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Franchise Development Director, Frank O’Connor, and Director, Stewart Hendler, talk to X-Play’s Blair Herter about the Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, the live-action web series based on the video game. This series will take fans to the beginnings of the human and Covenant war and lead them into the events ofHalo 4. Check out the video below to catch some behind the scene footage as well as find out what it takes to create an epic story. (When the video becomes available on youtube i will post it here) Click here for the Source and the Video. http://www.g4tv.com/...e-small-screen/

If you're both an Xbox 360 owner and a fan of free things, then you're going to love this upcoming promotion that Microsoft is running to celebrate five years of Summer of Arcade releases on Xbox Live Marketplace. Starting on July 18, 2012, players will be able to nab free DLC for Trials Evolution andMinecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, Major Nelson confirms. On the Minecraft side, the DLC amounts to a Summer of Arcade skin pack, with character skins inspired by 2012's five Summer of Arcade releases. The Trials Evolution DLC, on the other hand, amounts to a new track for the game that is inspired by -- you guessed it! -- 2012's five Summer of Arcade titles. Fun times. The first game to be released for this year's promotion is Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD, which arrives next Tuesday, the same day as this free DLC. You can check out the full line-up right here. http://www.g4tv.com/...e-xbox-360-dlc/

Danger Close is going to be including a multiplayer mode in Medal of Honor: Warfighter that it hopes will make the game more appealing to the eSports crowd. The mode, known only as "Sports" right now, is also the subject of a contest in which player are encouraged to submit their suggestions for the mode's name in the finished game. Creative director Kristoffer Bergqvist lays out the basic details of how "Sports" works on the contest'sFacebook page. It's a flag capture mode in which one team must fight its way through narrow choke-points to retrieve one of the defending team's two flags, and then escape with it. That's the gist of it anyway. You can read the description from Bergqvist yourself after the jump. The mode dubbed “Sport” was one of the first game modes we started to prototype. The idea was to create an arena for the players who were searching for the most competitive type of gameplay—an arena that fit traditional clan structures well. We knew that we wanted a game mode that was as rewarding to play as it was exciting to watch. Quick rounds with no respawn abilities were established early, and getting the national flags to be a central part of gameplay was a given once we saw the overwhelming response to the Global Tier 1 concept. The end result is an explosive game mode with the attacking team trying to force its way through narrow choke-points in hope of grabbing one of the two flags set on the defenders’ side, then bringing it back to the starting area. The majority of the combat happens at the beginning of the round while the attackers are fighting to cross the defensive lines. If the defenders fail and let the attack through, they’ll need to switch tactics when closing in on the attackers’ escape routes. Fail a second time and they’ll lose that round. The attackers, on the other hand, need to focus on either slamming through one choke-point or splitting up the defending team using diversion tactics. Stick close to your Fire Team buddy and coordinate the attack to break through the defensive perimeters! Our vision is to create a tense, violent, and addictive game mode—one that makes its way onto the E-Sports scene and takes the Medal of Honor franchise to the next level of competitive warfare. http://www.g4tv.com/...-friendly-mode/

This selection of interviews has been released by Microsoft and has some interesting insights from the director and key cast members. It's well worth a watch if you have the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dbNjU611ldA http://www.littleeng...d-director.html

