Skullgoys

     So lemme say something about the Skullgirls kickstarter with only a week left on the timer. What started out as a funding plea for one character has basically turned into a whole big thing, with a possible four in all to fund. In an effort I guess, to reach out to a wider audience, the Skullgirls team, Lab Zero, announced that if they reached 725,000 dollars, they'd give out the Skullgirls engine au gratis to the Mane 6 dev team, who's Friendship is Magic fanmade fighter was cancelled by Hasbro, but recruited cartoonist Lauren Faust to make them original characters for their own use, to power their new fighter. So there's that. The Walking Dead: Survival Instincts is a new thing now, released with some amount of fanfare (The Activision FPS, not the y'know, actual inventive cool Telltale adventure game series.) And apparently it's nightmarishly terrible, surprising absolutely nobody. Who'da thunk it.

Big Band, saxaphone cyborg and the latest thing to come out of the Skullgirls Kickstarter.

Heston wasn't in Apes 2

     So Assassin's Creed 4 was announced recently, and as far as I can tell, it's taking all the worst parts of the third installment, and making a whole game out of it. It takes place during the Golden Age of Pirates, and from the small amount of info I've received., a dongload of it's gonna take place on a ship. Which is bad, because Ubisoft didn't really pull it off last time around. Hopefully this'll see a return to form for the series, but I doubt it, do to the fact that pirates are the least stealthy folks... pretty much ever. Like, maybe the vikings. Assassin's Creed 3 was almost devoid of its namesake, and I don't think 4's gonna be much different. On the flipside of next generation Ubisoft games, Watch Dogs, the futuristic open world game in which you control the city, from subway trains to traffic lights, through your phone, looks absolutely fantastic. This is the perfect way to show off a new console, and from what I hear it's already got folks hankering for a PS4. So there's that.

Shiny

Karl Edward Diamonds

     Sooooo I guess the new Tomb Raider came out this week? Or something? I remember everyone was all up in arms about it because of the rape-y connotations, but then, lo and behold it was written by a lady and every said "Okay, that's cool." because people. I don't actually know if it's good or not. Or anything. But I do know that it took waaaay too long to come out. So I don't care. At least Bioshock Infinite comes out this month. Right? Right? Right? I don't even know anymore. I haven't actually played any vidya lately. Or at all. For like. Months. So y'know. I don't even know how Revengeance was received, but it had a col soundtrack, I'll give it that. Skullgirls, the super-rad indie-ish fully animated fighter that came out last April is finally getting an update, in the form of an awesome kickstarter to add new stages, tracks and characters. The goal was reached in only a day, but with 22 days left, they've pulled back the curtain and gone for full funding of 2 more characters, including ones meant to be spread out over the course of three entire games. So there's that. Also the DLC's gonna be free. Hip.

So much vidya

     So I pretty much wanted to take this post to talk about the next generation of consoles, which we've already got one foot in with the release of the Wii-U. The Xbox 360's successor is soon to have a press conference showing off it's stuff and Sony's already wowed some folks last week with it's PS4 announcement show. Among some of the most impressive stuff shown was Watch Dogs, which is a future-y Deus Ex-y game, but everything seems completely dynamic and the game looks great in motion. This was shown last E3, like most of the announced PS4 titles, but some more gameplay footage and a launch day announcement is always welcome. Bungie, the guys behind every main Halo game except for the most recent one, have signed a ten year contract with Activision to make the Destiny trilogy, which is supposed to wow everyone and be a really deep space gun game, but I'm not so into it. What I am into though, is David Cage, creator of Indigo Prophecy and Heavy Rains' next pseudo game- Beyond: Two Souls. Which is that Ellen Page game where she has a weird spirit or something that kills police. Or something. No idea. But it'll be good.