comic
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