Crash Bandicoot still in hopes for Playstation All-Stars?

Many characters are going to appear and many are still in need of being announced, today Nariko and Sir Daniel were confirmed to be in the roster, but one character has been constantly asked about since the game was first announced: Crash.

The Twitter Tweets above does not reveal anything, but it confirms that even Activision support even has expectations for Crash Bandicoot to appear, and what do they mean by "have more info on this"? If anyone has more info on this please let us know.

What does everyone think? Yay of Nay on Crash Bandicoot appearing in Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale? Please comment!!! keep in mind that Spyro is also a highly questioned possibility, so Yay or Nay on that?

Geoff and Shrew leave for PAX on Thursday!

As mentioned two months ago, Geoff and Shrew are about to leave for PAX 2012 this upcoming Thursday. Wish them luck on their journey!

What to expect:
They leave Thursday morning and they're driving straight to Seattle from Salt Lake City, They are sure to get excellent coverage of everything they see and do. We won't be forcing them to post anything immediately, they may not post anything until they get back, but their adventure will be chronicled none the less.

As for me and Bergy, we have no real plans while they're away. School and stuff may be in the way, but perhaps we'll start our first GeekFlix podcast episode! It's possible that our Darksiders videos, GeekBeerz vs Cybertron part 2 video, and maybe even our planned Slender video too! The possibilities are... well... possible.

Until next time...

GeekFlix is moving in...

First off, I am glad to say I have returned from my rather long and busy week away from the guys. For anyone asking yes, my comic is complete and headed to its finishing touches (cover and back mostly) and will now hopefully lead to a publishing company. Well enough about me, time to get into important matters.

Anyone over here know GeekFlix? GeekFlix (full title is GeekBeerz Flix but we call it GeekFlix for short) is where we handle all the Movie and TV business, to keep other non-gamers busy with what they wan to know about. It has been slow for some time but it has all been slow for a reason.

GeekFlix is pretty much moving in with GeekBeerz! Now the GeekFlix site won't be gone in any way whatsoever, but it will now forever only have reviews for posts instead. All Movie or TV news will now and forever be posted on this site, while movie and TV reviews will have a link to send you to its GeekFlix review page. Not only will this make things easier on me and the others, but it will also help us bring out more and more posts in the near future.

Not only that, but the planned GeekFlix podcast, planned for starring me and Bergy respectively, will also be announced and linked to this site when the podcasts start up. This new podcast series will focus on movie, TV, and actor related news as well as having entertaining new segments per episode in order to figure out which ones work best. The new episodes are planned to only last for and hour and a half each.

 

Our Video Game 2013 list:

Many of the most anticipated games come out in 2013 due to delays or production. But what games can we expect? We're here to help!


January:

 DMC: Devil May Cry

January 15th, 2013

ESRB: M

PS3, 360

 Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2

January 15th, 2013

ESRB: M

PS3, 360,PC

Ni No Kuni

January 22nd, 2013

ESRB: TBA

PS3, DS




February:

 Dead Space 3

February 5th, 2013

ESRB: M

PS3, 360, PC

Aliens: Colonial Marines

February 12th, 2013

ESRB: M

PS3, 360, PC

Metal Gear Rising: Revengance

February 19th, 2013

ESRB: M

PS3, 360

Bioshock Infinite

February 26th, 2013

ESRB: M

PS3, 360, PC





March:

 South Park: the Stick of Truth

 March 5th, 2013

ESRB: M

PS3, 360,PC

Tomb Raider

March 5th, 2013

ESRB: TBA

PS3, 360. PC

God of War: Ascension

March 12th, 2013

ESRB: M

PS3

Gears of War: Judgement

March 19th, 2013

ESRB: M

360

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist

March 29th, 2013

ESRB: TBA

PS3, 360, PC







Other 2013 games with currently unknown release dates:

• Amnesia: a Machine for Pigs
• Beyond: Two Souls
• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 / Mirror of Fate
• Command and Conquer: Generals 2
• Deadpool
• Dragon's Crown
• Dota 2
• Elder Scrolls Online
• Final Fantasy Versus XIII
• Fortnite
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Injustice: Gods Among Us
• Last Guardian (hopefully it will)
• Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
• Metro: Last Night
• Tales of Xillia
• The Last of Us
• Wasteland 2
• Watch Dogs
• XCOM
• rune factory 4 (shew only)

 (note: this is obviously not all of the games coming out next year, but these are the ones that are either familiar, most anticipated, or most expected to have a crowd of people interested for when they finally hit the shelves) 

 

New Dead Space feels like old Dead Space

As people were when the second installment first came out, the fans worried about whether or not the game would actually be scary or not. I worried too, with the announcement of Co-op being a choice and the early teasers showing off just mostly the shooting aspects, one can wonder if this would just become another Shoot-em up game... It's not!

