Carlos Giffoni, Creative Director over at 345 Games is pleased to announce that their new game, Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon, is now available for purchase at the PSN Store for only $9.99! Let’s see what else he has to say: For those of you that haven’t been following our development, Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon is a four-player, co-op, dual-analog arcade shooter (think Robotron on crack…with plenty of raving zombies and delinquent man-birds, of course). What’s really fantastic about the game is that we’ve been lucky enough to work extremely closely with the über-talented staff over at the Ugly Americans. All of the voice actors from the show lent their talents to their characters, the writers created a completely new story for the game, and Devin Clark (animator and series creator) came up with all the character design including some insanely twisted end-level bosses. As a result it really feels like you are playing inside an episode of the show, every element from the world of Ugly Americans forms a crucial part of this game experience. At its core, Apocalypsegeddon is a co-op game that hearkens back to the endless hours I would spend with my buddies playing Gauntlet and Robotron in the arcades – tons and tons of enemies coming at you from all angles, distinctly varied character classes, constant action and simple controls that allow for pick-up-and-play. Add in the ability for either local or live multiplayer co-op and the same hilarious sense of humor that has made the Comedy Central show such a success and you have a recipe for a fun and addictive arcade experience. Each of the four characters – Mark, Callie, Grimes and Leonard – all feature specific base attributes and special attacks that set them apart from each other. For example, Callie is the fastest character whereas Grimes has the most stamina and plays more like the “tank” archetype. RPG elements have also been tossed into the mix, ensuring that you’ll need to level up the right attributes and equip the right weapons for each boss battle to triumph over world-ending evil! We’ll soon have a review for Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon here at PS3blog.net!

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Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon Released on PSN

These two commercials will be hitting the TV this week leading up to the September 6th release of Resistance 3. One involves the story of Joseph Capelli’s journey, and the other involves our favorite VP doing what he does best! Let us know where you see them! Source: Official PS Blog

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2 New Resistance TV Commercials (One w/ the VP: KB)

Battlefield 3 is easily one of the most anticipated games this year. It is the direct sequel to the 2005 hit, Battlefield 2, and arguably the eleventh installment in the Battlefield franchise. Developed by the Swedish company Digital Illusions CE (DICE) and published by Electronic Arts , the game will run on the new Frostbyte 2 engine. Frostbyte 2 will offer more destruction, advanced sound, and incredible graphics. A new character animation technology called ANT, used in games such FIFA, will be implemented into the gameplay. ANT will offer a more realistic player movement mechanics; for example, the ability to transition into cover, turn head before body and mount weapons on almost any surface you encounter. The battlefield series was always known for the huge multiplayer battles, allowing players to pilot a variety of vehicles and engage in team-based combat. Battlefield 3 will offer all of the previous … and more. The Campaign The Campaign: Set in the year 2014, You will take control of Sgt. Blackburn and his five-man squad on a mission to locate and return a second squad that had disappeared while investigating a possible chemical weapons site in the Iraq-Iran Boarder. The last known location of the investigation squad is a market controlled by a local militia group named People’s Liberation and Resistance (PLR). The second playable character in the campaign is Corporal Jonathan “Jono” Miller, a tank operator seen in the famous tank battle video from E3. Miller will be part of a tank assault operation on a PLR rocket battery site before advancing to what appears to be a burning city. Don’t expect much use of Vehicles during the campaign though, as they will be limited. In a pre GDC 2011 interview for GamesOnNet, DICE general manager Karl Troedsson mentioned that the campaign will be within the 12-hour figure. A lot of people don’t want to jump straight into multiplayer. They want to feel around a bit and they’re ready to move over to online. We’ve also learned why you can’t shoot civilians in Battlefield 3. In an interview with RockPaperShotgun.com , Battlefield 3′s executive producer Patrick Bach talked about the level of authenticity in the game, and he mentioned that players won’t be able to shoot civilians accidentally or intentionally. Co-Op Co-op Mode: A co-op debut demo with the mission “Exfiltration”, a mission with the task of snatching an informant and escorting him out of the city, was shown in Gamescom 2011. As far as we know, the mode will consist of ten maps with Six missions available at launch. The missions will have different difficulty levels and achievements and Each map should take between 20 and 50 minutes depending on the difficulty. Players will be able to revive their downed partner, and downed players will still be able to defend themselves with the secondary weapon and possibly crawling to cover. It is worth mentioning that the driven co-op missions will benefit your multiplayer career, as there are a number of weapons that you can unlock in co-op and take with you to the multiplayer mode. In an interview with Gaminglives.com , DICE GM Karl Magnus confirmed that co-op won’t support split screen play, however DICE noted that their new “FREE” Battlelog network will be connected to co-op matches and will allow players to check their friends score and track their performance. Multiplayer Multiplayer mode: The console version will feature 24 players battles with Four classes available to choose from: Assault, Support, Engineer and Recon. The assault class will be able to equip defibrillators and medkits. The engineer class ‘ primary role is to engage tanks and armored vehicles with an array of rocket launchers or anti tank mines (and to repair team vehicles). The recon class will be able to install a radio beacon anywhere on the map for other players to spawn on and call in artillery strikes, and, finally, the support class will provide heavy fire from a Light Machine gun and resupply teammates with ammunition. Several BF2 maps will return with “Back to Karkand” DLC (Available for free upon pre-order). The maps are: Strike at Karkand, Gulf of Oman, Wake Island, and Sharqi Peninsula. As for the game modes, we can confirm Conquest, Conquest 64 (PC only), Rush, Squad Deathmatch, Squad Rush and the new/old mode to the series, Team Deathmatch. Battlefield 3 will offer more weapons and customization than Bad Company 2. For a full list of the weapons and vehicles available in Battlefield 3, refer to this post , but note that unlocking some of the weapons will depend on your rank progression throughout the multiplayer mode, as you won’t unlock all weapons before reaching med-rank, which was the case in Bad Company 2. Killcam will be available in Battlefield 3 and you will be able to turn it on and off, depending on the server settings. The Beta The Beta: The open beta is scheduled to start this month on all platforms. 48 hour early access will be granted to those who bought Medal of Honor: Limited Edition or Tier 1 edition. The exact date of the beta will also be announced this month. For more info and common questions regarding Battlefield 3 beta, check out this link . The game is set to be released on October 25, 2011. For more information on the pre-order exclusives check out our other post .

