Gameplay in Dillon’s Rolling Western 2 is just as fast and visceral as the first!
Dillon’s Rolling Western 2: The Last Ranger will be released on April 11th 2013 exclusively for 3DS eShop, and is an all-new sequel to the original 3DS eShop title, a critically acclaimed Action Tower Defense title with great characters and an cool Western theme.
In this new game, players will be able to recruit all-new allies by battling them and defeating them throughout the new adventure. This game also will include extensive new StreetPass features!
Meet Gallow, the Lizard gunman!
Officially entitled “Dillon’s Rolling Western: The Last Ranger”, like the first Dillon’s Rolling Western (released late last year for 3DS eShop) the game combines the strategy of defeating enemies with Weapon Placements that Dillon can purchase and deploy around the map (Tower of Defense-style); and mixes it with visceral action elements as main character Dillon, a Gun-toting Western Armadillo, rolls into a ball and slams into enemies with flashy attacks and claw swipes!
Protect that train!
Gallow, a strong but greedy Lizard Gunman, Boon, a foolish but powerful Bear, and Nomad, a mysterious Squid Assassin from the East Sea, are all fully-developed characters Dillon will meet and enemies that Dillon can turn into allies. They will join Dillon’s team of Cowboys for this adventure once you defeat them in battle. Like before, the characters are strong, unique, and very likeable!
This is Nomad, the Squid Assassin from the East Sea.
In addition to saving villages from peril and the onslaught of invading forces, Dillon is also tasked with defending a train as it moves throughout the game’s environments, adding a new depth to the strategy gameplay as you both have to wade off incoming foes, and protect the train from being attacked and hijacked!
Additionally, player’s will be able to share tips with others on how to pass the game’s levels, defeat bosses, and better protect their camps via StreetPass!
Meet Boon, a powerful and mysterious Bear.
Those who liked the first game are sure to love the sequel, and even if you didn’t play the first game, be sure to pick this one up. I can already tell it’s a winner! Looks awesome! :D
Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move is an all-new game in the acclaimed puzzle action game series previously known as “Mario vs Donkey Kong”!
It features the action puzzle gameplay starring Mario & Donkey Kong that fans love from previous installments (Mario vs Donkey Kong for GBA released in 2004, Mario vs Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis released for DS in 2006, and Mario vs Donkey Kong: Minis March Again released in 2009 for DSiWare and available to download right now for 3DS eShop).
A new subtitle brings new kinds of puzzle gameplay to this hit portable series.
Mario AND Donkey Kong: Minis On the Move completely re-imagines what you expect from the series, introducing puzzles where you race against the clock to create paths, solve puzzles, and get the Mini Mario Toy’s to the Goal to complete each stage. The game features multiple levels with this concept, as well as lots of unlockable mini-games to play.
A robust Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move Level Editor will be included so that you can create your own ingenious levels filled with devious puzzles. Play through the game and master the puzzles so that you can get adept at creating your own! You can then share this content with your friends online who own the game!
Here is gameplay footage of Mario vs Donkey Kong 4: Minis On the Move!
Look around real world city streets using your WiiU GamePad in Panoramic View! Awesome!
Google Earth comes to WiiU supporting Panoramic View with “WiiStreet Powered By Google” app, which is available to download right now for free! Get in early before the app becomes a feature that you’ll have to pay for!
Skip to 23:20 in the video to see information on the WiiStreet Powered By Google Earth app!
Just as the name suggests, this awesome application allows you to view the streets of the world using Google Earth directly on your Wii U GamePad! But the coolest part is the ability to “see through the eyes of the GamePad” directly at street level, and then pan around to different camera views by physically moving your GamePad, just as if you were looking from street level yourself!
This Panoramic View of real-world locations was shown off as a WiiU demo, it’s great to finally see it in action for real! Good stuff!
Download this interesting Google Earth application now for free!
Luigi gets the starring role in this New Super Mario Bros. U expansion called New Super Luigi U!
New Super Luigi U is a Luigi-only expansion pack for New Super Mario Bros. U! It will be released this Summer in celebration of 2013, which Nintendo has dubbed “The Year of Luigi”! Heck yes!
This exclusive large-scale Downloadable Content will include reworkings of all 80 existing levels where you play exclusively as Luigi! That’s right, the eternal understudy steps into a starring platforming role for the first time EVER! These levels will be much more challenging, offering fans of the game some new content to bite into.
All 80 levels of the main game have been updated for Luigi-only play and new harder difficulty!
From the official press release:
“To continue the fun of New Super Mario Bros. U for Wii U, Nintendo is letting Luigi take over in new downloadable content that is coming in the Year of Luigi that provides alternate versions of the game’s more than 80 stages. Players can freely change between the New Super Luigi U and New Super Mario Bros. U stages. These Luigi-focused stages provide a whole new level of game-play challenge and will be available for purchase as a single download.”