Single player alone is said to still be as scary as the original one was, perhaps even scarier, and the Co-op has been said by early viewers to be something that works and has never been seen in a co-op campaign before. But this new trailer released by EA and Visceral helps to ensure that promise tenfold!


Dead Space 3 comes out in February 2013...

Behold the glory of Killzone: Mercenary!

The Playstation Vita is indeed a powerful device, but none of the recent games have shown its true potential yet. But the highly anticipated Killzone Vita might be the first to do just that.

The new game has just gotten it's official title at Gamescom, Killzone: Mercenary, and already the graphics look to be on par with the second and third installments on the PS3. And fans know that the Killzone 2 and 3 graphics were among the best ever seen thus far.

Like most spin-offs, Killzone: Mercenary will be quite a bit different from the core Killzone franchise, as this time around you’ll be playing as – surprise! – a mercenary working with both the Helghast and the ISA. This marks the first time in Killzone history that you’ll be working alongside the Helghast. It uses the behind touchscreen rather nicely for close encounter kills. As can be seen by this GIF picture below:




What's the best part? This handheld spin-off was not handed down to another developer! That's right, Guerrilla Games is indeed making this! So no worries for a sub-par game. They are also using their Killzone engine too, which is why the graphics look so neat. This might just turn out to be the high-profile, console-quality game the PS Vita needs. This alone certainly makes up for the poor looking Call of Duty Vita game, and will certainly be much better than Killzone: Liberation (another handheld spin-off that came out for the PSP).

They said the game will come out next year, more info will arrive soon...

The Pros and Cons of Video Game sequels

Video games tend to mostly be good, but usually there are bad or horrible ones. However some both bad and good get sequels that either help or corrupt a franchise.

We live in a world where sequels to almost anything is both welcomed and expected. Usually it's for continuing story and plot sequences, other times it's just an excuse to improve one gameplay or graphics, but in the end the developers have some kind of logical reasoning behind making sequels, or is it logical? Here are the Pros and Cons to what may or may not make a sequel worthwhile...

Pros:

• Much needed enhancements: Usually beginner games, or firsts in a series, are usually bland or simplistic when first released. This is not a problem at all, for the first is to nearly get people interested and to get their attention and awareness for when any future installments come out. I'm pretty sure that Bungie had no idea at the start that Halo would become this big when they were just releasing the first Halo game way back on the original Xbox. Even look at Killzone, the first game wasn't exactly worthy of a gold medal, but its sequels did amazingly well all due to Playstation fans remembering the first back on the PS2. One last example would be High Moon's Transformers games, the first was just a mere set up to prove that an actual fun Transformers game was possible, and now a sequel is coming out with lots to offer. While sometimes graphics and gameplay may change, as long as it achieves what the first one started it'll be great.
• Story frenzy:  Sequels sometimes tend to do best when they are the continuation of an unfinished story. Gears of War for example ended on a cliffhanger, with a woman at the end speaking about the humans having no idea what's in store for them and the war. A cliffhanger like that helps to make Gears of War 2 that more more of an anticipation. What about Darksiders? The first could've concluded there and then but instead decided to show the other three horseman awakening from their eternal slumber. This opened a lot of "what's next" questions which led to the excitement of Darksiders II. 
• Great build up:  A good sequel is possible to show up without you ever noticing, this can sometimes be a bit of a complication for sales or anticipation. So a sequel that is able to praise itself with the right amount of appraise should most certainly be... well appraised. New Super Mario Bros 2 was the equivalent of having a hammer continuously bonk you on the head for the entire week that it was Present at E3, which of course isn't a bad thing to do especially for Nintendo, since they understand the kind of popularity that Mario is. Dark Souls also did a fine job advertising, it even had TV commercials which in our lifetime is a rare opportunity. But more recently Halo 4 has been doing a fine job at advertising. I've noticed that it's cinematic trailers have been popping up in movie theaters just before the film starts.