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Battlefield 3 [What We Know So Far]

The world needs saving… again. But this time, it needs protection from an alien invasion right in the middle of a zombie outbreak, in a fantasy land somewhere in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with World War II also involved somehow! And there’s just one hero who can save us all. Unfortunately, he has something better to do, so it’s all up to you now! Become one tough action hero, choose your favorite weapon and get ready for a thrill ride bursting with action – Race through all the levels. Kill everything and anything. * 5 worlds you have definitely seen before in other games! * Story mode, challenges, free run mode and over 30 awards to unlock! * Great graphics and a pumping soundtrack. * Tongue-in-cheek story and humor. We’ve already talked about this game before and we even provided you with the announcement trailer for it so be sure to check that out and come back to the review. Glad to see you value your life and are back with us now. Gaming cliches seem to be the thing that will finally end civilization as we know it: “An alien invasion right in the middle of a zombie outbreak in a fantasy kingdom, somewhere in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with World War II also involved somehow”. That’s how the bad, bad boss man wants to kill all the gamers in the world and it’s why we must stop him at all cost! The main menu has several game modes available for you which are “detailed” below: Story Mode (with Story): This tale is told as it it was established in the prophecy oh so many years ago – by non-animated scenes where several lines of dialogue are exchanged between those involved in the game’s story. Watch them interact in five different environments and collect all of the gaming cliches placed here and there and there and here and everywhere! Free Run (without Story): Here is where all the challenges come into play. Once you’ve completed the game what is left to do? You can challenge your skills with the Challenges that challenge you to challenge-ly challenge specific situations placed before you. Challenge. When trying to complete them you should always select the gold requirement as it does stack and you’ll get recognized for the other two as well. Saves you time in the end! Hall of Fame: This space right here is sorta like the trophies we’ve gotten used to from PS3 releases. There’s even one extra special one for getting all the others, just like a platinum! You’re running non-stop and can’t stop at all (hence why I just said you’re running non-stop) and you’ve got only two commands to use: pressing any direction on the D-Pad or the L button makes you jump. The longer you hold it the longer you jump. On the other hand, Square, Triangle, Circle, X or R buttons make you shoot (yes, any one of them). Two buttons makes this sound like a very simple game and while that is somewhat true there is more to the game than running and jumping and shooting. Well, not much really… but that is great news! To bring some stategy to the table (to go along with the ham and the salad), you’ve got several pickups at your disposal: Weapon power ups (being hit by and enemy or hitting an obstacle will reset things back to your main single firing pistol): Machine Gun = Better than your regular gun but that’s about all that can be said. Rocket Launcher = Too slow to be of any real use. Does pack a punch and can kill a group of enemies with one shot but that’s a rare scenario. Shotgun = Avoid at all cost! Too slow to shoot, to small a burst. Laser = Shoot one laser that can kill all enemies in it’s path, even those that are behind obstacles! Flamethrower = NEVER LET GO OF THIS WEAPON! Constant shooting over a long and wide area that can obliterate any enemy on it’s path. Do look out for friendly units as once you let go of any of the “shoot” buttons it still takes a second for the fire to go away. BFG = Rare weapon that destroy everything on screen. Not as great as it sounds as it takes a while before you can shoot again. Other non-weapon pickups are as follows: Health pick ups Your Hit Points are represented by big red hearts on the upper right corner of the screen so getting this will give you back one of those if you’ve lost it for some reason. Score pickups: The higher your multiplier, the higher the number of points awarded for it so you better keep that chain going. Green and Red Arrow pickups: First one increases your overall speed and the second one slows you down. Sometimes they’re placed in spots where you NEED them to make a jump and sometimes they’re there just to throw you off and make you wonder if they will make you not be fast enough/be running way fast as to make the next perfectly timed jump. Jet Pack pick up: Hold any jump button to fly away into the velvet sky. Works only for a limited time so don’t think you can hover all you want. If you’re hit this will be instantly canceled. Once the tutorial is over you’re given specific goals for each level that must be met or else you won’t be able to ever get to the finish line! First objective? Kill 30 enemies. Another objective could be to get X number of jump kills, to complete a level without killing enemies, killing ONLY marked enemies or just as simple as reaching the goal at the end of the never ending road. If you’re Epic enough as to Kill enemies one after the other (what you youngsters call “in a row”) without being hit you’ll start up a tab and marvel at the sight of a combo chain. You can even jump on enemies to get a jump kill to go along with your chain and after every 5th enemy you kill like this you’ll get back one of your hearts (should you need it) which is a nice bonus. The bigger the chain the higher your score multiplier which makes it easier to reach specific level goals or to get a high score in the free run mode. Each environment features obstacles, enemies, falling pieces of ground and friendly characters you MUST NOT DAMAGE or else you loose your score multiplier and your kill chain. Not all obstacles are 100% bad for you as you can walk on top of some if you time your jump right and you actually HAVE to do so during some parts of a level as it is what the developer wanted from you. Will you humor them? And just to be clear… as much fun as it would seem, DO NOT SHOOT THE COW! Checkpoints are available on longer levels which saves your chain, score multiplier and weapon in case you die and since you die a LOT in this game it’s great that once you restart at said checkpoint all is well as you’ll be here and I’ll be there, by your side. Checkpoints are something to be grateful of when going for the awards (un-trophies!) that the game keeps track of as making a mistake or dying gives you an instantaneous second chance. One Epic Game is a fun and inexpensive experience you will greatly enjoy on your console or your portable of choice (unless that choice is the Wii, the 360 or a member of the DS family) for a small investment that is easy, midget horse and simple to justify. Better to play this on the go as you can just put the PSP into sleep mode and carry on wherever, whenever for a minute or two… or maybe more? Minutes are hard to keep track of! Review Pros Cons Non-stop action… literally! Enough fun for your buck What, no dancing game mechanics in all this cliches? Rating 91% Published and Developed by Grip Games Cost – $3.99 Other Information Disclaimer – A copy of the game was provided by the publisher for this review. – Game was completed before writing this review. – Total amount of time played: 6 hours. Want to get this game? Then you can: Buy One Epic game Itself! Buy a $20 PSN Card! Buy a $50 PSN Card!