If you’re not paying attention, you’ve probably missed Dead Space’s rich lore. In the space of two games, Visceral Games has left fans with a lot of questions. Who created the Markers? What was their original purpose? Why do they create Necromorphs? We talked with creative director Ben Wanhe about how the studio plans to answer many of these questions in Dead Space 3. After you guys finished Dead Space 2, what did you start looking at when you first started working on the sequel? Ben Wanhe: We kind of wrote a backstory for the whole franchise, in a way. Its not a completely detailed story for everything to begin with, but as we started fleshing it out, we started figuring out what the entire arc of this whole thing would be. And what we really thought was important for the third game was to start answering some questions. So, we did get some feedback on the second game where people were like, “you know that was a great game, but what is the marker and why does it do what it does? What is its ultimate purpose?” We thought that for the third one it would be really important to really give people some concrete answers and really start to get into a lot of that lore that we’ve usually been kind of hazy with in the past. I think its just really important that we deliver a solid understanding of what it was they’ve been through in the last two games and give them a foundation of where it could go in the future. Is there any history to that planet that you can share? What’s the story there? I can’t tell you what the history is because that is a large part of the plot of the game, but the planet is very important to the Dead Space universe. Everyone is drawn there very specifically because they were looking for a way to stop the markers, this epidemic that has gotten out. What they end up finding there is going to be extremely important and very revelatory for this series. This is where they get all of their answers, so as you can imagine it’s a very important place in the entire mythology. They’re going to find some stuff on the planet that is going to lead to some really interesting reveals. Just know that it’s sort of a mystery that you’re unraveling and you’re kind of venturing into the unknown and finding out, revealing what’s happened. And what’s happened in the past and how this whole thing ties together and why everything points to this place. Can you talk a little bit more about Carver and what his deal is? Where he comes from? Carver is an EarthGov soldier. He’s actually a pretty interesting character. On the surface he’s just a soldier guy, he’s more of a grunt, he’s a sergeant in EarthGov Special Ops. But underneath all that he’s a family man who is just not good at it at all. He’s a horrible father; he’s a horrible husband. A lot of that has to do with his experiences in the war. He’s kind of torn up inside, but he’s not the kind of guy that’s going to wear his emotions on his sleeve. He keeps it all inside, much like Isaac finds it very difficult to express himself, Carver has his own past buried inside. As you play through the game you’re going to start dredging up some of what it is that makes Carver who he is and kind of what his place is and what his role is in the story. I know there is some fighting with Unitologists. How do they get involved in the story? What’s their motivation here? The Unitoligists are a branch of Unitology called The Circle and they are a violent and fanatical group of Unitologists. The typical followers are natural, church goer-type people or whatever. This group, The Circle, has a very specific agenda and they have a man in charge that is leading them on this crusade. They have a very specific purpose in the story, which will be revealed later. But yeah, there is quite a bit of interesting background on these guys, why they formed and what their purpose is and what they want to achieve ultimately, but that all plays a very important part of the story. When we were at E3 we got a chance to see some of the feeders, I believe? Those little scavenger-type creatures. What’s their deal? How were they created? Those guys are basically people who have eaten infected flesh. The story there is that the people there were starving to death and they didn’t have any food and they managed to kill one of these creatures. They just couldn’t resist themselves and they started eating it and they started getting sick and a lot of stuff started happening to them. Eventually, they became, in a different way than you normally become a Necromorph, they became a sort of Necromorph that we call the Feeder. Because they have been trapped in the dark so long, they have trouble seeing, bright lights hurt their eyes. They get around mostly by sound so that’s why you can throw things in the environment and trick them into looking for it and try and sneak around the other way. If you do manage to enrage them, they just won’t stop. It pisses them off and they start screaming and they all start streaming out of the vents, all of their friends show up for the fight. So it becomes an interesting strategic element for the player: you can decide if you want to take them on head-on if you brought enough ammunition, but if you’re smart you’re going to start using the environment and learning how to get the best angle on the fight. Either to lay and wait for them, put some traps down, or whether or not you’re going to try and sneak by and ignore the fight altogether so that you don’t get destroyed by them. Can you explain at all what has happened to the markers since two? The ones we know about? Well, what we know from the end of two is that there have been quite a few of the out there that the government has been building. We don’t know how many are out there, but this overseer in the radio broadcast at the end of the last game, he explicitly talks about the other marker sites. That becomes an important element in the story of Dead Space 3. It is an extension of that that ultimately causes the situation that we end up in in three. But there is also a past to the markers which I thought was really important to tie into. If you remember the marker from Dead Space one that they found on Aegis VII was a man-made marker and it had been buried. The government had been searching for it and they sent Kendra over to go get it. Well she ended up dying and the marker got lost and then in the animated movie, Aftermath, Nolan Stross and his team went there and they found a shard. They didn’t bring back the shard, but they managed to bring back the blueprints on how to build markers encoded in Stross’ head. They also found the same blueprint in Isaac’s head. Isaac was used along with Stross to build a marker on the Sprawl, and now the government suddenly has the technology to build markers on their own. So by the end of that story you find out that they have built markers extensively, or at least they have plans to build them extensively at sites all over the galaxy. The marker that was discovered on Aegis VII was also man-made, so was that a different government that made that one? Why did they have to get the blueprints from Stross? I can’t answer that exactly, but you can look through the logs and you can read through and make your own conclusions, but somebody built that thing and it got buried and it got put on a planet that was blacklisted, nobody is allowed to go there, nobody is allowed to mine there. So you’ll have to draw some conclusions as to why it was there, who put it there, and why did they make the planet off-limits. All of that history comes full-circle and becomes important in Dead Space 3. Click here for source and a video. http://www.gameinfor...-interview.aspx