Not a lot of details were released on the project, but very cool video was shown of Luigi gameplay, and it looks as good as the real deal in the full game! Exciting stuff for Luigi fans, who also have Mario & Luigi: Dream Team and Luigi’s Mansion 2: Dark Moon, to look forward too, as well as Luigi appearing in major roles with a new Mario Golf 3DS title and more this year.
Skip to 12:20 in the video to hear Nintendo President Satoru Iwata talking about New Super Luigi U for WiiU!
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team for 3DS has been announced as an all-new title in the highly acclaimed Mario & Luigi RPG series! This marks the 4th game in the franchise, following Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga for Game Boy Advance, Mario & Luigi: Partner’s In Time for DS, Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story for 3DS, and now Mario & Luigi: Dream Team for 3DS.
This time, instead of entering the innards of Bowser, Luigi’s dreams will serve as the environments and setting for this game! During the game, Luigi is sleeping, and you can interact with his face in unique ways to cause all kinds of interesting things to happen in the environment you are exploring as Mario! You can even summon Swarms of Luigi to attack groups of enemies! PSYCHO!
The game will be released in Summer of 2013!
Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story is one of the greatest games ever made IMHO, so I am SUPER EXCITED for this new game! It looks amazing, the writing is always top-notch and absolutely hilarious, and having a game set inside a weirdo like Luigi’s dreams, is absolutely INGENIOUS! Once again, the developers at Alpha Dream look to impress! They always include the most interesting settings, environments, characters and story hooks, and this game will definitely be no exception!
The original Mario & Luigi is also among my favorite games of all time, but Partners In Time (which I never played) was not as critically acclaimed. Hopefully this game will be just as good as the third title, and not more like the second. Time will tell!
Elegy Deception+Lament+Triumph Trilogy by Becoming the Archetype is track #4 from Becoming the Archetype’s debut album, 2005’s Terminate Damnation.
Elegy is an epic, eleven-minute and fourteen second, four-part track featuring Ryan Clark of Demon Hunter that starts off with a heavy metal deluge of the senses with the theme of Deception, then concludes with a middle instrumental representing Lamentation and a closing, end instrumental representing Triumph over evil. It is simply too epic to put into words and must be heard to be believed! Give it a listen!
Elegy lyrics Deception by Becoming the Archetype:
Death reigns over the earth
Oppressing justice and truth
Nations plagued by despair
Collapsing hopelessly into themselves
We watch
Sanity dies
Forever lost upon the Earth
Countless souls
Embracing condemnation
One by one
MARCHING TO THE GRAVE
ONE BY ONE
MARCHING
TO THE GRAVE!
Into the Mouth
Of ruin
That feeds upon
The Damned and the Deceive-ED!
OH!
AND THEY WILL CRY!!!!!!!
THERE
IS
NO LIFE HERE ONLY DEATH
ONLY DEATH!!!!!!!!!
ONLY DEATH!
Deceived!
WIDE IS THE PATH
THAT LEADS TO DES-TRUC-TION
OH!
WIDE IS THE PATH
THAT LEADS TO DESTRUCTION
WIDE IS THE PATH-WAY DOWN INTO THE PIT OF DESPAIR
Elegy lyrics Lament by Becoming the Archetype:
[Instrumental]
Elegy lyrics Triumph by Becoming the Archetype:
[Instrumental]
About Becoming the Archetype Month
February 2013 is dedicated to the Christian metal band Becoming the Archetype, arguably my favorite band (Along with Demon Hunter and The Showdown, both signed to Solid State Records) and follows January 2013 which was Demon Hunter Month. February will feature songs from BtA’s entire catalog featured daily throughout the month, one a day. Whether you like metal, believe in God or not, check these songs out as you may be pleasantly surprised and hopefully you will discover some new-to-your-ears music to enjoy. Becoming the Archetype’s sound is extremely heavy, and metalheads will be in Heaven. However all songs are deep with powerful lyrics that will make you think and ponder, as the sound takes you to new spaces between time and existence, Heaven and Hell. Enjoy!
WiiU and PS4 megaton news is incoming, can Xbox 720 be far behind?
Sony’s PlayStation 4 conference, or at least that’s what people believe it will be, is scheduled for February 20th, where Sony is almost assuredly going to officially announce the PS4.
What could Nintendo possibly have up it’s sleeve? I am hoping for an all-new Metroid game, but it could be ANYTHING. We’ll just have to wait and see to find out, but let the speculation BEGIN!
So that leaves Microsoft. Nintendo is obviously trying to steal some of Sony’s PS4 thunder with this WiiU announcement… So one has to wonder when Microsoft will be ready to reveal their cards. Will they wait until E3 2013? If so, they may be able to steal the show if Nintendo and Sony have already revealed too many of their cards.
One thing is for certain, it is an interesting time to be a gamer! :D
From pregnant to birth with child, this time lapse girl wallpaper is such a creative piece of photography! It’s stunning to see amazing pregnancy and birth photos like these. I just find it so fascinating what woman go through with pregnancy and birth, given that I’m a guy. It’s just real evidence of God IMHO.