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One Epic Game Review (minis)

Chris Rhinehart, project lead at Human Head studios, gives us some developer commentary for Prey 2′s early trailers. This game was honestly my biggest surprise at E3. Watching the presentation for the game there, quickly moved Prey 2 up to one of my most anticipated games for next year. Part 2 and 3, which show some amazing gameplay, are below.

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Prey 2 Trailer Developer Commentary Parts 1-3

Today at GamesCom, Bethesda released 16 new, “The Elder Scrolls V: Skryim” in-game screens. Seen below, they showcase all seven races that will be available in the game: the Nords, the reptilian Argonians, the tiger like Khajiit, the Orcs, the Reguards, the Wood Elves and the Dark Elves. Three females are also shown, a RedGuard, a Dark Elf, and an Argonian. Have you decided what race you will be? The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be released on November 11, 2011.

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New Skyrim Character Screens

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, is an original fantasy universe imagined by R.A. Salvatore,brought to life by Todd McFarlane, and designed by Ken Rolston. In this exclusive new trailer debuted at Gamescom, discover the source of your resurrection, and the destiny choices that await you. EA also announced February 2012 release dates for Reckoning: February 7th in NA, and February 10th in EU. Source: EA GamesCom Press Conference

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning GamesCom Trailer

Vita is proving relentless when it comes to acquiring quality names for a portable’s launch. During Sony’s Gamescom Press conference, Developers from Nihilistic Software debuted the first images of Resistance: Burning Skies exclusively for the PlayStation Vita. The on-stage demo was set before the events of Resistance 2. Players will take control of an Ex New York firefighter named Tom Riley with a fire axe as the first weapon of choice! I’ll leave you with the first images of Resistance: Burning Skies, Vita’s first promising first person shooter:

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Resistance: Burning Skies announced for Vita

During the Sony Press conference at GamesCom this morning, Sucker Punch revealed that inFamous 2: Festival of Blood would be coming this October to the PSN. Sony is calling it a “brand new game”, but didn’t mention if it will be standalone game or require Infamous 2 to play. Festival of Blood involves a vampire invasion of New Marais. Cole MacGrath has been bitten and infected, and only has till sunrise to find and kill the head vampire. Sony says there will be “hours” of new gameplay as well as new environments and enemies to encounter.

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inFamous 2 : Festival of Blood Announced

Insomniac Games have confirmed, via a tweet , that Resistance 3 was replaced with MotorStorm: Apocalypse as part of Sony’s 3D TV bundle scheduled for launch this year. Aside from the Resistance 3 replacement, the bundle remains the same, as it still includes the PlayStation-branded 3D TV, a pair of 3D glasses, and an HDMI cable for $500.

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Sony’s 3D TV Bundle Swaps Resistance 3 for MotorStorm: Apocalypse