343industries have updated Halo Waypoint to offer filebrowsing functionality previously offered by Bungie.net. We've been without screenshot and gametype sharing for a couple of months now whilst 343i worked on a replacement for Bungie's service. Well, here it is: http://halo.xbox.com...ach/filebrowser A quick check suggests it has similar functionality to what we had come to expect from Bungie, though I think the way it offers up content on the front page like this is actually better than B.net - Awesome! http://www.littleeng...er-is-back.html

Three screenshots and an eleven minute video have popped up online, supposedly from the Halo 4 beta. Looks to be a sort of Forerunner riot shield, could be a new Armour Ability? To be honest it could just as easily be a weird Forerunner missile pod or something, we can't be sure either way from just this image. This is an important rock, apparently. I'm posting the video because some of you may really hate your eyes and feel like giving them a bit of torture this afternoon. The quality of this video is so bad I really can't recommend watching it: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BPhhb1gidPg[/media] The video shows a slayer match on Warhouse, there's nothing particularly shocking in there, we see the Halo 4 sword for the first time, but its inclusion isn't going to surprise anyone. 1:38 Energy Sword Assassination 2:48 Weapon Drop - Rail Gun 3:08 Rail Gun in action 3:59 Assassination 6:08 Assassination 6:54 Rocket Launcher 7:09 Weapon Drop 8:27 Forerunner Vision ? 9:07 Assassination I APOLOGISE FOR THE QUALITY, I DID NOT RECORD IT. Recently leaked gameplay of Halo 4 has been surfaced. I suspect without the consent of 343 Industries, which is why the quality is so poor. In this video there is a lot of BR gameplay, some sword gameplay and I suspect some Forerunner Vision. As I say the quality is so poor that at this point you may as well wait for the HD multiplayer video we'll get during E3 next week as opposed to subjecting yourself to this.

Cadets Junjie and Dimah discuss near-death experience of cryogenic freezing. From: http://www.youtube.com/user/MachinimaPrime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zweTCYuf3nw&feature=g-all-a

Your daily dose of news articles. Read below for more details. From: http://www.g4tv.com/ By: Moye Ishimoto Here are today's stories covering video games, gadgets, and pop culture. Hideo Kojima announces Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, an open-world stealth/action game using the Fox Engine. GREE reveals Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops for mobile platforms, confirming plans for a late 2012/early 2013 release. Hideo Kojima confirms that his cutscene-heavy Metal Gear Solid series is going to Hollywood with an Avi Arad-produced film. Gearbox Software and 2K Games will release a total of four campaign DLC packs for Borderlands 2, sold a la carte or via Season Pass. An update to the Team Bondi website reveals new details on developer's LA Noire follow-up,***** of the Orient. Check out what happens when Pee-Wee's Playhouse meets Evil Dead in 8-Bit Trip. Marvel vs. Capcom Origins has a release date. Gearbox has announced a new competitive multiplayer mode for Aliens: Colonial Marines called "Escape Mode." The US PS Vita store currently has nine PSOne titles available for download, Ubisoft has released the second episode of in their "Inside Assassin's Creed 3" series. Unless you flew to Germany for Gamescom 2012, you probably missed out on the Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel walkthrough demo Before you head back to class, check out these free iOS Apps to get your life organized. AOTS took it upon themselves to review the Falcon Northwest Tiki gaming PC. With the Kill Bill Double Feature airing on Labor Day, we check out 5 women in video games who kick ass. EA has released a gameplay trailer for Medal of Honor Warfighter Sony has revealed three more fighters for their upcoming brawler, PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale.