Cons:

• Zero Effort:  The only thing worse than a bad sequel is a bad sequel that shows. This is usually done when a game company, new or the same from the first entry, make a sequel just for either A: the money, best examples would be all the guitar hero, rock band, and dancing games (not that every entry they made was necessarily bad), B: complications, a company could be in debt and have no choice but to make a new game ASAP, especially sequels to well known earlier entries, or C: Brainwashed, the creators can tell when a game they make is loved and so they believe all the fans will immediately buy any kind of sequel, no matter how bad, just think of all the people in disbelief when they first played Crackdown 2 (Geoff was one of those people). Basically, the argument is that some game creators will work next to nothing to make a good sequel because they can simply do it.
• What goes up, brings something else down:  Most game companies try to improve on a dislike or downgraded quality from the first game. Sometimes doing this will ultimately ruin another factor in the game. Example: Force Unleashed II had an amazing improvement on the battle statistics and new useful force powers, but it seems as though that was the only thing Lucas Arts wanted the reporters to know about, cause the rest of the game was too short with a less satisfying story. Perhaps a game could even have nothing new to it at all, even when it is shown to the public as being new. Resistance 2 was an anticipated sequel to the original, but in the end that game ultimately was nothing more than a rehash, it's a good thing Resistance 3 fixed those wrong doings.
• The worse that could, can, and has:  This goes to all the many other wrong happenings you can imagine. Character changes, unrelated story lines, or new stupid mechanics are of the few too many that haunt gamers everywhere. What could happen is that Call of Duty Black Ops II will try too hard to be new, what can happen is Sly Cooper 4 not living up to expectations, and what has happened is all the wrongs in Prototype 2.

Controversy:

• New company in charge:  Usually a sequel will head straight to a new company for a sequel due to the original makers being either busy or uninterested. This usually tends to be a raised flag for some people (or however the saying goes) because they believe the new company will destroy the boundaries that the original set. However most others would give congrats to the newbies, getting excited for what new and interesting improvements can be made. This is neither a pro or a con, or perhaps both, let's just say it extremely varies.

Really not all game sequels are horrendous, games like Infamous 2 or Super Smash Bros Brawl have been prime examples of games that stay true to the original. Heck, I'm playing Darksiders II now and I am amazed by how they were able to make it basically the original again while still bringing in many new things. What are your favorite sequels? What are your most hated sequels? any future sequels you're either excited or worried for? Any games you think need or don't need sequels? Please Comment!

Introducing the Collections videos!

Due to a Gmail request, Geoff and I decided that we would all show off our Game and non-game related, well mostly game related, Collector's editions, special editions, extended editions, and pretty much whatever valuables we have.

To start, I show off mine. It had to be split into three videos and the presentation is bad. But in the end I'm glad I was able to get mine done:

GeekBeerz vs Cybertron PART II was accidentally Deleted

For anyone wondering where our second part of the demo video is, or was, a problem occured.

The video was pretty much done with editing and whatnot and was about to be published onto Youtube, but then the Computer screwed up and the entire video, both edited and unedited, completely gone! Now we have to start from scratch again, hopefully it'll be done by this week...

TAD: the Total Achieving Dorks comic will be completed on August 20th / plus announcements

[UPDATE]: Tom's comic, TAD, is nearing it's final stages and hopes to get it done by August 20th. And will be able to bring it to a publishing company!


Other reports that Tom wants to bring up, ZA4M 3 will be his next book after this. It will come out sometime in 2013 for his fans (his fanbase has been dead for some time due to Tom being too busy with other things and sites like this one, but they keep urging him to bring out the second and third book)


Tom also started writing the draft script for his three year planned comic series titled "Bizzarnage", which will be more like a graphic novel than anything else. No story plot has been given but two characters are based entirely after Bergy and his brother.


Until next time...