Self Existent, How Great Thou Art and O’ Holy Night by Becoming the Archetype are three of the greatest Christian Metal Worship songs ever written. Self Existent is the 4th track off BtA’s third album Dichotomy, while How Great Thou Art is the 8th track, and is purely a worship song (a hymn, in fact). While O’ Holy Night is Becoming the Archetype’s first-ever Christmas song and is a 2011 single and the first song released to feature new vocalist Chris McCane who replaced founding vocalist Jason Wisdom. O’ Holy Night was meant to tide fans over until the release of their fifth full-length album, I Am.
These songs go together well because each one of them is essentially a Worship song of the highest order. Self Existent is, in my humble opinion, the greatest song about Christ ever composed. This song is a pure masterwork that will bring you to your knees and give you chills from beginning to end. I have never felt more shaken than at the very end of this song, and the way it progresses from chorus to chorus as if telling a tale. To say anything more would spoil it, so listen and be in awe.
How Great Thou Art is also a worship song, but a pure one. It is in fact a shortened version of a real hymn, and thus it will be recognizable to some. Obviously this is easily the greatest hymn ever pressed to CD, as it is pure heavy metal from beginning to end. And is one of the few BtA songs to mention Christ directly by name (the other being The Balance of Eternity from Physics of Fire, as well as O’Holy Night). This song is epic with an absolutely beautiful intro.
Bringing up the rear is Becoming the Archetype’s absolutely beautiful yet brutal cover of O’ Holy Night, and thus is one of the most epic Christmas Metal songs ever made. It’s not all instrumental either, it’s got beautiful choir singing along with harsh vocals. It was actually the first song released (as a single in 2011) featuring the band’s all-new vocalist and an almost entirely new band lineup as Becoming the Archetype transitioned into a new phase of the band with all-new members; yet retaining their old, awesome sound. This is an amazing song, and it brings the trio of worship metal to a close!
Self Existent lyrics by Becoming the Archetype:
Into the darkened tomb . . .
I walked but only found it empty . . . .
MY MIND is tormented
MY SOUL is shaken
As a flame is tormented by the wind and rain
As the earth is shaken BY AN EARTHQUAKE
MY HEART
Has accepted
What MY EYES
Could never have believed
I WATCHED HIM DIE
I . . . WATCHED HIM DIE
I WATCHED HIM DIE!
I . . . WATCHED HIM DIE!
In the silence death is defeated
In my spirit THE BATTLE RAGES ON
And then I stepped into the light
I heard His voice
I SAW HIS FACE
AND THEN HE STOOD THERE BEFORE ME
A man buried . . .
BUT NEVER DEAD!
MY HEART
Has accepted
What MY EYES
Could never have believed
I SAW HIM RISE
I . . . SAW HIM RISE!
I SAW HIM RISE!
I SAW HIM RISE!
How Great Thou Art lyrics by Becoming the Archetype:
Oh Lord my God!
When I in AWESOME WONDER
Consider all . . .
The worlds
Thy hands have made
I see the stars!
I hear the ROLLING THUNDER
Thy power throughout the universe displayed
And when I think . . .
That God His Son not SPARING
Sent Him to die . . .
I SCARCE can take it in
AND ON THAT CROSS
And on that cross
My burden GLADLY BEARING
He bled and died TO TAKE AWAY MY SIN
WHEN CHRIST SHALL COME
WITH SHOUT OF ACCLAMATION
AND TAKE ME HOME
What joy
WHAT JOY SHALL FILL MY HEART!
THEN I SHALL BOW
In humble adoration
And there proclaim
My God
My God HOW GREAT THOU ART!
COME ON!
HOW GREAT THOU ART!
MY GOD
HOW GREAT THOU ART!
O’ Holy Night lyrics by Becoming the Archetype:
O holy night
The stars are brightly shining
It is the night
Of our dear Savior’s birth…
Long lay the world
In sin and error pining
Till He appeared
And the soul felt its worth
A thrill of hope
The weary world rejoices
For yonder breaks a new and glorious mourn
FALL ON YOUR KNEES
FALL ON YOUR KNEES
FALL ON YOUR KNEES
OH HEAR THE ANGEL VOICES
FALL ON YOUR KNEES
OH HEAR THE ANGELS VOICES
OH NIGHT DIVINE
WHEN CHRIST WAS BORN
Oh night divine….
When Christ was born….
About Becoming the Archetype Month
February 2013 is dedicated to the Christian metal band Becoming the Archetype, arguably my favorite band (Along with Demon Hunter and The Showdown, both signed to Solid State Records) and follows January 2013 which was Demon Hunter Month. February will feature songs from BtA’s entire catalog featured daily throughout the month, one a day. Whether you like metal, believe in God or not, check these songs out as you may be pleasantly surprised and hopefully you will discover some new-to-your-ears music to enjoy. Becoming the Archetype’s sound is extremely heavy, and metalheads will be in Heaven. However all songs are deep with powerful lyrics that will make you think and ponder, as the sound takes you to new spaces between time and existence, Heaven and Hell. Enjoy!
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