Your daily dose of news articles. Read below for more details From: http://www.g4tv.com/ By: Moye Ishimoto Here are today's stories covering video games, gadgets, and pop culture. Level-5 confirms that the next Professor Layton game, coming to Nintendo 3DS in 2013, will be the last to star that title character. Archos reveals its Android-powered, 7-inch GamePad tablet, featuring built-in dual analog gaming controls for under $200. Check out this exclusive Strike Suit Zero trailer. An update in the Steam database registry listing seems to confirm that Gotham City Impostorswill be embracing a free-to-play model. EA Sports confirms that former hockey Olympians Angela Ruggiero and Hayley Wickenheiser will appear as playable legends in NHL 13. Square Enix launches a streaming game service called Coreonline, with Hitman: Blood Money and Mini Ninjas now playable in your browse Check out this Far Cry 3island survival guide trailer. Indie RPG Bastionis coming to the iPad. Gearbox Software is working on some next-gen projects. Leviathan is the second single-player DLC pack for Mass Effect 3. Here's a review! Mass Effect 3's latest DLC pack Leviathandelves into the origins of the Reapers. Animal Crossing will be released on the 3DS in Japan. Check out what happens when Pee-Wee's Playhouse meets Evil Dead in 8-Bit Trip. These Guild Wars 2 beginner tips will help you get your adventures in Tyria started on the right foot. Check out this amazing Back to the Future mod for GTA 4. Check out our Guild Wars 2 Elementalist guide. Check out Luke Scott's Loom. We talk to some of the artists behind Press Start and check out some of the video game art on display at PAX Prime. Funcom is going to focus on smaller games after sales of The Secret Worlddisappoint. We check out games that give your brains a boost before hitting the books this Fall. X-Play's Kristin Adams is ready to take you inside WWE '13. The third episode of The Walking Dead is now live. Find out what that action figure is really worth when we visit with The Toy Hunter.

Gears of War Judgement first look at the new game mode Free-For-All. Two new videos of the game made in action. Can't wait! Read below for more details From: http://www.computera...m/homepage.php? By: Tom Ivan The first videos of Gears of War: Judgment's new Free-For-All mode have hit the net. Pitting COG soldier against COG soldier, Deathmatch makes its series debut in People Can Fly's upcoming Gears of War prequel Microsoft revealed two new Gears of War: Judgment multiplayer maps, Gondola and Library, earlier this week. A Gears of War: Judgement release date of March 19, 2013 was confirmed last month.

Your daily dose of news articles. Read below for more details From: http://www.g4tv.com/ By: Moye Ishimoto Here are today's stories covering video games, gadgets, and pop culture. The third episode of Telltale's The Walking Dead game is out today on PSN and XBLA, with other platform versions coming this week. Sony confirms the initial list of PS Vita-compatible PSOne Classics titles that you can download to your handheld starting today. Nintendo confirms plans to reveal Wii and 3DS news during a livestreaming Nintendo Direct video conference set for August 29, 2012. Edmund McMillen confirms plans to remake his roguelike, The Binding of Isaac, for PC/consoles and mobile platforms. People Can Fly will be including a free-for-all multiplayer mode -- a series first -- in 2013's Gears of War: Judgment. Skyrim: Hearthfire is officially the next DLC pack for The Elder Scrolls 5. Upcoming mech-combat game Hawkenwill support Oculus Rift headset. A Journey art book entitled "The Art of Journey" is coming in September. You'll take a spin in the Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG in this Need for Speed Most Wanted "Open World" Gameplay Vid. Gearboax has released this Borderlands 2 trailer showing off the Creature Slaughter Dome. We give you everything you need to complete Wandering Stone and Light of the Fallen inDarksiders 2. G4TV.com and X-Play are headed to PAX Prime 2012. We sat down with Peter Moore at Pax 2012and got the scoop about EA's future. Check out the first 15 minutes of Madden NFL 13. A couple of photos of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 special editions have been revealed, Check out this unboxing video of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2special editions. Before you jump into Guild Wars 2, check out our beginner's guide to everything you need to know about the game. Find out what you need for college when you check out our back to school tech checklist. Blizzard has cut Iran off from World of Warcraft. Check out the best indie games at PAX 2012 on and off the show floor. We've put together a Guild Wars 2 Warrior profession guide. In our Injustice: Gods Among Us gameplay video, Producer Erin Piepergerdes details Catwoman.