Dead Space 3 & Deadpool Deal Out New Trailers
EA and Activision released new trailers for Dead Space 3: Awakened and Deadpool, respectively, Thursday. The trailer for Awakened, Dead Space 3’s first piece of DLC, shows the new content will be focusing on everybody’s favorite Scientologists-that-we-can’t-call-Scientologists, the Unitologists, this time around. They’re up to their usual tricks, sacrificing, making weird corpse altars, all that jazz. The trailer also seems to suggest there will be a lot more sequences involving Isaac’s Marker-induced dementia. It’s still hard to tell, and Visceral Games has been evasive about this, whether or not this takes place after the main campaign, so it looks we’ll have to wait and see.
The Deadpool trailer features, well it features a lot of the kind of jokes you probably expect Deadpool to make. If you’re the kind of person that likes Deadpool, this trailer’s great for you. If not, it at least offers a good look of some actual gameplay for the title. Unfortunately, if you already don’t like Deadpool, this game’s probably not going to be enough of a revelation to make you want to tolerate him for it. Still though, it’s got Nolan North! Everybody likes him, right? Why else would people put him in every game ever?
Project Awakened Kickstarter Fails, Torment Flies
Project Awakened, the ambitious, moddable superhero game, has failed to reach it’s Kickstarter goal of $500,000. On the other hand, Torment: Tides of Numenera, the classic style RPG inspired by Planescape: Torment, has set the new Kickstrater record for shortest time to $1 million. Project Awakened fell short of it’s $500,000 goal, gathering $338,498 at it’s closing. The studio’s director spoke to Joystiq, telling them that the team would continue development of the title while seeking alternative funding.
Torment reached $1 million in under 8 hours, surpassing it’s goal of $900,000, and currently sitting pretty at around $2 million. The project, from developer inXile, even has 28 days left before the funding drive ends. Considering that an astonishing seven backers put forward $10,000, the project should have no trouble blowing past it’s final stretch goal of $2.5 million.
First Tropes vs. Women in Video Games video releases
The first video in Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series was released Thursday, focusing on the trope of damsels in distress. The video discusses just how shockingly prevalent the trope is within games, and how, while not inherently sexist or problematic, it contributes to the acceptance of negative behaviors against women. If you didn’t catch any of the tremendous amount of coverage around the project’s Kickstarter and the awful harassment surrounding it, the series is a part of Sarkeesian’s Feminist Frequency project where she looks at various pieces of pop culture and analyzes them from a feminist perspective. When the Kickstarter launched, a disgusting amount of jerks launched an awful campaign of harassment, so much so that Sarkeesian even hosted her own TED Talk about it.
[Source: Feminist Frequency]
Second Season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead Set For Fall 2013
During an interview with Eurogamer, Telltale CEO Dan Connors mentioned that the next season of last year’s hit, The Walking Dead, would be coming ‘next year’, as in 2014. The confirmation that there’d be more of the series was really good enough for me, but then, Connors confirmed to Game Informer that he made misspoken and meant to say the second season would be coming Fall 2013. Immediately after, choirs of angels flew down from the clouds, singing songs of praise and exaltation.
[Source: Eurogamer, Game Informer]
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