Is The Last Guardian Dead? UPDATE

UPDATE: Sony has told Chris Kohler from Wired that Last Gaurdian is still in development

Original Post:
Today on NeoGaf, it was revealed that Sony dropped the trademark for "The Last Guardian" as of August 6. This is a sad day indeed...or is it?

When hearing about it, at first the news was horrible. But after reading the thread, there have been many theories about what may be going on.

First there's the theory that it may be canceled. Not very exciting, and a very interesting looking game is lost forever.

Second, it might be a rebranding. This could be very smart on Sony/Team Ico's part because the name "The Last Guardian" has been thrown around for YEARS. With a rebranding, it could look new to a lot of people and potentially get finished.

Lastly, my opinion is that Sony might be giving up the copyright to kinda say, "We don't want this anymore," meaning it could possibly go to multiple systems in the next generation of consoles. For the longest time, Team Ico has had there games exclusively on Sony consoles. With Sony dropping the trademark, we could be seeing "The Last Guardian" on the Next-box or possibly even the Wii U.

All of these are just theories and wishes mainly. The thing that is true is that we all have to hope this game is not dead.

Source: NeoGaf

Small Talk 1 - POKEMANZ!!!11

Oso, Shrew and the Train gather together at Iceberg for their first Small Talk where they spout nonsense while eating good food. On their maiden voyage into the unknown wilderness of "fast food", they do what any normal person would do: stick a mic up a Pikachu's butt and talk about Pokemon!

Opening/Closing - Project 13 by Crstta

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Upcoming Small Talks finished and Planned:

Finished:

Episode I: Pokemon (Gold, Red, Emerald, Black and White, Conquest)

Episode II: Games and Avengers

Episode III: Mystery (Plus brief Dragon's Dogma talk)

Planned:

Episode IV: Gears talk (Gears of War Trilogy)

Episode V: Dragon's Dogma (Sherman's completion victory)

Episode VI: Transformers (Fall of Cybertron Demo talk)

Army of Two: the Devil's Cartel thoughts

Gameinformer's next cover has revealed a new Army of Two game that will come out possibly in 2013 or maybe earlier. But what can we expect from this?

The first game, Army of Two, was mostly appraised for its serious Co-op partnership and gameplay. But the second game, Army of Two: the 40th day, was less appraised and wasn't as excellent as the first, and the first wasn't exactly an excellent game either. But will this new Game, Army of Two: the Devil's Cartel, be any good or better than the last two?

Please comment or submit on the poll on the right... [EDIT: Blogger is having Poll Errors]

The Sequel will be made by EA and Visceral Montreal, it will most likely come out for PS3, 360, and PC maybe...

Doom BFG edition: the Lost Missions trailer

Doom BFG Edition will come out in Fall, but already they are teasing us with a Lost missions teaser trailer that shows somewhat of what to expect.

BFG edition will include all the content featured in the original Doom 3 and Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, as well as complete versions of Doom and Doom II. The game's visuals have been remastered for current-gen systems and PC and are also viewable in 3D.

Here is the trailer for the lost Missions:


Game will come out for PS3, 360, and PC in Fall...

Is anyone excited about this new edition of Doom?

Praise the Lord, Metal Gear Solid 4 to get Trophy Patch

Metal Gear 4 will finally give players a chance to reward themselves with trophies and achievements from the game, On August 6th!

Is anyone else excited about this?

New Photos Page!

Anyone want to know what we look like? Now you can! We have a newly introduced Photo page where any of the Four of us can put pictures on at anytime wherever, whenever.

Only some pictures are on now, soon Bergy will have pictures of his Spine surgery (Wont that be exciting?)

Until next time...

New Video: Tom and Bergy play the Fall of Cybertron Demo!

There has been very little posting lately (waiting for people to have a chance to ask a question before episode 11). But recently Tom and Bergy got a chance to not only play the Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Demo, but also got a chance to record it!

Using my new Camera, Bergy gets his turn at playing the anticipated sequel. It will be split into two parts, part one will focus on gameplay and story campaign and the other on the Multiplayer. Part two will be on soon but here's part one: This may be a new segment called "Demo Dome" but only if it's agreeable amongst Shrew and Geoff too. It would be videos of us playing new Demos and giving honest impressions. Audio quality will be later improved... So what does everyone else think? Would this be an interesting segment if we improve on quality?